Falaquera's Epistle of the Debate: An Introduction to Jewish Philosophy (Harvard Judaic Texts and Studies, VIII)

Religion & Spirituality

Harvey, Steven

Judaism

Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies

An Introduction to Jewish Philosophy

Falaquera’s Epistle of the Debate: An Introduction to Jewish Philosophy (Harvard Judaic Texts and Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Here is a collection of essays from writers who share their own experiences of middle age, such as male preoccupations with sex, love, waning powers, health, happiness and wasted opportunities. The essays aim to offer a sense of proportion and awareness of life's possibilities in middle age.

In a Dark Wood: Personal Essays by Men on Middle Age

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Univ of Georgia Pr

Book by Cooper, Bernard, Burroughs, Franklin

Social Sciences

From the author of A Geometry of Lilies comes a new collection of essays focusing on the exotic in the ordinary of everyday life. Steven Harvey's words illuminate and entertain as he ruminates on such topics as love of family, of students and teaching, of place and tradition, and of how language itself can transform experience.
Separate as the essays are, they all tell the same story, and though they bear different titles, they all could be called "Lost in Translation." In each essay, the self is brought against a new world or two worlds into conflict, the soul shedding a husk of its former life in the encounter. Such losses, the essays say, are the leavings of our changes and the price we pay for becoming. Some part of our true selves, Harvey notes, finds voice only in such translations―in engagement with others on others' terms―and this is the part we cannot live without.

Lost in Translation

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

University of Georgia Press

In Bound for Shady Grove, essayist Steven Harvey celebrates the spirit of the music of his adopted home in the southern Appalachian mountains. There, at the wellspring of mountain music, he took up his guitar and assumed the journey that culminated in this book. Harvey's essays measure out in words the four seasons of a life in music. Springtime pieces describe playing music in the log house of friends born and raised in the mountains or entering a banjo contest and losing with style. There are essays about fiddles and the devil, homemade instruments and homemade weapons, and a trip to England to trace mountain songs back to their elusive sources. As the book progresses into winter, the mood darkens, with pieces exploring the connection between music and resentment, loss, and death. Descriptions of music, hills, and people blend into a rich harmony as Harvey explores where music has taken him―where, in fact, music can take any of us.

Bound for Shady Grove

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

This collection of essays examines the richness of life in a family and the struggle of one nuclear family cut off from history and tradition to create its own rituals and myths.

A Geometry of Lilies: Life and Death in an American Family

Univ of South Carolina Pr

It Started with a Steamboat: An American Saga

In little over a hundred years America went from a country that lacked a national road system to become a world leader in all forms of fast transportation. It was from 1807 to 1909 that the foundations of cheap fast travel forever changed us as a people and a nation. It all started with a steamboat trip up the Hudson which brought about a mechanical transportation revolution that came ashore and finally took to the air. Our story is about transportation starting with the steamboat, the development of New York's Finger Lakes, and how this helped bring about the modern business world we take for granted. It took only a century for the magical formula of fast transportation speeding up local development and business growth to transform our nation and the world we live in. The reader should always keep in mind the endless cycle of speed, development and business that keeps the ball rolling as time and distance continue to shrink in this ever changing world. Speed changed our lives to the point that we needed to escape it as the Excursionist Age of lakeside resorts, fine wines and dance halls came to life for the working weary and high rollers of the land. New York's Finger Lakes were the crown jewels of this age, having fine wineries and some of the best railroads and steamboats in the land. Out of all of this energy emerged the "Wizard of Hammondsport," Glenn H. Curtiss! He would go on to become the fastest man on earth and in the air! Because of these events we no longer think in terms of distance, but instead in the time it takes to get there. We now think in sound bits, eat on the run, as our children live fast pace lives. Here is the story of how this came to be.

IT STARTED WITH A STEAMBOAT: An American Saga

History

Americas

AuthorHouse

In little over a hundred years America went from a country that lacked a national road system to become a world leader in all forms of fast transportation. It was from 1807 to 1909 that the foundations of cheap fast travel forever changed us as a people and a nation. It all started with a steamboat trip up the Hudson which brought about a mechanical transportation revolution that came ashore and finally took to the air. Our story is about transportation starting with the steamboat, the development of New York's Finger Lakes, and how this helped bring about the modern business world we take for granted. It took only a century for the magical formula of fast transportation speeding up local development and business growth to transform our nation and the world we live in. The reader should always keep in mind the endless cycle of speed, development and business that keeps the ball rolling as time and distance continue to shrink in this ever changing world. Speed changed our lives to the point that we needed to escape it as the Excursionist Age of lakeside resorts, fine wines and dance halls came to life for the working weary and high rollers of the land. New York's Finger Lakes were the crown jewels of this age, having fine wineries and some of the best railroads and steamboats in the land. Out of all of this energy emerged the "Wizard of Hammondsport," Glenn H. Curtiss! He would go on to become the fastest man on earth and in the air! Because of these events we no longer think in terms of distance, but instead in the time it takes to get there. We now think in sound bits, eat on the run, as our children live fast pace lives. Here is the story of how this came to be.

Steven Harvey was born an "Army Brat" at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas in 1950. Son of Midwesterners he was educated in Florida and joined the Navy in 1969. It was during this time that he became a Machinist Mate aboard the USS Forrestal. After spending four years overseas he returned to civilian life, started a family and spent three years as a missionary in Central America. He has over the years worked in many different fields making the best of life's rollercoaster.The author has a life long fascination with the history of why things work and how they have change the world we live in. His first book, IT STARTED WITH A STEAMBOAT, combined his knowledge as Navy trained steam mechanic with the history of New York's Finger Lakes to produce the epic story of change and progress produced by Robert Fulton's transportation revolution.In his newest book, LIFE OF A STEAMBOAT MAN, Steven has told the story of an old beloved steamboat man of the nineteenth century who played such an important role in the development of the Finger Lakes.Over the years Steven has built steamboat model collections for several museums including the Finger Lakes Boating Museum located in Hammondsport, NY.

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Falaquera's Epistle of the Debate: An Introduction to Jewish Philosophy (Harvard Judaic Texts and Studies, VIII)

Falaquera’s Epistle of the Debate: An Introduction to Jewish Philosophy (Harvard Judaic Texts and Studies)

In a Dark Wood: Personal Essays by Men on Middle Age

In a Dark Wood: Personal Essays by Men on Middle Age

Lost in Translation

Bound for Shady Grove

A Geometry of Lilies: Life and Death in an American Family

IT STARTED WITH A STEAMBOAT: An American Saga

It Started with a Steamboat: An American Saga

It Started with a Steamboat: An American Saga