Bøger af Mike King

A delightful and humorous exploration of responsibility and integrity, seen through the charming lens of Jewish culture and values.

This book explores the implications of Walt Whitman as guru, both for the legacy of the poet and for the relationship between spiritual teachers and their students.

Watch films and discover the living religion of Judaism This unique guide to Judaism on film explores over forty cinematic productions leading up to the ten-best ever films to convey the religion on screen. This book shows that despite being a faith with few outward symbols the inner dramas of Judaism lend themselves well to cinema. Both highly popular and readily-available lesser-known films are used to explore the following themes: Essential Judaism Musical Judaism Mystical Judaism Crazed Judaism Secular Judaism Holocaust Judaism Israel Judaism Gendered Judaism Family Judaism This book forms both an introduction to Judaism through film for non-Jews and the basis for a film club or study group for Jews and non-Jews alike.

Are you now, or have you ever been, Alan Turing? Professor William Strange has a stellar academic career, beautiful house, wife and baby son, all of which is imperilled by his affair with the enigmatic Adriana Russett. He is convinced that she is the clue to strange dreams of the 1940s which jumble up the life of Alan Turing and a mission in which a flying boat sinks a German submarine. Was he the great mathematician in a previous life? His breakdown is somehow presaged by two major public events, the death of Princess Diana and the 9/11 attacks. But does any of this justify his affair? Enigma's Coda is a Two Cultures campus novel which juxtaposes the 2010s with the 1940s, exploring the very different assumptions of ordinary people in those eras regarding progress, sexuality and conflict. It is also about Englishness and class, referencing such classics as The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Brief Encounter, and more recent novels such as Ian McEwan's Solar and David Lodge's Thinks.... The reader is left to muse on whether or not reincarnation is real and a determinant in obsessive sexual entanglements.

Jake Steele, a Special Forces soldier, loses his team during an ill-fated mission in Afghanistan. He resigns from the Army and comes home a broken man. He suffers from PTSD, alcoholism and can't keep a steady job. He's just lost his 15th job in the year since leaving the military when an old friend talks him into helping him commit a crime during which Jake is killed. But the story is just beginning. There are 72 Demon-Kings on Earth. These Demon Kings are the leaders of Satan's armies and their appearance signifies Armageddon is near. The only way they can be stopped is by a Demon Stalker, a legendary hunter with extraordinary powers. Jake Steele is offered the opportunity to become a Demon Stalker. Can he handle the responsibilities or will his own demons keep him from being successful?

A novel of the US-Israel-Palestine conflict. US Supreme Court Justice Eleanor Johnson is experiencing the worst eleven months of her life, as hers becomes the casting vote on whether support for Israel violates the American Constitution. Israeli army officer Ehud Shlomo has eleven minutes to prevent a nuclear retaliation against Tehran. In their explosive and interleaved stories of ambition, justice and revenge, how on earth did the future of their nations become their sole burden? This novel of the US-Israel-Palestine conflict peels back its history through the eyes of its two protagonists, who battle in their own ways to make sense of it all. In reaching their epoch-making decisions their struggle is just as much ours as we encounter the extraordinary history of this three-nation entanglement. "The novel struck me as a magnificent achievement both at the level of fiction and at the level of political analysis of America-Israel-Palestine. ... You clearly know Israel well and your novel has a sobering message for Israelis." Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations, St Anthony's College, Oxford. "With its audacious plot and thought-provoking premise, this novel of ideas asks its readers to contemplate America's 'special relationship' with Israel not in the usual foreign policy context but in an even more fundamental one: the U.S. Constitution." Janet McMahon, Managing Editor, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. "This is a superbly gripping story of two intertwined events that I sincerely hope will send a wake up call to all those who profess to be concerned about Israel-Palestine and especially the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel." Susan Nathan, author of The Other Side of Israel.

This book is a comprehensive survey of religion and spirituality on film, covering both popular and arthouse movies. It seeks spiritual and moral depth, finding filmic examples across the world's faiths and sometimes in surprising places where religion has no obvious presence. Over 400 films are drawn on to shed light on issues that confront us in the serious pursuit of spirituality, culminating in the "sixty must-see films for the spiritual life." The examination of spiritual and religious questions is divided across twelve categories: Spiritual Aesthetics, Nature and the Romantic The Esoteric, the New Age and Neoplatonism. Dying, Suicide and Bereavement Ghosts, Angels and the Afterlife Reincarnation and Resurrection Spiritual Chaos and Rubber Reality Wisdom, Teachers, and Disciples. Priests, Monks, Nuns and Spiritual Community Spiritual Practice, Discipline and the Martial Arts. Violence, Compassion, Forgiveness and Atonement East vs. West Secular vs. Spiritual

This book develops a new critical framework for exploring the excesses portrayed in American cinema. Each culture has its own excesses which taken together add up to a unique "madness." American cinema reveals these excesses, painting a portrait of the specifically American madness, and, when these excesses are rolled back a little, reveals the unique strengths and genius of the American mind. The critical methods of both Left and Right are shown to have programmatic biases that make them unsuited to analysis of this transgressive material; instead a method of dramatic criticism is developed here based on Aristotle's theory of tragedy and its cathartic possibilities. This framework is applied across a range of cinematic themes including paranoia, aggression, oedipal/Freudian themes, sexual obsession, the Apocalypse, Native Americans and cultural genocide, new age narcissism, nihilism and self-destruction, cultural autism, and virtual reality/fantasy. Finally, a look at American sanity is provided through films where dramatic excess is balanced with critical awareness.

Mike King proposes a youth ministry centered in the presence of God. Here, young people encounter Christ not in the flash and pop of arena ministry, but in the sacred shadow of his presence. This book gives shape to such ministry through the classic disciplines and potent symbols and practices that have sustained the church over the centuries.

A timely and fascinating examination of the decline in religious faith and rise of secular thought in western intellectual society.

This book will help you understand how Salesforce Customer 360 unifies Marketing, B2C Commerce, and Service clouds into a single solution. You'll learn the key capabilities, limitations, and integration options to deliver value for the organization. This book helps you prepare a strong foundation for the Salesforce B2C Solutions Architect exam.

"A misfit Camel with excellent dental hygiene shows his worth in a tale that covers a lot of ground." —School Library Journal Enamel wants to be like all the other camels who live in Camel-lot, but his front teeth are bigger than anyone else's. And they stick out. He's the only camel who brushes his teeth—he has to because everyone can see them. Enamel is tired of getting teased for being different. Then one day the class gets caught in a terrible sandstorm...and his exceptional incisors save the day. Enamel the Camel is an upbeat, humorous story about sticking out, stepping up, and the importance of good dental hygiene.

Examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement during the fall of 2011 through the spring of 2012. Mike King's active and daily participation in that movement, from its inception through its demise, provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement.

Combining commercial success with philanthropy and social activism, Quakernomics offers a compelling model for corporate social responsibility in the modern world. Mike King explores the ethical capitalism of Quaker enterprises from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, testing this theory against those of prominent economists. With a foreword by Sir Adrian Cadbury, this book proves that the Quaker practice of total capitalism is not a historically remote nicety but an immediately relevant guide for todays global economy.