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A literary thriller of heroin rings and headless bodies uncovers social ills and corruption in modern day Portugal, whileas in all of Tabucchi's workblurring genre boundaries. Antonio Tabucchi, Italy's premier writer and a best-selling author throughout Europe, draws together Manolo the gypsy, Firmino, a young tabloid journalist with a weakness for Lukacs and Vittorini, and Don Fernando, an overweight lawyer with a professed resemblance to the actor Charles Laughton, to solve a murder that leads far up and down Portugal's social ladder. As the investigation leads deeper into Portugal's power structure, the novel defies expectations, departing from the formulaic twists of a suspense story to consider the moral weight of power and its abuse.
Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is examined, as is the post-slavery period into the twentieth century. The experiences vary, arguably due to some extent to the Old World context. Muslim revolts in Brazil are also discussed, especially in 1835, by way of a nuanced analysis. The second part of the book looks at the emergence of Islam among the African-descended in the United States in the twentieth century, with successive chapters on Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad, and Malcolm X, with a view to explaining how orthodoxy arose from varied unorthodox roots.
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Miracle moments are the "cracks of light" pouring into the ego's dark system. It is the ego which makes you a slave of time, dreaming a dream of violence, pain, fear, guilt, and despair. Discover how to make of every meeting an opportunity for miracle moments, opening your mind to experience the best that life has to offer, allowing the wisdom of the inner light to shine. What are miracle moments? How can we achieve them? What are the catalysts that make these moments possible? How can the notion of miracle moments be applied to our personal relationships, to psychotherapy, and to educational, organizational, and political settings? What can miracle moments teach us about race, religion, pol...