The book appeared on Bookstore Journal’s bestseller list every month for more than eight years. After numerous rejections from publishers and a slow start in sales, word-of-mouth enthusiasm finally lifted This Present Darkness onto a tidal wave of interest in spiritual warfare. While working at a local ski factory, he began writing This Present Darkness, the book that would catapult him into the public eye. In 1983, he gave up his pastoring position and began taking construction jobs to make ends meet. Peretti later spent time studying English, screen writing and film at UCLA and then assisted his father in pastoring a small Assembly of God church. He and his wife were married in 1972, and Peretti soon moved from touring with a pop band to launching a modest Christian music ministry. After graduating from high school, he began playing banjo with a local bluegrass group. Peretti is a natural storyteller who, as a youngster in Seattle, regularly gathered the neighborhood children for animated storytelling sessions. With more than 12 million novels in print, Frank Peretti is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon and has been called “America’s hottest Christian novelist.”
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On the occasion of the fourth centenary of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, the UOC’s Library and Learning Resources have joined in the homage prepared by the Spanish Network of University Libraries (REBIUN), with a thematic web portal about Cervantes and about the most universally recognized work in Spanish literature, Don Quixote. Don Quixote, Part II (“Of what Happened Don Quixote on Entering Barcelona”, 1615) (John Ormsby, 1885 Trans.) Don Quixote and Sancho gazed all round them they beheld the sea, a sight until then unseen by them it struck them as exceedingly spacious and broad, much more so than the lakes of Ruidera which they had seen in La Mancha. Sen’s evaluation is all the more powerful for its clarity: "The freedom-centered perspective has a generic similarity to the common concern with "quality of life. In many ways, measuring income does not account for various “unfreedoms” (manmade or natural bars to wellbeing) that hinder development. He concludes that an evaluation of true freedom must necessarily include the freedom to access social services such as healthcare, sanitation and nutrition, just as much as it must acknowledge economic and political freedoms.Įvaluating the relevance of the current thinking behind development, Sen concludes that the term ‘freedom’ cannot simply be about income. He says people tend to think of freedoms as economic (the freedom to enter into market exchanges) or political (the freedom to vote and be an active citizen), and tries to understand why the definition has been so narrow hitherto. Sen has devoted his career to the study of poverty. Having come to the conclusion that development is best summed up as the expansion of freedom, Sen examines traditional definitions and understandings of the term. Development as Freedom is based on a series of five lectures Sen delivered to the World Bank in 1996. Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. I spent four months traveling through Europe, first with a friend, then on my own. So instead of applying to college, I sanctimoniously announced to my (very understanding) parents I would be foregoing college and matriculating at “The University of Life.” Senior year of high school, I got a job, saved money, and a week after graduation, took off with a one-way ticket and a Eurail pass, and some hazy plans involving Barcelona and wine-grape picking. But I did it, and I came home from that year wanting more. When I was 16 years old, I decided to be an exchange student in England for a year, a completely uncharacteristic move because at that point, I was hardly what you’d call an adventurous soul. Can you tell us a little about the traveling you did when you were Allyson's age? Your own extensive travel experiences form part of the basis for Just One Day. But one day of sparkling electricity with Willem soon turns into one year of revelations about herself that Allyson could never have predicted.īookPage joined Forman to talk about Shakespeare, international travel and why the first few months after high school can be such a tumultuous time for a young adult. While on a summer trip to Europe, recent high school graduate Allyson Healey-who has never before considered herself adventurous-meets the attractive actor Willem and decides to take a risk and spend a single day in Paris with him. Gayle Forman, acclaimed author of If I Stay, takes readers on a whirlwind tour of Paris in her latest novel, Just One Day. |