John Ross
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Buddhist-Christian reflection that uses friendship as a model for interreligious understanding.
In this work of Buddhist-Christian reflection, John Ross Carter explores two basic aspects of human religiousness: faith and the activity of understanding. Carter's perspective is unique, putting people and their experiences at the center of inquiry into religiousness. His model and method grows out of friendship, challenging the so-called objective approach...
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What we understand today as Buddhism, actually began as an off spring of Hinduism in the great Indus Valley. The founder of this great religion is of course our insightful prince, Gautama Siddhartha, He is the focus of this brief poetic biography. An epic saga of persistence, inspiration and mysticism. By no means is it a simple task to provide a precise historical account of the life of Prince Siddhartha, since no actual journalistic account has...
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A darkly witty, deeply affecting, and finely crafted memoir by “The Big Bang Theory” and “Speechless” star and comedian, John Ross Bowie.
From his earliest memories of watching Rhoda with his parents in their tiny Hell's Kitchen apartment, John knew that he wanted to be an actor. The strange, alternate world of television, where people always cracked the perfect joke, lived in glamorous Upper East Side buildings, and made up immediately after...
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In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dream of their lives. First published in book form in 1915, the Anthology was the crowning achievement of Masters' career as a poet, and a work that would become a landmark of 20th-century American literature....
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Exes volume 9
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Holly needs one of the guys to pretend to be her boyfriend to prove to her cheating ex-fiancé that she's moved on, while a former neighbor tells Stuart his ex-wife is engaged.