According to Wikipedia: "Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo?thius,commonly called Boethius (ca. 480–524 or 525 AD) was a philosopher of the early 6th century. He was born in Rome to an ancient and prominent family which included emperors Petronius Maximus and Olybrius and many consuls... Boethius was imprisoned and eventually executed by King Theodoric the Great, who suspected him of conspiring with the Eastern Roman Empire. While jailed, Boethius composed his Consolation of Philosophy, a philosophical treatise on fortune, death, and other issues. The Consolation became one of the most popular and influential works of the Middle Ages."

The Path of the King is a travel through historic events that traces a band of gold as it is passed from a young Viking to Abraham Lincoln. The following is a quotation from its original publication (AL BURT COMPANY PUBLISHERS, 1921): "We wonder that so great a man as Abraham Lincoln should spring from humble people but who knows what his more distant ancestry might have been In a series of dramatic chapters Mr Buchan tells what he imagines to have been the ancestry of Lincoln The worthy son of a northern chieftain who had come down with his people into Normandy, a Norman knight who fought under Duke William and settled in England, a French knight emissary of Saint Louis to Kubla Khan, a proud demoiselle friend to Jeanne d Arc, a French gentleman who went with Columbus on his second voyage, an avenger of Saint Bartholomew's Day, a friend to Sir Walter Raleigh, a supporter of Cromwell, a soldier of fortune under Marlborough, a mighty hunter in Virginia, all these says Mr Buchan were Lincoln's forebears Their blood ran in his veins and made him in James Russell Lowell's phrase the last of the kings." According to Wikipedia, "John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan's 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies of Sir Walter Scott, Caesar Augustus, and Oliver Cromwell. Buchan's most famous of his books were the spy thrillers (including) The 39 Steps (which was converted to a play as well as an Alfred Hitchcock movie starring Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, though with Buchan's story much altered.) The "last Buchan" (as Graham Greene entitled his appreciative review) was the 1941 novel Sick Heart River (American title: Mountain Meadow), in which a dying protagonist confronts in the Canadian wilderness the questions of the meaning of life. The insightful quotation "It's a great life, if you don't weaken" is famously attributed to Buchan, as is "No great cause is ever lost or won, The battle must always be renewed, And the creed must always be restated."

Dalam menjalani kehidupan ini, kita pasti pernah berbuat salah dan dosa. Hal demikian adalah manusiawi. Sebab, bukankah Rasulullah SAW berkata, "Setiap anak cucu Adam memiliki dosa, dan sebaik-baik pendosa adalah dia yang bertobat." (HR Ibnu Majah). Mengapa demikian? Sebab, manusia diciptakan dalam keadaan lemah. (QS An-nisa: 28). Manusia yang lemah itu diberikan jalan tobat sebagai wujud kasih sayang Allah SWT kepada kita. Suatu hari, Umar bin Khattab RA datang menghadap Rasulullah saw dengan membawa beberapa orang tawanan. Di antara tawanan itu terlihat seorang wanita sedang mencari-cari anaknya, lalu jika ia mendapatkan seorang bayi di antara tawanan langsung mengambil bayi itu, mendekapkannya ke perut untuk disusui. Rasulullah saw berkata kepada kami, "Bagaimana pendapat kamu sekalian, apakah wanita ini akan melemparkan anaknya ke dalam api?" Kami menjawab, "Tidak, demi Allah, sedangkan dia mampu untuk tidak melemparnya."? Rasulullah saw bersabda, "Sungguh Allah lebih mengasihi hamba-Nya daripada wanita ini terhadap anaknya." (HR Muslim). Karena sedemikian kasih dan sayangnya Allah pada kita, Allah sangat senang bila seorang hamba telanjur berbuat dosa lalu bertobat, berjanji sepenuh hati tak akan pernah mengulangi perbuatannya.

This series of nonfiction readers will grab a student's interest from the very first page! Designed with struggling readers in mind, these riveting 92-page books offer short chapters on significant disasters. Each chapter is its own mini-book, which includes a timeline, key terms, and interesting facts. Fascinating black and white photographs keep the pages turning. A bibliography encourages further topical reading. Disasters are inherently frightening, riveting, and involving. Grabbed straight from the headlines, these disasters leave tragedy, destruction, and years of anguish: London Bridge, The Morro Castle, Chicago, The Iroquois Theater, Australia's Bush Fires, The Station Nightclub, The West Burns, and more.

This series of nonfiction readers will grab a student's interest from the very first page! Designed with struggling readers in mind, these riveting 92-page books offer short chapters on significant disasters. Each chapter is its own mini-book, which includes a timeline, key terms, and interesting facts. Fascinating black and white photographs keep the pages turning. A bibliography encourages further topical reading. Disasters are inherently frightening, riveting, and involving. Grabbed straight from the headlines, these disasters leave tragedy, destruction, and years of anguish: Vesuvius, Krakatoa, Mount Pelee, Mount St. Helens, Mount Pinatubo, Hawaii's Gentle Giants, The World's Most Active Volcanoes, and more.

Discover the astonishing true stories--that will make readers laugh, cry, and gasp--behind the headlines: The Boston Massacre, Pearl Harbor, Kent State, Sarajevo, Pentagon, Cyber Attacks, and more. This series of nonfiction readers will grab a student's interest from the very first page! Designed with struggling readers in mind, these riveting books offer short chapters on high-interest headlines. Each chapter is its own mini-book, which includes a timeline, key terms, and interesting facts. Fascinating black and white photographs keep the pages turning. A bibliography encourages further topical reading.

A profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842–1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce's theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception of that influential philosophy. For James, this meant an emphasis on "radical empiricism" and the concept that the meaning of any idea — philosophical, political, social, or otherwise — has validity only in terms of its experiential and practical consequences. James propounded his theories of pragmatism in this book, one of the most important in American philosophy. In a sense, he wished to test competing systems of thought in the "marketplace of actual experience" to determine their validity, i.e. whether adopting a particular philosophical theory or way of looking at the world makes an actual difference in individual conduct or in how we perceive and react to the varieties of experience. In these pages, James not only makes a strong case for his own ideas, but mounts a powerful attack against the transcendental and rationalist tradition. For anyone interested in William James or the history of American philosophical thought, Pragmatism is an essential and thought provoking reference. In this handy, inexpensive edition, it will challenge and stimulate any thinking person.

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What is the meaning and purpose of life?’ ?This is, perhaps, the most important question that has ever been asked.? Throughout the ages, philosophers have considered it to be the most fundamental question.? Scientists, historians, philosophers, writers, psychologists and the common man all wrestle with the question at some point in their lives.? ‘Why do we eat?’ ?‘Why do we sleep?’ ?‘Why do we work?’ ?The answers we would get to these questions would be similar.? ‘I eat to live.’ ?‘I sleep to rest.’ ?‘I work to support myself and my family.’ ?But when it comes to what the purpose of life is, people are confused.? We see their confusion by the type of answers we receive.? Youths may say, "I live for booze and bikinis."? The middle aged professional might say, "I live to save enough for a comfortable retirement."? The old man would probably say, "I’ve been asking why I’m here most of my life.? If there’s a purpose, I don’t care anymore." ?And perhaps the most common answer will be, "I really don’t know!" How, then, do you discover the purpose of life? ?We basically have two options.? The first is to let ‘human reason’ - the celebrated achievement of the Enlightenment - guide us.? After all, the Enlightenment gave us modern science based on careful observation of the natural world.? But have post-Enlightenment philosophers figured it out? ?Camus described life as "absurd"; Sartre spoke of "anguish, abandonment and despair." ?To these Existentialists, life has no meaning. Islam is the response to humanity’s search for meaning.? The purpose of creation for all men and women for all times has been one: to know and worship God. The Quran teaches us that every human being is born conscious of God, "(Remember) when your Lord extracted from the loins of Adam’s children their descendants and made them testify [saying]: ‘Am I not your Lord?’ ?They said: ‘Yes, we testify to it.’ ?(This was) in case you say on the Day of Judgment: ‘We were unaware of this.’ ?Or you say: ‘It was our ancestors who worshipped others besides God and we are only their descendants.? Will you then destroy us for what those liars did?’"(Quran 7:172-173) The Prophet of Islam teaches us that God created this primordial need in human nature at the time Adam was made.? God took a covenant from Adam when He created him.? God extracted all of Adam’s descendants who were yet to be born, generation after generation, spread them out, and took a covenant from them.? He addressed their souls directly, making them bear witness that He was their Lord.? Since God made all human beings swear to His Lordship when He created Adam, this oath is imprinted on the human soul even before it enters the fetus, and so a child is born with a natural belief in the Oneness of God.? This natural belief is called fitra in Arabic.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a hugely influential story written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. Stowe featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.

English writer, philosopher and pioneering advocate of women's rights, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution and a children's book. In her landmark feminist text, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Wollstonecraft argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appeared to be only because they lacked education. She called for men and women to be treated equally, paving the way for the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century. This comprehensive eBook presents Wollstonecraft’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wollstonecraft’s life and works* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts* All the novels, with individual contents tables* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts* Excellent formatting of the texts* Includes Wollstonecraft’s complete pamphlets* ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Man’ in presented with an appendix of Burke’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’* Includes Wollstonecraft’s posthumously published Works* Features three biographies, including the author’s husband’s controversial memoir - discover Wollstonecraft’s personal and literary life* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The FictionMARY: A FICTIONMARIA; OR, THE WRONGS OF WOMANTHE CAVE OF FANCY The Children’s BookORIGINAL STORIES FROM REAL LIFE The Non-FictionTHOUGHTS ON THE EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERSA VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MENA VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMANAN HISTORICAL AND MORAL VIEW OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; AND THE EFFECT IT HAS PRODUCED IN EUROPELETTERS WRITTEN DURING A SHORT RESIDENCE IN SWEDEN, NORWAY, AND DENMARKON POETRY, AND OUR RELISH FOR THE BEAUTIES OF NATURELETTER ON THE PRESENT CHARACTER OF THE FRENCH NATIONFRAGMENT OF LETTERS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF INFANTSLETTERS TO MR. JOHNSON, BOOKSELLER, IN ST. PAUL’S CHURCH-YARDLESSONSHINTSLETTERS The BiographiesMEMOIRS OF THE AUTHOR OF A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN by William GodwinMARY WOLLSTONECRAFT by Elizabeth Robins PennellA BRIEF SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

In 1914, Coningsby Dawson went to Ottawa, saw Sir Sam Hughes, and was offered a commission in the Canadian Field Artillery on the completion of his training at the Royal Military College of Canada, at Kingston, Ontario. "His long training at Kingston had been very severe. It included besides the various classes which he attended a great deal of hard exercise, long rides or foot marches over frozen roads before breakfast, and so forth."

Nabi Adam AS adalah tokoh dari Kitab Kejadian, Perjanjian Baru ＆amp; Kitab Suci Al-Quran. Menurut mitos penciptaan dari agama-agama Abrahamik dia adalah seorang Nabi ＆amp; manusia pertama. Dan menurut agama samawi pula merekalah leluhur dari semua manusia yang ada di bumi.Rincian kisah mengenai kehidupan Nabi Adam AS dan Siti Hawa (Eve) berbeda-beda antara agama Islam, Judaism, Nasrani maupun agama lain yang berkembang dari ketiga agama Abrahamik ini.Nabi Adam AS hidup selama 930 tahun, sedangkan Siti Hawa (Eve) diciptakan ketika Adam berusia 130 tahun. Al-Quran memuat kisah Adam dalam beberapa surat, di antaranya Surat Al-Baqarah (2):30-38 dan Surat Al-A＆rsquo;raaf (7):11-25.Menurut ajaran agama Abrahamik, anak-anak Nabi Adam AS dan Siti Hawa dilahirkan secara kembar, yaitu, setiap bayi lelaki dilahirkan bersamaan dengan seorang bayi perempuan. Adam menikahkan anak lelakinya dengan anak gadisnya yang tidak sekembar dengannya.Menurut hadits Nabi Muhammad SAW yang diriwayatkan oleh Imam Bukhari, Nabi Adam AS memiliki postur badan dengan ketinggian 60 hasta. Hadits mengenai ini pula ditemukan dalam riwayat Imam Muslim dan Imam Ahmad, namun dalam sanad yang berbeda.Sosok Nabi Adam AS digambarkan sangat beradab sekali, seorang Nabi yang cerdas, jujur, saleh, memiliki ilmu yang tinggi dan ia bukan makhluk purba. Ia berasal dari surga (jannah) yang berperadaban maju. Turun ke muka bumi bisa sebagai makhluk asing dari sebuah peradaban yang jauh lebih maju dan cerdas, dari peradaban di bumi sampai kapanpun, oleh karena itulah Allah SWT menunjuknya sebagai khalifah (pemimpin) di muka bumi ini.Dalam gambarannya ia adalah makhluk yang teramat cerdas, sangat dimuliakan oleh Allah SWT, memiliki kelebihan yang sempurna dibandingkan makhluk yang lain sebelumnya dan diciptakan dalam bentuk yang terbaik dan sempurna. Sesuai dengan Surah Al Israa＆#39; 70, yang berbunyi:＆quot;...dan sesungguhnya telah Kami muliakan anak-anak Adam, Kami angkat mereka di daratan dan di lautan, Kami beri mereka rezeki dari yang baik-baik dan Kami lebihkan mereka dengan kelebihan yang sempurna atas kebanyakan makhluk yang telah Kami ciptakan.＆quot;

Aminah binti Wahab adalah ibu yang melahirkan Muhammad, Nabi umat Islam. Siti Aminah menikah dengan Abdullah Ayahanda Nabi. Tidak terdapat keterangan mengenai lahirnya beliau, dan menurut sejarah ia meninggal pada tahun 577 ketika dalam perjalanan menuju Yatsrib untuk mengajak Nabi Muhammad SAW mengunjungi pamannya dan melihat kuburan ayahnya.Aminah dilahirkan di Mekkah. Ayah Aminah adalah pemimpin Bani Zuhrah, yang bernama Wahab bin Abdul Manaf bin Zuhrah bin Kilab. Sedangkan ibu Aminah adalah Barrah binti Abdul Uzza bin Utsman bin Abduddar bin Qushay.Bunda Aminah adalah pemimpin para ibu, karena ia ibu Nabi Muhammad SAW yang dipilih Allah SWT sebagai Rasul pembawa risalah untuk umat manusia hingga akhir zaman. Baginda Muhammadlah penyeru kebenaran dan keadilan serta kebaikan berupa agama Islam.“Dan barangsiapa memilih agama selain Islam, maka tiadalah diterima (agama itu) darinya. Dan di akhirat termasuk orang-orang yang rugi.” (QS. Ali Imran: 85)Tak banyak sejarawan yang mengupas masa hidupnya, namun nama ini senantiasa semerbak bersama hembusan angin keindahan. Perjalanannya yang indah nan suci telah mengukir perubahan besar perputaran zaman. Siapa yang tak kenal Bani Hasyim; karena dari kabilah inilah Nabi SAW dilahirkan. Siapa pula yang tak kenal Bani Zuhrah; sebuah kabilah yang pernah menyimpan wanita suci dan mulia, karena dari rahimnya lahir sebuah cahaya agung yang membawa pembaharuan besar di dunia ini, Aminah binti Wahab Ibunda Rasululllah SAW.

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Discover the astonishing true stories--that will make readers laugh, cry, and gasp--behind the headlines: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, A Sticky Mess, The Iron Curtain, The Kursk, The Quecreek Mine Flood, The Chilean Miners, and more. This series of nonfiction readers will grab a student's interest from the very first page! Designed with struggling readers in mind, these riveting books offer short chapters on high-interest headlines. Each chapter is its own mini-book, which includes a timeline, key terms, and interesting facts. Fascinating black and white photographs keep the pages turning. A bibliography encourages further topical reading.

Nabi Ilyas alaihis salam adalah keturunan Nabi Harun Alaihis salam. Alalh mengutus Nabi Ilyas untuk menjadi pembimbing kaum yang berada di tepi timur sungai Yordan. Nabi Ilyas diutus untuk memperingatkan bangsa Israel. Sejak dahulu hingga sekarang, bangsa Israel memang susah diatur. Oleh karena itu, sepanjang sejarah, banyak diutus para nabi kepada bangsa ini. Namun, bila nabinya telah meninggal dunia, perlahan-lahan ajaran yang ditinggalkan terkikis habis oleh kemaksiatan. Di saat itu, ketika Nabi Ilyas diturunkan, orang-orang Bani Israel terkenal dengan kebiasaan menyembah berhala. Berhala itu bernama Ba'al. Karena penyembahan Ba'al di tengah kota, maka kota itu dinamakan Ba'labak. Nabi Ilyas menyampaikan dakwahnya kepada dakwahnya kepada Bani Israel. Ia tak bosan-bosannya menyeru, memberi peringatan kepada mereka, namun mereka sama sekali tak menghiraukan. Mereka meremehkan kedatangan Ilyas, manakala memberi peringatan. Bahkan tak segan menghina dan mengejek Ilyas yang dianggapnya bersikap aneh itu. Meskipun demikian, Ilyas dengan senang hati ikhlas tak bosan-bosannya mencegah keburukan dan mengajak kepada kebaikan……

Tiada habisnya orang-orang kafir mengzalimi Rasulullah SAW. Mulai dari memfitnah hingga menyuruh Rasul melakukan sesuatu yang menurut mereka hal yang mustahil, yaitu membelah bulan. Namun, dengan izin Allah SWT, Rasulullah SAW dapat melaluinya dengan sabar. Jumlah orang-orang mukmin terus bertambah seiring berjalannya waktu. Sementara itu, orang-orang jahat tidak juga menghentikan kekejaman mereka. Mereka bahkan terus menantang Rasulullah SAW. Pada suatu hari, orang-orang kafir kembali mengelilingi Rasulullah SAW. Mereka punya rencana baru untuk menyudutkan beliau. Mereka meminta Rasul SAW melakukan sesuatu yang menurut mereka mustahil untuk dilakukan. Nanti saat melihat beliau tidak bisa melakukannya, mereka akan mengolok-olok beliau. Dengan pemikiran seperti itu, mereka berkata, "Kalau engkau memang seorang nabi, tunjukkan mukjizat kepada kamu. Misalnya, belahlah bulan purnama di atas kepala kita menjadi dua. Letakkan yang sebelah di atas gunung ini dan sebelah lagi di atas gunung itu," kata orang-orang kafir. "Kalau aku dapat melakukannya apakah kalian akan percaya padaku?" tanya Rasul SAW, merekapun menjawab ya…….

Shalat lima waktu adalah salah satu kewajiban bagi umat Islam. Shalat ternyata tidak hanya menjadi amalan utama di akhirat nanti, tetapi ternyata gerakan–gerakan shalat adalah gerakan paling proporsional bagi anatomi tubuh manusia. Bahkan dari sisi medis, shalat adalah gudangnya obat dari berbagai macam penyakit. Selama ini shalat yang dilakukan lima kali sehari oleh umat Islam, sebenarnya telah memberikan investasi kesehatan yang cukup besar bagi yang melakukan shalat tersebut. Gerakan sholat sampai dengan salam memiliki makna yang luar biasa baik untuk kesehatan fisik, mental bahkan keseimbangan spiritual dan emosional. Tetapi sayang hanya sedikit dari umat Islam yang memahaminya.

Bursting with facts, these books will truly enthrall struggling readers. Nonfiction titles cover high-interest topics both creepy and utterly terrifying. Each title is thoroughly researched and includes an introduction, five chapters, an epilogue, glossary, and index. On-the-scene photography captures students' imagination and spurs further reading. These are books that struggling readers will not put down! This title explores highly publicized cold cases when will justice be served? The five chapters describe the lives of Chandra Levy, JonBenet Ramsey, Natalee Holloway, Jam Master Jay, and engaged couple Lindsay Cutshall and Jason Allen.

One of seven touching true stories from Wish You Were Here!, the tale of Butlin’s holiday camps. ‘When I got to the camp I felt as if I’d suddenly walked into Utopia – it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners fluttering in the breeze… There seemed to be laughter coming from every building.’ With grey post-WWII skies hanging low over Britain, factories lining the streets and smoke stacks dotting the horizon, there was one way that ordinary families could escape: the ever-cheerful holiday camps of Butlin’s. When Billy Butlin founded his holiday camps in 1936, they were bastions of community spirit and havens of luxury. Here, for one week, wives and mothers were freed from the toil and drudgery of housework, children ran free through the grounds, fathers and husbands hung up their work clothes. Ever-helpful redcoats were on hand all hours of the day, dinner halls ready with plentiful food for old and young alike, bars stocked to quench any level of thirst, ballrooms waiting to be flooded with shiny shoes, rustling dresses and peals of laughter. And, as the sun went down on another exhausting, happy day, a chorus line was ready to sing holidaymakers back to their beds. Rich in period detail and highly evocative, Wish You Were Here! follows the lives of seven of the camps’ key figures through the highs and lows of the holiday season: from redcoats searching for stardom to young families who returned year after year, to pensioners who rediscovered an inner youth. The laughter and tears, the loves and losses, and the fun and friendships that have lasted a lifetime – it's all here. Funny, moving and heartwarming, they are tales of swimming pools and sing-a-longs, Glamorous Grannies and bicycle rides, and of a community spirit that burned brightly in a much-loved British institution.