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Epic yet eminently readable, penetrating and profoundly moving, 'Congo' traces the fate of one of the world's most devastated countries, second only to war-torn Somalia: the Democratic Republic of Congo.With a span of several hundred years and an enormous cast of characters, 'Congo' chronicles the most dramatic episodes of the nation's history, the people and events that have determined Congo's development - from the slave trade to the ivory and rubber booms; from the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley and his meeting with Dr Livingstone to the brutal regime of Belgium's King Leopold II; from the struggle for independence to Mobutu's exploitative rule; and from Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's world famous 'Rumble in the Jungle' to the civil war over natural resources that began in 1996 and still rages today.David Van Reybrouck interweaves his own family's history with the voices of a diverse range of individuals - charismatic dictators, feuding warlords, child-soldiers, elderly, female smugglers, and many in the African diaspora of Europe and China - to offer a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the Congolese perspective in an attempt to return a nation's history to its people.

Revised and Expanded Edition of a Life-Changing BookRecovering nice guy Paul Coughlin points the way for all men who yearn to live a life of boldness and conviction--like Jesus. Using anecdotes from his own life, powerful and poignant stories, and vivid examples from our culture, Coughlin shows how men can say no to the "nice guy" syndrome and yes to a life of purpose, passion, and vitality.In this revised and expanded edition, Coughlin adds vital insights on the changes he's seen in churches and the greater culture in the decade since No More Christian Nice Guy was first published. This radical and hopeful message elevates the true biblical model of manhood and now includes testimonials from men and women whose lives have been altered by this book. Coughlin also looks at the shifting expectations men face in relationships and in the workplace, and how younger Christians, in particular, are subject to harmful views about masculinity. Part inspiration, part instruction, and part manifesto, this book gives men the courage to move from passivity to assertiveness.

First published in 1995, David Nokes' major biography of John Gay (1685-1732) was the first full-length life of Gay for over fifty years, and drew on hitherto unpublished letters. Presenting Gay as a complex character, torn between the hopes of court preferment and the assertion of literary independence, Nokes offers both a lively and accessible read for the non-specialist and a comprehensive scholarly study. Best-known for The Beggar's Opera, Gay is here revealed as a contradictory figure. Nokes argues that Gay's self-effacing and self-mocking literary persona was largely responsible for perpetuating an image of himself as a genial literary non-entity. Often cast as a neglected genius, dependent on others, he in fact left a considerable fortune after his death. Depicted by his friends as both a childlike innocent and a rakish ladies' man, he produced the most successful and subversive theatrical satire of his generation, and volumes of bestselling Fables.

Rosa Luxemburg's writings reveal one of the most brilliant and passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement. Through the letters, pamphlets and theorising, we see an outstanding social and economic theorist, a dedicated political activist and a devoted confidant. *BR**BR*Providing an extensive overview of her writings, this volume contains a number of items never before anthologised. Her work was broad in scope tackling capitalism and socialism; globalisation and imperialism; history; war and peace; social struggles, trade unions, political parties; class, gender, race; the interconnection of humanity with the natural environment. The editors provide an extensive and informative introduction outlining and evaluating her life and thought.*BR**BR*This is the most comprehensive introduction to the range of Rosa Luxemburg's thought.

A little book for those in search of words to calm and inspire. In this gift book His Holiness the Dalai Lama imparts his message: the importance of love, compassion and forgiveness.His Holiness the Dalai Lama describes how to bring wisdom and compassion into our busy, stressful everyday lives.A beautiful selection of words from His Holiness that will help you to face difficult emotions such as anger in yourself and in others with genuine acceptance and understanding.The only little gift book based on the words of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this book should have tremendous appeal especially during the holiday season.

This book is a personal account of the daily lives of the people of the frontline of the Palestine / Israel conflict, giving us an insight into the deadly, seemingly never-ending rounds of violence.*BR**BR*Ramzy Baroud tells his father's fascinating story. Driven out of his village to a refugee camp, he took up arms and fought the occupation at the same time raising a family and trying to do the best for his children. *BR**BR*Baroud's vivid and honest account reveals the complex human beings; revolutionaries, great moms and dads, lovers, and comedians that make Gaza so much more than just a disputed territory.

-- A stunning history of Lebanon over five centuries --"e;Skillfully weaving together social, political, cultural and economic history, this deeply informed and penetrating study provides a rich understanding of the vibrant, tragic, but ever hopeful Lebanese 'door to East and West', tracing the intricacies of this fascinating society. It closes with the observation that 'a new period in the history of Lebanon had begun' in 1990, a period that has been marked by achievements and horrors, but with the promise for the better future that its people surely deserve."e; Noam Chomsky"e;Fawwaz Trabulsi puts Lebanon's long war into a context that makes it comprehensible and, perhaps, inevitable. Everyone who is curious about that beautiful and tormented country should read his history, one of the best yet."e; Charles Glass, author of The Northern Front and The Tribes TriumphantThis is the first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period. It is entirely unique, as the last history of Lebanon was published over forty years ago. Written by a leading Lebanese scholar, and based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating and beautifully-written account of one of the world's most fabled countries.Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in the 16th century, Traboulsi covers the growth of Beirut as a capital for trade and culture through the 19th century. The main part of the book concentrates on Lebanon's development in the 20th century and the conflicts that led up to the major wars in the 1970s and 1980s. Lebanon in the 20th century has seen turbulent times, the results of which we still see today.This is a rich history of Lebanon that brings to life its politics, its people and the crucial role that it has always played in world affairs.

In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab peoples from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region.This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 9/11, the US invasion of Iraq and its bloody aftermath, the fall of the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and the incipient civil war in Syria, bringing Hourani's magisterial History up to date. Ruthven suggests that while Hourani can hardly have been expected to predict in detail the massive upheavals that have shaken the Arab world recently he would not have been entirely surprised, given the persistence of the kin-patronage networks he describes in his book and the challenges now posed to them by a new media-aware generation of dissatisfied youth.In a new biographical preface, Malise Ruthven shows how Hourani's perspectives on Arab history were shaped by his unique background as an English-born Arab Christian with roots in the Levant.

Anna was four years old when Fynn, then only 16 himself, found her wandering round London's Docklands one foggy night in the 1930s. Badly neglected and abandoned by her parents, he took her home to be cared for by his own family.The impact of this extraordinary child on Fynn, his friends and the people in their neighbourhood was to be immense. Nobody who met Anna could remain the same: this intelligent, lively, precocious chatterbox had an outlook on life which completely undercut adult pretensions and illusions.Anna's influence continues today. Anyone dipping into her thought-processes falls under the spell of her luminous innocence, wisdom and intimate relationship with 'Mister God'.

Britain, although not the first Mass Observation title, was the one that made its name. Britain was published as Penguin Special and is reported as selling over 100, 000 in ten days. It was published in January 1939, and seventy years on Faber Finds are reissuing it. The aim of Mass Observation was to create 'an anthropology of ourselves', to provide a study of everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. In this book, arranged and written by Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge (two of the founders of Mass Observation) the notorious year of 1938 is anatomized. It was the year of Munich. The first half of the book deals with the unfolding crisis, culminating with Neville Chamberlain waving his scrap of paper, the agreement with Hitler, from No. 10 Downing Street. A Mass Observation observer was there. The Press gave wildly misleading impressions of the turn-out. In fact the crowd was under 5000. As the commentary tartly observes, 'No second division football club could survive on a Chamberlain gate.' A bleakly comic moment is recorded, 'P. M. stretches out his arm for silence. Several in crowd appear to take this as a Fascist salute and stretch forth their arms likewise.'Other chapters deal with the dance craze 'The Lambeth Walk', all-in wrestling, the cow's-head cult of Westhoughton (the chapter is aptly entitled A Slight Case of Totemism) and the Two Minutes' Silence on Armistice Day. As the Times said then, ' . . . With these anthropological spies among us one wonders how statesmen and journalists will ever again dare to speak and write on behalf of ''the people''. For here are ''the people''.

We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe, where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Simon Reynolds, one of the finest music writers of his generation, argues that we have indeed reached a tipping point and that although earlier eras had their own obsessions with antiquity - the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement's invocations of medievalism - never has there been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past. Retromania is the first book to examine the retro industry and ask the question: Is this retromania a death knell for any originality and distinctiveness of our own?

It was, of course, the Battle of Britain, or rather its conclusion, that prompted one of Winston Churchill's most memorable pieces of oratory that has its epitome in the sentence, 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.' If the Battle of Britain had been lost it is very likely the New Order to which the Axis powers had pledged themselves would have become global with unthinkable consequences for the world afterwards.The importance of the Battle of Britain cannot be exaggerated though inevitably in the succeeding years the accretion of myth has brought about many distortions. This multi-faceted symposium emerged from the Centre of Second World War Studies at Edinburgh University with the aim, in the words of the editors, 'to reassess established themes while opening up new ones.' After a masterly introduction by Brian Bond, the book is divided into six parts: Before the Battle; The Battle; The View from Afar; Experience and Memory; The Making of a British Legend and The Significance. The contributors are: Klaus A. Maier; Malcolm Smith; Horst Boog; Sebastian Cox; Sergei Kudryshov; Richard P. Hallion; Theodore F. Cook; Hans-Ekkehard Bob; Wallace Cunningham; Nigel Rose; Owen Dudley Edwards; Angus Calder; Tony Aldgate; Adrian Gregory; Jeremy Lake and John Schofield; Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang and Richard Overy. No survey could be more wide-ranging or fascinating. First published in 2000 to mark the 60th anniversary, it is now being reissued in 2010 to mark the 70th anniversary.'But it is terrific. It's not only an acknowledgement of the heroism of the fighter pilots (and all the ancillary crew), but a serious contribution to the historical record. Seventeen contributors write about the Battle from pretty much every conceivable angle; and Addison and Crang have chosen them well. . . This is not an automatically worshipful book; it poses questions about the morality of war, the existence of heroism, the reliability of memory. But it treats the subject honestly and with justice. And it tells us why we won: because, it would appear, it helps to come from a society that is sceptical of authority rather than in blind, unthinking terror of it.' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian''This book is a first-class piece of work, stimulating, informative and concise.' Brian Holden Reid, Times Higher Education Supplement.'This is a nugget of a book . . . it assembles, most readably, a range of authoritative and international views on the Battle, its history, and its significance.' Air Chief Marshall Sir Michael Graydon, Royal United Services Institute'This is a much told story, but the varied viewpoints of the 20 contributors to Burning Blue - ranging from a fascinating essay by Owen Dudley Edwards on the air war as reflected in children's literaturer to the memories of pilots who fought in it on both sides - give an impressive breadth and depth. And even though it strips away hindsight and refuses to burnish legends, what is left is still one of the most remarkable stories in the whole of British history. The British empire didn't last a thousand years, but the man was right: this truly was its finest hour.' David Robinson, The Scotsman

On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colonial forces moved in , their ruthless punitive raids became an open war of extermination. Thousands of the indigenous people were killed or driven out into the desert to die. By 1905, the survivors were interned in concentration camps, and systematically starved and worked to death.Years later, the people and ideas that drove the ethnic cleansing of German South West Africa would influence the formation of the Nazi party. The Kaiser's Holocaust uncovers extraordinary links between the two regimes: their ideologies, personnel, even symbols and uniform. The Herero and Nama genocide was deliberately concealed for almost a century. Today, as the graves of the victims are uncovered, its re-emergence challenges the belief that Nazism was an aberration in European history. The Kaiser's Holocaust passionately narrates this harrowing story and explores one of the defining episodes of the twentieth century from a new angle. Moving, powerful and unforgettable, it is a story that needs to be told.

The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling author of One Day! One life-changing summer, sixteen-year-old Charlie meets Fran... Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all, it is with a kind of dread. Then Fran Fisher bursts into his life and despite himself, Charlie begins to hope. But if Charlie wants to be with Fran, he must take on a challenge that could lose him the respect of his friends and require him to become a different person. He must join the Company. And if the Company sounds like a cult, the truth is even more appalling. The price of hope, it seems, is Shakespeare. Poignant, funny, enchanting, devastating, Sweet Sorrow is a tragicomedy about the rocky path to adulthood and the confusion of family life, a celebration of the reviving power of friendship and that brief, searing explosion of first love that can only be looked at directly after it has burned out.

Hverdagsbilleder og overraskelser. At finde sine pladser i tilværelsen med en Søborgdreng årgang 1945. Undres over forstandens og kroppens forunderlige, og selvstændige liv, som ikke altid husker at banke på hos de øverste lag af bevidstheden. Lege med hukommelsen. Opdage forskelen på hukommelse og erindring. Er det videnskaben eller troen der har svarene? Hvad er værst? Tidsspring, tankespring, og refleksioner vedrørende barndom, ungdom, manddom og alderdom. Såvel nuet som evigheden stikker næsen frem i ubevogtede øjeblikke. At søge mening og opdage det modsatte - og omvendt. At se om bag nogle af datidens og nutidens mantra. Livet set fra 5 positioner: Fra en Sølvsmedie 1962 til 1971. Fra cykelmiljøet med bevidstheden på indre rejser 1961 til 1966. Fra en værnepligtig soldats oplevelser 1967 til 1968. Fra erkendelser gennem et langs liv i forsøg på at forstå de kræfter, der skaber livets forudsætninger. Fra en opvækst i kunstens og filosofiens favntag med disse som ledestjerner og med eksistensen som alle tings gåde. Ja, og undres over, hvad livet er for en utrolig begivenhed.

Axels Olriks gengivelse af de klassiske danske heltesagn fra sagntid, vikingetid og riddertid: Kong Dan, Skjold, Vermund og Uffe, Amled, Hroar og Helge, Hagbard og Signe, Stærkodder, Regner Lodbrog, Jomsvikingerne m.fl.

"Tingene fortæller ..." er en ny og sjov vinkel på det at fortælle din og din families historie. Ved at fortælle de historier, der knytter sig til de ting, du er mest glad for, fortæller du samtidig en del om dig selv og måske også din familie, slægt og lokalområde. Det kan hjælpe dine nære til at lære dig, jeres familietraditionerne og slægtshistorien endnu bedre at kende. Det er af stor værdi i sig selv, men de nedskrevne historier om dine ting kan også gøre en stor forskel den dag, det er andre, som skal tage sig af dine ting. Formålet med "Tingene fortæller ..." er at opfordre, inspirere og hjælpe dig til at komme i gang med at skrive de gode historier om dine ting ned. Bogen giver dig gode råd og en lang række eksempler på "ting, der fortæller". Bogen henvender sig både til dig, som selv vil skrive og til dig, som vil hjælpe en anden. Måske er du pårørende, frivillig eller plejer.

Gylfaginning er første del af Snorres Edda. Her giver den islandske digter Snorre Sturlason en systematisk gennemgang af det førkristne verdensbillede. Han går kronologisk til værks - begynder med skabelsen og slutter med verdens undergang - ragnarok. Han gengiver myterne om guderne og fortæller om deres bedrifter. Han skildrer Tors kamp med jætterne, Balders tragiske død og tiden efter ragnarok.

Den lille Katekismus har en helt særlig plads i Danmark og i den evangelisk-lutherske folkekirken. Det er den eneste af Luthers bøger, der direkte nævnes blandt bekendelsesskrifterne. Kirkeordinansen og Danske Lov præciserer endda at udgaven af katekismen er den komplette med både Luthers vigtige indledning, vejledning til skriftemål og ritualerne for dåb og vielse. Det var også denne udgave Palladius oversatte til vejledning for de nye evangeliske præster og prædikanter. Det skete på direkte anmodning fra Bugenhagen, som var kaldt her til landet som Wittenbergs specialist i den praktiske indførelse af reformationen. Luthers komplette katekismus har således en særlig plads i den danske kirke. Og det er en ny oversættelse af denne udgave med alle 12 dele, der bringes her, sammen med de originale illustrationer.

Luther skriver dette lille skrift i 1535 efter ønske fra sin barber, mester Peter. Han ville gerne have en enkel og overskuelig vejledning til, hvordan man bedst holder andagt og beder til Gud. Luther fortæller, hvordan han selv gør og giver enkelte gode råd. Han understreger især, at man skal være åben for Guds stemme under bønnen og at man skal koncentrere sig om det, man beder om. Desuden kan det være godt at have en tekst og en fast fremgangsmåde at støtte sig til, uden at man dog skal være bundet af det. Oversættelsen er foretaget efter originalteksten i Weimar Udgaven (WA) 38, 358-75: Eine einfältige Weise zu beten für einen guten Freund, 1535.

Martin Luthers store Kirkepostil udkommer nu i en ny dansk oversættelse. Den omfatter Luthers prædikener over hele kirkeårets første tekstrække med både evangelierne og brevene. Kirkepostillen fremkom ikke fuldt færdig på én gang. Afbrudt af de historiske begivenheder omkring reformationens voldsomme begivenheder udkom den over en årrække i større og mindre stykker. Først i 1543-44 forelå den fuldt færdigt med Luthers forord. Det er denne udgave der her bringes i en ny dansk oversættelse, sammenholdt med den tidligere dansk-norske oversættelse udgivet i Stavanger 1862. På grund af Kirkepostillens store omfang udgives den nu 3 bind: Bind 1: Advent til helligtrekonger Bind 2: Første søndag efter helligtrekonger til pinse Bind 3: Trinitatistiden På net-siden lutherdansk.dk findes der en samlet oversigt over alle prædikenerne. Desuden er der her mulighed for at søge på ord og vendinger i hele Kirkepostillen.

Martin Luthers store Kirkepostil udkommer nu i en ny dansk oversættelse. Den omfatter Luthers prædikener over hele kirkeårets første tekstrække med både evangelierne og brevene. Kirkepostillen fremkom ikke fuldt færdig på én gang. Afbrudt af de historiske begivenheder omkring reformationens voldsomme begivenheder udkom den over en årrække i større og mindre stykker. Først i 1543-44 forelå den fuldt færdigt med Luthers forord. Det er denne udgave der her bringes i en ny dansk oversættelse, sammenholdt med den tidligere dansk-norske oversættelse udgivet i Stavanger 1862. På grund af Kirkepostillens store omfang udgives den nu 3 bind: Bind 1: Advent til helligtrekonger Bind 2: Første søndag efter helligtrekonger til pinse Bind 3: Trinitatistiden På net-siden lutherdansk.dk findes der en samlet oversigt over alle prædikenerne. Desuden er der her mulighed for at søge på ord og vendinger i hele Kirkepostillen.

En praktisk guide på syv skridt til at høre Gud, visdomsord og profetisk nådegave. Ian Banner skriver: Jeg har været en kristen siden 1990 og er "faldet over" tjenesten som rejseprædikant og underviser af profetiske tjenester. Gennem mine egne erfaringer har jeg lært, hvordan jeg hører Guds stemme, og hvordan jeg bruger den forståelse i måden, jeg prædiker, beder og betjener mennesker på. Jeg tror på, vi alle kan gøre dette, og jeg vil gerne hjælpe dig i gang. Af mennesker, der holder af mig, bliver jeg hele tiden mindet om, at jeg ikke er en afsluttet historie. Jeg har taget nogle skridt på min rejse med Gud, og jeg kan hjælpe dig med at tage lignende skridt. Hvis vores kristne liv og vores vej til modenhed er et maraton , så er jeg højst halvvejs igennem - hvis du er lidt efter mig, så lad mig hjælpe dig med at tage de næste få skridt.

Har man lidt interesse for renaissancen, er det svært at komme uden om de 4 Valois-hertuger af Bourgogne. Middelalderen havde skabt flere samlinger af rige byrepublikker, med tilløb til demokrati, med de største og rigeste koncentreret i Nederlandene og i Norditalien. Under renaissancen mistede borgerne deres frihed, og kom under kontrol af fyrster, der brugte lidt af den opsparede rigdom som kunstmæcener, omend det meste gik til krig og nedkæmpelse af almuen. Det skete først i Bourgogne, hvor kunsten blomstrede under hertugernes beskyttelse, og bredte sig senere til Norditalien, som siden har forsøgt at tage patent på renaissancen. Johan den Gode af Frankrig gjorde sin søn Filip den Dristige til hertug af Bourgogne, som tak for at Filip havde kæmpet tappert ved Johans side under slaget ved Poitiers. Vigtigere var det imidlertid at Filip blev gift med den tidligere hertugs enke, Margrete af Flandern, og dermed kom i besiddelse af et af Europas rigeste områder. Det blev starten på hvad der, næsten, blev til et nyt rige i hjertet af Europa, og skete omtrent samtidig med at Margrete I skabte et storrige i Norden. Filips søn, Johan den Frygtløse, startede sin karriere som tyrkisk krigsfange, efter det mislykkede korstog til Nicopolis. Under den sindsyge Karl VI forsøgte han at tage magten i Frankrig, men blev myrdet af kronprinsens folk. Det førte til en alliance mellem Johans søn, Filip den Gode, og den engelske konge Henrik V, svoger til Erik af Pommern. Udover prægtige fester og ridderskab, var Filip mest optaget af at udvide sine territorier i de rige Nederlande. Selv om han solgte Jeanne d’Arc til englænderne, var han dog fransk ridder i sit hjerte, på et tidspunkt hvor ridderskab og middelalder lakkede mod enden. Hans svoger, Henrik Søfareren, var derimod, med sin helt videnskabelige udforskning af den Afrikanske kyst, en forløber for moderne tid. Imens sluttede Hundredårskrigen, Konstantinopel faldt til tyrkerne (grækerne så hellere en turban end en tiara på alteret i Hagia Sophia), og Gutenberg fik udviklet en metode til trykning af bøger. Den sidste af Valois-hertugerne, Karl den (Dum)Dristige, satte det hele over styr. Han forsøgte at få kejseren til at ophøje Bourgogne til et kongerige, og Christian I gjorde sit bedste for at mægle mellem kejser og hertug, men Karls halsstarrige sind bragte ham i krig med de foragtede schweiziske borgere og bønder, disse drukkenbolte, som slog ham læsterligt ved Grandson og Morat, og tog livet af ham ved Nancy.

Det er så let at forfalde til mismod over de nye tider, som ikke er som 'i de gode gamle dage'. Men er det nu så skidt endda? Denne bog tager dig med på opdagelse i Durups historie. Det meste fortælles af en fiktiv person og er fiktion med et glimt i øjet, baseret på Durups virkelige historie. Sidst i bogen finder du en kronologisk opbygget faktadel, hvor de mest skelsættende begivenheder i Durups historie er listet.

'Jesu Hellige Hjerte' med undertitlen - At blive Jesu discipel - giver et fascinerende og udfordrende indblik i discipelskabets vej. Således skriver præst Ole Skjerbæk Madsen i forordet, og han kalder bogen et 'wake up call' til "sløve" kristne. Bogen inviterer til at efterfølge Jesus og gennem bøn ligedanne vore hjerter med Jesu Hellige Hjerte. I 'Jesu Hellige Hjerte' kalder Jesus insisterende på os: Min datter, se på Mit barmhjertige Hjerte! Giv Mig dit hjerte, Min søn! og Jesus anviser os, hvordan vi gennem tillid, valg, hengivenhed og viljens overgivelse kan forvandles og få et nyt sind og Kristus-formes. Jesus opfordrer os til at give Ham vort hjerte, og til gengæld vil Han skænke os sit kærlige og barmhjertige Hjerte ind i vort hjerte - ikke for vor egen skyld, men for at Jesus gennem os kan sprede sit lys, sin kærlighed og barmhjertighed til hele menneskeheden. 'Jesu Hellige Hjerte' er fyldt af visdom, smukke billeder og kernetekster fra den kristne åndelige tradition. Den er den anden bog i en trilogi om mysterier. Den første bog i trilogien, 'Maria Mysterier' med undertitlen 'Maria som Discipel', beskriver den ideelle discipel.

Denne bog indeholder de forelæsninger, som Yamada Mumon Roshi holdt for sine munke, da han var Mester i Shofukuji-klostret. I 25 år som søgende delte Yamada Mumon livet i praksis med sine unge munke. Så påtog han sig ansvaret som rektor for Hanazono College og leder af Forskningsinstituttet for Zen-studier. Senere tiltrådte han embedet som øverste abbed i Myoshin-ji templerne.

Mødet med den tyske mystiker Jakob Böhme (1575-1624) åbner for horisonter og aspekter af livet, som man som ganske almindeligt menneske måske kun har fantaseret om eller anet. At møde et menneske, som i den grad skriver fra hjertet, og hvor man som læser kan mærke autenciteten bag ordene, er en sand gave. Jakob Böhmes tanker er klare og dybsindige og samtidig ganske enkle og ligetil; og hans åbenbaringer er både overvældende og forførende. Det er en sand gave, han forærer os, når han giver os anvisninger til at følge i hans fodspor, så vi hver især kan udfolde og udvikle vor indre væsen og erfare det, han beskriver, så vi selv kan modtage perlen, Kristus-barnet, fra den ædle Sophia. Vejen til Kristus er oversat fra et original-manuskript og består af seks små bøger, der viser vejen. "Hvis et menneske vil iklæde sig Kristus, så skal han gennemgå hele hans proces, lige fra hans menneskeliggørelse til hans himmelfart."

Denne nye udgave muliggjorde genoptryk i farver takket være støtte fra Møenbogaardfonden, januar 2014. I juni 2014 mødte fem døtre af forvalterparret Dørum (1945-55) op på Friisenfeldt for at gense deres barndomshjem og samtidig bidrage til et supplerende kapitel i det, der er blevet 3. revideret udgave af bogen om Friisenfeldt – en arbejdsplads.Udarbejdelsen af 3. revideret udgave har desuden betydet, at bogens format er sat op i større størrelse samt er aktuelle fotos indsat af hhv. FLS-Aeromotor møllen og Østersøskolen ved Gedser Landevej. Fotos viser nedrivning af bygningerne, 13. august 2014. Projektet tog sin begyndelse i sommeren 2013, hvor der i dagene 9-11. august for første gang blev afholdt "Fyrstival" i Gedser. Eventen omfattede blandt meget andet gøgl, gadeteater og guidede rundvisninger. Danmarks sydligste gård Friisenfeldt, beliggende på Gedser Odde, var forsøgsvist programsat med guidede rundvisninger i tidsrummet 13-17.Vi, dvs. festivalens arrangør Yvonne Halskov og jeg, Gitte Ahrenkiel, der bor til leje i stuehuset på Friisenfeldt, havde ingen anelse om, hvordan festivalens gæster ville reagere på denne mulighed. Det skulle imidlertid vise sig, at folk allerede indfandt sig tidlig formiddag og at "Lukketiden" kl. 17 samtlige tre dage blev overskredet.Flere tidligere ansatte mødte op til rundvisningerne for at gense deres gamle arbejdsplads. Meget fra dengang står stort set uforandret, fx den gamle kostald, karle- og pigekamre. Til stor fornøjelse for os, der guidede og for gæster, som af nysgerrighed deltog i rundvisningerne, fik de tidligere ansatte vakt de støvede bygninger til live med fortællinger om en tid, hvor der var køer og heste i staldene.Blandt de tidligere ansatte, der aflagde Friisenfeldt besøg i 2013, var Verner Christensen og hans familie. I perioden 1956-57 havde han fungeret som underforvalter på Friisenfeldt for senere at få fæste som forvalter på Ludvigsgave. Helt spontant tilbød Verner Christensen at sende fotos fra dengang. Og det var disse fotos fra Verner Christensen som inspirerede andre tidligere ansatte til at gå på jagt i fotoalbums, skuffer og skabe - for at finde materiale frem til vores fælles bogprojekt: Friisenfeldt - en Arbejdsplads.De indleverede beretninger har betydet en samtidig afspejling af Sydfalsters historie og undervejs i forløbet har Gedser Lokalhistoriske Arkiv spillet en central rolle.