Eve S Journey

In Eve's Journey, Nehama Aschkenasy traces the migration of several female images and feminine situations from their early appearances in Biblical writings to their incarnations in modern Hebraic literature. Focusing on the evolution of early female archetypes and prototypes, Aschkenasy uncovers the ancient roots of modern female characters and traces the changing cultural perceptions of women in Hebraic letters. The author draws on the vast body of Hebraic literary documents to illustrate how the female character is a mirror of her times as well as being a product of her creator''s imagination and conception of the woman's role in society and in fiction. The historical spectrum, provided by a discussion of Biblical narratives, Midrashic sources, documents of the Jewish mystics, Hasidic tales, and modern Hebrew works, allows an understanding of the metamorphosis that the female figure has experienced in her literary odyssey.

It's been a year since her son Cain killed his younger brother, Abel, and Eve is still having nightmares. Adam wants her to move on. Eve senses Jehovah is calling her to revisit her best and worst memories...to the very places she is afraid to go. But how can the mother of the dead and banished become the mother of the living? Saint Augustine called Eve "the temptress." Tertullian called her "the gate to hell." This groundbreaking allegory offers another alternative--Eve, the woman who speaks to all of our sorrows. Infused with scripture, poetry and sentiments from women of many backgrounds, Eve's Song reaches into the deep places that we, too, are often afraid to go. You will surely find healing and hope as you uncover your own story embedded within the pages of this book!

Eves Against The Odds, an initiative by Billennium Divas, is back with its second edition with 25 more powerful women entrepreneurs joining the bandwagon to share their incredible stories. After the stupendous success of Volume I, this edition is simply taking forward the mission to provide women entrepreneurs with a platform to showcase their journey. Just like last time, they were given a framework to present their stories in their own words. Billennium Divas’s mission is to provide a global platform to enterprising women who believe in their dreams and enable their growth by providing learning and mentoring opportunities. Eves Against The Odds series is a showcase of this commitment. Visit our inspiring Eves at www.evesagainsttheodds.com.

To Julie Metz, her mother, Eve, was the quintessential New Yorker. It was difficult to imagine her living anywhere else except the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In truth, Eve had endured a harrowing childhood in Nazi-occupied Vienna, though she rarely spoke about it. Yet after her passing, Julie discovered a keepsake box filled with farewell notes from friends and relatives addressed to a ten-year-old girl named Eva, her mother. This was the first clue to the secret pain that Julie's mother had carried as an immigrant, and it shed light on a family that had to rely on its own perseverance to escape the xenophobia that threatened their survival. A beautiful blend of personal memoir and family history, Metz shows how one woman's search for her mother's lost childhood offers valuable lessons about the sacrifices people make to save their families during some of the darkest times in history.

In the infinite voids of space, time had no meaning. No today. No yesterday. Suddenly, a gargantuan explosion tore through this nothingness. This caused the universe to be conceived and it spawned Leaffe, a supernatural being. She oversaw the creation of the universe and the creation of planets. On one planet, Zula, the people had advanced to such an extent that they overpopulated the planet by banning religions and the concomitant wars. This increased greenhouse gasses through the overuse of industry and the planet was heading for self-destruction. A space station, Haven, was built to house a select group, so their race would survive. When aliens, led by Shaitan, attacked the space station, Leaffe intervened. She helped a group of children to escape in the newly built spaceship Ark, which had been built on Haven using green technology. The crew on Ark travelled in D-stasis cocoons and did not age. This allowed Leaffe to take the Ark to a solar system many light-years away. Using the Ark’s advanced technology, Leaffe subtly persuaded them to change the orbit of a planet closer to the sun, creating planet Earth. By leaving their cocoons only for short periods, they were able to observe and take part in the evolution of Earth from the dawn of the dinosaurs to Homo sapiens. Three of them stayed with the sapiens, but Shaitan arrived, with devastating consequences. The Ark returned thousands of years later, finding some frightening facts about Shaitan and that there was more than one Mitochondrial Eve.

This book is a tribute to women entrepreneurs who have defied the odds and built a life and business of their dreams. It is an initiative by the Billennium Divas whose mission is to provide a global platform to support enterprising women to believe in their dreams and enable them through learning and mentoring. We at Billennium Divas firmly believe that “Women do not need empowerment, they are born empowered; all they need is support and encouragement from the family and the society”, and that is what our mission is - to nurture and encourage more women in entrepreneurship. The 25 Inspiring Stories in this book are written by the power women themselves based on the following guidelines: 1. Entrepreneur's brief background. 2. Why I became an entrepreneur? 3. What is the mission of my business? 4. My two great failures and two great successes. 5. What I learnt from my failures. 6. My advice to startups. 7. My advice to women entrepreneurs. They deep dive into their journey and capture the defining moments packed with emotion as well as finesse. Curated by Bhavesh Kothari and Hariharan Iyer, this book brings alive stories of women entrepreneurs in a manner, perhaps not captured before. The book thus is not just intended to be a good read, but also serve as a platform for aspiring women entrepreneurs, who through these pages will resonate with the two most powerful words in the world: ‘I BELIEVE’.

A comprehensive anthology of Kierkegaard’s writings that offers an unmatched introduction to one of the most original and influential modern philosophers This is the most comprehensive anthology of Søren Kierkegaard’s works ever published in English. Drawn from the volumes of Princeton’s authoritative Kierkegaard’s Writings series by editors Howard and Edna Hong, these carefully chosen selections represent every major aspect of Kierkegaard’s extraordinary output, which changed the course of modern intellectual history with its mix of philosophy, psychology, theology, and literary criticism. The anthology reveals the most important themes of his work, especially what it means to exist and to be human, and captures the unique character of his writings, with their shifting pseudonyms, complex dialogues, and powerful combination of irony, satire, sermon, polemic, humor, and fiction. A superb introduction and guide to the Danish philosopher, The Essential Kierkegaard vividly demonstrates why his work continues to speak so directly to so many readers. Traces the full span of Kierkegaard’s writings, from his early journals to his final work Features generous selections from all of Kierkegaard’s most important works, including Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, Works of Love, and The Sickness unto Death Presents selections from lesser-known writings, including Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air Includes an introduction to Kierkegaard’s writings and explanatory notes for each selection