The Boat Rocker: A Poetry of Life - Hardcover

Mann, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 059567044X ISBN 13: 9780595670444

Publisher: iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

The Boat Rocker is a poetry of life that both presents a philosophy of life and describes an art of living that has been learned the hard way--by actually living a life; by having tasted all the joys life offers and having suffered many of the tragedies and pains life inevitably brings as well.

While The Boat Rocker will not help a person to avoid all tragedy and pain--those are a part of every life--it will help everyone who takes it's message to heart to avoid some needless suffering and to get through whatever vale of tears is encountered through a simple act of faith, for fidelity is everything in life--fidelity to self, fidelity to our loved ones, fidelity to our purpose in life, and fidelity to God. These are essential for a well-lived, rewarding life.

But love is the heart and soul of faith, and faith is but love made real.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Mann is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Power in the 21st Century: Conversations with John Hall (2011), Incoherent Empire (2003) and Fascists (Cambridge University Press, 2004). His book The Dark Side of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) was awarded the Barrington Moore Award of the American Sociological Association for the best book in comparative and historical sociology in 2006.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059567044X
• ISBN 13: 9780595670444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112