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كان للمعتزلة شأن خطير في التاريخ الإسلامي من الوجهتين السياسية والثقافية فقد كانوا حزباً تناصرهم السلطة حيناً وتحاربهم حيناً اّخر، حتى ظفر بهم خصومهم ظفراً ماحقاً فأعملوا فيهم التقتيل وفي كتبهم التحريق. وكانوا فرقة دينية يعالجون العقائد بالنظر العقلي البحث في منطق دقيق وجرأة عجيبة. والاّراء لا تقتل ولا تحرق، فظلت اّراؤهم موضع نظر المفكرين يتناقلونها ويمحصونها

تقوم رؤية المعتزلة للعقيدة الإسلامية على أصول خمسة، من لم يجمعها لم يكن معتزلياً خالصاً، وهي: التوحيد، والعدل،والوعد والوعيد،والمنزلة بين المنزلتين، والأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر

وهذه الأصول في الحقيقة يمكن توسعتها للتفرغ إلى أصول أخرى، كما يمكن اختزالها في أصلين؛ هما التوحيد والعدل؛ نظراً إلى أن الأصول الثلاثة الأخيرة إنما ترجع إلى العدل. بل ويمكن رد العدل أيضاً إلى أصل التوحيد، باعتباره صفة من صفات الله تعالى. لذلك نجد مؤلفات للمعتزلة بعنوان “الأصول الخمسة”، كما نجد في الوقت نفسه مؤلفاً للقاضي عبدالجبار بعنوان “المغني في أبواب التوحيد والعدل”. وقد اختارالمؤلف في كتابه أن يجعله في جزأين: الأول في التوحيد والثاني في العدل

وقد عني المؤلف عناية خاصة باكتشاف أصول هذا المذهب، فنراه يحاول ذلك في كل مسألة ويوفق بذلك إلى جلائها وتقريبها إلى الأفهام. والأصول كثيرة، هي كل الثقافات والأديان القديمة وقد أجتمعت في البلدان المسماة الاّن بالشرق الأوسط وتفاعلت أشد التفاعل. فما أن يأخذ المؤلف في الكلام على الله حتى يقول: “إن تعريف المعتزلة لله رد على اعتقادات مختلفة إسلامية ومسيحية ومجوسية، وأيضاً على نظريات فلسفية كانت منتشرة في عصرهم، ثم يمضي في بيان هذه الاعتقادات وتفسير اّراء المعتزلة بالإضافة إليها

Nikki Maxwell’s adventures continue in the twelfth installment in the blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!

In Nikki Maxwell’s newest diary, it’s the countdown to the end of the school year, and Nikki’s juggling some big questions about how she’ll spend her summer. She’s also facing an unexpected crush catastrophe—there’s a new kid interested in Nikki, but the last thing she wants to do is accidentally hurt Brandon! It all comes down to a big decision Nikki has to make, and drama like she’s never faced before!

Everybody knows Jackie Chan. Whether it’s from Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon or Kung Fu Panda, The Karate Kid, and The Foreigner, Chan is known to generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts.

Now, in his second memoir (translated and updated from the original Chinese edition), the global superstar reflects on the twenty years since his first memoir was published, as well as never-before-told stories from his early life.

قلم غزال كحلي

A tiny island community is stunned by the discovery of a long-buried body.

For Stella Harvey the news is doubly shocking. The body has been found in the garden of her childhood home – the home her family fled without explanation twenty-five years ago.

Now, questioning her past and desperate to unearth the truth, Stella returns to the isolated island. But she quickly finds that the community she left isn’t as welcoming as she remembers – and that people in it will go to any length to protect their secrets.

A novel of suspense, family ties, and twisted passions from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Obsession…

The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand acres and home to four generations, it’s kept running by Bodine Longbow with the help of a large staff, including new hire Callen Skinner. There was another member of the family once: Bodine’s aunt, Alice, who ran off before Bodine was born. She never returned, and the Longbows don’t talk about her much. The younger ones, who never met her, quietly presume she’s dead. But she isn’t. She is not far away, part of a new family, one she never chose – and her mind has been shattered…

When a bartender leaves the resort late one night, and Bo and Cal discover her battered body in the snow, it’s the first sign that danger lurks in the mountains that surround them. The police suspect Cal, but Bo finds herself trusting him – and turning to him as another woman is murdered and the Longbows are stunned by Alice’s sudden reappearance. The twisted story she has to tell about the past – and the threat that follows in her wake – will test the bonds of this strong family, and thrust Bodine into a darkness she could never have imagined.

A modern classic of courage and excitement.” —The New Yorker • The source for the iconic prison-escape film starring Steve McQueen

Henri Charrière, nicknamed “Papillon,” for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil’s Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.

Charrière’s astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was first published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape. Since then, it has become a treasured classic–the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.

“A first-class adventure story.” — New York Review of Books

Everything a NQT always wanted to know about starting their teaching career but never dared to ask! This book will take the NQT through a journey which starts with interviews, leads them through the first visit before taking up the job and then into the first hectic weeks and months. Light in touch but rich in content, it can be read around the pool during the holidays before the start of term or kept by the bedside or in a desk drawer for an emergency flick through once teaching gets under way! It expands on the stuff that teacher training touches on, but importantly provides a refreshing look at the nitty-gritty stuff that most training doesn’t! A brilliant book for NQTs.

From the prizewinning author of the acclaimed “Last Orders, The Light of Day, “and “Waterland,” a powerfully moving new novel set in present-day England, but against the background of a global “war on terror” and about things that touch our human core.
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton–once a farmer, now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park–receives the news that his brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in combat in Iraq. The news will have its far-reaching effects for Jack and his wife, Ellie, and compel Jack to make a crucial journey: to receive his brother’s remains, but also to return to the land of his past and of his most secret, troubling memories. A gripping, hauntingly intimate, and compassionate story that moves toward a fiercely suspenseful climax, “Wish You Were Here “translates the stuff of headlines into heartwrenching personal truth.

Award-winning Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino shows us why creative rebellion is essential at work and in life, and why the most successful among us are those who break the rules.

On the first day of a new job or at the start of a new relationship, we feel energized and excited. Yet this euphoria doesn’t last. Why? Because of conformity, Francesca Gino contends. From an early age, we are taught to follow the rules, and the pressure to fit in only increases as we age. But going along to get along comes at a steep price for our careers and personal lives. When we conform to well-accepted rules and norms rather than constructively rebel against them, we keep our doubts and disagreements to ourselves and ultimately become less happy and less successful. As leaders, we are less effective and respected. As employees, we feel dissatisfied and are more likely to be overlooked for top assignments and promotions. As partners or friends, we are checked out and unhappy.

Gino has been studying how rebels can be successful in life and in the workplace for more than fifteen years. She has discovered that conformity has crippling effects and that sheep are easier to herd than wolves. But while rebels—those who practice “positive deviance” at work—may seem harder to manage, they are good for the bottom line: their passion, drive, curiosity, and creativity raise the entire organization to a new level. In personal relationships, rebels foster smooth sailing rather than fights against turbulent seas.

Rebel Talent provides strategies and examples for cultivating and embracing nonconformity in the workplace and in life, and offers illuminating case studies ranging from The World’s Best Restaurant to fast food chains to corporations such as Google and Pixar. Gino encourages all of us to rebel and question the status quo so we can thrive.