Download or read book Borderless Sky written by Katharine Beeman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wall written by William Sutcliffe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Een Israelische jongen vindt een manier om zijn joodse nederzetting te ontvluchten en ontmoet een Palestijns meisje dat zijn ogent opent voor de realiteit.
Download or read book From Loser to Winner written by Samina Saifee and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author delivers her message which helps you to know how you can achieve a remarkable success, by reaching the heights of destiny beginning right from where you stand now. It is an adventurous expedition where you discover the facts of leading a life from being a loser to a winner. The book from loser to winner makes you boost your morale with drastic changes in your persona. A loser stands the chance to win if he follows this thirty steps of marching ahead struggling for the achievement of success all throughout his life. This book makes you indulge into a thrilling experience from where you stand to where you need to go.
Download or read book Selected Poems written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the world, the eternal and transient, and with the paradox of an endlessly changing universe that is in tune with unchanging harmonies. Poems such as 'Earth' and 'In the Eyes of a Peacock' present a picture of natural processes unaffected by human concerns, while others, as in 'Recovery - 14', convey the poet's bewilderment about his place in the world. And exuberant works such as 'New Rain' and 'Grandfather's Holiday' describe Tagore's sheer joy at the glories of nature or simply in watching a grandchild play.
Download or read book Meditation and breathing written by Olivier Manitara and published by Éditions Essénia. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find the language that directly unites the heart to the soul is also to give to what is a simple force of intelligence and harmony. This book is a jewel of wisdom. With poetry, he invites us to candor and wonder. It gently opens the doors of meditation to us to make it a sacred tool that creates beauty in our lives. You will dive in with pleasure!
Download or read book An Angel with Secrets written by Marti Eicholz and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Angel with Secrets is a novel, dealing with human experience and imaginary characters. When Mary takes the fall for her boyfriend Luke and goes to jail, she has no idea her fate is not the only one at stake. She's pregnant, and she gives birth to her daughter Angel behind bars, where Mary raises her for the first eighteen months of Angel's life, until Luke takes Angel from the prison. However, Angel quickly discovers that living with Luke and his girlfriend Sophia has its own problems, as she is frequently caught in the crossfire of their fractious relationship. Luke, ultimately, leaves Sophia and Angel alone. Although she is only six years old Angel is convinced Sophia would be better off without her. She runs away and eventually finds herself in a group home for children run by Mitsy, a warm and loving woman with a large community of friends and family who all take part in raising her. They name her Angie and help shape her destiny. Although she struggles to adjust, this extended makeshift family supports her as she grows into a young woman, encouraging her to follow her dreams. As Angie puts together the puzzle pieces of her life, she must decide if she can truly move forward without revisiting the past and truly putting it to bed. A moving story of love, family, and survival, "An Angel with Secrets" follows one very special girl as she grows into a woman who thrives and flourishes against all odds.
Download or read book Lumpy Eared written by Dr. Ariana Farnadpour and published by Bigfoot Publications. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lumpy-eared:Elephants do not believe in borders like birds, but they can not fly. Do you think that free and border less life is possible only in the heavens? Cuckoo:I'm not saying it's completely true. My mother took refuge in the sky like a beautiful palm tree!– A beautiful palm, which, although rooted in the soil, spreads its green leaves in the farthest point of the earth, in the blue sky! My mother also took refuge in the sky because the earth was not a safe place for her; the earth captivated her while the sky freed her; never the less,she was always thinking about her land, where she said goodbye to her father and husband! She always missed the ground because her root was in there, not the sky! ‘Lumpy-eared’An unheard of tale of the mysterious life and love between an elephant and a bird that grew up among migratory swallows;“Cuckoo” meets “Lumpy-eared” in the middle of migration and reaching her destination, and this acquaintance changes the course of their lives..“
Download or read book West of Harlem written by Emily Lutenski and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance--Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, and Arna Bontemps, among others--are associated with, well . . . Harlem. But the story of these New York writers unexpectedly extends to the American West. Hughes, for instance, grew up in Kansas, Thurman in Utah, and Bontemps in Los Angeles. Toomer traveled often to New Mexico. Indeed, as West of Harlem reveals, the West played a significant role in the lives and work of many of the artists who created the signal urban African American cultural movement of the twentieth century. Uncovering the forgotten histories of these major American literary figures, the book gives us a deeper appreciation of that movement, and of the cultures it reflected and inspired. These recovered experiences and literatures paint a new picture of the American West, one that better accounts for the disparate African American populations that dotted its landscape and shaped the multiethnic literatures and cultures of the borderlands. Tapping literary, biographical, historical, and visual sources, Emily Lutenski tells the New Negro movement's western story. Hughes's move to Mexico opens a window on African American transnational experiences. Thurman's engagement with Salt Lake City offers an unexpected perspective on African American sexual politics. Arna Bontemps's Los Angeles, constructed in conjunction with Louisiana, provides a new vision of the Spanish borderlands. Lesser-known writer Anita Scott Coleman imagines black Western autonomy through domesticity. The experience of others--like Toomer, invited to socialite Mabel Dodge Luhan's circle of artists in Taos--present a more pluralistic view of the West. It was this place, with its transnational and multiracial mix of Native Americans, Latina/os, Anglos, and African Americans, which buttressed Toomer's idea of a "new American race." Turning the lens elsewhere, Lutenski also explores how Latina/o, Asian American, and Native American western writers understood and represented African Americans in the early twentieth-century borderlands. The result is a new, unusually nuanced and unexpectedly complex view of key figures of the Harlem Renaissance and the borderlands cultures that influenced their art in surprising and important ways.
Download or read book A Glossary of Light and Shadow written by Esther Ra and published by Diode Editions. This book was released on 2023-04-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Glossary of Light and Shadow examines what it means to live as a human in a world rife with atrocities and unexpected grace. Weaving together a rich variety of forms and personas, these poems explore the anguished affection and quiet resilience of human beings who are more than their trauma. The collection includes a section of twenty-six poems (one poem for each letter of the alphabet) drawing from the author’s experiences working with North Korean refugees. This section explores experiences that are commonly overlooked in the politicized narratives on North Korea: falling in love in a country where love has no name, homesickness after “successful” resettlement, and the lingering effects of survivor’s guilt. These poems depict peace-building as a slow and often painful process, yet persist in cherishing small moments of tenderness amid loss, illness, and war. At once a collective love poem to the silenced, a celebration of ordinary miracles, and a deft, playful tribute to the strange beauty of the English language, A Glossary of Light and Shadow is a testimony to the limits of human suffering—and the frail, fierce hope that survives in spite of it all.
Download or read book Architecture in the Space of Flows written by Andrew Ballantyne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of attention. This book looks instead at the idea of the flows, which connects things together and moves between things. It is more difficult to discuss, but more necessary, because it is what makes things work. Architects have to think about flow – the flow of people through buildings, the flow of energy into buildings, and waste out of them – but usually the effects of flow do not find expression. The essays gathered here present a collection of exploratory ideas and offer an understanding of buildings, people and settlements through concepts of flow.
Download or read book The Common Buzzard written by Sean Walls and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Based on many years of personal research, and a thorough knowledge of the European literature, the authors provide an eminently readable account of the biology of the Common Buzzard. Whatever your interests in birds, I can recommend this book for its content of information and insight.' – Professor Ian Newton OBE, FRS, FRSE Soaring majestically on thermals with broad wings raised, the Common Buzzard is a familiar sight for many people across Eurasia. In fact, thanks to a remarkable ability to adapt to local conditions, it is now one of the most abundant hawks in the world. The Common Buzzard can exploit a variety of nest sites, and has an eclectic diet that ranges from earthworms and voles to woodpigeons and even deer carcasses. This is a species rich in paradoxes. Why does a hawk evolved for hunting small mammals thrive on invertebrates and carrion? How can a raptor renowned for dramatic territorial displays occur at such high densities? And why does such a large bird that can travel long distances spend so much time in small areas? Sean Walls and Robert Kenward delve deep into the ecology of the Common Buzzard to provide answers to these questions and many more, as well as examining the conservation conundrums raised by this bird. Bringing together a wealth of research on the species' origins, feeding behaviour and breeding, along with information on movement and survival from the authors' own studies, The Common Buzzard provides an invaluable insight into exactly what has enabled this marvellous raptor to return to old haunts to impress, inspire and connect people with nature.
Download or read book IYA 2009 Final Report written by and published by IAU. This book was released on with total page 1433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breaking Blue written by Timothy Egan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “No one who enjoys mystery can fail to savor this study of a classic case of detection.” —TONY HILLERMAN On the night of September 14, 1935, George Conniff, a town marshal in Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington, was shot to death. A lawman had been killed, yet there seemed to be no uproar, no major investigation. No suspect was brought to trial. More than fifty years later, the sheriff of Pend Oreille County, Tony Bamonte, in pursuit of both justice and a master’s degree in history, dug into the files of the Conniff case—by then the oldest open murder case in the United States. Gradually, what started out as an intellectual exercise became an obsession, as Bamonte asked questions that unfolded layer upon layer of unsavory detail. In Timothy Egan’s vivid account, which reads like a thriller, we follow Bamonte as his investigation plunges him back in time to the Depression era of rampant black-market crime and police corruption. We see how the suppressed reports he uncovers and the ambiguous answers his questions evoke lead him to the murder weapon—missing for half a century—and then to the man, an ex-cop, he is convinced was the murderer. Bamonte himself—a logger’s son and a Vietnam veteran—had joined the Spokane police force in the late 1960s, a time when increasingly enlightened and educated police departments across the country were shaking off the “dirty cop” stigma. But as he got closer to actually solving the crime, questioning elderly retired members of the force, he found himself more and more isolated, shut out by tight-lipped hostility, and made dramatically aware of the fraternal sin he had committed—breaking the blue code. Breaking Blue is a gripping story of cop against cop. But it also describes a collision between two generations of lawmen and two very different moments in our nation’s history.
Download or read book The Plural of Us written by Bonnie Costello and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet’s use of the first-person plural voice—poetry’s “we.” Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden, Bonnie Costello uncovers the trove of thought and feeling carried in this small word. While lyric has long been associated with inwardness and a voice saying “I,” “we” has hardly been noticed, even though it has appeared throughout the history of poetry. Reading for this pronoun in its variety and ambiguity, Costello explores the communal function of poetry—the reasons, risks, and rewards of the first-person plural. Costello adopts a taxonomic approach to her subject, considering “we” from its most constricted to its fully unbounded forms. She also takes a historical perspective, following Auden’s interest in the full range of “the human pluralities” in a time of particular pressure for and against the collective. Costello offers new readings as she tracks his changing approach to voice in democracy. Examples from many other poets—including Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Wallace Stevens—arise throughout the book, and the final chapter offers a consideration of how contemporary writers find form for what George Oppen called “the meaning of being numerous.” Connecting insights to philosophy of language and to recent work in concepts of community, The Plural of Us shows how poetry raises vital questions—literary and social—about how we speak of our togetherness.
Download or read book Mirage of the Mirror written by Samina Saifee and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is born and bred from the metro city of Mumbai in India. She has shared her silent observations and her hard experiences towards the normal human life. Throughout her life she leaded an introvert and reclusive years of her age. Leading an eccentric life, the author has gone through unusual experiences or ordeals which she faced as an obstacle to lead her ambitious life as a writer and it is reflected in her piece of poetry. This book stands her great achievement due to her readers need and also due to her great effort to publish it, reaching her to a dignified position all by the grace of God. She consistently displays her wit through God-gifted art of writing, this piece of poetry making serious remarks on a person's life by touching the world wide subjects of love, philosophy, spiritualism, nationalism and many other topics which are quite contradictory, unconventional, and sentimental in nature. The author is open to reader's opinions and suggestions willingly for her book and she can be contacted at her email id : [email protected]
Download or read book Awareness Alone written by Nicholas Frost and published by BookPOD. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is one indivisible real substance that is absolutely aware. No-one has ever been able, or will ever be able, to prove that anything exists outside it. It is literally all that you and I can ever be. Understanding that there is no Other, beyond endless becoming born of desire and fear, we should accept ourselves as eternal awareness alone. The goals of this factual text are specific: (1) To affirm the utter transparency of ourselves as effortless existence-awareness. (2) To affirm the world’s manifestations as nothing but organs and conditions of borderless existence-awareness. (3) To reconcile awareness in its modes of feeling and volition, potential and kinetic. (4) To deconstruct all limiting paradigms: of border, person, ego, name, form, time, space, cause, change, duality, context, body, independent arising, death. (5) To affirm awareness as ever-absorbed, singular, beyond polarised notions of ‘subject and object’. Those who entertain the notion that consciousness is some kind of ‘evolutionary product’ that ‘evolves from unconscious states’ without ever offering a single example of how this happens, will resist the proofs in this book: that the absolute condition of existence is consciousness itself, and that ‘these words and these worlds’ are its eternal affirmation. Even a cursory summary of our position reveals its absoluteness in that body, senses, feelings and thoughts function effortlessly as expressions of boundless profundity. Meanwhile, our experience at any moment is absolute, never polarised as ‘seer and seen’, ‘self and other’. The apparent infinite ramification of awareness as ego, sense, feeling, thought, imagination, memory and so forth, prevents us from surrendering in awe at awareness’ sole and extraordinary presence. Our confusion lies in the perceived hiatus between absolute receptivity (feeling) and absolute volition (power of concentration), whereby ‘awareness is obscured’ as ideas and their forms: name, atom, time, space, cause… Observe this pulsing, this ‘becoming’ of awareness. Without utter receptivity, how could anything be discerned? How can awareness modify where the context is ever itself? And where is the border between limited and limitless? The issue turns on a single question: To whom does any idea, action, displacement (etc) occur? Who is the witness and dancer of all phenomena? We must embrace the necessity for enquiry: our responsibility for suffering and its cause, limitation. All our phantom boundaries, mental conventions entrenched by habit, are exposed as the thieves and dictators that they are. What is ignorant, suffers, is born and dies, is lost? Ego (that seeker, desirer, little ‘I’, definer, fixator, achiever, phantom gatekeeper, material idea, superimposition) dictates experience, enforcing the lie that ‘forms’ independently arise, where we drown in relativities, and ‘knowledge by inference and labelling’ replaces that of identity, and our obsessively-built personae amount to no more than cardboard cutouts. Beyond self- distraction, beyond the clamour to build an ideational machine paradise, beyond endless fear that we will cease to be, our rock and role is to be as we are. Peace is the goal, a permanent security beyond the see-saw of need, dependency and dissatisfaction. Yet there’s no patience, no surrender, without understanding. To deconstruct brings us detachment, which opens the way to an effortless joy. We then wear the world’s jewels lightly, knowing them to be the very delight of the Supreme. While we ever appear to act, we don’t cling to action’s seeds and consequences. We become transparent, simple, ever now, ever here, borderless, eternal. If this text appears persistently abstract, or solipsistic, or impractical, or absurd - chew on it, in bits, with patience. The writer has oftentimes hesitated, fearing that a plethora of words only adds to the problem. In the end he ‘points a finger to the sun, plays tunes on the strings of our ever-present awareness’, so that each utterance seeks to be a nugget, a homecoming. Our liberation does not lie in the passage of time or experience or any ‘future state’. It lies in surrender to an unutterable miracle: that we are one effortless absolute aware presence that, while appearing to pulse as a relentless becoming, ever affirms its own borderless freedom. About the Author: Australian author, educator, director, composer and yoga teacher. His fiction and non-fiction works address core psychological and philosophic dilemmas.
Download or read book The Labyrinth written by Nicholas Frost and published by BookPOD. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t Worry About a Thing The meditator Dust is steered into community work by the Divinology Church, where like Dante in infernal circles he trawls people’s rubbish in aberrant and miserifying scenes. With sainted girlfriend Blue Wendy and ascetic Anna Rex, all underhinged by his Employer’s spidery cult, we trace a satire on Dust’s fabulations with the need to evolve, with the problem of who and how to be. Chaos Lean the journalist claims he is terminally ill. ‘I spent a career conjuring stories for public consumption: now the parasites eat me’. The unruly girl Dora Jarr worms in. Her mission? To skewer corruption in ‘the business of nano-genetics.’ Trash novella, rant, love-lust letter, apologia – Lean’s diarybook seeks a balm of chaos under tyranny of order. Who can live without narratival dreams? ‘I’ll be tragic hero in my last whodunnit.’ The Labyrinth At the heart of a Labyrinth, incarcerated by a Beast, is the goddess-temptress Conscience. In a Stalinist prison Drilov the clerk pens prisoners’ confessions. The last, within a fundamentalist materialist machine where victim and perpetrator dance, is his own. In a brave future country, Dreeley the storyteller takes to the road with ‘Dionysus’ in search of an elusive woman. His goal? To deconstruct history and karma, snuff the beast of inconsequence, unravel the knot of death, surrender to immaterial sky.
