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Book Burnished Pebbles

Download or read book Burnished Pebbles written by Dorothy Diemer Hendry and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05-24 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Diemer Hendry (1918?2006) wrote hundreds of poems during her active and productive life as a teacher, administrator, editor, author, wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, expert grower of roses. This collection of some of her best poetry shows the range of her interests and the depth of expression and thought that make her one of the most talented poets of her generation. She writes of love, of faith, of nature, of death-even her own. Through all the joy and sorrow of a life well lived, she found not only great depths of compassion and thankfulness for being, but also penetrating insight into the foibles and missteps that plague our nation and world. The poet's voice, Dorothy's voice, speaks in incisive and clear language, and is beautiful to hear and read. From the very early poem "Burnished Pebbles" to her last written offering, a Thanksgiving prayer, she will open the mind and heart of even the most jaded reader. This first volume of her poetry is rich with humor, contemplation, wonder, as well as questioning and righteous anger. Her poetry is like its author: kind, strong, aware, concerned, thoughtful, beautiful to behold, but ever cognizant of the problems humankind faces.

Book Archaeology on the Apulian     Lucanian Border

Download or read book Archaeology on the Apulian Lucanian Border written by Alastair Small and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The broad valley of the Bradano river and its tributary, the Basentello, separates the Apennine mountains in Lucania from the limestone plateau of the Murge in Apulia in southeast Italy. This book aims to explain how the pattern of settlement and land use changed in the valley over the whole period from the Neolithic to the late medieval.

Book The Parched Sea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Troy Denning
  • Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
  • Release : 2011-10-25
  • ISBN : 0786961538
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book The Parched Sea written by Troy Denning and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved Harpers series kicks off with a thrilling tale about an outcast witch, a foreign agent, and the endangered desert tribes of the Anauroch Determined to drive a trade route through Anauroch, the Zhentarim have sent an army to enslave the fierce nomads of the great desert. As tribe after tribe fall to the intruders, only a single woman, Rhua, sees the true danger—but what sheik will heed the advice of an outcast witch? Ruha finds help from an unexpected source. The Harpers, guardians of liberty throughout the Realms, have sent an agent to counter the Zhentarim. If she can help this stranger win the trust of the sheikhs, perhaps he can overcome the tribes’ ancestral rivalries and drive the invaders from the desert. The Parched Sea is the first book in a series of loosely-connected novels about the Harpers.

Book Last House on the Hill

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mirjana Stevanovic
  • Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
  • Release : 2012-12-31
  • ISBN : 1938770226
  • Pages : 625 pages

Download or read book Last House on the Hill written by Mirjana Stevanovic and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Jo Anne Stolaroff Cotsen Prize Occupied from around 7500 BC to 5700 BC, the large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement of Catalhoyuk in Anatolia is composed entirely of domestic buildings; no public buildings have been identified. First excavated in the early 1960s, the site was left untouched until 1993. During the summers of 1997-2003 a team from the University of California at Berkeley (the BACH team) excavated an area at the northern end of the East Mound of Catalhoyuk. The houses there date predominantly to the late Aceramic and early Ceramic Neolithic, around 7000 BC. Last House on the Hill is the final report of the BACH excavations. This volume comprises both interpretive chapters and empirical data from the excavations and their materials. The research of the BACH team focuses on the lives and life histories of houses and people, the use of digital technologies in documenting and sharing the archaeological process, the senses of place, and the nature of cultural heritage and our public responsibilities.

Book The Sins of an Ordinary Man

Download or read book The Sins of an Ordinary Man written by Michael Stoner and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astounding story, riveting from beginning to end, that covers 3 generations of a family caught in the maelstrom of WW I and WWW II, which left the most disturbing skeletons in the closet. Reminiscent of the excellent television series "Heimat" from the 1980's.

Book An island in Prehistory  Neolithic and Bronze Ages finds from Kalymnos Dodecanese

Download or read book An island in Prehistory Neolithic and Bronze Ages finds from Kalymnos Dodecanese written by Mario Benzi and published by All’Insegna del Giglio. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest prehistoric excavations on the island took place in 1887, when W.R. Paton discovered Mycenaean chamber tombs in the side of the torrent bed, which runs into the harbour of Pothia to the east of the hill of Perakastro, where the Late Bronze Age settlement stood. Most of the vessels found from Paton were presented to the British Museum while others are preserved in other European Museums. The first systematic excavations, however, took place only in the early twenties of the past century when the Italian archaeologist A. Maiuri director of the archaeological exploration of the then Italian islands of the Dodecanese, excavated the three prehistoric caves of Ayia Varvara (1920), Choiromandres (1921), and Vathy-Dhaskalio (1922), which are the object of the present study.

Book The House on the Scar

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  • Author : Bertha Thomas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1890
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book The House on the Scar written by Bertha Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Good Words

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1862
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 784 pages

Download or read book Good Words written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quick

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  • Author : Katrina Roberts
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2016-06-01
  • ISBN : 0295806923
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book The Quick written by Katrina Roberts and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quick is a book of essences. Katrina Roberts's large-spirited and exhilarating poetry is at once celebratory and elegiac, lyric and narrative, striving to divine what's at the quick of this fleeting existence we share. Anchored in many ways by the long poem "Cantata," which chronicles her pregnancy and the birth of her son, the book turns and turns its kaleidoscopic lens, settling now on origins and creation myths, now on Greek or Welsh gods, now on a painting by Vermeer or on an article from the daily news, all slipping together to illuminate our coming to consciousness, our coming to "be." The poems ask how one might reconcile one's simple joys with the world's larger concerns. An inquiry of this depth cannot fail to encounter grief, but it is a grief tempered and transcended by the acceptance of ongoing life, as well as a consistently outward-focused eye and a passion for language. Sparked by Roberts's sharp imagery and daring cadences, this is a fresh and savvy collection, informed by science, myth, music, philosophy, and etymology, all braided within a sinuous narrative line that runs from sorrow to rich celebration.

Book God of Poetry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
  • Publisher : The New Gong
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9783842137
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book God of Poetry written by Uzor Maxim Uzoatu and published by The New Gong. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travels with My Donkey

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Moore
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2014-05-06
  • ISBN : 146687046X
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Travels with My Donkey written by Tim Moore and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'A donkey?' blurted my family as one. For a moment it didn't seem they'd ever be able to list all the reasons that made this so entertainingly ludicrous. . . .Yes, I'd never ridden a donkey on a beach or petted one at a city farm, never even pinned a cardboard tail to one's throat after the cake and ice cream....A donkey would be my hairy-coated hair shirt, making my pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela a truer test of the will, a trial." With these words, having no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Tim Moore, Britain's indefatigable traveling Everyman, sets out on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela with a donkey named Shinto as his companion. Armed only with the Codex Calixtinus, a twelfth-century handbook to the route, and expert advice on donkey management from Robert Louis Stevenson, Moore and his four-legged companion travel the ancient five-hundred-mile route from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, on the French side of the Pyrenees, to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, which houses the remains of Spain's patron saint, St. James. Over sun-scorched highways, precipitous bridges, dirt paths shaded by leafy trees, and vineyards occasionally lashed by downpours, Moore and Shinto pass through some of the oldest towns and cities in northern Spain in colorful company, both past and present. Pilgrims real and imagined have traveled this route throughout the ages, a diverse cast of wayfarers spanning Charlemagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Chaucer's Wife of Bath, and New Age diva, Shirley MacLaine. Moore's present-day companions are no less florid or poignant. Clearly more interested in Shinto than in Moore, their fellow walkers are an assortment of devout Christian pilgrims, New Age spirituality seekers, travelers grieving over a lost love affair, Baby Boomers contemplating the advent of middle age, and John Q. Public just out for a cheap, boozy sun-drenched outdoor holiday. As Moore pushes, pulls, wheedles, cajoles, and threatens Shinto across Spain toward the crypt of St. James in a quest to find the spiritual pilgrim within, the duo overnights in the bedrooms, dormitories, and---for Shinto---adjacent grassy fields of northern Spain's hostels, inns, convents, seminaries, and farmhouses. Shinto, a donkey with a finely honed talent for relieving himself at the most inopportune moments, has better luck in the search for his next meal than Moore does in finding his inner St. Francis. Undaunted, however, Man and Beast finally arrive at the cathedral and a successful end to their journey. For readers who delighted in his earlier books, Travels with My Donkey is the next hilarious chapter in the travels of Tim Moore, a book that keeps the bones of St. James rattling till this day.

Book The Fat Chance Guide to Dieting

Download or read book The Fat Chance Guide to Dieting written by Claudia Pattison and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think nothing tastes as good as slim feels? You're obviously not eating the right food . . . Holly, Naomi and Kate are determined to win the battle of the bulge. So it's down to the local slimming club, where carbs are strictly off the menu and there's no escaping the scales. But calorie-counting isn't the only thing on their minds. Newly engaged Holly should be over the moon. So why does she blush every time her sexy boss walks into the room? Curvaceous Naomi finds herself the object of a very unusual fetish and a shocking secret is revealed when an unexpected visitor arrives on Kate's doorstep. Yet with a little group support (and a particularly brutal weight loss boot camp) the women manage to stick to their regime, in time for the glamorous Slimmer of the Year Awards. But with tempting buffet tables, highly competitive contestants and even the odd fat fetishist lurking, it's anyone's guess as to what will happen . . .

Book Fort Cemetery At Heirakonpolis

Download or read book Fort Cemetery At Heirakonpolis written by Barbara Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. Following up on a previous visit in the 1970s to the site of Hierakonpolis this publication records the work of the author from the 1980s to 1986 when she was part of the research team. This work concentrates on the cemetery excavated within the mud brick Fort at the opening of the Great Hadi.

Book Excavations by Kathleen M  Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961 1967  Volume III

Download or read book Excavations by Kathleen M Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961 1967 Volume III written by M. L. Steiner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the last volume to appear of Dame Kathleen Kenyon's excavations in Jerusalem, presenting the Bronze and Iron Age material. It contains a stratigraphical analysis of the architectural remains, a study of the pottery and an interpretation of the results. The volume includes a reconstruction of the occupational history of the site, currently a highly controversial issue, using not only Kenyon's results, but data from earlier and more recent published digs.

Book The Arch  ological Survey of Nubia

Download or read book The Arch ological Survey of Nubia written by Egypt and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Young Judaean

Download or read book The Young Judaean written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: