Download or read book Down to the Calming Sea written by Lowell Tollefson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They camped the first night on a high plateau above the clouds. Having originally settled at nightfall into their individual bedrolls, they were awakened in the middle of the night by a chilling cold. The clouds, which had been situated well below them during the day, had ascended the dark, steep mountain slopes after sundown and now enveloped them. They got up, thoroughly chilled and wet, first Melanie then Jim, and joined the three Filipinos who were squatted around a blazing fire. "Cold!" Melanie said, crouching and extending her hands toward the flames. "Brr." "The fire soon make you warm," the first guide said. Man it's cold!" Jim said as he came up to the fire. "What happened?" "Clouds rise," the tracker said. "Tomorrow," the second tracker said, "we go into the valley." He pointed toward the steep slope on the side opposite to the way they had come up. "It will be easier. Trees do not grow toward the sun but straight out the side of the mountain and farther apart." "That's strange," Jim said. "This a strange mountain," the guide said. --from the story, ""The White Gibbons""
Download or read book Ocean Lullaby written by Laura McGee Kvasnosky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A soft and soothing good night journey through an ocean filled with sleepy sea creatures, perfect for bedtime in the summer or year-round. The sun is setting. The waves are gently lapping at the shore. It's time for all the ocean creatures to rest. Whales, turtles, dolphins, and more drift and doze. And as the tide pools catch the light of the moon and the stars glowing above, a mother and her baby listen to the soft sounds of the ocean lullaby . . . Shhh, hush. Shhh, hush. The ocean's soothing song. Shhh, hush. Shhh, hush. We can sing along. Praise for Ocean Lullaby: "A delightful winding-down story after a busy day at the beach—or anywhere." --Kirkus Reviews "This dreamy paean to the ocean’s mesmerizing influence [is] guaranteed to soothe little ones at bedtime." --Booklist
Download or read book Crossing the Unknown Sea written by David Whyte and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-04-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing the Unknown Sea is about reuniting the imagination with our day to day lives. It shows how poetry and practicality, far from being mutually exclusive, reinforce each other to give every aspect of our lives meaning and direction. For anyone who wants to deepen their connection to their life’s work—or find out what their life’s work is—this book can help navigate the way. Whyte encourages readers to take risks at work that will enhance their personal growth, and shows how burnout can actually be beneficial and used to renew professional interest. He asserts that too many people blindly trudge through a mediocre work life because so many “busy” tasks prevent significant reflection and analysis of job satisfaction. People often turn to spiritual practice or religion to nurture their souls, but overlook how work can actually be our greatest opportunity for discovery and growth. Crossing the Unknown Sea combines poetry, gifted storytelling and Whyte’s personal experience to reveal work’s potential to fulfill us and bring us closer to ultimate freedom and happiness.
Download or read book Lucan written by Charles Tesoriero and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes available in convenient form a selection of seminal articles on the Roman poet Lucan's grim epic, written in the time of Nero, on the world-changing civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the mid first century BC. The selection enables the reader of Lucan's work to trace the emergence of vital critical perspectives and controversies and the diverse approaches that have been applied to them. Five essays appear in English for the first time, and quotations from Latin and Greek have been translated. A specially written Introduction, by Susanna Braund, provides an up-to-date guide to scholarship on Lucan and to the history of the reception of the poem.
Download or read book The Sub written by Henry Taprell Dorling and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zelda and Ivy the Runaways written by Laura McGee Kvasnosky and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three short stories, two fox sisters run away from home, bury a time capsule, and take advantage of some creative juice.
Download or read book Lexical Analysis written by Patrick Hanks and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach to meaning in language that distinguishes between patterns of normal use and creative exploitations of norms. In Lexical Analysis, Patrick Hanks offers a wide-ranging empirical investigation of word use and meaning in language. The book fills the need for a lexically based, corpus-driven theoretical approach that will help people understand how words go together in collocational patterns and constructions to make meanings. Such an approach is now possible, Hanks writes, because of the availability of new forms of evidence (corpora, the Internet) and the development of new methods of statistical analysis and inferencing. Hanks offers a new theory of language, the Theory of Norms and Exploitations (TNE), which makes a systematic distinction between normal and abnormal usage—between rules for using words normally and rules for exploiting such norms in metaphor and other creative use of language. Using hundreds of carefully chosen citations from corpora and other texts, he shows how matching each use of a word against established contextual patterns plays a large part in determining the meaning of an utterance. His goal is to develop a coherent and practical lexically driven theory of language that takes into account the immense variability of everyday usage and that shows that this variability is rule governed rather than random. Such a theory will complement other theoretical approaches to language, including cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, generative lexicon theory, priming theory, and pattern grammar.
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Download or read book Once a Week written by Eneas Sweetland Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Down to a Soundless Sea written by Thomas Steinbeck and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an unprecedented fiction debut that is cause for celebration. Growing up in a family that valued the art of storytelling and the power of oral history, Thomas Steinbeck now follows in his father’s footsteps with a brilliant story collection. Down to a Soundless Sea resonates with the rich history and culture of California, recalling vivid details of life in Monterey County from the turn of the century through the 1930s. Steinbeck accomplishes an amazing feat: his stories have the feel of classic literature, but his haunting voice, forceful narrative drive, and dazzling imagery are unmistakably his own. In seven stories, Steinbeck traces the fates and dreams of an eccentric cast of characters, from sailors and ranchers, to doctors and immigrants—as each struggles to carve out a living in the often inhospitable environment of rocky cliffs, crashing surf, and rough patches of land along the California coast and the Big Sur. In “Blind Luck,” a wayward orphan finds his calling at sea, only to learn that life must concede to the whims of authority and the ravages of nature. In “Dark Watcher,” with the country at the start of the Great Depression, a professor craves a plausible discovery to boost his academic standing—and encounters the Indian myth of a shadowed horsemen that may ruin his career. “An Unbecoming Grace” tracks the route of a country physician who cares for an ill-tempered cur—but feels more concern for the well-being of the patient’s beleaguered young wife. The collection concludes with “Sing Fat and the Imperial Duchess of Woo,” a novella that follows the tragic love story between a young apothecary and the woman he hopes to marry. Deeply felt and richly imagined, full of compelling drama and historical authenticity, Down to a Soundless Sea heralds the arrival of a bold new voice in fiction. Thomas Steinbeck has written stories as memorable and rugged as the coastline that inspired them.
Download or read book The 1931 International Code of Signals written by Great Britain. Board of Trade and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sea Otter Cove A Stress Management Story for Children Introducing Diaphragmatic Breathing to Calm Down Reduce Anxiety Control Anger and Promote Peaceful Sleep written by Lori Lite and published by Stress Free Kids. This book was released on 2008 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The delightful characters and easy breathing exercises in this lovely picture book will help your child slow down, relax and fall asleep peacefully.
Download or read book NIV The Story Going Deeper written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 2372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you live out God’s redemptive story in everyday life? It can seem hard to do – how to first connect the pieces and stories of the Bible with your life and then to apply them and live them out through your actions, words, and thoughts. Yet your life is connected to every other story in history and the God who loves you. The Story: Going Deeper reveals this connection through insights into the Bible’s stories about God and his people. Pick up this NIV Bible today, and discover how the sweeping saga of God’s redemptive story transforms your story.
Download or read book Quarterly written by British Sea Anglers' Society and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
