Download or read book Fruits of Desire written by Eike D. Schmidt and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary achievement in terms of its artistic rendering of the human body, its masterful carving of details, and its profound philosophical meaning, Balthasar Griessmann's large ivory goblet in the J. Paul Getty Museum celebrates wine and explores the benefits and risks of its consumption. Culminating with an allegory of youth, it challenges the viewer to think about the degree to which pleasure and duty play their parts in our making life choices. This handsome gift book is illustrated with stunning photographic details and includes an essay that traces the visual and literary sources that inspired Griessmann's designs. Although long considered a master of German Baroque ivory carving, Griessmann was identified by name only fifteen years ago. This photo essay and analysis is the first overview of Griessmann in the English language.
Download or read book The Botany of Desire written by Michael Pollan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
Download or read book A Dictionary of the Bengala Language written by William Carey and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ultimate Quest for Healing written by Alex Ssebugwawo and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever sit and wonder why your pain is unceasing and your wounds refuse to be healed? Do you feel powerless over addiction? Do you have any bad habits that you cant seem to get rid of? Has sin built a stronghold in your life? Do you desire to be free? You will not be teleported to freedom; no magic wands will be applied on you; you must be committed and willing to march to freedom. Even though the journey is full of difficulties, crises, and struggles, with God all things are possible. The Ultimate Quest for Healing introduces to you the principle of personal godliness as the template that leads to lasting freedom. It provides you with biblical-based, practical tools that will transform your life. What comes after freedom? Godliness should lead you to greater personal and social responsibility.
Download or read book The Writings of Origen written by Origène and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A dictionary of the Bengalee language written by William Carey and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A dictionary of the Bengalee language 2 vols in 3 Vol 1 is of the 2nd ed written by William Carey and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walking in the Spirit written by Kenneth Berding and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking in the Spirit is a journey into what the Bible teaches about life in the Holy Spirit. Author Kenneth Berding uses the apostle Paul and his words in Romans 8 to model what it looks like to live both empowered and set free by the Spirit. Written at an accessible level, Berding speaks to a wide audience as he seeks to connect readers to the life of the Spirit. His practical guide covers a variety of topics, showing readers how to set their minds on the things of the Spirit, put to death the deeds of the body, be led by the Spirit, know the fatherhood of God, and hope and pray in the Spirit. Berding applies the Bible to life through many of his own personal experiences, helping readers make connections to their own spiritual journeys. Discussion questions for each chapter facilitate personal reflection and small-group study.
Download or read book Homiletical Commentary on the Song of Solomon written by Thomas Robinson (Presbyterian Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perspectives on Ved nta written by Rama Rao Pappu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Fruits of Our Desiring written by Julius Lipner and published by Calgary : Bayeux. This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegant essays by eminent scholars discussing the Gita as a living, dynamic text.
Download or read book Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits written by Jerry L. Wheeler and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strawberries and cream might be a popular dessert but save some topping for this decadent collection of stories by Jerry Wheeler, a writer who enjoys his blend of the sweet and the sticky. From the titular tale of a farmer in low-slung jeans growing a peculiar crop to gypsy magic that brings out the "bear" in a bottom to the tale of a grand hunt by an immortal who feeds off the talent, as well as flesh, of musicians, Strawberries and Other Erotic Fruits promises readers words that will conjure desire like a mythical aphrodisiac. But there's a price to pay for such magic, as several of the men in these stories learn. Turn a page, unbutton, relax, and sink your teeth into this book. The taste will linger for days.
Download or read book Fruits of Eden written by Amanda Harris and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the nineteenth century—when most food in America was bland and brown and few people appreciated the economic potential of then-exotic foods—David Fairchild convinced the U.S. Department of Agriculture to finance overseas explorations to find and bring back foreign cultivars. Fairchild traveled to remote corners of the globe, searching for fruits, vegetables, and grains that could find a new home in American fields and in the American diet. In Fruits of Eden, Amanda Harris vividly recounts the exploits of Fairchild and his small band of adventurers and botanists as they traversed distant lands—Algeria, Baghdad, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Java, and Zanzibar—to return with new and exciting flavors. Their expeditions led to a renaissance not only at the dinner table but also in horticulture, providing diversity of crops for farmers across the country. Not everyone was supportive, however. The scientific community was concerned with invasive species, and World War I fanned the flames of xenophobia in Washington. Adversaries who believed Fairchild’s discoveries would contaminate the purity of native crops eventually shut down his program, but his legacy lives on in today’s modern kitchen, where navel oranges, Meyer lemons, honeydew melons, soybeans, and durum wheat are now standard.
Download or read book The Bhagavad Gita written by Winthrop Sargeant and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now possible for anyone with a lively interest in the Gita to come into direct contact with the richness and resonance of the original text. This revised edition provides an inter-linear word-for-word translation along with the devanagari characters and their transliteration. To aid in understanding, a detailed grammatical commentary and page-by-page vocabularies are included as well as a complete prose translation.
Download or read book The Sweetest Fruits written by Monique Truong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Monique Truong, winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, comes “a sublime, many-voiced novel of voyage and reinvention” (Anthony Marra) "[Truong] imagines the extraordinary lives of three women who loved an extraordinary man [and] creates distinct, engaging voices for these women" (Kirkus Reviews) A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky plantation, makes her way to Cincinnati after the Civil War to work as a boarding house cook, where in 1872 she meets and marries an up-and-coming newspaper reporter. In Matsue, Japan, in 1891, a former samurai's daughter is introduced to a newly arrived English teacher, and becomes the mother of his four children and his unsung literary collaborator. The lives of writers can often best be understood through the eyes of those who nurtured them and made their work possible. In The Sweetest Fruits, these three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. In their own unorthodox ways, these women are also intrepid travelers and explorers. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time. Each is a gifted storyteller with her own precise reason for sharing her story, and together their voices offer a revealing, often contradictory portrait of Hearn. With brilliant sensitivity and an unstinting eye, Truong illuminates the women's tenacity and their struggles in a novel that circumnavigates the globe in the search for love, family, home, and belonging.
