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Book Gifts of Gravity and Light

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  • Author : ANITA. MARLAND ROY (PIPPA.)
  • Publisher : Hodder Paperbacks
  • Release : 2022-03-11
  • ISBN : 9781529363197
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Gifts of Gravity and Light written by ANITA. MARLAND ROY (PIPPA.) and published by Hodder Paperbacks. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Late Light

Download or read book Late Light written by Michael Malay and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2023 RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 'Inspirational' - THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'A bright, fierce hope for the future' - THE IRISH TIMES 'An astonishing read' - AMY LIPTROT 'Irresistible' - SARA BAUME 'Will leave you aching with world-love' - ABI ANDREWS 'Simply mesmerising' - JESSICA J. LEE 'A tender, marvellous book' - NICK HUNT This is a book about falling in love with vanishing things Late Light is the story of Michael Malay's own journey, an Indonesian Australian making a home for himself in England and finding strange parallels between his life and the lives of the animals he examines. Mixing natural history with memoir, this book explores the mystery of our animal neighbours, in all their richness and variety. It is about the wonder these animals inspired in our ancestors, the hope they inspire in us, and the joy they might still hold for our children. Late Light is about migration, belonging and extinction. Through the close examination of four particular 'unloved' animals - eels, moths, crickets and mussels - Michael Malay tells the story of the economic, political and cultural events that have shaped the modern landscape of Britain. For readers of Robert Macfarlane, Raynor Winn and Helen Macdonald, Late Light is a rich blend of memoir, natural history, nature writing, and a meditation on being and belonging, from a vibrant new voice.

Book Seamus Heaney s Gifts

Download or read book Seamus Heaney s Gifts written by Henry Hart and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2024-12-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The fact of the matter,” Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, “is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry.” Throughout his career, Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, maintained that poetry came to him from a mysterious source like a gift of grace. He also believed that the recipient of this sort of boon had an ethical obligation to share it with others. Seamus Heaney’s Gifts, by the noted scholar and poet Henry Hart, offers the first comprehensive examination of Heaney’s preoccupation with gifts and gift-exchange. Drawing on extensive research in Heaney’s papers, as well as three decades of correspondence with the poet, Hart presents a richly detailed study of Heaney’s life and work that foregrounds the Irishman’s commitment to the vocation of poetry as a public art to be shared with audiences and readers around the world. Heaney traced his devotion to gifts back to the actual present of a Conway Stewart fountain pen that his parents gave him at the age of twelve when he left his family farm in Northern Ireland to attend a private Catholic secondary school in Londonderry. He commemorated this gift in “Digging,” the first poem in his first book, and in two poems he wrote near the end of his life: “The Conway Stewart” and “On the Gift of a Fountain Pen.” Friends and doctors had warned him that his endless globetrotting to give lectures and poetry readings had damaged his health. Yet he felt obligated to share his talent with audiences around the world until his death in 2013. As Hart shows, Heaney found his first models for gift-giving in his rural community in Northern Ireland, the Bible, the rituals of the Catholic Church, and the literature of mystical and mythical quests. Blending careful research with evocative commentaries on the poet’s work, Seamus Heaney’s Gifts explains his ideas about the artist’s gift, the necessity of gift-exchange acts, and the moral responsibility to share one’s talents for the benefit of others.

Book The Embracing Life  Spirit  Faith  and Adversity  Gifts of Freedom  Book 1

Download or read book The Embracing Life Spirit Faith and Adversity Gifts of Freedom Book 1 written by Greg Rice and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our society is blindly chasing after freedom.......financial freedom, freedom from sadness, we're on a quest for spiritual truth - yet, these pursuits leave most of us on an endless treadmill. The truth is, life changing freedom is available to all who have the answers to life's most important questions. What is the purpose for which I was created? How do I get to know my Creator? How do I live in wholehearted freedom? God did not design His creation to survive--but never really live. The aim of this book is to set people free through Biblical truth; offering clear succinct answers. The Gifts of Freedom will bring its readers hope, encouragement, joy and their purpose in life. Will you choose to learn about, receive, unwrap and use these wonderful gifts?

Book Unexpected Gifts

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  • Author : Christopher L Heuertz
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2013-01-08
  • ISBN : 1451652267
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Unexpected Gifts written by Christopher L Heuertz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this heartfelt and thoughtful book, Christopher Heuertz writes of the dangers of isolation, the challenges we face when we join together and the struggles and joys that emerge from genuine community bonding. “Ironically, as much as we yearn for deep friendships and meaningful communities, many of us seem to be unable to find our way into them. Even if we know we’re made for community, finding one and staying there seems almost impossible. Though we hate to admit it, if we stay long enough in any relationship or set of friendships, we will experience failure, doubt, burnout, loneliness, transitions, a loss of self, betrayal, frustration, a sense of entitlement, grief, and weariness. Yet it’s these painful community experiences, these tensions we struggle to navigate, that hold surprising gifts.” —FROM THE PREFACE IN A STRIKINGLY confessional tone and vividly illustrated through story, Unexpected Gifts names eleven inevitable challenges that all friendships, relationships, and communities experience if they stay together long enough. Rather than allowing these challenges to become excuses to leave, Chris Heuertz suggests that things like betrayal, transitions, failure, loss of identity, entitlement, and doubt may actually be invitations to stay. And if we stay, these challenges can become unexpected gifts. *** Betrayal, failure, loss of identity, doubt. If your relationships have suffered from any of these pitfalls, this book will show you that staying together can create something more—even something beautiful. IN THIS HEARTFELT and thoughtful book, Christopher Heuertz writes of the dangers of isolation, the challenges we face when we join together, and the struggles and joys that emerge from genuine community bonding. Whether readers are forming a new community, searching for deeper community, or participating in a longtime community, they will find inspiration, caution, guidance, and encouragement as they discover the beauty of pressing in to the ambiguities of growing relationships in this tender and honest testimony about how we are woven together by grace.

Book Gifts of Gravity and Light

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  • Author : Anita Roy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-13
  • ISBN : 9781529363166
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Gifts of Gravity and Light written by Anita Roy and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gifts of Gravity and Light is a new collection of nature writing that shines a light on the natural world in all its biodiversity as experienced by those who, for reasons of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class, upbringing or disability, are not often seen or heard when it comes to nature writing. With a foreword by Bernadine Evaristo, and contributions from Kaliane Bradley, Pippa Marland, Testament, Michael Malay, Tishani Doshi, Jay Griffiths, Luke Turner, Anita Roy, Raine Geoghegan, Zakiya Mckenzie, Alys Fowler and Amanda Thomson - these are the voices of those whose perspective is not necessarily that of a 'insider'. Telling in the story of the year in four broad sections - Winter, Spring , Summer, Autumn - this is an almanac that will entertain, surprise and enthral everyone for whom nature is as important as breathing.

Book Gravity and Grace

Download or read book Gravity and Grace written by Simone Weil and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.

Book The Last Lecture

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  • Author : Randy Pausch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780340978504
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Book This Cursed Light

Download or read book This Cursed Light written by Emily Thiede and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From beloved author Emily Thiede comes the highly-anticipated final book in The Last Finestra duology, the sequel to This Vicious Grace, the epic romance hailed as one of the best fantasies of the year! "I loved the book!! Fantastic ending to a fantastic series." - Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here When the gods make the rules, the players must choose: Sacrifice their love to save the world, or choose love and let it burn? Six months after saving their island from destruction and almost losing Dante, Alessa is ready to live happily ever after with her former bodyguard. But Dante can't rest, haunted by a conviction that the gods aren't finished with them yet. And without his powers, the next kiss from Alessa could kill him. Desperate for answers, Dante enlists Alessa and their friends to find the exiled ghiotte in hopes of restoring his powers and combining forces with them to create the only army powerful enough to save them all. But Alessa is hiding a deadly consequence of their last fight—a growing darkness that's consuming her mind—and their destination holds more dangers than anyone bargained for. In the mysterious city of the banished, Dante will uncover secrets, lies, and ghosts from his past that force him to ask himself: Which side is he on? When the gods reveal their final test, Dante and Alessa will be the world's last defense. But if they are the keys to saving the world, will their love be the price of victory? In This Cursed Light, Dante and Alessa face their most daunting challenge yet when the Gods demand they prove their worth by choosing the ultimate sacrifice to save humanity, once and for all.

Book This Joyous Soul

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  • Author : Alden Solovy
  • Publisher : CCAR Press
  • Release : 2018-11-21
  • ISBN : 0881233323
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book This Joyous Soul written by Alden Solovy and published by CCAR Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Joyous Soul provides a resounding yet contemporary voice that weaves new inspiration into traditional prayer. Structured to reflect the morning service found within the Reform siddur, Mishkan T'filah, this new collection invites a deeply personal prayer experience that will strengthen our connection to Jewish tradition and inspire us to make the prayers in the Reform siddur our own.

Book The Gift of Wonder

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  • Author : Christine Aroney-Sine
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2019-03-26
  • ISBN : 0830871586
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book The Gift of Wonder written by Christine Aroney-Sine and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you imagine a God who dances with shouts of joy, laughs when you laugh, loves to play, and invites us to join the fun? In this book Christine Sine invites us to pay attention to childlike characteristics that have the power to reshape us, with fresh spiritual practices that engage all our senses and help us embrace the wonder and joy that God intends for us.

Book Gravity from the Ground Up

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  • Author : Bernard Schutz
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2003-12-04
  • ISBN : 1139457349
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book Gravity from the Ground Up written by Bernard Schutz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book invites the reader to understand our Universe, not just marvel at it. From the clock-like motions of the planets to the catastrophic collapse of a star into a black hole, gravity controls the Universe. Gravity is central to modern physics, helping to answer the deepest questions about the nature of time, the origin of the Universe and the unification of the forces of nature. Linking key experiments and observations through careful physical reasoning, the author builds the reader's insight step-by-step from simple but profound facts about gravity on Earth to the frontiers of research. Topics covered include the nature of stars and galaxies, the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, black holes, gravitational waves, inflation and the Big Bang. Suitable for general readers and for undergraduate courses, the treatment uses only high-school level mathematics, supplemented by optional computer programs, to explain the laws of physics governing gravity.

Book Bringer of Light

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  • Author : Jaine Fenn
  • Publisher : Gollancz
  • Release : 2011-08-18
  • ISBN : 0575096977
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Bringer of Light written by Jaine Fenn and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jarek Reen is trying to save a lost world. He discovered the primitive theocracy of Serenein by accident, and now he wants it to take its place in human-space. To do this he needs a shiftspace beacon - without it, there is no way to find the planet again. The beacons were made by the Sidhe, the race that originally gave humanity access to the stars - and dominated human-space for millennia, before a coalition of human rebels and Sidhe males brought the evil Sidhe females down. Most people think the Sidhe are long dead, but Jarek knows better: a renegade female Sidhe is one of his companions, and a male Sidhe gave her and her lover the special powers that made them Angels, very unusual trained assassins. Jarek's only hope is to find Aleph, the hidden system where the last Sidhe males are rumoured to live. But even if he can persuade these eccentric, introspective beings to put aside their interminable internal squabbles, he still has to persuade Serenein that joining the rest of humankind is a good thing ... for the price of progress is likely to be high. Can he stop it turning into tragedy?

Book The Speed of Light

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  • Author : Elizabeth Rosner
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2007-12-18
  • ISBN : 0307417417
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Speed of Light written by Elizabeth Rosner and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every family has a story. Every story, eventually, must be told. For most of their lives, Julian Perel and his sister, Paula, lived in a house cast in silence, witnesses to a father struggling with a devastating secret too painful to share. Though their father took his demons to the grave, his past refuses to rest. As adults, brother and sister struggle to find their voices. A scientist governed by numbers and logic, Julian now lives an ordered life of routine and seclusion. My father gave up his language and his homeland. But he carried his sadness with him, under his skin. It was mine now. In contrast, Paula has entered the world as eagerly as Julian retracts from it. An aspiring opera singer, she is always moving, buoyant with sound. Singing was the only gift I could offer to my father. I filled the house with music. I tried to give him joy. . . . Yet both their lives begin to change on a Wednesday, miercoles, the day that sounds like miracles. Before embarking on a European opera tour, Paula asks her housekeeper, Sola, to stay at her place--and to look after Julian in the apartment above. Yet Sola, too, has a story. I want to clean myself like the window of a house, make myself clear for things to pass through. Flat and quiet. As Paula uncovers pieces of her father's early life in Budapest and the horrifying truth of his past, Julian bears witness to Sola's story--revelations that help all three learn how to both surrender and revere the shadows that have followed them for so long. The Speed of Light is a powerful debut about three unforgettable souls who overcome the tragedies of the past to reconnect with one another and the world around them. In an extraordinary accomplishment, Elizabeth Rosner has created a novel of love and redemption that proves the pain of the untold story is far greater than even the most difficult truth.

Book Between The Darkness And The Light

Download or read book Between The Darkness And The Light written by G L Houser and published by G L Houser. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the planet of El'idar, the ruined metropolis of Coth'Venter becomes the battleground where darkness and light collide in an eternal struggle. In "Between the Darkness and the Light," book two of the Chronicles of the Night series, Tara, a young woman, embarks on a journey that will test her courage, unravel deep secrets, and shape the fate of her world. Antoff, her Priest knight protector, is torn between his service and love for the Maid of Light as a slumbering goddess. Tara finds herself caught between opposing forces. Driven by her love for Edward, she must navigate a treacherous path of self-discovery and self-sacrifice. Unlocking her true potential and understanding the intricate balance between light and shadow. El'Alue. However, her union with Edward binds their souls together, granting her access to his emotions and deepest desires, and with it comes newfound challenges and consequences. Meanwhile, the malevolent Lord Amorath, fueled by an insatiable hunger for power, seeks to plunge Coth'Venter into eternal darkness. With treachery and betrayal lurking within the ranks of the Dark Order, Lord Modred, known as "The Great Black Demon of Legend," must unravel the web of deceit before it consumes him. Amidst the turmoil, the Cathedral of Light stands as a beacon of hope, where Edward trains a group of dedicated warriors ready to face the looming threat. In this mesmerizing struggle between light and darkness, Tara's choices will determine the fate of Coth'Venter, the Cathedral of Light, and all her people, depending on her strength to lead them. Will she succumb to the seductive allure of darkness or embrace the power of light to mend a broken reality and save her world? As destiny weaves its intricate threads, Tara must confront her doubts and fears, forge unbreakable alliances, and rise above her own limitations to fulfill her extraordinary destiny. Prepare to be enthralled by this epic fantasy adventure, where the battle for destiny unfolds in every heart.

Book Hard Light

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  • Author : Michael Crummey
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-09-15
  • ISBN : 9781771313469
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Hard Light written by Michael Crummey and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Hard Light Michael Crummey retells and reinvents his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half century ago. Speaking through generations of storytellers, he conjures a world of hard toil and heavy weather, shot through with stoicism, grim humour, endurance, and love."--publisher's website.

Book Source of Light

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  • Author : Reynolds Price
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 1995-05
  • ISBN : 0684813386
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Source of Light written by Reynolds Price and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the second volume of A Great Circle, the highly acclaimed Mayfield family trilogy, from one of America's literary treasures. Though a novel independent from The Surface of Earth, The Source of Light continues the saga of the Mayfield family, here focusing on Hutchins Mayfield, whose desire for self-knowledge removes him from his secure existence as a prep school teacher and takes him on a journey to Oxford and Italy to study and write. Hutchins comes back home for a family crisis but ultimately returns to England, where he achieves a maturity that enables him to cope with commitments, abandonments, and the creation of an honest personal agenda. In The Source of Light, Reynolds Price combines gravity and buoyancy, a mythic sense of the past with the mysteries of place, to forge an encompassing portrait of the strange and various world one travels through in the quest for self-fulfillment.