Download or read book The Smell of Fresh Rain written by Barney Shaw and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than a photograph – so why is it so little understood? Armed with a hungry curiosity and a willingness to self-experiment, author Barney Shaw goes in search of the hidden meanings of smells. Using plain words to describe what he finds, he investigates the chemistry, psychology, history and future of this underappreciated sense. Journeying around boatyards, perfume shops and memories, Shaw opens your nose to the world, breaking down "chords" of smells into their component notes and through them revealing new ways of understanding the spaces through which we move. An investigation into the biology, psychology and history of smell, and a search for effective ways to put into words scents that we instantly relate to, but find strangely ineffable, THE SMELL OF FRESH RAIN includes a 200-entry thesaurus of succinct descriptions of common smells.
Download or read book Heaven Smells Like Rain written by Becky Laney and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving coming-of-age, young adult novel based on true experiences.
Download or read book Nurses Are from Heaven written by Christina Feist-Heilmeier and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book carries a message of hope and life to nurses in a troubled and challenging profession. It is the power boost every nurse needs today. Readers experience the real reason behind the nurse's behavior: Caring. Why and how do we care? Do we care enough? How can we keep on caring? Where is the Source of Caring? Readers embark on this exciting journey through the life of the nurse: her joys, sorrows, achievements, and crosses. They visit the nurse's mysterious dimension of faith. They laugh and cry, and become inspired and refreshed. Some will be inspired to study Nursing, others will try to be better nurses, while yet others will decide to stay in Nursing even longer. There is something for everyone: a taste of what really matters in Nursing, Caring. Christina Feist-Heilmeier, RN has spent thirty years in the healthcare world, specializing in geriatric, obstetrical, and medical/surgical Nursing. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Nursing and has two honorable discharges from military service as a Commissioned Officer in the Indian Health Service and the United States Air Force. She has worked in Nursing "from sea to shining sea," spanning from Alaska to the East Coast, to Mexico and the Caribbean, witnessing dramatic events throughout her work and travels. She now translates her career experiences into learning experiences for her students as a faculty member at the College of Southern Maryland Nursing Department and the Staff Development Coordinator at St. Mary's Nursing Center. She has recently been called to serve in a new capacity as an author, sharing her compelling thoughts in the writings contained within the covers of this book.
Download or read book The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics written by David G. Dodd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additional edition statement from dust jacket.
Download or read book Chasing The Monsoon written by Alexander Frater and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 20th May the Indian summer monsoon will begin to envelop the country in two great wet arms, one coming from the east, the other from the west. They are united over central India around 10th July, a date that can be calculated within seven or eight days. Alexander Frater aims to follow the monsoon, staying sometimes behind it, sometimes in front of it, and everywhere watching the impact of this extraordinary phenomenon. During the anxious period of waiting, the weather forecaster is king, consulted by pie-crested cockatoos, and a joyful period ensues: there is a period of promiscuity, and scandals proliferate. Frater's journey takes him to Bangkok and the cowboy town on the Thai-Malaysian border to Rangoon and Akyab in Burma (where the front funnels up between the mountains and the sea). His fascinating narrative reveals the exotic, often startling, discoveries of an ambitious and irresistibly romantic adventurer.
Download or read book The Blue Eggs written by Dorothy Harnish and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing the college scholarship she earned in high school, twenty-year-old Lori Kelley is determined to work hard and save every dime she can for college. She’s holding down three jobs, and has been doing without a lot of things, including a relationship with a man. Lori doesn’t want anyone in her life except Hank, a man she looks up to as a father. Then Lori meets Garrett Malone and he starts to melt away her rough edges. She finds it difficult to fight her attraction to him, and their relationship slowly blossoms, until her older sister steps in. With their relationship over, Lori discovers some of her savings is missing. Will she be able to go back to the life she planned for herself, or will obstacles keep popping up and stop her? Find out in this captivating story of disappointments, heartache, and dreams, as they unfold for Lori and her unchained spirit that is determined to be triumphant.
Download or read book Like the Smell After Rain written by Adriana Ruiz and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetry collection for all who relate to the struggles of life and the thrills of finding love and magic around us in the midst of it all.
Download or read book Refusing Heaven written by Jack Gilbert and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and sometimes surprising happiness of a life spent in luminous understanding of his own blessings and shortcomings: “The days and nights wasted . . . Long hot afternoons / watching ants while the cicadas railed / in the Chinese elm about the brevity of life.” Time slows down in these poems, as Gilbert creates an aura of curiosity and wonder at the fact of existence itself. Despite powerful intermittent griefs–over the women he has parted from or the one lost to cancer (an experience he captures with intimate precision)–Gilbert’s choice in this volume is to “refuse heaven.” He prefers this life, with its struggle and alienation and delight, to any paradise. His work is both a rebellious assertion of the call to clarity and a profound affirmation of the world in all its aspects. It braces the reader in its humanity and heart.
Download or read book Brendan written by Morgan Llywelyn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale inspired by the early Christian legend of Saint Brendán the Navigator and his quest to find the Isle of the Blessed follows his leadership of a group of monks on a dangerous ocean journey in search of Paradise.
Download or read book Leisure written by Jasmin Biggs and published by An Unexpected Journal. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fast-paced society that prizes utilitarian productivity, leisure and play can be difficult to enjoy without guilt. Rather than resist this cultural tide, the church often inadvertently baptizes such workaholism, spiritualizes the idolatry of productivity, and participates in the functional desecration of the physical creation that God declared "good." But leisure is not only fun; it is essential for our spiritual health. This issue of An Unexpected Journal explores the theological and philosophical foundations for the sacredness of play, along with lighter reflections on how various sports, hobbies, and leisure activities reveal the goodness and character of God. Contributors “The Curse of Gnosticism and the Cure of Play: Why Leisure is Essential for Spiritual Health” - Jasmin Biggs on the Imago Dei & Its Implications for Play “Leisurely Rambles: Hiking & Birding as Sacred Play” - Annie Nardone on Hiking and Birding “Vortex” (Short Story) - Molly Hopkins on Workaholism “Taylor Swift, T.S. Eliot, and C.S. Lewis: Eras for the Ages” - Seth Myers on Taylor Swift’s Timeless Themes “The Arrow That is Not Aimed: Flow in the Art of Archery and Writing” - Megan Joy Rials on Archery and Writing “Leisure the Basis of Education: Applying the Sabbath Principle to the Classroom” -Alex Markos on Sabbath and Education “Fly Fishing and the Fall” - Jim Swayze on Fly Fishing “Obeying the Rules of the Game” - Zak Schmoll on Power Soccer “Sea Reflections” - Tiffany Kavedzic on God’s Character “Pursuing the Tempest: Why We Chase” - Zachary Biggs on Storm Chasing and Landscape Photography “How My Horse Taught Me to Be a Parent” - Annie Crawford on Horsemanship and Parenting “In The Image of a Playful God: Flourishing Through Playfulness And Connection” - Anna Beresford on Play & Connection “Bones Will Sing: Dance in Spiritual Formation” - Rachel Bruce Johnson on Incarnational Embodiment “Craft and Glory” - Molly Hopkins on Hobbies and Craftsmanship “Forgiveness in the Foam” (poem) - Dwayne Sheridan on Cosplay and Redemption “Take Me Out To The Ballgame: How Baseball Can Restore Our Senses And Our Souls” - Sandra G. Hicks on Baseball “Counterpunching Trials With Joy: Boxing As A Unique Parallel To Christian Sanctification” - Matthew Hill on Boxing “Kings Over Bishops: The Play of Chess in Late Medieval and Early Modern England as a Representation of the Relationship Between the Sacred and the Secular” - James L. Underwood on Chess and History “Bombs, Board Games, and Bede the Venerable: But Mostly Chess” - Seth Myers on Board Games and Chess Fall 2023; Volume 6, Issue 3. 310 pages Illustrator: Virginia de la Lastra
Download or read book The Unremembered written by Peter Orullian and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sprawling, complex tale of magic and destiny that won't disappoint its readers. This auspicious beginning for author Peter Orullian will have you looking forward to more.--Terry Brooks.
Download or read book Streams Meditations on Isaiah written by Edward Vinson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a celebration of anointed poetic meditations on the timely yet ancient book of Isaiah. At the site of his tomb near Israel's border with Lebanon there is a plaque honoring Isaiah as the Bible's "greatest prophet" because even in times of trouble he carried the yoke of God's Covenant with "the greatest of joy".
Download or read book The King s Prophetic Voice written by Jodie Hughes and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn your God-language! Every day, God is speaking to you — not through a booming voice from Heaven, but in ways that are simple, common, and often overlooked. God is not a formula; He is a person Who longs to draw us into a deeper relationship with Himself. As we get to know Him through His Word, we recognize the creative...
Download or read book Warrior Heart written by Ryan Scott Nield and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an attack Raquel and his father have been planning for months goes horribly wrong, his life is changed forever.
Download or read book Punch written by Mark Lemon and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out of the Dust Scholastic Gold written by Karen Hesse and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.
