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Book The Mirror of Beryl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sangye Desi Gyatso
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-05-17
  • ISBN : 1614291160
  • Pages : 690 pages

Download or read book The Mirror of Beryl written by Sangye Desi Gyatso and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed while its author was the ruler of Tibet, Mirror of Beryl is a detailed account of the origins and history of medicine in Tibet through the end of the seventeenth century. Its author, Desi Sangye Gyatso (1653 - 1705), was the heart disciple and political successor of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama and the author of several highly regarded works on Tibetan medicine, including his Blue Beryl, a commentary on the foundational text of Tibetan medicine, The Four Tantras. In the present historical introduction, Sangye Gyatso traces the sources of influence on Tibetan medicine to classical India, China, Central Asia, and beyond, providing life stories, extensive references to earlier Tibetan works on medicine, and fascinating details about the Tibetan approach to healing. He also provides a commentary on the pratimoksha, bodhisattva, and tantric Buddhist vows. Desi Sangye Gyatso's Mirror of Beryl remains today an essential resource for students of medical science in Tibet.

Book The Lives of Beryl Markham

Download or read book The Lives of Beryl Markham written by Errol Trzebinski and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994-11-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen's love story became the basis for the Oscar-winning film Out of Africa. Now, the author of Silence Will Speak reveals a twist in their relationship: Beryl Markham, one of the century's greatest free spirits, pursued Hatton in fierce competition. Photos.

Book Look in the Mirror

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  • Author : Sam Epstein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780823402311
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Look in the Mirror written by Sam Epstein and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggests simple activities that demonstrate some of the many characteristics and uses of mirrors.

Book The Songs of Edvard Grieg

Download or read book The Songs of Edvard Grieg written by Beryl Foster and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive survey of Grieg's 180 songs, considering particularly questions and issues of performance. Edvard Grieg's 180 songs mirror his artistic and personal development more intimately than any of his other music, yet are still the least known part of his output. This definitive appraisal, now revised and updated, discusses every song, including those left only in manuscript and sketches at the composer's death, set against the background of his life and times. It also deals with the poetry set, often chosen to reflect his current situation, and the poets, several of whom, including great figures of the day such as Ibsen and Bjornson, were his friends and colleagues. Grieg frequently bemoaned poor translations and indifferent performances, and the various editions and translations, from first publication to the present day, are also discussed, together with his own ideas for interpretation. Musical examples and analysis are included to give a closer understanding of Grieg's word-setting and harmonic development, although their performance is always kept paramount. BERYL FOSTER is a graduate of London University and studied singing in Colchester and at the Royal College of Music. As well as all the usual repertoire, since 1980 she has made a particular study of the songs of Grieg and other Norwegian composers, giving recitals, lectures and workshops in Britain, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and China. She is also a private teacher andfestival adjudicator.

Book Bodies in Balance

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  • Author : Theresia Hofer
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2018-01-08
  • ISBN : 0295807083
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Bodies in Balance written by Theresia Hofer and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. Generously illustrated with more than 200 images, Bodies in Balance includes essays on contemporary practice, pharmacology and compounding medicines, astrology and divination, history and foundational treatises. The volume brings to life the theory and practice of this ancient healing art. 2015 Best Art Book Accolade, ICAS Book Prize in the Humanities Category Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. This book is dedicated to the history, theory, and practice of Tibetan medicine, a unique and complex system of understanding body and mind, treating illness, and fostering health and well-being. Sowa Rigpa has been influenced by Chinese, Indian, and Greco-Arab medical traditions but is distinct from them. Developed within the context of Buddhism, Tibetan medicine was adapted over centuries to different health needs and climates across the region encompassing the Tibetan Plateau, the Himalayas, and Mongolia. Its focus on a holistic approach to health has influenced Western medical thinking about the prevention, diagnoses, and treatment of illness. Generously illustrated with more than 200 images, Bodies in Balance includes essays on contemporary practice, pharmacology and compounding medicines, astrology and divination, history and foundational treatises. The volume brings to life the theory and practice of this ancient healing art.

Book The Collector

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  • Author : K. R. Alexander
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2018-08-28
  • ISBN : 1338212257
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book The Collector written by K. R. Alexander and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spooky doll story filled with thrills and chills, for fans of Mary Downing Hahn and Neil Gaiman. Josie always liked visiting her grandmother's house. But when she's forced to move there, she starts to feel like something is a little . . . off. Her grandmother has some very strange rules:Never leave your windows open after dark.No dolls in the house.Never, ever go by the house in the woods.A little spooked, Josie is relieved to find that her school seems pretty normal. She even manages to make friends with a popular girl named Vanessa. When Vanessa invites Josie back to her house to hang out, Josie doesn't question it. Not even when Vanessa takes her into the woods, and down an old dirt road, toward the very house her grandmother had warned her about . . .The house that has been calling for her.

Book Beryl Markham

Download or read book Beryl Markham written by Catherine Gourley and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Markham, an early pioneer in aviation, was a passionate, free-spirited girl struggling to come to terms with her identity and her place in the world. This biography tells of the obstacles she faced and how she overcame adversity to follow her dreams of flying.

Book Grimms    Fairy Tales

Download or read book Grimms Fairy Tales written by Grimm brothers and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About Grimms' Fairy Tales Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. The collection is commonly known in English as Grimm's Fairy Tales. Composition The first volume of the first edition was published in 1812, containing 86 stories; the second volume of 70 stories followed in 1815. For the second edition, two volumes were issued in 1819 and a third in 1822, totalling 170 tales. The third edition appeared in 1837; fourth edition, 1840; fifth edition, 1843; sixth edition, 1850; seventh edition, 1857. Stories were added, and also subtracted, from one edition to the next, until the seventh held 211 tales. All editions were extensively illustrated, first by Philipp Grot Johann and, after his death in 1892, by German illustrator Robert Leinweber. The first volumes were much criticized because, although they were called "Children's Tales", they were not regarded as suitable for children, both for the scholarly information included and the subject matter. Many changes through the editions – such as turning the wicked mother of the first edition in Snow White and Hansel and Gretel (shown in original Grimm stories as Hänsel and Grethel) to a stepmother, were probably made with an eye to such suitability. They removed sexual references—such as Rapunzel's innocently asking why her dress was getting tight around her belly, and thus naïvely revealing to her stepmother her pregnancy and the prince's visits—but, in many respects, violence, particularly when punishing villains, was increased. In 1825, the Brothers published their Kleine Ausgabe or "small edition", a selection of 50 tales designed for child readers. This children's version went through ten editions between 1825 and 1858. Influence The influence of these books was widespread. W. H. Auden praised the collection, during World War II, as one of the founding works of Western culture. The tales themselves have been put to many uses. Hitler praised them as folkish tales showing children with sound racial instincts seeking racially pure marriage partners, and so strongly that the Allied forces warned against them; for instance, Cinderella with the heroine as racially pure, the stepmother as an alien, and the prince with an unspoiled instinct being able to distinguish. Writers who have written about the Holocaust have combined the tales with their memoirs, as Jane Yolen in her Briar Rose. The work of the Brothers Grimm influenced other collectors, both inspiring them to collect tales and leading them to similarly believe, in a spirit of romantic nationalism, that the fairy tales of a country were particularly representative of it, to the neglect of cross-cultural influence. Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, the English Joseph Jacobs, and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales. There was not always a pleased reaction to their collection. Joseph Jacobs was in part inspired by his complaint that English children did not read English fairy tales; in his own words, "What Perrault began, the Grimms completed". Three individual works of Wilhelm Grimm include Altdänische Heldenlieder, Balladen und Märchen ('Old Danish Heroic Songs, Ballads, and Folktales') in 1811, Über deutsche Runen ('On German Runes') in 1821, and Die deutsche Heldensage ('The German Heroic Saga') in 1829. thirty-four popular Collections In this book, we collect thirty-four popular Grimms' fairy tales, so you can accompany the children a pleasant stay.

Book Castle Steep

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  • Author : Beryl Netherclift
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780091020903
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book Castle Steep written by Beryl Netherclift and published by . This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Battle Cry

Download or read book Battle Cry written by Beryl Henwood and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle Cry is the remarkable true story of one woman's trust in God. A passionate missionary, intercessor, evangelist, teacher, YWAM Zion ministry leader, and pro-life advocate, Beryl is powerfully anointed with the Holy Spirit to minister to other broken lives, the healing and freedom she has found in Jesus.

Book Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

Download or read book Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf written by Gerri Kimber and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses postfeminist media culture's emphasis on socioeconomic privilege

Book Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine

Download or read book Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge and Context in Tibetan Medicine is a collection of essays dedicated to the description and interpretation of Tibetan medical knowledge across different historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts.

Book Beryl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maxine Peake
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2014-08-18
  • ISBN : 1472596110
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Beryl written by Maxine Peake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had a constant battle to get where I am today. Scrimping and scraping, people telling me not to do it, I couldn't do it. That my life wouldn't amount to very much. Now I might have had a bit of natural talent but I got here because of pure determination and persistence. Stubbornness you might say. I always went that extra mile, pushed myself that bit harder than anyone else and never took anything for granted. It was 1954 when Beryl Charnock met keen cyclist Charlie Burton. In those days they cycled in clubs and once Beryl started she was smitten, not only with Charlie, but by the thrill and freedom found on two wheels. Beryl was better than good, she was the best, and she was determined to stay that way. Beryl Burton was five times world-pursuit champion, thirteen times national champion, twice road-racing world champion and twelve times national champion. Her accolades include time trials, former world-record holder, former British record-holder, numerous sports awards an MBE and an OBE. Burton was one of the most astonishing sports people ever to have lived, but she remains something of a mystery. Beryl, which celebrates the extraordinary sporting achievements of this inspirational cyclist, has been specially commissioned as an adaptation from Maxine Peake's acclaimed 2012 Radio 4 play and marks her stage-writing debut. It received its world premiere on 30 June 2014 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in the Courtyard Theatre.

Book The Marked One

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  • Author : Bob Rhodes
  • Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
  • Release : 2008-10
  • ISBN : 1598587145
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book The Marked One written by Bob Rhodes and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come join the amazing journey Life has not been easy for Pella Sparpoint in the City of Jewels. Trapped in a land of stone, ice and strict religious custom on a world that has never seen the sun, all this simple tavern boy and outcast desires is to keep a low profile and honor a decade-old oath to his missing father. But forces are at work that will destroy Pella's modest dreams. When a dispute erupts with the powerful Crystal Guild over a small strip of land, he is catapulted into a battle for his own survival - and for the survival of his entire race. One thousand years have passed since the destruction of civilization on Annaber. All that remains from that ancient time are secrets, riddles, political intrigue and a mysterious madness that threatens to plunge the kingdom into a civil war. As his icy world begins to warm, a handful of cryptic verses called "The Keys" warn of a horrific danger that is approaching and point the way to survival. Before Pella can decipher these clues and protect those he cares about, he must first give up everything he holds dear and fulfill his destiny. But Pella cares little about his destiny. He has problems enough just trying to survive while avoiding the schemes of the powerful political forces that would use him. Besides, he has plans of his own and is growing increasingly tired of being pushed against his will - no matter that one of the ones doing the pushing is a God.

Book The Other Side of Pop

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  • Author : Graham Jackson
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 0359220851
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Other Side of Pop written by Graham Jackson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Marquis of Mooikloof and Other Stories

Download or read book The Marquis of Mooikloof and Other Stories written by Sean O'Toole and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A marvellously fresh collection of short stories that rings true with consistency and subtlety.

Book More Than You Know

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  • Author : Nan Parson Rossiter
  • Publisher : Kensington Books
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 075828389X
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book More Than You Know written by Nan Parson Rossiter and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their mother Mia passes away, sisters Beryl, Isak, and Rumer are reunited and uncover Mia's handwritten memoir that makes them realize it's never too late to heed a mother's advice about taking chances and falling in love.