Download or read book The Scent of Distant Family written by sid sibo and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of a remote location in the throes of rapid development, The Scent of Distant Family is a contemporary novel that expands, even across geologic time, our sense of who we choose to consider family.
Download or read book The Scent of Water written by Naomi Zacharias and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an edgy, radical new voice comes a book for those who are stirred by stories of others. Join author Zacharias in traveling to different parts of the world, meeting people who have endured injustice and broken dreams.
Download or read book Scent and Chemistry written by Günther Ohloff and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scent and Chemistry Odor impressions have cast a spell over mankind since the dim and distant past. But even today, we are –consciously or subconsciously– guided by our sense of smell and the chemistry behind it. The prominent fragrance chemists Günther Ohloff, Wilhelm Pickenhagen and Philip Kraft convey the scientist, the perfumer, and the interested layman with a vivid and up-to-date picture of the chemistry of odorants and the research in odor perception. In this second thoroughly revised and updated edition they are joined by creative perfumer Fanny Grau, a rising master in this métier, who complements the scientific treatise by a concise introduction to the art of perfumery and its composition techniques. Besides this new chapter on the creative aspects of perfumery, the book details on the molecular basis of olfaction, olfactory characterization of perfumery materials, structure–odor relationships, the chemical synthesis of odorants, and the chemistry of essential oils and odorants from the animal kingdom, backed up by many perfume examples and historical aspects. It will serve as a thorough introductory text for everyone interested in the molecular world of odors.
Download or read book Son of Two Bloods written by Vincent L. Mendoza and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: vividly portrays his Mexican and Indian relatives and his confusing, often painful, childhood interactions with the dominant white society. He left childhood behind when he was sent to Vietnam. There he found hatred, terror, and camaraderie in equal measure. On returning from Vietnam, Mendoza faced professional, economic, and personal struggles but found consolation in love, family, and friendship. His moving account of his first wife's courageous, losing battle with.
Download or read book Distant Thunder written by Wahei Tatematsu and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the Noma Prize for New Writers** Set in rural Japan as the height of the bubble economy, Distant Thunder tells of a farming village gradually effaced by urbanization, corruption, and greed. After Matsuzo Wada has sold off the family's land and left his wife for another woman, his son Mitsuo is determined to support himself and his mother in the traditional manner, farming. All that remains of his ancestors' lands is a hothouse, in which he grows tomatoes to sell to the housewives the nearby apartment complex, built on a former rice field. When his childhood friend, Koji, becomes entangled in an adulterous love affair which ultimately destroys him and those around him, Mitsuo begins to see how the town's hedonistic excesses are laying to waste not only the landscape, but also the communal and familial bonds and the values that once sustained them all. Translated from Japanese by Lawrence J. Howell and Hikaru Morimoto.
Download or read book Beavers written by Frank Rosell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beavers are represented by two extant species, the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) and the North American beaver (Castor canadensis); each has played a significant role in human history and dominated wetland ecology in the northern hemisphere. Their behaviour and ecology both fascinate and perhaps even infuriate, but seemingly never fail to amaze. Both species have followed similar histories from relentless persecution to the verge of extinction (largely through hunting), followed by their subsequent recovery and active restoration which is viewed by many as a major conservation success story. Beavers have now been reintroduced throughout Europe and North America, demonstrating that their role as a keystone engineer is now widely recognised with proven abilities to increase the complexity and biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems. What animals other than humans can simultaneously act as engineers, forest workers, carpenters, masons, creators of habitats, and nature managers? Over the last 20 years, there has been a huge increase in the number of scientific papers published on these remarkable creatures, and an authoritative synthesis is now timely. This accessible text goes beyond their natural history to describe the impacts on humans, conflict mitigation, animal husbandry, management, and conservation. Beavers: Ecology, Behaviour, Conservation, and Management is an accessible reference for a broad audience of professional academics (especially carnivore and mammalian biologists), researchers and graduate students, governmental and non-governmental wildlife bodies, and amateur natural historians intrigued by these wild animals and the extraordinary processes of nature they exemplify.
Download or read book Tom s Story written by W. Thomas and published by W. Thomas. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom was born into rejection and abuse. At an early age he makes his own path in life. The journey takes him many places and he meets all kinds of people. Some of whom he mentions, too few of them are good. Tom's Story is captivating, it will trigger all your emotions, create new awareness and it is packed with adventure. Tom's Story is more than great entertainment, you the reader will want to become a better person from the experience and awareness of Tom's Story.
Download or read book Awesome Puppy Activities Training to Make Your Puppy an Awesome Dog written by Ray Lincoln and published by Awesome Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two canine psychology specialists who love pampering dogs share their secrets for developing the canine mind while having fun.
Download or read book Ghost Dance Ii written by Gale A. Palmanteer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amulet: good-luck charm or curse? Sam is convinced he would already be dead without it. Ross and Ruth have everything; children, and the Running R, a large cattle ranch located on the Flathead Indian Reservation of Montana, but there are problems. Ruth is tormented by secrets that threaten their idyllic life, and Indian Court decisions have angered tribal members and threaten the fragile peace between Indians and whites. Colonel Wolard and a regiment of the 5th Cavalry remain missing as word of the Ghost Dance spreads like a prairie fire from one reservation to another. In the Pasayten, hidden from time in the valley of the Sematuse, Bent Grass has a startling revelation giving her apocalyptic power to bring past, present and future together, but with alarming consequences.
Download or read book Fathers Prisons and Family Reentry written by William Muth and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fathers, Prisons, and Family Reentry: Presencing as a Framework and Method asks scholars, policy makers, advocates, and practitioners to rethink family reentry in a new light, to seek to understand both the urgent and intolerable loss as well as the real and present potential of families. There are almost one million parents of minor-aged children currently serving time in U.S. prisons—most of them fathers. Based on post-phenomenological analyses, William Muth offers a new framework for conceptualizing family reentry as a present phenomenon. It seeks to reveal the intense ways incarcerated fathers and their families live their present-absence, and draws on these intensities to define a new role for researchers and practitioners: nurturing the potential of families in the here and now. The current situation is intolerable. A credible family reentry approach is urgently needed. This book is an attempt to address these families as they potentially are, and might become, if we would be willing to “meet them half-way,” in the words of the poet Alice Fulton.
Download or read book Move the Mountains The Freedom Finders written by Emily Conolan and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find freedom, you must leave behind everything you've ever known. It is 1943. During the war, you rescue and hide an Australian airman near your small Italian village. He tells you that you can be anything you dream of - but those dreams are fast slipping away. As you make the leap for a new life, you find yourself facing life-and-death choices at every turn. Can you overthrow the curse of bad luck that has plagued your family and prove yourself in a new land? You'll be asked to stand up to bullies, stage a mutiny, and make your contribution to one of the greatest engineering projects the world has ever seen. At every turn, the choice is yours. How far will you go for freedom?
Download or read book ETERNAL DISTANCE written by Vishal Kamboj and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was yours. All yours. Always there, but just as the sky can’t see it’s stars, you never noticed me. So, even though we won’t be in each other lives anymore, I am confident I’ll find you again.
Download or read book Beloved Distance The Separation that Connects Us to All written by Kay Lorraine and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world on fire. Everywhere we turn, there is discord, strife, violence. It feels like everything is falling apart, and the global suffering never seems to end. What can we do? Some say, we must eradicate separation, experience Unity, in order to step back from the brink of destruction. We must come together As One, and embrace a sense of universal connection. The only problem is, separation is central to our human experience. We are separate beings, distinct from each other. And we constantly seek to distinguish ourselves from others, as part of our community-building work. This book explores how we can embrace separation and distance as a vital part of our human lives. It asks us to look within - to the very structure of our cells - to find answers... and ultimately meaning... in the way we're built, and the way we are built to connect. Separation is what we are. Connection is what we do. Join us on this new journey.
Download or read book Long Distance Grandma written by Janet Teitsort and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to an AARP survey, 45 percent of grandparents report that the primary barrier to seeing their grandchildren is the physical distance that separates them. Yet, the desire to communicate is strong. Janet Teitsort, a long-distance grandma herself, comes to the rescue with a year's worth of ideas to remain close even when the miles divide. Among her numerous ideas are art projects, recipes, and simple gifts that keep hearts knitted together. Whether children are toddlers or college students, Teitsort offers a cornucopia of connection possibilities including a strong recommendation for grandparents to embrace technology with ideas involving audiotape, videotape, email, and the Internet. As the grandparent population swells with Baby Boomers, this book is truly timely.
Download or read book Distance Equity and Older People s Experiences in the Nordic Periphery written by Shahnaj Begum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs and wishes in diverse surroundings in the Northern periphery and beyond. It asks how physical, social and emotional distances shape older people’s everyday lives and practices. Contributions from leading experts provides interdisciplinary investigations into the experiences and stories of older people in the Northern periphery. These insights demonstrate the utility of the concept, distance, when reflecting on the central aspects of contemporary ageing societies. The book explores key themes such as care, age politics, technology, intergenerational relations and migration, providing perspectives that are applicable across a variety of international geographical contexts. This innovative book offers a valuable theoretical and methodological contribution with critical new perspectives on ageing in relation to distances. It will be of interest to students and scholars interested in sociology, human geography, health and social care, ageing and gerontological studies, gender studies and Arctic studies.
Download or read book Child s Unfinished Masterpiece written by Mary Ellen Brown and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premier scholar of the English-language traditional or popular ballad, Francis James Child spent decades working on his widely read and performed collection, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. In this first single author monograph of Child's life and work, Mary Ellen Brown analyzes Child's editorial methods, his decisions about which ballads to include, and his relationships with colleagues at Harvard and abroad. Brown draws on his extensive correspondence with collaborators to trace the production of his monumental work from conception and selection through organization and collation of the ballads. Child's Unfinished Masterpiece shows readers what was at stake in Child's search for original manuscript materials housed at libraries and estates far afield and his desire to uncover unedited versions of previous editors' texts. In analyzing Child's letters, Brown also delves into his important network of collaborators, scholars, and friends such as William Macmath, Sven Grundtvig, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton, who influenced the organization and content of his work. Readers learn about the questions Child faced as an editor: whether the materials he gathered were authentic, whether a piece was more ballad or a song, or whether the text was sufficiently old or traditional. In showing Child's struggles with content and organization for The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Brown notes the difficulty in defining the ballad genre while also showing that a clear definition is not a fatal flaw of the volume or to scholars' continued study of it.
Download or read book A Tender Distance written by Kaylene Johnson and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with wit, wisdom, and a grateful heart, A Tender Distance presents fifteen finely-crafted vignettes that explore the perils and joys of raising two fearless boys from toddlerhood to young men. Mothers everywhere will relate to the hard, familiar choice between holding close and letting go. "Presents parenting on a 'high-voltage tightrope' between adventure and safety in rugged conditions." --Foreword Footnotes This is a mother's story about raising her two boys in Alaska were wilderness is just out the back door of their home. Written with wit, wisdom, and a grateful heart, A Tender Distance presents fifteen finely-crafted vignettes that explore the perils and joys of raising two fearless boys from toddlerhood to young men. Mothers everywhere will relate to the hard, familiar choice between holding close and letting go.
