Download or read book Unlikely Paradise written by Alan D. Butcher and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artist Frances Gage, born in 1924 in Windsor, experienced both artistic recognition and acute despair in her life, yet she flourished in her work and as part of the contemporary Toronto art scene. A friend of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle, she developed a greater connection with the Group of Seven, working closely with Frederick Varley and producing reliefs of both him and A.Y. Jackson while working in Tom Thomson's shack. Frances remained focused and positive and became a successful sculptor, creating more than five hundred works of art. Still, even though she achieved the dream she strove toward during all the years of struggle, she discovered that the Dante-like Paradise she had sought and gained was instead the poet's Inferno in disguise. Her correspondence, as referenced in this remarkable biography, bears out this insight in a life often marked by unsatisfying triumph over tragedy. It presents a candid view of one of Canada's most fascinating artists of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Paradise Found written by Rebecca Cole and published by Three Rivers Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers a wealth of simple, beautiful solutions to common gardening difficulties. Whether a garden is too small or too big, too shady or too exposed, too empty or too cluttered, Rebecca explains how to overcome its limitations to create a unique and inviting garden paradise.
Download or read book Paradise of Sport written by Richard I. Cashman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Cashman traces the sporting culture in Australia from European settlement to the present day.
Download or read book To Have Borne Witness written by Barry Cogswell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in a time of massive change. Our planets life-giving world of nature is suffering unsustainable duress and is headed towards collapse. At the same time, humankind is forging ahead with ever more potent and destructive industrial practices, practices that are causing the over-exploitation of both renewable and non-renewable resources, which in turn are resulting in even more worldwide environmental degradation. As the power of industry becomes more efficient, as the human population continues to increase, and as life-sustaining nature suffers ongoing trauma, the situation will soon be dire. Two over-riding questions dominate. On a finite planet can we really expect infinite growth and, in our rush to grow the global economy, are we condemning future generations to lives that will, in fact, be unsustainable? If that is so, as this book concludes, it will inevitably cause civil conflict - a conflict between the industrial extractors of natural resources and those who wish to protect our earth for future generations. Until now, the conflicts have been mostly law-abiding, but for how long can more radical reactions be deterred? Through reminiscences, personal observations and documented examples of wild animal depletions, the author explores the ecological damage we have already caused. At the end of the book, he proposes some solutions that should protect future generations from the outrages of our time. But are we capable of making the necessary changes?
Download or read book Unlikely Paradise written by J. M. Maxim and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a modern fairy tale about how much can change in the span of a week. Lacy is a bright, talented, up-and-coming journalist, with a history of being unlucky in Love. More accustomed to city life, Lacy is assigned to write a cover story on an award winning bed & breakfast in New England. Determined to do her best, she enters into the assignment with an open mind, but quickly discovers that the town, inn, and its reclusive owner may prove to be more than she planned for...This romantic story delivers rich narrative, beautiful locations that will satisfy even the most worldly armchair traveler and characters you'll fall in love with. It's all wrapped up in a fun, easy read that's perfect for a beach day, quiet evening or romantic holiday of your own. Let this be your guilty pleasure and enjoy getting to know Lacy in a tale that's safe for all age levels.
Download or read book ULYSSES Comin Home written by Simon Christopher Dew and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest sled dog the North has ever known is about to compete in the richest race the world has ever known. Two minutes before the start, ULYSSES vanishes into the minus 30-degree night. Taken by the cruel polymath, MAX PFISTER, he is transported 2,500 miles away to California for medical research, and to be delivered to the sinister international art dealer who secretly collects and sells animals of exceptional value. ULYSSES escapes, and begins his impossible odyssey to be reunited with his family in the North while being pursued by Max Pfister whose own life depends on recapturing his prey. This classic story of survival and love, and of ULYSSES outsmarting adversaries and enduring the cruelty of nature, is told with contemporary energy and style. As diverse as it is wide-sweeping, it includes ULYSSES’S fight to the death with an Alpha wolf, his unexpected friendship with a feisty teenage runaway, surviving endless miles of dangerous and strange lands on both sides of the 49th parallel - and avoiding the art dealer’s assassin. “ULYSSES – Comin’ Home” is a classic adventure of survival and love between a dog and his family. It is an inspiring story for anyone who has ever had a dog in their life, loved a dog, or lost a dog.
Download or read book When Students Have Power written by Ira Shor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when teachers share power with students? In this profound book, Ira Shor—the inventor of critical pedagogy in the United States—relates the story of an experiment that nearly went out of control. Shor provides the reader with a reenactment of one semester that shows what really can happen when one applies the theory and democratizes the classroom. This is the story of one class in which Shor tried to fully share with his students control of the curriculum and of the classroom. After twenty years of practicing critical teaching, he unexpectedly found himself faced with a student uprising that threatened the very possibility of learning. How Shor resolves these problems, while remaining true to his commitment to power-sharing and radical pedagogy, is the crux of the book. Unconventional in both form and substance, this deeply personal work weaves together student voices and thick descriptions of classroom experience with pedagogical theory to illuminate the power relations that must be negotiated if true learning is to take place.
Download or read book Big Game Hunter s Guide to Idaho written by Ron Spomer and published by Wilderness Adventures Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L A Exposed written by Paul Young and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining look at the myths and urban legends surrounding Los Angeles encompasses Hollywood tall tales, rock music rumors, the lore of L.A.'s landmarks, crime tales, and more.
Download or read book Al Clark Avalon written by Jonathan G. Meyer and published by Jonathan G. Meyer. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It appeared to be the perfect planet for colonization. Avalon, a world untouched by man, with clean air and pristine landscapes that begged to be tamed. After a long and difficult journey, the settlers will be required to fight for their lives, and discover there is a price to pay if they want to live in paradise.
Download or read book Wildflower written by Mark Seal and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With compassion and an unswerving regard for the truth, veteran journalist Mark Seal lays bare the deeply moving, inspirational story of Joan Root, a dedicated environmentalist and Oscar-nominated wildlife filmmaker. He covers her early days in Kenya as a shy young woman with an almost uncanny ability to connect to animals; her whirlwind courtship with the dashing Alan Root, their marriage, and the twenty years of nonstop adventure and passionate romance that followed, both in Africa and around the world; the shattering disintegration of the marriage and partnership; and Joan’s triumphant struggle to reinvent herself as the protector of her lakeshore community’s fragile ecosystem—a struggle that would lead to her tragic death in January 2006. Joan Root dreamed of a bright future for Kenya, a country blessed with unmatched beauty but scarred by decades of colonization and a culture of corruption. She spent her life fighting to make that dream a reality. Her life ended too soon, but “thanks to Seal’s meticulous re-creation, her extraordinary life lives on.” (People, four-star review)
Download or read book 66 Square Feet written by Marie Viljoen and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With lush photographs and spare prose” a Brooklyn blogger shares recipes and “records her life as a gardener, a cook and an urban forager.” (The New York Times) Marie Viljoen's beautiful first book draws the reader into a world of unfolding seasons, seen from the perspective of an expert gardener, cook and photographer. Each chapter is a month, divided into three parts: New York City, the author's garden, and her kitchen, each setting the stage for a lavish seasonal menu with recipes drawn from farmers markets, wild-foraged ingredients, and produce grown on her city terrace and roof farm. Named for the size of her tiny Brooklyn terrace, and the blog it inspired, Viljoen's book is a unique perspective of the concrete jungle, where the month is known by the flowers in bloom, the vegetable in season, and the migrating birds crossing a Brooklyn sky. Set against a backdrop of growing up in South Africa and moving to the United States, meeting her French husband, and finding a culinary and emotional home in Brooklyn, Viljoen's book is a love letter to living seasonally in the most famous city on the planet. “If you don't think of this city as a living ecosystem, Marie Viljoen will change your perspective forever.” —Edible Brooklyn “Offer[s] visions of growing, cooking and sharing fresh food as central to living a good life.” —Seattle Times
Download or read book Sailing to the Edge of Time written by John Kretschmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Kretschmer is sailing's practical philosopher – as much a doer as a thinker. And that is the overarching theme of this chronicle of a sailing life. Often amusing, sometimes poignant, occasionally terrifying but always inspiring, his deeply personal account is a welcome reminder of the good life waiting at sea. With hundreds of thousands of nautical miles under his keel, John's adventures have taken him several times around the world, with challenging crossings of the Atlantic and the Pacific, a narrow escape from a coup in Yemen, an unlikely deliverance from a coral reef off Belize as well as more serene, introspective passages where trade winds are blowing and stories are flowing. His crew has included CEOs, actors, writers, teachers, kids – in essence, everyone. John's narrative is interwoven with practical tips and advice in seamanship, but also, and just as importantly, his hard-won insights about making the most of our lives. He truly believes we find out who we really are, and what we are capable of, far from the shackles of land, when we find a place where time changes shape – days may merge into one another, but minutes are memorable. To live adventurously is to live more fully, and that is the life John Kretschmer continues to live. In this book he shares his simple profundities that will inspire those who live to sail, and those seeking something more rewarding from life.
Download or read book The Blue Zones written by Dan Buettner and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longevity.
Download or read book Curvy for Brute written by Naomi West and published by MBK Hanson Inc.. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curvy for Brute is book 2 of the Dark Vultures MC trilogy. Book 3, Bent for Brute, is available everywhere now! The brute only saved me so he could break me. I woke up in a strange city with no memory of how I got there. The biker found me, and took me in. But this motorcycle club is no safe haven. And there's a devil coming after me… determined to drag me to hell. Vera. I remember my name, but nothing else. And even if I didn't already have amnesia, the outlaw brute's burning eyes would have wiped my mind blank. When I'm looking into those dark irises, there's only him. Tall. Raw. Tatted. Powerful. Staring back and owning me with just a glance. Rascal never asked to be the man I turned to for answers. But something in my gut tells me I can trust him – even though his leather kutte and cocky swagger tell me I should be running in the other direction. I need him in more ways than I know. And after a night spent bending for him – serving him – begging him for just one more touch – it seems like I've lost everything… Only to find where I'm truly meant to be. But this unlikely paradise is about to come crashing down around me. Because there's someone else out there. Chasing me. Hunting me. And the phantoms of my past won't until they've consumed us all: Me. Rascal. And the baby in my belly.
Download or read book The Life of Saul Bellow written by Zachary Leader and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Leader marks the centenary of Bellow's birth with an account of the novelist's life. The biography will be published in two volumes.
Download or read book All Aboard for Paradise written by Dee Marvine and published by Five Star (ME). This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Last Chance," which was nominated for the Western Writers of America Best First Novel award, brings the California frontier to life. . . . The sleepy village of Los Angeles suddenly awakens in March, 1886, when a fare war reduces the price of a one-way ticket to just one dollar, and the railroads advertise the southern California desert as a "paradise on earth." Longing to escape her drab life in Missouri, Claire Chadwick, single 34-year-old mother of 15-year-old Joanna, seizes the opportunity and rides an immigrant train that carries them west. On the train, Randy Plank, an ambitious young adventurer, falls in love with her. She comes to care for him, but her daughter, too, is smitten with Randy. Arriving in burgeoning Los Angeles, their lives unfold with the land boom that within two years brings 200,000 people to the unlikely "paradise." Claire plunges into the real-estate scramble and, with pluck and luck, rides the wave of the land boom to build a business. Assisted along the way by handsome bank manager Harry Graham, who also falls in love with her; eccentric McKenzie Tate, real estate tycoon; and dynamic Farley Dodd, her employer who is running for mayor, Claire achieves the financial security she seeks for herself and her daughter. But the boom is followed by the inevitable bust, and Claire must choose between a safe marriage and her determination to save her hard-won business and retain her independence. Dee Marvine lives in Big Timber, Montana.
