Download or read book Desert Beauty written by Evelyn Fern and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert Beauty by Evelyn Fern In the northwest corner of New Mexico sits a kiva. Abandoned for centuries, this kiva had been left unmanaged as it was thought to have been excavated by the tribal governments. When the ancient ceremonial site is discovered, Demitrias La Capris is one of the young archeologists hired to identify the ancient remains in the kiva. In the heart of the southwest, lonely Demitrias is swept off her feet by Emilio Gabriel, a wealthy and handsome cattle rancher. After a whirlwind romance, they marry. The local tribal council sends in one of their own authorities to oversee the inspection of the kiva. Michael Proud Eagle is a hero to his people, fighting to preserve the old ways. When Michael meets Demitrias he is drawn to her, in more ways than one. Their work becomes entangled with their personal lives. Demeitrias becomes caught in the middle between her deceiving husband and the love she has found with Proud Eagle. In a tri-culture battle for tradition and revenge, the true hero is the one who fights for what is right in a world of greed and jealousy. Desert Beauty will take you on a journey throughout the Southwest.
Download or read book Flamingo written by Chloe Sells and published by Gost Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through Painted Deserts written by Donald Miller and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-08-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sunshot written by and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil’s Highway crosses a stretch of borderland desert in northern Mexico where many immigrants have traveled—and too many have died. It is a despoblado where desperate people defend secret places. But it is also known as El Gran Desierto—a place where stately saguaros stand near aromatic elephant trees, where sand dunes caress the edges of jagged granite mountains, where one can watch bighorn sheep in the morning and whales in the afternoon. Over the years, desert rat Bill Broyles has ventured repeatedly into this sunshot landscape, slogged across its salt flats and sand dunes, and defied its deadly heat. This book chronicles his years of exploration, a vivid and personal introduction to a thorny but ultimately enchanting place that manages to endear itself over time, if it doesn’t kill you first. Michael Berman’s stark black-and-white photographs capture the desolate beauty of the desert while conveying a sense of Broyles’ adventures. Gleaned from more than 4,000 images shot with a large-format camera, these exquisite photographs translate the desert’s formidable monotone into finely tuned studies of light and represent some of the best photos ever taken of this mysterious region. El Gran Desierto is a grand desert indeed, with beauty, spirit, and mystery rivaling any place on Earth, and anyone captivated by the earlier explorations of Lumholtz, Ives, or Hornaday—or by Edward Abbey’s love of desert places—will revel in these modern-day adventures. Sunshot defies the stereotype of a punishing wilderness to show how even the most perilous desert can be alluring if approached with knowledge and respect.
Download or read book Landscape Natural Beauty and the Arts written by Salim Kemal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished group of scholars here probes the complex structure of aesthetic responses to nature in a discussion enriched with insights from art history, literary criticism, geography and philosophy. Exploring the interrelation among nature, beauty and art, they show that natural beauty is impregnated with concepts derived from the arts and from particular accounts of nature. The distinction and relation between art and nature are questioned, and the volume culminates in philosophical studies of the role of scientific understanding, engagement and appreciation in aesthetics.
Download or read book Beauty by the Book written by Nancy Stafford and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2002-02-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From celebrated Hollywood starlets to the covers of Cosmo, our society seems obsessed with beauty. Actress and Main Floor host Nancy Stafford (best known for her starring role as Michelle Thomas on Matlock) digs below our culture's fixation on outward appearance to show you that true beauty is more than skin-deep. "Every woman has beauty," says Stafford, "but not everyone sees it. I want you to see it." In Beauty by the Book she bares her heart to readers, laying out the Scriptures, promises, and truths women need to know to find their true value. Her liberating reflections will help you see yourself as God sees you -- worthy, lovable, and beautiful.“Mirror, Mirror, on the W all…” What do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you see a unique individual created in the image of Beauty itself—one chosen, Cherished, and valued in the eyes of God? If not, you may be looking in the wrong mirror—one distorted by emotional wounds, lies from your past, or the unrealistic standards of our culture. “Everyone has beauty and worth,” says Nancy Stafford, “but not everyone sees it. I want you to see it.” Nancy shares her own poignant story and holds up the true mirror of God’s Word—inviting you to see yourself as God sees you, to absorb His truth, and to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the King is enthralled by your beauty!
Download or read book Blue Desert written by Charles Bowden and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt
Download or read book Natural Beauty From The Garden written by Janice Cox and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the very successful Natural Beauty series with sales over 70,000. If Natural Beauty at Home was inspired by the kitchen, and Natural Beauty for All Seasons was inspired by gift-giving, this book is inspired by the garden. Here, author Janice Cox presents over two hundred brand-new recipes for home beauty treatments that make use of common flowers, plants, herbs, grasses, and trees to create useful and lovely products for all aspects of skin, hair care, and bathing enjoyment. Readers will have her trademark step-by-step recipes for such items as Sunflower Seed Scrub, Aloe and Calula Cream, Rose Geranium Splash, Apricot Baby Oil, Scented Bath Pillow, and many, many more. In addition, over one hundred garden notes are sprinkled throughout the book, containing information on soil type, tools, containers, growing tips, and simple, whimsical garden designs. But, although gardeners will be drawn to this aspect of the book, you don't have to have a garden, or even a window box, to make the recipes here, since all ingredients can be found in natural food stores or farmers' markets. Natural Beauty from the Garden simply captures the spirit of the outdoors while promoting a fun, economical, natural beauty regime. This is a charming collection of beauty and garden freshness that anyone who loves to pamper herself or grow a garden full of flowers will want to have.
Download or read book The Last Cheater s Waltz written by Ellen Meloy and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the recipient of the 1997 Whiting Award. Feeling disconnected from the wildly beautiful desert that she has known intimately for twenty years, award-winning writer Ellen Meloy embarks on a search for home that is historical, scientific, and spiritual. Her "Map of the Known Universe," devised to guide her quest, reveals extraordinary details of a physical link between the atomic age and her home on Utah's San Juan River. The Map grows to include Los Alamos, the Trinity A-test site, White Sands Missile Range, and primary sources of uranium. Meloy casts her naturalist's eye on the Southwest's "geography of consequence," where she finds unusual local bestiaries, the bodies of long-buried neighbors, an underground bubble of nuclear physics in a national forest, and the rich textures of nature on her own eight acres of land. The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest is multilayered and far-reaching, yet always infused with Meloy's prodigious research, finely tuned prose, and wry humor.
Download or read book Melville Beauty and American Literary Studies written by Cody Marrs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagement with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville's philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career.
Download or read book Craving Beauty written by Nalini Singh and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marc was dangerous to her in the way that only a strong, sexy male could be to a woman. Even knowing that, she'd agreed to marry him. Hope blossomed in Hira's heart. Perhaps she'd married a man with whom it might just be worth building a life. Her mother had worried that he was scarred, but the lines on his face did nothing to lessen his raw masculine appeal. If anything, they gave him an even more dangerous male air, enticing the feminine core of her to thoughts that shocked her. What did a man's face matter anyway? She had no use for handsome men. But for a man with a heart? For such a man…she might risk everything.
Download or read book Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy written by Aidan Tynan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.
Download or read book Of Love and Beauty written by Hephzibah Beulah and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And they say that darkness was dark. And of love it is the greatest. Yes, that must be the case, but could beauty be born from the light alone? A slight ray here and a slight ray there and perfection is born. And is beauty not our reward? This book shows how I learned to see, and seeing, I learned to live with beauty as my rear guide. Of Love and Beauty is a story of salvation, a story of grace. Darkness shrouded whatever good had been gifted to me, but through the power of salvation, the power of love, I became whole. But he didn’t leave me there. He held my hands and took me on a journey—a journey that began with waterspout and his thirst to a life fulfilled and lived in him. A hope restored and a heart to love. Love truly is the greatest gift!
Download or read book Marching as to War written by Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the American Revolution, African American women have served in every U.S. military conflict. Despite this dedicated service to their country, very little empirical research has been published regarding African American servicewomen, including those who have served in the Gulf Wars. Seen through the eyes of eleven African American servicewomen, this book explores issues such as health care, child care, sexism/sexual harassment, racism, religion, military promotions/career advancement, and serving in combat zones. Their stories illuminate the types of professional, sociological, and interpersonal experiences black servicewomen have encountered during their time in the Gulf Wars. To learn more about Marching as to War, check out Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas' blog post at http://rhetoricraceandreligion.blogspot.com/2014/05/stories-that-must-be-told-sharing.html
Download or read book Musings and Short Stories written by Terri Drake and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musings and Short Stories consist of a collection of poetic works as well as a number of short stories. The decision was made to break up poetic prose with a number of stories that range from the humorous to, I hope, being thought provoking. The poems run the gambit from humorous to playing to ones heart-strings. Within these pages you will find stories that relate to the sometimes embarrassing questions that children may ask or that will make you ask questions about our world today and the changes taking place in the core of our society.
Download or read book Murder for Beauty written by Beatrice Fairbanks Cayzer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder for Beauty describes the horrific murders by a serial killer planning to take over the cosmetics and perfume industry by killing off top executives of rival companies. Sleuth Happy Harrow, a Kentucky-born woman jockey married to a British race horse trainer based in Epsom, has a supernatural clairvoyant talent to find killers. Happy is drawn into these serial killings by a neighbor who is a Queen in the cosmetics and perfume business heading the WOW!Me Empire. Happy takes the case to save the Queens under threat. Travelling to Italy, Monaco, and Turkey, she stalks the killer in France.
Download or read book No Regrets Inspirational Poems for the Mind Body Soul written by Peter J. Manosh and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you could turn back time, who would you be?" Once a question posed of me, I answered back; "I would be who I am today!" "Do you have any regrets you'd like to say?" Another question that was asked of me. No Regrets! Inspirational Poems for the Mind! Body! & Soul! is a book filled with poems of nature, of beauty, of love and of life. Each poem reflects experiences in the author's life, his memories and his feelings. No Regrets! Inspirational Poems for the Mind! Body! & Soul! is written in a way that anyone can place themselves into a poem and experience emotions and memories, and to have a moment in time they can call their own.
