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Book Rites of Autumn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Whittingham
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 0743222199
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Rites of Autumn written by Richard Whittingham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of college football from its first games in 1901 through the major tournaments of the twenty-first century.

Book Rites of Autumn

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Whittingham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9785559314167
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Rites of Autumn written by Richard Whittingham and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a respected sportswriter and boasting more than 200 photos, this is a glorious portrait of the great teams, players, plays and coaches in college football.

Book The Rites of Autumn

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  • Author : Dan O'Brien
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780871132451
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Rites of Autumn written by Dan O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed true story of a falconer and falcon and of the bonds among humans, animals, and the natural world.

Book The Rites of Autumn

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  • Author : Dan O'Brien
  • Publisher : Lyons Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9781558214576
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Rites of Autumn written by Dan O'Brien and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed true story of a falconer and falcon and of the bonds among humans, animals, and the natural world. In 1986 Dan O'Brien spent the summer in the Rocky Mountains releasing young peregrine falcons on the cliffs. When one of his release sites was raided by a golden eagle, he managed to save a peregrine chick and decided to make an improbable two-thousand-mile trip with her from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, following the avian autumnal migration. His retention was to teach the bird to hunt as a wild falcon would, in the hopes of releasing her into the natural world. Along the way he was forced to confront the chasm that gulfs wildness and domesticity -- and the difficulty in finding an even tenuous balance between them. "The Rites of Autumn" is the account of this incredible journey. It is also a beautifully written portrait of the American West, and has gained a worldwide reputation as a powerful, important book of natural history.

Book Autumn Light

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  • Author : Pico Iyer
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2019-04-16
  • ISBN : 045149394X
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Autumn Light written by Pico Iyer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office and engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, he comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance, and where autumn reminds us to take nothing for granted.

Book Rites of Autumn

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  • Author : Cliff Schimmels
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 9780896933347
  • Pages : 172 pages

Download or read book Rites of Autumn written by Cliff Schimmels and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mabon

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  • Author : Diana Rajchel
  • Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
  • Release : 2015-07-08
  • ISBN : 0738745227
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Mabon written by Diana Rajchel and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thanksgiving celebration for the second harvest Mabon—also known as the Autumn Equinox—is a time to honor the spiritual significance of harvest, sacrifice, and survival. This guide shows you how to perform rituals and work magic that incorporates the shifting balance between light and dark that reaches its pinnacle during the equinox. Rituals Recipes Lore Spells Divination Crafts Correspondences Invocations Prayers Meditations Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials explore the old and new ways of celebrating the seasonal rites that are the cornerstones of the witch's year.

Book Equinox

Download or read book Equinox written by Dan O'Brien and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "1st Nebraska pbk. printing."--T.p. verso.

Book Interpreting Japanese Society

Download or read book Interpreting Japanese Society written by Joy Hendry and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986 Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in its field. In this newly updated edition, the value of anthropological in understanding this ancient and complex nation are clearly demonstrated.

Book The Rites of Men

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  • Author : Varda Burstyn
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802077257
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book The Rites of Men written by Varda Burstyn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It gathers more spectators on a global basis than any other activity today. More than just a game, sport has profound political and social consequences, promoting a super-aggressive ideal of manhood and political culture.

Book Spring

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  • Author : Ali Smith
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2019-04-30
  • ISBN : 1101870788
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Spring written by Ali Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Man Booker Prize Finalist comes the third novel in her Seasonal Quartet—a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020 What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tell the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown, Smith opens the door. The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal.

Book Virtue Ethics and Confucianism

Download or read book Virtue Ethics and Confucianism written by Stephen Angle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the fruits of an extended dialogue among American and Chinese philosophers concerning the relations between virtue ethics and the Confucian tradition. Based on recent advances in English-language scholarship on and translation of Confucian philosophy, the book demonstrates that cross-tradition stimulus, challenge, and learning are now eminently possible. Anyone interested in the role of virtue in contemporary moral philosophy, in Chinese thought, or in the future possibilities for cross-tradition philosophizing will find much to engage with in the twenty essays collected here.

Book The Constitution of Ancient China

Download or read book The Constitution of Ancient China written by Su Li and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the vast ancient Chinese empire brought together and effectively ruled? What are the historical origins of the resilience of contemporary China's political system? In The Constitution of Ancient China, Su Li, China's most influential legal theorist, examines the ways in which a series of fundamental institutions, rather than a supreme legal code upholding the laws of the land, evolved and coalesced into an effective constitution. Arguing that a constitution is an institutional response to a set of issues particular to a specific society, Su Li demonstrates how China unified a vast territory, diverse cultures, and elites from different backgrounds into a whole. He delves into such areas as uniform weights and measurements, the standardization of Chinese characters, and the building of the Great Wall. The book includes commentaries by four leading Chinese scholars in law, philosophy, and intellectual history—Wang Hui, Liu Han, Wu Fei, and Zhao Xiaoli—who share Su Li's ambition to explain the resilience of ancient China's political system but who contend that he overstates functionalist dimensions while downplaying the symbolic. Exploring why China has endured as one political entity for over two thousand years, The Constitution of Ancient China will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the institutional legacy of the Chinese empire.

Book Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage

Download or read book Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage written by Qitao Guo and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Confucian transformation of Mulian opera, and especially on the interplay between the "civilizing" effect of ritual performance and the rise of gentrified mercantile lineages in sixteenth-century Huizhou prefecture, this book develops a radically novel interpretation of both Chinese popular culture and the Confucian tradition in late imperial China.

Book Mabon

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  • Author : Kristin Madden
  • Publisher : Llewellyn Espanol
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780738700908
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Mabon written by Kristin Madden and published by Llewellyn Espanol. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pagan Thanksgiving for the harvest It's the season of changing colors; crisp air filled with the scent of wood smoke; and festivals offering wine, hot cider, and apple pie. At this time of equal day and night, we give thanks for the harvest that will sustain us through the dark winter months. This book explores the history, legends, and traditions of the season that is honored from the Far East to the Celtic Lands, and from Scandinavia to South America. Create your own Mabon tradition with the help of the book's many recipes, magical workings, equinox rituals, and crafts for all ages. ·Part of Llewellyn's successful series on each of the eight Pagan sabbats, or holidays ·The author is well-known throughout the Pagan community ·For anyone who celebrates the turning of the seasons and the ancient holy days ·Relevant to any culturally-based path

Book Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics Before and After 1989

Download or read book Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics Before and After 1989 written by Rūta Stanevičiūtė and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures in the Eastern Baltics—Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Russia—at the end of the Cold War and in the early post-Communist period. Throughout the book, the contributors explore and conceptualize transnational musical collaboration and the diffusion of information, people, and ideas focusing on musical activity which shaped the moral and artistic outlook of several generations. The volume sheds light on the transformative power of politically and socially engaged music and offers a deeper understanding of the artistic potential of societies and its impact on social and political change.

Book Killing Rites

    Book Details:
  • Author : M.L.N. Hanover
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2011-11-29
  • ISBN : 1439176361
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Killing Rites written by M.L.N. Hanover and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth book in M.L.N. Hanover’s acclaimed Black Sun’s Daughter series featuring “smooth prose and zippy action sequences” (Publishers Weekly). Jayné Heller has discovered the source of her uncanny powers: something else is living inside her body. She’s possessed. Of all her companions, she can only bring herself to confide in Ex, the former priest. They seek help from his old teacher, hoping to cleanse Jayné before the parasite in her becomes too powerful. Ex’s history and a new enemy combine to leave Jayné alone and on the run. Her friends try to hunt her down, unaware of the danger they’re putting her in. Jayné must defeat the past, and her only allies are a rogue vampire she once helped free—and the nameless thing hiding inside her skin.