Roots in the Sky
Author | : Akinwumi Adesokan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Akinwumi Adesokan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christie Purifoy |
Publisher | : Revell |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-02-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1493401793 |
When Christie Purifoy arrived at Maplehurst that September, she was heavily pregnant with both her fourth child and her dreams of creating a sanctuary that would be a fixed point in her busily spinning world. The sprawling Victorian farmhouse sitting atop a Pennsylvania hill held within its walls the possibility of a place where her family could grow, where friends could gather, and where Christie could finally grasp and hold the thing we all long for--home. In lyrical, contemplative prose, Christie slowly unveils the small trials and triumphs of that first year at Maplehurst--from summer's intense heat and autumn's glorious canopy through winter's still whispers and spring's gentle mercies. Through stories of planting and preserving, of opening the gates wide to neighbors, and of learning to speak the language of a place, Christie invites readers into the joy of small beginnings and the knowledge that the kingdom of God is with us here and now. Anyone who has felt the longing for home, who yearns to reconnect with the beauty of nature, and who values the special blessing of deep relationships with family and friends will love finding themselves in this story of earthly beauty and soaring hope.
Author | : Henry Davenport Northrop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 888 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Davenport Northrop |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 886 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Astronomy |
ISBN | : |
Includes chapters on the narwhal, arctic voyages of discovery and the aurora.
Author | : Hermann Joseph Klein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 970 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bruce Wilshire |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780271041322 |
Continuing his quest to bring American philosophy back to its roots, Bruce Wilshire connects the work of such thinkers as Thoreau, Emerson, Dewey, and James with Native American beliefs and practices. His search is not for exact parallels, but rather for fundamental affinities between the equally &"organismic&" thought systems of indigenous peoples and classic American philosophers. Wilshire gives particular emphasis to the affinities between Black Elk&’s view of the hoop of the world and Emerson&’s notion of horizon, and also between a shaman&’s healing practices and James&’s ideas of pure experience, willingness to believe, and a pluralistic universe. As these connections come into focus, the book shows how European phenomenology was inspired and influenced by the classic American philosophers, whose own work reveals the inspiration and influence of indigenous thought. Wilshire&’s book also reveals how artificial are the walls that separate the sciences and the humanities in academia, and that separate Continental from Anglo-American thought within the single discipline of philosophy.
Author | : Robert Kelley Schneiders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
To frame his story, Schneiders goes back to the nineteenth-century journals of fur traders and settlers and in the record of flora, fauna, floods, and human activity he finds evidence of rapid and disruptive change. Bison once had the greatest influence on the land, and Schneiders depicts an original bison and Indian trail networks on which were overlaid the first torts and towns and then the railroads, highways, and reservoirs that reconfigured the region forever.
Author | : Charles Henry Crandall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Asko Parpola |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2015-07-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0190226935 |
Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten pictographic script. Discovered in the valley of the Indus River in the early 1920s, the Indus civilization had a population estimated at one million people, in more than 1000 settlements, several of which were cities of some 50,000 inhabitants. With an area of nearly a million square kilometers, the Indus civilization was more extensive than the contemporaneous urban cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Yet, after almost a century of excavation and research the Indus civilization remains little understood. How might we decipher the Indus inscriptions? What language did the Indus people speak? What deities did they worship? Asko Parpola has spent fifty years researching the roots of Hinduism to answer these fundamental questions, which have been debated with increasing animosity since the rise of Hindu nationalist politics in the 1980s. In this pioneering book, he traces the archaeological route of the Indo-Iranian languages from the Aryan homeland north of the Black Sea to Central, West, and South Asia. His new ideas on the formation of the Vedic literature and rites and the great Hindu epics hinge on the profound impact that the invention of the horse-drawn chariot had on Indo-Aryan religion. Parpola's comprehensive assessment of the Indus language and religion is based on all available textual, linguistic and archaeological evidence, including West Asian sources and the Indus script. The results affirm cultural and religious continuity to the present day and, among many other things, shed new light on the prehistory of the key Hindu goddess Durga and her Tantric cult.
Author | : Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2012-12-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1453271929 |
In the “Newbery Honor–winning author’s compelling fantasy” for young adults, a boy is chosen to rule his idyllic land—only to discover its dark secrets (Publishers Weekly). Green-sky is an ideal place. Violence doesn’t exist. Its citizens, the Kindar, glide from tree to tree and exchange happy thoughts. This is all thanks to their rulers, the Ol-zhaan. And on his thirteenth birthday, Raamo D’ok is chosen to become one of the Ol-zhaan. Raamo is surprised to be named a Chosen. He isn’t a very good student—but the Ol-zhaan believe he has strong Spirit-force. But during his training, Raamo discovers that these good rulers aren’t as benevolent as they appear. They harbor secrets about his people, his family, and what lies below the forest floor. Now Raamo must decide: Should he keep the peace, or reveal the secrets that the Ol-zhaan have protected for so long? This ebook features an extended biography of Zilpha Keatley Snyder.