Wrecks of Human Ambition
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Canyons |
ISBN | : 9781607813347 |
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Canyons |
ISBN | : 9781607813347 |
Author | : W. Vance Grace |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-05-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725264625 |
The North American church is struggling. Our society seems to be coming apart at the seams and Christianity appears on the verge of losing its voice, its leadership, and its youth. The church's calling is to cooperate with her Creator in the repair of the world. Instead, we struggle in the loss of the simplicity of the natural images of Jesus which compel us to engage tension, dependency, and the lesson of being on the margins. Until we learn to take our cues from a world we did not build, our actions will continue to prop up a society struggling from the weight of its own ethos. Part history, part cultural dialogue, part travelogue--always in conversation with the ancient and compelling biblical vision of shalom--Landscape of the Soul will encourage you to see beyond the shells of your constructed world to those places where dynamic spiritual rhythms can still be found.
Author | : Paul Giles |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812200691 |
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Paul Giles traces the paradoxical relations between English and American literature from 1730 through 1860, suggesting how the formation of a literary tradition in each national culture was deeply dependent upon negotiation with its transatlantic counterpart. Using the American Revolution as the fulcrum of his argument, Giles describes how the impulse to go beyond conventions of British culture was crucial in the establishment of a distinct identity for American literature. Similarly, he explains the consolidation of British cultural identity partly as a response to the need to suppress the memory and consequences of defeat in the American revolutionary wars. Giles ranges over neglected American writers such as Mather Byles and the Connecticut Wits as well as better-known figures like Franklin, Jefferson, Irving, and Hawthorne. He reads their texts alongside those of British authors such as Pope, Richardson, Equiano, Austen, and Trollope. Taking issue with more established utopian narratives of American literature, Transatlantic Insurrections analyzes how elements of blasphemous, burlesque humor entered into the making of the subject.
Author | : Noel Thomas Carrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1834 |
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Author | : John Alexander Joyce |
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Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Shakespeare in fiction, drama, poetry, etc |
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Author | : Nicholas Toms Carrington |
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Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1834 |
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Author | : Randolph Wellford Smith |
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Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Alcoholism |
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Author | : Robert S. McPherson |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2016-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806156791 |
In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer’s work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American surveying expeditions of the nineteenth century. By skillfully weaving the surveyors’ diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, historians Robert S. McPherson and Susan Rhoades Neel bring the Hayden Survey to life. Mapping the Four Corners provides an entertaining, engaging narrative of the team’s experiences, contextualized with a thoughtful introduction and conclusion. Accompanied by the great photographer William Henry Jackson, Hayden’s team quickly found their trip to be more challenging than expected. The travelers describe wrangling half-wild pack mules, trying to sleep in rain-soaked blankets, and making tea from muddy, alkaline water. Along the way, they encountered diverse peoples, evidence of prehistoric civilizations, and spectacular scenery—Hispanic villages in Colorado and New Mexico; Mesa Verde, Hovenweep, and other Anasazi sites; and the Hopi mesas. Not everyone they met was glad to see them: in southeastern Utah surveyors fought and escaped a band of Utes and Paiutes who recognized that the survey meant dispossession from their homeland. Hayden saw his expedition as a scientific endeavor focused on geology, geographic description, cartographic accuracy, and even ethnography, but the search for economic potential was a significant underlying motive. As this book shows, these pragmatic scientists were on the lookout for gold beneath every rock, grazing lands in every valley, and economic opportunity around each bend in the trail. The Hayden Survey ultimately shaped the American imagination in contradictory ways, solidifying the idea of “progress”—and government funding of its pursuit—while also revealing, via Jackson’s photographs, a landscape with a beauty hitherto unknown and unimagined.
Author | : John A. Joyce |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2019-12-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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This interesting book is a biography of William Shakespeare and of the author's life, as he reflects on the Bard's importance in his life—and parallels their experiences in different stages in life. The fascinating part that is included in this book is several handwritten notes of Shakespeare's that the author managed to collect.
Author | : Nicholas Toms Carrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1826 |
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