Empty Hands Open Arms

Author : Deni Ellis Béchard
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571318496
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empty Hands, Open Arms written by Deni Ellis Béchard and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Absorbing . . . Béchard’s masterful, adventure-driven reporting delivers an inspiring account of an all-too-rare ecological success story.” —Booklist Bonobos have captured the public imagination, due not least to their famously active sex lives. Less well known is the fact that these great apes don’t kill their own kind, and that they share nearly 99% of our DNA. Their approach to building peaceful coalitions and sharing resources has much to teach us, particularly at a time when our violent ways have pushed them to the brink of extinction. Animated by a desire to understand bonobos and learn how to save them, Deni Ellis Béchard traveled into the Congo. Empty Hands, Open Arms is the account of this journey. Along the way, we see how partnerships between Congolese and Westerners, with few resources but a common purpose and respect for indigenous knowledge, have resulted in the protection of vast swaths of the rainforest. And we discover how small solutions—found through openness, humility, and the principle that poverty does not equal ignorance—are often most effective in tackling our biggest challenges. Combining elements of travelogue, journalism, and natural history, this incomparably rich book takes the reader not only deep into the Congo, but also into our past and future, revealing new ways to save the environment and ourselves. “Riveting [and] surprisingly uplifting.” —David Suzuki, author of The Sacred Balance “The embodiment of the type of reporting that we dream of reading, but all too rarely encounter—intelligent, engaged, and above all, astonishingly perceptive.” —Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Also published as Of Bonobos and Men.

Author : David Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912507030
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Open Arms and Empty Hands written by David Barton and published by . This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Tonna
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592449727
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gospel for the Cities written by Benjamin Tonna and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, the city has been the locus for the development of civilization. The scholars, the poets, the persons of commerce and politics came to the city for inspiration and acceptance. The city has been both an intriguing place and a place of intrigue. For weal or woe, the city fashions our culture while altering cultures. The person who wishes to analyze with competence the sociological and theological dimensions of the city would do well to study thoroughly 'Gospel for the Cities'. It is a study for us who live and work in the urban centers of North America as well as for the missionary today who must bring deep insight - biblical, historical, and sociological - to the awesome task of working in the cities of the twenty-first century across the world. We have waited long for this book. Msgr. John J. Egan, University of Notre Dame Many books have been written...about cities and urbanization. But in an era of severe compartmentalization in knowledge, they have come from specialists in one discipline. Thus, we have the sociology of the city, the city in history, or the challenge of the city to the church. Now [this unique volume] provides a genuine and compelling interface between competent social analysis and historical description with first-rate mission theology and a solid biblical perspective. This difficult task has been accomplished with depth and comprehensiveness by Benjamin Tonna in a book of particular relevance to the Third World, but useful to all of us committed to concern for the cities in God's world. George W. Webber, President, New York Theological Seminary

Author : Paula Hernando
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781486611560
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empty Hands to Open Arms written by Paula Hernando and published by . This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hopelessness and loss are the common companions of infertility. All infertile couples long for resolution, for one more glimpse of hope... but that hope fades with each attempt to conceive a child. "Empty Hands to Open Arms" is one such journey. Page after page, Paula Hernando describes the loss of a child she would never get to meet, conceived only in her and her husband's imagination. She illuminates her lifelong struggle of trying to bend the hand of God in order to conceive or grant her a child through adoption. Paula's story offers hope where there seems to be only waiting, pain, and frustration. This is a testimony of the relentless faithfulness of God to heal the broken-hearted in surrender to His ultimate plan. Paula's challenge was to learn that her resolution had been there all along. About the Author Paula Hernando received her diploma with highest honours as a freelance writer with International Correspondence Schools in 2001. She is a freelance writer who loves true stories of people experiencing the goodness of God. She has had two articles published in "Living Light News Stepping": "Stones to Hope" (2012) and "From Rock Bottom to Rock Solid" (2012). Paula was thrilled to be shortlisted for Word Alive Press's 2015 Free Publishing Contest in the non-fiction category for this, her first book. When not writing, her main love is the children she has connected with for over twenty-five years as an early childhood educator.

Author : Lars Petter Sveen
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978711
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of God written by Lars Petter Sveen and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daring and original stories set in New Testament times, from a rising young Norwegian author Lars Petter Sveen’s Children of God recounts the lives of people on the margins of the New Testament; thieves, Roman soldiers, prostitutes, lepers, healers, and the occasional disciple all get a chance to speak. With language free of judgment or moralizing, Sveen covers familiar ground in unusual ways. In the opening story, a group of soldiers are tasked with carrying out King Herod’s edict to slaughter the young male children in Bethlehem but waver in their resolve. These interwoven stories harbor surprises at every turn, as the characters reappear. A group of thieves on the road to Jericho encounters no good Samaritan but themselves. A boy healed of his stutter will later regress. A woman searching for her lover from beyond the grave cannot find solace. At crucial moments an old blind man appears, urging the characters to give in to their darker impulses. Children of God was a bestseller in Norway, where it won the Per Olov Enquist Literary Prize and gathered ecstatic reviews. Sveen’s subtle elevation of the conflict between light and dark focuses on the varied struggles these often-ignored individuals face. Yet despite the dark tone, Sveen’s stories retain a buoyancy, thanks to Guy Puzey’s supple and fleet-footed translation. This deeply original and moving book, in Sveen’s restrained and gritty telling, brings to light stories that reflect our own time, from a setting everyone knows.

Author : Dr Ley G. Ikpo & Miss Jackline Seka Sahlberg
Publisher : Kindle Direct Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The assassination of Patrice Lumumba written by Dr Ley G. Ikpo & Miss Jackline Seka Sahlberg and published by Kindle Direct Publisher . This book was released on with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congo, a former Belgian colony, at the beginning of the independence of the territory, a brave and dedicated leader, Patrice Emery Lumumba, won the election and was appointed Prime Minister. As the first Prime Minister of a democratic Congo, the newly elected representative of the country filled with devotion had in mind to providing Congolese with a better future. He therefore fought on behalf of Congolese. His methods were disliked by the former colonizers for whom he became a danger to their interests in Congo after his speech on independence day, on June 30, 1960. Since then, various plots were arranged against him to be killed. Those conspiracies never succeeded against him since they were unfortunately aborted for the most. The country fell into a state of incredible disrepair due to recurrent oppositions since September 14 of that year. Soon, Mobutu's forces backed by the CIA arrested Lumumba, on December 1, 1960 and he was guarded by the UN troops. Later, Lumumba was sent to Elizabethville, in the Katanga, the territory of his rival Moïse Tshombe. At his arrival, he was beaten by both Katanga's and Belgians' forces to death. On January 17, 1960, Patrice Emery Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo was assassinated in cold blood by various perpetrators. After 61 years in Belgium the remaining teeth were sent back the the DRC for burial on June 30, 2022.

Author : Holly Thompson
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1611725186
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tomo written by Holly Thompson and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This aptly named fiction anthology—tomo means “friend” in Japanese—is a true labor of friendship to benefit teens in Japan whose lives were upended by the violent earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. Authors from Japan and around the world have contributed works of fiction set in or related to Japan. Young adult English-language readers will be able to connect with their Japanese counterparts through stories of contemporary Japanese teens, ninja and yokai teens, folklore teens, mixed-heritage teens, and non-Japanese teens who call Japan home. Tales of friendship, mystery, love, ghosts, magic, science fiction, and history will propel readers to Japan past and present and to Japanese universes abroad. Edited and with a foreword by Holly Thompson, Tomo contributing authors include Naoko Awa, Deni Bechard, Jennifer Fumiko Cahill, Liza Dalby, Megumi Fujino, Andrew Fukuda, Alan Gratz, Katrina Toshiko Grigg-Saito, Suzanne Kamata, Sachiko Kashiwaba, Kelly Luce, Shogo Oketani and Leza Lowitz, Ryusuke Saito, Graham Salisbury, Fumio Takano, and Wendy Tokunaga, among others. Through understanding comes compassion and the desire to help; portions of the proceeds of Tomo will be donated to ongoing relief efforts for teens in Japan. Holly Thompson is a longtime writing teacher and resident of Japan and author of the young adult verse novel Orchards, which was nominated for a 2012 YALSA/ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults award. She serves as the regional advisor for the Tokyo chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

Author : Francisco Sanchez, Jr.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365884414
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeking a Dwelling Beloved written by Francisco Sanchez, Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking a Dwelling Beloved is about seeking the truth or is about entering in understanding or entering in true knowledge. Seeking a Dwelling Beloved is about rebirth in life or entering in truth again with all gladness and with all joy and with all abundance in the loving grace of the Father Creator.

Author : Tim Leach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800242972
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hollow Throne written by Tim Leach and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unmissable conclusion to Tim Leach's critically acclaimed historical adventure series set in the Roman Empire. AD 180. Vindolanda, Britannia. Sarmatian warrior Kai and his adopted tribe, the Votadini, struggle for survival in unfamiliar lands north of the Wall, living just beyond the reach of Rome. When an old enemy takes control of the Votadini's hated foes, a confederation of tribes known as the Painted People, and rouses them to action, Kai heads south, hoping to ally with the Romans against this resurgent threat. But the Romans have heard tales of butchery and mayhem beyond the Wall. Lucius, Legate of the North, believes Kai and his allies are responsible, and sends forth an expedition to capture his old comrade. Can Kai survive the onslaught – or will such determined enemies spell the end for the warrior and his tribe? Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Adrian Goldsworthy. Reviews for Tim Leach 'Roman military adventure at its best.' Simon Turney 'The characters feel rounded and real.' The Times 'Magnificent.' Historia 'A poetic, absorbing narrative.' Sunday Times

Author : Bob Anderson
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1628152168
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grandfather Speaks written by Bob Anderson and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: