Shadows In The Sunshine

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Shearwater
ISBN 13 : 9781597263924
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows in the Sun written by Wade Davis and published by Shearwater. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wade Davis has been called "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life's diversity." In Shadows in the Sun, he brings all of those gifts to bear on a fascinating examination of indigenous cultures and the interactions between human societies and the natural world. Ranging from the British Columbian wilderness to the jungles of the Amazon and the polar ice of the Arctic Circle, Shadows in the Sun is a testament to a world where spirits still stalk the land and seize the human heart. Its essays and stories, though distilled from travels in widely separated parts of the world, are fundamentally about landscape and character, the wisdom of lives drawn directly from the land, the hunger of those who seek to rediscover such understanding, and the consequences of failure. As Davis explains, "To know that other, vastly different cultures exist is to remember that our world does not exist in some absolute sense but rather is just one model of reality. The Penan in the forests of Borneo, the Vodoun acolytes in Haiti, the jaguar Shaman of Venezuela, teach us that there are other options, other possibilities, other ways of thinking and interacting with the earth." Shadows in the Sun considers those possibilities, and explores their implications for our world.

Author : Gayathri Ramprasad
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184006535
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows in the Sun written by Gayathri Ramprasad and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young girl in Bangalore, Gayathri was surrounded by the fragrance of jasmine and flickering oil lamps, her family protected by gods and goddesses. But as she grew older, demons came forth from dark corners of her idyllic kingdom—with the scariest creatures lurking within her tortured mind. Shadows in the Sun traces Gayathri’s courageous battle with debilitating depression that consumed her from adolescence through marriage and a move to the United States. Her inspiring memoir provides a first-of-its-kind cross-cultural view of mental illness—how it is regarded in India and in America, and how she drew on both her rich Hindu heritage and Western medicine to find healing.

Author : Earlene Fowler
Publisher : Berkley Hardcover
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunshine and Shadow written by Earlene Fowler and published by Berkley Hardcover. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benni stitches together an event from her past and a crime in the present.

Author : Martha Mier
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457416460
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections, Book 1 written by Martha Mier and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many musical moods are reflected in this captivating collection of seven elementary piano solos written in the Romantic style. Lyrical melodies arching above rich harmonies encourage the shaping of expressive musical phrases. Carefully chosen dynamic markings help less experienced students develop finesse within the phrases. Grown-up titles and introspective melodies make this collection suitable for teenage and adult beginners too.

Author : Chad Oliver
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 057512640X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows in the Sun written by Chad Oliver and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Paul Ellery discovers that the small Texas town of Jefferson Springs is actually an imitation of small-town America created by the aliens who now offer him a chance to explore the universe.

Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780765362292
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow on the Sun written by Richard Matheson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Army and the Apache experience an uneasy peace, the discovery of the body of a man who had been brutally murdered and mutilated threatens to ignite all-out war, and it is up to Indian Agent Billjohn Finley to prevent it.

Author : EM Castellan
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250226031
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Sun written by EM Castellan and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EM Castellan's In the Shadow of the Sun is a sumptuous YA romantasy set in 17th century Versailles. It’s 1661 in Paris, and magicians thrill nobles with enchanting illusions. Exiled in France, 17-year-old Henriette of England wishes she could use her magic to gain entry at court. Instead, her plan is to hide her magical talents, and accept an arranged marriage to the French king’s younger brother. Henriette soon realizes her fiancé prefers the company of young men to hers, and court magicians turn up killed by a mysterious sorcerer who uses forbidden magic. When an accident forces Henriette to reveal her uniquely powerful gift for enchantments to Louis, he asks for her help: she alone can defeat the dark magician threatening his authority and aid his own plans to build the new, enchanted seat of his power--the Palace of Versailles.

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307367096
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shadow of the Sun written by Ryszard Kapuscinski and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving portrait of Africa from Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent - a masterpiece from a modern master. Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. The Shadow of the Sun sums up the author's experiences ("the record of a 40-year marriage") in this place that became the central obsession of his remarkable career. From the hopeful years of independence through the bloody disintegration of places like Nigeria, Rwanda and Angola, Kapuscinski recounts great social and political changes through the prism of the ordinary African. He examines the rough-and-ready physical world and identifies the true geography of Africa: a little-understood spiritual universe, an African way of being. He looks also at Africa in the wake of two epoch-making changes: the arrival of AIDS and the definitive departure of the white man. Kapuscinski's rare humanity invests his subjects with a grandeur and a dignity unmatched by any other writer on the Third World, and his unique ability to discern the universal in the particular has never been more powerfully displayed than in this work.

Author : Katie Flynn
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0434016233
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sunshine and Shadows written by Katie Flynn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy Kildare is poor but her Aunt finds her a position as a companion to her employers’ niece, Cynthia. There she meets Jake, the chauffeur's son, and life becomes easier to bear. When Jake goes to university, Daisy means to follow, but war intervenes and she starts work at a factory, and falls in love for the very first time...

Author : Michael Jan Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743454219
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows on the Sun written by Michael Jan Friedman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young doctor with a beautiful family and a promising medical career, Dr. Leonard McCoy thought he had it all. But when the woman he loved betrayed him, McCoy fled to Starfleet, hoping to lose his pain in the depths of space. Now, more than forty years later, the EnterpriseTM and her crew are ordered to transport a group of mediators to the planet Ssan, a world where assassination is a time-honored tradition, and McCoy is surprised to learn that his ex-wife, now remarried, is one of the mediators. And before he can come to terms with his conflicted feelings for his former love, she and Captain Kirk are trapped on Susan, and McCoy is caught in an explosive civil war, the only one with the power to save the woman who once nearly destroyed him.