The Empty Sky

Author : Russell Kelly
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452528233
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only the Empty Sky written by Russell Kelly and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1918: Lord Howe Island, off Australias eastern coast. An American, Paul De Martinet, arrives to paint the sub tropical outposts vanishing birds. Home to an insular community, jealousy and suspicion lurk not far below the surface of what appears to be an otherwise carefree community. On expeditions into the islands mysterious and beautiful kentia palm forest he is accompanied by Margaret Sleap, a gifted local gardener. Re-animating vanished birds in paint, they find each specimen resonates with its own deeper story of loss and belonging. Together they map out the aching territory of love until one day, as tensions surface, they are the victims of a savage attack that sets in motion their own choices of survival.

Author : Toby Cox
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525543091
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Contested Zone written by Toby Cox and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You must accept that there will be loss. To deny this is to deny the nature of our struggle. And with the loss, the darkness will come for you at times. —Col. Akio Sato (726 AF). On a planet lost in the great Void, Lt. Thomas Walker wakes up after a horrific dream—alone, low on supplies, and at the beginning of a dangerous mission. One thousand years ago, the denizens of Earth colonized Thomas’s planet, but communications were cut off after a mysterious and catastrophic event destroyed their technology. Those who remain—like Thomas himself—are the survivors, battling to rebuild and define their existence despite a critical lack of resources, an absence of “home,” and the constant threat of the Others—a species of hostile aliens known for their unthinking violence. When a crude radio receiver picks up an indecipherable message, Thomas, a military scout, is told to investigate. Off he ventures into enemy territory, facing not only the Others, but his own cast of demons that visit him in his sleep, whispering of a tragedy that both torments him and drives him forward into the unknown.

Author : John B. Buescher
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1559392207
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes from an Empty Sky written by John B. Buescher and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The important Buddhist doctrine of the two truths—conventional truths and ultimate truths—is the subject of this book. It examines how the doctrine evolved within early Buddhism from efforts to make sense of contradictions within the collected sayings of the Buddha. The two truths, however, came to refer not primarily to statements or language, but to the realities to which statements or language referred. As such, the doctrine of the two truths became one through which Buddhist philosophers focused their efforts to elaborate an abhidharma, a higher teaching which allowed them to explain how the mind apprehends and misapprehends the world, how it attaches itself to objects that do not exist in and of themselves, thereby creating suffering. In effect, the doctrine then evolved into a distinction between different sorts of objects rather than a distinction between different sorts of statements. The doctrine of the truths understood in this way played a key role in the articulation of the Mahayana by its followers in distinguishing it from what they called Hinayana, especially in defining the central ideas of selflessness and emptiness. Unlike prior books on this topic which concentrate on the doctrine within the context of the Mahayana, Buescher's examines it within the context of the Hinayana. Tibetan Buddhist syntheses of Buddhist doctrine provide a fascinating perspective from which to compare the positions of the major Indian schools. Such works, however, often lack the historical perspective from which to discern the development of these positions.

Author : Sy Safransky
Publisher : Mho & Mho Works
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky written by Sy Safransky and published by Mho & Mho Works. This book was released on 1985 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Youssef
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493417622
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Counting Stars in an Empty Sky written by Michael Youssef and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When God promised Abraham that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky, Abraham was childless. Yet through many obstacles, temptations, and even failures, Abraham became an example of faith as he learned to trust God's promises regardless of circumstances. In this faith-filled book, Michael Youssef takes you through Abraham's incredible journey of faith, encouraging you to trust God's timing and plan when the road gets difficult. He also shares his own experiences of trusting God in a foreign land and includes reflection questions for you and your small group to pinpoint the ways in which you're trusting--or need to trust--God to keep his promises, even when the way forward seems impossible--even when you can't see the stars.

Author : Henry Herbert Goddard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kallikak Family written by Henry Herbert Goddard and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristi Brown Combs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Empty Sky written by Kristi Brown Combs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorothy Trench Bonett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891640988
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broad Sea and Empty Sky written by Dorothy Trench Bonett and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Most extensive presentation available in English of China's first great modern poet, who remains hugely popular today* The monument and memorial garden dedicated to this poet at Cambridge University are visited by millions of Chinese annually* Presents the largest selection of Xu's poems available in English, as well as some of his prose worksXu Zhimo (1897-1931) was China's first great modern poet and a major figure of the intellectual revolution that shaped modern China. Educated in China (Peking University), America (Columbia and Clark), and England (Cambridge, where there is a monument in his honor), he was in contact with every major Chinese literary figure of his day, and met and was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore, Thomas Hardy, Katherine Mansfield, and Bertrand Russell, among others. Xu incorporated elements of the English poetic tradition and that of East India with native Chinese traditions to create a body of work that spoke to his contemporaries at a critical time in their history, and still speaks today. This book presents the largest selection of Xu's poems available in English, as well as some of his prose works. Essays by translator Dorothy Bonett put the poet into context for English-speaking readers and reveals links between his works and other modern poetry, both Chinese and non-Chinese.Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Earliest Poem; Vignettes (Brush Sketches); The Ancient Tribe of Hua; Love; A Night in Florence; Grief; Clouds in Your Western Sky; Broad Sea and Empty Sky; Singers and Heroes; Talks and Prose Writing; Xu as Translator; Chronology; Annotated Bibliography.

Author : Ed Roberson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819571014
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To See the Earth Before the End of the World written by Ed Roberson and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Voelcker Award (PEN America) (2016) In To See the Earth Before the End of the World Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, each speaking in his unique voice and seen through his unique eye. Earth and sky, neighborhood life and ancient myths, the art of seeing and the architecture of the imagination are all among the subjects of these poems. Recurring images and ideas construct a complex picture of our world, ourselves, and the manifold connections tying them together. The poems raise large questions about the natural world and our place in it, and they do not flinch from facing up to those questions. Roberson’s poems range widely through different scales of time and space, invoking along the way history and myth, galaxies and garbage trucks, teapots and the history of photography, mating cranes and Chicago's political machine. This collection is composed of five sequences, each developing a particular constellation of images and ideas related to the vision of the whole. Various journeys become one journey—an epic journey, invoking epic themes. There are songs of creation, pictures of the sorrows of war, celebrations of human labor and human society, a respect for tools and domestic utensils that are well made, the deep background of the past tingeing the colors of the present, and the tragic tones of endings and laments, a pervading awareness of the tears in things. Most of all, there is the exhilaration of a grand, sweeping vision that enlarges our world.

Author : Eve Yohalen
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452133484
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escape Under the Forever Sky written by Eve Yohalen and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loosely based on real-life events, this suspenseful story, by a debut novelist, is also funny and touching and will have readers riveted from start to finish. Lucy's mother is the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, so Lucy's life must be one big adventure, right? Wrong. Lucy's worrywart mother keeps her locked up inside the ambassador's residence. All Lucy can do is read about the exotic and exciting world that lies beyond the compound walls and imagine what it would be like to be a part of it. That is, until one day Lucy decides she has had enough and she and a friend sneak off for some fun. But to their horror, Lucy gets kidnapped! With only herself to rely upon, Lucy must use her knowledge of African animals, inventiveness, will, and courage to escape, and in the process embarks on an adventure beyond her wildest imagination. Includes bonus material! - Book Club Discussion Guide