The Vessels

Author : Anna M. Elias
Publisher : The Vessels
ISBN 13 : 9781944109080
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vessels written by Anna M. Elias and published by The Vessels. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOT EVERY SPIRIT SEEKS REDEMPTION. NOT EVERY VESSEL WILL SURVIVE. What if you could help those who've passed on get a second chance--but at the risk of your own life? Four broken strangers volunteer to become the first humans in North America to join the international VESSELS program. Their bodies will host the Spirits who seek to right past wrongs and earn a chance at Elysium. Disguised inside a homeless shelter in Reno, the program is facilitated by a retired Army officer, a former ER Doctor, and a tech-savvy teen who tracks the Spirits merged with their Vessels through an ancient ritual on the Anaho Reservation. The Vessels only have seven days to succeed--and to survive. But when the vengeful spirit of a serial killer enters one of them, they learn not all Spirits are here for redemption.

Author : Daniel Raeburn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285391
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vessels: A Love Story written by Daniel Raeburn and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable portrait of a marriage tested to its limits. When Dan, a writer with a passion for underground comics, and his wife Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, met through a mutual friend, they swiftly fell in love. “Of all the women I’ve ever met,” Dan told a friend, “she’s the first one who felt like family.” But at Christmas, as they prepared for the birth of their first child, tragedy struck. Based on Daniel Raeburn’s acclaimed New Yorker essay, Vessels: A Love Story is the story of how he and Bekah clashed and clung to each other through a series of unsuccessful pregnancies before finally, joyfully, becoming parents. In prose as handsomely unadorned as his wife’s pottery, Raeburn recounts a marriage cemented by the same events that nearly broke it. Vessels is an unflinching, enormously moving account of intimacy, endurance, and love.

Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1286 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States... written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nell L. Kennedy
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780310471004
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worthy Vessels written by Nell L. Kennedy and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 076420856X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith written by and published by Bethany House. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry McCann
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 0857011391
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pricking the Vessels written by Henry McCann and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first text on bloodletting therapy for Western practitioners of Chinese medicine, this authoritative text explores the theory and function of bloodletting, and provides detailed instruction on its clinical use. Bloodletting therapy, which works to remove internal and external disruptions to the system through the withdrawal of small quantities of blood, has numerous benefits, especially concerning the treatment of complex or chronic disease. Yet the technique is often met with alarm in the West and side-lined in favour of less controversial treatments such as fine-needle acupuncture, and moxibustion. This book provides a concise overview of its theory, historical and contemporary relevance, and clinical guidance. With detailed reference to the classic texts, the author clarifies the fundamental Chinese medical theory related to blood and the network vessels, and provides an in-depth discussion of the benefits of and practice guidelines for bloodletting. The book includes a chapter on the classical acupuncture techniques of Tung Ching Chang whose work is attracting increasing attention in the West. Through the exploration of classic texts and contemporary standards, the book provides everything needed to gain a comprehensive understanding of the technique and to encourage its use as a viable treatment option in the West. It will be an invaluable addition to the resources available for acupuncturists, as well as students and practitioners of Chinese medicine more generally, including those interested in all Chinese approaches to health.

Author : Martin J. Dougherty
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448892481
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naval Vessels written by Martin J. Dougherty and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles submarines, patrol craft, frigates, and aircraft carriers.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert L. O'Connell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195080068
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Vessels written by Robert L. O'Connell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a broad, historical perspective, the dreadnought represents an archetype, and its history a kind of moral tale. Its awesome size, its formidable presence, and its immense power have gained it tremendous respect, loyalty, and, as Robert O'Connell shows in this myth-shattering book, unwarranted longevity as well. With provocative insight and wit he offers us an irreverent history of the modern battleship and its place in American history, from the sinking of the coal-fueled Maine in 1898 to the deployment of the cruise missile-armed Missouri in the Persian Gulf War of 1991. The modern navies were the first of the armed services faced with fundamental and abrupt technological change. The wooden sailing ships that had fought sea battles for nearly two centuries were, in only a few years, rendered obsolete by a veritable tidal wave of innovation. With the deployment of the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought in 1903, the new technology reached its full fruition: the gigantic sleek, steel-clad, many-gunned vessel that would rule the seas (or at least the minds of Naval commanders) for years to come. O'Connell shows how other nations raced to emulate this new prototype (much in the fashion of the nuclear arms race of later decades), usually at the expense of much more effective forms of naval force. He also demonstrates compellingly the dashed expectations for the battleship occasioned by the outbreak of war in 1914. While many anticipated a massive twentieth-century Trafalgar, in actuality dreadnoughts everywhere avoided battle, and when they did fight, the results were most often inconclusive or even irrelevant. With the Battle of Jutland in 1916--the only real naval showdown of the war--the ineffectiveness of the battleship as the pre-eminent weapon of war was made abundantly clear: the German navy scored on only 120 hits out of 3,597 heavy shells fired while the British had an even more dismal showing--100 out of 4,598, or a hit ratio of 2.17%. Yet, in spite of this display of impotence, the world's great naval yards continued to turn out the huge vessels. O'Connell observes that even after the heart of the American fleet was sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, the almost superstitious faith in the battleship insured its survival. While they have never played a decisive role in the outcome of any modern war, they have continued to be resurrected and refurbished--even equipped with cruise missles--right up to the present day. Sacred Vessels is more than the unmasking of a false idol of naval history. It is a cautionary tale about the often unacknowledged influence of human faith, culture, and tradition on the exceedingly important, costly, and suppossedly rational process of national defense. Not only is it a gripping tale well-told, it is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the dynamics involved in the arming of nations.

Author : Claudia Brittenham
Publisher : Visual Conversations in Art an
ISBN 13 : 0198832575
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vessels written by Claudia Brittenham and published by Visual Conversations in Art an. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vessels can take many forms: as objects made for human interaction and handling, they both contain and are bounded by space. They can be constructed of a wide variety of materials. But the range of vessels - across history and across cultures - are unified in their potential for practicalfunctioning, whether or not a particular object is in fact made to be used in its particular context.In this volume, four essays by leading scholars tackle the category of the vessel in a comparative conversation between classical Greece, late antique Rome, pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and ancient China. By considering the material properties of the object as container, the interactions between userand artefact, and the power of the vessel as both conceptual category and material metaphor, they argue that many vessels - and assemblages of vessels - were sites of remarkable workmanship and considerable ingenuity, smart and sophisticated commentaries on the very categories that they embody.In placing these individual case studies in dialogue, the volume offers an art historical and cross-cultural study of vessels in ancient societies, considering both objects and their archaeological contexts. Its aim is to make illuminating comparisons, contrasts, and interpretations by juxtaposingtraditions. In keeping with the aims of the series, it serves as a model for a new kind of comparative art history, one which emphasizes material culture and is attentive to questions of evidence and method, yet remains historically grounded and contextually sensitive.