Touching This Leviathan

Author : Peter Wayne Moe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870713101
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching this Leviathan written by Peter Wayne Moe and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Touching This Leviathan asks how we might come to know the unknowable-in this case, whales, animals so large yet so elusive, revealing just a sliver of back, a glimpse of a fluke, or a split-second breach before diving away. It's a pressing question, given how frequently whales are in the news: Japan just withdrew from the International Whaling Commission; the Makah Tribe seeks to resume hunts; in 2019 more than 200 gray whales washed up along the West Coast; in 2018, an orca attracted international attention when she pushed her dead calf through the water 17 days before letting go; and, amid all this, every few years we discover new species of whales. Beyond the parade of headlines, writing about whales-history, science, and literary work-often sits within disciplinary silos. Touching This Leviathan starts a conversation among them. Drawing on biology, theology, local history, literary criticism, environmental studies, and composition theory, author Peter Wayne Moe offers a deep dive into the alluring and impalpable mysteries of Earth's largest mammal. Entertaining, thought-provoking, and swimming with intelligence and wit, Touching This Leviathan is creative nonfiction that gestures toward science and literary criticism as it invites readers into the belly of the whale"--

Author : Peter Wayne Moe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870713071
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching This Leviathan written by Peter Wayne Moe and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touching This Leviathan asks how we might come to know the unknowable--in this case, whales. The book is necessarily interdisciplinary, drawing on biology, theology, local history, literary studies, environmental studies, and writing studies as it invites readers into the belly of the whale.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048612214X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leviathan written by Thomas Hobbes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219321
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Leviathan (New Directions Pearls) written by Joseph Roth and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Roth’s final novella, The Leviathan, concerns a shtetl’s finest coral merchant and how his dream of seeing the sea for the first time materializes at a terrible cost. In the small town of Progrody, Nissen Piczenik makes his living as the most respected coral merchant of the region. Nissen has never been outside of his town, deep in the Russian interior, and fantasizes that a Leviathan watches over the coral reefs. When the sailor nephew of one of Progrody’s residents comes to visit, Nissen loses little time in befriending him for the purpose of learning about the sea. The sailor offers Nissen a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to come to Odessa and tour his ship. Nissen leaves his business during the peak coral season, and stays in Odessa for three weeks. But upon his return to Progrody, Nissen finds that a new coral merchant has moved into the neighboring town, and his coral is quickly becoming the most sought after. As his customers dwindle, life takes an evil twist for Nissen Piczenik. And the final decider of his fate may be the devil himself.

Author : Daniel Abraham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596062658
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leviathan Wept and Other Stories written by Daniel Abraham and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of high fantasy and science fiction stories, including "The cambist and Lord Iron," "Flat Diane," and "Exclusion."

Author : James K. A. Smith
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 149343862X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Inhabit Time written by James K. A. Smith and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ Publishers Weekly starred review "This incisive and eloquent volume will expand readers' minds."--Publishers Weekly Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are "above" history, immune to it, as if self-starters from clean slates in every generation. They suffer from a lack of awareness of time and the effects of history--both personal and collective--and thus are naive about current issues and fixated on the end times. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that awakening to the spiritual significance of time is crucial for orienting faith in the 21st century. He encourages us to cultivate the spiritual discipline of memento tempori, a temporal awareness of the Spirit's presence--indebted to a past, oriented toward the future, and faithful in the present. To gain spiritual appreciation for our mortality. To synchronize our heart-clocks with the tempo of the Spirit, which changes in the different seasons of life. Integrating popular culture, biblical exposition, and meditation, Smith provides insights for pastoring, counseling, spiritual formation, politics, and public life.

Author : Scott Westerfeld
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748126775
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching Darkness written by Scott Westerfeld and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine falling for someone who can fly you through the air. Imagine loving someone who can see your darkest thoughts. Imagine having secrets that could destroy the things you cherish . . . Midnight in Bixby hides more than one secret, and uncovering them will put Jessica and her friends in more danger than they could have imagined. The Midnighters aren't the only ones seeking truth in the darkness. And if the group allow their own secrets to come between them they risk losing one of their own - forever.

Author : Scott Westerfeld
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416987061
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leviathan written by Scott Westerfeld and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in a masterful trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld that School Library Journal hailed is "sure to become a classic." It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition. The British Darwinists employ genetically fabricated animals as their weaponry. Their Leviathan is a whale airship, and the most masterful beast in the British fleet. Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides of the war. But their paths cross in the most unexpected way, taking them both aboard the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure….One that will change both their lives forever.

Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101562617
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leviathan written by Paul Auster and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “compelling” (Los Angeles Times) tale of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday – from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel "Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin. . . ." So begins the story by Peter Aaron about his best friend, Benjamin Sachs. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, an intelligence he admired, a world he shared. And then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or might not have been intentional, Sachs disappeared. Now Aaron must piece together the life that led to Sach's death. His sole aim is to tell the truth and preserve it, before those who are investigating the case invent an account of their own.

Author : Phil Clapham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841075778
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winged Leviathan written by Phil Clapham and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: