Author: Billy RochePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854596710
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A heart-warming new play from the author of The Wexford Trilogy and Cavalcaders.
On Such as We
Author: Billy RochePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9781854596710
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
A heart-warming new play from the author of The Wexford Trilogy and Cavalcaders.
For Small Creatures Such as We
Author: Sasha SaganPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 073521879X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"A charming book, ringing with the joy of existence." --Richard Dawkins The perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself, For Small Creatures Such as We is part memoir, part guidebook, and part social history, a luminous celebration of Earth's marvels that require no faith in order to be believed. Sasha Sagan was raised by secular parents, the astronomer Carl Sagan and the writer and producer Ann Druyan. They taught her that the natural world and vast cosmos are full of profound beauty, and that science reveals truths more wondrous than any myth or fable. When Sagan herself became a mother, she began her own hunt for the natural phenomena behind our most treasured occasions--from births to deaths, holidays to weddings, anniversaries, and more--growing these roots into a new set of rituals for her young daughter that honor the joy and significance of each experience without relying on a religious framework. As Sagan shares these rituals, For Small Creatures Such as We becomes a moving tribute to a father, a newborn daughter, a marriage, and the natural world--a celebration of life itself, and the power of our families and beliefs to bring us together.
For Such As We Are Made Of, Such We Be
Author: Augusta ToomerPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365601641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
"For Such As We Are Made of, Such We Be" portrays people beset with conflicts and choices destined to change their lives. Each story is unique. Finding themselves immersed in unexpected quandaries, the characters discover their inner resources to be deeper than they imagined. The stories address still-controversial moral issues, embracing recent progressive developments while remaining firmly rooted in a core value for loving commitment. Augusta Toomer's writing reflects the valuable perspective of a woman whose views have evolved over nearly a century lived in the deep South. As a committed Catholic, her frame of reference shifted during the civil rights movement of the 1950's, shifted again in the 1960's Vatican II sea change, and again in the 1980's when she became an ally to the gay community during the AIDS crisis. Her stories both charm and challenge the reader, presenting a rare opportunity to see with the compassionate eyes of a progressive Southern woman who is 95 years old.
Hearings, Nov. 15, 1945-May 31, 1946
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor AttackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Languages : en
Pages : 2182
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
Author: We Approach Our Martinis with Such High Expectations
Author: Jamie BrisickPublisher:
ISBN: 9780965653572
Category : Surfing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A professional surfer and editor of Surfing,Magazine, Jamie Brisick has travelled the world,from Brazil to Bali, Paris to Hawaii, Fiji to New,York and beyond. on his many journeys he,accumulated this powerful and diverse collection,of images, accompanied here by travel sketches,philosophical musings and barstool rants.,Agitating, educational and entertaining all at,once, this is a visceral, vivid and joyous,collection of images.
We Are Not Such Things
Author: Justine van der LeunPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812994515
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconciliation, loyalty, justice, race, and class—a gripping investigation in the vein of the podcast Serial “Timely . . . gripping, explosive . . . the kind of obsessive forensic investigation—of the clues, and into the soul of society—that is the legacy of highbrow sleuths from Truman Capote to Janet Malcolm.”—The New York Times Book Review The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa: The twenty-six-year-old white American Fulbright scholar was brutally murdered on August 25, 1993, during the final, fiery days of apartheid by a mob of young black men in a township outside Cape Town. Her parents’ forgiveness of two of her killers became a symbol of the Truth and Reconciliation process in South Africa. Justine van der Leun decided to introduce the story to an American audience. But as she delved into the case, the prevailing narrative started to unravel. Why didn’t the eyewitness reports agree on who killed Amy Biehl? Were the men convicted of the murder actually responsible for her death? And then van der Leun stumbled upon another brutal crime committed on the same day, in the very same area. The true story of Amy Biehl’s death, it turned out, was not only a story of forgiveness but a reflection of the complicated history of a troubled country. We Are Not Such Things is the result of van der Leun’s four-year investigation into this strange, knotted tale of injustice, violence, and compassion. The bizarre twists and turns of this case and its aftermath—and the story that emerges of what happened on that fateful day in 1993 and in the decades that followed—come together in an unsparing account of life in South Africa today. Van der Leun immerses herself in the lives of her subjects and paints a stark, moving portrait of a township and its residents. We come to understand that the issues at the heart of her investigation are universal in scope and powerful in resonance. We Are Not Such Things reveals how reconciliation is impossible without an acknowledgment of the past, a lesson as relevant to America today as to a South Africa still struggling with the long shadow of its history. “A masterpiece of reported nonfiction . . . Justine van der Leun’s account of a South African murder is destined to be a classic.”—Newsday
Soldiers Such as We
Author: Frank E. OwensPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462803121
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This book is a fictional account of the experiences of four diverse service men during the Vietnam War portrayed against a historically accurate background. It describes how they cope with the challenges that arise for each of them at the peak of the war (1967- 1968). The book emulates a class of books written on World War II such as John P. Marquands So Little Time, Nicholas Montsarrats The Cruel Sea, Evelyn Waughs, Officers and Gentlemen and James Joness trilogy.
Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Author: BonarEarth Emotions
Author: Glenn A. AlbrechtPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501715240
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
As climate change and development pressures overwhelm the environment, our emotional relationships with Earth are also in crisis. Pessimism and distress are overwhelming people the world over. In this maelstrom of emotion, solastalgia, the homesickness you have when you are still at home, has become, writes Glenn A. Albrecht, one of the defining emotions of the twenty-first century. Earth Emotions examines our positive and negative Earth emotions. It explains the author's concept of solastalgia and other well-known eco-emotions such as biophilia and topophilia. Albrecht introduces us to the many new words needed to describe the full range of our emotional responses to the emergent state of the world. We need this creation of a hopeful vocabulary of positive emotions, argues Albrecht, so that we can extract ourselves out of environmental desolation and reignite our millennia-old biophilia—love of life—for our home planet. To do so, he proposes a dramatic change from the current human-dominated Anthropocene era to one that will be founded, materially, ethically, politically, and spiritually on the revolution in thinking being delivered by contemporary symbiotic science. Albrecht names this period the Symbiocene. With the current and coming generations, "Generation Symbiocene," Albrecht sees reason for optimism. The battle between the forces of destruction and the forces of creation will be won by Generation Symbiocene, and Earth Emotions presents an ethical and emotional odyssey for that victory.