Author: A J AustinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781912145454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Inner Lands
Author: A J AustinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781912145454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Innerland
Author: Eberhard ArnoldPublisher: The Plough Publishing House
ISBN: 0874869781
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A wellspring of remarkable depth, Eberhard Arnold's classic work invites readers to respond to the chaos of a society distracted by violence and greed by turning to that "inner land of the invisible, where our spirit can find the roots of its strength." Only there, he says, will we find the clarity of vision we need to win the daily battle that is life.
The Inner Islands
Author: Bland SimpsonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876747
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Blending history, oral history, autobiography, and travel narrative, Bland Simpson explores the islands that lie in the sounds, rivers, and swamps of North Carolina's inner coast. In each of the fifteen chapters in the book, Simpson covers a single island or group of islands, many of which, were it not for the buffering Outer Banks, would be lost to the ebbs and flows of the Atlantic. Instead they are home to unique plant and animal species and well-established hardwood forests, and many retain vestiges of an earlier human history.
The Unreal and the Real
Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9781473202825
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
For over half a century, multiple award-winner Ursula K. Le Guin's stories have shaped the way her readers see the world. Her work gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider and speaks truth to power. Le Guin's writing is witty, wise, both sly and forthright; she is a master craftswoman. This two-volume selection of almost forty stories was made by Ursula Le Guin herself. The two volumes span the spectrum of fiction from realism through magical realism, satire, science fiction, surrealism, and fantasy. WHERE ON EARTH focuses on Ursula Le Guin's interest in realism and magic realism and includes 18 of her satirical, political and experimental earthbound stories. Highlights include WORLD FANTASY and HUGO AWARD-winner 'Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight', the rarely reprinted satirical short, 'The Lost Children', JUPITER AWARD-winner, 'The Diary of the Rose' and the title story of her PULITZER PRIZE finalist collection 'Unlocking the Air'.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Voyager to Inner Lands and to Outer Space
Author: Joe De BoltPublisher: Kennikat Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Inner Life
Author: Charles Webster LeadbeaterPublisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835605021
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A clairvoyant, Leadbeater wrote, is simply a person who develops "the power to respond to another octave out of the stupendous gamut of possible vibrations" and so is enabled "to see more of the world..than those of more limited perception." And what a world Leadbeater describes for us in these pages---a world of Master adepts and their pupils, untapped human powers and potentials, ancient mysteries, devas and nature spirits--in short, the unseen workings of the universe.
Beyond Great Walls
Author: Dee Mack WilliamsPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804742788
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This is an ethnographic study of a community of Mongolian herders who have been undergoing dramatic environmental and social transformations since 1980. It provides a rare window of observation into a fascinating and important, though remote and relatively understudied, region of modern China, and documents some of the unintended harmful consequences of decollectivization and economic development. Initially, the book presents a case study of land degradation and shows how competing social and cultural forces at the local, national, and international level actively shape that process. More broadly, it focuses on local experiences of modernization and the ways that marginalized people creatively appropriate alien technologies to serve their own ethnic identity and cultural renewal. The book aims to deepen our understanding of environmental change as a social process by exploring significant tensions between such symbolic dichotomies as Chinese/Mongol, farmer/herder, private/collective, development/conservation, Western/Asian, and scientific/indigenous. It argues that the reconstruction of local landscape cannot be separated from the social context of economic insecurity and political fear, nor from the cultural context of group identity and environmental symbolism. Ideologically informed perceptions of the land prove to be highly relevant in both shaping and contesting international development agendas, national grassland policies, and the daily practices of local production. In presenting the full range of material and symbolic stakes now in play on the Chinese grasslands, the book demonstrates that human-land interactions involve social dimensions on a global scale of widely underestimated complexity. Throughout, the author draws from his extensive fieldwork to enrich his study with poignant (and sometimes humorous) anecdotes and biographical sketches.
Bluegrass Land and Life
Author: Mary E. WhartonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813165105
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The Inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky is a shining jewel of geography—synonymous in the minds of many with the state of Kentucky. It is unique in many respects: the character of its land, its native vegetation, and its indigenous animal life. The way of life developed by its human inhabitants over the past two hundred years, especially its focus on the Thoroughbred horse, is also unique. The interaction of these two forces—natural and human—is the focus for this important work. The book includes color plates of representative plant and animal species and typical habitats. The annotated lists of 474 animal and nearly 1,200 plant species describe habitat, frequency, and distribution. Bluegrass Land and Life is a book that will delight all who share an interest in the Bluegrass region's past and present and a concern for its future.
The inner life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land
Author: lady Isabel BurtonThe Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One
Author: Ursula K. Le GuinPublisher: Small Beer Press
ISBN: 1618730363
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin's short story collections: "It is the author's more serious work that displays her talents best. . . . [A] classy and valuable collection."—Publishers Weekly "A master of the craft."—Neil Gaiman The Unreal and the Real is a two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best stories. It is a much-anticipated event and there is no doubt it will delight, amuse, and provoke. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's satirical, risky, political, and experimental earthbound stories. Ursula K. Le Guin has received the PEN–Malamud and National Book Awards, among others. She lives in Portland, Oregon.