Author : Sandra Kuck
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780736900065
A world-renowned artist captures the special warmth of meeting and making friends with more than a dozen illustrations that herald the sweetness of friendship and the beauty of God's creation.
Author : Jean Pierre Otte
Publisher : George Braziller Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2000-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A garden is a peaceful, beautiful sanctuary, but beneath its serene appearance is a seething hive of sex, violence, and treachery--among its flowers and insects, that is. Based on years of voyeuristic observation, Love in the Garden reveals intricate, humorous, and often horrifying intimate details about the frenzied sexual lives of garden flowers and insects. Written with a poetic fancy and with wit, and from a shamelessly anthropomorphic viewpoint, Love in the Garden delights in the ingenuity and variety of the sexual tactics of insects and flowers. The bee orchid, for instance, attracts male bees by duplicating the scent emitted by female bees during mating season. A gullible male arrives and searches excitedly for the non-existent female opening. Then, a second male arrives, mistakes the first male for a female, and, as they wrestle and wiggle furiously, the bee orchid is pollinated. In the realm of insects, sex is often accompanied with violence and in some cases, even cannibalism. Take the notorious female praying mantis: in the midst of the sexual act, she beheads her enraptured male partner, who carries on though headless, while she devours him bite by bite. Love in the Garden does not aim to enrich the scientific knowledge of its reader. Instead, it hopes to involve the reader, through sexuality and all forms of sensation, in the turbulence of life.
Author : Mehmet Muhyiddin Üftâde
Publisher : Anqa Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0953451380
A detailed overview of the life and teachings of one of the great Ottoman Sufi masters, Mehmed Muhyiddin Uftade, is accompanied by an English translation of a collection of his religious poetry in this tribute to the Turkish and Persian spiritual traditions. Uftade's prominent role in the founding of the Jelvetiyye, one of the main dervish orders, his influence on Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, and his instruction of renowned disciple 'Aziz Mahmud Hudayi, are carefully described alongside the faithfully rendered tenets of his spiritual teachings, augmented by firsthand accounts of his views translated from the journal of a disciple. Uftade's poetry employs simple, direct, and wonderfully human language to express the human yearning for the divine and the ups and downs of the spiritual path.
Author : Sir Edwin Arnold
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 1906
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Trish Cooke
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536221813
Warm illustrations spice up this rhythmical ode to the joys of family and food — full, full, full of pleasures. For the youngest member of an exuberant extended family, Sunday dinner at Grannie’s can be full indeed — full of hugs and kisses, full of tasty dishes, full to the brim with happy faces, and full, full, full of love. With a special focus on the bond between little Jay Jay and his grannie, Trish Cooke introduces us to a gregarious family we are sure to want more, more, more of.
Author : Lalita Sinha
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1933316632
Epic love poems often share common thematic elements -love in union, love in separation, and love in reunion. This book investigates common threads and shared symbolism between the literary masterpieces The Story of Layla Majnun (written by Nizami in the Islamic Sufi tradition) and Gita Govinda (written by Jayadeva in the Hindu Bhaktic tradition). Book jacket.
Author : Jenny Rose Carey
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1604696818
Turn a shady yard into a sumptuous garden Shade is one of the most common garden situations homeowner’s have, but with the right plant knowledge, you can triumph over challenging areas and learn to embrace shade as an opportunity instead of an obstacle. Glorious Shade celebrates the benefits of shade and shows you how to make the most of it. This information-rich, hardworking guide is packed with everything you need to successfully garden in the shadiest corners of a yard. You'll learn how to determine what type of shade you have and how to choose the right plants for the space. The book also shares the techniques, design and maintenance tips that are key to growing a successful shade garden. Stunning color photographs offer design inspiration and reveal the beauty of shade-loving plants.
Author : Clyde Phillip Wachsberger
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 26,4 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466801468
Set in the tiny village of Orient, Long Island, and in New York City, Into the Garden with Charles is a memoir about falling in love. As a boy in suburban New York in 1940s, Clyde Wachsberger daydreams about storybook gardens where magic happens under the huge leaves. Through the 1960s and 1970s, when most gay men disdained monogamy, the author—an artist and set-designer in New York City—searches unsuccessfully for a soul mate. In 1983, approaching middle-age and having given up on finding love, he moves to a three-hundred-year-old house on a third of an acre, where he channels his passion into creating a garden appropriate to his historical home. Then remarkable circumstances lead him to Charles—a connoisseur of art, a gardener, and the man who will become his life-partner. Together they create a garden of sensuous wild beauty. Into the Garden with Charles is infused with the author's artistic sensibility and is written in a voice that is unaffected, generous, and straightforward. Enriched with the author's paintings—giving it the look and feel of an antique children's book—Into the Garden with Charles is a unique and moving memoir about growing old and falling in love.
Author : Ames Sheldon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1647420490
It’s 1977 and Cassie Lyman, a graduate student in women’s history, is struggling to find a topic for her doctoral dissertation. When she discovers a trove of drawings, suffrage cartoons, letters, and diaries at Smith College belonging to Kate Easton, founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts in 1916, she believes she has located her subject. Digging deeper into Kate’s life, Cassie learns that she and Kate are related—closely. Driven to understand why her family has never spoken of Kate, Cassie travels to Cape Ann to attend her sister’s shotgun wedding, where she questions her female relatives about Kate—only to find herself soon afterward in the same challenging situation Kate faced.
Author : Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Persian poetry
ISBN : 9780140195798
Rumi the Persian poet is widely acknowledged as being the greatest Sufi mystic of his age. He was the founder of the brotherhood of the Whirling Dervishes. This is a collection of his poetry.
