Author : Shridath Ramphal
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2014-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145973128X
Shridath "Sonny" Ramphal looks back at the fifteen years he spent as the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. He shares glimpses of conflicts, discussions, and characters such as Uganda's tyrant, Idi Amin, and the enlightened spirits of others like Germany's Willy Brandt and Nelson Mandela — all of whom Ramphal encountered in his global life.
Author : Jawaharlal Nehru
Publisher :
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 46,9 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Civilization
ISBN :
Author : Steven Vogel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,70 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biology
ISBN : 0691138060
This book investigates facets of the physical world, including the drag on small projectiles; the importance of diffusion and convection; the size-dependence of acceleration; the storage, conduction, and dissipation of heat; the relationship among pressure, flow, and choice in biological pumps; and how elongate structures tune their relative twistiness and bendiness. It considers design-determining factors and builds a bridge between the world described by physics books and the reality experienced by all creatures.
Author : Trudy RN Harris
Publisher : Revell
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1493406299
Drawn from her decades of experience as a hospice nurse, Trudy Harris shares stories that offer an incredible glimpse at what lies beyond this world--ethereal music, colors that did not exist on earth, angels, and loved ones who have gone on before. She has been with hundreds of patients as they took their last breaths and knows the kinds of questions that both the dying and their loved ones ask: What happens when we die? What should I say to a loved one who is dying? How can I make a dying friend feel safe? The stories she shares will bring the reader comfort and peace even amidst pain. Tender, heartbreaking, and eye-opening, this expanded edition of the New York Times bestseller offers more incredible windows into the world beyond and life after death.
Author : George Hillier
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2011-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1770673903
"Uniquely Human" helps to define those experiences which influenced my life through this collection of short stories, poetry, and characterizations. Do we ever really understand what it is that makes us who we are? This book is meant to entertain the reader through glimpses into the wide spectrum of human emotions that are shared by us all: some humorous, some poignant, some bittersweet, and most uplifting.
Author : Trudy Harris
Publisher : Revell
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0800734408
Collects true stories of the beauty and pain of life's end from medical professionals, hospice workers, and the author's own experiences as a hospice nurse.
Author : Robert Craft
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780826512857
For the last twenty-three years of Igor Stravinsky's incredibly full life, the noted musician, conductor, and writer Robert Craft was his closest colleague and friend, a trusted member of the Stravinsky household, and an important participant in virtually all of the composer's worldwide activities. Throughout these years, Craft kept a detailed diary, impressive in its powers of observation and characterization. This diary forms the basis for Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship, now released in this substantially revised and enlarged edition.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"First published by Pushkin Press in 2004"--Title page verso.
Author : Ann Thwaite
Publisher :
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 25,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Naturalists
ISBN : 9780571193288
Today, Philip Henry Gosse is remembered, if at all, as the patriarch and tyrannical religious maniac in his son Edmund's memoir, Father and Son. This is a vivid reassessment of the life of Philip Henry Gosse, the renowned Victorian naturalist, author, illustrator and Christian fundamentalist, who as both friend and antagonist of Charles Darwin, was at the very heart of the Victorian conflict between science and religion. Thwaite shows that Gosse believed that "the gratification of scientific curiosity is worse than useless if we ignore God."--Publisher.
Author : Judith Shulevitz
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0812971736
What is the Sabbath, anyway? The holy day of rest? The first effort to protect the rights of workers? A smart way to manage stress in a world in which computers never get turned off and work never comes to an end? Or simply an oppressive, outmoded rite? In The Sabbath World, Judith Shulevitz explores the Jewish and Christian day of rest, from its origins in the ancient world to its complicated observance in the modern one. Braiding ideas together with memories, Shulevitz delves into the legends, history, and philosophy that have grown up around a custom that has lessons for all of us, not just the religious. The shared day of nonwork has built communities, sustained cultures, and connected us to the memory of our ancestors and to our better selves, but it has also aroused as much resentment as love. The Sabbath World tells this surprising story together with an account of Shulevitz’s own struggle to keep this difficult, rewarding day.
