Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781600603402
A biography of Native American athlete Jim Thorpe, focusing on how his boyhood education set the stage for his athletic achievements which gained him international fame and Olympic gold medals. Author's note details Thorpe's life after college.
Author : James Taylor Carson
Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Blending an engaging narrative style with broader theoretical considerations, James Taylor Carson here offers a comprehensive history of the Mississippi Choctaws, showing how they struggled to adapt to life a New World altered radically by contact while retaining their sense of identity and place.
Author : W. Terry Whalin
Publisher : W. Terry Whalin
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780891077329
High up on a steep mountainside in the Peruvian Andes and Indian shepherd boy watched his flock. Though he could never have imagined it, God had chosen him for a remarkable task. The divine plan for Romulo Saune's life would lead him out of the isolation and poverty of his remote mountain village to a place of leadership in His church, ultimately standing on the world stage with other international Christian leaders. God'd plan would take a boy handicapped by a learning disability--nearly illiterate--and eventually place him at the head of a ream of scholars translating the Bible into the Quechua language. But at the light of the gospel penetrated the remote mountain regions of Peru, another and very different gospel began to spread. The Shining Path--one of the world's most violent terrorist groups--fanned out into the highlands in a ruthless campaign to coerce people to join their cause. They believed that Peru's hope lay solely in the Maoist vision of a socialist society. The Christians were just as convinced that Jesus Christ alone has the answers for the human heart and for the problems plaguing Peruvian society. A collision was inevitable. In the time of incredible suffering for the church, one man's heroism and commitment to Christ stands out. This is the story of his life.
Author : Orin Starn
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0393292819
A narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorized Peru even after the fall of global Communism. On May 17, 1980, on the eve of Peru’s presidential election, five masked men stormed a small town in the Andean heartland. They set election ballots ablaze and vanished into the night, but not before planting a red hammer-and-sickle banner in the town square. The lone man arrested the next morning later swore allegiance to a group called Shining Path. The tale of how this ferocious group of guerrilla insurgents launched a decade-long reign of terror, and how brave police investigators and journalists brought it to justice, may be the most compelling chapter in modern Latin American history, but the full story has never been told. Described by a U.S. State Department cable as “cold-blooded and bestial,” Shining Path orchestrated bombings, assassinations, and massacres across the cities, countryside, and jungles of Peru in a murderous campaign to seize power and impose a Communist government. At its helm was the professor-turned-revolutionary Abimael Guzmán, who launched his single-minded insurrection alongside two women: his charismatic young wife, Augusta La Torre, and the formidable Elena Iparraguirre, who married Guzmán soon after Augusta’s mysterious death. Their fanatical devotion to an outmoded and dogmatic ideology, and the military’s bloody response, led to the death of nearly 70,000 Peruvians. Orin Starn and Miguel La Serna’s narrative history of Shining Path is both panoramic and intimate, set against the socioeconomic upheavals of Peru’s rocky transition from military dictatorship to elected democracy. They take readers deep into the heart of the rebellion, and the lives and country it nearly destroyed. We hear the voices of the mountain villagers who organized a fierce rural resistance, and meet the irrepressible black activist María Elena Moyano and the Nobel Prize–winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who each fought to end the bloodshed. Deftly written, The Shining Path is an exquisitely detailed account of a little-remembered war that must never be forgotten.
Author : Arjuna Ishaya
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9780957205673
"Every human should get a copy of this book when they are born." - Manyu, internationally renowned mindfulness/meditation teacher This book is a guide for the human condition. It is a practical, real and honest roadmap for anyone who wants to experience life to its fullest - at 200%. 200% of life is the experience of everything. It is the whole of life: 100% inner connection, peace and stability and 100% outer enjoyment, effectiveness and fulfilment. Success without contentment and peace is half a life. Being "Zen" without action or the good things of life is only half the picture. You can have both; you deserve both. You deserve to live 200% of life. A step-by-step, "How to live fully" manual, this book gives you everything you need to cultivate the right rock solid inner foundation for the most fulfilling, and even thrilling, external existence. Light-hearted, entertaining and incredibly clear, this is the rarest of spiritual books - it doesn't take itself too seriously, yet what it delivers is profound. Do you want to live 200% of life? Here is your complete guide on how to do it. _______ Reviews for 200%: "I believe every human should get a copy of this book when they are born. It's a book that actually shows you how to LIVE. A Life manual. A practical Life guide. A How-to-Let-Go guide. A guide on How-to-be-Happy, How to find Peace, and How to Make Life Easy. Arjuna has done a truly amazing job. It is a wonderful book. I love it." - Manyu, internationally renowned meditation/mindfulness teacher "This is a lovely book. Yes, in a way, it is a 'self help' book, but it would be like saying Dan Millman's Peaceful Warrior books or the writings of Seneca are 'self help.' This book has a clear vision of teaching us the path to true happiness in body, mind, soul and spirit. It is a wonderful read and I will come back to dip in its waters many, many times." - Dan John, strength coaching legend, religious studies academic, best-selling author of eleven books including Never Let Go "200% holds so much real life relatable wisdom. I know this book will change lives because it makes living the best of lives possible for anyone with an inner desire and calling for more. If 'more' is calling you, then Arjuna's book is the answer." - Sandy C. Newbigging, coaching and meditation expert, best-selling author of seven books including Mind Detox "Arjuna strikes that just right balance between finding inner peace and living to perform. These two aspects, commonly at odds, need no longer be. Welcome to the 200% club." - Pat Flynn, fitness expert, philosopher, best-selling author of five books including How to Be Better at (Almost) Everything, top 500 health and fitness blogger "200% is written with such clarity and humour that simply reading it is an enormous pleasure. But it doesn't stop there - if readers put these words into action there will be a tremendous impact, not just on themselves, but on the entire world." - Rebekah Palmer, journalist, editor and author of two books including Rhythm, as well as the children's series Champ the Chopper "I absolutely LOVE it. I love the mixture of wisdom, humility and humour. I love the format and the very real and practical advice, which is life changing. Everyone should read this book!" - Joanna Taylor, international yoga and meditation expert
Author : Diana Rowan
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1608686442
Make Creativity a Joyous Way of Life! While creativity may seem like a leisure-time luxury, it is actually the engine of cultural advancement. All human innovations, from cave painting to the internet, have been fueled by someone's ideas and follow-through. Our creative acts require more than just ideas; they also require ingenuity and perseverance, confidence and courage, the ability to dream and to do. The Bright Way helps you cultivate all of these. A simple yet profound program of inspiration plus action, designed for a lifetime of use, the Bright Way System empowers you to access motivation and make progress, find joy in building your skills, and courageously share your work with the world.
Author : Kay Kenyon
Publisher : Winterset Books
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 39,79 MB
Release : 2024-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The complete four-book series! Enter the world of the Entire in this first book of the celebrated four-volume epic. In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, the Entire gathers both human and alien beings under a sky of fire, called the bright. A land of wonders, the Entire is sustained by monumental storm walls and a never-ending river. Over all, the elegant and cruel Tarig rule supreme. Into this rich milieu is thrust Titus Quinn, former star pilot, bereft of his beloved wife and daughter who are assumed dead by everyone on earth except Quinn. Believing them trapped in a parallel universe—one where he himself may have been imprisoned—he returns to the Entire to free them. Thus begins a tale of high adventure and vast concept, replete with alien cultures, an exotic bureaucracy, and a man with nothing left to lose. He may not find what he seeks, but he’ll be offered a view of the multiverse, the power of princes, an unthinkable revenge—and unexpectedly, love. "A riveting launch." ––Publisher's Weekly starred review [A] fascinating and gratifying feat of world building. . . . promises to be a grand epic, indeed.”—Booklist “[A] star-maker, a magnificent book that should establish its author's reputation as among the very best in the field today.”—SFSite.com
Author : Lori Mier
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2021-06-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781736656907
Author : Benjamin Birney
Publisher :
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2018-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781717816511
A sprawling science fantasy comic adventure romance political thriller, with goblins and cannons! Jonathan Miller has harbored a secret flame for his childhood friend Merrily Hunter for years, and as Midsummer's Eve approaches he's ready to make his move. But when a cranky, sharp-tongued professor of Applied History rides into town looking for a lost book, Jonathan and Merrily quickly find themselves swept up in an adventure that will take them to the very edges of history, language, and probability. They join a host of colorful men, women, goblins, fey, snarfs, horses, and strange outsiders, all set in a world grappling with the consequences of scientific advance, political unrest, and religious debate. THE BRIGHT PATH features ninety-two pen and ink style illustrations in both e-book and paperback formats.Get the Kindle e-book FREE with your purchase of the paperback through Kindle MatchBook!
Author : Joshua S. Goldstein
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1541724097
The inspiration for Nuclear Now, the new Oliver Stone film, co-written by Joshua Goldstein As climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries have already replaced fossil fuels with low-carbon energy sources, and done so rapidly, in one to two decades. By following their methods, we could decarbonize the global economy by midcentury, replacing fossil fuels even while world energy use continues to rise. But so far we have lacked the courage to really try. In this clear-sighted and compelling book, Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist explain how clean energy quickly replaced fossil fuels in such places as Sweden, France, South Korea, and Ontario. Their people enjoyed prosperity and growing energy use in harmony with the natural environment. They didn't do this through personal sacrifice, nor through 100 percent renewables, but by using them in combination with an energy source the Swedes call käkraft, hundreds of times safer and cleaner than coal. Clearly written and beautifully illustrated, yet footnoted with extensive technical references, Goldstein and Qvist's book will provide a new touchstone in discussions of climate change. It could spark a shift in world energy policy that, in the words of Steven Pinker's foreword, literally saves the world.
