Author : David Liittschwager
Publisher : National Geographic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Endangered species
ISBN : 9780792262466
More than three hundred full-color photographs present portraits of endangered animals and plants from Hawaii, photographed against a plain black background, along with articles on the natural history of the islands, environmental changes, and preservation efforts. Reprint.
Author : Francis V. Tiso
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1583947957
A leading authority on the rainbow body traces its history in the encounter of religions in medieval Central Asia, exploring a previously unimagined connection between early Dzogchen and the resurrection of Jesus Francis V. Tiso, a noted authority on the rainbow body, explores this manifestation of spiritual realization in a wide-ranging and deeply informed study of the transformation of the material body into a body of light. Seeking evidence on the boundary between physical science and deep spirituality that might elucidate the resurrection of Jesus, he investigates the case of Khenpo A Chö, a Buddhist monk who died in eastern Tibet in 1999. Rainbow Body and Resurrection chronicles the dissolution of Khenpo's material body within a week of his death, including eye-witness interviews. Tiso describes the spiritual practices that give rise to the rainbow body and traces their history deep into the encounter of religions in medieval Central Asia. His erudite exploration of the Tibetan phenomenon raises the fascinating question of whether there is a connection between the rainbow body and the dying and rising of Jesus. Drawing on a wealth of recent research, Tiso expands his discussion to include the contemplative geography out of which Dzogchen arose some time in the eighth century along the great Silk Road across Central Asia. The result is an illuminating consideration of previously unimagined relationships between spiritual practices and beliefs in Central Asia.
Author : Michael I. Niman
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870499890
A fictional re-creation of a day in the life of a Rainbow character named Sunflower begins the book, illustrating events that might typically occur at an annual North American Rainbow Gathering. Using interviews with Rainbows, content analysis of media reports, participant observation, and scrutiny of government documents relating to the group, Niman presents a complex picture of the Family and its relationship to mainstream culture - called "Babylon" by the Rainbows. Niman also looks at internal contradictions within the Family and examines members' problematic relationship with Native Americans, whose culture and spiritual beliefs they have appropriated.
Author : Liza Miller
Publisher : Anchor Books
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2013-07
Category : Board books
ISBN : 9781848775121
This bright concept book is perfect for little ones to learn about colours. Each spread introduces a new colour to discover. Children will also pick up first words as they spot objects of each colour, and a colourful rainbow greets readers on the final page.
Author : Anurag Anand
Publisher : Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9382665013
Even the most artistic of imaginings can sometimes seem callow in the face of truth. That which appears may not be and that which lies hidden might just be the stark, naked face of reality. Rahul had everything going his way – a soaring career, a happy family and all else a man his age could yearn for. And then suddenly his life began to crumble all around him, disintegrating element after precious element, leaving him to watch in helpless horror. Where had he gone wrong? Was there still hope for redemption, even a solitary ray that he could cling on to? Avantika, a pretty, vivacious girl who had come into Rahul’s life by pure accident, literally, has suddenly gone missing. Just like that, without as much as a trace. Where is Avantika? Will Rahul be able to find her? Is it her own past that has come back to consume her or is it something even more vicious and sinister? Shalini, Rahul’s first love and a girl accustomed to leading life on her own terms. Hailing from a family that exerts considerable influence in the galleries of politics and power, she certainly has the wherewithal to impact a lot of things. Even lives. Is Shalini fostering a grudge that could displace not one but many lives? Could she be the one behind Avantika’s mysterious disappearance? Where The RAINBOW Ends is a racy page-turner that promises to take you on a tempestuous and soul-stirring journey which shall remain with you long after you have put the book down.
Author : Moira Butterfield
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Polar bear
ISBN : 9781407576053
Author : Kazuo Miyamoto
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1462902138
This is the story of the Japanese who immigrated to Hawaii around the turn of the present century, worked as forced laborers on the sugar plantations, and afterwards remained in Hawaii to work as free men and to raise families. It is the story also of their children, born and raised in Hawaii, and who, during World War II, won fame and glory for themselves and their country on the bloody battlefields of Italy and southern Europe. But more than all of this, it is the story of the fate of the original immigrants during World War II. Rounded up by a panic-stricken American Government after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, these people were sent to the mainland to spend the war years being confined in one refugee camp after another, all while their sons were winning fame as American combat troops. And finally, it is the story of these elderly people who, at the end of the war, became free men once again and were allowed to return to their beloved Hawaii to live out their lives in peace.
Author : Marcus Pfister
Publisher : NorthSouth Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780735820845
The fifth book in the New York Times bestselling Rainbow Fish series. Rainbow Fish gets lost in an undersea storm and has to find his way back home. Luckily, with the help of some new friends, it isn't long before Rainbow Fish is reunited with his glittering school of fish.
Author : Louis Untermeyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
An anthology of over 500 poems primarily by American and English writers, including Keats, Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, and David McCord.
Author : Paul Mendez
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385547099
Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing. "The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for." —Marlon James In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has immigrated to Britain with his wife and children to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilient, but are all too aware that their family will need more than just hope to survive in their new country. At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London, escaping a broken immediate family, a repressive religious community and his depressed hometown in the industrial Black Country. But once he arrives he finds himself at a loss for a new center of gravity, and turns to sex work, music and art to create his own notions of love, masculinity and spirituality. A wholly original novel as tender as it is visceral, Rainbow Milk is a bold reckoning with race, class, sexuality, freedom and religion across generations, time and cultures.
