Author : Richard Whittingham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2001
Category : College sports
ISBN : 0743222199
Chronicles the history of college football from its first games in 1901 through the major tournaments of the twenty-first century.
Author : Dan O'Brien
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Falconers
ISBN : 9781558214576
The highly acclaimed true story of a falconer and falcon and of the bonds among humans, animals, and the natural world. In 1986 Dan O'Brien spent the summer in the Rocky Mountains releasing young peregrine falcons on the cliffs. When one of his release sites was raided by a golden eagle, he managed to save a peregrine chick and decided to make an improbable two-thousand-mile trip with her from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, following the avian autumnal migration. His retention was to teach the bird to hunt as a wild falcon would, in the hopes of releasing her into the natural world. Along the way he was forced to confront the chasm that gulfs wildness and domesticity -- and the difficulty in finding an even tenuous balance between them. "The Rites of Autumn" is the account of this incredible journey. It is also a beautifully written portrait of the American West, and has gained a worldwide reputation as a powerful, important book of natural history.
Author : Pico Iyer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 045149394X
In this “exquisite personal blend of philosophy and engagement, inner quiet and worldly life" (Los Angeles Times), an acclaimed author returns to his longtime home in Japan after his father-in-law’s sudden death and picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites, reminding us to take nothing for granted. In a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honoring the dead, Pico Iyer comes to reflect on changelessness in ways that anyone can relate to: parents age, children scatter, and Iyer and his wife turn to whatever can sustain them as everything falls away. As the maple leaves begin to turn and the heat begins to soften, Iyer shows us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance.
Author : Ali Smith
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101870788
From the Man Booker Prize Finalist comes the third novel in her Seasonal Quartet—a New York Times Notable Book and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020 What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare's most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tell the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown, Smith opens the door. The time we're living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal.
Author :
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0834800160
A beautifully clear and accessible explanation of how to live a Taoist life—with an overview of Taoist philosophy—by a renowned Taoist master Taoism isn’t a spiritual extracurricular activity, it’s an integral practice for living all of life to the fullest. Taoist living rests on four pillars—the public, the domestic, the private, and the spirit lives. Not only do Taoists strive to live these four aspects fully and in a balanced way, they also believe there is an outlook and an art to each of them. Here, modern Taoist adept Eva Wong is your guide to living well according to the wisdom of this ancient system. Drawing from ancient Taoist texts, she explains in simple terms the Taoist masters’ approach to the four aspects of life, asking readers to reflect on the balance of their own lives and demonstrating how that balance is the secret infusing your life with health, harmony, and deep satisfaction.
Author : Kristin Madden
Publisher : Llewellyn Espanol
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Autumn festivals
ISBN : 9780738700908
The Pagan Thanksgiving for the harvest It's the season of changing colors; crisp air filled with the scent of wood smoke; and festivals offering wine, hot cider, and apple pie. At this time of equal day and night, we give thanks for the harvest that will sustain us through the dark winter months. This book explores the history, legends, and traditions of the season that is honored from the Far East to the Celtic Lands, and from Scandinavia to South America. Create your own Mabon tradition with the help of the book's many recipes, magical workings, equinox rituals, and crafts for all ages. ·Part of Llewellyn's successful series on each of the eight Pagan sabbats, or holidays ·The author is well-known throughout the Pagan community ·For anyone who celebrates the turning of the seasons and the ancient holy days ·Relevant to any culturally-based path
Author : Llewellyn
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738745227
A thanksgiving celebration for the second harvest Mabon—also known as the Autumn Equinox—is a time to honor the spiritual significance of harvest, sacrifice, and survival. This guide shows you how to perform rituals and work magic that incorporates the shifting balance between light and dark that reaches its pinnacle during the equinox. Rituals Recipes Lore Spells Divination Crafts Correspondences Invocations Prayers Meditations Llewellyn's Sabbat Essentials explore the old and new ways of celebrating the seasonal rites that are the cornerstones of the witch's year.
Author : William Edward Soothill
Publisher : James Clarke & Co.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2002
Category : China
ISBN : 9780227171233
A close examination of early Chinese culture, explaining the traditional ideas about monarchy, religion and worship, rituals and sacrifices, customs and other aspects that have influences the thought and behaviour of the Chinese for well over two millennia.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 1871
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061747750
In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human?
