Author: Jill Liddington
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815625391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Wojcik (humanities, Clarkson U.) examines Luke's Gospel in the light of gnostic narrative techniques. He provides a historical survey of interpretations of Luke's Gospel and outlines orthodox Christianity's rejection of gnostic elements. He concludes with his own analysis of the text, focusing on Jesus' development as a teacher. Reprint of The Long Road to Greenhan Common, Virago, 1989. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Road to Greenham Common
Author: Jill Liddington
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815625391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Wojcik (humanities, Clarkson U.) examines Luke's Gospel in the light of gnostic narrative techniques. He provides a historical survey of interpretations of Luke's Gospel and outlines orthodox Christianity's rejection of gnostic elements. He concludes with his own analysis of the text, focusing on Jesus' development as a teacher. Reprint of The Long Road to Greenhan Common, Virago, 1989. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815625391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Wojcik (humanities, Clarkson U.) examines Luke's Gospel in the light of gnostic narrative techniques. He provides a historical survey of interpretations of Luke's Gospel and outlines orthodox Christianity's rejection of gnostic elements. He concludes with his own analysis of the text, focusing on Jesus' development as a teacher. Reprint of The Long Road to Greenhan Common, Virago, 1989. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Greenham Women Everywhere
Author: Alice Cook
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
No
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
No
Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles
Author: A. Reading
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137032723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural scripts for human agency, solidarity, resilience and human kindness.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137032723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural scripts for human agency, solidarity, resilience and human kindness.
The Kennet and Avon Canal
Author: Steve Davison
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN: 1787650863
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Two-part guidebook to walking along the Kennet and Avon Canal. The first part describes the 152km (94 mile) route from Reading to Bristol, incorporating the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bath and Bristol’s Floating Harbour. The second part describes 20 circular walks, taking in the best sections of the canal and interesting places nearby. All routes can be walked year-round and are suitable for walkers of every ability. The canal path route is described in 7 stages of 15 to 29km (9 to 18 miles), though it can easily be split into shorter or longer stages. The day walks are between 7 and 15km (4 and 9 miles) are described, taking between 2-4.5 hours. OS 1:50,000 mapping and step-by-step route descriptions for each walk Easy access from Reading, Newbury, Hungerford, Great Bedwyn, Pewsey, Devizes, Bradford-on-Avon, Bath, Keynsham and Bristol Highlights include Crofton Pumping Station, the Caen Hill flight of locks at Devizes, the ornate aqueducts at Avoncliff and Dundas and the North Wessex Downs and Cotswolds AONB Comprehensive planning information and information on local history, geology and wildlife GPX files available to download
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
ISBN: 1787650863
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Two-part guidebook to walking along the Kennet and Avon Canal. The first part describes the 152km (94 mile) route from Reading to Bristol, incorporating the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bath and Bristol’s Floating Harbour. The second part describes 20 circular walks, taking in the best sections of the canal and interesting places nearby. All routes can be walked year-round and are suitable for walkers of every ability. The canal path route is described in 7 stages of 15 to 29km (9 to 18 miles), though it can easily be split into shorter or longer stages. The day walks are between 7 and 15km (4 and 9 miles) are described, taking between 2-4.5 hours. OS 1:50,000 mapping and step-by-step route descriptions for each walk Easy access from Reading, Newbury, Hungerford, Great Bedwyn, Pewsey, Devizes, Bradford-on-Avon, Bath, Keynsham and Bristol Highlights include Crofton Pumping Station, the Caen Hill flight of locks at Devizes, the ornate aqueducts at Avoncliff and Dundas and the North Wessex Downs and Cotswolds AONB Comprehensive planning information and information on local history, geology and wildlife GPX files available to download
On Gallows Down
Author: Nicola Chester
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645021667
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize 2022 for Nature Writing - Highly Commended Winner for the Richard Jefferies Award 2021 for Best Nature Writing `Evocative and inspiring.environmental protest, family, motherhood and.nature.' Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground, Costa Novel Award Winner 2021 `It's ever so good. Political, passionate and personal.' Robert Macfarlane `I couldn't put it down! A must read!' Dara McAnulty, author of Diary of a Young Naturalist Nature is everything. It is the place I come from and the place I got to. It is family. Wherever I am, it is home and away, an escape, a bolt hole, a reason, a place to fight for, a consolation, and a way home. As a child growing up in rural England, Guardian Country Diarist Nicola Chester was inexorably drawn to the natural landscape surrounding her. Walking, listening and breathing in the nature around her, she followed the call of the cuckoo, the song of the nightingale and watched as red kites, fieldfares and skylarks soared through the endless skies over the chalk hills of the North Wessex Downs: the ancient land of Greenham Common which she called home. Nicola bears witness to, and fights against, the stark political and environmental changes imposed on the land she loves, whilst raising her family to appreciate nature and to feel like they belong - core parts of who Nicola is. From protesting the loss of ancient trees to the rewilding of Greenham Common, to the gibbet on Gallows Down and living in the shadow of Highclere Castle (made famous in Downton Abbey), On Gallows Down shows how one woman made sense of her world - and found her place in it.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781645021667
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shortlisted for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize 2022 for Nature Writing - Highly Commended Winner for the Richard Jefferies Award 2021 for Best Nature Writing `Evocative and inspiring.environmental protest, family, motherhood and.nature.' Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground, Costa Novel Award Winner 2021 `It's ever so good. Political, passionate and personal.' Robert Macfarlane `I couldn't put it down! A must read!' Dara McAnulty, author of Diary of a Young Naturalist Nature is everything. It is the place I come from and the place I got to. It is family. Wherever I am, it is home and away, an escape, a bolt hole, a reason, a place to fight for, a consolation, and a way home. As a child growing up in rural England, Guardian Country Diarist Nicola Chester was inexorably drawn to the natural landscape surrounding her. Walking, listening and breathing in the nature around her, she followed the call of the cuckoo, the song of the nightingale and watched as red kites, fieldfares and skylarks soared through the endless skies over the chalk hills of the North Wessex Downs: the ancient land of Greenham Common which she called home. Nicola bears witness to, and fights against, the stark political and environmental changes imposed on the land she loves, whilst raising her family to appreciate nature and to feel like they belong - core parts of who Nicola is. From protesting the loss of ancient trees to the rewilding of Greenham Common, to the gibbet on Gallows Down and living in the shadow of Highclere Castle (made famous in Downton Abbey), On Gallows Down shows how one woman made sense of her world - and found her place in it.
Going to Seed
Author: Simon Fairlie
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1645020622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential—and unusual—eco-activist you might not have heard of."—The Observer An unforgettable firsthand account of how the hippie movement flowered in the late 1960s, appeared spent by the Thatcher-consumed 1980s, yet became the seedbed for progressive reform we now take for granted—and continues to inspire generations of rebels and visionaries. "Fairlie has a refreshingly declarative style: he’s analytical, funny and self-aware. . . His memoir has much to offer anyone interested in movement history or in the future of intentional communities."—Elizabeth Royte, Food & Environment Reporting Network At a young age, Simon Fairlie rejected the rat race and embarked on a new trip to find his own path. He dropped out of Cambridge University to hitchhike to Istanbul and bicycle through India. He established a commune in France, was arrested multiple times for squatting and civil disobedience, and became a leading figure in protests against the British government’s road building programs of the 1980s and—later—in legislative battles to help people secure access to land for low impact, sustainable living. Over the course of fifty years, we witness a man’s drive for self-sufficiency, freedom, authenticity, and a deep connection to the land. Fairlie grew up in a middle-class household in leafy middle England. His path had been laid out for him by his father: boarding school, Oxbridge, and a career in journalism. But everything changed when Simon’s life ran headfirst into London’s counterculture in the 1960s. Finding Beat poetry, blues music, cannabis and anti–Vietnam War protests unlocked a powerful lust to be free. Instead of becoming a celebrated Fleet Street journalist like his father, Simon became a laborer, a stonemason, a farmer, a scythesman, and then a magazine editor and a writer of a very different sort. In Going to Seed he shares the highs of his experience, alongside the painful costs of his ongoing search for freedom—estrangement from his family, financial insecurity, and the loss of friends and lovers to the excesses and turbulence that continued through the 70s and 80s. Part moving, free-wheeling memoir, part social critique, Going to Seed questions the current trajectory of Western “progress”—and the explosive consumerism, growing inequality, and environmental devastation laid bare in our daily newsfeeds—and will resonate with anyone who wonders what the world might look like if we began to chart a radically different course. "This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in extraordinary times."—George Monbiot
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1645020622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential—and unusual—eco-activist you might not have heard of."—The Observer An unforgettable firsthand account of how the hippie movement flowered in the late 1960s, appeared spent by the Thatcher-consumed 1980s, yet became the seedbed for progressive reform we now take for granted—and continues to inspire generations of rebels and visionaries. "Fairlie has a refreshingly declarative style: he’s analytical, funny and self-aware. . . His memoir has much to offer anyone interested in movement history or in the future of intentional communities."—Elizabeth Royte, Food & Environment Reporting Network At a young age, Simon Fairlie rejected the rat race and embarked on a new trip to find his own path. He dropped out of Cambridge University to hitchhike to Istanbul and bicycle through India. He established a commune in France, was arrested multiple times for squatting and civil disobedience, and became a leading figure in protests against the British government’s road building programs of the 1980s and—later—in legislative battles to help people secure access to land for low impact, sustainable living. Over the course of fifty years, we witness a man’s drive for self-sufficiency, freedom, authenticity, and a deep connection to the land. Fairlie grew up in a middle-class household in leafy middle England. His path had been laid out for him by his father: boarding school, Oxbridge, and a career in journalism. But everything changed when Simon’s life ran headfirst into London’s counterculture in the 1960s. Finding Beat poetry, blues music, cannabis and anti–Vietnam War protests unlocked a powerful lust to be free. Instead of becoming a celebrated Fleet Street journalist like his father, Simon became a laborer, a stonemason, a farmer, a scythesman, and then a magazine editor and a writer of a very different sort. In Going to Seed he shares the highs of his experience, alongside the painful costs of his ongoing search for freedom—estrangement from his family, financial insecurity, and the loss of friends and lovers to the excesses and turbulence that continued through the 70s and 80s. Part moving, free-wheeling memoir, part social critique, Going to Seed questions the current trajectory of Western “progress”—and the explosive consumerism, growing inequality, and environmental devastation laid bare in our daily newsfeeds—and will resonate with anyone who wonders what the world might look like if we began to chart a radically different course. "This is a fascinating, funny and moving record of an extraordinary life lived in extraordinary times."—George Monbiot
Local and Personal Acts
Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
The Antiquary
Author: Edward Walford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquities
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The roads of England & Wales
Author: Charles Howard (of the Cyclists' touring club.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cycling
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cycling
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Piecing it Together
Author: Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group
Publisher: Nicholson
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher: Nicholson
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description