Author: Arthur Geisert
Publisher: Stories Without Words
ISBN: 9781592701155
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
See how a community of pigs makes ingenious use of a giant dandelion seed, just as an erupting volcano threatens their island.
The Giant Seed
Author: Arthur Geisert
Publisher: Stories Without Words
ISBN: 9781592701155
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
See how a community of pigs makes ingenious use of a giant dandelion seed, just as an erupting volcano threatens their island.
Publisher: Stories Without Words
ISBN: 9781592701155
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
See how a community of pigs makes ingenious use of a giant dandelion seed, just as an erupting volcano threatens their island.
The Work of Enchantment
Author: Matthew Del Nevo
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412845491
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The Work of Enchantment suggests that it is a lack of "enchantment" in rich, developed countries that causes soul-starved Westerners to experience mental (and sometimes physical) illness. Del Nevo argues that this "enchantment" is most often experienced in childhood, but can also be found in adulthood, particularly through art. However, adults must cultivate within themselves the ability to appreciate art by reading, listening, and gazing—activities often misconceived in advanced industrial societies. Del Nevo describes the framework of enchantment and its philosophical and historical roots. He then concentrates on the work of enchantment within literature, considering what enchantment might entail taking the works of Proust, Rilke, and Goethe as examples. Del Nevo shows how a sense of enchantment forms within and between art works, using his literary examples, as well as between the work and the audience. The reader will learn along the way that enchantment may be found in the power of words, as an expression of the desire of the soul, a compliment of melancholy, and in art that points to something beyond itself. Enchantment may be found in many places, ranging from philosophy, religion, and psychology to sociology and culture, but here Del Nevo focuses on literature. His audience is people who are searching for something beyond money or glamour—perhaps the meaning of art and culture. His focus on literary masterpieces such as the Duino Elegies, Remembrance of Things Past, Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years, and others will make it of interest to those in cultural studies. Well written and engaging, and accessible to non-specialist readers, this unusual work in philosophy and aesthetics is free of jargon and complicated verbiage. Inspiring and enlivening, it is, in the author’s words, "a stirring call to idleness."
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412845491
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The Work of Enchantment suggests that it is a lack of "enchantment" in rich, developed countries that causes soul-starved Westerners to experience mental (and sometimes physical) illness. Del Nevo argues that this "enchantment" is most often experienced in childhood, but can also be found in adulthood, particularly through art. However, adults must cultivate within themselves the ability to appreciate art by reading, listening, and gazing—activities often misconceived in advanced industrial societies. Del Nevo describes the framework of enchantment and its philosophical and historical roots. He then concentrates on the work of enchantment within literature, considering what enchantment might entail taking the works of Proust, Rilke, and Goethe as examples. Del Nevo shows how a sense of enchantment forms within and between art works, using his literary examples, as well as between the work and the audience. The reader will learn along the way that enchantment may be found in the power of words, as an expression of the desire of the soul, a compliment of melancholy, and in art that points to something beyond itself. Enchantment may be found in many places, ranging from philosophy, religion, and psychology to sociology and culture, but here Del Nevo focuses on literature. His audience is people who are searching for something beyond money or glamour—perhaps the meaning of art and culture. His focus on literary masterpieces such as the Duino Elegies, Remembrance of Things Past, Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years, and others will make it of interest to those in cultural studies. Well written and engaging, and accessible to non-specialist readers, this unusual work in philosophy and aesthetics is free of jargon and complicated verbiage. Inspiring and enlivening, it is, in the author’s words, "a stirring call to idleness."
The Book of Enchanted Living
Author: Sarah Bartlett
Publisher: Piatkus
ISBN: 034943655X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
It's time to let go of disenchanted thinking and embrace enchanted living. . . In a world full of demands and obligations, it is easy to get stuck in the same tiring routines - but what if instead we chose to embrace a life full of joy and enchantment? Nature offers the perfect antidote for weary souls. Carving out time to truly experience and engage with the wonder and beauty of the world around us can help ease our minds, soothe our spirits, and leave us feeling euphoric. This enchanting little book offers rituals, intentions and affirmations that will allow you to commune with nature so that you can belong to both its wildness and its tenderness. By aligning with the rhythms of the natural world, you will learn to reconnect to the enchantment deep within you to live an authentic life filled with meaning and possibility.
Publisher: Piatkus
ISBN: 034943655X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
It's time to let go of disenchanted thinking and embrace enchanted living. . . In a world full of demands and obligations, it is easy to get stuck in the same tiring routines - but what if instead we chose to embrace a life full of joy and enchantment? Nature offers the perfect antidote for weary souls. Carving out time to truly experience and engage with the wonder and beauty of the world around us can help ease our minds, soothe our spirits, and leave us feeling euphoric. This enchanting little book offers rituals, intentions and affirmations that will allow you to commune with nature so that you can belong to both its wildness and its tenderness. By aligning with the rhythms of the natural world, you will learn to reconnect to the enchantment deep within you to live an authentic life filled with meaning and possibility.
The Tree of Enchantment
Author: Orion Foxwood
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1609250230
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In Faery Seership the truths we seek can only be found within ourselves, within nature, and within our relationships to nature. At the center of the Faery Tradition lies the Tree of Enchantment: the symbol for these relationships and for the threefold life of humanity. At each level of the tree, there are attending spirit forces that vary from beings of light to beings of shadow, from the ancestors of humanity to the architects of form and nature, from the destiny of our planet to the creation forces of the universe. The tree’s roots grow through the lower world, where all life originates and the dead travel, its trunk and lower branches reach out across the middle world, where elemental forces and the four directions guide us, and its highest branches reach the into the upper world and the Star realm. Weaving together folk tradition and extensive academic research, Orion Foxwood has created an accessible, beautifully written pathway into the Old Religion of Faery Seership. Based on Appalachian traditions, Wiccan studies, Celtic oral traditions, and the Craft from Western and Northern Europe, The Tree of Enchantment offers the student of Faery Tradition both introductory and advanced visionary practices and authentic tools to learn to navigate the three realms of humanity. With diligence and an open heart, the reader will learn to cross The River of Blood, pass through The Gate of Awakening, and over The River of Stars.
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1609250230
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In Faery Seership the truths we seek can only be found within ourselves, within nature, and within our relationships to nature. At the center of the Faery Tradition lies the Tree of Enchantment: the symbol for these relationships and for the threefold life of humanity. At each level of the tree, there are attending spirit forces that vary from beings of light to beings of shadow, from the ancestors of humanity to the architects of form and nature, from the destiny of our planet to the creation forces of the universe. The tree’s roots grow through the lower world, where all life originates and the dead travel, its trunk and lower branches reach out across the middle world, where elemental forces and the four directions guide us, and its highest branches reach the into the upper world and the Star realm. Weaving together folk tradition and extensive academic research, Orion Foxwood has created an accessible, beautifully written pathway into the Old Religion of Faery Seership. Based on Appalachian traditions, Wiccan studies, Celtic oral traditions, and the Craft from Western and Northern Europe, The Tree of Enchantment offers the student of Faery Tradition both introductory and advanced visionary practices and authentic tools to learn to navigate the three realms of humanity. With diligence and an open heart, the reader will learn to cross The River of Blood, pass through The Gate of Awakening, and over The River of Stars.
The Enchanted Tarot
Author: Amy Zerner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312050795
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Enter an enchanted realm, a world of myth and magic. The Enchanted Tarot is for everyone who loves fantasy and fairytales. The 78 cards, specially designed by award-winning artist Amy Zerner, are richly detailed, each one a miniature work of visionary art. Based on the ancient traditions of the Tarot, this contemporary Oracle is a remarkable system for self-counseling and understanding. Used with the accompanying book by Monte Farber, The Enchanted Tarot can illuminate and inspire our innermost being and will allow any seeker of guidance direct access to the wisdom of his or her Higher Self. Contents: -22 Major Arcana cards -56 Minor Arcana cards -192 page book illustrated in color
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312050795
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Enter an enchanted realm, a world of myth and magic. The Enchanted Tarot is for everyone who loves fantasy and fairytales. The 78 cards, specially designed by award-winning artist Amy Zerner, are richly detailed, each one a miniature work of visionary art. Based on the ancient traditions of the Tarot, this contemporary Oracle is a remarkable system for self-counseling and understanding. Used with the accompanying book by Monte Farber, The Enchanted Tarot can illuminate and inspire our innermost being and will allow any seeker of guidance direct access to the wisdom of his or her Higher Self. Contents: -22 Major Arcana cards -56 Minor Arcana cards -192 page book illustrated in color
The Enchantments of Mammon
Author: Eugene McCarraher
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674242777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674242777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century
The boys' and girls' book of enchantment
Author: Boys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Dwellings of Enchantment
Author: Bénédicte Meillon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793631603
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with us–entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to shift perspectives on both the causes and solutions to current ecological crises. Working against the disenchantment of humans’ relationships with and perceptions of the world entailed by a modern ontology, this book illustrates the power of ecopoetics to attune humans to the vibrant matter both within and outside of us. Braiding indigenous with non-indigenous worldviews, this book tackles ecopoetics emerging from varying locations in the world. It underscores the postmodernist, remythologizing processes going on in many ecopoetic texts, via magical realist modes and mythopoeia.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793631603
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with us–entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to shift perspectives on both the causes and solutions to current ecological crises. Working against the disenchantment of humans’ relationships with and perceptions of the world entailed by a modern ontology, this book illustrates the power of ecopoetics to attune humans to the vibrant matter both within and outside of us. Braiding indigenous with non-indigenous worldviews, this book tackles ecopoetics emerging from varying locations in the world. It underscores the postmodernist, remythologizing processes going on in many ecopoetic texts, via magical realist modes and mythopoeia.
World Seed
Author: Justin Miller
Publisher: Justin Miller
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The second book in the World Seed series. Join John Hulett as he continues his journey through the world of NeoLife, bringing his experiences and powers to play in Earth to aid against the coming storm. What exactly does the future hold for mankind?
Publisher: Justin Miller
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The second book in the World Seed series. Join John Hulett as he continues his journey through the world of NeoLife, bringing his experiences and powers to play in Earth to aid against the coming storm. What exactly does the future hold for mankind?
Enchanting Indian Tales: Incredible Indian Tales
Author: Om Books Editorial Team
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 9381607346
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Five magical stories around a young girl called Megha and her relationship with a tree. This is no ordinary tree but a Kalpavrisksha, a wish-fulfilling tree, for through this tree Megha meets not only our gods and goddesses, but also many celestial beings. A number of birds come to this tree to talk to Megha and she discovers their histories and habitats. The tree narrates mythical stories of Krishna and the Buddha, of Savitri and the Salabhanjika. A magic parrot flies in the sky and takes Megha to pilgrimages all over India. As Megha befriends the tree, many stories unfold and when the wind blows through this tree, it resonates with gods and heavenly beings, and speaks to us of the many narratives of our tradition and as our journey ends, we drink the sacred waters of our tirthas.
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 9381607346
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Five magical stories around a young girl called Megha and her relationship with a tree. This is no ordinary tree but a Kalpavrisksha, a wish-fulfilling tree, for through this tree Megha meets not only our gods and goddesses, but also many celestial beings. A number of birds come to this tree to talk to Megha and she discovers their histories and habitats. The tree narrates mythical stories of Krishna and the Buddha, of Savitri and the Salabhanjika. A magic parrot flies in the sky and takes Megha to pilgrimages all over India. As Megha befriends the tree, many stories unfold and when the wind blows through this tree, it resonates with gods and heavenly beings, and speaks to us of the many narratives of our tradition and as our journey ends, we drink the sacred waters of our tirthas.