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Publisher: Skipstone
ISBN: 1594853959
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Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Publisher: Skipstone
ISBN: 1594853630
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 113

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Author: Daniel Grogan
Publisher: Cider Mill Press
ISBN: 1604338040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Feed the adventurer in you with Origins of a Journey, more than 120 stories of history’s most famous travellers and their finest adventures. Inside each of us lives an explorer who yearns to visit the great unknown. Feed the adventurer in you with Origins of a Journey, more than 120 stories of history’s most famous travellers and their finest adventures. These are the tales behind the history’s bravest pioneers, bringing you from the ocean’s black depths to the top of Mount Everest. Harriet Tubman ferries fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad—not once, not twice, but 19 times. Teddy Roosevelt risks life, limb, and sanity as he charts the Amazon’s River of Doubt. Buoyed by the voice of God, Joan of Arc travels to Vaucouleurs to petition Charles for a chance to fight for France. Charles Darwin notices several different finch species while touring the Galápagos Islands, fundamentally changing how we understand life. Spanning from 500 BC to today, Origins of a Journey teaches us that there is always value in an adventure, no matter how small—or doomed—it may be.

Author: N. Schulman
Publisher: Orbit Books
ISBN: 9780356208817
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Languages : en
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Author: Neville Shulman
Publisher: HarperElement
ISBN: 9781852303853
Category : Blanc, Mont (France and Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: N. Schulman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780356206028
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Languages : en
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Author: Carol Deckard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615444871
Category : Mountaineering
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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We come to crossroads at different stages in our lives, experiencing disappointments, sorrow, and setbacks as well as victories, joy, and celebrations. As we confront turning points, mountains emerge on the horizon and beckon us to climb them. Whether we go through moments of rejoicing or lamenting we have a choice. We can turn back, do nothing, or move forward and upward. Defining moments have the potential to transform our lives-personally, professionally, and spiritually. Timeless messages whisper to us. If we listen carefully, we receive the wisdom to learn and grow and the courage to press on. Step into the high country to reflect...

Author: Peter Harris
Publisher: Everyman's Library
ISBN: 0375405526
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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The appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal, and Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality, and beauty everywhere. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan, and Korea includes the work of Zen practitioners and monks as well as scholars, artists, travelers, and recluses, ranging from Wang Wei, Hanshan, and Yang Wanli, to Shinkei, Basho, and Ryokan.

Author: Julian Jaynes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Author: Emily France
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 161695857X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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When Essa meets Oliver - a brainy indoor type, in Boulder, Colorado for the summer - she is cautious at first, distrustful of the tourist crowd and suspicious of Oliver's mysterious past in Chicago. But her nine-year old sister Puck is charmed and pushes Essa toward him. Soon Essa finds herself showing Oliver the Boulder she has forgotten. After spending a night stuck in a mountain storm, Essa wakes to find Puck missing. Now Essa must rely on her newfound spiritual strength if she is to save her sister's life, and ultimately her own.