Author: C. William Pollard
Publisher: Crossway Books
ISBN: 9781433541728
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written by a highly successful CEO with decades of real-world experience in corporate America, this book shares tips and principles for leading well and pleasing God both personally and professionally.
Life Between the Tides
Author: Adam Nicolson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721289
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Adam Nicolson explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist’s curiosity and a poet’s wonder in this beautifully illustrated book. The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes. Look down as you crouch over the shallows and you will find a periwinkle or a prawn, a claw-displaying crab or a cluster of anemones ready to meet you. No need for binoculars or special stalking skills: go to the rocks and the living will say hello. Inside each rock pool tucked into one of the infinite crevices of the tidal coastline lies a rippling, silent, unknowable universe. Below the stillness of the surface course different currents of endless motion—the ebb and flow of the tide, the steady forward propulsion of the passage of time, and the tiny lifetimes of the rock pool’s creatures, all of which coalesce into the grand narrative of evolution. In Life Between the Tides, Adam Nicolson investigates one of the most revelatory habitats on earth. Under his microscope, we see a prawn’s head become a medieval helmet and a group of “winkles” transform into a Dickensian social scene, with mollusks munching on Stilton and glancing at their pocket watches. Or, rather, is a winkle more like Achilles, an ancient hero, throwing himself toward death for the sake of glory? For Nicolson, who writes “with scientific rigor and a poet’s sense of wonder” (The American Scholar), the world of the rock pools is infinite and as intricate as our own. As Nicolson journeys between the tides, both in the pools he builds along the coast of Scotland and through the timeline of scientific discovery, he is accompanied by great thinkers—no one can escape the pull of the sea. We meet Virginia Woolf and her Waves; a young T. S. Eliot peering into his own rock pool in Massachusetts; even Nicolson’s father-in-law, a classical scholar who would hunt for amethysts along the shoreline, his mind on Heraclitus and the other philosophers of ancient Greece. And, of course, scientists populate the pages; not only their discoveries, but also their doubts and errors, their moments of quiet observation and their thrilling realizations. Everything is within the rock pools, where you can look beyond your own reflection and find the miraculous an inch beneath your nose. “The soul wants to be wet,” Heraclitus said in Ephesus twenty-five hundred years ago. This marvelous book demonstrates why it is so. Includes Color and Black-and-White Photographs
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721289
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Adam Nicolson explores the marine life inhabiting seashore rockpools with a scientist’s curiosity and a poet’s wonder in this beautifully illustrated book. The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes. Look down as you crouch over the shallows and you will find a periwinkle or a prawn, a claw-displaying crab or a cluster of anemones ready to meet you. No need for binoculars or special stalking skills: go to the rocks and the living will say hello. Inside each rock pool tucked into one of the infinite crevices of the tidal coastline lies a rippling, silent, unknowable universe. Below the stillness of the surface course different currents of endless motion—the ebb and flow of the tide, the steady forward propulsion of the passage of time, and the tiny lifetimes of the rock pool’s creatures, all of which coalesce into the grand narrative of evolution. In Life Between the Tides, Adam Nicolson investigates one of the most revelatory habitats on earth. Under his microscope, we see a prawn’s head become a medieval helmet and a group of “winkles” transform into a Dickensian social scene, with mollusks munching on Stilton and glancing at their pocket watches. Or, rather, is a winkle more like Achilles, an ancient hero, throwing himself toward death for the sake of glory? For Nicolson, who writes “with scientific rigor and a poet’s sense of wonder” (The American Scholar), the world of the rock pools is infinite and as intricate as our own. As Nicolson journeys between the tides, both in the pools he builds along the coast of Scotland and through the timeline of scientific discovery, he is accompanied by great thinkers—no one can escape the pull of the sea. We meet Virginia Woolf and her Waves; a young T. S. Eliot peering into his own rock pool in Massachusetts; even Nicolson’s father-in-law, a classical scholar who would hunt for amethysts along the shoreline, his mind on Heraclitus and the other philosophers of ancient Greece. And, of course, scientists populate the pages; not only their discoveries, but also their doubts and errors, their moments of quiet observation and their thrilling realizations. Everything is within the rock pools, where you can look beyond your own reflection and find the miraculous an inch beneath your nose. “The soul wants to be wet,” Heraclitus said in Ephesus twenty-five hundred years ago. This marvelous book demonstrates why it is so. Includes Color and Black-and-White Photographs
The Tides of Life
Author: C. William Pollard
Publisher: Crossway Books
ISBN: 9781433541728
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written by a highly successful CEO with decades of real-world experience in corporate America, this book shares tips and principles for leading well and pleasing God both personally and professionally.
Publisher: Crossway Books
ISBN: 9781433541728
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written by a highly successful CEO with decades of real-world experience in corporate America, this book shares tips and principles for leading well and pleasing God both personally and professionally.
Lifetide
Author: Lyall Watson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340231197
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340231197
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Life Between the Tides
Author: Les Watling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This beautiful little field guide by leading marine scientists will help you identify and learn about the many plants and animals of the intertidal zone of northern New England and the Maritimes. Don't go to the water's edge without it!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This beautiful little field guide by leading marine scientists will help you identify and learn about the many plants and animals of the intertidal zone of northern New England and the Maritimes. Don't go to the water's edge without it!
The Tide of Life
Author: Catherine Cookson
Publisher: Corgi Books
ISBN: 9780552106306
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
Publisher: Corgi Books
ISBN: 9780552106306
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
Rip Tide
Author: Kat Falls
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847388086
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Return to the subsea frontier with Ty and Gemma, where the mysteries of the deep are deadlier than ever. With time running out for his parents, Ty's desperation leads the two teenagers to the underwater underworld... and into an alliance with the outlaws of the Seablite Gang. But one mystery soon leads to another. How has an entire township disappeared? Why is the local sea-life suddenly so aggressive? And can the Seablite Gang be trusted... or are Ty and Gemma in deeper water than they realise?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847388086
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Return to the subsea frontier with Ty and Gemma, where the mysteries of the deep are deadlier than ever. With time running out for his parents, Ty's desperation leads the two teenagers to the underwater underworld... and into an alliance with the outlaws of the Seablite Gang. But one mystery soon leads to another. How has an entire township disappeared? Why is the local sea-life suddenly so aggressive? And can the Seablite Gang be trusted... or are Ty and Gemma in deeper water than they realise?
Dialogues with Rising Tides
Author: Kelli Russell Agodon
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619322390
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
In Kelli Russell Agodon’s fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation with the forces that threaten to take us under. The anxieties and heartbreaks of life—including environmental collapse, cruel politics, and the persistent specter of suicide—are met with emotional vulnerability and darkly sparkling humor. Dialogues with Rising Tides does not answer, This or that? It passionately exclaims, And also! Even in the midst of great difficulty, radiant wonders are illuminated at every turn.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619322390
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
In Kelli Russell Agodon’s fourth collection, each poem facilitates a humane and honest conversation with the forces that threaten to take us under. The anxieties and heartbreaks of life—including environmental collapse, cruel politics, and the persistent specter of suicide—are met with emotional vulnerability and darkly sparkling humor. Dialogues with Rising Tides does not answer, This or that? It passionately exclaims, And also! Even in the midst of great difficulty, radiant wonders are illuminated at every turn.
Life Tides
Author: Elizabeth Tarbox
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN: 9781558966871
Category : Meditations
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN: 9781558966871
Category : Meditations
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Crimson Tides of Life
Author: Achilles Walter Brand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blood
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blood
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Life Between the Tides: In Search of Rockpools and Other Adventures Along the Shore
Author: Adam Nicolson
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008294798
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022 ‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ... Nicolson is unique as a writer ... I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAAL Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008294798
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2022 ‘A remarkable and powerful book, the rarest of things ... Nicolson is unique as a writer ... I loved it’ EDMUND DE WAAL Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise.