Author: James Fullarton Muirhead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National characteristics, American
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Land of Contrasts
Author: James Fullarton Muirhead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National characteristics, American
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National characteristics, American
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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America, the Land of Contrasts
Author: James Fullarton Muirhead
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National characteristics, American
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National characteristics, American
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Globejotting
Author: Dave Fox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592993444
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Most travel diaries fizzle. By day six of a big trip, people are struggling to recall what happened on days three, four, and five. They return home with mostly empty journals, or bland writing that fails to capture the full spirit of their journeys. Award-winning travel humorist Dave Fox comes to the rescue in this book that's both informative and irreverently funny. You'll learn to: -- Bring destinations to life with bold details. -- Splash those details quickly onto your pages so journaling doesn't gobble up your precious vacation time. -- Elude your "Inner Censor" and write with confidence. -- Weave together your "outer" and "inner" journeys, using unfamiliar places as a backdrop for self-discovery. Dave shares his favorite journaling techniques, shows how to find time to write in the middle of an exciting trip, and infuses it all with a generous dose of his off-the-wall humor. Whether your journeys are weekend road trips or excursions around the world, this book will help transform you into a travel journaling superhero!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781592993444
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Most travel diaries fizzle. By day six of a big trip, people are struggling to recall what happened on days three, four, and five. They return home with mostly empty journals, or bland writing that fails to capture the full spirit of their journeys. Award-winning travel humorist Dave Fox comes to the rescue in this book that's both informative and irreverently funny. You'll learn to: -- Bring destinations to life with bold details. -- Splash those details quickly onto your pages so journaling doesn't gobble up your precious vacation time. -- Elude your "Inner Censor" and write with confidence. -- Weave together your "outer" and "inner" journeys, using unfamiliar places as a backdrop for self-discovery. Dave shares his favorite journaling techniques, shows how to find time to write in the middle of an exciting trip, and infuses it all with a generous dose of his off-the-wall humor. Whether your journeys are weekend road trips or excursions around the world, this book will help transform you into a travel journaling superhero!
Land of Contrast
Author: Heinrich Van Den Berg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620538152
Category : Biotic communities
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This nature book reveals the diversity of landscapes and life for which the remarkable eight biomes of the southern African sub-continent are renowned. The introduction to each chapter is a short summary of the main factors that determine the nature of each biome. Then follows a list of places for the traveller where the specific biome is evident.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620538152
Category : Biotic communities
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
This nature book reveals the diversity of landscapes and life for which the remarkable eight biomes of the southern African sub-continent are renowned. The introduction to each chapter is a short summary of the main factors that determine the nature of each biome. Then follows a list of places for the traveller where the specific biome is evident.
Israel
Author: Rachel Goldmann
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781860644818
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Israel is a land of stark contrasts. This beautifully illustrated book reflects the range of sights and issues crammed into this tiny strip of land along the coast of the eastern Mediterranean. Antiquity and modernity, peace and conflict, beaches and deserts--all jostle together to form a social, political and cultural environment pulsing with energy, nervous tension, creativity and beauty. Authors and photographer here combine to produce a wonderfully packaged portrait of the culture, history, archeology, architecture and social life of Israel, with its diverse and multi-ethnic population. We see the traditions of Jews, Christians, and Muslims deeply imbedded into a landscape of staggering beauty and infinite variety.
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781860644818
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Israel is a land of stark contrasts. This beautifully illustrated book reflects the range of sights and issues crammed into this tiny strip of land along the coast of the eastern Mediterranean. Antiquity and modernity, peace and conflict, beaches and deserts--all jostle together to form a social, political and cultural environment pulsing with energy, nervous tension, creativity and beauty. Authors and photographer here combine to produce a wonderfully packaged portrait of the culture, history, archeology, architecture and social life of Israel, with its diverse and multi-ethnic population. We see the traditions of Jews, Christians, and Muslims deeply imbedded into a landscape of staggering beauty and infinite variety.
Chile, Land of Contrasts
Author: United States. Office of Inter-American Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Land of Contrast
Author: Frederic J. Athearn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Land of Stark Contrasts
Author: Manuel Mejido Costoya
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823293971
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today’s most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United States—from Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston. Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to partner better with faith-based organizations will also find the chapters in this volume an invaluable resource. Contributors include James V. Spickard, Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen, Michael R. Fisher Jr., Laura Stivers, Lauren Valk Lawson, Bruce Granville Miller, Nancy A. Khalil, John A. Coleman, S.J., Jeremy Phillip Brown, Paul Houston Blankenship, María Teresa Dávila, Roberto Mata, and Sathianathan Clarke. Co-published with Seattle University’s Center for Religious Wisdom and World Affairs
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823293971
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An important new volume showcasing a wide range of faith-based responses to one of today’s most pressing social issues, challenging us to expand our ways of understanding. Land of Stark Contrasts brings together the work of social scientists, ethicists, and theologians exploring the profound role of religion in understanding and responding to homelessness and housing insecurity in all corners of the United States—from Seattle, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley to Dallas and San Antonio to Washington, D.C., and Boston. Together, the essays of Land of Stark Contrasts chart intriguing ways forward for future initiatives to address the root causes of homelessness. In this way they are essential reading for practical theologians, congregational leaders, and faith-based nonprofit organizers exploring how to combine spiritual and material care for homeless individuals and other vulnerable populations. Social workers, nonprofit managers, and policy specialists seeking to understand how to partner better with faith-based organizations will also find the chapters in this volume an invaluable resource. Contributors include James V. Spickard, Manuel Mejido Costoya and Margaret Breen, Michael R. Fisher Jr., Laura Stivers, Lauren Valk Lawson, Bruce Granville Miller, Nancy A. Khalil, John A. Coleman, S.J., Jeremy Phillip Brown, Paul Houston Blankenship, María Teresa Dávila, Roberto Mata, and Sathianathan Clarke. Co-published with Seattle University’s Center for Religious Wisdom and World Affairs
Land of Snow and Ashes
Author: Petra Rautiainen
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782277374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The haunting, gripping story of Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes during World War II, perfect for fans of Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius “A beautifully written novel and a thriller that will keep readers turning the page to find out the truth about this disgraceful chapter of Finnish history” – Harvard Review Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold onto his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice. A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is more personal: she is following a lead on her husband, who disappeared during the war. Finding a small community riven with tension and suspicious of outsiders, Inkeri slowly begins to uncover traces of disturbing facts that were never supposed to come to light. From this starkly beautiful polar landscape emerges a story of silenced histories and ongoing oppression, of human brutality and survival.
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782277374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The haunting, gripping story of Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes during World War II, perfect for fans of Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius “A beautifully written novel and a thriller that will keep readers turning the page to find out the truth about this disgraceful chapter of Finnish history” – Harvard Review Finnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold onto his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice. A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is more personal: she is following a lead on her husband, who disappeared during the war. Finding a small community riven with tension and suspicious of outsiders, Inkeri slowly begins to uncover traces of disturbing facts that were never supposed to come to light. From this starkly beautiful polar landscape emerges a story of silenced histories and ongoing oppression, of human brutality and survival.
Peru: a land of contrast
Author: Millicent Todd Bingham
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"Peru: a land of contrast" by Millicent Todd Bingham was the first introduction many people had to this part of South America. The book explores the different areas of Peru and how the culture can, at times, seem to be in conflict. Written from the perspective of a European, the insights of the book should be taken with a grain of salt. However, it did serve as a stepping stone for future research.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"Peru: a land of contrast" by Millicent Todd Bingham was the first introduction many people had to this part of South America. The book explores the different areas of Peru and how the culture can, at times, seem to be in conflict. Written from the perspective of a European, the insights of the book should be taken with a grain of salt. However, it did serve as a stepping stone for future research.