On A Farther Shore

Author : William Souder
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307462218
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On a Farther Shore written by William Souder and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2012 Rachel Carson loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist transformed our relationship with the natural world. Silent Spring was a chilling indictment of DDT and other pesticides that until then had been hailed as safe and wondrously effective. It was Carson who sifted through all the evidence, documenting with alarming clarity the collateral damage to fish, birds, and other wildlife; revealing the effects of these new chemicals to be lasting, widespread, and lethal. Silent Spring shocked the public and forced the government to take action, despite a withering attack on Carson from the chemicals industry. It awakened the world to the heedless contamination of the environment and eventually led to the establishment of the EPA and to the banning of DDT. By drawing frightening parallels between dangerous chemicals and the then-pervasive fallout from nuclear testing, Carson opened a fault line between the gentle ideal of conservation and the more urgent new concept of environmentalism. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, On a Farther Shore reveals a shy yet passionate woman more at home in the natural world than in the literary one that embraced her. William Souder also writes sensitively of Carson's romantic friendship with Dorothy Freeman, and of Carson's death from cancer in 1964. This extraordinary new biography captures the essence of one of the great reformers of the twentieth century.

Author : Yvonne Kason M. D.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595533965
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farther Shores written by Yvonne Kason M. D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic near-death experience change Yvonne Kason's live forever and prompted her study of the mystical experiences that fall beyond the everyday. In this newly revised edition of the bestselling A Farther Shore, Dr. Kason explores a wide range of spiritually transformative experiences - near-death experiences, mystical experiences, spiritual energy/kundalini episodes, psychic awakenings and spontaneous inspired creativity - by sharing fascinating real-life stories. Farther Shores is an inspiring book for those who have experiences the extraordinary and for the health care professionals whom they turn for help. Dr. Kason offers sound advice on how to use these occurrences for spiritual growth and personal healing. "...an exceptional book...[that] takes the reader into a world where mystical happenings bring direction and healing to our everyday lives." - Jyoti (Jeneane Prevatt, Ph.D.) Former Director of the Spiritual Emergence Network Author of An Angel. Called My Name "... a major contribution to our understanding of a wide range of spiritually transformative expe4ricences...Kason is a wise and knowledgeable guide in these realms, and I can recommend her book with the greatest enthusiasm." - Kennith Ring, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Connecticut Author of Healing Toward Omega and Lessons from the Light "...builds a bridge between the scientific and the spiritual, a bridge physicians will feel comfortable crossing." - Family Practice

Author : Matthew Eck
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571318593
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farther Shore written by Matthew Eck and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2011-12-18 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Short, sharp, devastating, The Farther Shore is a literary machine gun . . . a winning debut that happens to be a war novel.” —Kansas City Star A small unit of soldiers from the US Army is separated from their command and left for dead. Their only option is to keep moving, in hope that they’ll escape the marauding gangs and clansmen who appear to rule the city. Josh, a young soldier, and his “battle buddies” are left to wander in this hostile territory. A series of nightmarish, often violent encounters leaves only a few of them alive. The Farther Shore is a short, stark war novel in which the characters are both haunting and inhuman, natives and invaders alike. The emerging story reflects a new kind of military engagement, with all the attendant horrors and difficulties of fighting in a strange new postmodern battlefield. In his unforgettable debut novel, Matthew Eck puts readers inside the mind of a confused young soldier caught in the fog of unexpected warfare. “Bold, profane, hallucinatory.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Haunting . . . goes beyond the on-the-ground chaos of battle to capture the physical and psychological disorientation of modern war.” —Publishers Weekly “Every word in Eck’s first novel is as solid as a stone. Every moment of crisis feels authentic in its terror and tragedy; indeed, Eck served as a soldier in Somalia at age eighteen. Heir to Hemingway, and damn near as powerful as Cormac McCarthy in The Road, Eck has created a contemporary version of The Red Badge of Courage in this tale of one young man’s trial by fire in the pandemonium of war in an age of high-tech weaponry and low-grade morality.” —Booklist (starred review) “The first great war novel of our generation.” —Salon

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 144245993X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Farthest Shore written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the prince of Enlad declares the wizards have forgotten their spells, Ged sets out to test the ancient prophecies of Earthsea.

Author : Gerry Adams
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1740662245
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hope and History written by Gerry Adams and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the unique inside story, revealing the truth behind the headlines of how the peace process was begun, and brought to fruition. Adams conveys the tensions, the sense of teetering on the brink, and he has a sharp eye and acute ear for the more humorous foibles of political allies and enemies alike.

Author : Alice Kociemba
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578795218
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Farther Shore: Discovering Cape Cod and the Islands Through Poetry written by Alice Kociemba and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology's 118 contemporary poems meld the outer and interior landscapes of Cape Cod and the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard so that the reader discovers, as if for the first time, the spirit of a place that calls us home. Not only do these poems converse with one another, they could not have been written about anywhere else. The anthology includes the work of both local and internationally recognized poets, all of whom were inspired to write about the region.

Author : Reid B. Locklin
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814630037
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual But Not Religious? written by Reid B. Locklin and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can spirituality be separated from "the complications of religious institutions"? Convert and theologian Reid Blackmer Locklin thinks not. Combining personal experience with insights from Hindu and Christian traditions, Locklin offers "Spiritual But Not Religious?," a guide to institutional commitment in a world characterized by religious pluralism.

Author : Linda Lear
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 054770755X
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rachel Carson written by Linda Lear and published by HMH. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative biography of the marine biologist and nature writer whose book Silent Spring inspired the global environmentalist movement. In a career that spanned from civil service to unlikely literary celebrity, Rachel Carson became one of the world’s seminal leaders in conservation. The 1962 publication of her book Silent Spring was a watershed event that led to the banning of DDT and launched the modern environmental movement. Growing up in poverty on a tiny Allegheny River farm, Carson attended the Pennsylvania College for Women on a scholarship. There, she studied science and writing before taking a job with the newly emerging Fish and Wildlife Service. In this definitive biography, Linda Lear traces the evolution of Carson’s private, professional, and public lives, from the origins of her dedication to natural science to her invaluable service as a brilliant, if reluctant, reformer. Drawing on unprecedented access to sources and interviews, Lear masterfully explores the roots of Carson’s powerful connection to the natural world, crafting a “fine portrait of the environmentalist as a human being” (Smithsonian). “Impressively researched and eminently readable . . . Compelling, not just for Carson devotees but for anyone concerned about the environment.” —People “[A] combination of meticulous scholarship and thoughtful, often poignant, writing.” —Science “A sweeping, analytic, first-class biography of Rachel Carson.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Karen Kingsbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982104368
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Distant Shore written by Karen Kingsbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Book club favorites, reader's guide"--Cover.

Author : Roger Meiners
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 1937184196
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Spring at 50 written by Roger Meiners and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, a team of national experts explores the book’s historical context, the science it was built on, and the policy consequences of its core ideas. Their findings: much of what Carson presented as fact was slanted, and today we know much of it is simply wrong.