A Natural State

Author : Steven Gilbar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0520212096

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Natural State by Steven Gilbar Pdf

This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers—be they naturalists or armchair explorers—will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the company of forty noted writers whose works span more than a century. Divided into sections on California's mountains, hills and valleys, deserts, coast, and elements (earth, wind, and fire), the book contains essays, diary entries, and excerpts from larger works, including fiction. As a prelude to the collection, editor Steven Gilbar presents two California Indian creation myths, one a Cahto narrative and the other an A-juma-wi story as told by Darryl Babe Wilson. Familiar names appear in these pages—John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, John McPhee, M.F.K. Fisher, Gretel Ehrlich—but less familiar writers such as Daniel Duane, Margaret Millar, and John McKinney are also included. Among the gems in this treasure trove are Jack Kerouac on climbing Mt. Matterhorn, Barry Lopez on snow geese migration at Tule Lake, Edward Abbey on Death Valley, Henry Miller on Big Sur, and Joan Didion on the Santa Ana winds. Gary Snyder's inspiring Afterword reflects the spirit of environmentalism that runs throughout the book. Natural State also reveals the many changes to California's landscape that have occurred in geological time and in human terms. More than a book of "nature writing," this book is superb writing about nature.

Author : Dakpo Tashi Namgyal
Publisher : Rangjung Yeshe Publications
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9627341452

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Clarifying the Natural State by Dakpo Tashi Namgyal Pdf

A Buddhist Classic A practical manual for both teacher and student alike, Clarifying the Natural State covers the path from mindfulness to complete enlightenment, simply and methodically. Presenting the profound and ultimate instructions of Mahamudra, it embodies the realization of India and Tibet's greatest masters. The words of Dakpo Tashi Namgyal are unique. Adorned with plenty of pithy advice out of his personal experience, practitioners are greatly benefited by his instructions on how to remove hindrances and progress further. His methods for practicing Mahamudra are preeminent. This book is indispensable as it focuses exclusively on practice. -Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche Elevate your experience and remain wide open like the sky. Expand your mindfulness and remain pervasive like the earth. Steady your attention and remain unshakable like a mountain. Brighten your awareness and remain shining like a flame. Clear your thought free wakefulness and remain lucid like a crystal. - Dakpo Tashi Namgyal 16th Century

Author : Michael Shoulders
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781585367580

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N Is for Natural State by Michael Shoulders Pdf

Discover the unspoiled beauty of Arkansas in N is for Natural State: An Arkansas Alphabet. Acansa is the Sioux Indian name for the state we know today as Arkansas and this begins our alphabet journey. Next you'll find Blanchard Springs Cavern with its 80,000 bats and then to D is for Diamonds, and learn the Natural State is the only state that mines them. Illustrator Rick Anderson's rich and colorful images bring the beautiful vision of Arkansas to all readers.

Author : Brock Thompson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781557289438

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The Un-Natural State by Brock Thompson Pdf

This is a study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story.

Author : Steven Teske
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781935106586

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Natural State Notables by Steven Teske Pdf

Everyone, including native Arkansans, may be surprised to find out how many famous and fascinating people come from or have strong ties to the state. Natural State Notables profiles twenty-one such people, including musicians, athletes, business leaders, and public servants. Readers will learn about a famous surgeon who was a pioneer in kidney transplantation, a woman who kept a hospital open during the Depression, and a teacher who wrote a famous song to match a history lesson. Featured are poor people who worked hard to become successful and a rich man who moved to Arkansas, fell in love with the state, and made it better. All of these people are “Natural State Notables” who helped make Arkansas what it is today.

Author : John Wheeler,Rt Hon Sir John Wheeler, LLM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09
Category : Awareness
ISBN : 0954779231

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Awakening to the Natural State by John Wheeler,Rt Hon Sir John Wheeler, LLM Pdf

John Wheeler met Bob Adamson (a student of Nisargadatta Maharaj) on a trip to Australia in 2003. In short order, Bob cleared up John's doubts and questions and pointed out to him the fact of our real nature: self-shining, ever-present awareness. Bob Adamson has encouraged John to share this understanding of 'who we really are.'The articles contained in this book (extended by another 30 articles in this edition) cover some of John's experiences with meeting 'Sailor' Bob Adamson and various aspects of the understanding which subsequently unfolded. Interspersed with these are chapters of email correspondence with enquirers who have been drawn to this radical and direct approach to self-realisation.

Author : U. G. Krishnamurti
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : EAN:8596547020936

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The Natural State by U. G. Krishnamurti Pdf

The Natural State is a metaphysical contemplation by Krishnamurti. The author was an Indian philosopher who claimed enlightenment to be a nonsensical concept. A fascinating read!

Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Limited Access Orders in the Developing World: a New Approach to the Problems of Development by Douglass C. North Pdf

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Nature
ISBN : 029273087X

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A Natural State by Stephen Harrigan Pdf

In this remarkable collection of essays, Stephen Harrigan explores, with an unfailing depth of feeling, the human longing to feel at home in the world of nature. In vivid and convincing prose, he evokes the landscape of his home territory, Texas, and his own reactions, sometimes droll, sometimes haunted, to the extraordinary power of place that Texas projects. A Natural State was originally published in hardcover in 1988 by Texas Monthly Press.

Author : Emily Rose Oachs
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612117997

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Arkansas by Emily Rose Oachs Pdf

Arkansas is full of hidden gemsÑliterally! Beautiful rocks and minerals surface at Crater of Diamonds State Park, a diamond mine open to the public. But thereÕs much more to discover in this southern state. With the Ozarks, hot springs, and the Little Rock Nine, Arkansas shines from east to west.

Author : George Pratt,Peter Lambrou
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780062059406

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Code to Joy by George Pratt,Peter Lambrou Pdf

We are meant to be happy. Instinctively, we all know this, somewhere deep inside. We all know what it's like to feel a burst of delight. Every one of us has at some point in our lives experienced a sense of ecstatic joy, of euphoria at the sheer sensation of being alive. Have you ever wondered why that experience has to be so rare and fleeting? The answer is, It doesn't. —from Code to Joy All the positive thinking, affirmations, talk therapy, and pharmaceuticals in the world will never be enough to make us as happy as we were designed to be, according to acclaimed clinical psychologists George Pratt, Ph.D., and Peter Lambrou, Ph.D. That's because those approaches fail to address a third aspect of the human organism, one that bridges the gap between mind and body: the biofield. Combining six decades of clinical experience with cutting-edge research, Drs. Pratt and Lambrou have developed a revolutionary program for rediscovering (and then never again letting go of) your innate happiness in four simple, proven steps. Pratt and Lambrou's program has already transformed the lives of more than 45,000 clients, including professional athletes, top executives, and celebrities. Code to Joy can transform yours, too, with all the science-based tools and guidance you need to complete the process of becoming a more focused, more powerful, and more deeply joyful you.

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781631493546

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In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas by Larry McMurtry Pdf

This landmark collection, brimming with his signature wit and incomparable sensibility, is Larry McMurtry’s classic tribute to his home and his people. Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation’s perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew what it meant to come from Texas. Originally published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s homage to the past and present of the Lone Star State, where he grew up a precociously observant hand on his father’s ranch. From literature to rodeos, small-town folk to big city intellectuals, McMurtry explores all the singular elements that define his land and community, revealing the surprising and particular challenges in the “dying . . . rural, pastoral way of life.” “The gold standard for understanding Houston’s brash rootlessness and civic insecurities” (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), In a Narrow Grave offers a timeless portrait of the vividly human, complex, full-blooded Texan.

Author : Peter Maverick
Publisher : Smriti Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8187967773

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The Natural State by Peter Maverick Pdf

Taken from many sources, this book is an anthology of UG's conversations. It aims to offer some of the most startling and penetrating of UG's words. UG says that it is our tragedy that we are constantly trying to change ourselves, trying to model ourselves after one of the 'saints, sages, or saviours of mankind'.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486122144

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Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.

Author : Brock Thompson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610754439

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The Un-Natural State by Brock Thompson Pdf

The Un-Natural State is a one-of-a-kind study of gay and lesbian life in Arkansas in the twentieth century, a deft weaving together of Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and Brock Thompson's own story. Thompson analyzes the meaning of rural drag shows, including a compelling description of a 1930s seasonal beauty pageant in Wilson, Arkansas, where white men in drag shared the stage with other white men in blackface, a suggestive mingling that went to the core of both racial transgression and sexual disobedience. These small town entertainments put on in churches and schools emerged decades later in gay bars across the state as a lucrative business practice and a larger means of community expression, while in the same period the state's sodomy law was rewritten to condemn sexual acts between those of the same sex in language similar to what was once used to denounce interracial sex. Thompson goes on to describe several lesbian communities established in the Ozark Mountains during the sixties and seventies and offers a substantial account of Eureka Springs's informal status as the "gay capital of the Ozarks." Through this exploration of identity formation, group articulation, political mobilization, and cultural visibility within the context of historical episodes such as the Second World War, the civil rights movement, and the AIDS epidemic, The Un-Natural State contributes not only to our understanding of gay and lesbian history but also to our understanding of the South.