A Walk

Author : Jonathon Stalls
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781623176969

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WALK by Jonathon Stalls Pdf

A transformative collection of essays on the power of walking to connect with ourselves, each other, and nature itself. In 2010, Jonathon Stalls and his blue-heeler husky mix began their 242-day walk across the United States, depending upon each other and the kindness of strangers along the way. In this collection of essays, Stalls explores walking as waking up: how a cross-country journey through the family farms of West Virginia, the deep freedom of Nevada’s High desert, and everywhere in between unlocked connections to his deepest aches and dreams--and opened new avenues for renewal, connection, and change. While most of us won’t walk or roll across the country, the deep wisdom and insights that Stalls receives from the people, land, and animals he meets on his pilgrimage have profound impacts for each of us. He shares how walking deepened his relationship to himself as a gay man, offering deep and clarifying emotional medicine. He confronts the systemic racism, classism, and ableism that shape and reshape the communities he walks through. And he invites readers to become awakened activists, to begin healing our culture’s profound separation from the natural world. WALK is for those who crave to feel and embody, not just know and study, their way through complex themes that live in each chapter: vulnerability, human dignity, presence, mystery, and resistance. With dedicated practices--like connecting to Earth stewardship, moving into vulnerability, and walking and rolling with intention--Stalls’ WALK is an urgent and glorious call to slow down, look around, and engage with the world in front of us. It awakens us to what we miss when we’re driving by, flying over, and rushing past what surrounds us. It’s an invitation to move, to connect, to participate deeply in the world--and to dissolve the barriers that disconnect us from each other and the living Earth.

Author : Libby DeLana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907974962

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Do Walk by Libby DeLana Pdf

One morning in 2011, Libby DeLana stepped outside her New England home for a walk. She did the same thing the next day, and the next. It became a daily habit that has culminated in her walking over 25,000 miles - the equivalent of the earth's circumference. In Do Walk, Libby shares the transformative nature of this simple yet powerful practice. She reveals how walking each day provides the time and space to reconnect with the world around us; process thoughts; improve our physical wellbeing; and unlock creativity. It is the ultimate navigational tool that helps us to see who we are - beyond titles and labels, and where we want to go. With stunning photography, this inspiring and reflective guide is an invitation to step outside, and see where the path takes us.

Author : Carolyn Curtis
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1841486116

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I Took the Moon for a Walk by Carolyn Curtis Pdf

A boy and the moon share a walk through his neighborhood.

Author : Jordan Wheeler
Publisher : Schchechmala Children's
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1894778820

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Just a Walk by Jordan Wheeler Pdf

In Just a Walk, a young boy named Chuck goes for a simple walk that turns into a day of crazy adventure. Chuck encounters animals, fish and birds that lead him on a wild journey through their various habitats.

Author : Susan Gal
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375985560

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Please Take Me For a Walk by Susan Gal Pdf

Please Take Me for a Walk is a celebration of dogs and kids and community. The book stars a very persuasive pup pleading with his best friend—the reader!—to take him for a walk. He recounts all the fun things they can see and do: chase squirrels in the yard, greet neighbors on their block, visit the shopkeepers downtown, swing by the schoolyard, and then run and play in the park. The dog run at the park is filled with all kinds of amazing purebreds and mutts, and our puppy wants them all to see "my best friend and me." Susan Gal uses this story of a dog's best walk ever to catalog all the favorite places in a child's world. She starts in the house and the yard, then widens her scope to the block, the neighborhood, downtown, and the park. And she captures the magical way the people of a community can be brought together through their pets. The dog's enthusiastic voice and eagerness to go out walking will resonate with any dog owner. And Susan Gal's artwork is so enticing and adorable it will have even confirmed cat lovers heading for the pound! Happy walking, everyone!

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780385674546

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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Pdf

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.

Author : Kathleen Rooney
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250113337

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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney Pdf

NOW A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER “Transporting...witty, poignant and sparkling.” —People (People Picks Book of the Week) “Prescient and quick....A perfect fusing of subject and writer, idea and ideal.” —Chicago Tribune “Extraordinary...hilarious...Elegantly written, Rooney creates a glorious paean to a distant literary life and time—and an unabashed celebration of human connections that bridge past and future. —Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed) "Rooney's delectably theatrical fictionalization is laced with strands of tart poetry and emulates the dark sparkle of Dorothy Parker, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Truman Capote. Effervescent with verve, wit, and heart, Rooney’s nimble novel celebrates insouciance, creativity, chance, and valor." —Booklist (starred review) “In my reckless and undiscouraged youth,” Lillian Boxfish writes, “I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth Street...” She took 1930s New York by storm, working her way up writing copy for R.H. Macy’s to become the highest paid advertising woman in the country. It was a job that, she says, “in some ways saved my life, and in other ways ruined it.” Now it’s the last night of 1984 and Lillian, 85 years old but just as sharp and savvy as ever, is on her way to a party. It’s chilly enough out for her mink coat and Manhattan is grittier now—her son keeps warning her about a subway vigilante on the prowl—but the quick-tongued poetess has never been one to scare easily. On a walk that takes her over 10 miles around the city, she meets bartenders, bodega clerks, security guards, criminals, children, parents, and parents-to-be, while reviewing a life of excitement and adversity, passion and heartbreak, illuminating all the ways New York has changed—and has not. A love letter to city life in all its guts and grandeur, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk by Kathleen Rooney paints a portrait of a remarkable woman across the canvas of a changing America: from the Jazz Age to the onset of the AIDS epidemic; the Great Depression to the birth of hip-hop. Lillian figures she might as well take her time. For now, after all, the night is still young.

Author : Christian Sundberg
Publisher : Christian Sundberg
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781737197010

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A Walk in the Physical by Christian Sundberg Pdf

You existed before your human experience, and you will exist after. Drawing from his unique pre-birth memories, Christian Sundberg provides an encouraging framework for understanding the nature of the human experience within the larger spiritual context. A Walk in the Physical is a non-linear reality model that boils down the very vast into succinct accessible language. More than a set of ideas though, it is a tool meant to point you towards the portion of yourself that already exists right now beyond Earth. At the heart of the book is the theme of love, and it describes why authentic love – even in small matters – is so deeply important to our human journey.

Author : Paula Peeters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0994639457

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Take This Book for a Walk by Paula Peeters Pdf

Author : Frédéric Gros
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781804290446

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A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros Pdf

This “passionate affirmation of the simple life” explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer) “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble—and reveals what they say about us. Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.

Author : John Daly,Lyn Daly
Publisher : Boolarong Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781922643438

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Take a Walk by John Daly,Lyn Daly Pdf

A trip into Australia’s heart and the Top End is an adventure dream for most Australians! Burnt-orange landscapes; stark-white ghost gums; iconic rock domes; glowing-red sunsets; night diamonds in unpolluted skies; plummeting waterfalls; rain-drenched wetlands; emerald-green monsoon forests; and the world’s oldest art galleries, attract thousands of visitors to this timeless land. Walk with us through 38 parks and reserves along a thousand kilometres of tracks and trails and discover the hidden beauty of these unique areas. Choose your own adventure from 63 easy, 39 moderate, 17 hard, and nine overnight walks. Whether you throw on a backpack, sleep in a tent or prefer a campervan, caravan or motorhome, you’ll find somewhere to rest your head in the access and information sections. Active travellers and keen bushwalkers will find their own special place in this seventh book of the Take A Walk series. It will remain a great memento of your trip into some of Australia’s most untouched areas. National parks provide a great escape where we can appreciate and learn from our natural landscapes.

Author : Mikl¢s B¢na
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789812568854

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A Walk Through Combinatorics by Mikl¢s B¢na Pdf

This is a textbook for an introductory combinatorics course that can take up one or two semesters. An extensive list of problems, ranging from routine exercises to research questions, is included. In each section, there are also exercises that contain material not explicitly discussed in the preceding text, so as to provide instructors with extra choices if they want to shift the emphasis of their course. Just as with the first edition, the new edition walks the reader through the classic parts of combinatorial enumeration and graph theory, while also discussing some recent progress in the area: on the one hand, providing material that will help students learn the basic techniques, and on the other hand, showing that some questions at the forefront of research are comprehensible and accessible for the talented and hard-working undergraduate. The basic topics discussed are: the twelvefold way, cycles in permutations, the formula of inclusion and exclusion, the notion of graphs and trees, matchings and Eulerian and Hamiltonian cycles. The selected advanced topics are: Ramsey theory, pattern avoidance, the probabilistic method, partially ordered sets, and algorithms and complexity. As the goal of the book is to encourage students to learn more combinatorics, every effort has been made to provide them with a not only useful, but also enjoyable and engaging reading.

Author : John Marceau
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781449763299

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A Walk with God by John Marceau Pdf

A Walk with God is a series of devotions written as a result of personal testing and growth with the intent to draw one into a deeper relationship with our Master. Each devotion is a guide through the Word of God and is intended to cause a deeper desire to delve into the knowledge of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Author : Terri “Bumpkin” Sanders
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490895703

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Gone for a Walk by Terri “Bumpkin” Sanders Pdf

When author Terri Sanders hiked the Appalachian Trail, her biggest surprise was not that the trail was difficult or long; it was that the true test of endurance arose not from climbing over boulders or walking in torrential rain storms, but from being willing to look inward at her emotional baggage and choose to let it go. A compilation of journal entries from the trail, Gone for a Walk presents a compelling look at her 2,100-mile odyssey hiking the Appalachian Trail. She shares not only the story of her journey, the people she met along the way, and the scenery she witnessed, but also a brutally honest glimpse of her life and the struggles she faced growing up and later in life. She shares valuable insights as the Lord speaks to her, convincing her of her self-worth and His great love and acceptance for her. Through these revelations, she was finally able to come home to herself with true acceptance. A story of hiking, hope, and healing, Gone for a Walk offers a look at profound moments of the healing touch of God and demonstrates that His love for us is everlasting. It tells of an odyssey, grounded in perseverance and goal setting that changed Sanders’ life in unimaginable ways.

Author : Carla Stang
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 184545555X

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A Walk to the River in Amazonia by Carla Stang Pdf

Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality—the flow of moment-to-moment existence. In this anthropological study of the Amazon’s Mehinaku Indians, the author achieves an understanding of this part of reality by both observing various aspects of their experience and by relating how these different facets come to play in a stream of ordinary consciousness, a walk to the river. In this way, abstract schemata such as ‘cosmology,’ ‘sociality,’ ‘gender,’ and the ‘everyday’ are understood as they are actually lived.