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Author : David Ebershoff
Publisher : Random House
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781588367488

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The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff Pdf

Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain. Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a brilliant novel of literary suspense. It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of a family’s polygamous history is revealed, including how a young woman became a plural wife. Soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds–a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, a young man who was thrown out of his fundamentalist sect years earlier, must reenter the world that cast him aside in order to discover the truth behind his father’s death. And as Ann Eliza’s narrative intertwines with that of Jordan’ s search, readers are pulled deeper into the mysteries of love and faith. Praise for The 19th Wife “This exquisite tour de force explores the dark roots of polygamy and its modern-day fruit in a renegade cult . . . Ebershoff brilliantly blends a haunting fictional narrative by Ann Eliza Young, the real-life 19th “rebel” wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young, with the equally compelling contemporary narrative of fictional Jordan Scott, a 20-year-old gay man. . . . With the topic of plural marriage and its shattering impact on women and powerless children in today's headlines, this novel is essential reading for anyone seeking understanding of the subject.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author : Zara Borthwick,Nicholas Arnold
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329790759

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Celestial Soul Condition by Zara Borthwick,Nicholas Arnold Pdf

Author : Suroso Mun
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781475905847

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Celestial Messages by Suroso Mun Pdf

Everything in this world is born out of the same root and has a similar origin. Though things look all different, they are actually the same, like the leaves on the left and those on the right. If you always look at things with a humble mind and examine them closely, you will get to know that there is nothing irrelevant to the Universe. Begin every day with gratitude and end every day with gratitude, and lead a pleasant and leisurely life. Your life is the only thing that you can create. The life that you create changes you, and your change will change you even more. Thus, how can you live your life unpleasantly?

Author : Jane Hawley Stevens
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-07
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781645022145

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The Celestial Garden by Jane Hawley Stevens Pdf

“So much thoughtful insight and practical advice is contained in these pages . . . Jane uses nature as a guide to living life in harmony rather than discord.”—Rosemary Gladstar, author of Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs Insight, ideas, and inspiration abound in this highly practical guide to growing successfully in harmony with the moon, the Earth, and other planetary influences. Planting by the moon is an age-old gardening tradition, but did you know that the cycles of the moon and the zodiac can be a powerful tool to improve your success with all kinds of gardening tasks? In The Celestial Garden, longtime gardener and herbalist Jane Hawley Stevens explains how the movement of the moon through the constellations of the zodiac provides a detailed calendar of optimal times for planting seeds, roots, and transplants, as well as for pruning, weeding, propagation, harvesting, and even starting new garden projects or throwing garden parties. While herbs are Stevens’s specialty, she loves growing all kinds of plants, and The Celestial Garden provides excellent gardening tips for every gardener, whether their passion is for vegetables, fruits, herbs, or flowers. At a deeper level, Stevens believes that gardening by the moon and learning about astrological cycles can help restore our elemental interconnection with Nature and the Earth. The Celestial Garden introduces and explains all aspects of astrological gardening: What moon signs are, and why and how the phase of the moon affects plant growth and development How to align the moon’s passage through the constellations of the zodiac with your choice of daily garden tasks and projects Specific tips and advice for the best activities to undertake during each of the moon’s phases How to incorporate simple, creative seasonal rituals into your astrological gardening practice How to design a unique chakra garden How to apply what you learn about astrological influences beyond the garden to experience a greater sense of flow and satisfaction in all aspects of your daily life Photos of the author’s garden throughout the book provide visual evidence of the positive results that come from gardening in harmony with the moon and planetary influences. Illustrations and charts help readers understand the lunar cycle and its influence on plants, the astrological rulers of the body, and the relationship between the signs of the zodiac and the four elements (earth, air, water, fire). Gardeners of every level of experience will find new insights, ideas, and inspiration in this unusual, beautiful, and highly practical guide to the simple yet expansive art of consulting with the cosmos to inform our garden tasks on any given day, week, or month and enjoy greater gardening satisfaction and success. "[Stevens'] advice is plentiful . . [and her] horticultural degree underscore the science of her work."—Booklist “A unique and wonderful book, brimming with the knowledge and skills that arise from a lifetime in herbalism. . . This book is a major contribution to herbalism’s role not only in the alleviation of suffering, but the transformation of human consciousness. Thank you, Jane!”—David Hoffmann, RH (AHG), fellow, National Institute of Medical Herbalists; principal scientist, Traditional Medicinals "In this easy-to-understand guidebook, Jane Hawley Stevens demystifies the moon and stars in relationship with nature and explains how you can use their powerful cycles to make your garden the most beautiful, bountiful, and happiest it can be."—Maria Rodale, author of Love, Nature, Magic

Author : John Freely
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857734907

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Celestial Revolutionary by John Freely Pdf

In the spring of 1500, at the apex of the Renaissance, a papal secretary to the Borgia Pope, Alexander VI, wrote that "All the world is in Rome." Though no one knew it at the time, this included a young scholar by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus who would one day change the world. One of the greatest polymaths of his or any age - linguist, lawyer, doctor, diplomat, politician, mathematician, scientist, astronomer, artist, cleric - Copernicus gave the world arguably the most important scientific discovery of the modern era: that earth and the planets revolve around the sun and that the earth rotates on its axis once every 24 hours. His heliocentric theory and the discoveries that would follow ushered in the age of modern astronomy, often called the Copernican Age, and change the way we look at the universe forever. This brilliant and controversial belief - born of a fusion of the theories of the great scholars of antiquity and the knowledge of the medieval Islamic world - was immortalised in Copernicus' epic "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium", a book whose very first printed copy was placed into his hands at the moment of his death in 1543.Here, for the first time, is a biography of Copernicus that not only describes his theories but the life of the man himself and the epic, thrilling times in which he lived.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies
ISBN : UOM:39015008436092

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Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philip Hardie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691197869

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Celestial Aspirations by Philip Hardie Pdf

A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination—poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious—displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations explores how British literature and art during that period exploited classical representations of these soaring themes—through philosophical, scientific and poetic flights of the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of the ruler. From textual reachings for the heavens in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne and Cowley, to the ceiling paintings of Rubens, Verrio and Thornhill, Philip Hardie focuses on the ways that the history, ideologies and aesthetics of the postclassical world received and transformed the ideas of antiquity. In England, narratives of ascent appear on the grandest scale in Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic built around a Christian plot of falling and rising, and one of the most intensely classicizing works of English poetry. Examining the reception of flight up to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Tennyson, Hardie considers the Whig sublime, as well as the works of Alexander Pope and Edward Young. Throughout, he looks at motivations both public and private for aspiring to the heavens—as a reward for political and military achievement on the one hand, and as a goal of individual intellectual and spiritual exertion on the other. Celestial Aspirations offers an intriguing look at how creative minds reworked ancient visions of time and space in the early modern era.

Author : Suroso Mun
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1469732157

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Celestial Messages: Seon Guidance from the Universe by Suroso Mun Pdf

-The Creator does not have any specific form and only his consciousness is alive, so He can appear in any form. The hometown of the Creator is mu (nothingness) and also gong (emptiness).Efforts to search for and enter this hometown of the Creator have been made by various higher forms of life, including human beings. -Seongye concentrates energy once in tens of billions of years on a planet that has been created for practice, and produces may seonins who will participate in the evolution of the Universe. This is the opportunity for the Earth. -If one is advanced to the stage of the speed of thought through practicing spiritual training, because he can shorten billions of years at once, he will be able to look around the whole Universe at speeds he cannot imagine at present. -The true meaning of the After-Heaven Age is to make the Universe into place where everything is bright, pure and warm.

Author : Barry Perlus
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300246278

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Celestial Mirror by Barry Perlus Pdf

Explore the eighteenth-century Indian astronomical observatories called the Jantar Mantars, massive, stunning structures built to observe and understand the heavens Between 1724 and 1730, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories, called Jantar Mantars, in northern India. The four remaining observatories are an extraordinary fusion of architecture and science, combining elements of astronomy, astrology, and geometry into forms of remarkable beauty. The observatories’ large scale and striking geometric forms have captivated the attention of architects, artists, scientists, and historians worldwide, yet their purpose and use remain largely unknown to the public. In this book, Barry Perlus’s visually driven exploration brings readers to the Jantar Mantars and creates an immersive experience. Panoramas plunge the viewer into a breathtaking 360-degree space, while pages of explanatory illustrations describe the observatories and the workings of their many instruments. The book provides the experience of visiting the sites, the historical context of the Jantar Mantars, and an understanding of their scientific and architectural innovations.

Author : John Pascal Vinti
Publisher : AIAA
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Astrodynamics
ISBN : 1600864295

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Orbital and Celestial Mechanics by John Pascal Vinti Pdf

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472538345

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The Great Celestial Cow by Sue Townsend Pdf

A play by one of Britain's best-selling writers When Sita and her children leave India to join her husband in England, she is forced to sell her cow, but she keeps her milking bucket in the hope that she will be able to buy another cow in Leicester. But England is nothing like she expected: faced with prejudice from the English and restrictions of tradition from her family, Sita clings to the dream of the cow and some sense of her own identity."The Great Celestial Cow is a little gem...It's very funny, touching, telling and moving...here is a story with much to say...I kept bursting into spontaneous applause." Robin Thornber, Guardian

Author : Donald W. Olson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319703206

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Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth by Donald W. Olson Pdf

From the author of "Celestial Sleuth" (2014), yet more mysteries in art, history, and literature are solved by calculating phases of the Moon, determining the positions of the planets and stars, and identifying celestial objects in paintings. In addition to helping to crack difficult cases, these studies spark our imagination and provide a better understanding of the skies. Weather archives, vintage maps, tides, historical letters and diaries, military records and the assistance of experts in related fields help with this work. For each historical event influenced by astronomy, there is a different kind of mystery to be solved. How did the changing tides affect an army's battle plans? How did the phases of the moon affect how an artist painted a landscape? Follow these exciting investigations with a master “celestial sleuth” as he tracks down the truth and helps unravel mysteries as far back as the Middle Ages and as recent as the iconic 1945 photograph of a kiss in Times Square on VJ Day. Topics or "cases" pursued were chosen for their wide public recognition and intrigue and involve artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet; historical events such as the campaigns of Braveheart in Scotland and battles in World War II and the Korean War; and literary authors such as Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Byron, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Author : Fabio Tronchetti
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004175358

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The Exploitation of Natural Resources of the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies by Fabio Tronchetti Pdf

The purpose of this book is to propose a legal regime to govern the exploitation of natural resources of the moon and other celestial bodies. Considering, on the one side, the interest shown by states and private operators to extract and use extraterrestrial natural resources and, on the other, the absence of specific rules dealing with such an option, the establishment of a legal framework to regulate the exploitation of natural resources of the moon and other celestial bodies is needed so as to ensure its peaceful, safe and orderly development.

Author : J Delgado,E A Lacomba,E Pérez-Chavela,J Llibre
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814492119

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Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics by J Delgado,E A Lacomba,E Pérez-Chavela,J Llibre Pdf

This volume is an outgrowth of the Third International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics. The main topics are Arnold diffusion, central configurations, singularities in few-body problems, billiards, area-preserving maps, and geometrical mechanics. All papers in the volume went through the refereeing process typical of a mathematical research journal. Contents:The Rhomboidal Charged Four Body Problem (F Alfaro & E Pérez-Chavela)Planetary Rings with Shepherds (L Benet & T H Seligman)Low Reynolds Number Swimming in Two Dimensions (A Cherman et al.)2-Dimensional Invariant Tori for the Spatial Isosceles 3-Body Problem (M Corbera & J Llibre)The Global Flow for the Synodical Spatial Kepler Problem (M P Dantas & J Llibre)Unbounded Growth of Energy in Periodic Perturbations of Geodesic Flows of the Torus (A Delshams et al.)Splitting and Melnikov Potentials in Hamiltonian Systems (A Delshams & P Gutiérrez)Infinity Manifolds of Cubic Polynomial Hamiltonian Vector Fields with 2 Degrees of Freedom (M Falconi et al.)Relativistic Corrections to Elementary Galilean Dynamics and Deformations of Poisson Brackets (R Flores-Espinoza & Y M Vorobjev)Heteroclinic Phenomena in the Sitnikov Problem (A García & E Pérez-Chavela)Doubly-Symmetric Periodic Solutions of Hill's Lunar Problem (R C Howison & K R Meyer)On Practical Stability Regions for the Motion of a Small Particle Close to the Equilateral Points of the Real Earth-Moon System (À Jorba)Variational Methods for Quasi-Periodic Solutions of Partial Differential Equations (R de la Llave)The Splitting of Invariant Lagrangian Submanifolds: Geometry and Dynamics (J-P Marco)Cross-Sections in the Planar N-Body Problem (C McCord)Existence of an Additional First Integral and Completeness of the Flow for Hamiltonian Vector Fields (J Muciño-Raymundo)Simplification of Perturbed Hamiltonians Through Lie Transformations (J Palacián & P Yanguas)Linear Stability in the 1 + N-Gon Relative Equilibrium (G E Roberts)Analytic Continuation of Circular and Elliptic Kepler Motion to the General 3-Body Problem (J Soler)The Phase Space of Finite Systems (K B Wolf et al.) Readership: Students and researchers in mathematics and nonlinear dynamics. Keywords:Charged Four Body Problem;Low Reynolds Number;Relativistic Corrections;Sitnikov Problem;Hill's Lunar Problem;Invariant Lagrangian Submanifolds;Planar N-Body Problem;Elliptic Kepler Motion

Author : Richard Kerner
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811214615

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Our Celestial Clockwork: From Ancient Origins To Modern Astronomy Of The Solar System by Richard Kerner Pdf

This book is a superposition of two distinct narratives: the first is historical, discussing the evolution of astronomical knowledge since the dawn of civilizations; the second is scientific, conveying mathematical and physical content of each advancement. Great scientists of antiquity, Middle Ages and modern times until the 18th century, are presented along with their discoveries, through short biographies and anecdotes. Special care is taken to explain their achievements using mathematical and physical concepts of their time, with modern perspective added only when ancient methodology is too cumbersome or its language hardly understandable to contemporary readers.The book conveys a lot of astronomical facts and data in a pleasant and accessible manner. Almost all findings and discoveries made in ancient times are followed by simple mathematical exercises using basic knowledge, so that the reader can check the assertions himself. The book contains a lot of inedited illustrations. Geometrical schemes are given extra attention to make the examples clear and understandable. The language is simple and accessible to the young audience.