Author : Emily House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0620881127
Earth Takes a Break
Emily House
Earth Takes A Break
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Earth Takes a Break
Emily House
Author : Emily House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 1954277113
Earth Takes a Break by Emily House Pdf
Earth feels unwell, so she goes to the doctor. What the doctor prescribes seems impossible to Earth until she wakes the next day to surprising change! Enjoy reading a story from Earth's perspective! Earth Takes a Break is a fantastic conversation starter for exploring themes of self-care, looking after one another, and considering how we care for this special planet we are lucky enough to call home.
Taking a Break from Saving the World
Stephen Legault
Author : Stephen Legault
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771603645
Taking a Break from Saving the World by Stephen Legault Pdf
"The climate crisis is an overwhelming phenomenon and eco-activist Stephen Legault knows all about that. He's been a burnout casualty a number of times and seeks solutions for the malaise, knowing people can't be effective politically unless they take care of themselves. He has recommendations on everything from diet to organizational restricting - leaves of absence, anyone? Think about it." - NOW Magazine Toronto Professional conservation and political activist Stephen Legault examines the consequences of overwork in the "save the world" movement. A veteran of burnout himself, Legault looks at the culture of self-sacrifice that permeates the work done by volunteers and paid staff in the environmental conservation movement, and dissects how to manage our own time, energy, and commitment to our causes. Following a river-running metaphor, and proposing a variety of techniques to help with various states of anxiety resulting from burnout, including clarity of purpose, recognition of limits, fitness and diet, mediation and yoga, as well as organizational structural changes such as leave-of-absence policies, Legault encourages readers to find time to "eddy out"--to rest a moment in quieter waters and scout downriver--to ensure our lifetime of engagement is fulfilling, effective, and self-sustaining. Just as with teachers, nurses, doctors, lawyers, paramedics, steelworkers, students, and airline pilots, burnout is a growing concern in many social-change circles. Taking a Break from Saving the World takes a look at the impacts of eco-anxiety, over-work, and the associated stress surrounding the present and future state of the environment and offers practical and insightful suggestions on how to deal with it.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Author : Ocean Vuong
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525562030
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Pdf
The instant New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!
This Little Environmentalist
Joan Holub
Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534475595
This Little Environmentalist by Joan Holub Pdf
Learn all about big leaders who love and protect the Earth in this engaging and inspiring board book perfect for environmentalists-in-training! Now even the youngest readers can learn all about important people who help protect and take care of our Earth! Highlighting ten memorable environmentalists who paved the way, parents and little ones alike will love this discovery primer full of fun, age-appropriate facts and bold illustrations.
Earth Abides
George R. Stewart
Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780899683706
Earth Abides by George R. Stewart Pdf
First Day on Earth
Cecil Castellucci
Author : Cecil Castellucci
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545388108
First Day on Earth by Cecil Castellucci Pdf
A startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world."We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big nothings.""I know what I am."Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Yet loving the world -- or, at least, an idea of the world. Then he meets Hooper. Who says he's from another planet. And may be going home very soon.
Sin Boldly
Christopher Levan
Author : Christopher Levan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532641312
Sin Boldly by Christopher Levan Pdf
Sin Boldly—a manual for fallen angels—is a guide to spiritual issues facing the secular world. Chris Levan, author of The Dancing Steward and God Hates Religion, has a gift for translating theological concepts into contemporary and comprehensible terms. This collection of his columns is like a conversation over coffee with a close friend.
Mummy Needs a Break
Susan Edmunds
Author : Susan Edmunds
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008316082
Mummy Needs a Break by Susan Edmunds Pdf
A hilarious story of the ups and downs of unexpected single motherhood, the perfect laugh-out-loud romance for fans of Why Mummy Drinks, The Unmumsy Mum and The Not So Perfect Mum.
I Know This Much Is True
Wally Lamb
Author : Wally Lamb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060391626
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb Pdf
With his stunning debut novel, She's Come Undone, Wally Lamb won the adulation of critics and readers with his mesmerizing tale of one woman's painful yet triumphant journey of self-discovery. Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with I Know This Much Is True, a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of destruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal--this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. Change yourself, the myth instructs, and you will inhabit a renovated world. When you're the same brother of a schizophrenic identical twin, the tricky thing about saving yourself is the blood it leaves on your bands--the little inconvenience of the look-alike corpse at your feet. And if you're into both survival of the fittest and being your brother's keeper--if you've promised your dying mother--then say so long to sleep and hello to the middle of the night. Grab a book or a beer. Get used to Letterman's gap-toothed smile of the absurd, or the view of the bedroom ceiling, or the influence of random selection. Take it from a godless insomniac. Take it from the uncrazy twin--the guy who beat the biochemical rap. Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear, by the paranoid schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and-polish ex-Navy man (the five-foot-six-inch sleeping giant who snoozed upstairs weekdays in the spare room and built submarines at night), and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid woman with a harelip that made her shy and self-conscious: She holds a loose fist to her face to cover her defective mouth--her perpetual apology to the world for a birth defect over which she'd had no control. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes of 1950, the twins are physical mirror images who grow into separate yet connected entities: the seemingly strong and protective yet fearful Dominick, his mother's watchful "monkey"; and the seemingly weak and sweet yet noble Thomas, his mother's gentle "bunny." From childhood, Dominick fights for both separation and wholeness--and ultimately self-protection--in a house of fear dominated by Ray, a bully who abuses his power over these stepsons whose biological father is a mystery. I was still afraid of his anger but saw how he punished weakness--pounced on it. Out of self-preservation I hid my fear, Dominick confesses. As for Thomas, he just never knew how to play defense. He just didn't get it. But Dominick's talent for survival comes at an enormous cost, including the breakup of his marriage to the warm, beautiful Dessa, whom he still loves. And it will be put to the ultimate test when Thomas, a Bible-spouting zealot, commits an unthinkable act that threatens the tenuous balance of both his and Dominick's lives. To save himself, Dominick must confront not only the pain of his past but the dark secrets he has locked deep within himself, and the sins of his ancestors--a quest that will lead him beyond the confines of his blue-collar New England town to the volcanic foothills of Sicily 's Mount Etna, where his ambitious and vengefully proud grandfather and a namesake Domenico Tempesta, the sostegno del famiglia, was born. Each of the stories Ma told us about Papa reinforced the message that he was the boss, that he ruled the roost, that what he said went. Searching for answers, Dominick turns to the whispers of the dead, to the pages of his grandfather's handwritten memoir, The History of Domenico Onofrio Tempesta, a Great Man from Humble Beginnings. Rendered with touches of magic realism, Domenico's fablelike tale--in which monkeys enchant and religious statues weep--becomes the old man's confession--an unwitting legacy of contrition that reveals the truth's of Domenico's life, Dominick learns that power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed, and now, picking through the humble shards of his deconstructed life, he will search for the courage and love to forgive, to expiate his and his ancestors' transgressions, and finally to rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his twin. Set against the vivid panoply of twentieth-century America and filled with richly drawn, memorable characters, this deeply moving and thoroughly satisfying novel brings to light humanity's deepest needs and fears, our aloneness, our desire for love and acceptance, our struggle to survive at all costs. Joyous, mystical, and exquisitely written, I Know This Much Is True is an extraordinary reading experience that will leave no reader untouched.
Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : China
ISBN : 0743268725
Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Pdf
The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.
House of Earth and Blood
Sarah J. Maas
Author : Sarah J. Maas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 821 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635574050
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas Pdf
A #1 New York Times bestseller! Sarah J. Maas's brand-new CRESCENT CITY series begins with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose-to assassinate his boss's enemies, no questions asked. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he's offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach. As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City's underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion-one that could set them both free, if they'd only let it. With unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom-and the power of love.
The Obelisk Gate
N. K. Jemisin
Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316229289
The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin Pdf
Essun's missing daughter grows more powerful every day, and her choices may destroy the world in this "magnificent" Hugo Award winner and NYT Notable Book. (NPR) The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power -- and her choices will break the world. N. K. Jemisin's award winning trilogy continues in the sequel to The Fifth Season.
What If One Plus One Is Not Two?
Daniel R. McMullan
Author : Daniel R. McMullan
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781648043185
What If One Plus One Is Not Two? by Daniel R. McMullan Pdf
What If One Plus One Is Not Two? Daniel McMullan What If One Plus One Is Not Two? shares an internal dialogue dissecting some of life’s most perplexing questions. Fascinated by chemistry in school, nineteen year-old McMullan pondered over different theories of nature while writing in his notebooks. This led him to epiphanies that completely changed his understanding of the world. For over a decade he organized and elaborated on those writings to form this book. Although we desire a rational understanding of life, McMullan suggests that an honest analysis of any conclusion reveals unreliable assumptions at the foundation. Come along for the ride as he explores the philosophical implications of this paradigm-shifting perspective.
Practical, down-to-earth marketing advice that works
Jason Sullock
Author : Jason Sullock
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781447619253
Practical, down-to-earth marketing advice that works by Jason Sullock Pdf
Marketing. What works? What doesn't? Find out in this down-to-earth guide covering planning, copywriting, design, event management, data, sales, email, the Internet, and Insights. All trialed and tested in the real world. Short-cut all the experimentation in one go.
