From A Palace Of Pearls

Author : Howard Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190243586

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Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810) is widely considered to be one of the foremost visionary storytellers of the Hasidic movement. The great-grandson of the Ba'al Shem Tov, founder of the movement, Rabbi Nachman came to be regarded as a great figure and leader in his own right, guiding his followers on a spiritual path inspired by Kabbalah. In the last four years of his life he turned to storytelling, crafting highly imaginative, allegorical tales for his Hasidim. Three-time National Jewish Book Award winner Howard Schwartz has masterfully compiled the most extensive collection of Nachman's stories available in English. In addition to the well-known Thirteen Tales, including "The Lost Princess" and "The Seven Beggars," Schwartz has included over one hundred narratives in the various genres of fairy tales, fables, parables, dreams, and folktales, many of them previously unknown or believed lost. One such story is the carefully guarded "Tale of the Bread," which was never intended to be written down and was only to be shared with those Bratslavers who could be trusted not to reveal it. Eventually recorded by Rabbi Nachman's scribe, the tale has maintained its mythical status as a "hidden story." With utmost reverence and unfettered delight, Schwartz has carefully curated A Palace of Pearls alongside masterful commentary that guides the reader through the Rabbi's spiritual mysticism and uniquely Kabbalistic approach, ultimately revealing Rabbi Nachman to be a literary heavyweight in the vein of Gogol and Kafka. Vibrant, wise, and provocative, this book is a must-read for any lover of fairy tales and fables.

Author : Jane Miller,Kore Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Poetry
ISBN : OCLC:73282574

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From A Palace of Pearls by Jane Miller,Kore Press Pdf

Author : Jane Miller
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619320505

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Miller is a bold poet working from the "pure energy of language, without apology."--The Boston Book Review

Author : Timothee de Fombelle
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763694081

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The Book of Pearl by Timothee de Fombelle Pdf

In prose as magical and intricate as the tale it tells, Timothée de Fombelle delivers an unforgettable story of a first love that defines a lifetime. Joshua Pearl comes from a world that we no longer believe in — a world of fairy tale. He knows that his great love waits for him there, but he is stuck in an unfamiliar time and place — an old-world marshmallow shop in Paris on the eve of World War II. As his memories begin to fade, Joshua seeks out strange objects: tiny fragments of tales that have already been told, trinkets that might possibly help him prove his own story before his love is lost forever. Sarah Ardizzone and Sam Gordon translate the original French into a work both luminous and layered, enabling Timothée de Fombelle’s modern fairy tale to thrum with magic. Brimming with romance and history, mystery and adventure, this ode to the power of memory, storytelling, and love will ensnare any reader’s imagination, and every reader’s heart.

Author : George Frederick Kunz,Charles Hugh Stevenson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547085805

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The Book of the Pearl by George Frederick Kunz,Charles Hugh Stevenson Pdf

The preparation of this book has been a joint labor during the spare moments of the two authors, whose time has been occupied with subjects to which pearls are not wholly foreign—one as a gem expert, and the other in the fisheries branch of the American government. For many years the writers have collected data on the subject of pearls, and have accumulated all the obtainable literature, not only the easily procurable books, but likewise manuscripts, copies of rare volumes, original edicts, and legislative enactments, thousands of newspaper clippings, and interesting illustrations, many of them unique, making probably the largest single collection of data in existence on this particular subject. It was deemed advisable to present the results of these studies and observations in one harmonious volume, rather than in two different publications. While the book is a joint work in the sense that each writer has contributed material to all of the chapters and has critically examined and approved the entire work, the senior author has more closely applied himself to the latter half of the text, covering antiquity values, commerce, wearing manipulation, treatment, famous collections, aboriginal use, and the illustrations, while the junior author has attended to the earlier half of the book, with reference to history, origin, sources, fisheries, culture, mystical properties, and the literature of the pearl.

Author : Bridget Kavanagh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600073547

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The pearl fountain, and other fairy tales, by B. and J. Kavanagh by Bridget Kavanagh Pdf

Author : Devin Jordan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781416995760

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The Dragon's Pearl by Devin Jordan Pdf

When Niccolo Polo vanishes on an expedition to Asia and his family writes him off as dead, sixteen-year-old Marco knows that it’s up to him to rescue his father. He sets out on a dangerous journey—but it is not the adventure he bargained for. Marco comes face to face with the magical Eastern world we know from mythology and legend, complete with dragons, flying carpets, and genies. And it is here that Marco finds himself caught in a dangerous plot in the court of Kublai Khan while trying to discover the mystical secret of the fabled dragon’s pearl.

Author : Nasser M. Beydoun,Jennifer Baum
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780875869544

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The Glass Palace by Nasser M. Beydoun,Jennifer Baum Pdf

When Americans read in today's news that Qatar is funding rebel groups across the Middle East, few of us have any idea what Qatar is or how it is run. A nation of perhaps 250,000 locals served by 1.35 million foreign workers, the emirate is burning its gas and oil revenue at a break-neck pace in an effort to build a position on the global stage. Is Qatar actually a suitable ally or a legitimate partner for the United States? Under Qatari labor law, foreign workers are actually owned, for all practical purposes, by their Qatari sponsors in a system akin to slavery. This book chronicles the experience of an American executive working in Qatar and delves into Qatar's feudal work-sponsorship system, showing that an economic great leap forward is not necessarily accompanied by modernization, despite superficial emblems; that prosperity and democracy need not go hand in hand; and that being a US ally may be totally unrelated to any notion of human rights or personal liberties. There are other Western expats still trapped in Qatar. Yet American workers, students and others blithely interact with Qatar as if it were a 'normal' (i.e., Westernized) nation where one may navigate with confidence. It is nothing of the sort. In the meantime Qatar, under the leadership of an emir who overthrew his own father, is fostering international unrest across the entire Arab world, while racing to build a modern-looking city from scratch. Some of the economic, environmental and demographic assumptions underlying these plans are worthy of another 1000 tales from Arabia. American businessman Nasser Beydoun found out for himself how quickly the Qataris are moving when he embarked on an exciting new career path, leaving his hometown of Dearborn, Michigan, to move to Qatar to manage the opening of several chain restaurants as part of the sudden economic boom there. It didn't take long for the deal to turn sour, but Beydoun didn't realize the extent of his problem until he tried to leave the country — and was stopped at the border. In this book he paints a general picture of life in this fantastical realm while relaying his personal struggle to escape a legal runaround worthy of Kafka's novels.

Author : Julia Kavanagh,Bridget Kavanagh,J. Moyr Smith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385518582

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The Pearl Fountain, and Other Fairy Tales by Julia Kavanagh,Bridget Kavanagh,J. Moyr Smith Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author : Abbe Bayle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368126872

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The Pearl of Antioch by Abbe Bayle Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Author : United States. Congress,United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1672 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
ISBN : LOC:00183570614

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Pearl Harbor Attack by United States. Congress,United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack Pdf

Author : Craig Nelson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451660517

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Pearl Harbor by Craig Nelson Pdf

“A valuable reexamination” (Booklist, starred review) of the event that changed twentieth-century America—Pearl Harbor—based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author. The America we live in today was born, not on July 4, 1776, but on December 7, 1941, when an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes supported by aircraft carriers, destroyers, and midget submarines suddenly and savagely attacked the United States, killing 2,403 men—and forced America’s entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness follows the sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, emperor, and president as they engineer, fight, and react to this stunningly dramatic moment in world history. Beginning in 1914, bestselling author Craig Nelson maps the road to war, when Franklin D. Roosevelt, then the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, attended the laying of the keel of the USS Arizona at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Writing with vivid intimacy, Nelson traces Japan’s leaders as they lurch into ultranationalist fascism, which culminates in their scheme to terrify America with one of the boldest attacks ever waged. Within seconds, the country would never be the same. Backed by a research team’s five years of work, as well as Nelson’s thorough re-examination of the original evidence assembled by federal investigators, this page-turning and definitive work “weaves archival research, interviews, and personal experiences from both sides into a blow-by-blow narrative of destruction liberally sprinkled with individual heroism, bizarre escapes, and equally bizarre tragedies” (Kirkus Reviews). Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail, and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy’s unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today.

Author : Site Santa Fe (Gallery)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 1934435716

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Enrique Martínez Celaya by Site Santa Fe (Gallery) Pdf

In the summer of 2013, SITE Sante Fe presents a new project by Enrique Martínez Celaya (born 1964) entitled The Pearl. For this exhibition, Martínez Celaya transforms all 15,000 square feet of SITE's gallery space into an immersive installation environment that includes several large and small-scale paintings, sculptures, video, waterworks and olfactory interventions. This exhibition integrates many of the elements and ideas that the artist has engaged with over the last several years. For this project, the artist takes the notion of home as both a point of departure and a destination to craft a multisensory experience that is an extended metaphor for a journey of emotional and psychological reflection. Visitors experience the installation in a specific sequence that allows a multilevel narrative to unfold coherently. This volume records the conception of the work with drawings and studio photos, as well as installation images of the final work.

Author : Wilt L. Idema
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789814277013

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Judge Bao and the Rule of Law by Wilt L. Idema Pdf

Pure, orthodox and incorruptible, Judge Bao has been serving as the preeminent embodiment of justice in China for almost a thousand years, so much so his court case have been adapted as stories, novels and plays over the centuries. Now, for the very first time a series of eight ballad-stories on Judge Bao, dating from the period 1250ndash;1450, are offered in a complete and annotated translation. These texts will provide the reader a complete reflection of the legend of Judge Bao in its earliest phase of development, with an extended introduction placing the ballad-stories in context with the development of the Judge Bao legend. These ballad-stories, in contrast to past plays dating from the same period, present abuse of power and corruption as endemic in the courts and bureaucratic service, and show Judge Bao imposing the rule of law even on the emperor.

Author : Edwin William Streeter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Beads
ISBN : UOM:39015018385594

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Pearls and Pearling Life by Edwin William Streeter Pdf