From The Shadows Into The Sunlight

Author : Gayathri Ramprasad
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184006537

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Shadows in the Sun by Gayathri Ramprasad Pdf

As a young girl in Bangalore, Gayathri was surrounded by the fragrance of jasmine and flickering oil lamps, her family protected by gods and goddesses. But as she grew older, demons came forth from dark corners of her idyllic kingdom—with the scariest creatures lurking within her tortured mind. Shadows in the Sun traces Gayathri’s courageous battle with debilitating depression that consumed her from adolescence through marriage and a move to the United States. Her inspiring memoir provides a first-of-its-kind cross-cultural view of mental illness—how it is regarded in India and in America, and how she drew on both her rich Hindu heritage and Western medicine to find healing.

Author : Wade Davis
Publisher : Shearwater
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1597263923

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Shadows in the Sun by Wade Davis Pdf

Wade Davis has been called "a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life's diversity." In Shadows in the Sun, he brings all of those gifts to bear on a fascinating examination of indigenous cultures and the interactions between human societies and the natural world. Ranging from the British Columbian wilderness to the jungles of the Amazon and the polar ice of the Arctic Circle, Shadows in the Sun is a testament to a world where spirits still stalk the land and seize the human heart. Its essays and stories, though distilled from travels in widely separated parts of the world, are fundamentally about landscape and character, the wisdom of lives drawn directly from the land, the hunger of those who seek to rediscover such understanding, and the consequences of failure. As Davis explains, "To know that other, vastly different cultures exist is to remember that our world does not exist in some absolute sense but rather is just one model of reality. The Penan in the forests of Borneo, the Vodoun acolytes in Haiti, the jaguar Shaman of Venezuela, teach us that there are other options, other possibilities, other ways of thinking and interacting with the earth." Shadows in the Sun considers those possibilities, and explores their implications for our world.

Author : Mark Helprin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547819259

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In Sunlight And In Shadow by Mark Helprin Pdf

An epic love story set in post-war New York, by the best-selling author of Winter's Tale. In the summer of 1946, New York City pulses with energy. Harry Copeland, a World War II veteran, has returned home to run the family business. Yet his life is upended by a single encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale, as each falls for the other in an instant. They pursue one another in a romance played out in Broadway theaters, Long Island mansions, the offices of financiers, and the haunts of gangsters. Catherine’s choice of Harry over her longtime fiancé endangers Harry’s livelihood and threatens his life. In the end, Harry must summon the strength of his wartime experience to fight for Catherine, and risk everything. “In its storytelling heft, its moral rectitude, the solemn magnificence of its writing and the splendor of its hymns to New York City, [In Sunlight and in Shadow] is a spiritual pendant to Winter’s Tale and every bit as extraordinary...Even the most stubbornly resistant readers will soon be disarmed by the nobility of the novel’s sentiments and seduced by the pure music of its prose.”—Wall Street Journal

Author : Chad Oliver
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575126404

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Shadows in the Sun by Chad Oliver Pdf

Anthropologist Paul Ellery discovers that the small Texas town of Jefferson Springs is actually an imitation of small-town America created by the aliens who now offer him a chance to explore the universe.

Author : Betty Davies (Ph. D.)
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0876309112

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Shadows in the Sun by Betty Davies (Ph. D.) Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307367099

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The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski Pdf

A moving portrait of Africa from Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent - a masterpiece from a modern master. Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. The Shadow of the Sun sums up the author's experiences ("the record of a 40-year marriage") in this place that became the central obsession of his remarkable career. From the hopeful years of independence through the bloody disintegration of places like Nigeria, Rwanda and Angola, Kapuscinski recounts great social and political changes through the prism of the ordinary African. He examines the rough-and-ready physical world and identifies the true geography of Africa: a little-understood spiritual universe, an African way of being. He looks also at Africa in the wake of two epoch-making changes: the arrival of AIDS and the definitive departure of the white man. Kapuscinski's rare humanity invests his subjects with a grandeur and a dignity unmatched by any other writer on the Third World, and his unique ability to discern the universal in the particular has never been more powerfully displayed than in this work.

Author : Gayathri Ramprasad
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781616495312

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Shadows in the Sun by Gayathri Ramprasad Pdf

Presents a first-of-its-kind, cross-cultural lens to mental illness through the inspiring story of Gayathri’s thirty-year battle with depression. This literary memoir takes readers from her childhood in India where depression is thought to be a curse to life in America where she eventually finds the light within by drawing on both her rich Hindu heritage and Western medicine to spare. As a young girl in Bangalore, Gayathri was surrounded by the fragrance of jasmine and flickering oil lamps, her family protected by Hindu gods and goddesses. But as she grew older, demons came forth from the dark corners of her idyllic kingdom--with the scariest creatures lurking within her.The daughter of a respected Brahmin family, Gayathri began to feel different. "I can hardly eat, sleep, or think straight. The only thing I can do is cry unending tears." Her parents insisted it was all in her head. Because traditional Indian culture had no concept of depression as an illness, no doctor could diagnose and no medicine could heal her mysterious malady.This memoir traces Gayathri's courageous battle with the depression that consumed her from adolescence through marriage and a move to the United States. It was only after the birth of her first child, when her husband discovered her in the backyard "clawing the earth furiously with my bare hands, intent on digging a grave so that I could bury myself alive," that she finally found help. After a stay in a psych ward she eventually found "the light within," an emotional and spiritual awakening from the darkness of her tortured mind.Gayathri's inspiring story provides a first-of-its-kind cross-cultural view of mental illness--how it is regarded in India and in America, and how she drew on both her rich Hindu heritage and Western medicine to find healing.

Author : Lucy Willis
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781849943307

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Sunlight and Shadows in Watercolour by Lucy Willis Pdf

Lucy Willis is a well-known and successful watercolourist, renowned for her atmospheric paintings full of sunlight and shade. In her third book , Sunlight and Shadows in Watercolour, Lucy Willis shares her professional tips and expertise on painting inspirational landscapes and interiors full of light. There are several step-by-step demonstration paintings on how to achieve the different effects of light – bright sunlight, shadows, dappled light and night-time scenes. In addition, Lucy shows how to paint from photographs, how to mix colour, and stresses the importance of tone in creating a successful composition. The themes and subjects covered are Landscape, Water, Gardens, Architecture, Interiors, Still Life, Portraits and the importance of keeping a sketchbook. Lucy Willis encourages all watercolourists, whatever their level, to exploit the versatile effects of watercolour and produce exciting, atmospheric work of their own.

Author : Betty Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317771890

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Shadows in the Sun by Betty Davies Pdf

Shadows in the Sun covers the immediate, short- and long-term responses and subsequent generational effects of sibling bereavement and discusses sibling responses in the context of the variables which influence them. The final chapter synthesizes all that has gone before into a comprehensive model of sibling bereavement. Practical guidelines are offered for those who seek to help grieving siblings, children, and families.

Author : Richard Matheson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765362295

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Shadow on the Sun by Richard Matheson Pdf

As the Army and the Apache experience an uneasy peace, the discovery of the body of a man who had been brutally murdered and mutilated threatens to ignite all-out war, and it is up to Indian Agent Billjohn Finley to prevent it.

Author : Michael Jan Friedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743454216

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Shadows on the Sun by Michael Jan Friedman Pdf

As a young doctor with a beautiful family and a promising medical career, Dr. Leonard McCoy thought he had it all. But when the woman he loved betrayed him, McCoy fled to Starfleet, hoping to lose his pain in the depths of space. Now, more than forty years later, the EnterpriseTM and her crew are ordered to transport a group of mediators to the planet Ssan, a world where assassination is a time-honored tradition, and McCoy is surprised to learn that his ex-wife, now remarried, is one of the mediators. And before he can come to terms with his conflicted feelings for his former love, she and Captain Kirk are trapped on Susan, and McCoy is caught in an explosive civil war, the only one with the power to save the woman who once nearly destroyed him.

Author : F.W. Champion
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : History
ISBN : 9785872405177

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The Jungle in Sunlight and Shadow by F.W. Champion Pdf

Author : Anne Sibley O'Brien
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545905763

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In the Shadow of the Sun by Anne Sibley O'Brien Pdf

Hatchet in North Korea: A sister and brother go on the run with explosive forbidden photographs in this gripping and timely survival adventure. North Korea is known as the most repressive country on Earth, with a dictatorial leader, a starving population, and harsh punishment for rebellion.Not the best place for a family vacation.Yet that's exactly where Mia Andrews finds herself, on a tour with her aid-worker father and fractious older brother, Simon. Mia was adopted from South Korea as a baby, and the trip raises tough questions about where she really belongs. Then her dad is arrested for spying, just as forbidden photographs of North Korean slave-labor camps fall into Mia's hands. The only way to save Dad: get the pictures out of the country. Thus Mia and Simon set off on a harrowing journey to the border, without food, money, or shelter, in a land where anyone who sees them might turn them in, and getting caught could mean prison -- or worse.An exciting adventure that offers a rare glimpse into a compelling, complicated nation, In the Shadow of the Sun is an unforgettable novel of courage and survival.

Author : EM Castellan
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250226037

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In the Shadow of the Sun by EM Castellan Pdf

EM Castellan's In the Shadow of the Sun is a sumptuous YA romantasy set in 17th century Versailles. It’s 1661 in Paris, and magicians thrill nobles with enchanting illusions. Exiled in France, 17-year-old Henriette of England wishes she could use her magic to gain entry at court. Instead, her plan is to hide her magical talents, and accept an arranged marriage to the French king’s younger brother. Henriette soon realizes her fiancé prefers the company of young men to hers, and court magicians turn up killed by a mysterious sorcerer who uses forbidden magic. When an accident forces Henriette to reveal her uniquely powerful gift for enchantments to Louis, he asks for her help: she alone can defeat the dark magician threatening his authority and aid his own plans to build the new, enchanted seat of his power--the Palace of Versailles.

Author : M. Y. Ghorpade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Wildlife photography
ISBN : 0670057932

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Sunlight & Shadows by M. Y. Ghorpade Pdf

This new edition brings together a fascinating collection of black and white photographs taken by one of India's leading wildlife photographers. Interspersed with the pictures are anecdotes culled from Tthe author's diaries.