In Search Of Marvellousness

Author : Marcus Lovett
Publisher : Marvellousness
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780645347005

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In Search of Marvellousness by Marcus Lovett Pdf

In Search of Marvellousness. Fear, pain and the pursuit of happiness. The back story. Is your pain telling you something? Do you listen to it or just try to drown it out? What if your discomfort inspired you to push beyond, but you chose to avoid being uncomfortable? This is a story of pain, discomfort, fear and rejection and how an action man learns to embrace and listen to his spirit. In Search of Marvellousness is a story where everything happens at once and time is fluid, not unlike Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five”, but without the extraterrestrials. It’s a tale of a life filled with adventure and travel like Roald Dahl’s “Going Solo” but without a war. It reflects Louise Hay’s “You Can Heal Your Life”, where pain and discomfort keep coming until the lesson is learned, but without affirmations. In Search of Marvellousness is the inner story of Marcus Lovett, the boy from Bendigo who just wanted to travel the world and have a good time. From being Australia’s first freestyle skier in the 1988 Olympics Winter Games at Calgary to being an Acapulco cliff diver and stuntman, risking life and limb for glory and a few dollars. The physical pain of breaks and dislocations screamed lessons that were sometimes lost in translation but continued until they were understood. In Search of Marvellousness covers the mental and emotional self-doubts of imposter syndrome. Marcus produces and hosts the long-running television show called the Snowshow. Filmed worldwide and broadcast globally, the Snowshow was a skiing and snowboarding travel show. Though earning money doing what he loved, he still felt like a ski bum looking for his next free ride. In Search of Marvellousness explores the connection between physical, mental, emotional and spiritual discomfort. Marcus explores the joy of fear and discovers self-esteem is the answer, constantly reminding himself to keep the spirit.

Author : Martin Edmond
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775582472

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Zone of the Marvellous by Martin Edmond Pdf

Imaginative and cerebral, this volume recounts the fantastic history of the antipodes—namely Australia and New Zealand—from the Western perspective over the course of the past five millennia. Tracing the fiction underlying the fact in the tales of, among others, Marco Polo, John Mandeville, and Thomas More, this remarkable compilation explores the imagination of travelers, writers, map-makers, charlatans, and rogues who dreamed of other worlds. Delving into the Australian character and the New Zealand psyche, this account also conveys an insightful glimpse into Western history.

Author : Tessel M. Bauduin,Victoria Ferentinou,Daniel Zamani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351379021

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Surrealism, Occultism and Politics by Tessel M. Bauduin,Victoria Ferentinou,Daniel Zamani Pdf

This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropriation of occult thought, motifs, tropes and techniques by Surrealist artists and writers in Europe and the Americas, from the 1920s through the 1960s. Its central focus is the specific use of occultism as a site of political and social resistance, ideological contestation, subversion and revolution. Additional focus is placed on the ways occultism was implicated in Surrealist discourses on identity, gender, sexuality, utopianism and radicalism.

Author : Jin Haritaworn,Ghaida Moussa,Syrus Marcus Ware
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771133654

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Marvellous Grounds by Jin Haritaworn,Ghaida Moussa,Syrus Marcus Ware Pdf

Toronto has long been a place that people of colour move to in order to join queer of colour communities. Yet the city’s rich history of activism by queer and trans people who are Black, Indigenous, or of colour (QTBIPOC) remains largely unwritten and unarchived. While QTBIPOC have a long and visible presence in the city, they always appear as newcomers in queer urban maps and archives in which white queers appear as the only historical subjects imaginable. The first collection of its kind to feature the art, activism, and writings of QTBIPOC in Toronto, Marvellous Grounds tells the stories that have shaped Toronto’s landscape but are frequently forgotten or erased. Responding to an unmistakable desire in QTBIPOC communities for history and lineage, this rich volume allows us to imagine new ancestors and new futures.

Author : E. A. Wyke-Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780486174433

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The Marvellous Land of Snergs by E. A. Wyke-Smith Pdf

DIVThis beguiling tale has everything: runaway orphans, kings, knights, an evil witch, and a lovable, table-high Snerg named Gorbo who leads children from one fantastic adventure to another. Tolkien called this forgotten classic a "sourcebook" for The Hobbit — and it's a must for any Rings fan. 51 black-and-white illustrations. /div

Author : Dawn French
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141948010

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A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French Pdf

The hilarious no. 1 bestseller by comedian and author of According to Yes and Oh Dear Sylvia Everyone hates the perfect family. So you'll love the Battles. Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless, hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for, like, EVERYTHING and Peter who believes he's quite simply as darling and marvellous as his hero Oscar Wilde. Somewhere, keeping quiet, is Dad . . . who's just, well . . . Dad. However, Mo is having a crisis. She's about to do something unusually wild and selfish, which will leave the entire family teetering on the edge of a precipice. Will the family fall? Or will they, when it really matters, be there for each other? A Tiny Bit Marvellous is the number one bestselling novel from one of Britain's favourite comic writers. Praise for A Tiny Bit Marvellous: 'Funny, really enjoyable, highly recommended. A wonderful writer - witty, wise, poignant' Wendy Holden 'A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner. Funny, enriching . . . page after page I laughed out loud' Mail on Sunday 'Beautifully observed. Makes you laugh on every page' The Times 'A brilliantly observed, very funny novel of family life' Woman and Home

Author : Sarah Winman
Publisher : Tinder Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472235258

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A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman Pdf

Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she's taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She's waiting for something - she's not sure what, but she'll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man's last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous' creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid. A Year of Marvellous Ways is a glorious, life-affirming story about the magic in everyday life and the pull of the sea, the healing powers of storytelling and sloe gin, love and death and how we carry on when grief comes snapping at our heels.

Author : Herman Dieck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : UCSD:31822010533859

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The Marvellous Wonders of the Polar World... by Herman Dieck Pdf

Author : Jane Wilsher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Machinery
ISBN : 1912920204

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Marvelous Machines by Jane Wilsher Pdf

Use the Magic Lens to reveal the inner workings of the machines all around us

Author : Freya Marske
Publisher : Tordotcom
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250788894

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A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske Pdf

An International Bestseller! Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy! Locus Award Finalist! An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick—with four starred reviews! A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR | Amazon | Kobo | Barnes & Noble | Book Riot Red, White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in debut author Freya Marske’s A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies. Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He’s struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents’ excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what’s been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he’s always known. Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with it—not to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else. Robin’s predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they’ve been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles—and a secret that more than one person has already died to keep. The Last Binding Trilogy: A Marvellous Light A Restless Truth A Power Unbound At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Jessica Lightfoot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009007337

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Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World by Jessica Lightfoot Pdf

Wonder and wonders constituted a central theme in ancient Greek culture. In this book, Jessica Lightfoot provides the first full-length examination of its significance from Homer to the Hellenistic period. She demonstrates that wonder was an important term of aesthetic response and occupied a central position in concepts of what philosophy and literature are and do. She also argues that it became a means of expressing the manner in which the realms of the human and the divine interrelate with one another; and that it was central to the articulation of the ways in which the relationships between self and other, near and far, and familiar and unfamiliar were conceived. The book provides a much-needed starting point for re-assessments of the impact of wonder as a literary critical and cultural concept both in antiquity and in later periods. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Ingersoll Lockwood
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood Pdf

It So Happened At The Time Of Bulger’s Low Spirits That The Elder Baron Had, Through The Kindness Of An Old School Friend, Come Into Possession Of A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript From The Pen Of A No Less Celebrated Thinker And Philosopher Than The Learned Spaniard, Don Constantino Bartolomeo Strepholofidgeguaneriusfum, Commonly Known Among Scholars As Don Fum, Entitled “A World Within A World.” In This Work Don Fum Advanced The Wonderful Theory That There Is Every Reason To Believe That The Interior Of Our World Is Inhabited; That, As Is Well Known, This Vast Earth Ball Is Not Solid, On The Contrary, Being In Many Places Quite Hollow; That Ages And Ages Ago Terrible Disturbances Had Taken Place On Its Surface And Had Driven The Inhabitants To Seek Refuge In These Vast Underground Chambers, So Vast, In Fact, As Well To Merit The Name Of “World Within A World...FROM THE BOOKS.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141395050

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Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange by Anonim Pdf

On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I had gathered was of any avail. You who see me take heed: for Time is not to be trusted.' Dating from at least a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their way into The Arabian Nights but most have never been read in English before. Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.

Author : Carlton Dawe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1YE4

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The Golden Lake, Or The Marvellous History of a Journey Through the Great Lone Land of Australia by Carlton Dawe Pdf

Author : Eugénie Hamerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : HARVARD:HNP7JY

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The Mirror of Truth and Other Marvellous Histories by Eugénie Hamerton Pdf