Life At The Crossroads

Author : Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780316426473

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Rooted by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Pdf

Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place where science and spirit meet" (Robin Wall Kimmerer). In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperiled, beloved earth? Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt’s highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways—from walking barefoot in the woods and reimagining our relationship with animals and trees, to examining the very language we use to describe and think about nature. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness—and wildness—that sustains humans and all of life. In the tradition of Rachel Carson, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Mary Oliver, Haupt writes with urgency and grace, reminding us that at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit we find true hope. Each chapter provides tools for bringing our unique gifts to the fore and transforming our sense of belonging within the magic and wonder of the natural world.

Author : Sagar Amlani
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781636696201

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At the Crossroads of Life by Sagar Amlani Pdf

Being at the crossroads can be confusing. Roads lead in different directions, but you don’t know if any of them will take you to your destination. And when the same thing happens in critical life-situations, it can be crushing. You feel overwhelmed and lost. Imagine how Sagar must have felt, then. Many a time, he found himself at the crossroads of life. But each time, he managed to carve out a path to go where he wanted to. After the Mumbai floods of 2005 almost destroyed his life, he picked up the pieces, put himself through a premier B-School abroad, and became a successful corporate leader, entrepreneur and global speaker. How? Using his intellect, willpower, resourcefulness and values. Sagar realised that this is the magic formula one needs to succeed in life. And through this book, Sagar shares his formula with you. His inspiring story – which moves from Mumbai to England to Nashik to Hyderabad – gives you an insight into how you can achieve your dreams. If Sagar could do it, so can you!

Author : Noele Gordon
Publisher : W H Allen
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Crossroads (Television program)
ISBN : 0491016026

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My Life at Crossroads by Noele Gordon Pdf

Author : Gerald Butt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : UOM:39015037414276

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Life at the Crossroads by Gerald Butt Pdf

Gaza-stribens historie som brændpunkt fra oldtiden op til vore dage

Author : Elle Luna
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780761184201

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The Crossroads of Should and Must by Elle Luna Pdf

There are two paths in life: Should & Must. We arrive at this crossroads over and over again, and every day. And we get to choose. Starting out or starting over, making a career change or making a life change, the most life-affirming thing you can do is to honor the voice inside that says your have something special to give, and then heed the call and act. Many have traveled this road before. Here’s how you can, too. #choosemust An inspirational gift book for every recent graduate, every artist, every seeker, and every career change.

Author : Ted Ricci
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1626970874

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At the Crossroads of Life by Ted Ricci Pdf

If I only could turn back the hands of time. If I only knew then what I know now. If I'd only...Sound familiar to you? Have you thought at times you were on the right road leading you to true peace and happiness only to end up disappointed? In this book you will discover how to find Divine direction for your life. Ted Ricci shares some incredible true life experiences and great bible principles to live by. From a troubled life in New York filled with no hope to an enjoyable blessed life in God's will. Discover how God blessed him when he followed heaven's G.P.S. (God's Perfect Scriptures) In John 21, Peter and six other disciples fished all night and caught nothing. In the morning Jesus appears on the shore and at first the disciples don't recognize him. Jesus asked them if they had any meat (food, fish), they replied: " No." Jesus gives them direction in verse 6: "Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes." What looked like a really bad morning after fishing all night and catching nothing turned out to be blessed day? Listening to Jesus made all the difference. He can and will make the difference in your life if you let him! John 21:25 "And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which should be written everyone, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen." You are about to take a journey and read one of those books: At the Crossroads of Life. Are you ready ?

Author : Pete Daniel
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0801854954

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Standing at the Crossroads by Pete Daniel Pdf

This engagingly-written survey examines the changes and constants of Southern culture. Always with a keen eye and sharp wit, Daniel takes the reader through a variety of topics that relate directly to the Southern experience: rural life, violence, music, literature, civil rights, unionism, urbanization, xenophobia, migration, religion, cockfighting, and stock car racing. This engagingly-written survey examines the changes and constants of Southern culture. Always with a keen eye and sharp wit, Daniel stresses the diversity of Southern life, which includes not only regional variations but also divisions between black and white, male and female, rural and urban. From "separate but equal" to the civil rights revolution of the 1960s and its legacy, Standing at the Crossroads explores the extraordinary changes that transformed the South. Daniel takes the reader through a variety of topics that relate directly to the Southern experience: rural life, violence, music, literature, civil rights, unionism, urbanization, xenophobia, migration, religion, cockfighting, and stock car racing.

Author : Balfour Mount
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780228004905

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Ten Thousand Crossroads by Balfour Mount Pdf

Recognized as the father of palliative care in North America, Balfour Mount facilitated a sea change in medical practice by foregrounding concern for the whole person facing incurable illness. In this intimate and far-reaching memoir, Mount leads the reader through the formative moments and milestones of his personal and professional life as they intersected with the history of medical treatment over the last fifty years. Mount's lifelong pursuit of understanding the needs of dying patients began during his training as a surgical oncologist at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital in the 1960s. He established the first comprehensive clinical program for end-of-life care in a teaching hospital in 1975 at McGill University's Royal Victoria Hospital, thus leading the charge for palliative medicine as a new specialty. His journey included collaboration with two storied healthcare innovators, British hospice pioneer Dame Cicely Saunders and American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, leading to a more fulsome understanding of the physical, psychosocial, and existential or spiritual needs of patients, their families, and their caregivers in the health care setting. This compelling narrative documents how the 'Royal Vic' team became internationally recognized as effective advocates of quality of life at the crossroad between life and death. From meetings with Viktor Frankl, the Dalai Lama and other teachers, to a memorable telephone chat with Mother Teresa, Mount recalls with appreciation, humour and humility, the places and people that helped to shed light on this universal human experience.

Author : Kaleb Dahlgren
Publisher : Collins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1443462888

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Crossroads by Kaleb Dahlgren Pdf

The Instant #1 National Bestseller--Now in Paperback On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen others were injured when a bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck at a rural intersection in Saskatchewan. The tragedy moved millions of people to leave hockey sticks by their front doors to show sympathy and support for the Broncos. And people from more than eighty countries pledged millions of dollars to families that had been directly affected by the accident. Crossroads is the story of Kaleb Dahlgren, a young man who survived the bus crash and faced life after the accident with positivity and grit. In this chronicle of his time with the Broncos and in the loving community of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Dahlgren takes a hard look at his experience of unprecedented loss yet also revels in the overwhelming response and outpouring of love from across Canada and around the world. But this book also goes much deeper, revealing the adversity Dahlgren faced long before his time in Humboldt and his inspiring journey since the accident. From a childhood spent learning to live with type 1 diabetes, to a remarkable recovery from severe brain trauma that astounded medical professionals, Dahlgren documents a life of perseverance, gratitude and hope in the wake of enormous obstacles and life-altering tragedy.

Author : Michael W. Goheen,Craig G. Bartholomew
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441201998

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Living at the Crossroads by Michael W. Goheen,Craig G. Bartholomew Pdf

How can Christians live faithfully at the crossroads of the story of Scripture and postmodern culture? In Living at the Crossroads, authors Michael Goheen and Craig Bartholomew explore this question as they provide a general introduction to Christian worldview. Ideal for both students and lay readers, Living at the Crossroads lays out a brief summary of the biblical story and the most fundamental beliefs of Scripture. The book tells the story of Western culture from the classical period to postmodernity. The authors then provide an analysis of how Christians live in the tension that exists at the intersection of the biblical and cultural stories, exploring the important implications in key areas of life, such as education, scholarship, economics, politics, and church.

Author : Robert S. Ellwood
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0664258131

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1950, Crossroads of American Religious Life by Robert S. Ellwood Pdf

The year 1950 saw the height of the postwar religious boom in America and also the depths of the Cold War. It was a year when religious enthusiasm and postwar affluence coexisted with anxiety about global communism and an ever-present nuclear threat. McCarthyism, the advent of the hydrogen bomb, and the onset of the Korean War provoked ardent and diverse responses from religious leaders and occasioned lively debate in flourishing religious journalism. Robert Ellwood's1950is a cultural time capsule, recovering the impetus for many of today's trends, remembering endings and beginnings, and documenting many other developments in American religious life of fifty years ago. It highlights the parallels and divergences between religious culture then and now.

Author : Steven C. High
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Habiletés de survie
ISBN : 0774826835

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Oral History at the Crossroads by Steven C. High Pdf

How do we engage difficult histories and the experiences of new immigrants displaced by war, genocide, and human rights violations? This book reconfigures the conventional relationship between those who have sought refuge and rebuilt their lives and those who seek to record, understand, and transmit these life stories. It offers an alternative model to traditional research practices based on the idea of shared authority, whereby communities become partners in the research. Drawing on the collaborative Montreal Life Stories project, this book has methodological and ethical implications for scholars of oral history, collaborative research, public history and memory studies, and refugee studies.

Author : Jonathan Franzen
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385693769

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Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND THE GUARDIAN Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads. It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high school class, has veered into the era's counterculture, while their younger brother Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threaten to complicate. By turns comic and harrowing, a tour-de-force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, Crossroads is the first volume of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day. Set in a historical moment of moral crisis and reaching back to the early twentieth century, Crossroads is a sweeping investigation of human mythologies as the Hildebrandt family navigates the political, intellectual, and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years.

Author : Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780316053396

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Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt Pdf

There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity to connect with the animal world. Crow Planet reminds us that we do not need to head to faraway places to encounter "nature." Rather, even in the suburbs and cities where we live we are surrounded by wild life such as crows, and through observing them we can enhance our appreciation of the world's natural order. Crow Planet richly weaves Haupt's own "crow stories" as well as scientific and scholarly research and the history and mythology of crows, culminating in a book that is sure to make readers see the world around them in a very different way.

Author : Ronald G. Witt
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern)
ISBN : UCSC:32106006804329

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Hercules at the Crossroads by Ronald G. Witt Pdf

"Based upon two decades of research in European libraries and archives, this book constitutes the first complete biography of the humanist [Coluccio Salutati] about whom more is known than about any other historical personality down to the sixteenth century. Set against the background of twelfth-to early fifteenth century European intellectual history, Witt's analysis provides fresh and exciting insights into the relationship of Christian doctrine and piety, scholastic logic and philosophy, and medieval French and Italian literary currents to early Italian humanism."--Book Jacket.