My Year Of Dirt And Water

Author : Tracy Franz
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611729306

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My Year of Dirt and Water by Tracy Franz Pdf

In February 2004, when her American husband, a recently ordained Zen monk, leaves home to train for a year at a centuries-old Buddhist monastery, Tracy Franz embarks on her own year of Zen. An Alaskan alone—and lonely—in Japan, she begins to pay attention. My Year of Dirt and Water is a record of that journey. Allowed only occasional and formal visits to see her cloistered husband, Tracy teaches English, studies Japanese, and devotes herself to making pottery. Her teacher instructs her to turn cup after cup—creating one failure after another. Past and present, East and West intertwine as Tracy is twice compelled to return home to Alaska to confront her mother’s newly diagnosed cancer and the ghosts of a devastating childhood. Revolving through the days, My Year of Dirt and Water circles hard questions: What is love? What is art? What is practice? What do we do with the burden of suffering? The answers are formed and then unformed—a ceramic bowl born on the wheel and then returned again and again to dirt and water.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Municipal engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015082631394

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Water & Sewage Works by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 76 include Reference and data section for 1929 (1929- called Water works and sewerage data section)

Author : Emmi Itäranta
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062326164

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Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta Pdf

An amazing, award-winning speculative fiction debut novel by a major new talent, in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin. Global warming has changed the world’s geography and its politics. Wars are waged over water, and China rules Europe, including the Scandinavian Union, which is occupied by the power state of New Qian. In this far north place, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio is learning to become a tea master like her father, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once provided water for her whole village. But secrets do not stay hidden forever, and after her father’s death the army starts watching their town—and Noria. And as water becomes even scarcer, Noria must choose between safety and striking out, between knowledge and kinship. Imaginative and engaging, lyrical and poignant, Memory of Water is an indelible novel that portrays a future that is all too possible.

Author : New South Wales. Department of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2533315

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Annual Report by New South Wales. Department of Mines Pdf

Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : New South Wales
ISBN : SRLF:E0000168559

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Journal of the Legislative Council by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council Pdf

Author : Illinois State Horticultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Horticulture
ISBN : UIUC:30112119993696

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Transactions of the Illinois State Horticultural Society and the Illinois Fruit Council for the Year ... by Illinois State Horticultural Society Pdf

Author : Katherine Ashenburg
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307368362

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The Dirt on Clean by Katherine Ashenburg Pdf

For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a public two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, a scraping of the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the seventeenth-century aristocratic Frenchman, it meant changing his shirt once a day, using perfume to obliterate both his own aroma and everyone else’s, but never immersing himself in – horrors! – water. By the early 1900s, an extraordinary idea took hold in North America – that frequent bathing, perhaps even a daily bath, was advisable. Not since the Roman Empire had people been so clean, and standards became even more extreme as the millennium approached. Now we live in a deodorized world where germophobes shake hands with their elbows and where sales of hand sanitizers, wipes and sprays are skyrocketing. The apparently routine task of taking up soap and water (or not) is Katherine Ashenburg’s starting point for a unique exploration of Western culture, which yields surprising insights into our notions of privacy, health, individuality, religion and sexuality. Ashenburg searches for clean and dirty in plague-ridden streets, medieval steam baths, castles and tenements, and in bathrooms of every description. She reveals the bizarre rescriptions of history’s doctors as well as the hygienic peccadilloes of kings, mistresses, monks and ordinary citizens, and guides us through the twists and turns to our own understanding of clean, which is no more rational than the rest. Filled with amusing anecdotes and quotations from the great bathers of history, The Dirt on Clean takes us on a journey that is by turns intriguing, humorous, startling and not always for the squeamish. Ashenburg’s tour of history’s baths and bathrooms reveals much about our changing and most intimate selves – what we desire, what we ignore, what we fear, and a significant part of who we are.

Author : Sebastian Kneipp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Baths
ISBN : HARVARD:HC2EBI

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My Water-cure Tested for Than 35 Years and Published for the Cure of Diseases and the Preservation of Health by Sebastian Kneipp Pdf

Author : Katherine Hannigan
Publisher : Greenwillow Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062345176

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Dirt + Water = Mud by Katherine Hannigan Pdf

This exuberant picture book by Katherine Hannigan, the acclaimed and bestselling author of Ida B, is about math concepts, friendship, and imaginative play, and is told entirely in equations! A young girl and her dog spend the day playing in her backyard, where with her imagination—and a few helpful props—anything can happen. What do you get when you combine dirt and water? Mud! What do you get when you take a sheet, a flowerpot, and a stick and make a costume? You transform yourself into Her Majesty, the queen! A cape and a strong breeze turn the treehouse into an airplane. A sheet, a stick, and a pair of well-placed cat’s ears turn the girl into a pirate! At least until mutiny leaves her alone in her kiddie pool . . . surrounded by sharks! Cheerful and action-packed illustrations and a combination of comic-like panels, conversation bubbles, sound effects, and full-page illustrations make Dirt + Water = Mud particularly appealing for new readers.

Author : Miranda Paul
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781626724471

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Water Is Water by Miranda Paul Pdf

Drip. Sip. Pour me a cup. Water is water unless...it heats up. Whirl. Swirl. Watch it curl by. Steam is steam unless...it cools high. This spare, poetic picture book follows a group of kids as they move through all the different phases of the water cycle. From rain to fog to snow to mist, talented author Miranda Paul and the always remarkable Jason Chin (Redwoods, Coral Reefs, Island, Gravity) combine to create a beautiful and informative journey in this innovative nonfiction picture book that will leave you thirsty for more.

Author : New South Wales Department of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031098150

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Annual Mining Report of the Department of Mines and Agriculture by New South Wales Department of Mines Pdf

1875- include also the Annual report of the Government Geologist.

Author : New South Wales. Department of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : PRNC:32101054599988

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Annual Mining Report of the Department of Mines and Agriculture [etc.] by New South Wales. Department of Mines Pdf

Author : David Vann
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061987809

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Legend of a Suicide by David Vann Pdf

“The reportorial relentlessness of [David] Vann’s imagination often makes his fiction seem less written than chiseled. A small, lovely book has been written out of his large and evident pain.”—New York Times Book Review In Legend of a Suicide, his heartbreaking semi-autobiographical debut story-collection, David Vann relates the story of a young man trying to come to terms with the guilt and pain of his father’s suicide. The wild outback of the author’s native Alaska acts as the ideal backdrop for this collage of six stories—a novella and five shorts—and mirrors the author’s own psychological wilderness. From “an important new voice in American literature” (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain) comes an unforgettable exploration of the tragic gaps between one boy and his father.

Author : Bill Buford
Publisher : Appetite by Random House
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780147530714

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Dirt by Bill Buford Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A MACLEAN'S SUMMER READ The hugely anticipated follow up to Heat--Bill Buford's hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive adventures in the world of French haute cuisine. In Dirt, Bill Buford--author of the best-selling, now-classic, Heat--moves his attention from Italian cuisine to the food of France. Baffled by the language, determined that he can master the art of French cooking--or at least get to the bottom of why it is so revered--Buford begins what will become a five-year odyssey by shadowing the revered French chef Michel Richard in Washington, D.C. He soon realizes, however, that a stage in France is necessary, and so he goes--this time with his wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow--to Lyon, the gastronomic capital of France. Studying at l'Institut Bocuse, cooking at the storied, Michelin-starred Mère Brazier, Buford becomes a man obsessed--to prove that French cooking actually derives from the Italian, to prove himself on the line, to prove that he is worthy of these gastronomic secrets. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to immerse himself in his surroundings, Bill Buford has written what is sure to be the food-lover's book of the year.

Author : Veronica Strang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000190281

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The Meaning of Water by Veronica Strang Pdf

Water is the most valuable resource and the most passionately contested. Drought has become an increasingly extreme problem in many parts of the world, and it is predicted that 60% of the major cities in Europe will run short of water in the next decade. In industrialized countries per capita water usage continues to rise intractably, despite strenuous efforts by environmentalists and resource managers to encourage conservation. Conflicts over water and environmental degradation from the overuse of resources are intensifying. Water is not merely a physical resource: in every cultural context it is densely encoded with social, spiritual, political and environmental meanings, and these have a powerful effect upon patterns of water use and upon the relationships between water users and suppliers. This book makes an in-depth analysis of the meanings of water and considers how they are experienced and formed at an individual and societal level. Focusing on the River Stour in Dorset, Strang draws upon a wide range of data: ethnographic research, cultural mapping, local archives and folklore. She explores the controversies surrounding water ownership and management, and the social and political questions raised by water privatization in the UK. The topical nature of these issues and their global relevance make this book a vital contribution to contemporary research on water and an essential read for anyone with an interest in getting under the surface of one of the worlds most important social and environmental issues.