Providence Of A Sparrow

Author : Chris Chester
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400033850

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Providence of a Sparrow by Chris Chester Pdf

“There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” --William Shakespeare, Hamlet B fell twenty-five feet from his nest into the life of Chris Chester. The encounter was providential for both of them. B and Chester spent hours together playing games like bottle-cap fetch or hide-and-seek. They learned “words” in each other’s vocabularies. B developed a fetish for nostrils and a dislike of the color yellow. He grew anxious if Chester came home late from work. At bedtime he would rub his sleepy eyes on Chester’s thumb and settle to sleep in his palm. Chester ended up turning part of his house into an aviary and adjusting his social life to meet B’s demands. This was a small price to pay, though, for the trust and comfort of a twenty-five-gram friend who brought joy and wonder back into his life.

Author : Robert Judge Woerheide
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781532090837

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Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Judge Woerheide Pdf

From 2012 to 2019, Robert Woerheide not only achieved professional success, he also experienced heartbreaking challenges and tragic events. During this time he was, at various points, an honors graduate student, a full-time stay-at-home dad, and an award-winning high school English teacher. With these highs came extreme lows; the full rounding of the human experience. His life fell apart, he lost his children and his freedom, only to find a new kind of wisdom that has since helped him define a new kind of success. Shared in loose chronological order, this collection of poems leads readers through seven years of insight—found in great moments of joy, even during pitfalls of hardship. From weathering a divorce, to finding true love, experiencing the magic of classroom teaching, to the loss of a career and ostracization, these poems describe the hard-won realization that wisdom exists even in the places we might least expect. And always, it is within our reach. Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow is an insightful collection of poetry that illuminates the beauty we can find even in our darkest moments.

Author : Mary Doria Russell
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345510884

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The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell Pdf

A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end. Praise for The Sparrow “A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them.”—Entertainment Weekly “Powerful . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Provocative, challenging . . . recalls both Arthur C. Clarke and H. G. Wells, with a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure.”—The Dallas Morning News “[Mary Doria] Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense.”—USA Today

Author : Kim Todd
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781861899774

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Sparrow by Kim Todd Pdf

Innocent. Invader. Lover. Thief. Sparrows are everywhere and wear many guises. Able to live in the Arctic and the desert, from Beijing to San Francisco, the house sparrow is the most ubiquitous wild bird in the world. They are the subject of elegies by Catullus and John Skelton and listed as “pretty things” in Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book—but they’re also urban vermin with shocking manners that were so reviled that Mao placed them on the list of Four Pests and ordered the Chinese people to kill them on sight. In Sparrow, award-winning science and natural history writer Kim Todd explores the bird's complex history, biology, and literary tradition. Todd describes the difference between Old World sparrows, like the house sparrow, which can nest in a garage or in an airport, and New World sparrows, which often stake their claim to remote islands or meadows in the high Sierra. In addition, she looks at the nineteenth-century Sparrow War in the United States—a battle over the sparrow’s introduction—which set the stage for decades of discussions of invasive species. She examines the ways in which sparrows have taught us about evolution and the shocking recent decline of house sparrows in cities globally—this disappearance of a bird that seemed hardwired for success remains an ornithological mystery. With lush illustrations, ranging from early woodcuts and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary wildlife photography, this is the first book-length exploration of the natural and cultural history of this beloved, reviled, and ubiquitous bird.

Author : Douglas Brode
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292768079

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From Walt to Woodstock by Douglas Brode Pdf

With his thumbprint on the most ubiquitous films of childhood, Walt Disney is widely considered to be the most conventional of all major American moviemakers. The adjective "Disneyfied" has become shorthand for a creative work that has abandoned any controversial or substantial content to find commercial success. But does Disney deserve that reputation? Douglas Brode overturns the idea of Disney as a middlebrow filmmaker by detailing how Disney movies played a key role in transforming children of the Eisenhower era into the radical youth of the Age of Aquarius. Using close readings of Disney projects, Brode shows that Disney's films were frequently ahead of their time thematically. Long before the cultural tumult of the sixties, Disney films preached pacifism, introduced a generation to the notion of feminism, offered the screen's first drug-trip imagery, encouraged young people to become runaways, insisted on the need for integration, advanced the notion of a sexual revolution, created the concept of multiculturalism, called for a return to nature, nourished the cult of the righteous outlaw, justified violent radicalism in defense of individual rights, argued in favor of communal living, and encouraged antiauthoritarian attitudes. Brode argues that Disney, more than any other influence in popular culture, should be considered the primary creator of the sixties counterculture—a reality that couldn't be further from his "conventional" reputation.

Author : Robert Hellenga
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684850276

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The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga Pdf

In his rich and dazzling new novel, the author of the bestselling "The Sixteen Pleasures" chronicles the journey of a man awakening from profound sorrow and rediscovering love in a most unexpected time and place.

Author : Salim Ali
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000111496760

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The Fall of a Sparrow by Salim Ali Pdf

Autobiography of an Indian ornithologist.

Author : Alan Sinfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135228491

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Literature in Protestant England, 1560-1660 (Routledge Revivals) by Alan Sinfield Pdf

The hardline, uncompromising theology preached by the English Church in the 16th and 17th Centuries had disturbing effects on the literature of the period. This study, originally published in 1983, assesses the importance of the prevailing religious climate to the work of several major writers, both in and out of sympathy with the contemporary protestantism. It is argued that the accepted view of the period as essentially 'Christian-Humanist' obscures the harsher aspects of a Calvinism which throws into relief the agonies of a writer like Donne, the acceptances of one like George Herbert. Many writers rejected more or less explicitly the Christian dogma, through the heroic assertion of human potential in Shakespearean and other dramatic characters, the nihilism of Marlowe, or the secular rationalism of Bacon and Hobbes. Milton is central to this complex weft of belief and rejection, piety and atheism, acceptance of predestination and determination to accept fate, that characterises the period. Finally, Sinfield shows how this protestantism disintegrated under the strain of internal contradictions and external pressures, and in the process helped to stimulate secularism. In this original and clearly written book, scholarship is deployed unobstrusively to place many major works in an unaccustomed and stimulating perspective.

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:49015002128800

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Shakespeare Survey by Allardyce Nicoll Pdf

An annual survey of Shakespearian study and production.

Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781586174132

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Through Shakespeare's Eyes by Joseph Pearce Pdf

Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs.

Author : Serena Jourdan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011263822

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The Sparrow and the Flea by Serena Jourdan Pdf

Author : Ann Pasternak Slater
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571334049

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The Fall of a Sparrow by Ann Pasternak Slater Pdf

The Vivien Eliot Papers is a groundbreaking new biography of Vivien Eliot, comprising two sections: her Life and her Papers. Based on a rich repository of primary evidence, much only recently uncovered, it corrects the accidental inaccuracies and deliberate distortions that have circulated around one of Bloomsbury's most gossiped-about, enigmatic couples, while unveiling fascinating new discoveries that give a more balanced understanding of both partners. For the first time, too, immaculate texts of Vivien's own writing are presented, carefully distinguished from Eliot's input, which demonstrate a fresh and wry talent all of her own.

Author : Peter Farrelly
Publisher : Main Street Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307539496

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Outside Providence by Peter Farrelly Pdf

Outside Providence is a hilarious yet melancholy novel of a young man's coming of age in the 1970s. When Timothy Dunphy, native of working-class Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is packed off to a fancy prep school, he finds that the privileged elite is hardly immune to life's screwups. Dunphy must reconcile his pedigreed schoolmates with his mongrel friends back home--including Drugs Delaney, whose diet consists mainly of vitamin Qs (Quaaludes), and Bunny Cote, who thinks New England is a state. Not far below Dunphy's comic demeanor churn powerful fears of abandonment by those he loves best: his mother, his girlfriend, and his closest friend. And he must come to terms with his complex relationship with the person he hates most, his father. As he struggles to live with the paradox of somehow loving the same man he blames for his family's tragedies, Dunphy begins to understand and accept life's betrayals, and learns how to trust in love.

Author : William Hutchings
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800644144

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‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’ by William Hutchings Pdf

The book is a chronological reading of Alexander Pope’s poems, from the Pastorals (1709) to the four-book Dunciad (1743). Each of the 26 chapters forming the volume selects examples for detailed scrutiny, demonstrating how close reading can generate understanding of a whole poem and how critical appraisal can build into a creative survey of an entire poetic career. The book’s approach is intended to be both scholarly and accessible and 'Wit's Wild Dancing Light' will be of interest to scholars, students and anybody interested in Pope’s masterful poetry.

Author : R. Chris Hassel Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472577290

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Shakespeare's Religious Language by R. Chris Hassel Jr. Pdf

Religious issues and discourse are key to an understanding of Shakespeare's plays and poems. This dictionary discusses over 1000 words and names in Shakespeare's works that have a religious connotation. Its unique word-by-word approach allows equal consideration of the full nuance of each of these words, from 'abbess' to 'zeal'. It also gradually reveals the persistence, the variety, and the sophistication of Shakespeare's religious usage. Frequent attention is given to the prominence of Reformation controversy in these words, and to Shakespeare's often ingenious and playful metaphoric usage of them. Theological commonplaces assume a major place in the dictionary, as do overt references to biblical figures, biblical stories and biblical place-names; biblical allusions; church figures and saints.