Raw Heaven

Author : Molly Peacock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B4951390

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Raw Heaven by Molly Peacock Pdf

Author : Miriam Kasin Hospodar
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781101142189

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Heaven's Banquet by Miriam Kasin Hospodar Pdf

Written with the support of the Maharishi Ayur-Veda Institute, this comprehensive cookbook shows how to incorporate the timeless principles of Ayurveda into the twenty-first-century kitchen. A result of Miriam Kasin Hospodar's twenty-year culinary journey, Heaven's Banquet draws from a rich palette of international cuisines and shows how to match your diet to your mind-body type for maximum health and well-being. The more than 700 recipes included here range from Thai Corn Fritters and Asian-Cajun Eggplant Gumbo to West African Avocado Mousse and Mocha-Spice Cake with Coffee Cream Frosting. Readers will discover the most effective methods of preparing food, the benefits of eating seasonally for individual types, and how to create a diet for the entire family. There are special sections on how to lose weight and control sugar sensitivity, a questionnaire to help determine mind-body type, and essential ingredients for a well-stocked Ayurvedic kitchen. Fully illustrated, and written for everyone from the beginner cook to the experienced chef, Heaven's Banquet shows how to use food to tap into your body's intelligence and create lifelong health.

Author : Roland Boer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134649716

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Knockin' on Heaven's Door by Roland Boer Pdf

Knockin' On Heaven's Door offers a critically sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between biblical studies and contemporary culture. Specific biblical texts are examined in the light of cultural criticism and areas of popular culture including pornography, heavy metal music and McDonald's hamburgers in the light of biblical criticism.

Author : Courtney Bender
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226042831

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Heaven's Kitchen by Courtney Bender Pdf

How do people practice religion in their everyday lives? How do our daily encounters with people who hold different religious beliefs shape the way we understand our own moral and spiritual selves? In Heaven's Kitchen, Courtney Bender takes a highly original approach to answering these questions. For more than a year she worked in New York City as a volunteer for a nonprofit, nonreligious organization called God's Love We Deliver, helping to prepare home-cooked meals for people with AIDS. Paying close attention to what was said and not said, Bender traces how the volunteers gave voice to their moral positions and religious values. She also examines how they invested their conversations, and mundane activities such as cooking, with personal meaning that in turn affected how they saw their own spiritual lives. Filled with vibrant storytelling and rich theoretical insights, Heaven's Kitchen shows faith as a living practice, reshaping our understanding of the role of religion in contemporary American life.

Author : Gisele B. Vincent-Page
Publisher : Author House
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781463437282

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Strolling Down Heaven's Gate by Gisele B. Vincent-Page Pdf

With 30 years of HIV behind us, we have brought about many changes. Some are very positive; medical breakthroughs have added years to peoples' lives. There has also been 30 years of strife, stigma and isolation for people with HIV. Through prose and poetry, the author opens her heart to the reader to reveal the struggles of life with HIV in those early years. She soothingly relates the reconciliation with herself and a society that increases its understanding and compassion so that the same achievements occur in the social field as it has in the medical field.

Author : Bill Van Wey
Publisher : Harmon Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781935959656

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REAL & RAW by Bill Van Wey Pdf

REAL & RAW: Acts of Meditation is 64 poems written by Bill Van Wey and are set in a format to help you read and meditate. Van Wey, an accomplished poet, calls his readers to read and ponder for a wonderful time of enlightenment and meditation

Author : Patrick Julian Hunter
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781039164802

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Raw Eggs by Patrick Julian Hunter Pdf

“It’s hard to mosh when your hips hurt,” Patrick Julian Hunter tells us in his wry and unflinching debut collection. These are the confessions, resolutions, exultations, and objections of an aging Gen-Xer. The poems in Raw Eggs vacillate between punk rock and smooth jazz, revolution and tradition, smoke screens and startling intimacy, playful allegory and shrewd realism. The characters in these poems are visited by moss mermaids, ancient gods, and portals to the otherworlds of their memories. Poetry itself is a ghostly, cherubic presence that inspires and guides the poet’s hand, dancing in the liminal space between acquiescence and audacity. In the plainspoken language of a natural storyteller, Hunter spotlights the bizarre human pageantry of office birthday parties and social media, extols a multicoloured pinch of pocket lint that stirs up old memories and new spiritual revelations, and celebrates the closeness of two old friends cheerfully eating each other’s bloody severed hands in hoagie sandwiches. From childhood nostalgia to domestic pleasures, climate anxiety and anti-consumerism to senescent woes, Raw Eggs is an all-you-can-eat buffet, serving up modern specialties like sunbaked seafood with a side of snark—proving that you can make absolutely anything from the raw material of your life.

Author : Mieko Kawakami
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609456306

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Heaven by Mieko Kawakami Pdf

“A raw, tender portrait of adolescent misery, reminiscent of Elena Ferrante’s fiction.” —NPR From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs, a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity. Tormented by his peers because of his lazy eye, Kawakami’s protagonist suffers in silence. His only respite comes thanks to his friendship with a girl who is also the victim of relentless teasing. But what is the nature of a friendship if your shared bond is terror? Unflinching yet tender, intimate and multi-layered, Heaven is yet another dazzling testament to Kawakami’s uncontainable talent. “An argument in favor of meaning, of beauty, of life.” —The New York Times Book Review “If you enjoyed Mieko Kawakami’s brilliant Breasts and Eggs, you’re certain to be astonished by her latest novel exploring violence and bullying with fierce, feminist and damning candor.” —Ms. Magazine “This is the real magic of Heaven, which shows us how to think about morality as an ongoing, dramatic activity. It can be maddening and ruinous and isolating. But it can also be shared, enlivened . . . and momentarily redeemed through unheroic acts of solidarity.” —The New Yorker “Quietly devastating.” —TIME Magazine “Keen psychological insight, brilliant sensitivity, and compassionate understanding.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “Raw and eloquent. . . . An unexpected classic.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “An incredible literary talent.” —Booklist, starred review “Kawakami writes with jagged, visceral beauty.” —Oprah Daily “Kawakami never lets us settle comfortably, which is a testament to her storytelling power.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “One of Japan’s brightest stars.” —Japan Times

Author : Tim Bete
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542803942

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The Raw Stillness of Heaven by Tim Bete Pdf

Praise "Beautiful and very accomplished. There's a spareness about the language and a quietness which makes these poems excellent vehicles for reflection and prayer. We need God's stillness in the world. These poems really contain His silence." - Sally Read, poet and author of Night's Bright Darkness "In this collection of beautiful and soul stirring poems by the new poet, Tim Bete, the reader-or perhaps more appropriately, the contemplative listener-will discover a means of transport into the center of the human encounter with God. Drawing on everything from the earliest and sometimes painful childhood memories, as in 'Hangar Shirts', to the inevitable lifetime journey of the prodigal's return in 'The Longest Road,' Bete's poems have the impact of encouraging the reader to both enter in, and later be drawn back out from our often all too raw human experience. Along the way, and as part of this spiritual exercise of entering in and going forth, Bete uses the powerful imagery of night, nature, snow and silence to paint this picture of encounter, as when in the 'Silent Winter Prayer' he writes, "At that moment, You pierced my heart, fracturing the tabernacle of the woods." These poems are a powerful and quite enjoyable read in and of themselves, but perhaps the most compelling aspect of this collection is its ability to help us, in a prayerful way, identify and wrestle with our own fragile faith in the midst of a quite unpredictable existence. This is well demonstrated in the poem, "Invocation for a Dying Man." Here Bete invites us to experience the apparent futility of the act of prayer in the midst of pain, "God took the man and we sobbed because God hadn't listened." But then he offers his readers, in the later poem, 'Love's Call,' the hopeful note of victory, transition, encounter and even the vision of an eternal embrace, "Yet death He nimbly smashed, like a fragile earthen vase and called out to His souls, come through this death to Me." For those who appreciate good poetry, this will be a very enjoyable read. But even more so, for those who seek in poetry an encounter between the interior and the eternal, this collection will serve as fair passage to that rendezvous." - Mark Danis, OCDS, co-host of the Carmelite Conversations radio program Description Through poems about prayer, conversion and faith, Tim Bete shares his search for God--a search that is common to each of us. Somewhere in the intersection of holy silence and the struggles of daily life, God appears: in a winter evening walk, in the smell of incense at church, in a blue patio chair, in the Sacrament of Confession. More than a collection of poems, this book is a prayer journal--a glimpse into the faith journey of the poet. To read samples of the poetry from the book, visit www.GrayRising.com.

Author : David Brin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504064705

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Heaven's Reach by David Brin Pdf

Prepare for a harrowing ride through the universe by the New York Times–bestselling author of Startide Rising and The Postman. Book Three in the Uplift Storm Trilogy The peaceful existence of six outcast races on Jijo has ended. Ancient enemies, the Jophur, have discovered them, preparing to subject the refugees to their dark, perverted plans. The Jijoans’ only hope is the same ship that accidently led their foes to the planet. The Earthship Streaker, with its crew of uplifted dolphins and a human commander, must somehow lure the Jophur into a chase through space . . . into the unknown. And then into the weird. More than just the fate of Jijo—or that of distant Earth, also suffering a deadly siege—hangs in the balance. Some believe a terrifying prophecy is about to come true, one that involves Streaker’s trove of artifacts coveted by factions throughout all Five Galaxies. As countless white dwarf stars verge on unexpected explosion, all sentient life in the universe appears to be at risk unless someone can save them. Praise for the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Uplift Saga “The Uplift books are as compulsive reading as anything ever published in the genre.” —The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction “An extraordinary achievement.” —Poul Anderson, award-winning author of Tau Zero,on Startide Rising “An exhilarating read that encompasses everything from breathless action to finely drawn moments of quiet intimacy.” —Locus on The Uplift War “Tremendously inventive, ambitious work.” —Kirkus Reviews on Brightness Reef

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6M3I

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The Works of Alexandre Dumas: The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112114884486

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The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

Author : J. Kilburn
Publisher : James K. Mossman
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780578670362

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Heaven's Door, a Novel by J. Kilburn Pdf

INTRODUCING the TOPDOGS MOTORCYCLE CLUB... fictional top-tier Outlaw Bikers who rule a city and play "the bad guys" in books about heroes, victims, and undercover policing. A lurid, dark and daring adventure into a criminal culture that is best visited from the safety of your favorite reading chair... InD'tale Magazine calls this first novel by J. Kilburn "heart-stopping!" "A brutally raw and riveting look at the inner workings of a fictional Canadian biker gang, Heaven’s Door by J. Kilburn comes in swinging and rarely stops...." (Self Publishing Review - 3.5 out of 4 stars!) "In the same way Sons of Anarchy gives us an intimate look at characters who play by their own rules, J. Kilburn’s novel gets up close and personal with unpredictable and often dangerous people... the world here is rich and full of compelling characters...." (Independent Book Review) Two opposing and mutually-exclusive lives meet for just a moment at a time and in a place where one of them shouldn't be. The fallout of this moment leaves a woman on the run from Organized Crime, and takes readers on a frantic plunge into the dark streets and back alleys of a richly-described criminal underworld. Inspired by actual events, this shocking and terror-filled crime fiction plays out against a backdrop of bloody gang violence that spilled across Quebec in the 1990's - the Quebec Biker War. Novelist J. Kilburn brings readers to the dark side of seedy streets in this international tale of adventure, terror, and crime set in Montreal.

Author : David S. Goyer,Michael Cassutt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101516546

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Heaven's Shadow by David S. Goyer,Michael Cassutt Pdf

The science fiction epic of our time has arrived. Three years ago, an object one hundred miles across was spotted on a trajectory for Earth's sun. Now, its journey is almost over. As it approaches, two competing manned vehicles race through almost half a million kilometers of space to reach it first. But when they both arrive on the entity, they learn that it has been sent toward Earth for a reason. An intelligent race is desperately attempting to communicate with our primitive species. And the message is: Help us.

Author : David S. Goyer,Michael Cassutt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101624548

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Heaven's Fall by David S. Goyer,Michael Cassutt Pdf

Mankind’s first contact with extraterrestrial life led to an incredible revelation. Their last may lead them to extinction. Twenty years have passed since the mysterious Near-Earth Object nicknamed Keanu appeared in the night sky and transported humans from all over Earth into its interior. There they discovered that Keanu was a long-range spaceship—and they were not alone. They joined forces with the aliens called the Architects, who had come from a distant galaxy to seek help in fighting the vicious Reivers. And they defeated them. Or so they thought. For when Keanu reestablished contact with Earth, they learned that the Reivers have taken over the planet, placing most of the population under their dominion. But mankind’s last hope may yet be hidden inside the NEO. And if the men and women still in Keanu cannot find it, humanity will be finished. And the galaxy will be next.