Shifting Sand

Author : Steve Donahue
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781609943875

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Shifting Sands by Steve Donahue Pdf

How to stop thinking about life’s inevitable transitions as goals to reach and learn how to navigate through times of unpredictability and uncertainty. We live in a culture, Steve Donahue writes, which loves “climbing mountains.” We want to see the peak, map out a route, and follow it to the top. Sometimes this approach works, but not always, particularly when we are enduring a personal crisis—divorce, job loss, addiction, illness, or death. We may not know exactly where we are going, how to get there, or even how we’ll know we’ve arrived. And it’s not just in times of crisis. There are many deserts in our lives, situations with no clear paths or boundaries. Finding a job is usually a mountain, but changing careers can be a desert. Having a baby is a mountain, especially for the mom. But raising a child is a desert. Battling cancer is a mountain. Living with a chronic illness is a desert. In the desert, we need to follow different rules than we follow when conquering a mountain. We need to be more intuitive, more patient, more spontaneous. Donahue outlines six “rules of desert travel” that will help us discover our direction by wandering, find our own personal oases, and cross our self-imposed borders. Shifting Sands shows us how to slow down, reflect, and embrace the changes of life graciously, naturally, and courageously.

Author : Allison Pittman
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496403896

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On Shifting Sand by Allison Pittman Pdf

Long before anyone would christen it “The Dust Bowl,” Nola Merrill senses the destruction. She’s been drying up bit by bit since the day her mother died, leaving her to be raised by a father who withholds his affection the way God keeps a grip on the Oklahoma rain. A hasty marriage to Russ, a young preacher, didn’t bring the escape she desired. Now, twelve years later with two children to raise, new seeds of dissatisfaction take root. When Jim, a mysterious drifter and long-lost friend from her husband’s past, takes refuge in their home, Nola slowly springs to life under his attentions until a single, reckless encounter brings her to commit the ultimate betrayal of her marriage. For months Nola withers in the wake of the sin she so desperately tries to bury. Guilt and shame consume her physically and spiritually, until an opportunity arises that will bring the family far from the drought and dust of Oklahoma. Or so she thinks. As the storms follow, she is consumed with the burden of her sin and confesses all, hoping to find Russ’s love strong enough to stand the test.

Author : Linda J. Ferguson
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781452541228

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Staying Grounded in Shifting Sand by Linda J. Ferguson Pdf

Staying Grounded in Shifting Sand provides insightful stories and ideas to support your spiritual journey and help you answer your souls calling. Inside youll read how to step fully into who you are as an awakened soul being. Youll shift how you experience your world using the affirmations, meditations, and visualizations provided in each chapter. A new process called Transformational Empowerment shows five key steps for manifesting your hearts desire and fulfilling your soul contracts. Youve already signed up to be an agent for spiritual transformation, in your own life and in the world. Staying Grounded in Shifting Sand is a spiritual guidebook to help you navigate through your daily stresses, spiritual tests, and challenging relationships. It also is a celebration of the joy you are here to experience in earth-school. Each chapter has meaningful exercises for you to use immediately! Read more so you can live the magnificent expression of Divine Essence that you are.

Author : Melvin John Ruohonen
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781616636517

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From Shifting Sand to Solid Rock by Melvin John Ruohonen Pdf

Melvin John Ruohonen was raised by loving, conservative parents in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He has lived a full life. Romances, beginning with his five-year-old foray in wooing of Gail Johannson in kindergarten. Divine interventions, the first of which was a personal mission imparted to Melvin when he was just fifteen. Marriages, divorce, children. Financial success and failure in sales. Excessive drinking, gambling, and then, moderation. Redemption. Now sixty-three years old, Melvin reflects on the highs and lows, the shifting sands, over the years. His life is one of everyman, but contains elements of the divine and unique lessons learned. Readers will recognize themselves within these pages and benefit from lessons learned, loves lost, and redemption bought. Move with Melvin John Ruohonen From Shifting Sand To Solid Rock.

Author : Katie Ritson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429955518

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The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands by Katie Ritson Pdf

Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of the Anthropocene are being played out. This book shows how the fragile landscapes around the North Sea have served as bellwethers for environmental concern both now and in the recent past. It looks at literary sources drawn from the countries around the North Sea (Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and England) from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, taking them out of their established national and cultural contexts and reframing them in the light of human concern with fast-changing and hazardous environments. The six chapters serve as literary case studies that highlight memories of flood disaster and recovery, attempts to engineer the landscape into submission, perceptions of the landscape as both local and global, and the imagination of the future of our planet. This approach, which combines environmental history and ecocriticism, shows the importance of cultural artefacts in understandings of, and responses to, environmental change, and advocates for the importance of literary studies in the environmental humanities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the Environmental Humanities, including Eco-criticism and Environmental History, as well as anyone studying literature from the Germanic philologies.

Author : Joel S. Migdal
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231536349

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Shifting Sands by Joel S. Migdal Pdf

Joel S. Migdal revisits the approach U.S. officials have adopted toward the Middle East since World War II, which paid scant attention to tectonic shifts in the region. After the war, the United States did not restrict its strategic model to the Middle East. Beginning with Harry S. Truman, American presidents applied a uniform strategy rooted in the country's Cold War experience in Europe to regions across the globe, designed to project America into nearly every corner of the world while limiting costs and overreach. The approach was simple: find a local power that could play Great Britain's role in Europe after the war, sharing the burden of exercising power, and establish a security alliance along the lines of NATO. Yet regional changes following the creation of Israel, the Free Officers Coup in Egypt, the rise of Arab nationalism from 1948 to 1952, and, later, the Iranian Revolution and the Egypt-Israel peace treaty in 1979 complicated this project. Migdal shows how insufficient attention to these key transformations led to a series of missteps and misconceptions in the twentieth century. With the Arab uprisings of 2009 through 2011 prompting another major shift, Migdal sees an opportunity for the United States to deploy a new, more workable strategy, and he concludes with a plan for gaining a stable foothold in the region.

Author : Lu Qi,Mahesh K. Gaur,Victor R. Squires
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000589016

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Sand Dunes of the Northern Hemisphere: Distribution, Formation, Migration and Management by Lu Qi,Mahesh K. Gaur,Victor R. Squires Pdf

Volume 2 of the book ‘Sand Dunes of the Northern Hemisphere’ is sub-titled Characteristics, Dynamics and Provenance of Sand Dunes in the Northern Hemisphere. It brings together a vast body of information and insight into sand dune and desert systems from North Asia, Central Asia, North Africa and the Middle East. Chapters from the Russian Federation include studies on dune systems within the permafrost zone and there is a case study from temperate zone dune system in coastal Japan. Volume 2: Characteristics, Dynamics and Provenance of Sand Dunes in the Northern Hemisphere of 16 chapters in three Parts, focusses on Saharan Africa, Egypt, and Middle East and gives attention to sand mobility and encroachment with case studies from a number of countries where these matters are of concern. We also include chapters on the remote dunes in the permafrost zone and in the hyper-arid deserts of Iran. Case studies are used to highlight the characteristics of dunes and their interaction with humans in several widely divergent settings. Volume 2 concludes with some musing on the value of study of the past as key to the future and speculates on what the future might hold in the light of a warmer and drier Earth and a rise in sea level that threaten large tracts of low-lying land with marine incursions and destruction from storm surge. PART 4 Sand Mobility and Encroachment The seven chapters in this Part examine the real-world impact of sand encroachment and dune migration on people and their economic activities and the health, welfare and financial implications related to destruction of infrastructure, including human habitations. PART 5 Sand Dune Landscapes Distribution, Formation and Management Seven Case studies from several geographic regions in Africa, the Middle East, north-east Asia are presented here to demonstrate the underlying mechanisms in dune formation and the diverse approaches to their management. Human impacts such as sand mining, tourism development, combine with natural forces like climate variability to challenge the realization of an optimum management strategy. PART 6 Concluding Thoughts: Coping with an Unknown Future from a Little-known Past The two chapters in Part 6 have special roles. We are privileged to publish new research findings that are summarized here in Chapter 38 from extensive and detailed work conducted in the Kyzyl Kum, and Karakum sand seas of Central Asia. There is a strong belief that further study of the little-known past such as revealed in this study could unlock clues as to what a future Earth might look like. This leads on to speculation in Chapter 39 about the implications of what we already know about global change (not only climate change) and the impact of the Anthropocene on the dune systems, both inland and coastal. Sea level rise, marine incursions and an increase in extreme weather events will affect dune systems and sand seas on the Northern Hemisphere (and beyond).

Author : Emily Rodda
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545529600

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The Shifting Sands (Deltora Quest #4) by Emily Rodda Pdf

The international bestselling series returns for a new generation with a fresh look and bonus content from the legends of Deltora. When the seven gems of the magic Belt of Deltora were stolen, the evil Shadow Lord invaded the kingdom and enslaved its people. Determined to rid their land of the tyrant, Lief, Barda, and Jasmine are on a dangerous quest to find the lost gems, which are hidden in fearsome places throughout the kingdom.The time has come to seek the fourth gem, kept jealously by an unknown guardian in a barren wasteland. Separation, confusion, and strange, terrible enemies await the three heroes in the harsh landscape of the Shifting Sands.

Author : Mrs. Romilly Fedden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433111626085

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Shifting Sands by Mrs. Romilly Fedden Pdf

Author : Bart D Ehrman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0199741131

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Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene by Bart D Ehrman Pdf

Bart Ehrman, author of the highly popular books Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code, Lost Christianities, and the New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus, here takes readers on another engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of Jesus' most intriguing followers: Simon Peter, the Apostle Paul, and Mary Magdalene. What does the Bible tell us about each of these key followers of Christ? What legends have sprung up about them in the centuries after their deaths? Was Paul bow-legged and bald? Was Peter crucified upside down? Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute? In this lively work, Ehrman separates fact from fiction, presenting complicated historical issues in a clear and informative way and relating vivid anecdotes culled from the traditions of these three followers. He notes, for instance, that there is no evidence to suggest that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute (this legend can be traced to a sermon preached by Gregory the Great five centuries after her death), and little reason to think that she was married to Jesus. Similarly, there is no historical evidence for the well-known tale that Peter was crucified upside down. A serious book but vibrantly written and leavened with many colorful stories, Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene will appeal to anyone curious about the early Christian church and the lives of these important figures. "An informed but breezy look at the myths surrounding Jesus' most influential followers.... This book contains valuable historical scholarship. It also encourages readers to approach the Scriptures with fresh and enlightened eyes." --Christian Science Monitor

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9251022615

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Sand Dune Stabilization, Shelterbelts and Afforestation in Dry Zones by Anonim Pdf

Author : Merrill Phillips
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781490737843

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Where the Sand Meets the Sea by Merrill Phillips Pdf

WHERE THE SAND MEETS THE SEA is a collection of sea stories told the author by both his Grandfather, Arthur F. Phillips and Grandmother Emma C. Eledredge, Phillips, whose father was a sea Captain who sailed to the Orient in the middle to late 1800s. The author having a love for the sea includes his own concept of sea stories and poems of what the life of seafaring men and women faced in the days of sail. The author was born and raised in Chatham, Mass.., once not much more than a small fishing village at the end of the days of sail and heard the tales of the sea as told by those who lived them. He also remembers seeing ships of sail pass by Chatham when he was a young child.

Author : Cherry Kearton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Algeria
ISBN : UOM:39015026633001

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The Shifting Sands of Algeria by Cherry Kearton Pdf

Author : F El-Baz,M H A Hassan,I A El-Tayeb
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990-04-01
Category : Desertification
ISBN : 9789814656795

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Sand Transport and Desertification in Arid Lands by F El-Baz,M H A Hassan,I A El-Tayeb Pdf

This volume serves as a source of information on arid lands that is not otherwise available. Contents:Geomorphological Aspects of Sand Movement (K Badr El Din, H M Hassan, M Mainguet, P A Jacobberger, N S Embabi)Groundwater Exploration and Mapping (F El-Baz, R B Hoag & J C Ingari, R Majali)Field Studies (H E Dregne, H A Al-Sanad, E H M Awouda, B C E Egboka & N S Nwogute, W Iskander, M A Kishk, D Anton, J Rutllant, S-Q Zhao)Laboratory and Theoretical Studies (I A Eltayeb et al., D A Gillette, A L Elattar, M M S Ghoniem et al., J D Iversen, J T Møller, Y A Owusu et al)Sand Transport Control (B Cevik & A Berkman, K K Bofah & W Ahmad, R D Sarre, E Jabbour, R Azzam et al., J Ossowski, Z-D Zhu & Y L Yang) Readership: Geologists.

Author : Michael M. Geary
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806154824

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Sea of Sand by Michael M. Geary Pdf

Sculpted into graceful contours by countless centuries of wind and water, the Great Sand Dunes sprawl along the eastern fringes of the vast San Luis Valley of south-central Colorado. Covering an area of nearly thirty square miles, they are the tallest aeolian, or wind-produced, dunes in North America, towering 750 feet above the valley floor. With the addition of the enormous Baca Ranch and other adjacent lands, the dunes—originally designated as a National Monument in 1932—attained official National Park status in 2004. In Sea of Sand, Michael M. Geary guides readers on a historical journey through this unique ecosystem, which includes an array of natural and cultural wonders, from the main dunefield and verdant wetlands to the summits of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Described by explorer Zebulon Pike as “a sea in a storm” and by frontier photographer William Henry Jackson as “a curious and very singular phase of nature’s freak,” the Great Sand Dunes are a nexus of more than 10,000 years of human history, from Paleolithic big-game hunters to nomadic Native Americans, from Spanish conquistadores and transcontinental explorers to hard-rock miners and modern-day tourists in motor homes. Like these successive waves of visitors, Sea of Sand follows the water, analyzing its critical role in the settlement and development of the region. Geary also describes the profound impact that waves of human use and settlement have had on the land—which ultimately inspired the early grassroots efforts by San Luis Valley citizens to protect the dunes from further exploitation. He examines as well the more recent legislative effort led by an unprecedented coalition of local, state, and federal agencies and organizations, including The Nature Conservancy and the National Park Service, to secure the Great Sand Dunes’ national park designation. Amply illustrated, Sea of Sand is the definitive history of the natural, cultural, and political forces that helped shape this incomparable landscape.