The Cross And The Compass

Author : Sara Ann Frahm
Publisher : Palibrio
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781463340049

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The Cross and the Compass by Sara Ann Frahm Pdf

The present book is an effort to understand the role of masonry in the introduction of freedom of worship in Mexico. With erudition, the author leads us through the stages ending with the victory of the liberal republic, headed by Benito Juárez, and the establishment thereby of freedom of worship, which made possible the insertion of American protestant missions in Mexico. Many Protestants brought not only their faith, but Freemasonry as well. - Dr. Adolfo García de la Sienra Guajardo Director del Instituto de Filosofía - Universidad Veracruzana, México Presidente de la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Metodología Económica This is a scholarly study, well documented, analyzing one of the most controversial themes in the history of Mexico. In the work of Sara Frahm, Masonry ceases being mysterious, and is revealed as one of the strong components that shaped 19th century Mexico - María Eugenia Vázquez Semadeni, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, UCLA.

Author : Caroline Van Hemert
Publisher : Little, Brown Spark
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316414432

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The Sun Is a Compass by Caroline Van Hemert Pdf

For fans of Cheryl Strayed, the gripping story of a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure. During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to feel stifled in the isolated, sterile environment of the lab. Worried that she was losing her passion for the scientific research she once loved, she was compelled to experience wildness again, to be guided by the sounds of birds and to follow the trails of animals. In March of 2012, she and her husband set off on a 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Alaskan Arctic, traveling by rowboat, ski, foot, raft, and canoe. Together, they survived harrowing dangers while also experiencing incredible moments of joy and grace -- migrating birds silhouetted against the moon, the steamy breath of caribou, and the bond that comes from sharing such experiences. A unique blend of science, adventure, and personal narrative, The Sun is a Compass explores the bounds of the physical body and the tenuousness of life in the company of the creatures who make their homes in the wildest places left in North America. Inspiring and beautifully written, this love letter to nature is a lyrical testament to the resilience of the human spirit. Winner of the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition: Adventure Travel

Author : William Van Zyl
Publisher : Five House Publishing
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-29
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Vegvisir - Viking Compass and Kristi Kors: A Tale of Rescue. by William Van Zyl Pdf

Have you ever found yourself in a life-or-death situation? Have you stood at a crossroads in your life, unsure of which path to take? Do you battle with despondency and mental health challenges? Has a grim health diagnosis left you reeling? Perhaps you've had to make a significant sacrifice? The Vikings possessed a remarkable symbol known as the Runic Cross, a variation of the Vegvisir, resembling a compass. This emblem served as a source of guidance and protection, intricately etched onto stones or rings, transforming it into a potent talisman. The Vegvisir, also called the runic compass or the Viking compass/Nordic compass, incorporated eight Viking rune staves, symbolising both protection and guidance. Vikings are believed to have relied on this unique symbol as a compass during their journeys. In Iceland, "vegvisir" translates to 'Wayfinder' and 'Signpost.' Also, I'd like to touch upon the Viking Sunstone, a practical navigation tool that indicated the sun's location when it was obscured from view, offering invaluable assistance to seafarers. My fascination with all things Viking leads me to draw intriguing comparisons between the Vegvisir and the Cross, adding an element of fun to the exploration.

Author : Mathias Enard
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811226639

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Compass by Mathias Enard Pdf

Winner of the 2015 Prix Goncourt, an astounding novel that bridges Europe and the Islamic world On the shortlist for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians, academics, orientalists, and explorers who populate this vast dreamscape. At the center of these memories is his elusive, unrequited love, Sarah, a fiercely intelligent French scholar caught in the intricate tension between Europe and the Middle East. With exhilarating prose and sweeping erudition, Mathias Énard pulls astonishing elements from disparate sources—nineteenth-century composers and esoteric orientalists, Balzac and Agatha Christie—and binds them together in a most magical way.

Author : Stephen Dafoe
Publisher : Lewis Masonic Pub
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Freemasonry
ISBN : 0853182981

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The Compasses and the Cross by Stephen Dafoe Pdf

In the Compasses and the Cross, Stephen Dafoe, the author of Nobly Born: An Illustrated History of the Knights Templar, traces the origins and evolution of the Masonic Knights Templar from their beginnings in the middle of the eighteenth century to its present form. Through the course of the book, Dafoe draws on his knowledge of the history of the original Order as well as that of the modern Masonic variant. Individual chapters will examine the various myths connecting the Templars and Freemasonry put forth by eighteenth and nineteenth century Freemasons including James Anderson, Andrew Michael Ramsay and Baron von Hund, as well as Scottish Freemasons such as William Alexander Lawrie and the Chevalier James Burnes. In addition to separating historical fact from masonic tradition, Dafoe also chronicles the differences in Masonic Templarism as it exists in Britain and the Dominion with that of the United States. An excellent and thought provoking addition to the existing information on the Knights Templar which will be essential reading for all Masons and general readers with an interest in this subject area.

Author : David J. Linden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101476413

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The Compass of Pleasure by David J. Linden Pdf

A leading brain scientist's look at the neurobiology of pleasure-and how pleasures can become addictions. Whether eating, taking drugs, engaging in sex, or doing good deeds, the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. In The Compass of Pleasure Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David J. Linden explains how pleasure affects us at the most fundamental level: in our brain. As he did in his award-winning book, The Accidental Mind, Linden combines cutting-edge science with entertaining anecdotes to illuminate the source of the behaviors that can lead us to ecstasy but that can easily become compulsive. Why are drugs like nicotine and heroin addictive while LSD is not? Why has the search for safe appetite suppressants been such a disappointment? The Compass of Pleasure concludes with a provocative consideration of pleasure in the future, when it may be possible to activate our pleasure circuits at will and in entirely novel patterns.

Author : Bass Jobsen
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781783286942

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Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook by Bass Jobsen Pdf

Over 120 practical and easy-to-understand recipes that explain how to use Sass and Compass to write efficient, maintainable, and reusable CSS code for your web development projects About This Book Leverage Sass to make your CSS code maintainable, reusable and prevent code duplications Shorten debug time with Sass when creating complex CSS code for different browsers and devices Write easy and bullet-proof CSS with Compass using this step-by-step and detailed guide Who This Book Is For This book is mainly intended for web developers and designers who are comfortable with CSS and HTML. If you are someone with some experience with CSS, you will find the learning curve of learning Sass syntax to be less steep. Basic knowledge of web development is helpful but you don't have to be a programmer to understand Sass. What You Will Learn Spend less time debugging code Compile Sass code into readable and maintainable CSS Integrate Sass in your own projects Reuse your code to prevent code duplications Write reusable and portable CSS code Make use of pre-built and established code written by other developers Reduce development and maintenance time of your projects Set up a development environment with Gulp In Detail Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook helps you to get most out of CSS3 and harness its benefits to create engaging and receptive applications. This book will help you develop faster and reduce the maintenance time for your web development projects by using Sass and Compass. You will learn how to use with CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation and understand how to use other libraries of pre-built mixins. You will also learn setting up a development environment with Gulp. This book guides you through all the concepts and gives you practical examples for full understanding. Style and approach This book is the perfect mix of essential theory combined with real-life examples and problems, with clear explanations of the more sophisticated Sass concepts. Learn Sass and Compass with practical and well-explained example code. This book follows a problem and solution approach that is convenient to understand and follow.

Author : Elaine Treharne,Greg Walker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191572593

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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English by Elaine Treharne,Greg Walker Pdf

The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.

Author : Thomas Liddell Ainsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080602709

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Guide Book to the Local Marine Board Examination by Thomas Liddell Ainsley Pdf

Author : Benjamin Couch Henry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : China
ISBN : UCAL:$B53587

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The Cross and the Dragon, Or, Light in the Broad East by Benjamin Couch Henry Pdf

Author : Francis E. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0984916520

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The Personality of Jesus by Francis E. Clark Pdf

"Young people need someone who is crazy about them." - Walter Brueggemann "Originally authored by Francis Clark a hundred years ago, Ashley Denton has overhauled the first writing, taking care to update and revise the text to make it more readable for a modern audience of young people. The book will be especially helpful to youth pastors, student ministry leaders and parents of young people." -Robert E. Coleman (Author of Master Plan of Evangelism) "Francis Clark believed that Jesus was the embodiment of everything that young people longed for. The challenge of every generation is simply to give young people an accurate picture of Jesus Christ. Clark believed that if young people could just see the winsome personality of Christ, they would naturally be drawn to him, like a magnet is to metal." -Ashley Denton

Author : Denis Calderwood
Publisher : New Generation Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782810064

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From the Compass to the Cross by Denis Calderwood Pdf

Today there are many people who believe that secret societies are operating across the world in the areas of politics, finance and education. This is not a new phenomenon; it can be found in the history of many countries and nations. Linked to these thoughts is a belief that unpleasant events can be attributed to such organisations. It is the author's contention that there are people who seek an explanation for changes or events in society by claiming that they are the result of the workings of a secret society or societies. He asserts that this is largely a consequence of the fact that historians and other commentators, from the 20th century onwards, have tended to ignore explanations regarding secret societies and influence as paranoid-driven explanations, unworthy of serious analysis. Such an approach has led to the unintended consequence of an open season for conspiracy theorists.

Author : Thomas Liddell Ainsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590009582

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A guide book to the Local marine board examination. The ordinary examination. [With] The requisite elements from the Nautical almanac for 1865, for the exercises in Ainsley's Guide book. [With] The requisite elements from the Nautical almanac for 1887 by Thomas Liddell Ainsley Pdf

Author : David Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Surveying
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU50499319

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Manual of Land Surveying by David Murray Pdf

Author : June Fleming
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0898867851

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Staying Found by June Fleming Pdf

-- Features many new charts and illustrations -- New contact information for purchasing maps in the U.S. and Canada This tried-and-true guide teaches practical skills for navigating in the wilderness: reading maps; determining "true" directions following