Author : Neil Del Strother
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Flowers
ISBN : 095634710X
The Flower in the Desert
Neil Del Strother
The Flower In The Desert
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A Flower in the Desert
David Lang
Author : David Lang
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781626257115
A Flower in the Desert by David Lang Pdf
At seventeen, following the directions of the philosopher and mystic Douglas Harding, David Lang pointed his finger at his own face and discovered he didn't have one. Instead, he found himself staring at nothing. But it was a very special nothing-a nothing filled with everything. Taking this revelation as his starting point, Lang shows how the vision of nothingness—the Desert—turned his life upside down. In image-rich language, he draws the reader into the Alice-in-Wonderland world of “the given.” You will see buildings and trees that move, a man who expands and shrinks like a balloon, and a room built around a black hole. You will witness scenes of joy, wonder, confusion, and despair. And you will find the Flower, that mysterious and profound destination which adds everything—and nothing—to the vision of the Desert. In the appendix, Lang gives explicit directions so that you can experience the book's key insights yourself.
Clementina's Cactus
Ezra Jack Keats
Author : Ezra Jack Keats
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451479570
Clementina's Cactus by Ezra Jack Keats Pdf
Keats departs from his traditional style for his one and only wordless picture book, Clementina's Cactus. Clementina and her father are out for a walk in the desert when Clementina discovers a lone cactus, all shriveled and prickly. But Clementina discovers there is something beautiful hiding inside that thick skin.
Desert Flower
Waris Dirie,Cathleen Miller
Author : Waris Dirie,Cathleen Miller
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061952272
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie,Cathleen Miller Pdf
An “outstandingly dramatic and moving” memoir of fleeing a brutal girlhood in Somalia—and becoming a supermodel and UN special ambassador (Kirkus Reviews). To escape an arranged marriage to a sixty-year-old man, Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu—the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to London, where she worked as a house servant; then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model; and ultimately to New York City, where she became a human rights ambassador for the U.N. Poignant and powerfully told, Desert Flower is Waris’s extraordinary story. “Affecting and at times very entertaining . . . it is Dirie’s remarkable lack of narcissism or entitlement that makes her so captivating a raconteur.” —Publishers Weekly “Written with innocence and warmth, this book shows how one woman’s tragedy can help others.” —The New York Times Book Review “Waris’s story is one of remarkable courage. From the deserts of Somalia to the world of high fashion, she battles against oppression and emerges a real champion. She is the most beautiful inspiration to anyone.” —Elton John
Flores en El Desierto
Paula Allen
Author : Paula Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0813044359
Flores en El Desierto by Paula Allen Pdf
An account, including stunning photographs, of the search by some of the women of the town of Calama, Chile, for the remains of their loved ones who were murdered and "disappeared" by the Pinochet regime.
Flower of the Desert
Antonio Negri
Author : Antonio Negri
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438458489
Flower of the Desert by Antonio Negri Pdf
A profound meditation on Leopardi’s art and thought as well as a reframing and reassertion of Negri’s own philosophical and political project of liberation. Antonio Negri, one of Italy’s most influential and controversial contemporary philosophers, offers in this book a radical new interpretation of the nineteenth-century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. For Negri, Leopardi is not the bitter, idealistic individualist of conventional literary history, but rather a profoundly materialist thinker who sees human solidarity as the only possible solution to the catastrophes of history and politics. Negri traces Leopardi’s resistance to the transcendental idealism of Kant and Hegel, with its emphasis on reason’s power to resolve real antagonisms into abstract syntheses, and his gradual development of a sophisticated poetic materialism focused on the constructive power of the imagination and its “true illusions.” Like Nietzsche (who admired him), Leopardi provides an alternative to modernity within modernity, expressing a force of rupture and recomposition—a uniquely Italian one—that is as relevant now as it was in the nineteenth century, and which connects to the theory of Empire as the political constitution of the present that Negri has elaborated in collaboration with Michael Hardt. Antonio Negri is the coauthor (with Michael Hardt) of Empire; Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire; and Commonwealth. Timothy S. Murphy is Houston-Truax-Wentz Professor of English at Oklahoma State University. He has translated several of Negri’s works, including Trilogy of Resistance; Books for Burning: Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy; and Subversive Spinoza: (Un)contemporary Variations.
Desert Flowers
Paul Pen
Author : Paul Pen
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)
ISBN : 154204605X
Desert Flowers by Paul Pen Pdf
Rose and Elmer have created an idyllic sanctuary for themselves and their five daughters in Mexico's Baja California desert. Out there in the middle of nowhere, blissfully cut off from the burdens of modern society, they're free to raise their beautiful family...and preserve its secret. And they're never giving it up. Then a young hiker named Rick comes looking for a place to stay. It's just for the night, he says--but long enough for Rose and Elmer to fear they've made a horrible mistake. As the stranger grows more intrusive and more suspicious, the couple know they must do what they can to protect themselves. What they don't know is that Rick has a secret, too. Soon, home and family will prove to be as cold and dark as the desert nights. And even with so many places to run, there's still no escape from the past that binds them.
Shore Wildflowers of California, Oregon, and Washington
Philip A. Munz
Author : Philip A. Munz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520309012
Shore Wildflowers of California, Oregon, and Washington by Philip A. Munz Pdf
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.
The Arizona Low Desert Flower Garden
Kirti Mathura
Author : Kirti Mathura
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781586858964
The Arizona Low Desert Flower Garden by Kirti Mathura Pdf
Deserts pose a particularly difficult challenge to gardeners. Surprising toany desert newcomers, it is possible to have a beautifully invitingandscape in the desert and minimize the use of precious water resources. TheArizona Flowerscaper" offers the key to successful desert gardening and is aeneral understanding of the extreme climate, seasons, and soil conditions.hrough wise plant choices, gardens emerge that intrigue and delight, oftenith little maintenance involved. The illustrated plants can be viewedogether through a unique tri-cut format, showing the plant at maturity andith appropriate details of foliage or flora. Offering plant selections fromround the world, the "Arizona Flowerscaper" is an essential resource foresert gardeners everywhere.
The Flower in the Desert
Neil Del Strother
Author : Neil Del Strother
Publisher : Neil del Strother
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0956347134
The Flower in the Desert by Neil Del Strother Pdf
In just under three hours this short allegorical novel will take you from the busy-ness of your mind into the peace of your heart. It is a deeply healing book, full of tenderness and love, about listening to and following your heart. Brandon Bays, International Bestselling Author of The Journey, says: Neil guides us on a trip through life's emotions and illustrates the gift of love available to each of us when we open and surrender in our worst fears and realise the gift therein. Read this and be inspired. This book compares to the work of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Khalil Gibran, Paulo Coelho, Marilynne Robinson and Richard Bach. It echoes the essential nature of the journey we all share - a journey with no beginning and no end; a journey that is, in truth, not a journey at all. Jonathan Horwitz, co-director of the Scandinavian Centre for Shamanic Studies, says the book is: A beautiful allegory for our times of the seasons of our lives, of re-empowerment, and what it really means to be alive. This is a story to share with those you love. This book is appropriate for all ages - adults, young people and children. Mainly through word of mouth it's selling very well in the UK, mainland Europe and the US. It is also a school reader in northern Italy. For further details and to buy a hardcopy version of the book see: www.theflowerinthedesert.com
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986
Britta Benke
Author : Britta Benke
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 3822858617
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986 by Britta Benke Pdf
About the idiosyncratic of O'Keeffe's career The art of American painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is splendid with color and laden with hidden sensuality. O'Keeffe's name rests mainly on the large-format flower pictures that have assured her an unusual place in the annals of art, between realist and abstract. >Our Basic Art Series study traces the idiosyncratic of O'Keeffe's career, and numerous illustrations document the most important periods in her lengthy life in art. About the series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
Desert Flower and Desert Dawn Omnibus
Waris Dirie,Cathleen Miller,Jeanne D'Haem
Author : Waris Dirie,Cathleen Miller,Jeanne D'Haem
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Diplomats
ISBN : 1844081052
Desert Flower and Desert Dawn Omnibus by Waris Dirie,Cathleen Miller,Jeanne D'Haem Pdf
* Inspirational, dramatic and extraordinary - the autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 5, sold in marriage at 13, who became an American model and is now at the young age of 30, the UN spokeswoman against circumcision
In Defense of Plants
Matt Candeias
Author : Matt Candeias
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781642504545
In Defense of Plants by Matt Candeias Pdf
The Study of Plants in a Whole New Light “Matt Candeias succeeds in evoking the wonder of plants with wit and wisdom.” ―James T. Costa, PhD, executive director, Highlands Biological Station and author of Darwin's Backyard #1 New Release in Nature & Ecology, Plants, Botany, Horticulture, Trees, Biological Sciences, and Nature Writing & Essays In his debut book, internationally-recognized blogger and podcaster Matt Candeias celebrates the nature of plants and the extraordinary world of plant organisms. A botanist’s defense. Since his early days of plant restoration, this amateur plant scientist has been enchanted with flora and the greater environmental ecology of the planet. Now, he looks at the study of plants through the lens of his ever-growing houseplant collection. Using gardening, houseplants, and examples of plants around you, In Defense of Plants changes your relationship with the world from the comfort of your windowsill. The ruthless, horny, and wonderful nature of plants. Understand how plants evolve and live on Earth with a never-before-seen look into their daily drama. Inside, Candeias explores the incredible ways plants live, fight, have sex, and conquer new territory. Whether a blossoming botanist or a professional plant scientist, In Defense of Plants is for anyone who sees plants as more than just static backdrops to more charismatic life forms. In this easily accessible introduction to the incredible world of plants, you’ll find: • Fantastic botanical histories and plant symbolism • Passionate stories of flora diversity and scientific names of plant organisms • Personal tales of plantsman discovery through the study of plants If you enjoyed books like The Botany of Desire, What a Plant Knows, or The Soul of an Octopus, then you’ll love In Defense of Plants.
Introduction to California Desert Wildflowers
Philip Alexander Munz
Author : Philip Alexander Munz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0520236327
Introduction to California Desert Wildflowers by Philip Alexander Munz Pdf
Spring in the desert provides some of the most spectacular wildflowers shows in California, making this the perfect wildflower book to pack for a day in the Mojave or Colorado Deserts.
Cactus and Flower
Sarah Williamson
Author : Sarah Williamson
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683358466
Cactus and Flower by Sarah Williamson Pdf
This bright, gentle, thoughtful picture book explores friendship and natural life cycles for readers young and old Cactus and Flower spend their days in the desert, side by side. They watch the sun come up; they watch the sun go down. They play with their animal friends. And they grow, slowly but surely. Then one day, Flower loses a petal. Cactus and Flower know what this means. But they know, too, that this is the way life goes: Slowly but surely, petals will fall, and new buds will bloom.