The Wise Hour

Author : Jane Roberts,Janet Laughland Nelson,Malcolm Godden
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0859915158

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Alfred the Wise by Jane Roberts,Janet Laughland Nelson,Malcolm Godden Pdf

Alfred's life, work and influence studied through writings of his age. Alfred and the great achievements of his reign are once more at the centre of scholarly discussion, and the studies in this collection make a significant contribution to the continuing debate. Focusing particularly on the writingsof Alfred's age, the contributions, by leading scholars in the field, examine Alfred's life, work and influence: there are accounts of law and morality; examinations of translations and their sources; and investigations of wordsand events, throwing new light on all major aspects of Alfred's reign. As a whole, the volume is an appropriate tribute to Janet Bately, whose writings on the age of Alfred are known and admired by both historians and literary scholars throughout the world. Professor JANE ROBERTS teaches in the Department of English, King's College, London; Professor JANET L. NELSON, Director of the Centre for Late Antiques and Medieval Studies, teaches in the Department of History, King's College, London; Professor MALCOLM GODDEN is Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford. Contributors and contents: ANDREW BREEZE, J.E. CROSS, ANDREW HAMER, ROBERTA FRANK, ALLEN J. FRANTZEN, M.R. GODDEN, WALTER GOFFART, LYNNE GRUNDY, CYRIL HART, JOYCE HILL, SIMON KEYNES, ANN KNOCK, BRUCE MITCHELL, JANET L. NELSON, BARBARA RAW, JANE ROBERTS, D.G. SCRAGG, ALFRED B. SMYTH, E.G. STANLEY, PAULE. SZARMACH, PATRICK WORMALD

Author : Miriam Darlington
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781953534835

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The Wise Hour by Miriam Darlington Pdf

A Guardian Book of the Year “A beautiful book; wise and sharp-eared as its subject.” —Robert Macfarlane Owls have existed for over sixty million years, and in the relatively short time we have shared the planet with these majestic birds they have ignited the human imagination. But even as owls continue to captivate our collective consciousness, celebrated British nature writer Miriam Darlington finds herself struck by all she doesn't know about the true nature of these enigmatic creatures. Darlington begins her fieldwork in the British Isles with her teenage son, Benji. As her avian fascination grows, she travels to France, Serbia, Spain, Finland, and the frosted Lapland borders of the Arctic for rare encounters with the Barn Owl, Tawny Owl, Long-eared Owl, Pygmy Owl, Snowy Owl, and more. But when her son develops a mysterious illness, her quest to understand the elusive nature of owls becomes entangled with a search for finding a cure. In The Wise Hours, Darlington watches and listens to the natural world and to the rhythms of her home and family, inviting readers to discover the wonders of owls alongside her while rewilding our imagination with the mystery, fragility, and magnificence of all creatures.

Author : Miriam Darlington
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781953534842

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The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls by Miriam Darlington Pdf

People Pick of the Week “Unfailingly precise and lovingly poetic. . . . Nature writing of the first order.” —The Wall Street Journal “A beautiful book; wise and sharp-eared as its subject.” —Robert Macfarlane One minute I was sipping my tea by the window. There was nothing but the palest edge of grey light and a wisp of steam from my cup—and then a shadow swooped out of the air. With the lightest of scratches, as if the dawn light was solidifying into life, there it was, perched like an exclamation mark on the balcony: an owl, come to my home. Owls have existed for over sixty million years, and in the relatively short time we have shared the planet with these majestic birds they have ignited the human imagination. But even as owls continue to captivate our collective consciousness, celebrated British nature writer Miriam Darlington finds herself struck by all she doesn’t know about the true nature of these enigmatic creatures. Darlington begins her fieldwork in the British Isles with her teenage son, Benji. As her avian fascination grows, she travels to France, Serbia, Spain, Finland, and the frosted Lapland borders of the Arctic for rare encounters with the Barn Owl, Tawny Owl, Long-eared Owl, Pygmy Owl, Snowy Owl, and more. But when her son develops a mysterious illness, her quest to understand the elusive nature of owls becomes entangled with her search for finding a cure. In The Wise Hours, Darlington watches and listens to the natural world and to the rhythms of her home and family, inviting readers to discover the wonders of owls alongside her while rewilding our imagination with the mystery, fragility, and magnificence of all creatures.

Author : Benjamin O. Sam Amu
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781615663514

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The Way of the Wise by Benjamin O. Sam Amu Pdf

The Way of the Wise, which is the main core of this book, is a desirable re-awakening of some neglected virtues of the Christian life in our time. Many persons feel that shouts of alleluia, exulting songs, praising and praying in more or less unknown tongues are proofs of being wise. As much as these may be true, they could be deceitful and without meaning. The early Christian fathers were wise in their own era with regards to knowing the wise way to reach God for their every day living. Author Benny Amu has taken time to delve into this subject with sanctified wisdom and revelatory knowledge that will enrich the reader's spiritual life.

Author : Charles A. Lowenhaupt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9798216165880

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The Wise Inheritor's Guide to Freedom from Wealth by Charles A. Lowenhaupt Pdf

Wealth should never consume or imprison the wealth holder, but it can. This book provides solutions to the issues many wealth inheritors encounter, including problems with trust, family wealth secrets, and family legacy. The next generation may witness one of the largest transfers of wealth in history. By one estimate, millennials and Generation Z are set to inherit $30 trillion over the next 30 years. The sudden inheritance of significant wealth creates a variety of challenges that seem counterintuitive and can be difficult to understand and deal with, making inheritors of wealth feel isolated from friends and colleagues. Meanwhile, the wealth industry is fed by revenue paid by wealth owners, not inheritors, causing misalignment of priorities and generational conflict. The Wise Inheritor's Guide to Freedom from Wealth helps readers to put their new wealth in perspective, preparing them to lead inspired lives of self-actualization and freedom. As a third-generation wealth counselor and industry leader, Charles A. Lowenhaupt has helped wealth creators and inheritors to manage almost every imaginable challenge, including marital tension, family dysfunction, and addiction. Few people actually have the knowledge and experience to figure out the purpose of wealth and set it on its course. In this book, he helps wealth inheritors to develop a healthy relationship with wealth at a young age, thus enabling readers to live in harmony with both their wealth and their families.

Author : Michael Wise
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781456828202

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The Abbot & the Wise Man by Michael Wise Pdf

This book begins with an imaginary meeting with my Lord Abbot John Draper III of Christ Church priory and continues with comments from the Abbot at appropriate moments in the story...

Author : Robert Alfred Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : OXFORD:600092397

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Hours with the mystics: a contribution to the history of religious opinion. , revised by the author by Robert Alfred Vaughan Pdf

Author : Dilip Datta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319478319

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LaTeX in 24 Hours by Dilip Datta Pdf

This book presents direct and concise explanations and examples to many LaTeX syntax and structures, allowing students and researchers to quickly understand the basics that are required for writing and preparing book manuscripts, journal articles, reports, presentation slides and academic theses and dissertations for publication. Unlike much of the literature currently available on LaTeX, which takes a more technical stance, focusing on the details of the software itself, this book presents a user-focused guide that is concerned with its application to everyday tasks and scenarios. It is packed with exercises and looks at topics like formatting text, drawing and inserting tables and figures, bibliographies and indexes, equations, slides, and provides valuable explanations to error and warning messages so you can get work done with the least time and effort needed. This means LaTeX in 24 Hours can be used by students and researchers with little or no previous experience with LaTeX to gain quick and noticeable results, as well as being used as a quick reference guide for those more experienced who want to refresh their knowledge on the subject.

Author : Cunningham Geikie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Bible
ISBN : UIUC:30112071343054

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Hours with the Bible, Or the Scriptures in the Light of Modern Discovery and Knowledge by Cunningham Geikie Pdf

Author : Friedrich August G. Tholuck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600108195

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Hours of Christian devotion tr. [by H. Dunn] with a preface by H. Bonar by Friedrich August G. Tholuck Pdf

Author : Frances Elizabeth Georgina Carey BROCK
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Bible
ISBN : BL:A0026374414

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Sunday Echoes in Weekday Hours. A Tale Illustrative of Scripture Characters by Frances Elizabeth Georgina Carey BROCK Pdf

Mrs. Wilverley teaches her children about courage by using the people in the Old Testament as examples.

Author : Ikujiro Nonaka,Hirotaka Takeuchi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190497019

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The Wise Company by Ikujiro Nonaka,Hirotaka Takeuchi Pdf

High-velocity change is the fundamental challenge facing companies today. Few companies, however, are prepared to continuously innovate-because they focus on the short-term and do not emphasize the wisdom needed to make sure that their interests are aligned with those of society. Practical wisdom is the bases of continuous innovation, where companies ceaselessly and repeatedly creating new knowledge, disseminating it throughout the organization, and converting knowledge to action over time. In The Wise Company, legendary management experts Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi highlight how various companies have confronted the challenge of rapid change to create new products and new ways of doing business that benefit employees, consumers, and society. The key: a relentless self-renewal process where companies realize the future they envisions, rather than only responding to changes in the environment. Nonaka and Takeuchi argue that while knowledge-creating companies focusing on tacit and explicit knowledge can generate innovation, they cannot create it on a continuous and ongoing basis without having wisdom about human interactions and how they influence organizational structures and practices. Companies that have resilience, longevity, and sustainability share a number of characteristics, Nonaka and Takeuchi show. Strategies are based on alignment of organizational and societal benefits. Leaders grasp the core of any situation or problem quickly, and intuitively comprehend the nature and meaning of people, things, and events. But wise leadership is not enough: wisdom must infuse the organization through informal as well as formal shared interactions and communications that focus on metaphors and stories that convey the essence and meaning of strategies and actions. In short, Nonaka and Takeuchi demonstrate how continuous innovation results from companies ceaselessly and repeatedly creating new knowledge, disseminating knowledge throughout the organization, and converting that knowledge to action. The Wise Company presents a new model of knowledge-creation and practice for the twenty-first century.

Author : Jack Kornfield
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780553382334

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The Wise Heart by Jack Kornfield Pdf

A guide to the transformative power of Buddhist psychology—for meditators and mental health professionals, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. You have within you unlimited capacities for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, celebrated author and psychologist Jack Kornfield offers the most accessible, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to Buddhist psychology ever published in the West. Here is a vision of radiant human dignity, a journey to the highest expression of human possibility—and a practical path for realizing it in our own lives.

Author : August Tholuck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Christian life
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6A8K

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Hours of Christian Devotion by August Tholuck Pdf

Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : English essays
ISBN : OXFORD:300024536

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Hours in a Library by Leslie Stephen Pdf