Park's Quest

Park's Quest
Title Park's Quest PDF eBook
Author Katherine Paterson
Publisher Turtleback Books
Pages 0
Release 1989-07
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9780833541130

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11-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his father who died in the Vietnam War

Archer's Quest

Archer's Quest
Title Archer's Quest PDF eBook
Author Linda Sue Park
Publisher Yearling Books
Pages 178
Release 2008
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0440422043

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Twelve-year-old Kevin Kim helps Chu-mong, a legendary king of ancient Korea, return to his own time.

Teach Us to Sit Still

Teach Us to Sit Still
Title Teach Us to Sit Still PDF eBook
Author Tim Parks
Publisher Rodale
Pages 338
Release 2012-07-03
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1609614488

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"Teach Us to Sit Still is the visceral, thought-provoking, and inexplicably entertaining story of how Tim Parks found himself in serious pain, how doctors failed to help, and the quest he took to find his own way out. Overwhelmed by a crippling conditionwhich nobody could explain or relieve, Parks follows a fruitless journey through the conventional medical system only to find relief in the most unexpected place: a breathing exercise that eventually leads him to take up meditation. This was the very last place Parks anticipated finding answers; he was about as far from New Age as you can get. As everything that he once held true is called into question, Parks confronts the relationship between his mind and body, the hectic modern world that seems to demand all our focus, and his chosen life as an intellectual and writer. He is drawn to consider the effects of illness on the work of other writers, the role of religion in shaping our sense of self, and the influence of sports and art on our attitudes toward health and well-being. Most of us will fall ill at some point; few will describe that journey with the same verve, insight, and radiant intelligence as Tim Parks"--Provided by publisher.

Out of My Head

Out of My Head
Title Out of My Head PDF eBook
Author Tim Parks
Publisher New York Review of Books
Pages 321
Release 2019-10-22
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 168137398X

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Adventures in cutting-edge ideas about consciousness, from bestselling non-fiction writer Tim Parks. Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread out across the universe like butter on bread. Most philosophers believe that our experience is locked inside our skulls, an unreliable representation of a quite different reality outside. Colour, smell and sound, they tell us, occur only in our heads. Yet when neuroscientists look inside our brains to see what's going on, they find only billions of neurons exchanging electrical impulses and releasing chemical substances. Five years ago, in a chance conversation, Tim Parks came across a radical new theory of consciousness that undercut this interpretation. This set him off on a quest to discover more about this fascinating topic and also led him to observe his own experience with immense attention. Out of My Head tells the gripping, highly personal, often surprisingly funny, story of Tim Parks' quest to discover more about this fascinating topic. It frames complex metaphysical considerations and technical laboratory experiments in terms we can all understand. Above all, it invites us to see space, time, colour and smell, sounds and sensations in an entirely new way. The world will feel more real after reading it.

Quarry Quest

Quarry Quest
Title Quarry Quest PDF eBook
Author Mark Sakry
Publisher North Star Press of St. Cloud
Pages 0
Release 2015-09-15
Genre History
ISBN 9780878397532

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Quarry Quest tells the history of Stearns County's Quarry Park and Nature Preserve. The book covers the granite heritage of Central Minnesota, the features of the park, and the natural beauty and serenity found in this place.

Crown Jewel Wilderness

Crown Jewel Wilderness
Title Crown Jewel Wilderness PDF eBook
Author Lauren Danner
Publisher
Pages 320
Release 2017
Genre History
ISBN 9780874223521

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North Cascades National Park is remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic. Efforts to establish a park gained traction after World War II, as national interest in wilderness preservation and concerns about the impact of harvesting timber grew. Troubled by the National Park Service¿s policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service¿s policy promoting logging in the national forests, conservationists leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the natural resource agencies. Their activism eventually led to the 1968 creation of a crown jewel--Washington¿s magnificent third national park. This engaging account tells the story.

Psych: a Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read

Psych: a Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read
Title Psych: a Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read PDF eBook
Author William Rabkin
Publisher Penguin
Pages 292
Release 2009-01-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780451226358

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Based on the hit USA NETWORK television series A tie-in readers will be totally "psyched" about... Shawn Spencer has convinced everyone he's psychic. Now, he has to either clean up or be found out. After the PSYCH detective agency gets some top-notch publicity, Shawn's high-school nemesis, Dallas Steele, hires him to help choose his investments. Naturally, their predictions turn out to be total busts. And the deceptive Dallas is thrilled that he has completely discredited and humiliated Shawn once and for all, until he's found murdered. But the police have a suspec found at the scene with a smoking gun. And she says Shawn took control of her mind and forced her to do it. After all, he is a psychic?