The Bridge at the Edge of the World
Title | The Bridge at the Edge of the World PDF eBook |
Author | James Gustave Speth |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0300151152 |
Presents an analysis of modern capitalism and its impact on the global environmental crises, and discusses how the transformation of current economic and political systems can lead to environmental sustainability.
The Bridge at the Edge of the Universe
Title | The Bridge at the Edge of the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Weston |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Pages | 57 |
Release | |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 148363910X |
House at the Edge of the World
Title | House at the Edge of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Haynes |
Publisher | Jacana Media |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2005-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781919931104 |
Drunken wakes, mistaken corpses, strongman competitions with mountain goats, and salmon poaching at midnight by the light of a torch while hiding from the police, are among the poignant and comic anecdotes littered throughout this honest, funny story. Such hilarious events are inevitable for the South African family that spends four years living in rural Ireland, rebuilding their dream stone cottage from scratch, dealing with meddling locals, and learning to appreciate the country folk's very strange antics.
The Tower at the Edge of the World
Title | The Tower at the Edge of the World PDF eBook |
Author | William Heinesen |
Publisher | SCB Distributors |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2018-06-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 191021373X |
The Tower at the Edge of the World is William Heinesen's last novel written when he was 76, and is the summation of all of his work. He is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Nordic author of the twentieth century. William Heinesen describes The Tower at the Edge of the World as a poetic mosaic novel about earliest childhood. There is the perspective of both the child and the old man looking back at his life as a child. Although there is a lot of tangible detail and recognisable characters the book has a mythic quality. The events in a small community in the windswept Atlantic ocean being recorded by the writer in his room, his tower at the edge of the world, have a larger than life feel. Torshavn and his childhood are used to tell the history of the world and of creation. 'William Heinesen was, by a long way, the best writer that the Faroe Islands have ever produced. Many have him down as the most important Scandinavian novelist of the 20th century, and he only declined a Nobel prize because he thought it should go to someone who wrote in Faeroese, which he didn't.' Laurence Phelan in The Independent on Sunday
On the Edge of the World
Title | On the Edge of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Candler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Himalaya Mountains |
ISBN |
An account of journey description on Hindu holy places in Western Himalaya.
I Glanced Out the Window and Saw the Edge of the World
Title | I Glanced Out the Window and Saw the Edge of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Halsall |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-07-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1725258994 |
This book is about WAR—not the causes and results, not the planning and the campaigns, not the artillery and the bombs. It is about the heinous crimes committed by the combatants, the horrifying experiences of civilians, the devastation of cities and villages, the killing and the dying, the glory leading to revulsion and guilt, and the assimilation of suffering that either ends in death or in the triumph of the soul. It looks at the struggle of the church to remain faithful and the servants of the church who seek to bring sense and solace to the victims. It discusses antisemitism, racism, and war itself from biblical perspectives. It reveals the unjustifiable reasons for engaging in war and how this brings catastrophic results for all peoples—the mental instability of the survivors and the loss and grief of those on the home front. In war, how can men and women carry out the actions that they do? As Viktor Frankl writes: “After all, man is that being who has invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who has entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
For the Beauty of the Earth
Title | For the Beauty of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Bouma-Prediger |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2010-04 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 080103695X |
This substantially revised and updated edition provides the most thorough evangelical treatment available on a theology of creation care.