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Divining Women

Author : Kaye Gibbons
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440631123
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Divining Women written by Kaye Gibbons and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her darkest yet most redeeming novel, Gibbons scorches us with a Þrestorm of despair-and then resurrects love and hope from its very ashes. Autumn 1918: Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come. Maureen Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Her husband, Troop-cold and careless of her condition-is an emotional cripple who has battered her spirit throughout their marriage. As Maureen's time grows near, she becomes convinced she will die in childbirth. Into this loveless ménage arrives Mary Oliver, Troop's niece. The sheltered child of a well-to-do, freethinking Washington family, Mary comes to help Maureen in the last weeks of her confinement. Horrified by Troop's bullying, she soon discovers that her true duty is to protect her aunt. As the influenza spreads and the death toll grows, Troop's spiteful behaviors worsen. Tormenting his wife, taunting her for her "low birth," hiding her mother's letters, Troop terrorizes the household. But when Mary fights back, he begins to go over the edge, and Maureen rallies, releasing a stunning thunderstorm of confrontation and, ultimately, finding spiritual renewal. The Boston Globe hailed On the Occasion of My Last Afternoonas "another gift from Kaye Gibbons to the literature celebrating strong women of every age and era." Much the same can be said of Divining Women.

Divining the Woman of Endor

Author : J. Kabamba Kiboko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567673685
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Divining the Woman of Endor written by J. Kabamba Kiboko and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the language of divination in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in 1 Samuel 28:3-25-the oft-called “Witch of Endor” passage. Kiboko contends that much of the vocabulary of divination in this passage and beyond has been mistranslated in authorized English and other translations used in Africa and in scholarly writings. Kiboko argues that the woman of Endor is not a witch. The woman of Endor is, rather, a diviner, much like other ancient Near Eastern and modern African diviners. She resists an inner-biblical conquest theology and a monologic authoritarian view of divination to assist King Saul by various means, including invoking the spirit of a departed person, Samuel. Kiboko carries out a Hebrew word-study shaped by the theories of Mikhail M. Bakhtin regarding the utterance, heteroglossia, and dialogism in order to understand the designative, connotative, emotive, and associative meanings of the many divinatory terms in the Hebrew Bible. She then examines 1 Samuel 28 and a number of prior translations thereof, using the ideological framework of African-feminist-postcolonial biblical interpreters and translation theories to uncover the hidden ideology or transcript of these translations. Finally, using African contextual/cultural hermeneutics and cross-cultural translation theory, Kiboko offers new English, French, and Kisanga translations of this passage that are both faithful to the original text and more appropriate to an inculturated-liberation African Christian hermeneutic, theology, and praxis.

Divining Divas

Author : Michael Montlack
Publisher : Lethe Press
ISBN 13 : 1590213831
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Divining Divas written by Michael Montlack and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor Michael Montlack has assembled an anthology of a hundred gay poets--award winners and fresh voices--in thrall with female icons throughout the ages ranging from Gloria Swanson to Mary J, Blige, from Edith Piaf to Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler to Lady Gaga. These are not merely appreciations of the gorgeous and daring but poems that are confessional to bittersweet to witty.

Divining Chaos

Author : Aviva Rahmani
Publisher : New Village Press
ISBN 13 : 1613321678
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Divining Chaos written by Aviva Rahmani and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A spirited memoir of artist Aviva Rahmani, offering a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activists Divining Chaos provides a personal memoir of eco-artist Aviva Rahmani. The story gives insight into her Trigger-Point theory thesis and unparalleled exclusivity to the moments in her life that shaped her as an artist and activist. Detailing the history that led Rahmani to two seminal projects: Ghost Nets, restoring a coastal town dump to flourishing wetlands, and The Blued Trees Symphony, which applied the premises to challenge natural gas pipelines with a novel legal theory about land use, Rahmani shares intimate decisions that shaped her life's work. Her discussions on trigger point theory argue to predict, confront, and determine outcomes to the ecological challenges we face today"--

The Complete Book of Dowsing & Divining

Author : Peter Underwood
Publisher : Peter Underwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Book of Dowsing & Divining written by Peter Underwood and published by Peter Underwood. This book was released on 1980-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume on dowsing and divining - from the twig and the pendulum to motorscopes and bare hands - traces the story of these fascinating and enigmatic phenomena from its origins in the world of fairy tales and mythology to recent theories that the enigma can be explained in terms of present-day psychology. The force present in the act of dowsing and divining can be compared to the sensitivity of men and women suffering from rheumatism who feel, in advance, changes of weather. Theories that have been brought forward to explain its presence include suggestion, radiation, colour, the existence of a sixth sense, and changes in the earth's magnetic field. As there are many possible explanations there are also many types and applications of dowsing and divining: map dowsing; being eggs; radiesthesia; the diagnosis and cure of disease; locating missing persons; forces, fields and rays; and detecting thieves. The author tells of dowsers past and present: Robert Leftwich who located abandoned tunnels and other underground hazards; Major Harold Spary who dowsed for the Royal Aircraft Establishment and the Royal Engineers during World War II; William Young who charged £200 a day in 1971 for dowsing; Tom Lethbridge who investigated Viking graves on Lundy Island; Henry Gross who discovered Bermuda's first natural wells. Even today large building and contracting firms employ resident site engineers who use sophisticated sets of divining rods. The book introduces us, in lucid and readable style, to the fascinating world of dowsing and divining, and gives the reader full instructions on how to attempt to become one of this international community.

The Island of Sea Women

Author : Lisa See
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501154877
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Island of Sea Women written by Lisa See and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A mesmerizing new historical novel” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village’s all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook’s mother. As the girls take up their positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility—but also danger. Despite their love for each other, Mi-ja and Young-sook find it impossible to ignore their differences. The Island of Sea Women takes place over many decades, beginning during a period of Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and 1940s, followed by World War II, the Korean War, through the era of cell phones and wet suits for the women divers. Throughout this time, the residents of Jeju find themselves caught between warring empires. Mi-ja is the daughter of a Japanese collaborator. Young-sook was born into a long line of haenyeo and will inherit her mother’s position leading the divers in their village. Little do the two friends know that forces outside their control will push their friendship to the breaking point. “This vivid…thoughtful and empathetic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) illuminates a world turned upside down, one where the women are in charge and the men take care of the children. “A wonderful ode to a truly singular group of women” (Publishers Weekly), The Island of Sea Women is a “beautiful story…about the endurance of friendship when it’s pushed to its limits, and you…will love it” (Cosmopolitan).

Divining History

Author : Jayne Svenungsson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785331744
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Divining History written by Jayne Svenungsson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in equal parts by theology and historical theory, this book offers a provocative exploration of this double-edged legacy. Author Jayne Svenungsson rigorously pursues a middle path between utopian arrogance and an enervated postmodernism, assessing the impact of Jewish and Christian theologies of history on subsequent thinkers, and in the process identifying a web of spiritual and intellectual motifs extending from ancient Jewish prophets to contemporary radicals such as Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek.

Diving Deep & Surfacing

Author : Carol P. Christ
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807063630
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Diving Deep & Surfacing written by Carol P. Christ and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diving Deep and Surfacing reveals how the writings of Kate Chopin, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, and Ntozake Shange can inform women's search for spiritual renewal. A new afterword testifies to the importance of spiritual autobiography for women.

The NOAA Diving Manual

Author : John Warlaumont
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1568062311
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The NOAA Diving Manual written by John Warlaumont and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes authoritative information and recommendations on all aspects of underwater diving from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Includes valuable information about: working dive procedures; saturation diving; hazardous aquatic animals; the physics and physiology of diving, and the latest U.S. Navy air decompression tables. Also includes information on: polluted-water diving, women and diving, diving with disabilities, diving history and much more. Looseleaf format.

The Physician’s Guide to Diving Medicine

Author : C.B. Carlston
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461326710
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The Physician’s Guide to Diving Medicine written by C.B. Carlston and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to be a physician's guide for those interested in diving and hyperbaric environments. It is not a detailed document for the erudite researcher; rather, it is a source of information for the scuba-diving physician who is searching for answers put to him by his fellow nonmedical divers. Following the publication of The Underwater Handbook: A Guide to Physiology and Performance for the Engineer there were frequent requests for a companion volume for the physician. This book is designed to fill the void. Production of the book has been supported by the Office of Naval Research and by the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Research and Development Command, under Navy Contract No. NOOOOI4-78-C-0604. Our heartfelt thanks go to the many authors without whose contributions the book could not have been produced. These articles are signed by the responsible authors, and the names a~e also listed alphabetically in these preliminary pages. Every chapter was officially reviewed by at least one expert in the field covered and these reviewers are also listed on these pages. Our thanks go to them for their valuable assistance. We are grateful to Marthe Beckett Kent for editing Chapter III. Our thanks also go to Mrs. Carolyn Paddon for typing and retyping the manuscripts, and to Mrs. Catherine Coppola, who so expertly handled the many fiscal affairs.

Diving and Subaquatic Medicine

Author : Carl Edmonds
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482260131
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Diving and Subaquatic Medicine written by Carl Edmonds and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered an essential resource by many in the field, Diving and Subaquatic Medicine remains the leading text on diving medicine, written to fulfil the requirements of any general physician wishing to advise their patients appropriately when a diving trip is planned, for those accompanying diving expeditions or when a doctor is required to assess

The Simple Guide to Commercial Diving

Author : Steven M. Barsky
Publisher : Hammerhead Press
ISBN 13 : 0967430542
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book The Simple Guide to Commercial Diving written by Steven M. Barsky and published by Hammerhead Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for the person who is considering a career in commercial diving or who is enrolled in commercial diving school. It presents the facts, both good and bad, about careers in commercial diving. It covers all aspects of the field, from choosing a school, to applying for a job, and how to work your way up in the industry.

NOAA Diving Manual

Author : United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Undersea Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NOAA Diving Manual written by United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Undersea Research and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Diving Science... Revisited

Author : Michael B. Strauss
Publisher : Best Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1947239317
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Diving Science... Revisited written by Michael B. Strauss and published by Best Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diving Science...Revisited is like no other diving text, including its predecessor, Diving Science. Amplified with figures, tables, and photos in color, this book includes four unique and innovative parts amplified by nine contributors. - Medical problems of diving (MPD) are discussed from stimulus-response perspectives in the phase of a dive in which they are likely to occur. - MPD are explained by how they affect the human diver whether physical, physiological, psychological, and/or lack of awareness. - A variety of diving types and situations from breath-hold to rebreather, from children to women to older aged adults, from cold water to cave, and from deep altitude to diving with handicaps are described in individual chapters with their merits, hazards, and necessary precautions for safe diving. - Part IV contains a concise summary of the MPD from seven different perspectives ranging from the significance of the problem to when to return to diving. - Part V consists of a rhetorical question for each of the first four parts with bullet points that recap the subjects covered in each chapter. This book describes the positive as well as undesirable ways divers' interact with the aquatic environment. It is especially recommended for the following: -Diving instructors and supervisors - Those involved with clinical applications of hyperbaric oxygen therapy - Those engaged in diving-associated marine biology and underwater missions - All divers, whether novice or advanced, who want to advance their knowledge about the science and medical challenges of diving.

Scuba Diving Explained

Author : Lawrence Martin
Publisher : Lawrence Martin
ISBN 13 : 9780941332569
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Scuba Diving Explained written by Lawrence Martin and published by Lawrence Martin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African Divination Systems

Author : Philip M. Peek
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253343093
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book African Divination Systems written by Philip M. Peek and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume of finely crafted case studies is also the vehicle for an important general theory of divination.... this is a book overflowing with ideas that will powerfully stimulate further research." -- Journal of Ritual Studies "The essays in this collection provide a very useful overview of both the diversity of African divination systems and of recent approaches to their study." -- Choice This unique collection of essays by an exceptional international group of Africanists demonstrates the central role that divination continues to play throughout Africa in maintaining cultural systems and in guiding human action. African Divination Systems offers insights for current discussions in comparative epistemology, cross-cultural psychology, cognition studies, semiotics, ethnoscience, religious studies, and anthropology.

History of Spearfishing and Scuba Diving in Australia

Author : Tom Byron
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493136704
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book History of Spearfishing and Scuba Diving in Australia written by Tom Byron and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the pioneering days of spearfishing and scuba diving, read about the sport’s early spearmen and women and the founding fathers of scuba diving in Australia. This book takes you month by month from 1917 to 1997, through the good and bad times, the discoveries, the tragedies, the undersea explorations, as well as instructor organizations, diving achievers, and a number of important events which together comprise the history of underwater diving in Australia. Within the pages of this book is a large section dealing with the Chronicle of Sport Diving, events reported as though they had recently happened, recapturing all the important occurrences that took place during 80 years since Alex Wickham first speared fish in Sydney Harbour. Special features include newspaper reports of early spearfishing, the establishment of the first spearfishing association in 1948 and the appearance of the first home-made scuba regulator. There are thrilling and sometimes tragic stories of shark attacks. A woman skin diver was lost at sea for nearly three days and nights, and survived. There is the story of Australia’s first and so far only world champion spearfisherman and that of two scuba divers who swam with a white pointer shark for half an hour in open water, yet were not attacked by the beast, the devastating deaths of four scuba divers in a sinkhole at Mt. Gambier, the rapid advance of underwater technology in Australia and much more. This is the only book of its kind dealing with the history of spearfishing and scuba diving in this country. For some, it will bring back old memories, for others a readable and authoritative history of spearfishing and scuba diving in Australia. For every diver, man or woman, it cannot fail to stir emotions as it recaptures exciting and historical events. At the end of the Second World War, a Frenchman, Michel Calluaud brought plans of the Gagnan-Cousteau regulator to Australia and he built one of the first in the world here. Australians could then use this equipment for work and pleasure and it has furthered their knowledge of life in the sea. As we push beyond the boundary of seashores and venture further under water we begin to discover many things that were once beyond our grasp and it is the aqualung that has enabled us to journey beyond the confinements of land. THE HISTORY OF SPEARFISHING AND SCUBA DIVING IN AUSTRALIA not only deals with the scuba diving, but also, as the title suggests, with a wealth of information concerning spearfishing and related underwater activities.