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A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease

Author : Shilpa Ravella
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393541916
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease written by Shilpa Ravella and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating.…[Ravella’s writing] breathes life into biological functions.” —Grace Wade, New Scientist A riveting investigation of inflammation—the hidden force at the heart of modern disease—and how we can prevent, treat, or even reverse it. Inflammation is the body’s ancestral response to its greatest threats, the first line of defense it deploys against injury and foreign pathogens. But as the threats we face have evolved, new science is uncovering how inflammation may also turn against us, simmering underneath the surface of leading killers from heart disease and cancer to depression, aging, and mysterious autoimmune conditions. In A Silent Fire, gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella investigates hidden inflammation’s emerging role as a common root of modern disease—and how we can control it. We meet the visionary nineteenth-century pathologist who laid the foundation for our modern understanding of inflammation, the eccentric Russian zoologist who discovered one of the cells central to our immune system, and the dedicated researchers advancing the frontiers of medical and nutritional science today. With fascinating case studies, Ravella reveals how we can reform our relationships with food and our microbiomes to benefit our own health and the planet’s. Synthesizing medical history, cutting-edge research, and innovative clinical practice, Ravella unveils inflammation as one potential basis for a unifying theory of disease. A paradigm-shifting understanding of one of the most mysterious, buzzed-about topics in medicine and nutrition, A Silent Fire shows us how to live not only long but well.

Silent Fire

Author : James A. Connor
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Silent Fire written by James A. Connor and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In meditation the journey of an entire life will be manifest as a state of relaxation and a state of activity, forever a balancing act between sleeping and waking. In life, meditation will form a daily practice that will permeate all your actions until one day you will feel unspeakable joy while standing in line at the bank." --From the Prologue Twenty-five years ago, James Connor, a newly ordained Jesuit priest, was called in to console a couple whose baby had been killed in a freak accident. At a loss for words to explain this cruel blow and comfort the anguished parents, he began to question his faith, and eventually retreated to a lonely cabin in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, to try to reestablish his relationship to God. In this luminous memoir, Connor has found the words to describe the indescribable: his circuitous, sometimes faltering, always passionate journey into the heart of humanity, its darkness and its light. With stubborn curiosity, touching humility, and raucous imagination, Connor gropes for meaning in percolating coffee and washing dishes as well as in the rising sun; in the arrhythmic companionship, sick sense of humor, eager gossip, or drunken belligerence of his eccentric neighbors; with the native bats, loons, bears, salmon, and stars; and in the encroaching fire that's been burning for months in the hills, no less than the piles of books he's stacked around himself and the ancient traditions of Eastern and Western spirituality. Ultimately, Connor searches silence and solitude for a way to rekindle his faith, feeding his spirit with simple breath and contemplation, to find that just as the flame jumps up and consumes his grief, anger, shame, and other unwelcome, all-too-human intruders upon Nirvana, it throws into light the blessedness of ordinary things. The story of Connor's lurching spiritual quest will resonate with anyone who has ever tried to climb to higher ground or been humbled by the challenges of meditation. The good-natured instruction woven seamlessly into his tale will introduce fellow seekers to the healing power of silence and encourage them to keep climbing.

A Silent Fury

Author : Yuri Herrera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911508793
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book A Silent Fury written by Yuri Herrera and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fire and Desire

Author : Jane Gaines
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226278742
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Fire and Desire written by Jane Gaines and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Film DatesIntroduction - The "Race" in Race Movies1. "Green Like Me"2. Desiring Others3. Race Movies: All-Black Everything4. World-Improving Desires5. Fire and Desire6. The Body's Story7. Race/Riot/CinemaConclusion - Mixed-Race MoviesNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Silent Fire

Author : Walter H. Capps
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Silent Fire written by Walter H. Capps and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Silent Fire presents the major writings of the central figures in the Western mystical tradition, introduces by concise essays that set each reading in the context of the author's life, work, and times. Including both famous and lesser-known writers who have much to offer, Silent Fire's selections span from mysticism's original formulations in the early medieval era to its expressions today. A general introduction tells how the mystical tradition grew and flourished in the West and outlines its beliefs and practices. Included in this essential guide are selections from: Augustine of Hippo; Bernard of Clairvaux; Bonaventura; The Cloud of Unknowing; Julian of Norwich; Meister Eckhart; Catherine of Siena; Jacob Boehme; George Fox; Ignatius of Loyola; Teresa of Avila; John of the Cross; François de Sales; Simone Weil; Dag Hammarskjöld; Pierre Teilhard de Chardin; Thomas Merton" --

Silent Sparks

Author : Sara Lewis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691162689
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Silent Sparks written by Sara Lewis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative, entertaining, and beautifully illustrated look at the beloved firefly For centuries, the beauty of fireflies has evoked wonder and delight. Yet for most of us, fireflies remain shrouded in mystery: How do fireflies make their light? What are they saying with their flashing? And what do fireflies look for in a mate? In Silent Sparks, noted biologist and firefly expert Sara Lewis dives into the fascinating world of fireflies and reveals the most up-to-date discoveries about these beloved insects. From the meadows of New England and the hills of the Great Smoky Mountains, to the rivers of Japan and mangrove forests of Malaysia, this beautifully illustrated and accessible book uncovers the remarkable, dramatic stories of birth, courtship, romance, sex, deceit, poison, and death among fireflies. The nearly two thousand species of fireflies worldwide have evolved in different ways—and while most mate through the aerial language of blinking lights, not all do. Lewis introduces us to fireflies that don't light up at all, relying on wind-borne perfumes to find mates, and we encounter glow-worm fireflies, whose plump, wingless females never fly. We go behind the scenes to meet inquisitive scientists who have dedicated their lives to understanding fireflies, and we learn about various modern threats including light pollution and habitat destruction. In the last section of the book, Lewis provides a field guide for North American fireflies, enabling us to identify them in our own backyards and neighborhoods. This concise, handy guide includes distinguishing features, habits, and range maps for the most commonly encountered fireflies, as well as a gear list. A passionate exploration of one of the world's most charismatic and admired insects, Silent Sparks will inspire us to reconnect with the natural world.

The Power of Silence

Author : Robert Cardinal Sarah
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1621641910
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Silence written by Robert Cardinal Sarah and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart? After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."

Silent Fires

Author : Poojitha G Prasad
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1637146388
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Silent Fires written by Poojitha G Prasad and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Ashish Bharadwaj is arrogant and hot-tempered, but he’s usually right about things. His brother, Manav, is quiet and intuitive. He is also brilliant at solving cases. When Shravya Chandra, wife of Arun Chandra the film star, goes missing – Ashish and Manav have their own hunches. Ashish is out to prove Arun Chandra’s guilt. But Manav wants to know more about Shravya’s old friend, Anchal because he’s certain that she is hiding something big. They both can’t be right, of course. Ashish doesn’t want to be wrong; he’s never wrong. And Manav would give anything to snatch a victory from under his brother’s nose. Who’s right? And at what cost are they going to win? Since everyone’s looking only for what they want to see, will they ever actually find out what happened to Shravya Chandra? And so begins the battle of egos, the endless search for a killer and the unravelling of secrets…

The Internal Flame

Author : Roderick Mulgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473455736
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book The Internal Flame written by Roderick Mulgan and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New insights into silent inflammation, longevity and the science of functional food. Putting into practice the advice here could help reduce sickness and disease for millions. You may be lucky enough to enjoy good health until the very end of your days, but the odds are against it. As you get older, the chances go up that something big, like a stroke or cancer, will drag down your quality of life. If you're already leading a healthy lifestyle, there's still more you can you do to fight sickness and disease. This is the story of inflammation and health-what goes wrong as we age, and what you can do about it.

Silence on Fire

Author : William H. Shannon
Publisher : Crossroad
ISBN 13 : 9780824512118
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Silence on Fire written by William H. Shannon and published by Crossroad. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guided journey on the path of prayer that is built on faith that leads to a unique but accessible way of knowing.

Stan Brakhage

Author : Suranjan Ganguly
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496810708
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Stan Brakhage written by Suranjan Ganguly and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects nine of Stan Brakhage’s most important interviews in which the filmmaker describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and sound; the importance of poetry, music, and the visual arts in relation to his work; his concept of the muse; and the key influences on his art-making. In doing so, Brakhage (1933–2003) discusses some of his iconic films, such as Anticipation of the Night, Dog Star Man, Scenes from Under Childhood, Mothlight, and The Text of Light. One of the most innovative filmmakers in the history of experimental cinema, Brakhage made almost 350 films in his fifty-two-year-long career. These films include psychodramas, autobiography, Freudian trance films, birth films, song cycles, meditations on light, and hand-painted films, which range from nine seconds to over four hours in duration. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he lived most of his life in the mountains of Colorado, teaching for twenty-one years in the film studies program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. As a filmmaker, Brakhage’s life-long obsession with what he called an “adventure in perception” made him focus on the act of seeing itself, which he tried to capture on film in multiple ways both with and without his camera and by scratching and painting on film. Convinced that there is a primary level of cognition that precedes language, he wrote of the “untutored eye” with which children can access ineffable visual realities. Adults, who have lost such primal sight, can “retrain” their eyes by becoming conscious of what constitutes true vision and the different ways in which they daily perceive the world. Brakhage’s films experiment with such perceptions, manipulating visual and auditory experience in ways that continue to influence film today.

NBS Special Publication

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book NBS Special Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Naked Year

Author : Boris Pilnyak
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468308130
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Naked Year written by Boris Pilnyak and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the earliest . . . attempts to create a paradigm of ‘the new prose’ about the [Russian] Revolution . . . self-consciously experimental, openly modernist.” —The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature The Naked Year, a flinchingly honest portrayal of life in post-Revolutionary Russia, catapulted author Boris Pilnyak into notoriety. The Naked Year follows the provincial town of Ordinin through 1919, a year of war, illness, and tumultuous change. The village and its inhabitants—merchants, nobles, peasants, and communists alike—experience firsthand the impact of the violent revolutionary struggle of the Reds, Whites, Blacks, and Greens, until their world eventually dissolves into chaos. So lyrical and surreal that it has been called the “anti-novel,” The Naked Year captures the emotional heart of a land trapped in the horrific gap year between frenzied Revolution and rigid Soviet control.

The Quest

Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1785765930
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book The Quest written by Wilbur Smith and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK 4 IN THE ICONIC ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, BY THE MASTER OF ADVENTURE, WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror AN ENEMY UNLIKE ANY OTHER THE GREAT KINGDOM OF EGYPT ON THE BRINK OF RUIN CAN THE ANCIENT MAGE TAITA SAVE HIS HOMELAND, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE? Renowned magus Taita is now over a hundred years old and has ascended to a new level of wisdom and understanding about his world. But he must prepare himself for the biggest threat Egypt has ever faced: the great plagues and the failure of the Nile. Taita must find the cause before Egypt is ruined, but he has no idea of the terrible enemy that awaits him: the fire witch Eos, an ancient force of sheer evil. Taita must risk his soul to battle her, or his homeland and everything he has ever loved will be lost forever. But there are other reasons for Taita to fight - since success could also mean rewards he could never have thought possible . . . Book 4 in the Ancient Egyptian series from the master historical adventure writer, Wilbur Smith. Book 4 in the series, Desert God, is available now. And don't miss Wilbur Smith's return to Egypt in The New Kingdom sequence: The New Kingdom Titans of War Testament All available now.

Silent Mercy

Author : Linda Fairstein
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110147601X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Silent Mercy written by Linda Fairstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein is at her explosive best as she plunges into the byzantine world of New York City’s most powerful and sacred institutions—and unearths the most sinister of secrets… Prosecutor Alexandra Cooper has been called to a Harlem Baptist Church, where a woman has been decapitated and set on fire on the church steps—with the imprint of a Star of David necklace seared into her flesh. Then a second body is found at a cathedral in Little Italy. Alex is blind to the sick and inconceivable motives feeding a particularly vicious serial killer—until she mines the depths of the city’s vast and serpentine religious history. What Alex follows is a dangerous path that takes her far beyond the scope of her investigation, and directly into the path of a frightening and inescapable truth.

Silent Thunder

Author : Katy Payne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140285962
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Silent Thunder written by Katy Payne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A natural history rich in observation of the animal world and how humans participate in it, Silent Thunder is also a passionate story of scientist Katy Payne’s spiritual quest as she turns a keen eye on her role in this world. Starting with the story of her revolutionary discovery that elephants use infrasonic sounds—sounds below the range of human hearing—to communicate, Payne shares what she learned from her fascinating field research in Africa, research that reveals new insights into elephants’ social lives. When five of the elephant families she studies are the victims of culling, Payne’s approach to her research changes, as she fights valiantly to protect the elephants. The result of her research, and the touching insights gained from Africans she worked with and the elephants she studied, give a vivid impression of Payne’s view from the front lines of the natural preservation effort. Like Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leopard and the writings of Jane Goodall, Silent Thunder demonstrates how a commitment to all life can bring one’s own into a new focus.

Silence, the Word and the Sacred

Author : E.D. Blodgett
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889205248
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Silence, the Word and the Sacred written by E.D. Blodgett and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as postmodernism and Buddhism. The perspectives developed are various and without closure, locating the sacred in modes as diverse as patristic traditions, feminist retranslations of biblical texts, and oral and written versions of documents from the world’s religions. The essays cohere in their preoccupation with the crucial role language plays in the creation of the sacred, particularly in the relation that language bears to silence. In their interplay, language does not silence silence by, rather, calls the other as sacred into articulate existence.