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The Life-Giving Stone

Author : Michael T. Searcy
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816501262
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Life-Giving Stone written by Michael T. Searcy and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Life-Giving Stone, Michael Searcy provides a thought-provoking ethnoarchaeological account of metate and mano manufacture, marketing, and use among Guatemalan Maya for whom these stone implements are still essential equipment in everyday life and diet. Although many archaeologists have regarded these artifacts simply as common everyday tools and therefore unremarkable, Searcy’s methodology reveals how, for the ancient Maya, the manufacture and use of grinding stones significantly impacted their physical and economic welfare. In tracing the life cycle of these tools from production to discard for the modern Maya, Searcy discovers rich customs and traditions that indicate how metates and manos have continued to sustain life—not just literally, in terms of food, but also in terms of culture. His research is based on two years of fieldwork among three Mayan groups, in which he documented behaviors associated with these tools during their procurement, production, acquisition, use, discard, and re-use. Searcy’s investigation documents traditional practices that are rapidly being lost or dramatically modified. In few instances will it be possible in the future to observe metates and manos as central elements in household provisioning or follow their path from hand-manufacture to market distribution and to intergenerational transmission. In this careful inquiry into the cultural significance of a simple tool, Searcy’s ethnographic observations are guided both by an interest in how grinding stone traditions have persisted and how they are changing today, and by the goal of enhancing the archaeological interpretation of these stones, which were so fundamental to pre-Hispanic agriculturalists with corn-based cuisines.

The Lives of Stone Tools

Author : Kathryn Weedman Arthur
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816537135
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Stone Tools written by Kathryn Weedman Arthur and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers critical insights into lithic technology and cultural practices concerning stone tools"--Provided by publisher.

The White Stone

Author : Esther de Waal
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1786224011
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The White Stone written by Esther de Waal and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esther de Waal is one of today’s most beloved spiritual writers. In The White Stone, she reflects on the changes and losses that come with growing older. Esther reflects on solitude and, following a period of illness, saying goodbye to a family home and the Welsh border landscape she had known for decades which inspired some of her greatest writing, and adjusting to a new city environment. In her characteristic style, she sees everything as a portal into a deeper spiritual understanding. She draws on the wealth of the Christian tradition, especially scripture and the monastic and Celtic spiritualities she knows so well, to help her navigate her way through not only the inevitable sense of loss that accompanies such change, but also to embrace the new possibilities it brings. The white stone of the title refers to a small pebble from the river that ran through her garden that she keeps in her pocket, but also strikes a note of hope referring to the new identity promised by God (Revelation 2.17). This is a book of simple, profound wisdom that will speak to many coping with change in their own lives.

All the Light We Cannot See

Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476746605
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book All the Light We Cannot See written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Blood from a Stone

Author : Richard Hammer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765386038
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Blood from a Stone written by Richard Hammer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for the Life Diamonds--the subject of the compelling documentary produced by the History Channel. They were known as Life Diamonds--rough uncut diamonds of high quality bought by Jews in Eastern Europe to use as passports to safety. After 1939 and the Nazi blitzkrieg, after the extermination camps began belching black smoke into the skies and the railroad station at Auschwitz II-Birkenau became the busiest train station in the world, they became Death Diamonds. Blood from a Stone is the amazing story of forty of those diamonds, of their journey across continents and oceans, from the mines of South Africa to the diamond centers in Antwerp and Amsterdam, to the Jews of Eastern Europe, to the Death Camps. . . and to the two American soldiers who liberated them from the SS, finally, and buried them in a forest in Alsace on the border between France and Germany. It is the story of the curse believed to lie over the fabulous wealth of these stones, bringing death and disaster to all who touched them. It is the story of Yaron Svoray, who spent more than a decade in search of one small foxhole somewhere in a thousand square miles of forest...and of his unbelievable success. Blood from a Stone is a unique story, a story unlike any to come out of World War II. Blood from a Stone will more than over a dozen exclusive photos from the two-hour History Channel documentary.

Cutting for Stone

Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184001754
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Cutting for Stone written by Abraham Verghese and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

The Lifegiving Home Experience

Author : Sally Clarkson
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1496405390
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book The Lifegiving Home Experience written by Sally Clarkson and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2016 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time to plan some unforgettable moments with your family! Containing sections for each month of the year, this companion resource to The Lifegiving Home is a planner full of creative ideas that will help you be intentional about creating times and spaces for your family to relax, celebrate, and simply enjoy one another all year long. You'll learn how to cultivate special times that will speak to your family's hearts . . . and inspire cherished memories that you will all treasure.

Stone Song

Author : Win Blevins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765314970
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Stone Song written by Win Blevins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the great warriors of Native America, Crazy Horse remains the most enigmatic. Scorned from his childhood for his light hair, he was a man who spurned the love of finery and honors so characteristic of Lakota Sioux warriors. Despite these differences, Crazy Horse led his people to their greatest victory at the Battle of the Little Big Horn where General Custer fell. Crazy Horse's entire life was a triumph of the spirit. In youth, Crazy Horse was set aside by his powerful vision of Rider, the spiritual expression of his future greatness, and by the passion and grief of his overwhelming love for a woman. It was only in battle that his heart could find rest. As his world crumbled, Crazy Horse managed to find his way in harmony with the age-old wisdom of the Lakota—and to beat the US Army on its own terms. He lived, and died, his own man.

The Star-Crossed Stone

Author : Ken McNamara
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226514714
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Star-Crossed Stone written by Ken McNamara and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils, or echinoids, have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobiologists study them for clues to the earth’s history. In The Star-Crossed Stone, Kenneth J. McNamara, an expert on fossil echinoids, takes readers on an incredible fossil hunt, with stops in history, paleontology, folklore, mythology, art, religion, and much more. Beginning with prehistoric times, when urchin fossils were used as jewelry, McNamara reveals how the fossil crept into the religious and cultural lives of societies around the world—the roots of the familiar five-pointed star, for example, can be traced to the pattern found on urchins. But McNamara’s vision is even broader than that: using our knowledge of early habits of fossil collecting, he explores the evolution of the human mind itself, drawing striking conclusions about humanity’s earliest appreciation of beauty and the first stirrings of artistic expression. Along the way, the fossil becomes a nexus through which we meet brilliant eccentrics and visionary archaeologists and develop new insights into topics as seemingly disparate as hieroglyphics, Beowulf, and even church organs. An idiosyncratic celebration of science, nature, and human ingenuity, The Star-Crossed Stone is as charming and unforgettable as the fossil at its heart.

The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John

Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
ISBN 13 : 0870835351
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Fulfillment of the Tabernacle and the Offerings in the Writings of John written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1991 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Life-Giving Way

Author : Esther De Waal
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1848255640
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book A Life-Giving Way written by Esther De Waal and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reflective commentary explores the Rule of St Benedict from the perspective of someone whose life and faith has been shaped by its gentle wisdom and realism. Its approach is personal and contemplative; it is written for all who seek to deepen their Christian understanding and discipleship.

The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling

Author : Ebenezer Erskine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling written by Ebenezer Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Select Writings of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine

Author : Ebenezer Erskine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Select Writings of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine written by Ebenezer Erskine and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

NIV Study Bible, eBook

Author : Zondervan,
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310437423
Total Pages : 7080 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book NIV Study Bible, eBook written by Zondervan, and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 7080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into a deeper study of God’s Word with the comprehensive NIV Study Bible The beloved NIV Study Bible features a stunning four-color interior with full-color photographs, maps, charts, and illustrations that bring the stories of the Bible to life. The in-depth notes are coded to highlight items of special interest in the areas of character study, archaeology, and personal application. This NIV Bible provides you with just the right amount of study information, placed in in just the right locations, to answer your most pressing questions about God's Word and how it connects to your life today. Since its first release in 1985, the Gold Medallion Award-winning NIV Study Bible has become the treasured and trusted companion of over nine million Bible readers. Referred to daily by pastors, students, church leaders, and other Bible readers around the world, the over-20,000 NIV Study Bible notes are the handiwork of the same translation team that produced this Bible’s text. Like no other Bible, the NIV Study Bible places an entire resource library for Bible study in your hands. Features: Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version (NIV) Over 20,000 study notes, with icons to make important information easy to spot Introductions and outlines provide valuable background information for each book of the Bible In-text maps, charts, diagrams, and illustrations visually clarify the stories in the Bible 16 pages of full-color maps plus time lines and presentation page Words of Jesus in red NIV concordance plus subject and study notes indexes eBook has been optimized for reading on color screens, but will still function effectively on other devices

Dear Martin

Author : Nic Stone
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 1101939524
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Dear Martin written by Nic Stone and published by Ember. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Powerful, wrenching.” –JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down "Raw and gripping." –JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys "A must-read!” –ANGIE THOMAS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers as she boldly tackles American race relations in this stunning #1 New York Times bestselling debut, a William C. Morris Award Finalist. Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out. Then comes the day Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up—way up, sparking the fury of a white off-duty cop beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired. Justyce and Manny are caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it's Justyce who is under attack. "Vivid and powerful." -Booklist, Starred Review "A visceral portrait of a young man reckoning with the ugly, persistent violence of social injustice." -Publishers Weekly

The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science

Author : Arnaud Zucker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003850227
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science written by Arnaud Zucker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals. The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia, or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), and its engagement with the natural sciences. The first two chapters deliver an introduction to this work: one a discussion of the history of the text; the other a discussion of Aristotelian epistemology and methodology, and the role of the Mirabilia in that context. This is followed by eight chapters that, together, are effectively a commentary on those sections of the Mirabilia with close connections to Aristotle’s Historia animalium and to a number of Theophrastus’ scientific treatises. Finally, the volume ends with two chapters on thematic topics connected to natural science running throughout the work, namely color and disease. The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science should prove invaluable to scholars and students interested in the ancient Greek study of nature, ancient philosophy, and Aristotelian science in particular.

The Life of the Qur'an

Author : Mohamad Jebara
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN 13 : 1250282373
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Qur'an written by Mohamad Jebara and published by St. Martin's Essentials. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Appropriately epic and consistently erudite, yet accessible for lay readers." —Kirkus (Starred review) Based on extensive scholarship, an innovative biography of the central text of Islam Over a billion copies of the Qur`an exist – yet it remains an enigma. Its classical Arabic language resists simple translation, and its non-linear style of abstract musings defies categorization. Moreover, those who champion its sanctity and compete to claim its mantle offer widely diverging interpretations of its core message – at times with explosive results. Building on his intimate portrait of the Qur`an’s prophet in Muhammad the World-Changer, Mohamad Jebara returns with a vivid profile of the book itself. While viewed in retrospect as the grand scripture of triumphant empires, Jebara reveals how the Qur`an unfolded over 22 years amidst intense persecution, suffering, and loneliness. The Life of the Qur`an recounts this vivid drama as a biography examining the book’s obscured heritage, complex revelation, and contested legacy. The Qur`an re-emerges with clarity as a dynamic life force that seeks to inspire human beings to unleash their dormant potential despite often-overwhelming odds – in order to transform themselves and the world.