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Life Sculpted
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Author : Anthony J. Martin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-06-02
Life Sculpted written by Anthony J. Martin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-02 with Science categories.
"There is much to love between this book’s covers. . . . There are many eureka moments in Life Sculpted—and some truly beautiful ones."—Eugenia Bone, Wall Street Journal Meet the menagerie of lifeforms that dig, crunch, bore, and otherwise reshape our planet. Did you know elephants dig ballroom-sized caves alongside volcanoes? Or that parrotfish chew coral reefs and poop sandy beaches? Or that our planet once hosted a five-ton dinosaur-crunching alligator cousin? In fact, almost since its fascinating start, life was boring. Billions of years ago bacteria, algae, and fungi began breaking down rocks in oceans, a role they still perform today. About a half-billion years ago, animal ancestors began drilling, scraping, gnawing, or breaking rocky seascapes. In turn, their descendants crunched through the materials of life itself—shells, wood, and bones. Today, such “bioeroders” continue to shape our planet—from the bacteria that devour our teeth to the mighty moon snail, always hunting for food, as evidenced by tiny snail-made boreholes in clams and other moon snails. There is no better guide to these lifeforms than Anthony J. Martin, a popular science author, paleontologist, and co-discoverer of the first known burrowing dinosaur. Following the crumbs of lichens, sponges, worms, clams, snails, octopi, barnacles, sea urchins, termites, beetles, fishes, dinosaurs, crocodilians, birds, elephants, and (of course) humans, Life Sculpted reveals how bioerosion expanded with the tree of life, becoming an essential part of how ecosystems function while reshaping the face of our planet. With vast knowledge and no small amount of whimsy, Martin uses paleontology, biology, and geology to reveal the awesome power of life’s chewing force. He provokes us to think deeply about the past and present of bioerosion, while also considering how knowledge of this history might aid us in mitigating and adapting to climate change in the future. Yes, Martin concedes, sometimes life can be hard—but life also makes everything less hard every day.
The Hand Sculpted House
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Author : Ianto Evans
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date : 2002
The Hand Sculpted House written by Ianto Evans and has been published by Chelsea Green Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with House & Home categories.
Cob, a structural composite of earth, water, straw, clay, and sand, has been used for centuries, in virtually all parts of the world, to create homes ranging from mud huts in Africa to lavish adobe haciendas in Latin America. This practical and inspiring hands-on guide teaches anyone to build a cob dwelling.
Sculpt Your Character
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Author : Carmelita Holson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2017-05-25
Sculpt Your Character written by Carmelita Holson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Sculpt Your Character: A Once in a Lifetime Kind of Woman is a book about my life and the choices that I have made. It is aimed to show that we all have one aim, and that is to be happy and to feel fulfilled. My book tells you about lowest and highest moments in my life and how I endured divorce, rape, sickness, financial burdens, and struggles with maintaining my sanity. It is the only material that uplifts me when I feel down, and I have reached this point in my life where I have now found peace in God, and I trust in him fully because he has taken me to points in my life and shown me that his grace is indeed sufficient.
Worldbridger
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Author : Sharon Gainsburg
language : en
Publisher: Stone Diva
Release Date : 2018-05-12
Worldbridger written by Sharon Gainsburg and has been published by Stone Diva this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-12 with Sculpture, American categories.
Sharon Gainsburg's life as stone sculptor forced her to meet her fears and old patterns. Her sculptures create a living mirror of her internal exploration of life and her spiritual connection to it. WORLDBRIDGER is a story of consistently overcoming obstacles and increasing our ability to positively impact others to overcome their own.
Sculpted Ambiances In Africana Landscape
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Author : George Joshua Orwel
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-07-19
Sculpted Ambiances In Africana Landscape written by George Joshua Orwel and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-19 with Science categories.
Sculpted Ambiances in Africana Landscape centers on ambiance as it affects the expanded sculptural field, particularly filling a gap in aesthetics left by a lack of focus on sculptures and installations in the Africana world and elsewhere. This book differentiates ambiance from other affective states and emotions and explores its production. It provides an introduction to the history of ambiance and vividly demonstrates, through immersive and experiential writing, how ambiance manifests in different artistic situations and social settings. The book considers the neglected and unique importance of sculptural ambiance to the history of Africana visual culture, and what these works mean in terms of their social, historical, cultural, political, and ecological imagination of space. The book is written in an episodic style and begins with a description of an image before presenting an analysis of the artist’s style and staging for ambient experience. This book will benefit college and university students; scholars of art, architecture, aesthetics, philosophy, geography, anthropology, and sociology; and curators and galleries.
The Epic Of The Buddha
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Author : Chittadhar Hrdaya
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2019-05-21
The Epic Of The Buddha written by Chittadhar Hrdaya and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with Religion categories.
A translation of the modern Nepalese classic Winner of the Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism and the Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding Translation This award-winning book contains the English translation of Sugata Saurabha (“The Sweet Fragrance of the Buddha”), an epic poem on the life and teachings of the Buddha. Chittadhar Hṛdaya, a master poet from Nepal, wrote this tour de force while imprisoned for subversion in the 1940s and smuggled it out over time on scraps of paper. His consummate skill and poetic artistry are evident throughout as he tells the Buddha’s story in dramatic terms, drawing on images from the natural world to heighten the description of emotionally charged events. It is peopled with very human characters who experience a wide range of emotions, from erotic love to anger, jealousy, heroism, compassion, and goodwill. By showing how the central events of the Buddha’s life are experienced by Siddhartha, as well as by his family members and various disciples, the poem communicates a fuller sense of the humanity of everyone involved and the depth and power of the Buddha’s loving-kindness. For this new edition of the English translation, the translators improved the beauty and flow of most every line. The translation is also supplemented with a series of short essays by Todd Lewis, one of the translators, that articulates how Hṛdaya incorporated his own Newar cultural traditions in order to connect his readership with the immediacy and relevancy of the Buddha’s life and at the same time express his views on political issues, ethical principles, literary life, gender discrimination, economic policy, and social reform.
Life On Purpose Six Passages To An Inspired Life
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Author : W. Bradford Swift
language : en
Publisher: W. Bradford Swift
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Life On Purpose Six Passages To An Inspired Life written by W. Bradford Swift and has been published by W. Bradford Swift this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Your journey along the road to self-discovery does not have to be so long and torturous Cut decades off the process of finding your life purpose by following the six steps outlined in Life On Purpose. Infuse purpose, passion and play into every aspect of your life. This is a truly excellent book on how to discover your life purpose. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to gain clarity with respect to their core reason for being here. Steve Pavlina, personal development expert & author of Personal Development for Smart People. Decades ago, Dr. Brad Swift appeared successful from the outside, but inside, he was burned out, wracked with emotional pain, and ready to end it all--because he was living at odds with his true life purpose. But then he turned his life around to follow his true life calling--and in the process, invented this six-step method to determining one's life purpose. He has since made a difference in the lives of thousands through this proven, systematic, and practical process. “Brad has created a simple and easy way to become crystal clear about your reason for being on this planet. Life On Purpose is your road atlas to live a more purposeful, passionate and playful life.” -Mark Victor Hansen, Co-creator, #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul® In Life On Purpose you will find a step-by-step process for clarifying your life purpose and then designing your life to be a true and authentic reflection of that purpose. A Proven Process that Works! Prepare for the Journey Along the Purposeful Path: As with any challenging journey, it’s best to thoroughly prepare yourself for your travels along the Purposeful Path. This includes accurately determining where you are starting from and where you intend to end up, as well as knowing some of the obstacles that could possibly get in the way of completing the journey. Start on the Purposeful Path with the Life on Purpose Perspective: It’s important to begin your journey on the path that will get you where you want to go most expediently starting with rethinking the whole notion of what a life purpose is that has kept most people looking for their purpose is all the wrong places. Uncover What Has Been Shaping Your Life: Another key passage is clearly identifying the powerful force based in fear, lack, and a need to struggle to survive that has been shaping your life and keeping you from living on purpose. Many who have already traveled along the Purposeful Path feel that this passage is one of the most powerful, transforming parts of the process. Clarify and Polish Your True, Divinely Inspired Purpose: After cleaning the slate by identifying and beginning to be responsible for your Inherited Purpose, the real fun begins as you go through a process called Priming Your Passion to clarify your true, Divinely Inspired life purpose. The process can be not only life affirming, but also life transforming. Learn the 16 Tools for Living on Purpose: Now it’s time to begin to live true to your life purpose with the 16 Power Tools for Living on Purpose. You will use these tools to begin to design your Life on Purpose. Master the Tools for Living on Purpose: In Passage 6 you will learn how to master the art and science of creating a life that is shaped by your true, Divinely Inspired Life Purpose.
Depth Of Field
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Author : Donal Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Depth Of Field written by Donal Cooper and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
This volume has its origins in 'Depth of Field: Relief in the Time of Donatello', a unique collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, and the first exhibition to focus specifically on relief sculpture.
In Search Of Adventure
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Author : Bruce Northam
language : en
Publisher: CCC Publishing
Release Date : 1999
In Search Of Adventure written by Bruce Northam and has been published by CCC Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Travel categories.
These short travel essays from around the globe get to the heart of what the words travel and adventure really mean. In Search of Adventure explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of what travelling the world has to offer. The "Trampled Underfoot" section features tales of woe on the road -- the worst of the worst, or making the best of the worst. In "Global Issues & Viewpoints," authors explore the changing world, oppressive governments, and the homogenising of world cultures. From warm and inviting to raw and shocking, these non-fiction travel pieces present disparate viewpoints on the diverse world in which we live and leave no emotion untouched.
Durga S Mosque
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Author : Stephen C Headley
language : en
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Release Date : 2003-08-01
Durga S Mosque written by Stephen C Headley and has been published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-01 with Social Science categories.
For two decades now, Stephen C. Headley has been one of the most original and systematic ethnographers of Javanese religion and cultural history. No one in contemporary Javanese ethnography has combed through the annals of nineteenth and twentieth century scholarship with as careful an eye for the variety of Javanese traditions. None combines this historical ethnography with as careful and unusual body of contemporary ethnography. Headley's new book brings these long-developed skills to bear on contemporary religious change in the Surakarta region of Central Java. In his analysis of the Durga ritual complex, Headley sheds light on one of the most unusual court traditions to have survived in an era of deepening Islamization. Headley's analysis of this ritual complex, and its implications for our understanding of popular Javanese religion, deserves to be read by all serious students of Java, as well as anyone interested in religion in Indonesia. However, Headley moves well beyond this unusual ritual complex, to take us through the twists and turns of religious culture and politics in what is one of the richest but also most troubled of cultural regions in Java. The result is a rich, multi-layered, and fascinating study, one that changes forever our understanding of Javanese tradition in a Java becoming Islamic.-- Robert Hefner, Institute on Religion and World Affairs, Boston University.