To Hold The Sun

To Hold The Sun
Author: Chas Watkins
Publisher: Chas Watkins
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2013-04-22
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1631024086

The award winning book that can change your life! The book outlines the experiences of a young, poor, and disillusioned reporter who is enticed to do a series of articles about Paul, an unconventional philosopher and motivational speaker. In exchange, he gets to travel to and dive on Roatan, arguably one of the most beautiful, pristine islands in the Caribbean. Through a series of interviews, the reporter gets to know Paul's innermost philosophies. He learns an alternate way of living from a man who strives to perfect handstands on a dock and practices the art of happiness. When the author realized his children were leaving home to begin their journeys through life, he wrote this story for them. He developed it as a guide to help them through life in a way that would allow them to enjoy the journey. Drawing on wildly diverse disciplines including stoicism, neuroscience, skepticism, behavioral economics, and spirituality; the reader is taken on a journey that exposes the author's philosophy of life. He shows that happiness is indeed a choice. All places detailed on Roatan exist and are more beautiful than described. Photos are by kind permission of Shawn Jackson.

Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
Author: Bartlett Jere Whiting
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 626
Release: 1977
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780674219816

p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."

Hand to Hold

Hand to Hold
Author: JJ Heller
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2021-07-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593193253

This heartwarming picture book reassures children that a parent’s love never lets go—based on the poignant lyrics of JJ Heller’s beloved lullaby “Hand to Hold.” “May the living light inside you be the compass as you go / May you always know you have my hand to hold.” With delightful illustrations and an engaging rhyme scheme, this book offers the promise of security and love every child’s heart longs to know. From skipping stones and counting stars to climbing trees and telling stories, every moment is wrapped snugly in the certain warmth of a parent’s presence and God’s blessing. With poignancy and joy, this bedtime read captures the unconditional love parents want their children to know but so often fail to express amid the chaos of daily life.

Owning the Sun

Owning the Sun
Author: Alexander Zaitchik
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2023-03-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 164009590X

For readers of Bad Blood and Empire of Pain, an authoritative look at monopoly medicine from the dawn of patents through the race for COVID-19 vaccines and how the privatization of public science has prioritized profits over people Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to produce lifesaving medicines. Medical science began as a discipline geared toward the betterment of all human life, but the merging of research with intellectual property and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry warped and eventually undermined its ethical foundations. Since World War II, federally funded research has facilitated most major medical breakthroughs, yet these drugs are often wholly controlled by price-gouging corporations with growing international ambitions. Why does the U.S. government fund the development of medical science in the name of the public only to relinquish exclusive rights to drug companies, and how does such a system impoverish us, weaken our responses to crises, and, as in the cases of AIDS and COVID-19, put the world at risk? Outlining how generations of public health and science advocates have attempted to hold the line against Big Pharma and their allies in government, Alexander Zaitchik’s first-of-its-kind history documents the rise of privatized medicine in the United States and its subsequent globalization. From the controversial arrival of patent-wielding German drug firms in the late nineteenth century to present-day coordination between industry and philanthropic organizations—including the influential Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—that stymie international efforts to vaccinate the world against COVID-19, Owning the Sun tells one of the most important and least understood histories of our time.

The Sun, the Earth, and Near-earth Space

The Sun, the Earth, and Near-earth Space
Author: John A. Eddy
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780160838088

" ... Concise explanations and descriptions - easily read and readily understood - of what we know of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and Sun-Climate."--Dear Reader.

Theosophy

Theosophy
Author: Friedrich Max Müller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 630
Release: 1893
Genre: Psychology, Religious
ISBN:

Architect of Human Destiny

Architect of Human Destiny
Author: R.K. Kaushik
Publisher: Gyan Books
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2003-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9788178351797

The book gives us a new outlook and vision to see our lives and our world through our non-mystical, non-conventional and non-dogmatic eyeglasses. A must to all people, for it has hoards of inspiration,ethics,and values..

Poems of Dark and Light

Poems of Dark and Light
Author: Tommi Perkiö
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2022-04-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9180579477

This is my first book with my poems. I write in english because I enjoy the english languange Even though I live in Sweden and have Swedish as my first languange. My Poems are about many different things, everything between heaven and hell. Words just come from inside of me. from my brain, they just flow. I have been writing down my poems for a long time, from when I was very young. I like writing them down and here they are. I hope you enjoy my poetry! Have fun reading them!

Being SUN

Being SUN
Author: NEEHAR SANADHAYA
Publisher: NEEHAR SANADHAYA
Total Pages: 282
Release:
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

The book is the journey, of life, of an individual intelligence, any common human. The book is the transformational life, of a simple childhood dream of gazing at the stars in nights to the warrior ship to find the “ABSOLUTE TRUTH” of Existence. The book is the living experience, how a unit soul, transforms into & as Millions of life or Infinite of existence. Book is written to Awake & Unleash the Infinite Power within each individual intelligence or soul of earth and beyond. The Fundamental Information of Existence provided/written in book, once feed to mind of existential entity, has ability to awake & help individual soul to overcome the boundaries of life and death. Whole universe or its matter is formed through transformation of light. Light is Intelligence. Intelligence depends on understandings of mind. Understanding or mind depends on Definitions. A definition depends on arrangement of words. The specific arrangement of words has ability to open the Doors of Infinite definitions of Life & experience. The information in the book may tremendously Challenge you, it may be great challenge to your will or to your strength. “There is no Death”. There is no escape except to be “Warrior of Death” to come out winning. Eternity can be achieved. I have achieved it. And this book is a path to your destiny. It is the path which helps you to challenge your own self, to challenge your own information or understanding and to challenge you beyond life and death, & to come out winning. To awake the Infinite within, you just have to the place/position yourself or your understanding or your “I”, at the place of “I”, written within the words of book. With little agreement of your own understanding, your intelligence itself has true potential to awaken the ‘Infinite form of you’. Do you accept the Challenge ?

Hold On to the Sun

Hold On to the Sun
Author: Michal Govrin
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1558616748

The Israeli author’s poetry, essays, and stories on the haunting legacy of WWII “swirl mystically out of history and into dazzling floods of wonder” (Don DeLillo, author of White Noise). In this portrait of the artist as a young woman, one of Israel’s most acclaimed contemporary writers weaves together a kaleidoscope of fiction, poetry, and essays. Populated by both fictional and real people, each tale is in some way a search for meaning in a post-Holocaust world. Reminiscent of W.G. Sebald, characters irrationally and humanely find reason for hope in a world that offers little. Essays describe Govrin’s visits to Poland as a young adult, where her mother had survived a death camp, but had lost her husband and their child, Govrin’s half-brother. Capturing the depths of denial and the exuberance of youth in a multiplicity of voices, this haunting collection “joins the few serious books that try through artistic means to face the unspeakable” (Aharon Appelfield, author of Badenheim 1939).