Of Gods and Glaciers

Of Gods and Glaciers
Author: Man Mohan Sharma
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1979
Genre: India
ISBN:

Account of the Rataban Expedition, 1976, by the Girls Division of the National Cadet Corps.

The Glacier of Gods and Monsters

The Glacier of Gods and Monsters
Author: Zabe Truesdell
Publisher: Zabe Truesdell
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2014-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0991350022

Souls have power. For thousands of years, self proclaimed gods fought to collect more and more of them, waging battles that raged among the living and the dead. The wars only stopped when they were betrayed by one of their own, locked away in a nightmare prison until they slowly melted away. An order was formed to ensure such powerful creatures never again came into existence. Upon dying, Thomas Salazar found himself recruited into this order. Within hours of becoming a full member, Thomas now finds the order decimated and himself among the most senior members remaining. The architect of his order's downfall appears to be someone bent on becoming exactly what he's now sworn to stop. But to stop this threat, will he become something far more dangerous?

Under the Glacier

Under the Glacier
Author: Halldor Laxness
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307429881

Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snæfells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress. What is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua (pronounced “ooh-a,” which is what men invariably sputter upon seeing her), is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept? Piling improbability on top of improbability, Under the Glacier overflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound.

Bodies from the Ice

Bodies from the Ice
Author: James M. Deem
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780618800452

The author of "Bodies from the Ash" and "Bodies from the Bog" takes readers on a captivating and creepy journey to learn about glaciers, hulking masses of moving ice that are now offering up many secrets of the past. Full color.

On Time and Water

On Time and Water
Author: Andri Snær Magnason
Publisher: Icelandic Literature
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-25
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781948830539

The book that will make you understand what our future holds for us, if we don't act immediately.

Waiting for a Glacier to Move

Waiting for a Glacier to Move
Author: Jennifer R. Ayres
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2011-10-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621891046

When asked about his work for social change, one Presbyterian elder and activist sighed, "You always have the feeling that you're attacking an iceberg with an ice pick. . . . But still, some people do listen, and it does some good. As they say, even glaciers move every now and then." The work for social change is long, arduous, and yields only the smallest of results. What sustains religious social activists while they chip away at social change? This book examines the practice of social activism from the inside out, exploring how activists are affected by their participation in the public sphere. Drawing on the fields of practice theory, social movement theory, and theologies of sin and hope, this book presents an interdisciplinary look at a complex phenomenon, and concludes with proposals for the nourishment of social activism within the church.