Some Far and Distant Place

Some Far and Distant Place
Author: Jonathan S. Addleton
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0820327131
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Born in Pakistan to Baptist missionaries from rural Georgia, Jonathan S. Addleton crossed the borders of race, culture, class, and religion from an early age. Some Far and Distant Place combines family history, social observation, current events, and deeply personal commentary to tell an unusual coming-of-age story that has as much to do with the intersection of cultures as it does with one man's life. Whether sharing ice cream with a young Benazir Bhutto or selling gospel tracts at the tomb of a Sufi saint, Addleton provides insightful and sometimes hilarious glimpses into the Muslim-Christian encounter through the eyes of a young child. His narrative is rooted in many unlikely sources, including a southern storytelling tradition, Urdu ghazal, revivalist hymnology, and the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. The natural beauty of the Himalayas also leaves a strong and lasting mark, providing solidity in a confusing world that on occasion seems about to tilt out of control. This clear-eyed, insightful memoir describes an experience that will become increasingly more common as cultures that once seemed remote and distant are no longer confined within the bounds of a single nation-state.

Dancing in a Distant Place

Dancing in a Distant Place
Author: Isla Dewar
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2006-04-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0312349467
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Reeling from her husband's recent death and the discovery that he had gambled away their home and savings, Iris Chisholm takes a teaching position in a tiny Scottish Highland community, where she becomes involved in the troubles of her charges and pursues relationships with two men.

The Far Distant Oxus

The Far Distant Oxus
Author: Katharine Hull
Publisher:
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Adventure stories
ISBN: 9781906123147
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Seeing Eyecharts Clear-Natural Vision Improvement for Clear Close, Distant Vision

Seeing Eyecharts Clear-Natural Vision Improvement for Clear Close, Distant Vision
Author: Clark Night
Publisher: Mary I. Oliver, Clark Night
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2011-10-16
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1466443715
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(Black & White Version.) See eyecharts, 'everything' clear at all distances, close and far. Entire Natural Eyesight Improvement Course as is in the author's larger books. Pass eye exams with clearer than 20/20 vision. Retain clear vision for life. Remove astigmatism and blurry vision. Eyechart, Test Card and Basic Natural Eyesight Improvement Training by Ophthalmologist Bates Better Eyesight Magazine and Clark Night Natural Eyesight Improvement teacher. This book includes 20 E-Books, printable with Ophthalmologist William H. Bates 'Better Eyesight Magazine' collection teaching his many different natural treatments for clear eyesight, healthy eyes. Dr. Bates discovered Natural Eyesight Improvement, cured his own eyesight, then other doctors and patients eyesight using natural treatments, without eyeglasses, surgery, drugs. Treatments for; Clear Distant, Close and Reading Eyesight, Astigmatism, Cataract, Glaucoma, Crossed, Wandering Eyes, Conical Cornea and other conditions. Hidden from the public by Opticians, Eye Doctors, Eye Surgeons for over 100 years because it works, is safe and people can do It 'On Their own' with basic training. Many children, cured of defective eyesight by Dr. Bates, then on to cure their friends, parents, teachers eyesight. After a neck injury caused by a chiropractor in 2009; my eyes developed double, triple vision, strabismus, dark and white-out hazy vision, astigmatism and low clarity. Natural Eyesight Improvement, Physical Therapy brought the eyes back to normal function, clear vision. I passed the drivers eye exam. E-Books include; +Do It Yourself-Natural Eyesight Improvement-Original and Modern Bates Method-Book with 100+ Color Pictures. Less reading; Easy to learn steps-Read the short directions on the pictures to quickly learn, apply a treatment, activity for Fast Vision Improvement. + Better Eyesight Magazine by Ophthalmologist William H. Bates-(Unedited, Full Set -132 Magazine Issues-11 Years-July, 1919 to June, 1930.) Illustrated with 500 Pictures and additional Modern Natural Eyesight Improvement Training. + Original Better Eyesight Magazine by Ophthalmologist William H. Bates-Photo copy of all the Antique Magazine Pages in the 1900's Print. (Unedited, Full Set 132 Magazine Issues - 11 Years-July, 1919 to June, 1930.) A History Book. Learn Natural Eyesight Improvement directly from the Original Eye Doctor that discovered and practiced this effective, safe, method! Magazines & Method Hidden from the public by eye surgeons, optometrists, optical business for over 100 years because this method works, frees the patient from the need to purchase eyeglasses, drugs,unnecessary eye surgery. Yes, it can and has reversed cataracts and other eye conditions! + The Cure of Imperfect Sight by Treatment Without Glasses by Dr. Bates with Pictures. Dr. Bates First, Original Book. + Medical Articles by Dr. Bates - with Pictures. + Stories From The Clinic by Emily C. A. Lierman/Bates. (Dr. Bates Clinic Assistant, Wife.) + Use Your Own Eyes by Dr. William B. MacCracken M.D. (Trained with Dr. Bates.) + Normal Sight Without Glasses by Dr. William B. MacCracken M.D. + Strengthening The Eyes by Bernarr MacFadden & Dr. Bates - with Pictures and Modern Training. (Trained with Dr. Bates. One of the First Physical Fitness Teachers.) + EFT Training Booklet - with Acupressure, Energy balance, strengthening, Positive Emotions. + Seeing, Reading Fine Print Clear, Clear Close Vision (Presbyopia Treatments. + Astigmatism Removal Treatments. + Eyecharts - 15 Large, Small and Fine Print Big C, E Charts for Close and Distant Vision, Astigmatism Test and Removal Charts, Eyechart Video Lessons. + Audio Lessons in Every Chapter. + 100 Natural Eyesight Improvement Training Videos. Read entire description, Video of internal book pages, free Natural Eyesight Improvement Training and Dr. Bates life story on William H. Bates Author's page; https://cleareyesight-batesmethod.info/

Winter Garden

Winter Garden
Author: Kristin Hannah
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2010-02-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429938463
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Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn't know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes Kristin Hannah's powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past. Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. As children, the only connection between them was the Russian fairy tale Anya sometimes told the girls at night. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise from the women in his life: the fairy tale will be told one last time—and all the way to the end. Thus begins an unexpected journey into the truth of Anya's life in war-torn Leningrad, more than five decades ago. Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their mother's life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are.

A Distant Mirror

A Distant Mirror
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Total Pages: 738
Release: 1987-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0345349571
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A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight—in all his valor and “furious follies,” a “terrible worm in an iron cocoon.” Praise for A Distant Mirror “Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better.”—The New York Review of Books “A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer.”—The Wall Street Journal “Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition.”—Commentary

The New Industrial System

The New Industrial System
Author: Hermann Levy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2018-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351246607
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This book, first published in 1936, analyses the then-recent phenomenon of industrial combination. Concentration was new. Industrial combination was new. The interlocking of finances was new. The role of banks in regard to industry was new. The domination of financial capital over large sectors of industry was new. The author examines the new industrial system as it was, on the cusp of new world-economic conditions, resulting from and manifesting themselves in a revolution in transport, the creation of concentrated mass supply and mass demand, changes in the distribution of raw material supplies and the adaption of the technical and economic structure of the industrial unit to these new conditions.