The News at the Ends of the Earth

The News at the Ends of the Earth
Author: Hester Blum
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478004487

From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In The News at the Ends of the Earth Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by polar explorers. Ranging from ship newspapers and messages left in bottles to menus and playbills, polar writing reveals the seamen wrestling with questions of time, space, community, and the environment. Whether chronicling weather patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends, offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme environment of the present.

The Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 686
Release: 2020-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3846051764

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

Skinny Boy

Skinny Boy
Author: Gary A. Grahl
Publisher: American Legacy Media
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0976154749

A licensed professional counselor shares how he conquered his out-of-control compulsion to exercise and starve himself which led to multiple hospitalizations and how he overcame a shaming inner voice, which he calls "IT," that convinced him to become thinner.

Your Faith, Your Life

Your Faith, Your Life
Author: Jenifer Gamber
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2009-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0819223212

This guide for newcomers to the Episcopal Church is written and designed to provide accessible and user-friendly reading, with an easy-going look and style that's packed full of substance.

Vajra

Vajra
Author: Naveen Durgaraju
Publisher: One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2014-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9384226386

An ordinary young atheist finds out that he is a God among men and is forced to find his stand in a battle between faith and science, belief and doubt, good and evil, light and dark, thunder and water, heart and the mind.Rules are broken, tears are shed, faith is tested, sacrifices are made, lives are lost and Gods are killed in the quest for a divine weapon by a doctor for his son … a son for his father … a priest for his religion … a woman for her love … a man for this world and … a forgotten God for his revenge.

All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings

All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings
Author: Gayle Boss
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2016-10-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1612618790

From the bestselling author of Wild Hope — a beautiful book for Advent. Open a window each day of Advent onto the natural world. Here are twenty-five fresh images of the foundational truth that lies beneath and within the Christ story. In twenty-five portraits depicting how wild animals of the northern hemisphere ingeniously adapt when darkness and cold descend, we see and hear as if for the first time the ancient wisdom of Advent: The dark is not an end but the way a new beginning comes. Short, daily reflections that paint vivid, poetic images of familiar animals, paired with charming original wood-cuts, will engage both children and adults. Anyone who does not want to be caught, again, in the consumer hype of “the holiday season” but rather to be taken up into the eternal truth the natural world reveals will welcome this book. An ECPA 2023 Christmas Bestseller. Learn more about All Creation Waits and find free resources at AllCreationWaits.com

Cthulhu Confidential

Cthulhu Confidential
Author: Pelgrane Press
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781908983374

Cthulhu Confidential is a roleplaying game designed for one player and one game master. Its powered by the GUMSHOE One-2-One game system which retunes, rebuilds and reimagines the acclaimed GUMSHOE investigative rules set, as seen in such hit roleplaying games as Trail of Cthulhu and Nights Black Agents, for one player and one GM. Together, you create a story that evokes the classic solo protagonist mystery format. Cthulhu Confidential drops your hero into the noir nightscape of hardboiled-era Los Angeles, New York or Washington, DC. Meet powerbrokers and politicians, rub shoulders with Hollywood studio bosses and fiery evangelists. Face narrow-eyed G-Men, bent cops and dangerous crime lords. But beneath it all, under the scrim of all this human endeavor, lives corruption so old and inhuman youll need all your courage and resourcefulness to face it. Choose one of three heroes with their own settings and adventures: Langston Wright is an African-American war veteran and scholar in WW2-era DC with a keen intellect. Dex Raymond is a hard-boiled private detective in 1930s Los Angeles with a nose for trouble. And Vivian Sinclair is The New York Heralds most determined scoop-hound. Each is a lone investigator, equipped with smarts, fists, and just maybe a code of honor, uncovering their towns secret truths. But what happens when you scratch the veneer of human malfeasance to reveal an eternal evilthe malign, cosmic indifference of HP Lovecrafts Cthulhu Mythos? Made in the U.S.

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression

The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Depression
Author: Kirk D. Strosahl
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2011-01-26
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1459611373

There are hundreds of books that will try to help you ''overcome'' or ''put an end to'' depression. But what if you could use your depression to change your life for the better? Your symptoms may be signals that something in your life needs to change. Learning to understand and interpret these signals is much more important than ignoring or avoiding them - approaches that only make the situation worse. This workbook uses techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to offer a new treatment plan for depression that will help you live a productive life by accepting your feelings instead of fruitlessly trying to avoid them. The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Depression will show you, step-by-step, how to stop this cycle, feel more energized, and involve yourself in pleasurable and fulfilling activities that will help you work through, rather than avoid, aspects of your life that are depressing you. Use the techniques in this book to evaluate your own depression and create a personalized treatment plan. You'll enrich your total life experience by focusing your energy not on fighting depression, but on living the life you want.