Sparkman in the Sky & Other Stories
| Author | : Brian Griffin |
| Publisher | : Sarabande Books |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781889330068 |
Selected by Barry Hannah as the 1996 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
The Bridge Across The Sky And Other Single Serving Stories
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A Bridge to the Sky
| Author | : Margaret Ball |
| Publisher | : Domain |
| Total Pages | : 596 |
| Release | : 1990-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780553281378 |
For the audience of Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, comes a stunningly researched, mesmerizing historical novel set in 13th century England, tracing the rise of a young architect from a simple stone carver to master builder of a magnificent cathedral.
Sky Stories
| Author | : Roger Ptak |
| Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9781560725077 |
Most of the constellations, the patterns of stars found in the night sky, are connected with the ancient myths which people developed to give meaning to what they saw in the sky, based on the experience of their culture. The ideas of modern astronomy play a similar role for us today. They are stories which help us understand the phenomena we discover when we look deeper into the sky than is possible with eyes alone. In this book, the ancient sky stories and those of modern astronomy are woven together in a unique way. Coverage includes twenty-four important constellations as well as the sun and the moon and the sky as a whole. For each of these, one of the old stories is tied together with the astronomical understanding of a key feature in that part of the sky, allowing one story to serve as a reminder for the other.
Endless Story
| Author | : James Goldrick |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2016-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1473882141 |
Although it was first published in 1931, Endless Story remains the only comprehensive account of the services of the Navys small craft destroyers, torpedo boats and patrol vessels during the First World War, and moreover the only one written by an officer personally involved. Even if Dorling did not take part in all the actions he describes, he knew the men who did, and gleaned much of his information from personal contact. As a result the book has both authenticity and authority, but is composed with the all verve of the popular novelist that Taffrail was to become. It was a bestseller in its day, and now enjoys the status of a classic.
At the Bridge
| Author | : Wendy Wickwire |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2019-06-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0774861541 |
At the Bridge chronicles the little-known story of James Teit, a prolific ethnographer who, from 1884 to 1922, worked with and advocated for the Indigenous peoples of British Columbia and the northwestern United States. From his base at Spences Bridge, BC, Teit forged a participant-based anthropology that was far ahead of its time. Whereas his contemporaries, including famed anthropologist Franz Boas, studied Indigenous peoples as members of “dying cultures,” Teit worked with them as members of living cultures resisting colonial influence over their lives and lands. Whether recording stories, mapping place-names, or participating in the chiefs’ fight for fair treatment, he made their objectives his own. With his allies, he produced copious, meticulous records; an army of anthropologists could not have achieved a fraction of what he achieved in his short life. Wickwire’s beautifully crafted narrative accords Teit the status he deserves, consolidating his place as a leading and innovative anthropologist in his own right.
Stars in the Sky at Dawn
| Author | : Marjorie Victoria White |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2011-09-09 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1465342222 |
Stars In The Sky At Dawn: Enduring Memories of Childhood is based on actual events; and presents personal stories that shaped the life and experiences of the author while growing up in the small, close-knit community she calls Canary Hall, on a Caribbean island. The accounts outlined provide the reader not only with an understanding of community structure and the exigencies of daily living, but also invaluable insight into the ideals that governed family life, child-rearing and social interaction. These entrenched values are lasting, and are the foundations on which the present is built and the future determined. This work also calls attention to the values that can mould ones thoughts and behavior, as one journeys through life and experiences its transformations. It reveals that beauty is ever present, even in unlikely places; and can be found when and where we make a conscious effort to discover such.
The Door in the Sky
| Author | : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0691219338 |
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers, an art historian convinced that the ultimate value of art transcends history, and a social thinker influenced by William Morris, Coomaraswamy was a unique figure whose works provide virtually a complete education in themselves. Finding a universal tradition in past cultures ranging from the Hellenic and Christian to the Indian, Islamic, and Chinese, he collated his ideas and symbols of ancient wisdom into the sometimes complex, always rewarding pattern of essays. The Door in the Sky is a collection of the author's writings on myth drawn from his Metaphysics and Traditional Art and Symbolism, both originally published in Bollingen Series. These essays were written while Coomaraswamy was curator in the department of Asiatic Art of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where he built the first large collection of Indian art in the United States.
