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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Edna L. Myles
Mattie Collins, a young, shy, country girl has overcome many obstacles in her short life and for the first time experiences the kind of love that songs are written about. Mattie's life seemed to be going so well when she suddenly finds it all threatened by a past she has no memory of. Will she lose all that has become dear to her or survive the battle of a lifetime to keep it?
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of Halloween Symbols
Edna Barth
Clarion Books
2000
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Here are the stories behind all the familiar and not-so-familiar symbols of Halloween. Each of our holidays has its own familiar traditions: Trick-or-treating on Halloween, eating turkey on Thanksgiving, waiting for Santa Claus on Christmas, exchanging cards on Valentine's Day. But where do these customs come from, when did they begin, and why do we continue to observe them? In the engaging blend of careful research and lively prose that has earned her books a lasting place on the holiday bookshelf, Edna Barth explores the multicultural origins and evolution of the familiar and not-so-familiar symbols and legends associated with our favorite holidays. Full of fascinating historical details and little-known stories, these books are both informative and engaging. Festively illustrated by Ursula Arndt, they are now available again in hardcover as well as paperback editions, featuring new, eye-catching jacket designs, and fun holiday activities inside the paperback covers. Each book includes an annotated list of holiday stories and poems and an index.
Hearts, Cupids, and Red Roses: The Story of the Valentine Symbols
Edna Barth
Clarion Books
2001
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Describes the celebration of St. Valentine's Day from pagan festivals to present-day activities. Each of our holidays has its own familiar traditions: Trick-or-treating on Halloween, eating turkey on Thanksgiving, waiting for Santa Claus on Christmas, exchanging cards on Valentine's Day. But where do these customs come from, when did they begin, and why do we continue to observe them? In the engaging blend of careful research and lively prose that has earned her books a lasting place on the holiday bookshelf, Edna Barth explores the multicultural origins and evolution of the familiar and not-so-familiar symbols and legends associated with our favorite holidays. Full of fascinating historical details and little-known stories, these books are both informative and engaging. Festively illustrated by Ursula Arndt, they are now available again in hardcover as well as paperback editions, featuring new, eye-catching jacket designs, and fun holiday activities inside the paperback covers. Each book includes an annotated list of holiday stories and poems and an index.
Edna O'Brien's classic novel NIGHT takes us through one long, sleepless night with Mary Hooligan. From the center of her bed, "a four poster no less," Mary recalls her fertile past, from her childhood in the Irish countryside to the love affairs she has confronted since leaving for English shores. Wistful, wanton, this erotic reverie shows O'Brien to be one of the foremost heirs to modernism. "Very few writers use language as richly and sensuously . . . There are passages here worthy of Joyce" (Library Journal). Author Biography: Edna O'Brien is the author of eighteen works of fiction, including DOWN BY THE RIVER, HOUSE OF SPLENDID ISOLATION, TIME AND TIDE, and LANTERN SLIDES,which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Her book about James Joyce was published in 1999 and excerpted in THE NEW YORKER. An honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she was born and grew up in Ireland and has lived in London for many years.
This is a family history written by Edna Sadie Major and describes her life in the early 1900s in Wellington, New Zealand. Sadie as she was known, describes her life in some detail, the dances, the yachting, the school years, her early employment years and later as the wife of a bank manager. The book contains anecdotes about her life for the benefit of present and future generations of the family and to anyone else who may be interested in life in New Zealand in the early 1900s for one particular family.
The White Heart of Mojave; An Adventure with the Outdoors of the Desert
Edna Brush Perkins
Trieste Publishing
2018
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More than fifty years ago the discovery of scrolls in eleven caves beside the Dead Sea ignited the imagination of the world--and launched a vast academic field. Expectations abounded that the scrolls would reveal actual contemporaneous accounts of the birth of Christianity, perhaps even of the life of Jesus. The research that followed--its inner logic, and what its impassioned and often highly controversial theories reveal about the framing of facts and the interpreting of texts--is what interests philosopher Edna Ullmann-Margalit in this thoroughly absorbing book.Since the inception of Dead Sea Scrolls research, a central theory has emerged. Known as the Qumran-Essene Hypothesis, it asserts that the scrolls belonged to the Essenes, a sect whose center was at the nearby site of Qumran. In Out of the Cave, Ullmann-Margalit focuses on this theory and the vicissitudes of its career. Looking at the Essene connection, the archaeology of Qumran, and the sectarian nature of the scrolls community, she explores the different arenas, and ways, in which contesting theories of the scrolls do battle. In this context she finds fascinating examples of issues that exercise philosophers of science as well as the general public--issues that only amplify the already intrinsic interest of the Dead Sea scrolls.
The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics
Edna Ernestine Kramer
Princeton University Press
1983
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Now available in a one-volume paperback, this book traces the development of the most important mathematical concepts, giving special attention to the lives and thoughts of such mathematical innovators as Pythagoras, Newton, Poincare, and Godel. Beginning with a Sumerian short story--ultimately linked to modern digital computers--the author clearly introduces concepts of binary operations; point-set topology; the nature of post-relativity geometries; optimization and decision processes; ergodic theorems; epsilon-delta arithmetization; integral equations; the beautiful "ideals" of Dedekind and Emmy Noether; and the importance of "purifying" mathematics. Organizing her material in a conceptual rather than a chronological manner, she integrates the traditional with the modern, enlivening her discussions with historical and biographical detail.
Prayer Breaths: 100 Days of Prayer Power, As Close As Your Next Breath
Edna Brooks; Keva Brooks Napper; Bishop George W. Brooks
Lee's Press and Publishing Company
2016
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In life there are some things that are essential. Those are the things that must not cease if life is to exist. Breathing is one of those things. We breathe 15-20 times per minute and each breath supports and grants opportunities to experience the future. We are told to pray without ceasing and like breathing it is to be done with the expectation of moving into the future of hope and fulfillment. Prayer Breaths expounds upon the idea that prayer, while essential does not have to be long and drawn out in order to be effective. This book will encourage you to: - Use prayer as a daily connection with God and your spiritual man- Appreciate the power of prayer- Acknowledge the venue by which we communicate with God- Overcome daily struggles and challenges in your life- Promote intimacy with God- Reinforce your overall spiritual healt
First Published in 1978. Working with adolescents is never easy, as any school teacher will confirm. Working with psychiatrically-disturbed adolescents is a highly complex and demanding task, which requires a certain type of dedication which relatively few people possess. This is true of all the personnel concerned, whether they be from psychiatric. social work. nursing or other disciplines. People who can work successfully with the disturbed adolescent are, therefore, a highly selected group and the group is quite a small one. However, although their numbers are small, their work is very important. This is a fairly new field and it is one about which people, either professional or lay, know very little. Therefore, it seems right to illumine this area for the non-specialist and this is what Dr. Irwin has set out to do in this book.
Set on the vast panorama of the trackless Canadian prairie, this life-affirming saga brings together 40-year-old virgin Catherine Turnbull and her two decades' worth of shadowy, shameful secrets, and the long-suffering town doctor of Medicine Jaw, Saskatchewan, Kevin MacKevitt. In this dazzling tour de force of literary skill, Edna Porczeny-Dalrymple creates an even grander major character, the always-changing weather, which she makes a metaphor for life and its challenges. Rather a Ruby operates on dozens of levels, from the tragic to the comedic, each drawn with consummate skill by an author such as comes along but once in a generation. It will change your life.
Much has been written about Charles Darwin but this is the first biography of his strong, intelligent wife. Emma Wedgwood, granddaughter of the famous Josiah, married Charles Darwin in 1839, three years after he returned from his extraordinary voyage on the Beagle. Their life together was intellectually exciting though overshadowed by personal tragedy. Edna Healey has discovered new, and hitherto unpublished, material and has had the full support of the Darwin family in writing this major biography.
