Author: Janette Oke Publisher: Baker Books ISBN: 1585587257 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 285
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A Chance Encounter Forever Changed Their Lives--and Destinies. Crafted by two masters of inspirational fiction--Janette Oke and T. Davis Bunn--and combining the engaging historical settings, rich characterization, and heartwarming messages quintessential to both authors, The Meeting Place is another timeless story for you to cherish. Set along the rugged coastline of 18th century Canada in what was then called Acadia (now Nova Scotia and New Brunswick), The Meeting Place re-creates a world that was home to native Indians, French settlers, and English garrisons. Such diverse populations did not live in accord, however. Instead, they were isolated within their own groups by a brewing political tension under the difficult English rule. Amid such chaotic times two women, both about to become brides and both trying to live lives of quiet peace, meet in a lush field of wildflowers. Louisa, a Frenchwoman, and Catherine, who is English, continue to meet secretly through the seasons, sharing both friendship and growing faith. The outside world does not mirror their own tranquil happiness, and the dreaded crackdown by the English throne threatens far more than their growing bond. In the face of a heart-wrenching dilemma, Louisa and Catherine strive to maintain their faith and cling to their dreams of family and home. Winner of the Christy Award, presented by the Christian Bookseller Association to honor the best in Christian fiction.
Author: Paul Carter Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452940185 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 221
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In this remarkable and often dazzling book, Paul Carter explores the conditions for sociability in a globalized future. He argues that we make many assumptions about communication but overlook barriers to understanding between strangers as well as the importance of improvisation in overcoming these obstacles to meeting. While disciplines such as sociology, legal studies, psychology, political theory, and even urban planning treat meeting as a good in its own right, they fail to provide a model of what makes meeting possible and worth pursuing: a yearning for encounter. The volume’s central narrative—between Northern cultural philosophers and Australian societies—traverses the troubled history of misinterpretation that is characteristic of colonial cross-cultural encounter. As he brings the literature of Indigenous and non-Indigenous anthropological research into dialogue with Western approaches of conceptualizing sociability, Carter makes a startling discovery: that meeting may not be desirable and, if it is, its primary objective may be to negotiate a future of non-meeting. To explain the phenomenon of encounter, Carter performs it in differing scales, spaces, languages, tropes, and forms of knowledge, staging in the very language of the book what he calls “passages.” In widely varying contexts, these passages posit the disjunction of Greco-Roman and Indigenous languages, codes, theatrics of power, social systems, and visions of community. In an era of new forms of technosocialization, Carter offers novel ways of presenting the philosophical dimensions of waiting, meeting, and non-meeting.
Author: Thierry Morel Publisher: ISBN: 9781906257378 Category : Languages : en Pages : 160
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Before opening its seasonal Art Village in the Qatari Desert, the Caravane Foundation brings the first of its eight principal structures, the Majlis, to the re-designed wild-flower garden of the Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore at the 2020 Venice Biennale. Inspired by nomadic architecture, the Majlis is made from the most renewable building material on earth - bamboo - and shrouded in textiles handwoven in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Traditionally, a Majlis is the place where people come together to deepen their connection with each other. In this case, it will help to reflect on the Biennale theme: How will we live together? In recognition of its cultural significance in the Arabian Peninsula, the Majlis is inscribed on UNESCO's 'Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity'. This intervention explores the careful sourcing of materials, ethical processes of production and the legacy of the Majlis. The Foundation, with its international array of individuals and in dialogue with the Benedictine community, aims to restore a collective awareness of the sacred interconnectivity between Humans, Culture and Nature through craftsmanship, art, innovation, agriculture and education.00Exhibition: collateral event at the Venice Biennale, Italy (23.05.-29.11.2020).
Author: N.L. Brumbaugh Publisher: Inspiring Voices ISBN: 1462402461 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 260
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God can be found from the tiniest of wildflowers to majestic, craggy cliff s; in billowy cumulus cloud or in blazing sunsetseen in awe-inspiring loveliness that touches our innermost person with its alluring romance. God cares. The Meeting Place is an open dialogue and honest conversation with the invisible God who delights in the visible expressions of his handiwork and in those who look up. Because of an inner need for healing and peace, N. L. Brumbaugh spent one year making weekly one-hour visits to the Meeting Place. The Lookout visits became a vital absorbing of the natural world, while in earnest she sought God through prayer and contemplationwith thoughts rich in tone and texture. Join N. L. Brumbaugh as she views the beauties of nature, shares her heart, and speaks in intimacy with the God of love. Bless you for sharing your life through a year of journaling at Lookout Point....Those who truly desire a closer more intimate life with God, will find it in your book. Christine Peterson, pastors wife
Author: Vincent O'Malley Publisher: Auckland University Press ISBN: 1775581950 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 482
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An account focusing on the encounters between the Maori and Pakeha—or European settlers—and the process of mutual discovery from 1642 to around 1840, this New Zealand history book argues that both groups inhabited a middle ground in which neither could dictate the political, economic, or cultural rules of engagement. By looking at economic, religious, political, and sexual encounters, it offers a strikingly different picture to traditional accounts of imperial Pakeha power over a static, resistant Maori society. With fresh insights, this book examines why mostly beneficial interactions between these two cultures began to merge and the reasons for their subsequent demise after 1840.
Author: Janette Oke Publisher: Bethany House ISBN: 0764221760 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 285
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British and French settlers in 1753 Canada live in separate villages with no interaction until a chance meeting between two young women, one from each community
Author: Richard Palmisano Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1459728467 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 232
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Paranormal investigator Richard Palmisano recounts the most sinister case he has ever faced. Join him in discovering the hidden secrets of malicious ghosts who lash out against the living, beings who mask themselves in false innocence, and a house so haunted Palmisano was forced to walk away forever.
Author: Stanley Larson Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1365865290 Category : Languages : en Pages : 238
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_An American businessman is coaxed into a partnership with the dangerous 14K Triad in Hong Kong. A newlywed couple makes a startling discovery. A young Will McGuire is just trying to live a normal life as a high school sophomore at Amador Valley high school in Pleasanton, California until he accidentally stumbles on a a body. A discovery in Hong Kong could change the history of China. Will is criticized by the local media as the youngest player on his basketball team. Will and Roxy learn about a world of deceit, greed and power on their unknowing route to a budding romance.
Author: Sir John William Dawson Publisher: Library of Alexandria ISBN: 1465543554 Category : Archaeology Languages : en Pages : 223
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The science of the earth and the history of man, though cultivated by very different classes of specialists and in very different ways, must have their meeting-place. They must indeed not only meet, but overlap and run abreast of each other throughout nearly the whole time occupied by the existence of man on the earth. The geologist, from his point of view, studies all the stratified crust of the earth, down to the mud deposited by last year's river inundations. The historian, aided by the archæologist, has written and monumental evidence carrying him back to the time of the earliest known men, many thousands of years ago. Throughout all this interval the two records must have run more or less parallel to each other, and must be in contact along the whole line. The geologist, ascending from the oldest and lowest portions of the earth's crust, and dealing for millions of years with physical forces and the instinctive powers of animals alone, at length as he approaches the surface finds himself in contact with an entirely new agency, the free-will and conscious action of man. It is true that at first the effects of these are small, and the time in which they have been active is insignificant in comparison with that occupied by previous geological ages; but they introduce new questions which constantly grow in importance, down to those later times in which human agency has so profoundly affected the surface of the earth and its living inhabitants. Finally, the geologist is obliged to have recourse to human observation and testimony for his information respecting those modern causes to which he has to appeal for the explanation of former changes, and has to adduce effects produced by human agency in illustration of, or in contrast with, mutations in the pre-human periods. The historian, on the other hand, finds, as he passes backward into earlier ages, documentary evidence failing him, and much of what he can obtain becoming mythical, vague or uncertain, or difficult of explanation by modern analogies, until at length he is fain to have recourse to the pick-axe and spade, and to endeavour to disinter from the earth the scanty relics of primeval man, much as the geologist searches in the bedded rocks for the fossils which they contain. He has even learned to use for these earliest ages the term prehistoric, and so practically to transfer them to the domain of the archæologist and geologist.
Author: Eliezer Segal Publisher: Quid Pro Books ISBN: 161027105X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 294
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This volume brings together a diverse collection of studies related to Jewish history, culture, religion and literature. The articles introduce the reader to a dazzling variety of personalities, ideologies, historical events and communal dynamics. The articles are written from a sympathetic, but non-dogmatic, perspective by an expert in the academic study of the Jewish religion. They were originally published as newspaper columns, and are designed to entertain as much as to educate the intelligent non-specialist. Now in ePub format for ereaders and apps.
Author: Janette Oke
Author: Paul Carter
Author: Thierry Morel
Author: N.L. Brumbaugh
Author: Vincent O'Malley
Author: Janette Oke
Author: Richard Palmisano
Author: Stanley Larson
Author: Sir John William Dawson
Author: Eliezer Segal