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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1916 Edition.
This book is written based on words spoken by King Solomon in the
Book of Ecclesiastes about times and seasons. There is a time to be
born and a time to die and a time for every purpose under the
Heaven. These written words exude a power which can revitalize our
belief and faith in a higher being. Your time is now This is the
call the author puts out for all. It is her clarion call. Reading
this book will surely make us think more deeply about why we have
been put on this earth. When you read this book you will surely
visualize the many joys and sorrows experienced by the author in
her daily living. You will read of her love for a Higher Being, her
family and her friends. The motivation to write this book is beyond
description. It encourages the reader to deep thought and
inspiration and to realize that our time is definitely now to make
changes in our lives for the good of all.
Volume 34 of Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies features eight
essays that together demonstrate geographers' diverse scholarly
engagement with the practise of their subject. There are two
physical geographers (a Frenchman and an Englishman, both
geomorphologists), a British historical geographer, a French
colonial geographer, a Russian explorer-naturalist of Central Asia
and Tibet, a British-born but long-time Australian resident and
scholar of India, Pakistan, and the Pacific world, an American
regionalist and eugenicist, and a Scots-born long-time American
resident, one of the world's leading Marxist geographers and urban
theorists. Equally but differently committed to geography's many
specialisms, these subjects wonderfully illuminate the vibrancy -
and the contradictions - behind the living of geographical lives.
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This book is the equivalent of having 30 fascinating dinner
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After a 30-year career in New Mexico, it was time for a change,
but what to do next? That was the dilemma. Jo was seeking something
unknown and unnamed until she found her way to Africa, a place
where she could live out her dream of adventure and travel.
Remembering Africa: Moments in Time is the author's memoir of
the two years she lived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, while teaching
at an International School with students and teachers from many
different countries. Through her personal stories, she portrays
both the humor and struggle of daily life in Dar and working at the
International School there. She provides a window for the reader to
share her travel adventures to the exotic island of Zanzibar, the
Seychelles, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Namibia, and safari adventures into
the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, etc.
Jo was enchanted with the land and people of this amazing
continent, and she recorded events from those memorable years in a
journal. When she returned to the states, the memories of her life
in Africa lingered and begged to be shared. Remembering Africa had
to be written.
The poem "Moments in Time," written by Jo, was inspired by her
experiences while living and working in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania.
Now fully revised and updated The Book of Saints is a comprehensive
biographical dictionary of saints canonised by the Roman Catholic
Church. It contains the names of over 10,000 saints, including all
modern ones, with significant information about their lives and
achievements. Each section begins with an illustration of a
particular saint, and the volume includes a list of national
martyrs, a bibliography, and a helpful glossary. Produced by the
Benedictine monks of St. Augustine's Abbey, Chilworth (formerly
Ramsgate) this classic resource is now in its 8th edition, and is
fully revised to include all the saints canonised in the last ten
years, including Pope St John Paul II and Blessed Paul VI.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1831 Edition.
The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, the first
publication of its kind since 1898, is the work of more than one
hundred internationally recognized experts from nearly a dozen
countries. It has been designed to satisfy the growing thirst of
students, researchers, professionals, and general readers for
knowledge about China. It makes the entire span of Chinese history
manageable by introducing the reader to emperors, politicians,
poets, writers, artists, scientists, explorers, and philosophers
who have shaped and transformed China over the course of five
thousand years. In 135 entries, ranging from 1,000 to 8,000 words
and written by some of the world's leading China scholars, the
Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography takes the reader from the
important (even if possibly mythological) figures of ancient China
to Communist leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. The in-depth
essays provide rich historical context, and create a compelling
narrative that weaves abstract concepts and disparate events into a
coherent story. Cross-references between the articles show the
connections between times, places, movements, events, and
individuals. Volume Four focuses on key individuals from the
People's Republic of China's post-opening era, starting in 1979.
Volume 33 of Geographers Biobibliographical Studies adds
significantly to the corpus of scholarship on geography's multiple
histories and biographies with eight essays on individuals who have
made major contributions to the development of geography in the
twentieth century. This volume focuses on European geographers,
including essays on individuals from Britain, France and Hungary.
These are individuals who have made important and distinctive
contributions to a diverse range of fields, including cartography,
physical geography, oceanography and urban theory. As with previous
volumes, these biographical essays demonstrate the importance of
geographers' lives in terms of the lived experience of geography in
practise.
The facts contained in this work were collected over a period of
eight years largely because of the author's desire to acquire
knowledge of his more immediate relatives. The fruits of his
efforts not only resulted in facts concerning his immediate family,
but also provided extensive information on the allied Virginia
families named in the title of this volume. The order in which the
families are arranged in the book was determined solely by the
order in which they were completed, with cross references being
made from one part to another. Information contained on each
individual varies, but generally contain dates for births, deaths,
and marriages. Biographical information is included for some
individuals, and may include locations/residences, military
service, profession or occupation, religious affiliation, etc.
Paperback, (1903), 2013, Illus., Index, 328 pp.
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