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Author: Kate Petty
Publisher: Axel Scheffler National Trust planting books
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781839941733
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discover the joy of growing things in this non-fiction nature picture book series from Axel Scheffler and the National Trust.
Author: John Maximovitch
Publisher: Holy Trinity Publications
Published: 2018-09-01
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0884654699
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"May our love for the Sun, the will of God, be as strong as the sunflower's, so that even in days of hardship and sorrow we will continue to sail unerringly along the sea of life, following the directions of the barometer and compass of God's will that leads us to the safe haven of eternity." This is a thoroughly practical manual of the spiritual life focusing on the central goal of every Christian: learning the will of God and struggling to mold our life to it, just as Christ "humbled Himself and became obedient." (Phil. 2:8) Even more fundamentally, St John addresses the question of why we should care about God's will. Finally, the reader will find eternal wisdom running through these writings on questions of theodicy, free will, and Divine Providence. This work is reminiscent of the classic text Unseen Warfare in its historical genesis as an Orthodox redaction of an originally Roman Catholic text. First published in 1627 as The Heliotropium it was the work of a German Jesuit writer Jeremias Drexelius. The future St John adapted this text for an Orthodox audience as a student and then teacher at the Kiev Academy in the 1670's but it was not published until 1714, just a year before the author's death. This is the first English edition of St John's text, further edited and abbreviated for the contemporary reader.
Author: Simon Wiesenthal
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 2008-12-18
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0307560422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more. You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do? While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place? In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past.
Author: Lucy Peel
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 1997-10-10
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780062702128
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Van Gogh's vibrant masterpiece to its ubiquitous presence in American crafts, from sunflower oil to sunflower seeds to The Sunflower State (Kansas), the friendly sunflower is firmly planted as an intrinsic part of our culture and our daily lives. With its sunny disposition, bright colors, and surprising versatility, it is without a doubt one of the most popular flowers around. A comprehensive guide to this remarkable flower, The Ultimate Sunflower Book features descriptions of the different species, diagrams of planting schemes, tips on growing giant sunflowers, and step-by-step instructions for creating beautiful arrangements. It also teaches readers how to dry and prepare the flowers for use in cooking and crafts and includes numerous recipes and a host of fun projects. With its gorgeous photographs, eye-catching design, and hardy jacketed paper-over-board format, The Ultimate Sunflower Book is one reference that gardeners, craft enthusiasts, flower arrangers, cooks, and all fans of the sunflower will enjoy leafing through again and again.
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780152019525
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A young boy creates a summer playhouse by planting sunflowers and saves the seeds to make another house the next year.
Author: Gyula Krudy
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2010-09-15
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1590174089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gyula Krúdy is a marvelous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets while turning out a series of mesmerizing, revelatory novels that are among the masterpieces of modern literature. Krúdy conjures up a world that is entirely his own—dreamy, macabre, comic, and erotic—where urbane sophistication can erupt without warning into passion and madness. In Sunflower young Eveline leaves the city and returns to her country estate to escape the memory of her desperate love for the unscrupulous charmer Kálmán. There she encounters the melancholy Álmos-Dreamer, who is languishing for love of her, and is visited by the bizarre and beautiful Miss Maszkerádi, a woman who is a force of nature. The plot twists and turns; elemental myth mingles with sheer farce: Krúdy brilliantly illuminates the shifting contours and acid colors of the landscape of desire. John Bátki’s outstanding translation of Sunflower is the perfect introduction to the world of Gyula Krúdy, a genius as singular as Robert Walser, Bruno Schulz, or Joseph Roth.
Author: Martin Taylor
Publisher: Walter Foster Jr
Published: 2016-05-01
Total Pages: 10
ISBN-13: 1633220842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explains how a sunflower grows from a seed to a full-grown, flowering plant, in a book that includes pop-ups and pull tabs.
Author: Cao Wenxuan
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2017-03-14
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 0763693685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A beautifully written, timeless tale by Cao Wenxuan, best-selling Chinese author and 2016 recipient of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award. Sunflower is an only child, and when her father is sent to the rural Cadre School, she has to go with him. Her father is an established artist from the city and finds his new life of physical labor and endless meetings exhausting. Sunflower is lonely and longs to play with the local children in the village across the river. When her father tragically drowns, Sunflower is taken in by the poorest family in the village, a family with a son named Bronze. Until Sunflower joins his family, Bronze was an only child, too, and hasn’t spoken a word since he was traumatized by a terrible fire. Bronze and Sunflower become inseparable, understanding each other as only the closest friends can. Translated from Mandarin, the story meanders gracefully through the challenges that face the family, creating a timeless story of the trials of poverty and the power of love and loyalty to overcome hardship.
Author: Mark Sperring
Publisher: Andersen Press USA
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1467744352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a land filled with fire and smoke and endless fighting, where knights fight dragons, there lives a little knight who wants to be big like the others, and fight like the others, and have a sword like the others. But his mother won’t let him. Instead of a sword, she gives him a sunflower, which, as it turns out, can be mightier than a sword.
Author: Barbara Flores
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book looks at the sunflower's unusual history, including the importance it held for Van Gogh whose well-known painting Twelve Sunflowers is reproduced in full colour. It features gardening tips, nutritional information, and 25 recipes featuring sunflower seeds.
