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Author: Nicholas Proffitt
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780881843125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNicholas Proffitt's highly praised first novel, Gardens of Stone, has just been made into a movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film, which has been scheduled for release in April, will star James Caan, Anjelica Huston and James Earl Jones. (Entertainment)
Author: Stephen Mansfield
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2012-03-13
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1462905986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGain some new ideas along with the principles and history of Japanese stone gardening with this useful and beautiful garden design book. Japanese Stone Gardens provides a comprehensive introduction to the powerful mystique and dynamism of the Japanese stone garden—from their earliest use as props in animistic rituals, to their appropriation by Zen monks and priests to create settings conducive to contemplation and finally to their contemporary uses and meaning. With insightful text and abundant imagery, this book reveals the hidden order of stone gardens and in the process heightens the enthusiast's appreciation of them. The Japanese stone garden is an art form recognized around the globe. These meditative gardens provide tranquil settings, where visitors can shed the burdens and stresses of modern existence, satisfy an age-old yearning for solitude and repose, and experience the restorative power of art and nature. For this reason, the value of the Japanese stone garden today is arguably even greater than when many of them were created. Fifteen gardens are featured in this book: some well known, such as the famous temple gardens of Kyoto, others less so, among them gardens spread through the south of Honshu Island and the southern islands of Shikoku and Kyushu and in faraway Okinawa.
Author: Bill Brooks
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781408462577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe White Sands Region, New Mexico, 1908. It is twenty-seven years after the alleged death of Billy the Kid and rumors abound throughout New Mexico and the United States that the Kid is still alive. Those who believe him dead, are labeling the Kid's killer, Pat Garrett, a traitor. While Sheriff Garrett expected a hero's reception for his assassination of William H. Bonney, alias, The Kid, Garrett has become the most despised man in the state. Instead, assassins are now lining up to gun him down. Garrett watches as the Kid's exploits become the stuff of legend, of dime novels and of myth. And the myth continues that the Kid is alive. When an assassin's bullet finds Garrett, many secrets go to the grave with him. Among those secrets is the identity of his own killer.
Author: James L. Werth Jr.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-02-04
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1317763424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe idea that suicide may be an acceptable, rational option is rarely presented in professional literature. However, recent events and developments forcefully demonstrate that mental health professionals can no longer ignore the possibility that people can make a rational decision to die. After introducing the concept of rational suicide, the book explores the changing views of suicide over the centuries. Common arguments against rational suicide are examined and rebutted.
Author: Jan Kowalczewski Whitner
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1999-05-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780028621340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Stone is eloquent, and it speaks in many voices. For gardeners stone is an infinitely suggestive material, rich with poetic, philosophical, and artistic meaning."—Jan Kowalczewski Whitner
Author: Deborah Smith
Publisher: BelleBooks
Published: 2002-01-08
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1935661299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor Darl Union, life in Burnt Stand, North Carolina, has always been a mixture of wealth, privilege, loneliness and sinister family secrets. Even her childhood love for Eli Wade, the son of a stone cutter, was tangled in a web of deceit and murder. His father, an innocent man, died for killing her great aunt. Now Darl and Eli must come to grips with the past and all its mysteries.
Author: Stephen Grady
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2013-02-14
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1444760610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece. A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland, knowing that he must finally confront his past. He begins to write... September 1939, Nieppe, Northern France. 14 year-old Stephen is living with his family, 25 kilometres from Ypres. His French mother battles with her encroaching blindness. Failing to escape the advancing German army, his English father can no longer look after the war graves that cast so heartbreaking a shadow across the region. Stephen and his friend Marcel embark upon their great adventure: collecting souvenirs from strafed convoys and crashed Messerschmitts. But their world turns dark when arrested and imprisoned for sabotage and threatened with deportation or the firing squad. Upon his release, and still only 16, Stephen is recruited by the French Resistance. Growing up under the threat of imminent betrayal, he learns the arts of clandestine warfare, and - in a moment that haunts him still - how to kill... Such was the impact of Stephen Grady's work for the French Resistance, (especially during the countdown to D-Day and its bloody aftermath) that he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the American Medal of Freedom.
Author: William S. Burroughs
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA semi-autobiographical short book by Burroughs in which he shares some of his fragmentary memories of his youth in St. Louis.
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Publisher: Chin Music
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781634059756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn early immigrant's vision transforms swampland into a beloved public park. Essays, poems, and photographs celebrate Fujitaro Kubota's legacy.
Author: Steve Bisco
Publisher: GMC Publications
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781861088444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased mainly on the period styles of carving found in historic buildings and ancient ruins, this book features projects which include a mix of decorative and sculptural objects that can be easily displayed in the home or garden.
