Jack Vines has the Victorian home of his dreams-or so it seems until he discovers an intriguing beauty lurking in the shadows. Stunned, he finds they share the house but live a century apart. The realization leads him to questions so disturbing it changes both their lives forever. She is a prisoner of the past, shrouded in a world of dark mysteries. He holds the keys that will protect their future. But first, he must solve the mystery concealed for nearly a hundred years.
Paige St. Claire is trying to rebuild her life after a painful divorce and suffering through breast cancer. She stumbles across the MIA/POW bracelet she wore as a teenager and wonders if the soldier ever made it home. When she goes to visit her friend in California she visits the returned soldier.
David Muench's landscape photography is an American legacy spanning two centuries. In this first book of a forthcoming series, David Muench shares his favorite timeless moments of Grand Canyon National Park. The vast, majestic landscape of this expansive canyon sculpted by water and time has drawn Muench to capture it for over seven decades. Experience America's only Wonder of the Natural World with Muench's most famous images of the canyon, as well as images from his private collection published here for the first time.
Long before "turn on, tune in, drop out" became the credo of the American counterculture, Aldous Huxley was using mescaline and LSD in controlled, carefully documented experiments. Accounts of those psychedelic experiences, along with his interest in Eastern mystical religions, accompany the moving story of Aldous Huxley's later years with his wife, Laura. Huxley's fascination with the spiritual world remained with him throughout his life and never wavered through his final illness in 1963. THIS TIMELESS MOMENT takes the reader into the lively mind of one of the most profound thinkers of any generation.
For fans of Rick Riordan and Brian Selznick, author-artist Armand Baltazar introduces Timeless: Diego and the Rangers of the Vastlantic, the first in a new science fiction/fantasy series that explores a world painted new by the Time Collision. Integrating art and text, this epic and cinematic adventure features more than 150 full-color illustrations. You’ve never seen Earth like this before: continents reshaped, oceans re-formed, cities rebuilt, and mountains sculpted anew. Dinosaurs roam the plains alongside herds of buffalo, and giant robots navigate the same waters as steam-powered ships. This is the world Diego Ribera was born into. The past, present, and future coexisting together. In New Chicago, Diego’s middle school hallways buzz with kids from all eras of history and from cultures all over the world. The pieces do not always fit together neatly, but this is the world he loves. There are those, however, who do not share his affection. On his thirteenth birthday, Diego learns of a special gift he has within, a secret that is part of something much bigger—something he cannot understand. When his father, New Chicago’s top engineer, is taken by the Aeternum, Diego must rescue him and prevent this evil group from disrupting the fragile peace humanity has forged.
Published very shortly before his death in February 1976, Meaning is the culmination of Michael Polanyi's philosophic endeavors. With the assistance of Harry Prosch, Polanyi goes beyond his earlier critique of scientific "objectivity" to investigate meaning as founded upon the imaginative and creative faculties. Establishing that science is an inherently normative form of knowledge and that society gives meaning to science instead of being given the "truth" by science, Polanyi contends here that the foundation of meaning is the creative imagination. Largely through metaphorical expression in poetry, art, myth, and religion, the imagination is used to synthesize the otherwise chaotic and disparate elements of life. To Polanyi these integrations stand with those of science as equally valid modes of knowledge. He hopes this view of the foundation of meaning will restore validity to the traditional ideas that were undercut by modern science. Polanyi also outlines the general conditions of a free society that encourage varied approaches to truth, and includes an illuminating discussion of how to restore, to modern minds, the possibility for the acceptance of religion.
This introductory volume to Alexander's other works, A Pattern of Language and The Oregon Experiment, explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.
Dawn Waddell Elledge lives and writes in Nashville, TN. She grew up twenty miles north of Nashville in the suburb of Hendersonville, TN. Dawn's home place, called Monthaven, (named after her grandfather, Mont Comer; founder of the former Washington Mfg. Co. in Nashville) serves today as the home for the Hendersonville Arts Council. Dawn's mother, the late Jackie Comer Waddell was a popular Nashville native in the Hendersonville area. Dawn is inspired by her mother's love for writing. Jackie Waddell wrote for many local newspapers, while Dawn and her eight siblings enjoyed the opportunity to be a part of their mother's passion for the community. Dawn became a registered nurse after changing her college major from theatre to nursing. She currently works as an independent care manager, helping seniors and their loved ones with long-term care issues. She enjoys speaking to groups on the subject of planning for long-term care. Dawn also works when needed at Summit Medical Center; an HCA hospital outside of Nashville, TN. A deep love for the elderly extends into Dawn's free time when she can schedule singing with seniors at the long-term care facilities, or go for a visit. Every Christmas finds her singing favorite holiday carols to many elderly groups in the Nashville area. Dawn's vocal abilities have afforded her many invitations to weddings, parties and funerals, where many have been blessed with her personal touch. Dawn has been involved with community theatre and chorus for many years. Home is where Dawn's heart is. She is a devoted home-manager, home school mom, and home-based business entrepreneur. Dawn is married to Hugh, who is also a registered nurse, and has three children; April, Mary-Jacalyn and Zach. Dawn and Hugh coordinate the inner city ministry at their church.
