Carrying Water to the Field
Carrying Water to the Field

Author: Joyce Sutphen

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1496217357

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Joyce Sutphen’s evocations of life on a small farm, coming of age in the late 1960s, and traveling and searching for balance in a very modern world are both deeply personal and familiar. Readers from Maine to Minnesota and beyond will recognize themselves, their parents, aunts and uncles, and neighbors in these poems, which move us from delight in keen description toward something like wisdom or solace in the things of this world. In addition to poems selected from the last twenty-five years, Carrying Water to the Field includes more than forty new poems on the themes of luck, hard work, and the ravages of time—erasures that Sutphen attempts to ameliorate with her careful attention to language and lyrical precision.

Chop Wood, Carry Water
Chop Wood, Carry Water

Author: Rick Fields

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1984-12-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0874772095

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More than a thousand years ago a Chinese Zen Master wrote: Magical Power, Marvelous Action! Chopping Wood, Carrying Water... The message is as true today as it was then: the greatest lessons and the profoundest heights of the spiritual path can be found in our everyday life. It is the greatest challenge for people living in contemporary society to find the spiritual aspects of working in an office, store, or factory; balancing a checkbook; raising a family; or making a relationship work. How can we make all these daily activities a part of the path? How can we apply the insights of great spiritual traditions, and our own experience, to the way we live and develop? This book is a guide - a handbook filled with information, advice, hints, stories, inspiration, encouragement, connections, warning, and cautions, for the inner journey as we live throughout our lives. Chop Wood, Carry Water contains much ancient wisdom, but the emphasis is on contemporary perceptions. Many of our guides have been known to humanity for millennia: they are the world's great spiritual teachers- Christ, the Buddha, Loa Tse, Confucius. Others are contemporary teacher and healers, widely recognized and respected. All offer ways to integrate the events, our focus on relationships and family, our struggle with technology, money, politics and more- into the quest for spiritual fulfillment.

S. Chand’s Basics of Civil Engineering
S. Chand’s Basics of Civil Engineering

Author: Er. Shrikrishna A. Dhale & Er. Kiran M. Tajne

Publisher: S. Chand Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9355016131

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Basics of Civil Engineering is considered as one of the basic subjects for all the engineering students of all branches. The contents of this book are framed in such a way that they will be useful to the technocrats who are working on the administrative positions to deal with the basic knowledge of Civil Engineering. The book contains 11 chapters where every important concept of Civil Engineering is fairly treated. It throws light on the basic areas of Civil Engineering such as Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Hydraulics and Irrigation Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Surveying and Construction Technology. Thus, this book is a proper blend of all these.

A Field Guide to Household Technology
A Field Guide to Household Technology

Author: Ed Sobey

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1556526709

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Illustrating how a fire alarm detects smoke and what the "plasma" is in a plasma screen television, this fascinating handbook explains how everyday household devices function and operate. More than 180 different household technologies are covered, including gadgets unique to apartment buildings and houseboats. Devices are grouped according to their "habitats"--the living room, family room, den, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and basement--and feature a detailed description of what the device does and how it works, as well as a photograph for easy identification. With helpful sidebars describing related technical issues, such as why a cheap dimmer switch can interfere with radio reception, this handbook for curious readers provides carefully detailed descriptions and the history behind many of the older household technologies like toasters and faucets to newer technologies like motion detectors, TiVo, and satellite radio.

Irrigation Theory And Practice - 2Nd Edn
Irrigation Theory And Practice - 2Nd Edn

Author: A M Michael

Publisher: Vikas Publishing House

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 782

ISBN-13: 9788125918677

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It is a comprehensive treatise on Water Resources Development and Irrigation Management. For the last 30 years the book has enjoyed the status of an definitive textbook on the subject. It has now been thoroughly revised and updated, and thus substantially enlarged. In addition to the wholesale revision of the existing chapters, three new chapters have been added to the book, namely, ‘Lift Irrigation Systems and their Design’, Water Requirement of Crops and Irrigation Management’, and ‘Economic Evaluation of Irrigation Projects and Water Pricing Policy’.