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Inventing Eden
As Christopher Columbus surveyed lush New World landscapes, he eventually concluded that he had rediscovered the biblical garden from which God expelled Adam and Eve. Reading the paradisiacal rhetoric of Columbus, John Smith, and other explorers, English immigrants sailed for North America full of hope. However, the rocky soil and cold winters of New England quickly persuaded Puritan and Quaker colonists to convert their search for a physical paradise into a quest for Eden's less tangible perfections: temperate physiologies, intellectual enlightenment, linguistic purity, and harmonious social relations. Scholars have long acknowledged explorers' willingness to characterize the North American...
The Edenbury Chronicles: Volume One
When bizarre insurance claims flood a small town agency, a new agent reluctantly starts piecing together parts of an ancient agenda—one in which creation seeks to awaken humanity to truths long forgotten. Zeke’s hopes of relocating to a quiet midwestern town are disrupted when he uncovers a conspiracy tied to events that occurred fifty years prior. His adventures are chronicled by the local newspaper which seems to have an interest in what nature is doing in Edenbury and beyond. Zeke is joined by Lucy, who works at the insurance agency and seems to have her own unique relationship with nature. A former head-banger-turned-priest named Father “Shredder” Vance drives around a golf cart and interprets current events as an ancient agenda unfolds around them. Sheriff Stephanie joins the group and has a long history with the town and Father Vance. Zeke’s background at the big city corporate office looms over him. Meanwhile, new relationships and challenges meet him in little Edenbury.
Work and the Life of the Spirit
Cultural Writing. Spirituality. In WORK AND THE LIFE OF THE SPIRITt, Douglas Thorpe has assembled the finest array of writing on work. From ancient to modern times, from Eastern to Western philosophies, writers and thinkers have ceaselessly considered work's relationship to the personal and spiritual dimensions of our daily lives. The overall effect of the book is to renew a sense of meaning for life, to give our acts dignity in an age in which so much worthy work is despised or ignored (Barry Lopez). This antholgy includes short pieces relating to the maning of work by many wirters including Walt Whitman, Linda Hogan, William Carlos Willaims, Denise Levertov, Lao-tzu and Gary Snyder. Editor, Douglas Thorpe is the author of the cirtical study A NEW EARTH. He teaches at Seattle Pacific University and is porgram director of the Center for Spiritual Development.
The Spenser Encyclopedia
'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.
