An American Journey The Art Of John Sloan

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Catalogue for a full-career retrospective of the American realist artist and illustrator John Sloan (1871-1951). This book features work from the Sloan collection at the Delaware Art Museum.

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Genre : Art
Author : Delaware Art Museum
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release : 2017-11-18
File : 158 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781387344949


An American S Journey Into Buddhism

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Structured as a patchwork of conversations, recollections, and lyrical encounters, this rich spiritual autobiography allows readers to eavesdrop on a restless soul in quest of self, God, and home. The memoir tells the story of an American who became intrigued by Buddhism through his love of Asian art and who decided to study the discipline in a Japanese Soto Zen monastery. In Part One, the author gives an account of his life in the Hosshinji monastery in Obama, Japan, detailing his daily routine and his participation in a traditional Takuhatsu almsgiving ceremony, a Sesshin period of intensive meditation, and a Jukai Buddhist initiation ceremony. Part Two describes the author's difficult search for a Buddhist temple to continue his religious practices upon returning to the United States. Part Three deals with the author's involvement in the International Institute for Field-Being and details how his Buddhist training helped prepare him for that venture. Part Four describes obstacles the author has encountered as a lone Buddhism practitioner since his training.

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Genre : Religion
Author : Albert Shansky
Publisher : McFarland
Release : 2015-03-10
File : 233 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780786484249


American Journey Online User S Guide

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Author : Mary Ann Heiss
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Release : 2003
File : 164 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0534174337


The American Journey Teaching And Learning Classroom Edition

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Genre : United States
Author : David R. Goldfield
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Release : 2004
File : 504 Pages
ISBN-13 : 013185917X


Journey Of An American Muslim

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Journey of an American Muslim is an epic journey into the life of the author. It's a biography that is uncompromising in its authenticity and honesty. Muslims and non-Muslims will appreciate its candor as the author shares his experiences in the four phases of his development into his life as a Muslim in America. In this book you will discover: -The major influences that encouraged the Author to study and later become a Muslim. -How the Author transitioned from being a very "zealous" Muslim in the beginning; to discovering "spirituality" while taking more risks in his practice of the Muslim life; to becoming an open minded "truth seeker" who happens to be Muslim. -In candid detail how the Author survived multiple marriages (learning experiences), the loss of two good paying professional jobs, foreclosure of his home and working at Wal-Mart for 3 1/2 years earning what he considers "survival income." Journey of an American Muslim is a personal journey and an odyssey of major proportions for any human being. Muslim or non-Muslim, to have to experience. One wonders how one could survive such a personal drama, financial upheaval and professional setbacks. This author not only experienced the epic journey, but lived to tell about it.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : A. Opio Masud
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Release : 2010-09-10
File : 246 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781452074504


Journey Of An American Son

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In 1920, the chance to travel to India on a business trip is a great boon for a smart and talented young man. Until he wakes up in a Calcutta jail, framed for murder. Benjamin Albert is a brilliant rising star at his firm, a war hero and a loving husband and father. But when his own government turns its back on him and leaves him to rot in prison 8,000 miles from home, his wife Catherine must take matters into her own hands and battle a ruthless and unscrupulous corporation abetted by a corrupt colonial government. Timeless issues like racism, anti-Semitism, nationalism and women's rights are exposed during Catherine's race to save Benjamin.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : John Hazen
Publisher : Black Rose Writing
Release : 2014-11-14
File : 321 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781612964461


The American Bookseller

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Genre : American literature
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Release : 1888
File : 814 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433000084560


Hunger For The Wild

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Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. Michael L. Johnson considers how that obsession originated, how it has determined attitudes toward and activities in the West, and how it has changed over the centuries.

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Genre : History
Author : Michael L. Johnson
Publisher :
Release : 2007
File : 564 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X030112643


An American Story Book

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Genre : Pennsylvania
Author : Frank Cowan
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Release : 1881
File : 410 Pages
ISBN-13 : OSU:32435017778010


Railroad History

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Genre : Locomotives
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Release : 2002
File : 336 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015047926160