Автор: Hansford Roger Название: Brick Bonds: A Life in Britain`s Building Trade, 1902-1987 ISBN: 024420179X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780244201791 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2574.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Despite recent academic interest in oral history and working-class writing, few other autobiographies reveal daily life for early twentieth-century itinerant gasworks bricklayers, or 'retort-setters'. Charles Hansford recounts constructing his own home single-handedly aged twenty-one, describes economic privations and poor weather conditions. 'Brick Bonds' documents his relationships with fellow workers and specific building techniques they used (a bond is a brick-laying pattern). His personal memories of enemy action in wartime, working-class social and leisure pursuits in London, the 1924 National Building Strike, and notable ships like Titanic and Bismarck are set into historical context. Hansford reveals an evolving class awareness and trade union activism; a declared Socialist, he readily left building sites in protest, even into the 1970s. His career encompassed Fawley Refinery, Royal Netley War Hospital, British Overseas Airways Company flying-boat bases, and Harrods store in London.
Автор: Smithrim Katharine, Craig-Hansford Melanie Название: Prayers for Women Who Can`t Pray ISBN: 0986547360 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986547362 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2586.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a book of prayers for women who want to pray but can't. Many women feel the urge to pray-when a child is sick, when a loved one is dying, when relationships sour, in the presence of beauty. Our impulse is to say "Oh God, help " or "Oh God, thank you." But as soon as we think or say the word God, many of us freeze, because we do not believe in a god who intervenes in our lives. We may well believe that there is a spiritual dimension or that life is imbued with the sacred. We may believe in a timeless, mysterious grace that envelops us all. Yet the very word God and the concept of prayer may have lost meaning for us. However, even when our image of divinity is not of a god who helps us, who wants to be thanked and praised, or who judges or forgives us, it is still possible to pray and to think about what prayer means. And so we pray.In this book we offer the kinds of prayers we can still pray. There are one-line prayers, easy to memorize, and to think or say at all times of the day and night, such as when we go to bed, enter our workplace, or wait for the hand dryer to dry our hands. There are also longer prayers to read when we have the time to be still. We hope that you can pray these prayers, and that this prayerful language is meaningful for you, and that you might begin to shape your days with your own authentic and sustaining words of prayer.
Автор: Hansford Beverley Название: Path of Injustice ISBN: 1789016746 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789016741 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2837.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Set in the 18th-century kingdom of Alteria, Path of Injustice is a story of romantic love tormented by jealousy and personal suffering, which takes place against the background of a country locked in civil war.
Автор: Hansford David Название: The Dragon Mother: and the Azure Dragon Rising ISBN: 0996345884 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996345880 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Dragons are real
If you can sweep your mind clear of conventional thoughts and beliefs and bask in the wonder of the creation blending rhythms of magic, creativity and love, then perhaps you will believe that dragons have always existed, and I have talked with the Dragon Mother.
In my mind's eye, I recalled every detail of her splendid form -- grace, elegance and beauty in her every movement. The woman known as the Dragon Mother was exquisite and refined, radiating the wisdom of the ages.
A thunderous roar jolted me out of my pleasant musings. A metallic screech sent me leaping to my feet. Terror grabbed me as I looked up into the fiery eyes and grimacing mouth of a ferocious golden dragon. The Dragon Mother had arrived.
What transpired was a journey to the In-Between where the Dragon Mother taught me about life's rhythms, the flowing universal forces, and the magic of dragons. They protect, they can destroy, and they may vanish for centuries, but they are always with us.
Come travel with me to the In-Between. A dream? A vision? Or real? As the sea-salted air blew the gossamer curtains, I knew.
