Автор: McFarland, Philip (Author) Название: Hawthorne in Concord ISBN: 0802142052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780802142054 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17170.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: On his wedding day in 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne escorted his new wife, Sophia, to their first home, the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. There, enriched by friendships with Thoreau and Emerson, he enjoyed an idyllic time. But three years later, unable to make enough money from his writing, he returned ingloriously, with his wife and infant daughter, to live in his mother's home in Salem. In 1853 Hawthorne moved back to Concord, now the renowned author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. Eager to resume writing fiction at the scene of his earlier happiness, he assembled a biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce, who was running for president. When Pierce won the election, Hawthorne is appointed the lucrative post of consul in Liverpool. Coming home from Europe in 1860, Hawthorne settled down in Concord once more. He tried to take up writing one last time, but deteriorating health finds him withdrawing into private life. In Hawthorne in Concord, acclaimed historian Philip McFarland paints a revealing portrait of this well-loved American author during three distinct periods of his life, spent in the bucolic village of Concord, Massachusetts.
Автор: McFarland Gerald W. Название: The Brujo`s Way ISBN: 0865349444 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780865349445 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 24780.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Don Carlos Buenaventura, a powerful brujo in his sixth life, practices a benign form of sorcery based on his motto "Do no harm." His great powers derive from intensive training in heightened awareness akin to Eastern yogic disciplines rather than from incantations, spells, or aid from demon allies. He is accidentally born in 1684 into an aristocratic Catholic family in Mexico City, a social and religious milieu in which his identity as a brujo, if known, would put him in mortal danger. In repressing any sign that he is other than an ordinary young man, he forgets both his brujo powers and who he really is. Exiled at nineteen to the remote frontier town of Santa Fe, New Mexico, he is exposed during the journey northward to wild desert landscapes that awaken his forgotten powers. In Santa Fe he resumes his conventional persona to protect what he now recognizes is his true identity and is caught in the tension of trying to live two lives. An arduous return trip to Mexico City and back further intensifies his brujo powers, leading to many adventures, including dangerous encounters with an evil sorcerer, an Apache war party, and a woman devotee of an ancient Aztec goddess, and also stimulates his recall, in dreams, of his brujo training in past lives. A chance meeting in Mexico City with a woman trained in Tantric spirituality is life-changing, opening him to other dimensions of consciousness. Returning to Santa Fe, he faces the task of learning to unite his Brujo's Way with his new spiritual path. A native Californian, Gerald W. McFarland received his doctorate in U.S. history from Columbia University (1965) and taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for forty-four years. During that time he published four books in his field. He received many honors, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; the Colonial Dames of America cited his book, "A Scattered People: An American Family Moves West," as one of the three best books in American history published in 1985. He and his wife live in rural Western Massachusetts.
Автор: McFarland Alex Название: 10 Answers for Skeptics ISBN: 0764215140 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780764215148 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Today`s skeptics are looking for authenticity, integrity, and straightforward truth. In this book, you`ll learn how to answer intimidating questions, identify the root issue behind those questions, and dismantle the "spiritual bombshells" dropped by nonbelievers.
Название: Scott McFarland: Snow, Shacks, Streets, Shrubs ISBN: 3863355342 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783863355340 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 68910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Offers fifteen musicologists from five countries that present findings and observations concerning production, distribution and use of music manuscripts and prints in seventeenth-century Europe. In this title, emphasis is laid on Dueben Collection the largest music collections of seventeenth-century Europe, preserved at Uppsala University Library.
