How to Be Alone (Storpocket)
avSara Maitland
ISBN: 9780230768086 - UTGIVEN: 2014-01Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom and individualism are more highly prized than ever before? Sara Maitland answers this question by exploring changing attitudes thro[...]
A Joyful Theology (Pocket)
avSara Maitland
ISBN: 9780806644738 - UTGIVEN: 2002-07For Sara Maitland, the Scriptures, tradition, and the creation are sources of God's greatest gift to us-the desire and the ability to know something about God. In A Joyful Theology, Maitland makes a lively exploration of creation in order to learn more about the Creator. What she finds is a God who [...]
How to Be Alone (Häftad)
avSara Maitland
ISBN: 9781250059024 - UTGIVEN: 2014-09IN THIS AGE OF CONSTANT CONNECTIVITY, LEARN HOW TO ENJOY SOLITUDE AND FIND HAPPINESS WITHOUT OTHERS.
Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is antisocial and some even find it sinister. Why is this so when autonomy, personal freedom, and individualism are more highly pr[...]
A Book of Silence (Häftad)
avSara Maitland
ISBN: 9781582436135 - UTGIVEN: 201009In her late forties, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, beautifully written book, Maitland describe[...]
From the Forest (Inbunden)
avSara Maitland
ISBN: 9781619020146 - UTGIVEN: 201211Fairy tales are one of our earliest cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient landscapes. Both evoke similar sensations: At times they are beautiful and magical, at others spooky and sometimes horrifying. Maitland argues that the terrain of these fairy tales are intimately connected to the[...]
A Book of Silence (Storpocket)
avSara Maitland
ISBN: 9781847081513 - UTGIVEN: 2009-08After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Australian bush, and the Isle of Skye. She interweaves these experiences with the h[...]
Gossip from the Forest (Inbunden)
avSara Maitland
ISBN: 9781847084293 - UTGIVEN: 2012-11Fairytales are one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, and forests one of our most ancient and primal landscapes. Both evoke a similar sensation in us - we find them beautiful and magical, but also spooky, sometimes horrifying. In this fascinating book, Maitland argues that the two forms[...]
Gossip from the Forest (Häftad)
avSara Maitland
ISBN: 9781847084309 - UTGIVEN: 2013-06A magical exploration of the ancient landscape of forests and the ancient genre of fairytales, drawing fascinating and surprising connections between the two, by the author of the bestselling A Book Of Silence[...]
Stilhedens væsen (Häftad)
avSara Maitland
ISBN: 9788790333287 - UTGIVEN: 2009Flere og flere mennesker længes efter mere stilhed i hverdagen, men ægte stilhed er meget andet og meget mere end fraværet af støj. Stilhed er en hel verden, der rummer meget glæde og er fuld af kraft, men er også et farlig landskab, man kan fare vild i. Det finder den britiske for[...]
En bok av tystnad (Pocket)
avSara Maitland
ISBN: 9789152633045 - UTGIVEN: 201008
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