Authors:Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann,
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: one, silence, noisy, world, natural, man, square, inch, search
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-03-31
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1416559086
ISBN-13: 9781416559085

In the visionary tradition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, One Square Inch of Silence alerts us to beauty that we take for granted and sounds an urgent environmental alarm. Natural silence is our nation’s fastest-disappearing resource, warns Emmy-winning acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, who has made it his mission to record and preserve it in all its variety—before these soul-soothing terrestrial soundscapes vanish completely in the ever-rising din of man-made noise. Recalling the great works on nature written by John Muir, John McPhee, and Peter Matthiessen, this beautifully written

Authors:James W. Brown, Lawrence D. Stokes,
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: silence, world, war, vercors, second, french, sea, mer, novel, resistance
Number of Pages: 102
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0854963782
ISBN-13: 9780854963782

This first bilingual edition of France’s most enduring wartime novel introduces Vercors’s famous tale to a generation without personal experience of World War II who may not be able to read it in its original language. Readers are assisted with a historical and literary introduction, explanatory notes, a glossary of French terms and a select bibliography.

Author: Sue Grafto
Publisher: Pan Publishing
Keywords: silence
Number of Pages: 562
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0330438883
ISBN-13: 9780330438889

This is the nineteenth novel in Sue Grafton’s ever popular "alphabet" series featuring PI Kinsey Millhone. Just after Independence Day in July 1953 Violet Sullivan, a local good time girl living in Serena Station Southern California, drives off in her brand new Chevy and is never seen again. Left behind is her young daughter, Daisy, and Violet’s impetuous husband, Foley, who had been persuaded to buy his errant wife the car only days before ...Now, thirty-five years later, Daisy wants closure. Reluctant to open such an old cold case Kinsey Millhone agrees to spend five days investi

Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: Vanguard Pre
Keywords: silence
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-06-23
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1593155239
ISBN-13: 9781593155230

Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do.The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let the true employer know their identities, finishing the job is no longer enough. Their fee just went up. And now they must double-cross the man who wants Wendy dead before he can double-cross them—if the

Author: Robert Sardello
Publisher: Goldenstone Pre
Keywords: silence
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $17.98
ISBN-10: 0977982521
ISBN-13: 9780977982523

"Whatever Sardello touches breaks open with startling new meaning."--James Hillman, author of The Soul’s Code and The Force of Character: In SILENCE, Robert Sardello gives us nothing less than a gorgeous sustained epiphany on Silence itself. From the Trials of St Anthony to Anthroposophy, Depth Psychology and Phenomenology, Sardello’s eruditon is always in evidence, never intrusive, for this is a work that is also an experience. It is the palpable entrance into Silence as it unfolds, offering each and every reader an intimation of it’s secrets. . . .

Author: Thomas Perry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Keywords: silence
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 015101289X
ISBN-13: 9780151012893

Six years ago, Jack Till helped Wendy Harper disappear. But now her ex-boyfriend and former business partner, Eric Fuller, is being framed for her presumed murder in an effort to smoke her out, and Till must find her before tango-dancing assassins Paul and Sylvie Turner do. The Turners are merely hired to do a job, though, and prefer to remain anonymous. When they find that a middleman has let the true employer know their identities, finishing the job is no longer enough. Their fee just went up. And now they must double-cross the man who wants Wendy dead before he can double-cross them—if

Author: James P. Carse
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Keywords: god, silence
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1564553876
ISBN-13: 9781564553874

Carse’s perceptive and engaging guide offers four searching meditations that address our most deeply felt questions about prayer. Presenting prayer as a journey of discovery, Carse allows us to consider these questions and others while he sets forth different paths in our search for meaningful prayer.