Böcker av John Burns

The next book in the highly successful Kinfolk series, The Kinfolk Garden invites readers inside 30 spaces that blur the lines between indoors and out, from jungle-like rooftops to sprawling backyards.

The next book in the highly successful Kinfolk series, exploring the art of travel across five continents.

An unforgettable journey to breathtaking destinations around the world. Venture beyond the familiar with Kinfolk Journeys, a celebration of inspiring and sustainable ways to travel slower and see the world anew. Take a subterranean tour of Tashkent, join a local mailman on his delivery route through rural New Zealand or sail the high seas en route to Antarctica—these stories will transform the way you travel, no matter the locale or distance. Kinfolk Journeys is filled with ideas for day trips, weekend breaks and grander adventures that center around slower modes of transport—road, rail, sea and trail—and encourage us to be our own guides along the way. Featuring lush photography, practical advice and thoughtful reflections on responsible travel, the eighteen stories in this collection take us to some of the world’s most extraordinary landscapes, from Namibia’s daring and desolate coastline to the most remote reaches of Australia. Guided by the belief that travel is as much a state of mind as an action or itinerary, Kinfolk Journeys is about exploring our world in a way that not only fosters thoughtful perspectives on the places we visit but also deepens our relationship with home once the journey is over.

Jesus Christ identified seven churches begun by John the Revelator to address what is wrong with the church he began on Pentecost. One of those churches is Thyatira. This is the Greek name of the wife of Nimrod who had a Babylonian name of Semiramis. She is an adulterer, and she introduced child sacrifice into human religious practices. Her practices migrated from Babylon to ancient Israel and the land of Canaan the descendants of Abraham were promised. These ancient fertility cults were eventually incorporated into Jewish worship under Jeroboam I. Ahab is his grandson. Ahab marries the princess of Tyre and the daughter of the high priest of the Sidonian religion which had adopted the pantheon of Babylon and gave it a Phoenician touch. Jezebel is our villain, and she is our example of what church was never to become. Jezebel set up Phallic symbols in Samaria and throughout the kingdom of the north. She believed in sacrificing babies on superheated fertility altars erected in Canaan. She convinces her husband, the King of Israel, to go along. Jezebel begins her career corrupting Ahab by starting an inquisition upon the family of Naboth, a dresser of vines and a shepherd in Israel. She wipes out his entire bloodline over a piece of land. That land is still being fought over by the descendants of Ahab and Jezebel in Israel today. Ahab was a man who once believed in God's plan to redeem man to himself through the sacrifice of his own son. A little leaven in the life of Jeroboam had now turned the whole lump of Israel toward sin. The practices of Babylon had made their way into ancient monotheistic worship in Israel. Fertility practices venerated by pagans were now in the house of God on earth. Nothing has changed. Today these practices are being venerated in Christian houses where they proclaim God exists. Join me as we discover how Jesus Christ's church has allowed for the same practices here in America, and I fear tradition has replaced Bible truth in a way that hinders the true worship of Jesus Christ as King and Savior. The road goes on forever and the party never ends. He was crucified upon a cross of wood yet he created the hill upon which it stood.He is alive forevermore and he is returning for his virgin bride very soon. Enjoy Becoming Jezebel.

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Poets writing in Spanish by the end of the twentieth century had to contend with globalization as a backdrop for their literary production. They could embrace it, ignore it or potentially re-imagine the role of the poet altogether. This book examines some of the efforts of Spanish-language poets to cope with the globalizing cultural economy of the late twentieth century. This study looks at the similarities and differences in both text and context of poets, some major and some minor, writing in Chile, Mexico, the Mexican American community and Spain. These poets write in a variety of styles, from highly experimental approaches to poetry to more traditional methods of writing. Included in this study are Chileans Ra l Zurita and Cecilia Vicu a, Spaniards Leopoldo Mar a Panero and Luis Garc a Montero, Mexicans Silvia Tomasa Rivera and Guillermo G mez Pe a, and Mexican American U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera. Some of them embrace (and are even embraced by) media both old and new whereas others eschew it. Some continue their work in the vein of national traditions while others become difficult to situate within any one single national tradition. Exploring the varieties of strategies these writers employ, this book makes it clear that Spanish-language poets have not been exempt from the process of globalization. Individually, these poets have been studied to varying degrees. Globalization has been studied extensively from a variety of disciplinary approaches, particularly in the context of the Latin American region and Spain. However, it is a relative rarity to see poets being studied, as they are in this work, in terms of their relationship to globalization. Taken as a sample or snapshot of writing tendencies in Latin American and Spanish poetry of the late twentieth century, this book studies them as part of a greater circuit of cultural production by establishing their literary as well as extra-literary genealogies and connections. It situates these poets in terms of their writing itself as well as in terms of their literary traditions, their methods of contending with neoliberal economic models and global information flows from the television and Internet. Although many literary critics attempt to study the connections and relationships between poetry and the world beyond the page, few monographs go about it the way this one does. It takes a transatlantic approach to contemporary Spanish-language poetry, focusing on poets on poets from Spain and the American continent, emphasizing their connections, commonalities and differences across increasingly porous borders in the age of information. The relationship between text and context is explored with a cultural studies approach, more often associated with media studies than with literary studies. Literature is not treated as a privileged object of isolated study, but rather as a system of ideas and images that is deeply interwoven with other forms of human expression that have arisen in the last decades of the twentieth century. The result is a suggestive analysis of the figure of the poet in the broader globalized marketplace of cultural goods and ideas. Contemporary Hispanic Poets: Cultural Production in the Global, Digital Age is an important book for library collections in Spanish, Latin American and Iberian Studies, Chicano Studies.

John Burns' SCOTNOTE study guide examines the social and philosophical backgrounds of Spence's work, exploring the ties between the surface events and the deeper currents beneath. These notes are suitable for senior school pupils and students at all levels.

John Burns's SCOTNOTE study guide examines Neil Gunn's most famous novel, The Silver Darlings. The social, cultural and political background of the novel is examined, and its themes and characters explored. This guide is suitable for senior school pupils and students at all levels.