A Bird that Flies with Two Wings

A Bird that Flies with Two Wings
Author: Miranda Forsyth
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1921536799

This book investigates the problems and possibilities of plural legal orders through an in-depth study of the relationship between the state and customary justice systems in Vanuatu. It argues that there is a need to move away from the current state-centric approach to law reform in the South Pacific region, and instead include all state and non-state legal orders in development strategies and dialogue. The book also presents a typology of models of engagement between state and non-state legal systems, and describes a process for analysing which of these models would be most advantageous for any country in the South Pacific region, and beyond.

If I Had Two Wings: Stories

If I Had Two Wings: Stories
Author: Randall Kenan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1324005475

Finalist for 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Mingling the earthy with the otherworldly, these ten stories chronicle ineffable events in ordinary lives. In Kenan’s fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted by a hog, and an elderly woman turns unwitting miracle worker. A retired plumber travels to Manhattan, where Billy Idol sweeps him into his entourage. An architect who lost his famous lover to AIDS reconnects with a high-school fling. Howard Hughes seeks out the woman who once cooked him butter beans. Shot through with humor and seasoned by inventiveness and maturity, Kenan riffs on appetites of all kinds, on the eerie persistence of history, and on unstoppable lovers and unexpected salvations. If I Had Two Wings is a rich chorus of voices and visions, dreams and prophecies, marked by physicality and spirit. Kenan’s prose is nothing short of wondrous.

On the Wing

On the Wing
Author: Dr. David E. Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0199996776

"On the Wing is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the evolution of flight in all four groups of powered flyers: insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats."--Book jacket.

Two Wings to Fly Away

Two Wings to Fly Away
Author: Penny Mickelbury
Publisher: Bywater Books
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612941508

In 1856 Philadelphia, runaway slave Genie Oliver uses her dress shop as a front for her work with the Underground Railroad; and reluctant heiress Abby Read runs a rooming house not just because she hates the life of the idle rich society woman, but because she has no intention of ever marrying a man. When the daughter of Abby's free black servant is grabbed by rogue slave catchers, an unlikely group of people come together, first out of necessity, and then, gradually, in friendship. And in the case of Abby and Genie, something much more.

Baby Birds

Baby Birds
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780778739500

Introduces the physical characteristics, behaviors, habitat, and life cycle of a baby bird.

New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics

New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics
Author: Hussein Abdul-Raof
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2017-08-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 131736855X

New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics provides a panoramic insight into the Qur'anic landscape fenced by innate syntactic, semantic and stylistic landmarks where context and meaning have closed ranks to impact morphological form in order to achieve variegated illocutionary forces. It provides a comprehensive account of the recurrent syntactic, stylistic, morphological, lexical, cultural, and phonological voids that are an iceberg looming in the horizon of Qur'anic genre. It is an invaluable resource for contrastive linguistics, translation studies, and corpus linguistics. Among the linguistic topics are: syntactic structures, ellipsis, synonymy, polysemy, semantic redundancy, incongruity, and contrastiveness, selection restriction rule, componential features, collocation, cyclical modification, foregrounding, backgrounding, pragmatic functions and categories of shift, pragmatic distinction between verbal and nominal sentences, morpho-semantic features of lexical items, context-sensitive word and phrase order, vowel points and phonetic variation. The value of European theoretical linguistics to the analysis of the Qur’anic text at a macro level has been overlooked in the academic literature to date and this book addresses this research gap, providing a key resource for students and scholars of linguistics and specifically working in Arabic or Qur’anic Studies.

How Do Birds Fly?

How Do Birds Fly?
Author: Katy Pike
Publisher: Blake Education
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781865093109

Following a factual recount, students learn how it is that birds can fly.

Faith Walking with Jesus

Faith Walking with Jesus
Author: Elmer Towns
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2023-05-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0768471753

Faith Walking With Jesus Well-known and beloved author Elmer Towns answers these life-empowering and spirit-enriching questions: What is walking by faith? Who can walk by faith and how can it happen? Can anyone walk by faith if they don't know what faith means? Why do you need both faith and works? What does it mean to take a "leap of faith"? How can you grow your faith? Faith-walking is not faith running or faith standing—it is walking by faith moment by moment daily. How is that accomplished? Each of the 7 chapters in Faith Walking With Jesus reveal truths gleaned from years exploring the Bible with the Holy Spirit, living life with Jesus, and sharing the blessings and experiences of co-founding of Liberty University with Jerry Falwell. The author testifies of faith in God’s promises, “Liberty University began with 154 students that first year. Today Liberty University has 120,000 students and a financial budget of $1.2 billion a year.” Faith Walking With Jesus also presents 49 biblically sound devotionals written to encourage and instruct you how to faith-walk. Plus, 7 comprehensive lessons not only help strengthen your exciting new or newly expanded walk of faith, but provide ways to teach others this lifestyle as well.