Bøger af Michael Collier

Misfortune seems to find Abigail Laurence at every turn. She finds living in her hometown of Wimberley, Texas both a comfort and a challenge. Since her childhood home perished in a fire she is now trying to make good memories in her new one. Her business is doing well but her relationship with Luke is going stale. She is devoted to him but desires another. When tragedy strikes again she pulls herself up and carries on but how much can one woman endure? She wants more but doesn't realize having it comes with a price and everything is not always as it seems.

The material in this booklet seeks to explore and apply the many themes expressed in the writing of James. As possibly the earliest book in the New Testament, it reveals the values, activities and problems of the first Christians. What is surprising is the similarity with many of the issues we face today. These ten discussion outlines are intended for small group meetings, and include questions on each section to guide the group's participants in applying the lessons and warnings to their own lives and church situations. Leader's notes are provide for each discussion.

The award-winning poet Michael Collier's elegiac fifth collection is haunted by spectral figures and a strange, vivid chorus of birds: From a cardinal that crashes into a window to a gathering of turkey vultures, Collier engages birds as myth-makers and lively messengers, carrying memories from lost friends. The mystery of death and the vital absence it creates are the real subjects of the book. Collier juxtaposes moments of quotidian revelation, like waking to the laughing sounds of bird song, with the drama of Greek tragedy, taking on voices from Medea. As Vanity Fair praised, his poems ?tread nimbly between moments of everyday transcendence and spiritual pining.?

A collection of poetry spanning the career of distinguished poet Michael Collier.

A cycle of pathbreaking poems about the history of a family set against the backdrop of the last century.

No one in America would deny that the weather has changed drastically in our lifetime. We read about El NiAo and La NiAa, but how many of us really understand the big picture beyond our own front windows or even the headlines on the Weather Channel? Hydrologists and climatologists have long been aware of the role of regional climate in predicting floods and understanding droughts. But with our growing sense of a variable climate, it is important to reassess these natural disasters not as isolated events but as related phenomena. This book shows that floods and droughts don't happen by accident but are the products of patterns of wind, temperature, and precipitation that produce meteorologic extremes. It introduces the mechanics of global weather, puts these processes into the longer-term framework of climate, and then explores the evolution of climatic patterns through time to show that floods and droughts, once considered isolated "acts of God," are often related events driven by the same forces that shape the entire atmosphere. Michael Collier and Robert Webb offer a fresh, insightful look at what we know about floods, droughts, and climate variability--and their impact on people--in an easy-to-read text, with dramatic photos, that assumes no previous understanding of climate processes. They emphasize natural, long-term mechanisms of climate change, explaining how floods and droughts relate to climate variability over years and decades. They also show the human side of some of the most destructive weather disasters in history. As Collier and Webb ably demonstrate, "climate" may not be the smooth continuum of meteorologic possibilities we supposed but rather the sum of multipleprocesses operating both regionally and globally on different time scales. Amid the highly politicized discussion of our changing environment, "Floods, Droughts, and Climate Change" offers a straightforward scientific account of weather crises that can help students and general readers better understand the causes of climate variability and the consequences for their lives.

Includes essays on an expansive list of subjects, among them the literary correspondence of William Maxwell; the meaning of the author's own role as poet laureate of the state of Maryland; the journals of Louise Bogan, and how they reveal Bogan's struggle with her own personal fears as well as the reconstruction of herself as a writer; and more.

Poems with a lyrical compression of language-precise, and intensely felt