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Dark Quetzal

Author : Katherine Roberts
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781718757998
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Dark Quetzal written by Katherine Roberts and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The final adventure in the award-winning Echorium Sequence. * Eleven years have passed since the Khizpriest's attempt to build a palace of dark crystal to break the power of the Echorium. A new generation of Singers is emerging, among them Kyarra - Frazhin's own lost daughter, raised on the Isle of Echoes by the Singers with no memory of her father. Frazhin hatches a final desperate plan to destroy the Echorium, and Kyarra is the only one who can stop him. She has the help of a beautiful boy-bird, who knows the secret of the yellow flowers that grow in the Quetzal Forest. But when she comes face to face with Frazhin, which will prove stronger: Kyarra's dark blood, or the Echorium's Songs? "Fast paced action and surprising plot twists... a satisfying conclusion." School Library Journal.

Dark Quetzal

Author : Katherine Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781417624072
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Dark Quetzal written by Katherine Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kyarra, a novice Singer, seeks to destroy evil and learn the truth about her mother and father.

Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate

Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292756569
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate written by Elizabeth Hill Boone and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In communities throughout precontact Mesoamerica, calendar priests and diviners relied on pictographic almanacs to predict the fate of newborns, to guide people in choosing marriage partners and auspicious wedding dates, to know when to plant and harvest crops, and to be successful in many of life's activities. As the Spanish colonized Mesoamerica in the sixteenth century, they made a determined effort to destroy these books, in which the Aztec and neighboring peoples recorded their understanding of the invisible world of the sacred calendar and the cosmic forces and supernaturals that adhered to time. Today, only a few of these divinatory codices survive. Visually complex, esoteric, and strikingly beautiful, painted books such as the famous Codex Borgia and Codex Borbonicus still serve as portals into the ancient Mexican calendrical systems and the cycles of time and meaning they encode. In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Hill Boone analyzes the entire extant corpus of Mexican divinatory codices and offers a masterful explanation of the genre as a whole. She introduces the sacred, divinatory calendar and the calendar priests and diviners who owned and used the books. Boone then explains the graphic vocabulary of the calendar and its prophetic forces and describes the organizing principles that structure the codices. She shows how they form almanacs that either offer general purpose guidance or focus topically on specific aspects of life, such as birth, marriage, agriculture and rain, travel, and the forces of the planet Venus. Boone also tackles two major areas of controversy—the great narrative passage in the Codex Borgia, which she freshly interprets as a cosmic narrative of creation, and the disputed origins of the codices, which, she argues, grew out of a single religious and divinatory system.

Birds of Venezuela

Author : David Ascanio
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472990323
Total Pages : 1893 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Birds of Venezuela written by David Ascanio and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 1893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new, comprehensive and fully illustrated field guide to the birds of Venezuela, covering all 1,400 species. Covering the sixth largest avifauna in the world, this important new guide is essential for anyone exploring the diverse habitats of this beautiful South American country as well as Guyana, northern Brazil and west Suriname. Birds of Venezuela - complete with authoritative text and superb colour plates - ensures that this top birding destination is accessible to all. This field guide has 248 colour plates illustrating more than 1,400 species, covering racial, sexual and seasonal plumage variations. Accompanying text is placed on facing pages for easy reference providing key information, voice and status of all species and subspecies found in the region, including Venezuela's 45 endemic species. Detailed colour distribution maps are provided for every species.

The Dark Tree

Author : Steven L. Isoardi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147802741X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Tree written by Steven L. Isoardi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s, pianist Horace Tapscott gave up a successful career in Lionel Hampton’s band and returned to his home in Los Angeles to found the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group that focused on providing community-oriented jazz and jazz training. Over the course of almost forty years, the Arkestra, together with the related Union of God’s Musicians and Artists Ascension collective, was at the forefront of the vital community-based arts movement in Black Los Angeles. Some three hundred artists—musicians, vocalists, poets, playwrights, painters, sculptors, and graphic artists—passed through these organizations, many ultimately remaining within the community and others moving on to achieve international fame. In The Dark Tree, Steven L. Isoardi draws on one hundred in-depth interviews with the Arkestra’s participants to tell the history of the important and largely overlooked community arts movement of Black Los Angeles. This revised and updated edition brings the story of the Arkestra up to date, as its ethos and aesthetic remain vital forces in jazz and popular music to this day.

Primeros Memoriales

Author : Bernardino de Sahagún
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806129099
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Primeros Memoriales written by Bernardino de Sahagún and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primeros Memoriales is here published for the first time in its entirety both in the original Nahuatl and in English translation. The volume follows the manuscript order reconstructed for the Primeros Memoriales by Francisco del Paso y Troncoso in his 1905-1907 facsimile edition of the collection of Sahaguntine manuscripts he called Codices Matritenses. During the 1960s, Thelma D. Sullivan, a Nahuatl scholar living in Mexico, began a paleographic transcription of the Primeros Memoriales, along with an English translation. After Sullivan's death in 1981, a group of her colleagues finished, enlarged, and annotated her project. This long-awaited publication makes available to specialists and interested laypersons alike an invaluable portion of the remarkable Sahaguntine treasure of information on sixteenth-century Aztec society.

The Legend Of Zip

Author : G A Zubia
Publisher : Sierra Estrella Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1736613618
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Legend Of Zip written by G A Zubia and published by Sierra Estrella Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enchanted land of the Sierra Estrella holds many secrets. The legend has passed from father to son and young Zip is mesmerized by them. When Achak, his father, disappears, the legend is set aside and the young boy leaves home in search of answers. He finds himself in the middle of the legend as he realizes a truth kept hidden from him by Achak and his mother, Marguerite. The Dark One knows the truth and works in earnest to keep Zip from his true purpose. He meets Ronnie and Maria, along with a shaman with a habit of disappearing when under attack, and, with their help, gains the courage to face his inner demons and the dark forces of the world before the moon covers the sun. The enchanted land of the Sierra Estrella holds many secrets. As the legends pass from generation to generation young Zip finds himself in the middle of the legend as he realizes a truth kept hidden from him by his late father. Through his journeys across the desert, Zip gains the courage to face his inner demons leading him to find his true purpose. True purpose lies within. Hidden in plain sight. It is meant to be found by looking into the light. The story of a young boy in search of his father. His journey takes him through the enchanted Bosque Mesquite to the summit of the Sierra Estrella. On the way he meets those who give him the strength to find his true purpose. A story that parallels the journey through life and the search one’s true purpose.

Birds of Ecuador

Author : Robin Restall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147297249X
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Birds of Ecuador written by Robin Restall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-18 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive field guide to the rich avifauna of Ecuador. This up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the birds of mainland Ecuador is a valuable resource for anyone exploring the mountains, forests and wetlands of this incredibly bird-rich country. With thousands of beautiful and detailed paintings, accompanied by concise descriptions and accurate maps, this is an indispensable guide to bird identification in Ecuador. It covers every species and most subspecies recorded in Ecuador, including migrants and vagrants, with accurate and up-to-date distribution maps. There are also 291 colour plates included, which illustrate more than 1,630 species, with text on facing pages for quick and easy reference. Concise text provides an overview of the species' identification, voice, habits, habitats, range, distribution and status.

Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion

Author : Pete Dunne
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544135687
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Pete Dunne's Essential Field Guide Companion written by Pete Dunne and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning birder and author of Birds of Prey, an authoritative, information-packed guide to distinguishing North American birds. In this book, bursting with more information than any field guide could hold, the well-known author and birder Pete Dunne introduces readers to the “Cape May School of Birding.” It's an approach to identification that gives equal or more weight to a bird's structure and shape and the observer's overall impression (often called GISS, for General Impression of Size and Shape) than to specific field marks. After determining the most likely possibilities by considering such factors as habitat and season, the birder uses characteristics such as size, shape, color, behavior, flight pattern, and vocalizations to identify a bird. The book provides an arsenal of additional hints and helpful clues to guide a birder when, even after a review of a field guide, the identification still hangs in the balance. This supplement to field guides shares the knowledge and skills that expert birders bring to identification challenges. Birding should be an enjoyable pursuit for beginners and experts alike, and Pete Dunne combines a unique playfulness with the work of identification. Readers will delight in his nicknames for birds, from the Grinning Loon and Clearly the Bathtub Duck to Bronx Petrel and Chicken Garnished with a Slice of Mango and a Dollop of Raspberry Sherbet.

Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide

Author : Miguel Lentino
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472981618
Total Pages : 2689 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide written by Miguel Lentino and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 2689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive identification guide dealing exclusively with the birds of this region. It covers all the species, including vagrants, found in Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. More than 2,300 species are described in depth in the text, describing geographical variation, identification, status, habitat, voice and taxonomy. This authoritative book will not only be an indispensable guide to the visiting birder, but also a vital tool for those engaged in work to conserve and study the avifauna of this region, which is of such importance to both the indigenous species and those which pass through on migration. This book is a companion to Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide - Plates and Maps, which forms Volume II of the set.

A Guide to the Birds of Colombia

Author : Steven L. Hilty
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691083728
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Birds of Colombia written by Steven L. Hilty and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing all of Colombia's birds, Steven Hilty and William Brown bring together information on one of the world's largest avifaunas-nearly 1,700 species. Over half of all the species of birds in South America are included, thus making the book useful in regions adjacent to Colombia, as well as in the country itself. The primary purpose of the work is to enable observers to identify the birds of the region, but it also provides detailed species accounts and will serve as an important handbook and reference volume. Fifty-six lavish color plates, thirteen halftone plates, and ninety-nine line drawings in the text illustrate over 85% of the species, including most of the resident birds. Notes on the facing-page of each place, and range maps of 1,475 species, facilitate identification. Written with the field observer in mind, the text gives special attention to comparisons of similar species, transcriptions of voices, and comments on behavior, status, and habitat. It also provides ranges, breeding data, and references. Notes outline taxonomic problems and briefly describe species that eventually may be found in Colombia. Introductory chapters and photographs highlight Colombia's geography, climate, and vegetation, and discuss migration and conservation questions, and the history of Colombian ornithology. Appendices contain a large bibliography, a section on birding locations, and coverage of two of Colombia's far-flung island territories, Isla San Andr s and Providencia. Maps depicting vegetation zones, political boundaries, national parks, and the most text localities are included.

Birds of Western Ecuador

Author : Nick Athanas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140088070X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Birds of Western Ecuador written by Nick Athanas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate photographic guide to the birds of western Ecuador Western Ecuador is famed for its astonishingly diverse birdlife, from colorful hummingbirds and outrageous toucans to more difficult groups like raptors, flycatchers, and ovenbirds. Here is the ultimate photographic guide to the spectacular birds of this region. Featuring nearly 1,500 stunning color photos of 946 species, this richly detailed and taxonomically sophisticated field guide will help you with even the toughest identification challenges. Species accounts, photos, and color distribution maps appear side by side, making it easier than ever to find what you are looking for, whether you are in the field or preparing for your trip. Features nearly 1,500 photos of 946 species Includes facing-page species accounts, photos, and maps Provides photos of multiple plumages for many species Helps you to differentiate between similar species

Travel Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Travel Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America

Author : Steve N. G. Howell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198540120
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America written by Steve N. G. Howell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-30 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America is astonishingly comprehensive, covering the identification, status, and distribution of all 1,070 birds species known from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, and western Nicaragua ... [T]he guide shows 750 species and includes many plumages never before depicted"--

Lord of the Dawn

Author : Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826351913
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Lord of the Dawn written by Rudolfo Anaya and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of Quetzalcóatl is the enduring epic myth of Mesoamerica. The gods create the universe, but man must carefully tend to the harmony of the world. Without spiritual attention to harmony, chaos may reign, destroying the universe and civilization. The ancient Mexicans, like other peoples throughout the world, wrestled with ideas and metaphors by which to know the Godhead and developed their own concepts about their relationship to the universe. Quetzalcóatl came to the Toltecs to teach them art, agriculture, peace, and knowledge. He was a redeemer god, and his story inspires, instructs, and entertains, as do all the great myths of the world. Now available in paperback, the Lord of the Dawn is Anaya’s exploration of the cosmology and the rich and complex spiritual thought of his Native American ancestors. The story depicts the daily world of man, the struggle between the peacemakers and the warmongers, and the world of the gods and their role in the life of mankind.

The Fair God, or: The Last of the 'Tzins

Author : Lew Wallace
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Fair God, or: The Last of the 'Tzins written by Lew Wallace and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a historical novel about the conquest of Mexico. "The Fair God or The Last of the Tzins" is a delightful story about the Spanish Conquistadors and the Aztecs. The conquest of Mexico by Cortez is a central theme, and this unique historical novel recounts the fall of the Aztec Empire.

Youth Online

Author : Angela A. Thomas
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820478548
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book Youth Online written by Angela A. Thomas and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Online chronicles the stories of young people from several countries - the US, Australia, Canada, Switzerland, and Holland - and their interactions in online communities over a seven-year period. It examines how young people construct their identities in various social contexts: social, fantasy, role-playing; and for various social purposes: leadership, learning, power, rebellion and romance. It explores the ways youth are deploying both visual and literary cues to develop a full sense of presence online and to effectively communicate with their peers. Using methods of textual, visual, and socio-psychological analysis, this book illuminates the ways in which young people are making sense of their own identities and their place within broader communities.