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Book Synopsis Journey Down a Rainbow by : John Boynton Priestley
Download or read book Journey Down a Rainbow written by John Boynton Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wise, witty and highly original book, Mr. and Mrs. Priestley record their impressions and opinions after a recent visit to the American Southwest. In the course of their separate excursions, Jacquetta Hawkes took the high road to Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico to explore the ancient culture of the Pueblo, Navaho and Zuni Indians, their arts and crafts and their immemorial rites. J.B. Priestley took the low road to Dallas and Ft. Worth to investigate the glaringly new cities, the material prosperity and the neon-lighted, mass-produced world which exist there--but as Mr. Priestley points out, are not confined to Texas or, for that matter, even to the United States. The differences between these two ways of life--the earliest and the latest on this continent--and the inferences to be drawn from their uneasy coexistence are strikingly presented in this delightful collaboration. In provocative contrast to the modern world which Mr. Priestley describes with wit and candid good humor, are the ancient Indian ceremonies, the desert landscapes, the communities of Santa Fe and Los Alamos of which Miss Hawkes writes vividly and significantly. The authors' purpose, which was to observe man--on the one hand in a primitive society such as still exists in New Mexico, and on the other in the booming technocracy of the mid-twentieth century--is well served by an archaeologist who is also a poet, and a novelist who is as well a student of man as a social animal. Journey Down a Rainbow, made up of the Priestley's spontaneous and frank exchange of ideas and impressions, will give Texans, and their fellow Americans alike, a fresh eye for the Southwest as a source of our prehistoric roots and as the prime example of the modern world in the making. The book is sure to disturb as well as entertain its readers.
Book Synopsis Journey to Rainbow Island by : Christie Hsiao
Download or read book Journey to Rainbow Island written by Christie Hsiao and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Yu-ning thinks her perfect life on Rainbow Island will never end—until a nasty dragon called the Obsidigon returns from beyond the grave. Now her beloved island is in flames, her best friend has been kidnapped, and the island’s Sacred Crystals have been stolen. To make matters worse, she must venture into the dark corners of the world to uncover secrets best ignored, find a weapon thought long destroyed, and recapture seven sacred stones—without being burned to a crisp by a very angry dragon. With the help of her master teacher, Metatron, Yu-ning embarks on a dangerous journey to overcome not only the darkness attacking her home, but also the scars of sadness that mark her own heart. And while most people just see a normal kid, Metatron—and a few other unlikely allies—pledge their lives to the dark-eyed little girl with a magic bow and a crooked grin.
Book Synopsis The Serpent and the Rainbow by : Wade Davis
Download or read book The Serpent and the Rainbow written by Wade Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist. In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti—from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti’s countryside. The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.
Book Synopsis The Vision of J.B. Priestley by : Roger Fagge
Download or read book The Vision of J.B. Priestley written by Roger Fagge and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intellectual biography, following the development of Priestley's thought from his engagement with social themes to his subsequent disillusion in the post-war period.
Download or read book Little Angel's Journey written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young angel in heaven longs to live on Earth, where a mother and father wait for their new baby to be born. Little Angel waits through the seasons, gathers gifts from the sun, moon, and stars, and is then brought to Earth by Great Angel.
Book Synopsis The Norton Dictionary of Modern Thought by : Alan Bullock
Download or read book The Norton Dictionary of Modern Thought written by Alan Bullock and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly four thousand entries cover terms in all disciplines contributed by experts in each field, with suggestions for further reading.
Book Synopsis Global West, American Frontier by : David M. Wrobel
Download or read book Global West, American Frontier written by David M. Wrobel and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counter narrative to the nation’s romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention. Prior to the professionalization of academic disciplines, the reading public gained much of its knowledge about the world from travel writing. Travel writers found a wide and respectful audience for their reports on history, geography, and the natural world, in addition to reporting on aboriginal cultures before the advent of anthropology as a discipline. Although in recent decades western historians have paid little attention to travel writing, Wrobel demonstrates that this genre in fact offers an important and rich understanding of the American West—one that extends and complicates a simple reading of the West that promotes the notions of Manifest Destiny or American exceptionalism. Wrobel finds counterpoints to the mythic West of the nineteenth century in such varied accounts as George Catlin’s Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium (1852), Richard Francis Burton’s The City of the Saints (1861), and Mark Twain’s Following the Equator (1897), reminders of the messy and contradictory world that people navigated in the past much as they do in the present. His book is a testament to the instructive ways in which the best travel writers have represented the West.
Book Synopsis British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960: Postwar by : Gill Plain
Download or read book British Literature in Transition, 1940-1960: Postwar written by Gill Plain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.
Book Synopsis Fashioning England and the English by : Rahel Orgis
Download or read book Fashioning England and the English written by Rahel Orgis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how literary texts envision England and respond to discourses and conceptions of Englishness and the English nation, especially in relation to gender and language. The essays discuss texts from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and bear witness to changing views of England and the English, highlighting the importance of religion, economy, landscape, the spectre of the “other” and language in this discourse. The volume pays attention to women writers’ reflection on the nation and the roles female figures play in male writers’ visions of nationhood. It brings into conversation less well-known voices like those of Osbern Bokenham, Thomas Deloney, Eleanor Davies and Jacquetta Hawkes with canonical authors—William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf—and opens a space for exploring the interplay of dominant and variant voices in the fashioning of England.
Book Synopsis Seth’S’ Journey by : Barbara Jean Cline
Download or read book Seth’S’ Journey written by Barbara Jean Cline and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seths Journey is primarily for ages 5 and up, yet it should attract children of all ages and their parents. Filled with fantasy and adventure, and rich with spiritual overtones and reassurances, it tells the story of a boy who dies at a very young age. In dreamlike, almost mythical terms, the book begins and ends in heaven, with the middle section describing Seths life on earth. Despite handling a topic that could be difficult for children to read about, the book is comforting rather than scary and is stocked with playful characters and gentle humor. Its lyrical mixture of prose and poetry with Seths earth life told in first person and almost entirely in rhyme makes it a wonderful book to read aloud. This book intended to reassure terminally ill children that their death is not an end but part of an endless journey; to explain in words they can understand the meaning and purpose of their short life; and to comfort them with the knowledge that they are loved and protected always by a Higher Spirit. It provides the children the opportunity to asked questions of their hidden fears from the reader. It offers a joyful vision of heaven and shows how being born and dying are just like putting on a different garment for a brand new experience. The book is beneficial reading for all children in that it helps them see dying as part of the universal cycle. And it will benefit many parents by reinforcing their hopes about the hereafter and a divine protective spirit, and by strengthening their belief that their child is now safe.
Book Synopsis A Journey Down Melody Lane by : Raju Bharatan
Download or read book A Journey Down Melody Lane written by Raju Bharatan and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindi film song has held millions spellbound for nearly eight decades. In this unputdownable ‘labour of love’, India’s leading film song historian, Raju Bharatan, delves deep into his treasure trove to tell us how singing is all about romancing, how composing is all about feelings, how the twain, stardom and songdom, do meet to make the vintage film number a part of the nation’s psyche. He reconstructs song happenings over the last sixty years or so to condense the emotion and passion going into legendary star hook-ups, showing us how with the pairing comes the vibe, with the vibe comes the tune, and with the tune unfolds cinema that is a ‘Madhuballad’ all the way. This volume also describes the creative inputs of music directors, lyricists and singers that go into the making of a Hindi film song. It is a compendium that no one can afford to miss! Raju Bharatan is popularly recognized as the last word on film music in India – as the only one physically there ‘on the scene’ through the decades. His knowledge of Hindustani cinesangeet is matched only by his grip on Indian cricket. He now packs fifty years of musical lore into a work sure to command a niche on your bookshelf.
Book Synopsis Advertising A New Approach (RLE Advertising) by : Walter Taplin
Download or read book Advertising A New Approach (RLE Advertising) written by Walter Taplin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Taplin here presents the first fruits of his exhaustive enquiry into the causes of this massive feature of contemporary life. Advertising has deeper and more interesting sources than the mere desire of manufacturers to secure markets, or of high-pressure salesmen to secure commissions. Taplin explores the nature of human wants, examines the functions and limitations of information, and distinguishes the good from the bad in the arts of persuasion. His approach to the subject is indeed a new one, and of the greatest value to all who wish to understand one of the most powerful forces of the day. First published in 1960.
Book Synopsis The Journey Begins by : Catherine Mae Clifford
Download or read book The Journey Begins written by Catherine Mae Clifford and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journey Begins is a book based on our walk through healing and deliverance. Throughout the book trials, tribulations, and testing are parallel though hikes taken in the mountains with insight as to what is really happening. The whole book is designed to draw one closer to God. Catherine Mae has been saved since April 18, 1990 and has walked through many deep valleys through her life. Abuse was part of her life and she was almost overcome with anorexia/bulimia until the Lord called her to Himself. Catherine knows the heartaches of divorce, being co-dependent and having a course of self-destruction set in her life. When Jesus called her to Himself, her life seemed completely out of control and totally destroyed. Once she called on the Lord, He began to restore, rebuild and renew every area that had been broken in her life. Lies of the enemy were replaced with God's truth about who she was to HIM, and from that faithful day in April 1990, all things indeed became new. She is married and has 6 children and 4 grandchildren. God has blessed her with the privilege of serving on a team as a teacher/praise and worship leader in three local prisons and a cell-to-cell ministry on death row. She led Kay Author and Beth Moore Bible studies and served as worship leader at Women's Aglow local chapter. Catherine's message is that God is faithful, sovereign and uses everything we go through for His glory, for our good and to help rebuild others. We serve an awesome GOD! Joseph puts the message best in Genesis 50:20 NIV: You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. May God be praised!
Download or read book C.G. Jung written by William J. Schoenl and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Dr. William Schoenl's extensive research into Carl Jung's unpublished correspondence, this work illuminates the humanity of Jung and his associates Mary Mellon and J.B. Priestley. Jung's letters to Mary Mellon clearly show that he was anti-Nazi--despite an FBI file on him. Also, the book provides an authentic portrayal of life in Switzerland during World War II.
Book Synopsis A Journey in Southern Siberia by : Jeremiah Curtin
Download or read book A Journey in Southern Siberia written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Socialist Sixties by : Anne E. Gorsuch
Download or read book The Socialist Sixties written by Anne E. Gorsuch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A very engaging collection of essays that adds much to an evolving literature on the social history of the Soviet Union and broader socialist societies.” —Choice The 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) are the springboard for exploring global interconnections and cultural cross-pollination between communist and capitalist countries and within the communist world. Themes explored include flows of people and media; the emergence of a flourishing youth culture; sharing of songs, films, and personal experiences through tourism and international festivals; and the rise of a socialist consumer culture and an esthetics of modernity. Challenging traditional categories of analysis and periodization, this book brings the sixties problematic to Soviet studies while introducing the socialist experience into scholarly conversations traditionally dominated by First World perspectives.
Book Synopsis The Triumph of the Moon by : Ronald Hutton
Download or read book The Triumph of the Moon written by Ronald Hutton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'a brilliant history' The Sunday Times 'makes for riveting reading' The Independent Modern pagan witchcraft is arguably the only fully-formed religion England has given the world, and has now spread across four continents. This second edition of The Triumph of the Moon extensively revises the first full-scale scholarly study of modern pagan witchcraft. Ronald Hutton examines the nature and development of this religion, and offers a history of attitudes to witchcraft, paganism and magic in British society since 1800. Its pages reveal village cunning folk, Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons, and members of rural secret societies. We also find some of the leading figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets to W. B. Yeats, D. H. Lawrence and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the public world since 1950. Thriller writers like Dennis Wheatley, and films and television programmes, get similar coverage, as does tabloid journalism. The material is by its nature often sensational, and care is taken throughout to distinguish fact from fantasy, in a manner not previously applied to most of the stories involved. Meticulously researched, The Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into an aspect of modern cultural history which has attracted sensational publicity but has hitherto been little understood. This edition incorporates new research carried out by the author as well as research by others who have been inspired by this book over the twenty years since its first publication.
