The Truth about Stories

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Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 0887846963
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)

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Book Synopsis The Truth about Stories by : Thomas King

Download or read book The Truth about Stories written by Thomas King and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Mozart Reimagined

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781329610491
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Mozart Reimagined by : Tyson Vick

Download or read book Mozart Reimagined written by Tyson Vick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mozart Reimagined brings a fresh new perspective to the operas of renowned classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Nearly one hundred photographs by artist Tyson Vick illustrate scenes from each and every one of Mozart's theatrical works. Every image is lushly costumed and gorgeously staged, vividly bringing the stories and music of Mozart to life. Mozart Reimagined promises to be the most informative, humorous and entertaining book you will find about Mozart! Whether you love opera, hate opera or don't know a thing about opera, you will be positively yearning to listen to a Mozart opera after reading Mozart Reimagined.

Sufferance

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443463124
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Sufferance written by Thomas King and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremiah Camp, a.k.a. the Forecaster, can look into the heart of humanity and see the patterns that create opportunities and profits for the rich and powerful. Problem is, Camp has looked one too many times, has seen what he hadn’t expected to see and has come away from the abyss with no hope for himself or for the future. So Jeremiah does what any intelligent, sensitive person would do. He runs away. Goes into hiding in a small town, at an old residential school on an even smaller Indian reserve with no phone, no Internet, no television. With the windows shut, the door locked, the mailbox removed to discourage any connection with the world, he feels safe at last. Except nobody told the locals that they should leave Jeremiah alone. And then his past comes calling. Ash Locken, head of the Locken Group, the multinational consortium that Jeremiah has fled, arrives on his doorstep with a simple proposition. She wants our hero to formulate one more forecast, and she’s not about to take no for an answer. Before he left the Locken empire, Jeremiah had put together a list of twelve names, every one a billionaire. The problem is the people on the list are dying at an alarming and unnatural rate. And Ash Locken wants to know why. A sly and satirical look at the fractures in modern existence, Sufferance is a bold and provocative novel about the social and political consequences of the inequality created by privilege and power—and what we might do about it.

Elephants & Kings

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022626453X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Book Synopsis Elephants & Kings by : Thomas R. Trautmann

Download or read book Elephants & Kings written by Thomas R. Trautmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.

The Standard Cantatas

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732621278
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis The Standard Cantatas by : George Putnam Upton

Download or read book The Standard Cantatas written by George Putnam Upton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

The Standard Cantatas

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book The Standard Cantatas written by George Putnam Upton and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Analytical and Historical Programme

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
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Download or read book Analytical and Historical Programme written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Green Grass, Running Water

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443419125
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Green Grass, Running Water written by Thomas King and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong, sassy women and hard-luck, hard-headed men, all searching for the middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world, perform an elaborate dance of approach and avoidance in this magical, rollicking tale by award-winning author Thomas King. Alberta, Eli, Lionel and others are coming to the Blackfoot reservation for the Sun Dance. There they will encounter four Indian elders and their companion, the trickster Coyote—and nothing in the small town of Blossom will be the same again. . . .

The Back Of The Turtle

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443431648
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Back Of The Turtle written by Thomas King and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Thomas King’s first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and bestselling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running Water is widely considered a contemporary Canadian classic. In The Back of the Turtle, Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel’s sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel’s family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for DowSanto, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky? Filled with brilliant characters, trademark wit, wordplay and a thorough knowledge of native myth and story-telling, this novel is a masterpiece by one of our most important writers.

Medicine River

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735237832
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Medicine River written by Thomas King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother’s funeral. He doesn’t count on Harlen Bigbear and his unique brand of community planning. Harlen tries to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River to open shop as the town’s only Native photographer. Somehow, that’s exactly what happens. Through Will’s gentle and humorous narrative, we come to know Medicine River, a small Albertan town bordering a Blackfoot reserve. And we meet its people: the basketball team; Louise Heavyman and her daughter, South Wing; Martha Oldcrow, the marriage doctor; Joe Bigbear, Harlen’s world-travelling, storytelling brother; Bertha Morley, who has a short fling with a Calgary dating service; and David Plume, who went to Wounded Knee. At the centre of it all is Harlen, advising and pestering, annoying and entertaining, gossiping and benevolently interfering in the lives of his friends and neighbours.

Borders

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Publisher : Little, Brown Ink
ISBN 13 : 0316593036
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Borders written by Thomas King and published by Little, Brown Ink. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A People Magazine Best Book Fall 2021 From celebrated Indigenous author Thomas King and award-winning Métis artist Natasha Donovan comes a powerful graphic novel about a family caught between nations. Borders is a masterfully told story of a boy and his mother whose road trip is thwarted at the border when they identify their citizenship as Blackfoot. Refusing to identify as either American or Canadian first bars their entry into the US, and then their return into Canada. In the limbo between countries, they find power in their connection to their identity and to each other. Borders explores nationhood from an Indigenous perspective and resonates deeply with themes of identity, justice, and belonging.

The Gospel of Our King

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Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493416715
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Book Synopsis The Gospel of Our King by : Bruce Riley Ashford

Download or read book The Gospel of Our King written by Bruce Riley Ashford and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible overview shows how the Bible--with its 66 books, dozens of authors, and multiple genres--comes together to provide an overarching story about God the King and explains how the Christian gospel and mission address the totality of human life. Written by a biblical scholar and a theologian, The Gospel of Our King shows how any account of gospel and mission can only be understood in light of the whole biblical testimony. The authors help us understand the Bible's overarching narrative as the story that encompasses everything. This story, revealed by God and centered on Jesus the King, enables us to know and love God and to fulfill his purpose for our lives. It is the framework within which we come to understand the Christian worldview, the Christian gospel, and the Christian mission. When we understand how the whole Bible fits together to shape the totality of a Christian's life, we will be prepared to show the goodness of Christ and the gospel to others in our personal, social, cultural, and global contexts.

The Inconvenient Indian

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452940304
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The Inconvenient Indian written by Thomas King and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada–U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and popular culture, wrestles with the history of Native American resistance and his own experiences as a Native rights activist, and articulates a profound, revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands. Suffused with wit, anger, perception, and wisdom, The Inconvenient Indian is at once an engaging chronicle and a devastating subversion of history, insightfully distilling what it means to be “Indian” in North America. It is a critical and personal meditation that sees Native American history not as a straight line but rather as a circle in which the same absurd, tragic dynamics are played out over and over again. At the heart of the dysfunctional relationship between Indians and Whites, King writes, is land: “The issue has always been land.” With that insight, the history inflicted on the indigenous peoples of North America—broken treaties, forced removals, genocidal violence, and racist stereotypes—sharpens into focus. Both timeless and timely, The Inconvenient Indian ultimately rejects the pessimism and cynicism with which Natives and Whites regard one another to chart a new and just way forward for Indians and non-Indians alike.

Winter King

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439191573
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Winter King written by Thomas Penn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd., 2011.

Calendar

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Calendar by : University of Cambridge

Download or read book Calendar written by University of Cambridge and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Publications

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
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Book Synopsis Publications by : Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England)

Download or read book Publications written by Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brasenose College Register, 1509-1909

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1180 pages
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Book Synopsis Brasenose College Register, 1509-1909 by : Brasenose College (University of Oxford)

Download or read book Brasenose College Register, 1509-1909 written by Brasenose College (University of Oxford) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: