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Book Synopsis Navio: Querida Viajante & Other Stories by : Aalolika Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Navio: Querida Viajante & Other Stories written by Aalolika Mukhopadhyay and published by Tharshan Maya. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story, set up in Goa, back in the late 19th Century, Portuguese government sends its official along with his family, to India, for an important mission. Read to find out, what happens in the story, as it proceeds. Read other short stories along with Navio: Querida Viajante.
Book Synopsis A Grammar of the Spanish Language by : Auguste-Louis Josse
Download or read book A Grammar of the Spanish Language written by Auguste-Louis Josse and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bow & River Gigs by : Ray Joe Hastings
Download or read book Bow & River Gigs written by Ray Joe Hastings and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention All Fishermen! Bow Gigging is alive and well in the Ozarks! After a lifetime of avid practice and 16 years of devoted, extensive research, Ray Joe Hastings has compiled a landmark story documenting the history, techniques and methods of a native sport anthropologists say is exclusively Ozark that still thrills hunters and fishermen today.From its ancient Indian roots to its adaptation and development by early settlers in the region, through its modern refinement, Hastings had documented, like no one else, how this important skill has lived on as its participants transitioned from survival to sport.Meet the gig makers, past and present, rare, skilled craftsmen, still firing up their forges and producing the same sturdy gear their ancestors used in the same beautiful clear streams they fished for the past two centuries. Richly illustrated with detailed, full-scale photography of Hastings extensive collection, along with others, showing the progression of designs and the many variations of gigs and spikes used through the years as well as those used today.Truly a fascinating account of Ozark folk heritage for the next generation to enjoy that will be an essential part of any fisherman, hunter or historians library.
Download or read book Musashi written by Eiji Yoshikawa and published by Vertical, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 1547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai—without really knowing what it meant—he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive and brings life in his own village to a standstill—until he is captured by a weaponless Zen monk. The lovely Otsu, seeing in Musashi her ideal of manliness, frees him from his tortuous punishment, but he is recaptured and imprisoned. During three years of solitary confinement, he delves into the classics of Japan and China. When he is set free again, he rejects the position of samurai and for the next several years pursues his goal relentlessly, looking neither to left nor to right. Ever so slowly it dawns on him that following the Way of the Sword is not simply a matter of finding a target for his brute strength. Continually striving to perfect his technique, which leads him to a unique style of fighting with two swords simultaneously, he travels far and wide, challenging fighters of many disciplines, taking nature to be his ultimate and severest teacher and undergoing the rigorous training of those who follow the Way. He is supremely successful in his encounters, but in the Art of War he perceives the way of peaceful and prosperous governance and disciplines himself to be a real human being He becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and been touched by. And, inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival. Musashi is a novel in the best tradition of Japanese story telling. It is a living story, subtle and imaginative, teeming with memorable characters, many of them historical. Interweaving themes of unrequited love, misguided revenge, filial piety and absolute dedication to the Way of the Samurai, it depicts vividly a world Westerners know only vaguely. Full of gusto and humor, it has an epic quality and universal appeal. The novel was made into a three-part movie by Director Hiroshi Inagai. For more information, visit the Shopping area
Book Synopsis Cemetery Girl: Book One by : Charlaine Harris
Download or read book Cemetery Girl: Book One written by Charlaine Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CEMETERY GIRL: THE PRETENDERS Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels and the Harper Connelly Mysteries, and New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden present an original graphic novel illustrated by acclaimed comic book artist Don Kramer—first in a brand-new trilogy. She calls herself Calexa Rose Dunhill—names taken from the grim surroundings where she awoke, bruised and bloody, with no memory of who she is, how she got there, or who left her for dead. She has made the cemetery her home, living in a crypt and avoiding human contact. But Calexa can’t hide from the dead—and because she can see spirits, they can’t hide from her. Then one night, Calexa spies a group of teenagers vandalizing a grave—and watches in horror as they commit murder. As the victim’s spirit rises from her body, it flows into Calexa, overwhelming her mind with visions and memories not her own. Now Calexa must make a decision: continue to hide to protect herself—or come forward to bring justice to the sad spirit who has reached out to her for help...
Book Synopsis Comparative Reading by : John A. Downing
Download or read book Comparative Reading written by John A. Downing and published by New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier-Macmillan. This book was released on 1972 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Performing the Nation by : Kelly Askew
Download or read book Performing the Nation written by Kelly Askew and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-07-28 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding in 1964, the United Republic of Tanzania has used music, dance, and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili musical performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's colonial and postcolonial history. As Askew shows, the genres of ngoma (traditional dance), dansi (urban jazz), and taarab (sung Swahili poetry) have played prominent parts in official articulations of "Tanzanian National Culture" over the years. Drawing on over a decade of research, including extensive experience as a taarab and dansi performer, Askew explores the intimate relations among musical practice, political ideology, and economic change. She reveals the processes and agents involved in the creation of Tanzania's national culture, from government elites to local musicians, poets, wedding participants, and traffic police. Throughout, Askew focuses on performance itself—musical and otherwise—as key to understanding both nation-building and interpersonal power dynamics.
Book Synopsis Automotive Ethernet by : Kirsten Matheus
Download or read book Automotive Ethernet written by Kirsten Matheus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how automotive Ethernet is revolutionizing in-car networking from the experts at the core of its development. Providing an in-depth account of automotive Ethernet, from its background and development, to its future prospects, this book is ideal for industry professionals and academics alike.
Download or read book Cane and Abe written by James Grippando and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, in which Miami’s top prosecutor becomes a prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance, which may have a chilling connection to the woman he can’t forget. Unbelievable was the word for her. Samantha Vine was unbelievably beautiful. It was unbelievable that she’d married me. Even more unbelievable that she was gone . . . Samantha died too soon. Abe Beckham’s new wife has helped him through the loss, but some say it was a step back to marry Angelina, a love from Abe’s past. Abe doesn’t want to hear it, and through the ups and downs, he’s even managed to remain a star prosecutor at the Miami State Attorney’s Office. Then everything goes wrong. A woman’s body is discovered dumped in the Everglades, and Abe is called upon to monitor the investigation. The FBI is tracking a killer in South Florida they call “Cutter” because his brutal methods harken back to Florida’s dark past, when machete-wielding men cut sugarcane by hand in the blazing sun. But when the feds discover that Abe had a brief encounter with the victim after Samantha’s death, and when Angelina goes missing, the respected attorney finds himself under fire. Suspicion surrounds him. His closest friends, family, professional colleagues, and the media no longer trust his motives. Was Angelina right? Was their marriage not what they’d hoped for because he loved Samantha too much? Or was there another woman . . . and a husband with a dark side who simply wanted his new wife gone?
Book Synopsis In Step with the Times by : Paolo Israel
Download or read book In Step with the Times written by Paolo Israel and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The helmet-shaped mapiko masks of Mozamxadbique have garnered admiration from African art scholars and collectors alike, due to their striking aesthetics and their grotesque allure. This book restores to mapiko its historic and artistic context, charting in detail the transformations of this masquerading tradition throughout the twentieth century. Based on field research spanning seven years, this study shows how mapiko has undergone continuous reinvention by visionary individuals, has diversified into genres with broad generational appeal, and has enacted historical events and political engagements. This dense history of creativity and change has been sustained by a culture of competition deeply ingrained within the logic of ritual itself. The desire to outshine rivals on the dance ground drives performers to search for the new, the astonishing, and the topical. It is this spirit of rivalry and one-upmanship that keeps mapiko attuned to the times that it traverses. In Step with the Times is illustrated with vibrant photographs of mapiko masks and performances. It marks the most radical attempt to date to historicize an African performative tradition.
Book Synopsis The African Imagination in Music by : Victor Kofi Agawu
Download or read book The African Imagination in Music written by Victor Kofi Agawu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of Sub-Saharan African music is immensely rich and diverse, containing a plethora of repertoires and traditions. In The African Imagination in Music, renowned music scholar Kofi Agawu offers an introduction to the major dimensions of this music and the values upon which it rests. Agawu leads his readers through an exploration of the traditions, structural elements, instruments, and performative techniques that characterize the music. In sections that focus upon rhythm, melody, form, and harmony, the essential parts of African music come into relief. While traditional music, the backbone of Africa's musical thinking, receives the most attention, Agawu also supplies insights into popular and art music in order to demonstrate the breadth of the African musical imagination. Close readings of a variety of songs, including an Ewe dirge, an Aka children's song, and Fela's 'Suffering and Smiling' supplement the broader discussion. The African Imagination in Music foregrounds a hitherto under-reported legacy of recordings and insists on the necessity of experiencing music as sound in order to appreciate and understand it fully. Accordingly, a Companion Website features important examples of the music discussed in detail in the book. Accessibly and engagingly written for a general audience, The African Imagination in Music is poised to renew interest in Black African music and to engender discussion of its creative underpinnings by Africanists, ethnomusicologists, music theorists and musicologists.
Book Synopsis Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe by : Thomas Turino
Download or read book Nationalists, Cosmopolitans, and Popular Music in Zimbabwe written by Thomas Turino and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a national hero and musical revolutionary, Thomas Mapfumo, along with other Zimbabwean artists, burst onto the music scene in the 1980s with a unique style that combined electric guitar with indigenous Shona music and instruments. The development of this music from its roots in the early Rhodesian era to the present and the ways this and other styles articulated with Zimbabwean nationalism is the focus of Thomas Turino's new study. Turino examines the emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle class and how this gave rise to a variety of urban-popular styles modeled on influences ranging from the Mills Brothers to Elvis. He also shows how cosmopolitanism gave rise to the nationalist movement itself, explaining the combination of "foreign" and indigenous elements that so often define nationalist art and cultural projects. The first book-length look at the role of music in African nationalism, Turino's work delves deeper than most books about popular music and challenges the reader to think about the lives and struggles of the people behind the surface appeal of world music.
Book Synopsis Kipling Considered by : Phillip Mallett
Download or read book Kipling Considered written by Phillip Mallett and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-09-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Helena by : Joaquim M. Machado de Assis
Download or read book Helena written by Joaquim M. Machado de Assis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Book Synopsis Writings on Writing by : Rudyard Kipling
Download or read book Writings on Writing written by Rudyard Kipling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike his contemporaries Virginia Woolf and Henry James, Kipling always denied he was a critic. But his letters, speeches, and stories are full of comments on writing and writers. This collection, including many formerly unpublished private letters and papers, details Kipling's response to the commercialisation of literature and the emerging role of the writer as celebrity in the turbulent literary world of the 1890s and beyond. They reveal a mind intensely concerned with questions of literary value, with language and imagination, with truth, realism, and romanticism. Kipling's fame made him a significant spokesperson for important segments of the reading public - the soldiers, engineers, and functionaries central to Britain's imperial expansion. He profoundly influenced English literary language and our perception of English national character. This book offers access to the private and public history of a writer whose continuing influence is still a matter of fierce controversy.
Book Synopsis Promise This by : Professor Cheryl Cole
Download or read book Promise This written by Professor Cheryl Cole and published by Century. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PROMISE THIS is the first heartwarming novel from Cheryl and her friend Emma Kennedy, and will delight fans of Giovanna Fletcher, Jojo Moyes and Paige Toon. Cat is surrounded by people she loves. A tight-knit family. Loyal friends who see her through thick and thin. But Cat can't help feeling that there is more to life beyond the estate she has grown up in. And Cat has a dream... When she is offered a place to join a prestigious dance academy in London, Cat finds herself catapulted into a life that is as bewildering as it is exhilarating. But will success lead to happiness? And who will anchor her through this dizzying new life?
Book Synopsis Industrial Archaeology in Britain by : Robert Angus Buchanan
Download or read book Industrial Archaeology in Britain written by Robert Angus Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
