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Book Synopsis Dictionary of Nature Myths by : Tamra Andrews
Download or read book Dictionary of Nature Myths written by Tamra Andrews and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and cross-referenced, this informative volume is a rich introduction to the world of nature as experienced by ancient peoples around the globe. 51 halftones.
Book Synopsis When the Moon Waxes Red by : Trinh T. Minh-ha
Download or read book When the Moon Waxes Red written by Trinh T. Minh-ha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such as Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology. When the Moon Waxes Red is an extended argument against reductive analyses, even those that appear politically adroit. The multiply-hyphenated peoples of color are not simply placed in a duality between two cultural heritages; throughout, Trinh describes the predicament of having to live "a difference that has no name and too many names already." She argues for multicultural revision of knowledge so that a new politics can transform reality rather than merely ideologize it. By rewriting the always emerging, already distorted place of struggle, such work seeks to "beat the master at his own game."
Book Synopsis A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by : Clara Kern Bayliss
Download or read book A Treasury of Eskimo Tales written by Clara Kern Bayliss and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Treasury of Eskimo Tales, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Book Synopsis The Cultured Chef by : Nicholas Beatty
Download or read book The Cultured Chef written by Nicholas Beatty and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A not-so-ordinary cookbook for kids filled with unique recipes, whimsical illustrations, and stories about fascinating people and places in all corners of the globe.
Book Synopsis Sometimes Moon by : Carole Lexa Schaefer
Download or read book Sometimes Moon written by Carole Lexa Schaefer and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creators of the highly-acclaimed The Squiggle, here is an imaginative introduction to the phases of the moon for young children. As the little girl in The Squiggle fancies a string to be many things, here, Selene uses her imagination to understand the moon's waxing and waning. She tells her Grandpa how she relates the different lunar phases to familiar concepts--the new moon is a Hiding Moon, the crescent moon is a Boat Moon like grandpa's dory, the half moon is a Basket Moon like mama's knitting basket. When the moon is two-thirds full, it is a Cheeky Moon, like Baby Nico's round, chubby cheeks, and the full moon is a Treasure Moon, like pieces of pirates' silver. Enhanced by Pierr Morgan's beguiling, fluid illustrations, Sometimes Moon is a terrific teaching tool on a subject of universal appeal. Includes an informational spread, clearly depicting the lunar progression.
Book Synopsis The Nyaishes by : Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla
Download or read book The Nyaishes written by Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Prescription for the Heart by : Hsing Yun
Download or read book Prescription for the Heart written by Hsing Yun and published by Buddha's Light Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Merit Times launched in Taiwan in 2001, Venerable Master Hsing Yun began writing the daily column "Between Ignorance and Enlightenment." With each column, Master Hsing Yun considered different topics from culture, politics, and literature, as well as the common experiences of everyday life to show the possibility to learn and grow in any situation. Now available in English, the Between Ignorance and Enlightenment series collects the very best of this groundbreaking column. Each volume captures the spontaneity and breadth that has endeared Between Ignorance and Enlightenment to readers around the world, and displays the immediacy for which the column is named: that this next moment, this next thought, may be the difference between ignorance and enlightenment.
Book Synopsis Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends by : Mary Huse Eastman
Download or read book Index to Fairy Tales, Myths, and Legends written by Mary Huse Eastman and published by Faxon Company. This book was released on 1926 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For contents, see Author Catalog.
Book Synopsis Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa by : Elphinstone Dayrell
Download or read book Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa written by Elphinstone Dayrell and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1969 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MANY years ago a book on the Folk-Tales of the Eskimo was published, and the editor of The Academy (Dr. Appleton) told one of his minions to send it to me for revision. By mischance it was sent to an eminent expert in Political Economy, who, never suspecting any error, took the book for the text of an interesting essay on the economics of "the blameless Hyperboreans." Mr. Dayrell's "Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria" appeal to the anthropologist within me, no less than to the lover of what children and older people call "Fairy Tales." The stories are full of mentions of strange institutions, as well as of rare adventures. I may be permitted to offer some running notes and comments on this mass of African curiosities from the crowded lumber-room of the native mind. I. The Tortoise with a Pretty Daughter.--The story, like the tales of the dark native tribes of Australia, rises from that state of fancy by which man draws (at least for purposes of fiction) no line between himself and the lower animals. Why should not the fair heroine, Adet, daughter of the tortoise, be the daughter of human parents? The tale would be none the less interesting, and a good deal more credible to the mature intelligence. But the ancient fashion of animal parentage is presented. It may have originated, like the stories of the Australians, at a time when men were totemists, when every person had a bestial or vegetable "family-name," and when, to account for these hereditary names, stories of descent from a supernatural, bestial, primeval race were invented. In the fables of the world, speaking animals, human in all but outward aspect, are the characters. The fashion is universal among savages; it descends to the Buddha's jataka, or parables, to sop and La Fontaine. There could be no such fashion if fables had originated among civilised human beings. The polity of the people who tell this story seems to be despotic. The king makes a law that any girl prettier than the prince's fifty wives shall be put to death, with her parents. Who is to be the Paris, and give the fatal apple to the most fair? Obviously the prince is the Paris. He falls in love with Miss Tortoise, guided to her as he is by the bird who is "entranced with her beauty." In this tribe, as in Homer's time, the lover offers a bride-price to the father of the girl. In Homer cattle are the current medium; in Nigeria pieces of cloth and brass rods are (or were) the currency. Observe the queen's interest in an affair of true love. Though she knows that her son's life is endangered by his honourable passion, she adds to the bride-price out of her privy purse. It is "a long courting"; four years pass, while pretty Adet is "ower young to marry yet." The king is very angry when the news of this breach of the royal marriage Act first comes to his ears. He summons the whole of his subjects, his throne, a stone, is set out in the market-place, and Adet is brought before him. He sees and is conquered.
Download or read book Lunar Sourcebook written by Grant Heiken and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.
Book Synopsis Roots and Legends by : Editors of Wellfleet Press
Download or read book Roots and Legends written by Editors of Wellfleet Press and published by Wellfleet. This book was released on 2025-01-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roots and Legends celebrates the richness of African culture with over 50 timeless folktales.
Book Synopsis Science of the Mystical by : Dr. Sree Ranjani Sudhakar
Download or read book Science of the Mystical written by Dr. Sree Ranjani Sudhakar and published by Giri Trading Agency Private Limited. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, is a practicing physician, and with her deep understanding of Science, views that the ancient Indian scriptures are all scientific treatises, which in addition to providing solution to the problems faced in the physical world, also help in transcend it to higher levels. She cites various discoveries by Western Scientists to substanciate her claim and establishes that religious practices like fasting meditation etc have deep impact on well being of a person. She has also attempted to explain the logic behind miracles, multiple universestime-dialation etc from a scientific perspective.
Book Synopsis The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination by : Karen ní Mheallaigh
Download or read book The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination written by Karen ní Mheallaigh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moon exerted a powerful influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. This book explores the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with special focus on those accounts of the Moon, its attributes, and its 'inhabitants' given by ancient philosophers, natural scientists and imaginative writers including Pythagoreans, Plato and the Old Academy, Varro, Plutarch and Lucian. ní Mheallaigh shows how the Moon's enigmatic presence made it a key site for thinking about the gaze (erotic, philosophical and scientific) and the relation between appearance and reality. It was also a site for hoax in antiquity as well as today. Central issues explored include the view from elsewhere (selēnoskopia), the relation of science and fiction, the interaction between the beginnings of science in the classical polis and the imperial period, and the limits of knowledge itself.
Book Synopsis In the Arms of Elders by : William H. Thomas
Download or read book In the Arms of Elders written by William H. Thomas and published by Publisher:VanderWyk&Burnham. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Arms of Elders starts with a gripping parable called "Learning from Hannah" that describes what happens to one young couple as they are marooned, become part of a new society organized through the wisdom of elders, and then need to forge a new place for themselves when they go home again.
Book Synopsis Singing Krishna by : A. Whitney Sanford
Download or read book Singing Krishna written by A. Whitney Sanford and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces Paramanand, one of India’s poet-saints, his work, and this work’s use in ritual.
Book Synopsis Myth, Ritual and Religion by : Andrew Lang
Download or read book Myth, Ritual and Religion written by Andrew Lang and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Temple Tales written by Sudha G. Tilak and published by Hachette India Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which holy place in India has the mysteries of the universe hidden away in an icy cave? Where would you find a shrine for a goddess of veggies? At which deity’s temple is the daily offering a tonic, of all things? This delightful and enchanting book opens the doors to the secrets and surprises hidden in temples across the country. These unique temples are not just places of worship, but living museums of architectural wonders, mind-boggling sculptures, graceful dances, colourful crafts and many other cultural activities. More than anything, they are treasure troves of lore and legend, teeming with tales of gods and goddesses, demons and devotees, plants and beasts, the magical and the mysterious – all just waiting to be discovered by you. Join Sudha G. Tilak as she takes you on an unusual journey to the country’s most sacred places, where the lines between fact and faith are blurred and stories come alive!
