Calabash

Author : Christopher Fowler
Publisher : Hydra
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399180460

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Calabash by Christopher Fowler Pdf

A twisted take on Narnia, this warmhearted, dryly comic novel from the award-winning author of the Peculiar Crimes Unit series starring Bryant & May transports readers to the last poignant moment of freedom before growing up. Kay Goodwin is a sixteen-year-old boy with a smart mouth and too much imagination, trapped in the most dismal place in England at the worst possible time: the early seventies. Marooned in the rundown seaside resort of Cole Bay, with its crumbling pier and grumbling pensioners, Kay experiences each day as a horrible comedy of errors—until he discovers a faraway land with characters who are impossibly exotic yet strangely familiar. In the kingdom of Calabash, he can have everything he’s ever wanted from life. There’s only one small problem: Calabash doesn’t technically exist. In a country that’s still hungover from the sixties, Kay finds it all too easy to retreat from reality. But he’s prepared to risk everything to find out what makes him different, what his life really holds, and what happens to those who believe in the impossible. Look for Christopher Fowler’s fantasy and horror classics, now available as ebooks: CALABASH | DISTURBIA | PSYCHOVILLE | RED GLOVES | ROOFWORLD | SPANKY

Author : Sally Price
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0472082183

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Co-wives and Calabashes by Sally Price Pdf

Explores the world of the Saramaka Maroons of Suriname and the status of women as reflected in social structure and art

Author : Luisah Teish
Publisher : University of New Orleans Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781608012480

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A Calabash of Cowries by Luisah Teish Pdf

A Calabash of Cowries: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times is a collection of tales featuring the Orishas and the wonders of the natural world. Suitable for adults and children, artists and teachers, readers of all cultures will discover in these retellings of traditional tales a resource that illuminates the mythic and the real, the ancient past and the emerging present. An offering of spiritual wisdom and cultural celebration through stories that have and will continue to endure the test of time.

Author : Rosa Macfarland
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781496990877

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Swana the Calabash Breaker by Rosa Macfarland Pdf

Swana is a young, adventurous little girl who wants a new and exciting game to play with her three companions. However, before she knows it, she is lying to her family and sneaking around with her friends. Swana soon realises though that honesty is always the best policy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595322084

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The Calabash Boys by Anonim Pdf

Author : Colin Channer
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1933354054

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Iron Balloons by Colin Channer Pdf

Jamaica's literary lion Colin Channer presents new fiction from the freshest young Jamaican authors and the Calabash International Literary Festival's Extended Family.

Author : Robert van
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226849027

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Necklace and Calabash by Robert van Pdf

Brought back into print in the 1990s to wide acclaim, re-designed new editions of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee Mysteries are now available. Written by a Dutch diplomat and scholar during the 1950s and 1960s, these lively and historically accurate mysteries have entertained a devoted following for decades. Set during the T'ang dynasty, they feature Judge Dee, a brilliant and cultured Confucian magistrate disdainful of personal luxury and corruption, who cleverly selects allies to help him navigate the royal courts, politics, and ethnic tensions in imperial China. Robert van Gulik modeled Judge Dee on a magistrate of that name who lived in the seventh century, and he drew on stories and literary conventions of Chinese mystery writing dating back to the Sung dynasty to construct his ingenious plots. Necklace and Calabash finds Judge Dee returning to his district of Poo-yang, where the peaceful town of Riverton promises a few days' fishing and relaxation. Yet a chance meeting with a Taoist recluse, a gruesome body fished out of the river, strange guests at the Kingfisher Inn, and a princess in distress thrust the judge into one of the most intricate and baffling mysteries of his career. An expert on the art and erotica as well as the literature, religion, and politics of China, van Gulik also provides charming illustrations to accompany his engaging and entertaining mysteries.

Author : Judith Ross Enderle,Stephanie Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000044880019

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Something's Happening on Calabash Street by Judith Ross Enderle,Stephanie Gordon Pdf

When the people in his diverse urban neighborhood celebrate a festive street fair, Mischa shares in the excitement. Includes child-friendly recipes for each of the ethnic foods featured in the story. Full color.

Author : Jeffrey J. Higa
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807175491

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Calabash Stories by Jeffrey J. Higa Pdf

In the tradition of Gabriel García Márquez and Maxine Hong Kingston, and deeply rooted in the intricacies of the author’s Japanese-Hawaiian heritage, Calabash Stories is a lucid, unforgettable collection. Jeffrey J. Higa’s stories arise from different points in the same fertile landscape: At times, the recurrence of certain details (a beige Volkswagen bug, a famous entertainer) makes them glow with deeper meaning; at others, the reemergence of potent archetypes (a sick child, an old man living alone) invokes a dream state held between author and reader. Like the traditional Hawaiian calabash, these stories invite their reader to a family table where we are welcomed and nourished by communal traditions. Higa is a master storyteller, delighting in life’s humor and strangeness while arriving at the intimacy and poignancy that come from a shared understanding of grief.

Author : José Arturo Gleason Espíndola,César Augusto Casiano Flores,Raul Pacheco-Vega,Margarita Rosa Pacheco Montes
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781789060577

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International Rainwater Catchment Systems Experiences: Towards water security by José Arturo Gleason Espíndola,César Augusto Casiano Flores,Raul Pacheco-Vega,Margarita Rosa Pacheco Montes Pdf

From time immemorial, people have been managing rain. The availability of water and water sources determined where people would be able to live. Adequate rainfall decided on the quality of agriculture. Technical advances and finance may have enabled societies to inhabit big cities and expand agriculture into dry areas, but only because of the resource rain provided through the water cycle. Due to population growth, pollution, and climate change, water scarcity will be one of the most critical problems all around the world in the next 15 years. Today, around 10% of the world’s population lacks a proper water supply service. Harvesting rainwater and using it for drinking, domestic, industrial, and agricultural uses will help to supply quality water to urban and rural populations. Divided into four sections, basic concepts, narratives of RWH, programs implemented by diverse sectors of society, and notable cases, the book summarizes experiences from 14 different countries all around the globe, developed and developing countries, urban and rural areas. The subject of this book is related to the promotion of different international rainwater experiences that provides sustainable water services and climate resilience, including technical aspects and socio-cultural and policy affairs. This book was written for all people interested in sustainable rainwater management. Students, people just starting in the subject, and experts will find this book interesting as it creates an overview of rainwater harvesting practice and technology all around the world. We encourage all readers to read these stories and arguments at your leisure. Some many ideas and techniques can be picked up and applicable for serving the last 10% that is waiting for water security and proper water service.

Author : Douglas Fraser,Herbert M. Cole
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Art
ISBN : 0299058247

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African Art and Leadership by Douglas Fraser,Herbert M. Cole Pdf

A scholarly analysis of the close relationships among the structure, function, and history of the sub-Saharan African arts.

Author : Oliver La Farge
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Santa Fe (N.M.)
ISBN : 9780865346796

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The Man with the Calabash Pipe by Oliver La Farge Pdf

From 1950 until just before his death in 1963, Pulitzer Prize-winner La Farge wrote weekly columns for "The Santa Fe New Mexican." This edition collects the writings as edited by his friend, Winfield Townley Scott.

Author : H. E. Böhme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UVA:X001592565

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Some Nguni Crafts: Calabashes by H. E. Böhme Pdf

Author : Charles B. Heiser
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0806125721

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The Gourd Book by Charles B. Heiser Pdf

Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. In delightful text and stunning color and black-and-white photographs, The Gourd Book provides fascinating scientific information and folklore about these remarkable plants and keys for identifying species. The first part of the book deals with tree gourds, widely used as containers and for decoration; the Cucurbita gourds, including the buffalo gourd, the Turk's turban, the silver-seed gourd, and the Malabar gourd, all utilized as food, and the beautiful ornamental gourds that are fun to grow; the loofah gourds, which are now enjoying great popularity as cosmetic sponges but have many other uses as well; minor gourds, such as the snake, wax, bitter, teasel, and hedgehog gourds, some of which are used as food or medicine; and gourds mentioned in the Bible. The second part takes up the bottle gourd, which archaeologists tell us men have used for thousands of years. Even today this gourd is almost indispensable in many parts of the tropics, where different species are used to make containers, musical instruments, and clothing, as food and medicine, and in art. The author concludes with a discussion of the gourd in folklore and myth and an appendix on growing, hybridizing, and preserving gourds for decoration. This delightfully written book, styled for the general reader, will also appeal to professional and amateur botanists, anthropologists, horticulturists, and everyone interested in plants or gardening.

Author : Ronnie Lessem
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351728102

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Embodying Integral Development by Ronnie Lessem Pdf

Chapter 10: Emerging: organizational learning and development -- Introduction: grounding individual, enterprise and societal renewal -- MedLabs: an unfolding enterprise story, by Manar Al Nimer -- MedLabs as a developing organization -- Conclusion: pioneering, differentiation and integration -- References -- Chapter 11: Effecting: embodying inter-institutional genealogy -- Introduction: institutionalize development -- Start CSAL with nature and community -- Local-global museum as sanctuary -- Towards a research academy -- Genealogical laboratory -- Conclusion: nature reserve, museum, university, laboratory -- References -- Chapter 12: Navigating: integral society -- Introduction: European Community -- The identity of Slovenia: European sanctuary -- Social science and technology: an emerging research university -- Conclusion: towards an integral economic laboratory -- References -- Epilogue: CARE-ful self-assessment -- ReLational Communal activation GENE -- ReLational Awakening of integral consciousness GENE -- ReLationally innovation driven institutionalized Research GENE -- ReLational Embodiment of integral development GENE -- ReNewing Communal activation GENE -- ReNewed Awakening of integral consciousness GENE -- ReNewed Embodiment of integral development GENE -- ReNewed innovation driven institutionalized Research GENE -- ReaSoned realization of Communal activation GENE -- ReaSoned realization of Awakened integral consciousness GENE -- ReaSoned realization of Innovation driven Research GENE -- ReaSoned Embodiment of integral development GENE -- Index