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Author : Nancy Raines Day
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015058137350
While she and her grandmother work on their embroidery, Mei Yoon listens to an old Mein tale about the creation of the earth and the sky.
Author : Jean Michaud,Margaret Byrne Swain,Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442272798
Dwelling in the highland areas of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Southwest China, Taiwan, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Peninsular Malaysia are hundreds of “peoples”. Together their population adds up to 100 million, more than most of the countries they live in. Yet in each of these countries, they are regarded as minorities. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on about 300 groups, the ten countries they live in, their historical figures, and their salient political, economic, social, cultural and religious aspects. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more.
Author : Sylvia S. Marantz,Kenneth A. Marantz
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 081084933X
"Picturebook," spelled as a single word to identify its unique qualities and to differentiate the genre from other books with illustrations, is one that tells a story either in pictures alone or in almost equal partnership with text. The picturebook has great potential for bridging the differences among us; the concept of a story is one common to all, a shared experience that sets the stage for communication. And the goal of multiculturalism is to emphasize the positive attributes of human society, the outstanding, rather than the stereotype. Because children born today will interact with people from different cultures much more than previous generations, it is important that they are taught about other cultures, starting at a young age. Multicultural picturebooks are, therefore, an excellent teaching tool for meeting this educational challenge. The picturebooks profiled are appropriate for children in grades K - 4 but can be used with older children, depending on the curriculum and the students' comprehension level. Books covering Asia and the Pacific, The Middle East, Africa, South America, North America (Native Americas, Inuit, etc.), and books specific to the immigrant experience are profiled. Each book is described in one paragraph that includes an engaging review of the story line, special features of the content, the look and style of the artwork, interior design, and layout of the book. The authors emphasize that the visual qualities of picturebooks affect their ability to tell stories about people whose values and behaviors are different from those of the reader. The analyses, therefore, used in selecting the books include not only the informational content, but also the emotional content--the feelings generated by the text and art. In choosing books for this volume, the authors have used the following criteria: ]Does the book tell an engaging story?]Do the illustrations convincingly portray and represent humans, animals, and objects?]Is the use of the media consistent?]Do the text and the pi
Author : Richard Grossinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174783168
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : IND:30000008598033
Author : Guy Gavriel Kay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143192626
The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars evokes a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands--where empires and faiths collide. From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a young artist travelling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his request--and possibly to do more--and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman, posing as a doctor's wife, but sent by Seressa as a spy. The trading ship that carries them is commanded by the accomplished younger son of a merchant family, ambivalent about the life he's been born to live. And further east, a boy trains to become a soldier in the elite infantry of the khalif--to win glory in the war everyone knows is coming. As these lives entwine, their fates--and those of many others--will hang in the balance, when the khalif sends his massive army to take the great fortress that is the gateway to the western world...
Author : ChatStick Team
Publisher : ChatStick Team
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
📖 "Griffin - Mystical Melding of Earth and Sky" 🌍🌌 Journey into the heart of one of mythology's most captivating creatures: the Griffin! 🦁🦅 ✨ Discover: The Griffin's roots in global folklore and mythology. 🌍📜 Its majestic roles in Greek epics, Persian legends, medieval Europe, and beyond. 🏛️🕌🏰 The deep symbolism of an eagle and lion combined - navigating both terrestrial and celestial realms. 🌅🌌 Its significance as the guardian of treasures both material and spiritual. 💎🔮 The Griffin's enduring legacy in modern culture - from literature to film. 🎥📚 🔍 Deep Dive: Comparative analysis with other mythical hybrid creatures. 🐉🦄🧜 Insights into the human psyche and the shared cultural threads binding us through time. 🧠💭 ✒️ Why this book?: Friendly, engaging tone that speaks to both the casual reader and the history enthusiast. Detailed chapters packed with fascinating anecdotes, analysis, and art. 🎨 A delightful blend of storytelling, history, and cultural exploration. 🌟 Join us on this exploration and unravel the mysteries of the Griffin - the creature that bridges our world and the heavens. 🌍⛅🌌 Grab your copy NOW and soar through the ages with the Griffin! 🛒📚🚀
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Children's libraries
ISBN : PSU:000048448000
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:49015003021368
Author : Elizabeth Wayland Barber,Paul T. Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400842865
Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? How could anyone think that mortals like Perseus, Beowulf, and St. George actually fought dragons, since dragons don't exist? Strange though they sound, however, these "myths" did not begin as fiction. This absorbing book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies. Geologists' interpretations of how a volcanic cataclysm long ago created Oregon's Crater Lake, for example, is echoed point for point in the local myth of its origin. The Klamath tribe saw it happen and passed down the story--for nearly 8,000 years. We, however, have been literate so long that we've forgotten how myths encode reality. Recent studies of how our brains work, applied to a wide range of data from the Pacific Northwest to ancient Egypt to modern stories reported in newspapers, have helped the Barbers deduce the characteristic principles by which such tales both develop and degrade through time. Myth is in fact a quite reasonable way to convey important messages orally over many generations--although reasoning back to the original events is possible only under rather specific conditions. Our oldest written records date to 5,200 years ago, but we have been speaking and mythmaking for perhaps 100,000. This groundbreaking book points the way to restoring some of that lost history and teaching us about human storytelling.
Author : Amanda Skenandore
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496713674
In Amanda Skenandore’s provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging. On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma’s childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry—or Asku, as Alma knew him—was the most promising student at the “savage-taming” boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children of neighboring reservations. Instead, it robbed them of everything they’d known—language, customs, even their names—and left a heartbreaking legacy in its wake. The bright, courageous boy Alma knew could never have murdered anyone. But she barely recognizes the man Asku has become, cold and embittered at being an outcast in the white world and a ghost in his own. Her lawyer husband, Stewart, reluctantly agrees to help defend Asku for Alma’s sake. To do so, Alma must revisit the painful secrets she has kept hidden from everyone—especially Stewart. Told in compelling narratives that alternate between Alma’s childhood and her present life, Between Earth and Sky is a haunting and complex story of love and loss, as a quest for justice becomes a journey toward understanding and, ultimately, atonement.
Author : Leslie Carol Roberts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803267640
More than a distant continent, Antarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, adventurers, scientists, and dreamers. The Entire Earth and Sky conjures all these ideas and interweaves them with the experience and history of Antarctica, balancing the reality of the frigid outpost populated by a ragtag alliance of international researchers against the crystalline dreamscape of a continent at the bottom of the world. When Leslie Carol Roberts went to Antarctica for the first time with Greenpeace, she was hoping to save the world. In the twenty years since then she has shifted to the no less difficult task of saving Antarctica itself, compiling memoirs and stories, learning the biology and geography of the icy land, and documenting her own journey. This book pieces together the tragic and heroic tales of nineteenth-century exploration, interviews with scientists, and the author’s personal observations. The result is a remarkable collage that evokes the beauty and the complexity, the perils and the rewards of a lifelong engagement with the earth’s last wilderness. A kaleidoscope of legends, stories, field notes, images, reports, history, letters, and research, the book renders an impression, at once vast and microscopic, of the effect of human beings on the land and ice we call Antarctica, and its effect on us.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authors
ISBN : 0835248518
Author : R R Bowker Publishing,Bowker
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : UOM:39015054040194
Author : Rose Arny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1422 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015046820406