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Through the Leopard's Gaze

Author : Njambi McGrath,McGrath Njambi
Publisher : Twenty in 2020
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Comedians
ISBN : 1913090108

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In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to a pulp and left for dead. Thirteen-year-old Njambi, fearing her assailant would return to finish her, courageously escaped, walking through the night in the Kenyan countryside, risking wild animals, robbers and murderers, before being picked up by two shabbily dressed but safe men. She buries the memories of that fateful day and night, and years later ends up in London with a British husband and children. Then one day a simple unassuming wedding invitation arrives in her mailbox causing her to have to confront the remnants of a past she had thought was behind her. This is a book about survival, and courage when all else fails. It's a searingly honest examination of human cruelty and strength in equal measure.

Fellowship of the Snow Leopards

Author : Joy O'Dwyer
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452578965

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You can conquer your fears and slay your dragons! Children are as much the hope for the future of humanity as this earth is the center of our existence. A belief in magic is the glue that keeps it all together. The Planet Shilough and their higher level beings, fairies and elves, have been watching our planet as environmental destruction, cynicism, and consumerism plague our world. Michaela thirteen-year-old Vancouverite who lives in fear of bullies and pain from the tragic loss of his fatheremerges as an unlikely hero. He is filled with wonderment as he explores Shilough and is schooled in higher laws. Plagued with insecurities, he begins to realize that the most powerful force in the universe is love. He learns of the sacred and eternal nature of all beings. He comes to understand that on a planet with no incongruity, the vibratory levels are so high, that anything is possible. The ways that Michael overcomes obstacles bent on his destructionfrom a schoolyard bully on earth to a nine-headed serpent on Shiloughteach us powerful lessons. As Pancras, Chancellor to the Faerie Queen, explains to Michael, as he struggles with acceptance of his divine destiny, The greatest battle that you will ever face is the one within your own mind. Conquer the dragons within, and you will never fear any dragons without. In this other world expos, could some of the methods that Michael uses to overcome his fears apply to us? Could we harness other energy sources that cause less environmental destruction? Could music play such a pivotal role in aligning our planet? What lessons do we learn from the Cronusans? What about life after death? How can we heal our planet?

Crooked Cats

Author : Nayanika Mathur
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226771922

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"The last decade has seen the increasing entry of big cats-lions, tigers, and leopards-into human settlements in India. Most big cats co-reside with humans. But some have become "crooked"-killing people, often serially, and frightening residents in villages and cities. This new book, by big cat connoisseur and anthropologist Nayanika Mathur, lays bare the peculiar atmosphere of terror these encounters create, reinforced by stories, conspiracy theories, rumors, anger, and news reports about charismatic "celebrity" cats. There are various theories of why and how a big cat turns to eating people, and Mathur lays out the dominant ideas offered by the residents with whom she works. These vary from the effects of climate change and habitat loss to history and politics. The latter, for example, include the idea of big cats turning on humans for retribution for past injustices (poaching or hunting). Still, no one, including the scientists who study animal behavior, has been able to explain the highly individualized reasons why some cats turn against humans and others do not. Beautifully detailed in its portrayal of India's places, people, and animals, Crooked Cats sheds light on how we understand nonhuman animals and the growing intensity of human-nonhuman conflict in the Anthropocene"--

The Animal Gaze

Author : Wendy Woodward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132780565

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Many humans do not regard animals as complex beings. This title brings together Animal Studies, Ethics, Literary Studies and African traditional thought, including shamanism, in a way that compels the reader to think differently about nonhuman animals and human relationships with them.

The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia

Author : GlaireD. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351543347

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The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia by GlaireD. Anderson Pdf

Exploring the aristocratic villas and court culture of C?ba, during its 'golden age' under the reign of the Umayyad dynasty (r. 756-1031 AD), this study illuminates a key facet of the secular architecture of the court and its relationship to the well-known Umayyad luxury arts. Based on textual and archaeological evidence, it offers a detailed analysis of the estates' architecture and gardens within a synthetic socio-historical framework. Author Glaire Anderson focuses closely on the C?ban case study, synthesizing the archaeological evidence for the villas that has been unearthed from the 1980s up to 2009, with extant works of Andalusi art and architecture, as well as evidence from the Arabic texts. While the author brings her expertise on medieval Islamic architecture, art, and urbanism to the topic, the book contributes to wider art historical discourse as well: it is also a synthetic project that incorporates material and insights from experts in other fields (agricultural, economic, and social and political history). In this way, it offers a fuller picture of the topic and its relevance to Andalusi architecture and art, and to broader issues of architecture and social history in the caliphal lands and the Mediterranean. An important contribution of the book is that it illuminates the social history of the C?ban villas, drawing on the medieval Arabic texts to explain patterns of patronage among the court elite. An overarching theme of the book is that the C?ban estates fit within the larger historical constellation of Mediterranean villas and villa cultures, in contrast to long-standing art historical discourse that holds villas did not exist in the medieval period.

A Land Without Jasmine

Author : Wajdi Al-Ahdal,William Hutchins
Publisher : Garnet Publishing Ltd
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781859643129

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A Land Without Jasmine by Wajdi Al-Ahdal,William Hutchins Pdf

Winner of the 2013 Said Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. A Land without Jasmine is a sexy, satirical detective story about the sudden disappearance of a young female student from Yemen's Sanaa University. Each chapter is narrated by a different character, beginning with Jasmine herself. The mystery surrounding her disappearance comes into clearer focus with each self-serving and idiosyncratic account provided by an acquaintance, family member, or detective. The hallucinatory ending, although appropriately foreshadowed, may come as a Sufi surprise for the reader. Less mystically inclined readers may want to reread this tale to construct an alternative ending. This short novel has echoes of both the Sherlock Holmes stories and The Catcher in the Rye as, in addition to the mystery and a murder, the novel contains candid discussions of coming of age in a land of sexual repression. Wajdi al-Ahdal is a satirical author with a fresh and provocative voice and an excellent eye for the telling details of his world.

Leopards in the Temple

Author : Morris Dickstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674006046

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The 25 years after World War II were a fertile period for the American novel and an era of transformation in American society. Offering a social as well as literary history, Dickstein provides a frank assessment of more than 20 key figures.

Be a Deliveryman in the Six Realms

Author : Xiao Guichen
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647599393

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Be a Deliveryman in the Six Realms by Xiao Guichen Pdf

Ordinary courier, no ordinary courier list. The Six Realms was filled with customers. From then on, his ordinary life reversed. His bones hardened, his back straightened, and in a single breath, he ascended to the tenth floor, reaching the peak of his life.

My Complete Story of the Flute

Author : Leonardo De Lorenzo
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : 0896722775

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My Complete Story of the Flute by Leonardo De Lorenzo Pdf

New edition of classic study includes Lorenzo's three addenda and new bibliographic and biographic material.

Leopards in the Temple

Author : Steven Carter
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0761821007

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What is the role of the traditional Judeo-Christian concept of otherness in a secularized, high-tech society such as our own? In a world governed by the extensions of man--television, the telephone, the automobile, and the Internet--what happens to cultural values once held to be spiritual? In Leopards in the Temple: Selected Essays 1990-2000, Steven Carter explores the myriad ways in which technology and its "muses"--media entertainment and advertising, the so-called culture of electronics plus capitalism--are in the process of recycling metaphysical values in postmodern American life.

Murder is a Piece of Cake

Author : Valerie Burns
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781496738264

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Murder is a Piece of Cake by Valerie Burns Pdf

Acclaimed author Valerie Burns returns to her fresh, new culinary cozy series set in a charming small-town and featuring Madison Montgomery, a social media expert turned bakery owner and sleuth. This light, fast-paced mystery will appeal to fans of Joanne Fluke, Laura Childs, Ellery Adams, and Ellie Alexander. With small town New Bison’s Spring Festival just around the corner, the pressure is on Maddy to continue her late great-aunt Octavia’s legacy. That means scoring the top prize and transforming Baby Cakes into Southwest Michigan’s must-visit bakery, even though her inexperience in the kitchen brings nightmares of humiliating tagged photos and scathing reviews. There’s another reason for lost beauty sleep. A second bakery is opening in town under the ownership of CJ Davenport, a shrewd investor with a reputation for sabotaging anyone who gets in his way. And savvy, flashy Maddy tops his list. It’s a sticky spot to be in—more so when Davenport turns up dead with a Baby Cakes’s knife stuck in his back. Maddy’s whole life just went from #thriving to barely surviving. Now, supported by the crafty Baker Street Irregulars and her new boyfriend, she must find the courage to face off against a killer who could very well get her name trending for the first and last time . . . Praise for Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder “Snappy dialogue, a well-drawn supporting cast and an irresistible canine companion all add delicious flavor. Gulp this book down or savor it, but consuming it will guarantee a sustained sugar high.” —New York Times Book Review

Leopard's Rage

Author : Christine Feehan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593099858

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It will take more than desire to tame the animal within in this Leopard novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. Leopard shifter Sevastyan Amurov has an anger inside of him that burns so hot it’s almost impossible to control. His barely leashed rage threatens to break free, until he meets a woman who soothes his restless soul. Sevastyan wants Flambe Carver with every breath. He’s determined that the fiery-haired woman will want to be his completely. But his would-be mate comes with strings attached—a relentless stalker who intends to claim her for his own. They barely know each other, but with a very real threat looming just out of reach, Sevastyan takes Flambe under his protection. And as their connection grows, the embers of desire sparking between them soon burst into an inferno that will consume them both.

Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa

Author : Christopher John Gray
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1580460488

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A look at the encounter between the French and the peoples of Southern Gabon in terms of their differing conceptions of boundaries. In the second half of the nineteenth century, two very different practices of territoriality confronted each other in Southern Gabon. Clan and lineage relationships were most important in the local practice, while the French practice was informed by a territorial definition of society that had emerged with the rise of the modern nation-state and industrial capitalism. This modern territoriality used an array of bureaucratic instruments -- such as maps andcensuses -- previously unknown in equatorial Africa. Such instruments denied the existence of locally created territories and were fundamental to the exercise of colonial power. Thus modern territoriality imposed categories and institutions foreign to the peoples to whom they were applied. As colonial power became more effective from the 1920s on, those institutions started to be appropriated by Gabonese cultural elites who negotiated their meanings in reference to their own traditions. The result was a strongly ambiguous condition that left its imprint on the new colonial territories and subsequently the postcolonial Gabonese state. Christopher Gray was Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University.

Romancing the Leopard

Author : Kat Simons
Publisher : T&D Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Their world is not what it seems… Dylan Jones planned for this solar eclipse for two years. He got a prime site at one of the best locations in Oregon, and he intends to savor his last taste of freedom before he has to settled down and finish his Ph.D. thesis. He’s at the festival for sun pictures and maybe some all-night sky watching. And if he can manage it, some much needed time in his leopard form. He’s not there for a weekend fling. But the sexy genius in the site next to his proves too tempting to ignore. Something about Cat’s scent calls to his leopard, pulling him in like catnip, and he just can’t resist her. Catalina Donovan came to Oregon for the solar eclipse, and only the eclipse. Getting away from New York and the constant pressure from the tiger shifter males to choose a mate only increases her determination to enjoy the festival. And the super hot guy in the camp site next to hers only adds spice to her vacation. There’s something about Dylan that draws her, something she can’t quite put her finger on. For someone like Cat, unraveling the puzzle of him is as tempting and enticing as his sexy voice. But there’s more to Dylan than Cat knows. And more to their new relationship than Dylan wants to admit. As they countdown to the eclipse, and things between them heat up, Dylan must decide how much to admit to Cat, how much he dares tell a human. When tiger shifters show up to lay a claim to her, Dylan realizes he might just have to fight for her. And a future neither of them expects. Keywords: Paranormal romance; shapeshifter romance; tiger shifter romance; tiger shifter paranormal romance; paranormal romance series; contemporary fantasy romance series; cat shifter paranormal romance; leopard shifter romance; cat shifter romance

My Life With Leopards - Graham Cooke's Story

Author : Fransje van Riel
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780143529798

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Human emotion and animal instinct meet poignantly when two six-week-old leopard cubs become the charge of 22-year-old game ranger Graham Cooke at Londolozi. Staying with the cubs in an unfenced bush camp surrounded by lions, hyenas and other leopards, he must first gain their trust before he begins to guide them towards release in the wild. It takes weeks of patience and gentleness for Graham to be accepted into the cubs' small family unit and to find ways of communicating with the young leopards as he slowly begins to introduce them to their new environment. Graham finds himself drawn more to the wary little female than her easy-going brother, but over time both cubs come to recognise him as their protector. They form a bond of friendship through which he can gain unparalleled insights into their development and behaviour. When, a year later, the cubs are relocated to the Zambian wilderness, Graham faces the hardest task of all: to set free the young animals he has become so devoted to so that they can return to a wild existence where he is unable to control their fate.