Author : Richard Darsie
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781402727870
Provides directions, illustrated with photographs, for making many different string figures-- from the fairly simple Jacob's Ladder to more complex Mt. Fuji-- along with information about their history and meaning.
Author : International String Figure Association
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486404004
Collects instructions drawn from the pages of String Figure Magazine explaining how to create such string "sculptures" as "Twinkling star," "Polar Bear," "Erupting volcano," and "Andromeda galaxy"
Author : Caroline F. Jayne
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 1962-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486201528
Diagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background
Author : Anne Akers Johnson
Publisher : Klutz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781878257536
In today's high tech world, people have completely forgotten how to make The Cup and Saucer, The Witch's Broom, and Jacob's Ladder. Thank goodness for Cat's Cradle. This book's simple instructions and ultra-clear instructional art are foolproof.
Author : Michael Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 2008
Category : String figures
ISBN : 9780863156656
Finger string games are a wonderful opportunity for today's children to practice meaningful movement, explore space, interact with others, and exercise their creative spirits. They are also great fun String games can be especially useful to children who struggle at school or are dyslexic, and for those who are learning the concepts of "left and right" and "up and down." Finger Strings contains games that will delight all children, from the very young to those with greater dexterity. Michael Taylor has many years of experience working with children and has shared his string figures at schools and camps throughout the world. Finger Strings contains more than eighty inventive, imaginative string games and stories, all clearly illustrated with step-by-step, color diagrams. This book is designed especially to require minimal page-turning while making string shapes. Ringbound to lie flat. Includes two brightly colored strings to get you started.
Author : Anne Akers Johnson
Publisher : Klutz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,22 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781570540400
Complete, super clear instructions and all you need to bring is ten fingers.
Author : Sorena DeWitt
Publisher : Heian International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 1995-11
Category : String figures
ISBN : 9780893468279
"Children rediscover the joy of patterns from around the world. Join children in playing ""cat's cradle"" with a simple piece of string; learn many new games!"
Author : International String Figure Association
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486829162
Rooted in tribal customs and cultural traditions from around the world, making string figures is an ancient pastime that continues to charm people of all ages. This compilation of projects from String Figure Magazine presents easy-to-follow photographs and simple, step-by-step directions for creating more than two dozen captivating string figures that can jump, flip, and perform other tricks. In addition to basic instructions on how to get started, this guide features brief accounts of each figure's historical background. They include "Kidnapped Baby" and "Broken Home, Mended Home" from Hawaii, "A Flock of Birds" and "Old Man Chewing" from the Solomon Islands, and the Australian "Setting Sun." From the Congo come "Leopard's Mouth," "Rubber Band" from Tibet, and from India, "Scissors." Other figures spotlight the traditions of North America's Navajo and Kwakiutl peoples and natives of Brazil, Guyana, and Argentina. A great travel pastime and on-the-go activity, making string figures is a delightful, inexpensive, and easily acquired hobby.
Author : Donna J. Haraway
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822373785
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.
Author : Libby Koponen
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316025739
A fictionalized account of the author's childhood experiences moving from the United States to London, England, and attending a boarding school.
