Book Description
Peacock becomes leader of the forest, and marries Surya, the daughter of the sun king. But Peacock, who is only concerned with his looks, is replaced by another leader and learns that looks alone are not what matter.
Author : Vayu Naidu
Publisher : Tulika Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788186838273
Peacock becomes leader of the forest, and marries Surya, the daughter of the sun king. But Peacock, who is only concerned with his looks, is replaced by another leader and learns that looks alone are not what matter.
Author : Vayu Naidu
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Peafowl
ISBN : 9788186895368
A folk tale from Rajasthan. In the beginning the peacock had no markings on its shimmering blue-green tail. This story tells how the peacock's tail got decorated with eyes.
Author : Vayu Naidu
Publisher : Tulika Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 1998-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788186838297
Enchanting tree spirits grant a poor playwright named Muthu his wish: that he always have food. Muthu then hosts a feast for the entire village and in so doing angers the richest man in town.
Author : Bill Peet
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 1979-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395281598
When Prewitt's tail feathers grow to resemble a monstrous face, the other peacocks banish him from the flock.
Author : Betsy Franco
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416903864
Come explore the hidden shapes and patterns in nature. The peacock's flashy tail is a masterpiece of color and shape. A buzzing beehive is built of tiny hexagons. Even a snake's skin is patterned with diamonds. Poet Betsy Franco and Caldecott Honor winner Steve Jenkins bring geometry to life in this lively, lyrical look at the shapes and patterns that can be found in the most unexpected places.
Author : Vayu Naidu
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9788186895054
From Rajasthan, this folk story from India tells how the peacock's tail got decorated with eyes. Included are two original songs.
Author : Helena Cronin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521457651
This book is a success story. It explains two long-running puzzles of the theory of natural selection. How can natural selection favour those, like the ant, that renounce tooth and claw in favour of the public-spirited ways of the commune? How can it explain the peacock's tail, flamboyant and a burden to its bearer; surely selection would act against useless ornamentation? Helena Cronin's enthralling account blends history, science and philosophy in a gripping tale that is scholarly, entertaining and eminently readable. The hardback edition was selected by Nature as one of the best scientific books in 1992. Also the New York Times chose it as one of their best books of 1992. The author divides her time between the Philosophy Department at the London School of Economics and the Zoology Department at Oxford.
Author : Steve Stewart-Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108776035
The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our altruistic tendencies, and our culture? The book tackles these issues by drawing on two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting fragment. Featuring a new foreword by Michael Shermer.
Author : Niyatee Sharma
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2022-04
Category :
ISBN : 9789389203066
* A fun ' find-it' book with a high-speed chase after a peacock - through a bustling market, onto an umbrella, up on a tree... and find out where else! * Written in short, crisp sentences that children will enjoy reading aloud * Colourful pictures with energy and detail create vibrant scenarios in which children will enjoy spotting the perky peacock * Plays on the idea of the peacock as a motif, common in India. The visuals pick up on that to bring in a range of other motifs.
Author : Diane Seuss
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 21,21 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1555979963
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Diane Seuss’s brilliant follow-up to Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Still life with stack of bills phone cord cig butt and freezer-burned Dreamsicle Still life with Easter Bunny twenty caged minks and rusty meat grinder Still life with whiskey wooden leg two potpies and a dead parakeet Still life with pork rinds pickled peppers and the Book of Revelation Still life with feeding tube oxygen half-eaten raspberry Zinger Still life with convenience store pecking order shotgun blast to the face —from “American Still Lives” Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl takes its title from Rembrandt’s painting, a dark emblem of femininity, violence, and the viewer’s own troubled gaze. In Diane Seuss’s new collection, the notion of the still life is shattered and Rembrandt’s painting is presented across the book in pieces—details that hide more than they reveal until they’re assembled into a whole. With invention and irreverence, these poems escape gilded frames and overturn traditional representations of gender, class, and luxury. Instead, Seuss invites in the alienated, the washed-up, the ugly, and the freakish—the overlooked many of us who might more often stand in a Walmart parking lot than before the canvases of Pollock, O’Keeffe, and Rothko. Rendered with precision and profound empathy, this extraordinary gallery of lives in shards shows us that “our memories are local, acute, and unrelenting.”