Book Description
Based on personal experience as a participant and observer over nearly a decade, Hale explores the unique spiritual beliefs of this Afro-Brazilian religion originated in Rio de Janeiro in the early twentieth century.
Author : Lindsay Hale
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826347339
Based on personal experience as a participant and observer over nearly a decade, Hale explores the unique spiritual beliefs of this Afro-Brazilian religion originated in Rio de Janeiro in the early twentieth century.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1472986326
Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-contributor reference work, with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings of all species and numerous subspecies, hundreds of informative line drawings, detailed range maps, and extensive bibliographies. Each volume contains an Introduction that brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in African ornithology, including the evolution and biogeography of African birds. Diagnoses of the families and genera, often with superspecies maps, are followed by the comprehensive species accounts themselves. These include descriptions of range and status, field characters, voice, general habits, food, and breeding habits. Full bibliographies, acoustic references, and indexes complete this scholarly work of reference. This sixth volume in the series deals comprehensively with picathartes, babblers, long-tailed tits, tits, penduline tits, nuthatches, creepers, sunbirds, white-eyes, sugarbirds, true shrikes, bush-shrikes, bulbuls, helmet-shrikes, orioles, drongos, crows, starlings and oxpeckers. The editors and artists have worked closely with other authors - all acknowledged experts in their field - to produce a superb reference in which comprehensive texts on every species are complemented by accurate and detailed paintings and drawings of the birds themselves.
Author : Tonya Hegamin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 2008
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780545020763
Newbery Honor winner Nelson collaborates with new writer Hegamin in this rap-inspired thriller--a supernatural tale told in the voices of a modern-day teenager and the ghost of an 18th-century slave girl.
Author : Arlene Mosel
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1466815523
Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo- chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo! Three decades and more than one million copies later children still love hearing about the boy with the long name who fell down the well. Arlene Mosel and Blair Lent's classic re-creation of an ancient Chinese folktale has hooked legions of children, teachers, and parents, who return, generation after generation, to learn about the danger of having such an honorable name as Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo. Tikki Tikki Tembo is the winner of the 1968 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1472986539
Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-contributor reference work, with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings of all species and numerous subspecies, hundreds of informative line drawings, detailed range maps, and extensive bibliographies. Each volume contains an Introduction that brings the reader up to date with the latest developments in African ornithology, including the evolution and biogeography of African birds. Diagnoses of the families and genera, often with superspecies maps, are followed by the comprehensive species accounts themselves. These include descriptions of range and status, field characters, voice, general habits, food, and breeding habits. Full bibliographies, acoustic references, and indexes complete this scholarly work of reference. This third volume in the series deals comprehensively with the parrots, turacos, cuckoos, barn owls, typical owls, nightjars, swifts, mousebirds, trogons, kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers, wood-hoopoes, Hoopoe, hornbills, barbets, honeyguides and woodpeckers. The editors and artists have worked closely with other authors - all acknowledged experts in their field - to produce a superb reference in which comprehensive texts on every species are complemented by accurate and detailed paintings and drawings of the birds themselves.
Author : Kedar Prasad Poudel
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Rick Barba
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 150673460X
An oversize, full color, hardcover cataloging art from the development of Skull and Bones. Experience the journey from outcast to infamous pirate in The Art of Skull and Bones! Explore life on the Indian Ocean with this high-end coffee table book featuring never-before-seen art and discover a world filled with beauty and danger. Dark Horse and Ubisoft invite readers to enter a perilous paradise with The Art of Skull and Bones, a bounty of concept art and creator commentary detailing the perilous adventures that await on the high waters!
Author : Cynthia Weil
Publisher :
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2015
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 161695356X
It's the summer of 1963 and JJ Green is a born songwriter - which is a major problem, considering that her family considers the music business to be a cesspool of lowlifes and hustlers. Defying all the naysayers, JJ takes an internship at the Brill Building, the epicentre of a new sound that is rapidly changing the world: rock and roll. JJ is finally living her dream. She even finds herself a writing partner in Luke Silver, a boy with mesmerising green eyes who seems to connect instantly with her music.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382500698
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Deborah Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1501352911
This collection explores the many ways in which the Netflix series Sense8 transcends television. As its characters transcend physical and psychological borders of gender and geography, so the series itself transcends those between television, new media platforms and new screen technologies, while dissolving those between its producers, stars, audiences and fans. Sense8 united, inspired and energized a global community of fans that realized its own power by means of online interaction and a successful campaign to secure a series finale. The series' playful but poignant exploration of globalization, empathy, transnationalism, queer and trans aesthetics, gender fluidity, imagined communities and communities of sentiment also inspired the interdisciplinary range of contributors to this volume. In this collection, leading academics illuminate Sense8 as a progressive and challenging series that points to vital, multifarious, contemporary social, political, aesthetic and philosophical concerns. Sense8: Transcending Television is much more than an academic examination of a series; it is an account and analysis of the way that we all receive, communicate and consider ourselves as participants in global communities that are social, political and cultural, and now both physical and virtual too.