Author : Won-Ldy Paye
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781555919917
Dan stories from Liberia represent great storytelling and universal values.
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781596793446
Relates how the leopard got his spotted coat in order to hunt the animals in the dappled shadows of the forest.
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780817272920
WHY THE LEOPARD HAS SPOTS SB
Author : Mwenye Hadithi
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780141342160
Inspired by traditional animal stories from Africa and the Tingatinga artwork of Tanzania, the Tinga Tinga Tales series of picture books features the colourful cast of animals from the television animation and glorious Tingatinga artwork. Tinga Tinga Tales airs daily on CBeebies. In this modern take on creation tales, brilliantly colourful Tingatinga artwork tells the story of Leopard's transformation from a dark, shy cat to the beautifully spotted animal we know today. You see there was a time when Leopard didn't have any spots. Her coat was as plain as plain can be, and she was very shy... So what happened when Leopard helped Puff Adder, and in return he sang her a Tinga Tinga lullaby?
Author : Brian Goodwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691217807
Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? In this powerful intervention into current biological thinking, Brian Goodwin argues that such genetic reductionism has important limits. Drawing on the sciences of complexity, the author shows how an understanding of the self-organizing patterns of networks is necessary for making sense of nature. Genes are important, but only as part of a process constrained by environment, physical laws, and the universal tendencies of complex adaptive systems. In a new preface for this edition, Goodwin reflects on the advances in both genetics and the sciences of complexity since the book's original publication.
Author : Kristopher Jansma
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101606134
Winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award Honorable Mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award "F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" (The Village Voice) in this inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe—from the author of Why We Came to the City As early as he can remember, the narrator of this remarkable novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma’s hopelessly unreliable—yet hopelessly earnest—narrator will be haunted by the success of his greatest friend and literary rival, the brilliant Julian McGann, and endlessly enamored with Evelyn, the green-eyed girl who got away. A profound exploration of the nature of truth and storytelling, this delightful picaresque tale heralds Jansma as a bold, new American voice.
Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 1903
Category : African Americans
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9781614732174
Follow 14 African animals as they attempt to find out how many spots their leopard friend has. This funny, and frustrating, tale is highly interactive, engaging children to count along with the characters.
Author : Aernout Zevenbergen
Publisher : Spots of a leopard
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0620433116
"Spots of a leopard" is a quest into manhood. When journalist Aernout Zevenbergen moved to Kenya, he had no idea that his encounters with life would inspire him unto a journey of self-discovery. What is love? When is a man a good father? Can friendship conquer loneliness?Zevenbergen asks questions few have dared to ask men. Faced with their honesty, the author gets to confront his own demons too.
Author : Gerrit Dimmendaal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004224149
In The Leopard’s Spots, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal discusses the interaction between language, cognition, and culture in an African context with special focus on the cultural construction of meaning through language. Such constructions are constrained by our cognitive system, but leave lots of space for culture-specific interpretations and thereby for tremendous typological diversity between languages. This variation reflects the adaptive nature of human language in the same way that the spots of the leopard reflect selective advantages for its natural habitat. But whereas science has essentially one explanation for the rosettes of the leopard, the non-scientific mind may attach meaning to his or her cultural environment by way of language through a plethora of strategies.
