Author : Maysoon Salama
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Christchurch Mosque Shootings, Christchurch, N.Z., 2019
ISBN : 9781776900374
Aya and her grandad grow swan plants in their garden. Dedicated to the children and whānau of the Aotearoa New Zealand Muslim community, whose lives were changed forever on 15 March 2019.
Author : Maysoon Salama
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9781776900428
Author : Zeena Pliska
Publisher : Page Street Kids
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781624149313
Caterpillar crawls from leaf to leaf, eating and waiting, all alone in a big, green world. Then Orange appears—Orange floats, and flits, and flies, graceful and beautiful. In this sweet, moving story of intergenerational friendship, a small caterpillar is befriended by a glorious monarch butterfly, and together they learn to see the world through each other’s eyes.
Author : Rak Razam
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 158394799X
Experiential journalist Rak Razam sets out to document the thriving business of 21st-century hallucinogenic shamanism starting with a trip to the annual Amazonian Shaman Conference in Iquitos, Peru, where he meets a motley crew of "spiritual tourists," rogue scientists, black magicians, and indigenous and Western healers and guides, all in town to partake of the ritual--and the medicine--of ayahuasca, "the vine of souls." Combining his personal story with the history of Amazonian shamanism, Razam takes the reader along on an entertaining, enlightening adventure. In areas of Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru, the traditional herbal brew known as ayahuasca or yajé is legally used to heal physical ailments and to cleanse and purify the spirit by connecting it to the web of life. Sting and Tori Amos have admitted sampling it in Latin America, as has Paul Simon, who chronicled the experience in his song "Spirit Voices." Aya Awakenings works as a cautionary tale, a travelogue, and a memoir, but primarily acts as a portal through which readers are able to gain more information about the perils and the promise of spiritual reconnection through ayahuasca. "A memorable--and deeply personal--journey into the hearts and minds of those who carry on the shamanic traditions of ayahuasca."--Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Contents Foreword by Dennis McKenna Preface by Rak Razam Departure 1 Seekers of the Mystery; 2 Wheel of Fortune; 3 Jungle Fever; 4 Space Cadets; 5 Cosmovision; 6 Hamburger Universe; 7 Surfing; 8 Ayahuasca Disco; 9 Logos; 10 Night of the Black Puma; 11 Downtime; 12 Seeds; 13 Beasts Initiation; 14 Shaman School; 15 Snakes and Ladders; 16 Heart of Darkness; 17 Return to the Source; 18 The Love Creek Session; 19 The High Frontier; 20 Stairway to Heaven; 21 Going Down to the River to Pray; 22 The Hero's Journey Return 23 Secret Women's Business; 24 The Prime Directive; 25 One River; 26 When Stones Dream; 27 Paying the Earth; 28 Talking with Kevin; 29 Illuminated; 30 Final Flight Index Bibliography Author's Note
Author : Silke Hein
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 3775751009
Dieses zauberhafte Bilderbuch von zwei Künstlern, die gemeinsam Eltern sind, erzählt eine anrührende Entwicklungsgeschichte. Jeppe Hein und seine Frau Silke haben sich zusammengetan, um ein Bilderbuch der ganz besonderen Art zu schaffen. Es erzählt von den vielfältigen Erlebnissen der Raupe Aya und ihrer Verwandlung in einen nicht weniger facettenreich strahlenden Schmetterling. Zum Leben erwacht die Geschichte durch ihre Bilder. Jeppe Heins Aquarellzeichnungen werden kongenial und einfühlsam durch Silke Heins Collagen bereichert. Es entstehen Farb- und Strukturflächen von geradezu magischer Tiefe. Keine Frage, dass dieser Schmuckband nicht nur etwas für Kinder ist. Bilder von so ausgefeilter Farbenfreude fangen Betrachter jeden Alters ein, um der eigenen Imagination Flügel zu verleihen.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9401204675
This volume addresses the impact of human movement on the aesthetic practices that make up the fabric of culture. The essays explore the ways in which cultural activities—ranging from the habitual gestures of the body to the production of specific artworks—register the impact of migration, from the forced transportation of slaves to the New World and of Jews to the death camps to the economic migration of peoples between the West and its erstwhile colonies; from the internal and external exile of Palestinians to the free movement of cosmopolitan intellectuals. Rather than focusing exclusively on art produced by those identified as migrant subjects, this collection opens up the question of how aesthetics itself migrates, transforming not only its own practices and traditions, but also the very nature of our being in the world, as subjects producing, as well as produced by, the cultures in which we live. The transformative potential of cultures on the move is both affirmed and critiqued throughout the collection, as part of an exploration of the ways in which globalisation implicates us ever more tightly in the unequal relations of production that characterise late modernity. This collection brings academic scholars from a variety of disciplines into conversation with practising visual and verbal artists; indeed, many of the essays break down the distinction between artist and academic, suggesting a dynamic interchange between critical reflection and creativity.
Author : Gary Tomlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521873916
A study of indigenous music-making in New World societies, including the Aztecs and the Incas.
Author : Aya Yajima
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781974732524
Complete the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba experience with these exciting novels featuring original stories. Revisit the Demon Slayer Corps in these novels that each contain five tales of love, friendship, and courage! A mystical flower offers a prosperous future for its bearer. Determined to find the flower for Nezuko, Tanjiro makes a harrowing journey up a mountain—but Inosuke reveals the flower’s true worth. In other tales, Zenitsu recalls the day he battled a demon to save a crying girl, a fortune-teller warns Zenitsu that he’ll die if a girl falls for him, Kanao helps Aoi learn her value apart from killing demons, and when Kimetsu Academy students search for the recipe to win over Mr. Tomioka, Mr. Rengoku ropes them into cooking!
Author : Jella Fink
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3830992734
The lives of weavers and their textile creations form the central subject in this monograph. It explores an understudied field of material culture studies in contemporary Myanmar. Textile cultures, craftsmanship and (national) identity are the core topoi of this work. Embedded in a century of shifting political and economic systems, the documented weaving cultures enhance our understanding of transformation processes on the local level. This book brings together current impulses of material culture studies and observations based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork data.
Author : Anurag Agrawal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691166358
The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plant Monarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than its distinctive presence and mythic journeying. In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the milkweed—a toxic plant named for the sticky white substance emitted when its leaves are damaged—and how this inextricable and intimate relationship has been like an arms race over the millennia, a battle of exploitation and defense between two fascinating species. The monarch life cycle begins each spring when it deposits eggs on milkweed leaves. But this dependency of monarchs on milkweeds as food is not reciprocated, and milkweeds do all they can to poison or thwart the young monarchs. Agrawal delves into major scientific discoveries, including his own pioneering research, and traces how plant poisons have not only shaped monarch-milkweed interactions but have also been culturally important for centuries. Agrawal presents current ideas regarding the recent decline in monarch populations, including habitat destruction, increased winter storms, and lack of milkweed—the last one a theory that the author rejects. He evaluates the current sustainability of monarchs and reveals a novel explanation for their plummeting numbers. Lavishly illustrated with more than eighty color photos and images, Monarchs and Milkweed takes readers on an unforgettable exploration of one of nature's most important and sophisticated evolutionary relationships.
