Download or read book A Royal Deck Ganjifa Art written by Anjali Raghbeer and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'O King of Kings! King of Cards! Have Mercy!' They begged. But no. King Orb's greed knew no beginning or end. King Orb, an expert in the game of Ganjifa, challenges king after king to the game. When they lose, he takes over their kingdom. Is it possible to stop this wicked king? Find out what King Orb loses and gains in this story. In A Royal Deck, Anjali Raghbeer leads children into the fascinating world of the Ganjifa playing cards through the story of an irresponsible king obsessed with the game.
Download or read book A Cultural History of Tarot written by Helen Farley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil. The 21 numbered playing cards of tarot have always exerted strong fascination, way beyond their original purpose, and the multiple resonances of the deck are ubiquitous. From T S Eliot and his 'wicked pack of cards' in "The Waste Land" to the psychic divination of Solitaire in Ian Fleming's "Live and Let Die"; and from the satanic novels of Dennis Wheatley to the deck's adoption by New Age practitioners, the cards have in modern times become inseparably connected to the occult. They are now viewed as arguably the foremost medium of prophesying and foretelling. Yet, as the author shows, originally the tarot were used as recreational playing cards by the Italian nobility in the Renaissance. It was only much later, in the 18th and 19th centuries, that the deck became associated with esotericism before evolving finally into a diagnostic tool for mind, body and spirit. This is the first book to explore the remarkably varied ways in which tarot has influenced culture. Tracing the changing patterns of the deck's use, from game to mysterious oracular device, Helen Farley examines tarot's emergence in 15th century Milan and discusses its later associations with astrology, kabbalah and the Age of Aquarius.
Download or read book Private eye Anonymous written by Tejas Modak and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art Gallery Case' is the first graphic novel of a character called Private-eye Anonymous. Anonymous is wise cracking detective with a flair for ironic humour and a knack for finding trouble. He finds it easily enough an art gallery exhibiting valuable works of an artist called Van Gaur. The trouble actually Anonymous is hired to protect the paintings from art thieves, and things don't quite go as expected. With his sidekick and best buddy chiki, Anonymous must solve the Art Gallery Case before the suspects make good their plan of pulling off the con. The writing is humorous noir with a touch of ridiculous. The artwork yanks you into the dark alleys, moonlit nights and dramatic settings of Anonymous world. A tantalizing new flavour in the Indian graphic novel curry.
Download or read book A Wicked Pack of Cards written by Ronald Decker and published by Bristol Classical Press. This book was released on 1996-12-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Download or read book The Last Mughal written by William Dalrymple and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph 'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard 'A compulsively readable masterpiece' Brian Urquhart, The New York Review of Books A stunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal. In May 1857 India's flourishing capital became the centre of the bloodiest rebellion the British Empire had ever faced. Once a city of cultural brilliance and learning, Delhi was reduced to a battered, empty ruin, and its ruler – Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last of the Great Mughals – was thrown into exile. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad: a fight to the death between two powers, neither of whom could retreat. The Last Mughal tells the story of the doomed Mughal capital, its tragic destruction, and the individuals caught up in one of the most terrible upheavals in history, as an army mutiny was transformed into the largest anti-colonial uprising to take place anywhere in the world in the entire course of the nineteenth century.
Download or read book A Dictionary Hind st n and English written by John Shakespear and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handmade in India written by Aditi Ranjan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Esoteric Symbols written by June O. Leavitt and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2007 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering scholarly work on occult symbols in literature, the reader is offered a vivid look into how W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and Franz Kafka--three masters of symbolic expression--utilized Tarot cards in their poetry and prose. Focusing on the Tarot's ancient associations with divine knowledge, its pictorial representation of both the Jewish and Christian Cabala, and the Tarot's more recent pedestrian affiliation with the occult, June Leavitt skillfully demonstrates how Yeats, Eliot, and Kafka align themselves in their uniquely individual ways with the Tarot symbols' mapping of reality. Paying close attention to the mystical nuances of the Tarot, Ms. Leavitt shows how Tarot symbols allow for radically new readings of the texts in which they are situated, and play a transformative role in the three writers' search for God. This search remained indecisive for Kafka, resulted in Eliot's conversion to Anglo-Catholicism, and went hand in hand with Yeats' passion for pagan gods and angels. Visit the author's website at http: //www.spiritualityteaching.com.
Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Card Games written by David Parlett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imported from the Mamluks of Egypt, card games first hit Europe around 1371 and within ten years had spread from Spain and Italy to France and Germany. By 1420, German and Swiss cardmakers were producing packs by the thousands (first by stencil, later by metal engraving) marked with a bewildering array of suits, including hounds, bears, parrots, roses, helmets, banners, and bells. Games proliferated as well, and by 1534, Rabelais could name 35 different card games in Chapter 22 of Gargantua. Today, of course, there are thousands of games, from the universally popular Poker and Contract Bridge, to national manias such as Swiss Jass, German Skat, and French Belote. This is a historical guide to cards in Europe and America. This is not primarily a book of rules or hints on how to play better, but a survey of where the games originated, how they have developed over time, and what their rituals and etiquette tell us about the people who play them.
Download or read book Statistics in Context written by Barbara Blatchley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Statistics--Who Needs Them? -- Chapter 2 Types of Data -- Chapter 3 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Creating and Interpreting Graphics -- Chapter 4 Measures of Central Tendency: What's So Average about the Mean? -- Chapter 5 Variability: The "Law of Life" -- Chapter 6 Where Am I? Normal Distributions and Standard Scores -- Chapter 7 Basic Probability Theory -- Chapter 8 The Central Limit Theorem and Hypothesis Testing -- Chapter 9 The z-Test -- Chapter 10 The t-Test -- Chapter 11 Analysis of Variance -- Chapter 12 Confidence Intervals and Effect Size: Building a Better Mousetrap -- Chapter 13 Correlation and Regression: Are We Related? -- Chapter 14 The Chi-Square Test -- Chapter 15 Non-parametric Tests -- Chapter 16 Which Test Should I Use and Why?
Download or read book Indian Miniature Painting written by Anjan Chakraverty and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book journeys through the development and decline of the schools of Indian miniature painting. The represented masterpieces bear testimony to the genius of the painters. Of special interest is the context, portrayed through contemporary literature and chronicles that throw light on the lives of these master artists.
Download or read book Myths of the Hindus Buddhists written by Sister Nivedita and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to the Hindustani Language written by John Shakespear and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Art and Artists written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Playing Cards and a Bibliography of Cards and Gaming written by Catherine Perry Hargrave and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mamluk Playing Cards written by Leo Ary Mayer and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1971 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Land of Cards written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, novelist, painter, musician and Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore was one of modern India's greatest literary figures. This collection brings together some of his best works—poems, short stories and plays in one volume. Be it the wit, magic and lyricism of his poetry or the vividly etched social milieu of his stories, or the sheer power and vibrancy of his plays, Tagore's versatility and unceasing creativity come alive in these writings. The title play 'The Land of Cards' is a satire against the bondage of orthodox rules, while in 'The Post Office', a child suffocated by his confined existence dreams of freedom in the world outside. From a son's cherished desire to protect his mother in the poem 'Hero' to a fruit-seller longing for his daughter faraway in the story 'Kabuliwala', Tagore's works convey his humanism and his deep understanding of human relationships.
