Download or read book Almond Eyes Baby Face written by Pilleater and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The millennial generation is lost in a sea of virtual reality. At the end of The 2000s, the internet took over an innocent generation onto "social media." The world was finally over in 2012. ...Or was it? It began the life of a crude individual by the name of Pilleater, who undertook a quest into his own sexuality. This is a collection of short stories of all of his traumas and ill wishes upon society. From everything to horrible memoirs, awkward house parties, miserable depression, and vaporwave science-fiction, this book is about a certain subject that haunts this generation. If you ever were an avid reader of Juxtapoz, Giant Robot, or Amped Asia magazine, and you had a psychotic or abusive Asian girlfriend, you will begin to see the same revelations that Pilleater written down in this book. Flip to any page and start reading. You will regret that choice.
Download or read book Love What Matters written by LoveWhatMatters and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling tradition of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Humans of New York comes a collection of authentic, emotional, and inspiring stories about life’s most important moments, as curated by the editors at Love What Matters. “90% of the reads bring me to tears. I just can't believe the love this world truly has when all we see is hate. This is so uplifting.” —Shelsea Where do you go when you want to feel inspired? When you want to forget about the divisiveness and the anger? For over five million people, that place is Love What Matters, a digital platform dedicated to finding and sharing the daily moments of kindness, compassion, and love that so often go overlooked. This curated collection of powerful stories features first person accounts and photographs that perfectly capture each moment: A husband learning he’s about to be a dad. A new mom embracing her body. A cashier inadvertently teaching a young girl a lesson about patience. A bagel from a stranger that saved a homeless man’s life. From long overdue adoptions to military heroes returning home; from a fireman’s touching 9/11 tribute to what an old dinner plate found at a bake sale can teach us all about life—these are the moments that matter. They are genuine. Authentic. Raw. And they are perfect in their imperfection—just like all of us. You will no doubt experience goosebumps and tears, but this mosaic of life’s moments will leave you with something even more profound: a reminder that, in the end, love always wins. “This really is the best page on Facebook. It renews your love of humanity. There are still good people. We need more reports of acts of kindness.” —Johnny
Download or read book The Underground World written by Thomas Wallace Knox and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book written by Jay Lumbert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jack Trance's father is assassinated he has no time to grieve. His father leaves him a coded letter that leads to an ancient book, a stack of old financial documents and a chche of gold bars, with only a few clues to what they mean. When he asks his friends for help, they begin to mysteriously die, and then Jack becomes a target. He must evade death, unravel the clues and stop a two thousand year old plot to control the world.
Download or read book Cultural Treasures of the World written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a guided tour through history and discover the most precious, iconic, and celebrated objects ever created. Revered, admired, and protected - every country and culture has certain artifacts that are prized above all others. Cultural Treasures of the World brings together more than 200 of these objects, exploring the fascinating and unique stories behind each of them. From the Bust of Nefertiti to the Benin Bronzes, and the Altamira cave paintings to Van Gogh's Sunflowers, these artifacts and artworks are revered for their beauty, artistry, or historical significance - and often all three at once. Discover how and why they were created, unravel the hidden meanings and symbolism they contain, and learn about the cultural legacy they have left behind. So what are you waiting for? Dive into this awe-inspiring history of art book to explore: - An immersive “visual tour” approach, combining stunning photography with accessible text and annotation - Feature boxes on cultural influences, symbolism, and technique offer additional context - Covers a wide range of regions, periods, and media – including sculpture, painting, jewelry, tapestry, rock art, documents, sacred objects, and more A treasure trove of human creativity that offers a fresh and unforgettable new perspective on civilizations and societies, Cultural Treasures of the World is the perfect gift for gallery- and museum-lovers, and armchair travelers everywhere. Doubling up as a great coffee table book, Cultural Treasures of the World combines stunning photography with detailed annotation to highlight key elements of technique, artistry, and symbolism, making this museum in a book perfect for anyone with an interest in art, history and culture alike.
Download or read book Underground written by Thomas Wallace Knox and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No More Hats written by V.M. Sojourner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a woman named Elsie Banks and her long life, her family, and her hats. Elsie and her husband Marty Banks had sixteen children. She was the amazing old lady who struck up a conversation with anyone she met. Elsie wore hats to church as if it was mandatory and frowned upon her daughters as they grew older and refused to don hats for church. She was a Black Southern Baptist lady and somehow felt God paid attention to the hat on your head as a symbol of holiness. The stories tell of love of Elsie, from youth to her aging life, drama of sibling rivalry with her children, and the tragedies of cancer and HIV in the family. She died at the age of one hundred and one. She said, “no more hats because a crown awaited her in heaven.”
Download or read book Wearing Culture written by Heather Orr and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields—from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians—to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. Documenting the elaborate practices of costume, adornment, and body modification in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Oaxaca, the Soconusco region of southern Mesoamerica, the Gulf Coast Olmec region (Olman), and the Maya lowlands, this book demonstrates that adornment was used as a tool for communicating status, social relationships, power, gender, sexuality, behavior, and political, ritual, and religious identities. Despite considerable formal and technological variation in clothing and ornamentation, the early indigenous cultures of these regions shared numerous practices, attitudes, and aesthetic interests. Contributors address technological development, manufacturing materials and methods, nonfabric ornamentation, symbolic dimensions, representational strategies, and clothing as evidence of interregional sociopolitical exchange. Focusing on an important period of cultural and artistic development through the lens of costuming and adornment, Wearing Culture will be of interest to scholars of pre-Hispanic and pre-Columbian studies.
Download or read book Islamicate Textiles written by Faegheh Shirazi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to uncover the central roles that textiles play within Muslim-majority communities. This thematically arranged book sheds light on the traditions, rituals and religious practices of these regions, and the ways in which each one incorporates materials and clothing. Drawing on examples including Iranian lion carpets and Arabic keffiyeh, Faegheh Shirazi frames these textiles and totemic items as important cultural signifiers that, together, form a dynamic and fascinating material culture. Like a developing language, this culture expands, bends and develops to suit the needs of new generations and groups across the world. The political significance of Islamicate textiles is also explored: Faegheh Shirazi's writing reveals the fraught relationship between the East – with its sought-after materials and much-valued textiles – and the European countries that purchased and repurposed these goods, and lays bare the historical and contemporary connections between textiles, colonialism, immigration and economics. Dr Shirazi also discusses gender and how textiles and clothing are intimately linked with sexuality and gender identity.
Download or read book In Search of Rhett Butler written by Sharron Haynes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What typical Southern girl who grew up in the decades of the 40's and 50's hadn't wanted to be Scarlett O'Hara - especially if she happened to be the namesake of that character? Born on the very day and at the precise time Gone With the Wind premiered in Atlanta, Scarlett Harwood's destiny had simply collided with the stars, or so went the thinking of her dreamy-eyed, melodramatic young mother whose address was Cloud Nine. It was on her fifteenth birthday that Scarlett Harwood finally saw the movie from which her name had come. From the moment Vivien Leigh's character materialized on the screen until the credits rolled, the girl was mesmerized, dumbstruck by the twinship she saw between herself and that young belle. It felt to her like someone had crawled inside her head, excised her brain, and planted it in the head of Scarlett O'Hara. She left the theatre that day still dabbing her tears, convinced that she was the reincarnation of the heroine - with one exception. She was smarter. She would never repeat O'Hara's mistakes. Never. Neither would she repeat those of her mother, Tessa. She would get it right. Unlike both Scarlett O'Hara and Tessa, once she found her perfect man, she would never let him go. That was the plan. Then came Jacob Stevenson.
Download or read book First Comes Love Then Comes written by TC Wheeler and published by TC Wheeler Publications. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With every marriage come hills to climb. That’s exactly what Rachel and Jacob is learning after what this society calls marrying so young. There are secrets being kept in the Thompson household. Some good; some bad. Test to conquer and attitudes that needs to be changed. Will Rachel and Jacob be able to keep their perfect marriage, or will they learn the hard way that in God’s eyes, there is no such thing as A Perfect Marriage. Who knows what will be uncovered?
Download or read book THE BABY S DAD written by Tram Doan and published by TRAM DOAN. This book was released on with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 “The gray wolf stood in front of the third little pig's house. It blew and then hit the brick house, but the house was still solid and did not fall. It was so angry that it decided to climb up to the roof to get in through the chimney. The third pig saw this and quickly lit a fire. Just as the gray wolf entered the furnace, his entire tail was burned. He immediately ran away sullenly, not daring to bully the three little pigs anymore." Twenty-year-old Luc Di Thanh's voice is clear. When reading to the end of the story, his intonation gradually becomes low, lulling the listener to sleep. Unfortunately, the five-year-old boy is spirited and full of energy. In the book of fairy tales there are twenty stories, the last story is "The Three Little Pigs", at this time Luc Di Thanh had a dry mouth and dry tongue, and was tired and sleepy. But the eyes of the kid lying next to him were still bright, without the slightest sign of sleepiness. Luc Di Thanh: "..."
Download or read book A Free Life written by Ha Jin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and begin a new life in the United States. As Nan takes on a number of menial jobs, eventually operating a restaurant with Pingping, he struggles to adapt to the American way of life and to hold his family together, even as he pines for a woman he loved and lost in his youth. Ha Jin's prodigious talents are in full force as he brilliantly brings to life the struggles and successes of the contemporary immigrant experience.
Download or read book The Congo Affair written by Norman Shakespeare and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating nail-biting and romantic exodus from civil war in the heart of the equatorial jungle. It takes compelling reasons to leave rewarding jobs and comfortable urban lifestyles, and move to an isolated aero-space project in an equatorial jungle. The facility, constructed during a brief lull in the country's tumultuous history, is located on the equator; a good place to launch large rockets. Nearly three thousand westerners live and work behind a fence separating them from the jungle and the darkness. Few take an interest in the primeval ecosystem outside. As happens frequently in the Congo, things start to go downhill. Civil-war spreads and the base, fifteen-hundred miles up the river, is slowly cut-off. Regular re-supply flights are suspended after a near miss with a surface-to-air missile fired from the bush. The alternate route; ten days by dilapidated ferry to Kinshasa, becomes less reliable by the week. Head-office personnel in Europe are out of touch with things on the ground, and reluctant to 'upset' local politicians by suggesting curtailing operations prematurely. The situation reaches a point where the inhabitants are forced to prepare for the worst, and to seriously consider their desperate evacuation plans. While the mighty river flows endlessly by, camp security guards assume power from the academic admin staff, and 'martial law' is imposed. James Kent, a very private divorcee with I.T. and military experience engages the help of friendly natives to gather intelligence and questions the head-guard's escape plan. The community starts to polarize. Some make it to the coast by ferry but the situation deteriorates further, with repeated attacks by rebels causing more tensions. The stage is set; darkest Africa, suspense and passionate romance take control.
Download or read book Anourkalla written by Fati Yara and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an early morning, Damaan went hunting in the forest with his two sons. Suddenly they found Anourkalla, a lost baby princess. They also found her mother, who, before passing away, warned them about the evil witch Worolla and asked them to protect her child. They decided to adopt the child and renamed her Angel Light so the witch wouldnt find her. As she grew up, the princess was bound not only to find the love of her life but also to cross paths again with Worolla.
Download or read book Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story written by K. David Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story contains a selection of short stories by the best-known authors in Brazilian literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. With few exceptions, these stories have appeared in English translation, although widely separated in time and often published in obscure journals. Here they are united in a coherent edition representing Brazil's modern, vibrant literature and culture. J.M. Machado de Assis, who first perfected the genre, wrote at least sixty stories considered to be masterpieces of world literature. Ten of his stories are included here, and are accompanied by strong and diverse representations of the contemporary story in Brazil, featuring nine stories by Clarice Lispector and seven by João Guimarães Rosa. The remaining 34 authors include Mário de Andrade, Graciliano Ramos, Osman Lins, Dalton Trevisan, and other major names whose stories in translation exhibit profound artistry. The anthology is divided into four major periods, "Tropical Belle-Époque," "Modernism," "Modernism at Mid-Century," and "Contemporary Views." There is a general introduction to Brazilian literary culture and introductions to each of the four sections, with descriptions of the authors and a general bibliography on Brazil and Brazilian literature in English. It includes stories of innovation (Mário de Andrade), psychological suspense (Graciliano Ramos), satire and perversion (Dalton Trevisan), altered realities and perceptions (Murilo Rubião), repression and sexuality (Hilda Hilst, Autran Dourado), myth (Nélida Piñón), urban life (Lygia Fagundes Telles, Rubem Fonescal), the oral tale (Jorge Amado, Rachel de Queiroz) and other overarching themes and issues of Brazilian culture. The anthology concludes with a haunting story set in the opera theater in Manaus by one of Brazil's most recently successful writers, Milton Hatoum.
Download or read book I Ain t Sayin She s a Gold Digger written by Erica K. Barnes and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentia, Kirrah, and Theori face challenges in their relationships while preying on men for money.
