Download or read book The Flying Tortoise written by Simons Acquah and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving tale of a Tortoise whose dream was to fly."How is that possible, Your shell is made of rock," said his friend.Some laughed, some cheered, but he made his dreams come true.Pick up this book and share in a story that inspires every reader to find ways of making dreams come true. This Tortoise was able to fly. Find out how he did it and share in the joy of overcoming obstacles. The Tortoise adventure series is an amazing collection of stories of animals inspiring hope, friendship, love, and positive behavior. Teachers and children are having a good time with this series. "This book is perfect for the family library or classroom shelves. It teaches important lessons while telling a story about Tortoise, it engages children throughout. The illustrations are bright and vivid." Maria Dismondy. Children's Book Author.
Download or read book Mbe s Magical Flight written by Amara Ejike (Amarachi Onuagha) and published by Amara Ejike (Amarachi Onuagha). This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mbe's Magical Flight is a story set in Ala's beautiful and colourful forest; Mbe, the tortoise, is a mischievous creature who loves playing pranks on his friends. One day, he hears that Chi, the creator, is having a tea party in the sky. Mbe wants to go, but he doesn't have wings. So he comes up with a plan: to borrow feathers from his friends, the birds, and attach them to his hands to make wings. Mbe's friends are initially hesitant but eventually agree to help him. They fly to the sky, and Mbe has a great time at the tea party but plays a prank on his best friends and acts selfishly. As a result of his selfishness, Mbe gets hurt. He falls out of the sky and breaks his back. His friends help him to get home, and he apologizes for his behaviour. Mbe learned a valuable lesson based on honesty, true friendship and caring. The story is set in a colourful and vibrant African forest. It is also funny and heart-warming and will appeal to children of all ages. The story is also beautifully written, and the characters are well-developed. Children will enjoy this story and learn valuable lessons from it.
Download or read book The Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebirth written by Jimi Ojikutu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebirth is a collection of short stories that gives the reader African story telling from an entirely different never before explored perspective. I was looking at telling stories unique universal stories in African settings like they have never been told before, delving into genres that other African writers are yet to explore, from Horror, to Sci-fi, Fantasy, the stories take you on a journey that are both magical and sometimes scary, from places that can only exist in the imagination and myths to places we see everyday. This is not just a collection of stories, it is a journey that will excite you and make you ask for more with each turn of the pages. Once you are done reading, you would have been taken through a visual road trip, with vivid enlivened characters and settings that jump right out of the pages of the book, Rebirth plays in your head almost like a movie
Download or read book Hindu Literature written by Epiphanius Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peerless Images written by Vice-President Eleanor G Sims and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first survey of the figural arts of the Iranian world from prehistoric times to the early twentieth century ever to consider themes, rather than styles. Analyzing primarily painting - in manuscripts and albums, on walls and on lacquered, painted pen boxes and caskets - but also the related arts of sculpture, ceramics, and metalwork, the author finds that the underlying themes depicted on them through the ages are remarkably consistent. Eleanor Sims demonstrates that all these arts display similar concerns: kingship and legitimacy; the righteous exercise of princely power and the defense of national territory; and the performance of rituals and the religious duties called for by the paramount cult of the day. She describes a variety of superb works of art inside and outside these categories, noting not only how they illustrate archetypal themes but also what it is about them that is unique. She also discusses the ways that Iranian art both influenced and was influenced by invaders and neighboring lands. Boris I. Marshak discusses pre-Islamic and also Central Asian art, in particular the earliest Iranian wall paintings and their pictorial parallels in rock carvings and metalwork, and the richly painted temples and houses of Panjikent. Ernst J. Grube considers religious imagery, and provides an informative bibliography.
Download or read book Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fables written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Across the Sahara by Motor Car written by Georges-Marie Haardt and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth written by Robert F. Campany and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-04-08 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and thus transcend death. Narratives of their achievements circulated widely. Ge Hong (283-343 c.e.) collected and preserved many of their stories in his Traditions of Divine Transcendents, affording us a window onto this extraordinary response to human mortality. Robert Ford Campany's groundbreaking and carefully researched text offers the first complete, critical translation and commentary for this important Chinese religious work, at the same time establishing a method for reconstructing lost texts from medieval China. Clear, exacting, and annotated, the translation comprises over a hundred lively, engaging narratives of individuals deemed to have fought death and won. Additionally, To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth systematically introduces the Chinese quest for transcendence, illuminating a poorly understood tradition that was an important source of Daoist religion and a major social, cultural, and religious phenomenon in its own right.
Download or read book A Hen in the Wardrobe written by and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramzi's dad is acting very strangely. He climbs trees in the middle of the night, and even goes into Ramzi's wardrobe looking for a hen. The trouble is, he's sleepwalking because he's homesick for his native Algeria. So Ramzi, Dad and Mum go back to Dad's Berber village in the desert region of North Africa, and Ramzi meets his Berber grandmother and cousins, and even braves the scary Sheherazad. But can Ramzi help his dad and what will happen when they get back home again. This is a funny, heart-warming family story by an exciting new author, set in Britain and Algeria, with fascinating glimpses of traditional Berber culture and lots of colourful characters.
Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions written by Laszlo Zsolnai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, it is being recognized that spirituality, defined here as "a multiform search for a transcendent meaning of life that connects them to all living beings and brings them in touch with God or ‘Ultimate Reality,’" is an aspect of almost every sphere and aspect of social life. It appears in humanity’s dealings with nature, home and community, healing, economics and business, knowledge, and education. The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions is a stimulating collection that summarizes the most important issues, frameworks, discussions, and problems relating to spiritually inspired activities in different fields of social life. The contributors explore how spirituality is a part of existence and present approaches and models for professionals working in diverse areas. Presented in seven parts, the book provides a full overview of current research and practice. Part II, "Facets of spirituality," explores topics including philosophy, psychology, theology, and culture. Part III, "Nature," looks at ecology, agriculture, cities, and tourism. Part IV, "Home and community," presents chapters on various life stages, disability, gender, and culture. Part V, "Healing," examines medicine, mental and physical health, and ill-health. In Part VI, "Economy, politics, and law," contributors discuss business, leadership and the workplace, peace, and policing. Part VII, "Knowledge and education," includes chapters on science, design, fashion, literature, and the arts. In the final part, "Way forward," the editors look to the future with a chapter on inter-spirituality and the renewal of social practices. Driven by contemporary research and new developments, this Handbook is an innovative and interdisciplinary collection that provides an essential overview of contemporary spirituality and society from an international selection of contributors. The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions offers accessible, diverse, and engaging international research, and its scope will appeal to academics and students of a wide range of subjects, including aging and addiction, psychology, theology, religious studies, sociology, business studies, and philosophy. It will also be an important work for professionals in medical and social services, the clergy, education, business, the arts, religious communities, and politics, and members of organizations looking at the links between spirituality, religion, and society.
Download or read book Indian Fairy Stories written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Articulating the ij ba Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al Andalus written by Mariam Rosser-Owen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus. Al-Mansur, the founder of this dynasty, is usually considered a usurper of caliphal authority, who pursued military victory at the expense of the transcendental achievements of the first two caliphs. But he also commissioned a vast extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba, founded a palatine city, conducted skilled diplomatic relations, patronised a circle of court poets, and owned some of the most spectacular objects to survive from al-Andalus, in ivory and marble. This study presents the evidence for a reconsideration of this period.
Download or read book Our Story Magic written by Gcina Mhlophe and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Story Magic is a collection of enchanting and compelling tales written by Gcina Mhlophe, South Africa’s most popular performance storyteller. The illustrations are by artists from Mhlophe’s home province of Kwa-Zulu Natal. Read and share these eleven stories with the love that went into creating them.
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Download or read book Mexican and Central American Antiquities Calendar Systems and History written by Eduard Seler and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
