Download or read book Heartbeat Drumbeat written by Irene Beltran Hernandez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: æHeartbeat Drumbeat is a coming-of-age story, set in the multi-cultural American Southwest. Morgana Cruz is the daughter of a Navajo mother and a Mexican-American father. In her search for identity, Morgana weaves her way through a series of personal and cultural conflicts, leading her to interact with a group of fascinating characters: Isadora, her Navajo mentor; Eagle Eyes, a young Indian lawyer seeking to establish his own identity; and MorganaÍs own parentsfeisty Frank Cruz and elusive Marisol, whose secret holds the key to MorganaÍs future. Rich in descriptions of Native American and Mexican coming-of-age rituals, this novel will appeal to readers of all ages.
Download or read book Drum Beat of My Heart written by Mukhanela Makwarela and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book especially touches the hearts of the living beings and its surroundings. This is the collection of poems from range. The author dedicates this book to his two sons, Anza and Mukona not forgetting his wonderful girlfriend, Thilivhali Meregi. Above them all he would like thanks his mother Elizabeth Makwarela who inspired his writing until today and again his brother pr. Hangwani Makwarela who helped him with the publication process of the book.
Download or read book The Heart as a Drum written by Robin Riley Fast and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to a wide range of contemporary poetry by Native Americans
Download or read book Shamanic Drumming written by Michael Drake and published by Talking Drum Publications. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This useful book reveals profound teachings about shamanic drumming, which is a time-honored method of healing and helping others. Rhythmist Drake presents the first practical guide to applying this ancient healing art to modern lives.
Download or read book Red Heart Red Earth written by Kelly Chance Beckman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-11-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RED HEART! RED EARTH!A NEW INDIAN EMPIRE IS ABOUT TO BE BORN! A NEW RED NATION RIGHT IN THE HEART OF AMERICA WITH A NEW BILL OF RIGHTS AND AN AMERICAN INDIAN CONSTITUTION!A NEW 'RED REVOLUTION' BEGINS IN AMERICA WITH THE MYSTERY OF THE RED HEART NATION WHO TAKE BACK THEIR LAND FROM AMERICA!THE DOUBLE MURDER TRIAL SETS THE STAGE FOR THIS MYSTERY WHEN, POWERFUL MONEY, HIDDEN MOTIVES AND MURDER JEOPARDIZE EVERYTHING. THEN, INDIAN TREASURE SETS IT ON FIRE!YOU BE THE SLEUTH!FOLLOW THE 40 CLUES AND FIGURE OUT WHO DUNNIT! WHO IS RED? WHO IS DEAD?"ONE LITTLE INDIAN, TWO LITTLE INDIANS."THE ANSWER IS NOT IN A CHILDREN'S RHYME; BUT IN TIME.
Download or read book Exploding the Reading written by David Booth and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2014-11-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One 200-year-old folk tale, 30 teachers, and 1,000 students. Ride along with literacy guru David Booth as he takes the same story to a wide variety of classrooms, from kindergarten all the way through grade 12, and be amazed by the learning generated. David argues that "it takes two to read a book". He reasons that sharing responses and bouncing ideas off others guides students to deeper thinking, and challenges them to reconsider their views and increase their understanding. This intriguing book also shows teachers how to help students discover the world outside the text: the origins, connections, place, values, and the different perceptions that readers have. It illustrates ways to transpose that original text into other forms that let students look at the text with different eyes, to ponder what might have been, to challenge what they read, and to add their new learning to the construct of the world. Throughout the book, authentic student samples and actual transcripts present students experiencing the featured story in a multitude of ways -- from poems and retellings, to visuals and arts, to conversation and blogs -- that will "explode" your definitions of comprehension, response, and engagement, and have you looking at classroom literacy in a whole new way!
Download or read book Heart Beat written by Joseph Cummings and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Listeners written by Harrison Demchick and published by Bancroft Press. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Before the plague, and the quarantine, fourteen-year-old Daniel Raymond had only heard of the Listeners. They were a gang, or at least that's what his best friend Katie's police officer father had said. They were criminals, thieves, monsters--deadly men clearly identifiable by the removal of their right ears.That's what Daniel had heard. But he didn't know.He didn't know much in those early days. He didn't know how the plague began, but then, no one did. The doctors and emergency medical personnel said it was airborne, and highly contagious. They said those infected became distorted both inside and out, and very, very dangerous.Then the helicopters came and took the doctors away, and no one said much of anything after that.Except the police officers. They said they'd provide food and order, in exchange for guns and, ultimately, anything else they felt like taking.Daniel's mother went out for toilet paper. She never came back. He hasn't heard from Katie since the phones went dead. And with his real family gone and surrogate family unreachable, Daniel, scared and alone, has nothing except the walls of his apartment, the window shattered, the poisonous air seeping in.That's when the Listeners arrive. Derek, the one-eared man with the big, soulful eyes, promises protection, and hope, and the choice not to sit alone and wait to die in some horrific way. He offers a brotherhood under the watch of their leader, the prophet Adam. He offers a place in the world to come.A harrowing work of literary horror, The Listeners, Harrison Demchick's electrifying debut, is a dark and terrifying journey into loneliness, desperation, and the devastating experience of one young boy in a world gone mad."
Download or read book JookBoxFury written by Kevern Stafford and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JookBoxFury is the story of a chaotic jukebox song pickers’ game show as it takes to the road to launch the psychedelic alcopop, Jook – the drink that turns everything green for go-go. Like a cross between Seinfeld and a beat generation Top of the Pops special, JookBoxFury is a celebration and an epitaph of rock and pop music. All rock ‘n’ roll is here, from its art and glories to its mythical stories.
Download or read book Dancing with the Wheel written by Sun Bear and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Native American philosophy behind the vision of the Medicine Wheel is that all things and beings on the earth are related and, therefore, must be in harmony for the earth to be balanced. Dancing with the Wheel teaches you how to apply this philosophy to your daily life through many practical exercises and ceremonies. These exercises will help you gain energy from the spirits, which can heal both humans and the earth. Through Dancing with the Wheel, the second book specifically devoted to the Medicine Wheel, those familiar with this vision will gain an increased understanding of the wheel and its developments over the last ten years. Those new to the Medicine Wheel will be ushered into the teachings and technique of what has come to be a source of comfort and direction for thousands of people around the world. Whether you are in the middle of the wilderness or the middle of a city, this book and its exercises will help you center yourself and establish peace with the earth and other beings.
Download or read book Reggae Wisdom Proverbs in Jamaican Music written by Anand Prahlad and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music" Swami Anand Prahlad looks at the contexts and origins of these proverbs, using them as a cultural sheet music toward understanding the history of Jamaican culture, Rastafari religion, and the music that isthat culture's worldwide voice.
Download or read book White Eagle written by Wa-Na-Nee-Che and published by Connections Book Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to show the reader how to contact the spirit of the Native American totem animals, using special cards. There are three levels of attainment: White Eagle Apprentice; White Eagle Medicine Student; and White Eagle Elder, which uses all the cards in the form of a medicine wheel.
Download or read book Shade of Pale written by Greg Kihn and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fast-paced and entertaining” tale of a New York psychiatrist, an Irish terrorist, and a seductive banshee from the author of Horror Show (Library Journal). Manhattan psychiatrist Jukes Wahler first spies her through a deli window: a stunning redheaded beauty who turns to look at him before she vanishes down the street. Then a patient tells him about a woman who’s been stalking him, convinced that she’s the banshee, the Irish angel of death. She’s young, beautiful . . . and has red hair. It must be a coincidence, right? After all, the patient is dangerously delusional. But Wahler soon has other things to worry about. His sister, Cathy, and her abusive boyfriend are missing, and his only lead is Padraic O’Connor, an ex–IRA commando and the leader of one of Northern Ireland’s most radical terrorist groups, who will offer his help—for a price. Filled with larger-than-life characters, including a jaded cop with no patience for the paranormal, a beautiful professor who specializes in Irish mythology, and a centuries-old protector of the innocent, Shade of Pale tells a fast-paced story of fate, vengeance, and love.
Download or read book Voices from the Ancestors written by Lara Medina and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Ancestors brings together the reflective writings and spiritual practices of Xicanx, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx womxn and male allies in the United States who seek to heal from the historical traumas of colonization by returning to ancestral traditions and knowledge. This wisdom is based on the authors’ oral traditions, research, intuitions, and lived experiences—wisdom inspired by, and created from, personal trajectories on the path to spiritual conocimiento, or inner spiritual inquiry. This conocimiento has reemerged over the last fifty years as efforts to decolonize lives, minds, spirits, and bodies have advanced. Yet this knowledge goes back many generations to the time when the ancestors understood their interconnectedness with each other, with nature, and with the sacred cosmic forces—a time when the human body was a microcosm of the universe. Reclaiming and reconstructing spirituality based on non-Western epistemologies is central to the process of decolonization, particularly in these fraught times. The wisdom offered here appears in a variety of forms—in reflective essays, poetry, prayers, specific guidelines for healing practices, communal rituals, and visual art, all meant to address life transitions and how to live holistically and with a spiritual consciousness for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Al and the Moon Dogs written by Steven G. Farrell and published by PTP Book Division. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Al and The Moon Dogs is Steven G. Farrell's fictional alternative historical novel the early days of the Beatles before they became internationally famous. When Gerard Moran flies over to Ireland to bury his Uncle Al, he discovers an old and battered manuscript among his uncle's papers. Al Moran has left behind his memoirs. What a memoir it is! It is the story of Al Moran's many adventures with Ginny Browne, a beautiful and independent woman from Liverpool, and a rebellious student by the name of John Lennon. This tough lad is also the leader of a struggling rock n roll band. Fact or fiction. Of course, it's fiction. The novel is a tribute to Liverpool, the Sixties and the Beatles.
Download or read book Bongo Rhythms written by Longwe Simon Mutengu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry stands as one of, if not the oldest, forms of all literary art. In Africa, where oral culture is the water and people are the fish, the fish swim these waters in so many ways and in thousands of styles as attested by the rich diversity of African language and dialectic heritage. Bongo Rhythms is, especially as it relates to this work, a very multifaceted phrase. Bongo is a Bantu word used here for its bi-referral meaning: 1. Brain, mind, or intellect 2. A class of drum types evolved from the talking drum Rhythms refer to the diversity of accentuation, ebb, flow, styles, etc., of thought frequencies in the context of the poems in this anthology. The Graffiti Fonts are the symbolic plays and displays of plain to sometimes deliberated hyperbole within the poems expected to yield transcended realization and feeling through revisualization, recontextualization, and rereading of the sense in each poem, line, etc.
Download or read book Beat Depression to Stay Healthier and Live Longer written by Gary S. Moak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical depression is a serious medical illness that not only can turn a happy retirement into a time of misery, but also leads to a wide range of health problems. Depression increases the rate of disease such as stroke, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s disease and worsens the course of others such as diabetes, chronic lung disease, and cancer. It also contributes to avoidable disability and premature death. Beat Depression to Stay Healthier and Live Longer alerts readers to this untold story. It challenges beliefs that depression is normal in old age because old age is depressing, instead helping readers see that depression is a serious brain disease, often related to changes in the brain associated with the aging process. Gary S. Moak clearly and compassionately explains depression as a physically destructive state, in which a brain on overdrive runs the body ragged, accelerating age-related wear and tear. Depression is not a harmless condition older adults can live with, and Dr. Moak addresses the impact of depression on specific geriatric health problems. Case stories, taken from the author’s experience practicing geriatric psychiatry for thirty years, are used to illustrate the physically and mentally harmful effects of depression and the road to recovering well. The book is a call to action. It encourages readers to seek treatment for depression, offering hope that older adults can get their lives back before it is too late. It provides practical guidance and advice for patients and family members about working with healthcare professionals to ensure that sufferers receive effective treatment for their depression and appropriate medical care for their physical needs. By shedding light on the impact of depression on physical health, Dr. Moak spotlights the importance of recognizing the signs and symptoms of depression and brings much needed attention to a subject that is so often overlooked.
