Download or read book Year of the Monkey written by Patti Smith and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland with no design, yet heeding signs--including a talking sign that looms above her, prodding and sparring like the Cheshire Cat. In February, a surreal lunar year begins, bringing with it unexpected turns, heightened mischief, and inescapable sorrow. In a stranger's words, "Anything is possible: after all, it's the Year of the Monkey." For Smith--inveterately curious, always exploring, tracking thoughts, writing--the year evolves as one of reckoning with the changes in life's gyre: with loss, aging, and a dramatic shift in the political landscape of America. Smith melds the western landscape with her own dreamscape. Taking us from California to the Arizona desert; to a Kentucky farm as the amanuensis of a friend in crisis; to the hospital room of a valued mentor; and by turns to remembered and imagined places, this haunting memoir blends fact and fiction with poetic mastery. The unexpected happens; grief and disillusionment set in. But as Smith heads toward a new decade in her own life, she offers this balm to the reader: her wisdom, wit, gimlet eye, and above all, a rugged hope for a better world. Riveting, elegant, often humorous, illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids, Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.

Download or read book I Am the Monkey written by Jürg Wittwer and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thorough, thoughtful look at cross-cultural understanding from an experienced expatriate author." Kirkus Reviews - The internationally expanding business world makes multicultural skills all the more essential to successful management. Today's leaders must understand how culture deeply influences daily life and business, how it colors interpretations of the world, and how it can shape group and individual identity and mentality. Understanding these aspects of culture is exactly what this book enables readers to do. I am the Monkey! examines behavioral differences across cultures and, more importantly, offers an applicable methodology to help professionals identify and minimize cross-cultural issues encountered during assignments abroad. Certain personalities may find the process of becoming culturally competent easier than others, but anyone with a willingness to step outside their comfort zone and the know-how to do it can improve this skill. The five A's of cross cultural integration can guide you. They are Awareness, Accepting, Adapting, Adopting and taking Action. This fun and easy must-read is full of valuable insight from experts with extensive experience in multicultural management. As a potential or current international manager, the information in this book will provide you with the edge needed to win in a globalized economy.

Download or read book Monkey written by Wu Ch'êng-ên and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic Chinese novel: “Imagine a combination of picaresque novel, fairy tale, fabliau, Mickey Mouse, Davy Crockett, and Pilgrim’s Progress” (The Nation). Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic sixteenth-century novel is a combination of picaresque novel and folk epic that mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking adventure. It is the story of the roguish Monkey and his encounters with major and minor spirits, gods, demigods, demons, ogres, monsters, and fairies. This translation, by the distinguished scholar Arthur Waley, is the first accurate English version; it makes available to the Western reader a faithful reproduction of the spirit and meaning of the original. “Mr. Waley has done a remarkable job with this translation.” —Helena Kuo, The New York Times “The irreverent spirit and exuberant vitality of it portraiture . . . make it an entertainment to which Mr. Waley’s witty translation has obviously contributed not a little.” —The Times (London) “Told with immense gusto, and quite apart from its deeper meaning and wise proverbial sayings it is full of entertainment.” —The Guardian

Download or read book I Once Was a Monkey written by Jeanne M. Lee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colorful introduction to Buddhist fables A monkey, caught in a monsoon, finds shelter in a cave amid the rubble of a temple. The monkey is not alone. A lion, a jackal, a turtle, and a dove bicker in the cramped space, until a statue of Buddha comes to life. "Hush, children, hush." Buddha says. "I will tell you a story to pass the time." From the tale of the clever monkey outwitting a hungry crocodile to that of a bird and turtle rescuing a friend, the six amusing parables told by the Buddha will introduce young readers to the famous cycle of fables in Buddhist literature known as the Jatakas, or birth stories, which Buddha originally told to his disciples to illustrate his teachings. Joined with stunning linocut illustrations, Jeanne M. Lee's I Once Was a Monkey form a book notable for both its beauty and its wisdom.

Download or read book Monkey written by Colin Teevan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of the roguish Monkey and his exploits on a fabulous journey to India is one of the most popular classics in Asian literature. Monkey has been imprisoned in a mountain because of the chaos he has wrought in heaven. To be redeemed, he must guide the Buddhist monk Tripitaka from China, through the Himalayas, on a mystical quest in search of sacred scriptures. Helped by two friends, Pigsy and Sandy, he encounters demons, spirits, dragons and gods on a riotous road trip to enlightenment. With its mix of energetic kung-fu action, mischievous hero and cast of fantastically colourful characters Monkey! is sure to leave audiences as thrilled and delighted as last year's sell-out success The Three Musketeers. Monkey! is an adventure to enchant everyone aged seven and above.

Download or read book Monkey Games written by and published by Daniel Patton. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rain forest is all fun and games until you take a closer look. There have been battles for land among the monkeys for as far back as anyone can remember, and they continue to rage on as the monkey ballers must find out. Thrust from there fun and tom-foolery they must put aside any petty squabbles they have had in the past, and unite against the new threat. Will they be ready in time?

Download or read book The Monkey Grammarian written by Octavio Paz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hanuman, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist of this dazzling narrative--a mind-journey to the temple of Galta in India and the occasion for Octavio Paz to explore the nature of naming and knowing, time and reality, and fixity and decay. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112118003877 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Po Monkey s written by Will Jacks and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside of Merigold, Mississippi, off an unmarked dirt road, stands Po’ Monkey’s, perhaps the most famous house in Mississippi and the last rural juke joint in the state, now closed to the public. Before the death of the lounge’s owner, Willie Seaberry, in 2016, it was a mandatory stop on the constant blues pilgrimage that flows through the Delta. Seaberry ran Po’ Monkey’s Lounge for more than fifty years, opening his juke joint in the 1960s. A hand-built tenant home located on the plantation where Seaberry worked, Po’ Monkey’s was a place to listen to music and drink beer—a place to relax where everyone was welcomed by Seaberry’s infectious charm. In Po’ Monkey’s: Portrait of a Juke Joint, photographer Will Jacks captures the juke joint he spent a decade patronizing. The more than seventy black-and-white photographs featured in this volume reflect ten years of weekly visits to the lounge as a regular—a journal of Jacks’s encounters with other customers, tourists, and Willie Seaberry himself. An essay by award-winning writer Boyce Upholt on the cultural significance of the lounge accompanies the images. This volume explores the difficulties of preservation, historical context, community relations, and cultural tourism. Now that Seaberry is gone, the uncertainty of the future of his juke joint highlights the need for a historical record.

Download or read book Monkey King written by Wu Cheng'en and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collectible hardcover edition of one of the all-time great fantasy novels—which Neil Gaiman has said “is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people”—in an acclaimed one-volume translation, and featuring an illustrated foreword by the author of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel that is the basis for the Disney+ series American Born Chinese, starring Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu A Penguin Vitae Edition Before there was The Lord of the Rings, there was China’s Monkey King. The title character, also known as Sun Wukong, is a shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, and is beloved by fans of the most popular anime of all time, Dragon Ball, and the world’s largest e-sport, the video game League of Legends. For raiding Heaven’s Orchard of Immortal Peaches, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain and frees him only five hundred years later. To redeem himself, our irrepressible rogue hero has to protect the pious monk Tripitaka on his fourteen-year journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras. Accompanied by two other fallen immortals—Pigsy, a rice-loving pig able to fly with its ears, and Sandy, a depressive man-eating river-sand monster—Monkey King undergoes eighty-one trials, doing battle with all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards, and femmes fatales in this rollicking adventure that not only stands as the most popular of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature but also gave us one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. Penguin Vitae—loosely translated as “Penguin of one’s life”—is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

Download or read book The Monkey s Paw written by Ralph Lagana and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monkey's Paw Trilogy is the perfect harsh weather read.The Monkey's Paw Trilogy is a novel based on W.W. Jacobs's classic tale "The Monkey's Paw".This macabre novel details the six wishes Jacobs only alluded too in his original short story.

Download or read book The Monkey s Child written by Andrew E. Verity and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANDRAS SELF DEVELOPMENT WORKBOOK The ANDRAS workbook explores new fields of thought and feeling in human motivation, helping you to make sense of lifes experiences some of which, at times, overwhelm us. The aim is to give you an explanation of the incredible logic of the human mind and to understand why we continue to do the things we would rather not do at all. This study has immediate rewards as it is supposed that you will be using your own experiences as a reference at all times. Insights not thought of up until now will challenge many of your set ideas and your world-view. It will also motivate you in your persistency for your personal search for one of the greatest of all virtues your search for truth. This ANDRAS workbook will give you answers to long-asked questions. By responding as truthfully as you can (even to asking people close to you for the answers) when completing the activities on the right hand pages, you will get inner satisfaction in realms philosophical, physical and metaphysical. This workbook will also give you techniques to implement change that will give you control over the day-to-day unwanted repeating patterns that consume so much energy and time. The ANDRAS workbook is based on the premise that the individual can be in control of his or her own destiny and that we create the reality we call our fate. Change can take place in your life by the application of free thought-power and free will-power if you take the necessary effort to unlock that power of thought and will. The ANDRAS workbook explains how the pictures we carry in the subconscious mind creates the life in our destiny and that we can access any negative pictures and resolve the associated feeling in a symbolic process to create a chosen picture reflecting your real worth. The challenge to you is to learn HOW TO BELIEVE in those chosen pictures and let the pictures and your thoughts move in harmony on to your chosen words and then into planned action to productive achievement. Belief is the hardest part of any personal development. The ANDRAS workbook also explains the mechanics that you can apply to the processes you will learn. How you can assert influence in your outer surroundings with a strong inner sense of conviction and sound principle. This is the beginning of genuine inner knowing and you are introduced to the Wisdom Grid, which, in conjunction with the tool of Choice, will deepen your understanding of individual and collective behaviors to prompt you to communicate at a deeper and much more intuitive level being true to yourself and the universal laws of love and grace.

Download or read book Monkey s Talk written by Fatma Durmush and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionMonkey's Talk is a diary and poetry collection. Durmush found this book very difficult to manage. It seemed that she gushed emotions which spiralled and made wounds heal. Her health restored she was left with something that contained herself. Durmush did not want to be in the book but she was. It is an emotionally charged book with demons trying to take control. Whether reality or not does not matter for what is reality? What is fiction? What is anything but the purpose of writing? Of being? Reading this book one is left clutching straws for that is the purpose. Why write something you can't contain? Why? Just for the sake of it. What isn't this book is a? Well people must make up their own minds. My mind is not made up. Written the demons and now let them be in that book trapped for ever. Let them have company or not as the case may be. This book is about childhood and memories of the past and the present, feelings of despair and anxiety about the future and the problems of living within means at disposal. For everyone has to live as well as they can and make the most of life. For without that what would the world be but living on borrowed time and money and maybe causing so many scandals because can't pay bills. The height of immorality is when can't pay bills.It is also about the future and a bit of philosophy and ethics and what is ethical behaviour and what is not. It is not taking the piss but it is tongue in check. It is about the family history and anger and dismay and how people see things differently but remain the same people. About the AuthorFatma Durmush has written for a long time and has a great deal of energy and wit. Her recovery is due to her getting out her demons onto paper. Getting rid of her demons, Durmush strives and struggles sometimes painful to watch her schizophrenia is controlled but her demons are there with her. Dogging her steps making her aware that she is vulnerable. Her art is what makes her a survivor. Her balance of mind is delicate sea shore of impressions whether true or false she leaves to the reader. Her writing is nothing personal to anyone but the ghosts of her demons. Durmush was born in 1959 in Cyprus and is British but Turkish as well. She has a degree and is a master of the Arts. Durmush is studying for a second degree in Psychology because she said that as she hasn't got anything to do all day she needs to use her mind to keep it working. She is in voluntary work with a Turkish group and she loves to be bossy and analytical. She does the teas and makes everyone draw or paint. She has recently started to translate her work into Turkish so that the Turkish group can read her work. She is always painting in pastels or other mediums. But at the moment she is painting pastels in very small dimensions and is waiting to be included maybe in a exhibition. She is writing her final essay for this year and is about to start her second year at the OU. She is enjoying this very much for it is extending her horizons and she has new interests always a bonus for a writer. She is also at the stage in her life when past is more real and reality more unreal so she is exploring this in her writing. Her reading has taken her farther than when she had began and it is getting her into deep waters with psychology and philosophy and the meaning of her existence as well as the memories and what is real and unreal? She is not allergic to truth but sometimes the truth is allergic to her and everyone's memories are different not everyone remembers the same take for example the court cases all the witnesses do not agree and then they have no verdict. So this book might be no verdict.

Download or read book The Monkey s Wrench written by Primo Levi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chemist-turned-writer and a construction rigger in a remote factory pass the time swapping tales of their lives and voyages. Primo Levi’s most light-hearted novel, The Monkey’s Wrench is a tribute to storytelling, human ingenuity, and the importance of finding meaningful work in life. “A lot of stories have happened to me,” says Faussone, the mysterious construction rigger at the center of this comic novel by Primo Levi. Far from home on a work assignment, Libertino Faussone befriends the book’s narrator, a chemist based loosely off of Levi himself. Although he can’t quite explain it, the chemist is immediately entranced by the wandering laborer who has traveled to every corner of the world. The two embark on an unlikely friendship, trading tales filled with curses and spies, scandal and heartbreak. With its easy-going and even whimsical tone, The Monkey’s Wrench is a change from Primo Levi’s other works. Yet its message is just as vital. The novel reminds us about the importance of connection between strangers, our endless capacity to solve even the most challenging of problems, and finding fulfillment in work. Along with Elie Wiesel and Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi is remembered as one of the most powerful and perceptive writers on the Holocaust and the Jewish experience during World War II. This is an essential book both for students and literary readers. Reading Primo Levi is a lesson in the resiliency of the human spirit.

Download or read book The Story of a Monkey on a Stick written by Laura Lee Hope and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Story of a Monkey on a Stick' by Laura Lee Hope, readers are transported into a whimsical and imaginative world where a mischievous monkey finds himself perched on a stick, embarking on adventures that blend fantasy and reality. Written in a light-hearted and engaging style, the book combines elements of children's literature with moral allegory, making it a delightful read for both young and adult audiences. Hope's ability to weave a tale that entertains while also conveying deeper messages is evident throughout the narrative, providing readers with a rich and fulfilling reading experience. Set against a backdrop of colorful illustrations, the book captures the essence of childhood wonder and the importance of curiosity and exploration. Laura Lee Hope, known for her contributions to children's literature, draws on her background in writing for young audiences to create a charming and enchanting story that resonates with readers of all ages. Her playful storytelling and vivid imagery bring the characters and settings to life, leaving a lasting impression on those who immerse themselves in her works. I highly recommend 'The Story of a Monkey on a Stick' to anyone seeking a charming and uplifting tale that celebrates the joys of imagination and adventure. Hope's novel is a timeless classic that will captivate readers with its endearing characters and whimsical storytelling, making it a must-read for those who appreciate the beauty of children's literature.

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