Download or read book Barney s Imagination Island written by Stephen White and published by Barney Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barney and friends sail to Imagination Island where they meet a selfish man and teach him the joy of sharing.
Download or read book Battle for Cannibal Island written by Marianne Hering and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 million sold in series! It’s 1852 and cousins Patrick and Beth sail to Fiji on the HMS Calliope under the command of Captain James E. Home. They arrive at the islands to find that the Christian Fijians are at war with the non-Christian Fijians. Missionary James Calvert is trying to make peace and suggests that the captain allow peace negotiations on board the British vessel. Patrick and Beth learn about sacrificial living when they observe Calvert’s determination to live on Fiji despite the dangers and impoverished conditions and that he is willing to risk his life to live as Jesus would.
Download or read book Island Bodies written by Rosamond S. King and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Island Bodies, Rosamond King examines sexualities, violence, and repression in the Caribbean experience. She analyzes the sexual norms and expectations portrayed in Caribbean and diaspora literature, music, film, and popular culture to show how many individuals contest traditional roles by maneuvering within and/or trying to change their society’s binary gender systems. She skillfully argues and demonstrates that these transgressions better represent Caribbean culture than the “official” representations perpetuated by governmental elites and often codified into laws that reinforce patriarchal, heterosexual stereotypes. Unique in its breadth and its multilingual and multidisciplinary approach, Island Bodies addresses homosexuality, interracial relations, transgender people, and women’s sexual agency in Dutch, Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone works of Caribbean literature. Additionally, King explores the paradoxical nature of sexuality across the region: discussing sexuality in public is often considered taboo, yet the tourism economy trades on portraying Caribbean residents as hypersexualized. Ultimately King reveals that despite the varied national specificity, differing colonial legacies, and linguistic diversity across the islands, there are striking similarities in the ways Caribglobal cultures attempt to restrict sexuality and in the ways individuals explore and transgress those boundaries.
Download or read book Indonesia Islands of the Imagination written by Michael Vatikiotis and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully photographed travel pictorial captures the people, art, architecture, food and landscapes of the the Indonesian Archipelago. Indonesia's stunning beauty and diversity is captured by Indonesia Islands of the Imagination with the help of National Geographic Photographer Jill Gocher's striking and intuitive images and insightful essays penned by Michael Vatikiotis. For the first time visitor, the frequent traveler, or the complete stranger, this book offers a fascinating illustrated introduction to Indonesia's wondrous complexity. For the armchair traveler in each of us comes Indonesia Islands of the Imagination. Featuring over 140 full-color photos showcasing breathtaking scenery from Bali to New Guinea and everywhere in between, this book is a remarkable photographic chronicle of the world's largest archipelago. From the famous tropical island of Bali, to the bustling capital city of Jakarta, and outer islands like Sumatra and Sulawesi that are steeped in ancient tribal lore and traditions, Indonesia Islands of the Imagination paints an exquisite portrait of Indonesia's fascinating peoples and places.
Download or read book The Topological Imagination written by Angus Fletcher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boldly original and boundary defining, The Topological Imagination clears a space for an intellectual encounter with the shape of human imagining. Joining two commonly opposed domains, literature and mathematics, Angus Fletcher maps the imagination’s ever-ramifying contours and dimensions, and along the way compels us to re-envision our human existence on the most unusual sphere ever imagined, Earth. Words and numbers are the twin powers that create value in our world. Poetry and other forms of creative literature stretch our ability to evaluate through the use of metaphors. In this sense, the literary imagination aligns with topology, the branch of mathematics that studies shape and space. Topology grasps the quality of geometries rather than their quantifiable measurements. It envisions how shapes can be bent, twisted, or stretched without losing contact with their original forms—one of the discoveries of the eighteenth-century mathematician Leonhard Euler, whose Polyhedron Theorem demonstrated how shapes preserve “permanence in change,” like an aging though familiar face. The mysterious dimensionality of our existence, Fletcher says, is connected to our inhabiting a world that also inhabits us. Theories of cyclical history reflect circulatory biological patterns; the day-night cycle shapes our adaptive, emergent patterns of thought; the topology of islands shapes the evolution of evolutionary theory. Connecting literature, philosophy, mathematics, and science, The Topological Imagination is an urgent and transformative work, and a profound invitation to thought.
Download or read book Islands and Enemies written by Marianne Hering and published by Focus on the Family. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 Million Sold in the Series! When kids step into the Imagination Station they travel back in time and across the world with cousins Patrick and Beth. Each book is historically accurate, and readers will grow in their faith and knowledge of history as they race through each unforgettable story. “I find you two children guilty of witchcraft!” Captain Magellan said. “The penalty is death.” Patrick and Beth board the Victoria in 1521 on its journey to try and sail around the world. But they make a bad first impression when they meet Captain Ferdinand Magellan. The cousins are accused of being witches and must prove their innocence. The crew members watch their every move, looking for an excuse to throw the cousins overboard. Meanwhile, Patrick finds a friend who has a secret. Beth becomes the new scribe for the voyage, stirring up jealousy from Antonio Pigafetta, one of Magellan’s best friends. After a surprising miracle happens on the island, the crew—and the cousins—must take sides: Who thinks Magellan is unfit to lead? Who is loyal to Magellan and willing to risk their life to prove it?
Download or read book Elemental Island written by Kathy Hoopmann and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Silver medal winner in the 'Middle Grades Fiction' category of the Nautilus Book Awards 2015* Astie has always been different. Her 12th birthday is looming and she still has not decided on her thesis. All the Learners at the Hub picked theirs years ago. If it wasn't for her cousin, Jakob, life would be unbearable on Elemental Island. On the verge of being diagnosed with Social Syndrome, she stumbles upon Danny who has landed in a forbidden flight machine. To protect him, Astie persuades Jakob to tamper with the Overseer's memory. On the run from the Monitors together, Astie calls on her unique qualities to forge a friendship with the stranger and discover his reason for coming to the island. What she finds will shake the foundations of the place she calls home. Set on a secretive island utopia where science and logic rule, this intriguing novel explores and celebrates differences in people from an alternative perspective. It is engaging reading for children aged 8-13.
Download or read book A Kids Book About Imagination written by LeVar Burton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the titles in the best-selling A Kids Book About series that introduces important and relevant topics. A clear explanation of what the imagination is and the opportunities that come from the use of it. What is imagination? Most of us think of it as playing pretend or what happens when we're dreaming, but imagination takes us to worlds and galaxies beyond that. Imagination helps us travel between time, space, and reality. It gives us the power to dream up the world in our own vision and encourages us to think of not just what is, but what could be. Imagination is a superpower that unlocks endless possibilities, and all by asking one simple question: What if? This is one conversation that's never too early to start, and this book was written to be an introduction to kids on the topic.
Download or read book Islands Identity and the Literary Imagination written by Elizabeth Mcmahon and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is the planet's sole island continent. This book argues that the uniqueness of this geography has shaped Australian history and culture, including its literature. Further, it shows how the fluctuating definition of the island continent throws new light on the relationship between islands and continents in the mapping of modernity. The book links the historical and geographical conditions of islands with their potent role in the imaginaries of European colonisation. It prises apart the tangled web of geography, fantasy, desire and writing that has framed the Western understanding of islands, both their real and material conditions and their symbolic power, from antiquity into globalised modernity. The book also traces how this spatial imaginary has shaped the modern 'man' who is imagined as being the island's mirror. The inter-relationship of the island fantasy, colonial expansion, and the literary construction of place and history, created a new 'man': the dislocated and alienated subject of post-colonial modernity. This book looks at the contradictory images of islands, from the allure of the desert island as a paradise where the world can be made anew to their roles as prisons, as these ideas are made concrete at moments of British colonialism. It also considers alternatives to viewing islands as objects of possession in the archipelagic visions of island theorists and writers. It compares the European understandings of the first and last of the new worlds, the Caribbean archipelago and the Australian island continent, to calibrate the different ways these disparate geographies unifed and fractured the concept of the planetary globe. In particular it examines the role of the island in this process, specifically its capacity to figure a 'graspable globe' in the mind. The book draws on the colonial archive and ranges across Australian literature from the first novel written and published in Australia (by a convict on the island of Tasmania) to both the ancient dreaming and the burgeoning literature of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the twenty-first century. It discusses Australian literature in an international context, drawing on the long traditions of literary islands across a range of cultures. The book's approach is theoretical and engages with contemporary philosophy, which uses the island and the archipleago as a key metaphor. It is also historicist and includes considerable original historical research.
Download or read book Fog Island written by Tomi Ungerer and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Top 10 Children’s Book 2013 – New York Times Book Review A Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of 2013 A New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2013 "Tomi Ungerer has created another masterpiece." – Eric Carle In this imaginative tale from master storyteller Tomi Ungerer, two young siblings find themselves cast away on mysterious Fog Island. No one has ever returned from the island’s murky shores, but when the children begin to explore, they discover things are not quite as they expected. Ungerer’s captivating drawings evoke the eerie beauty and magic surrounding this timeless adventure. Selected by both The New York Times and Publishers Weekly as one of the year’s best children’s books, Fog Island is destined to become a modern classic. "
Download or read book Race to Imagination Island Imagination Island Book 1 written by Mel Taylor-Bessent and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Race to Imagination Island will suck you in!’ Chris Smith, author of Kid Normal ‘You’ll LOVE racing to Imagination Island!’ Maz Evans, author of Who Let The Gods Out? ‘One of the most joyful books I have read — you never want to leave!’ Jenny McLachlan
Download or read book Imagination Island written by Jake Meehan and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagination Island is a magical storybook about a family that goes on an adventure to a far away land without ever leaving the house. Using their creativity, they find themselves getting in and out of wild situations.
Download or read book Imagination Island written by Jasmine Appleton and published by Katie's Magic Camera. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is Amy? How did she get here and will she ever find her two brothers, Jack and Ben?With a sore lump on the back of her head, she wakes on a beach, but where is this beach? And just across from her Tom sits looking at her with a questioning face. He too has no idea where he is.A strange place where Amy and Tom meet monsters and an old animal friend. Why is she here? Who sent her here? All this to find out, on this, Imagination Island.
Download or read book Dreams Imagination and Destiny written by LISA MORENO and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Summary Dreams, Imagination, & Destiny, A Poetic Journey, is a far-reaching anthology of poetic thought. Lisa Moreno takes her readers on an odyssey through many poetic paradigms. Her first section, Thought Provoking, takes the reader through poetic waters that challenges the reader to think about the world of fantastic possibilities. From Mental Highway to Undisclosed Invasion, you will be held in deep thought and suspense. Her second section, Beyond Space and Time, is simply that. You’ll be in a time machine going back to the beginning or continuum of eternity through poetic doorways. You’ll go into the farthest reaches of space where time is of no consequence. Timing’s Will and Eternity’s Door are poems that will ask the reader to stop and ponder concepts generally perceived as beyond scope. What’s a book of poetry without a little Humor & Farce? There’s a laugh tucked away in each of the poems presented in this section. I’m Still a Size 6 and Smooth and Shiny are two poems that many people can relate to. These poems are intended to have us all laugh at our own distortions and illusions. Primal Instinct is a section that moves the reader into the jungle of sensual cravings. Humanity has animalistic elements to its makeup and enjoys natural hungers. You’ll move through the corridors of temptation, lust, and bodily greed. Naked Thirst and Rapture are two poems that will parch the mouth. The next section, Inner Knowing, sweeps you into a vortex of your primordial self and ushers visions of angels and shadows. Proud Tree of Life, Journey and Dancing Angels are just a few of the poems that are food for thought in this section. The Spirit Within, mixes inner convictions and the spirit world. The Source of Life, Your Wish Come True, and Tired of it All play to the inner spirit. Last, but not least, is the section entitled Dissolving Walls. Poignant poetry dealing with racism, bigotry, and poverty are dealt with here. “We, way too often, ignore the lost, downtrodden, homeless people walking our streets.” “Inner city gangs have members barely old enough to know any better brandishing dangerous weapons.” As well, wars have defined history as being waged primarily over religious conflicts.” 1939, Colorblind, Murder in the Street, and Life on Skid Row are some of the wrenching and moving poems in this section. It is the author’s attempt to assuage the hatred, anger, and ignorance that divides people. “Dissolving Walls needs to be understood else civilization, as we know it, will just be another chapter in the book of humanity.”
Download or read book The Island in Imagination and Experience written by Barry Smith and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Treasure Island to Robben Island, from the paradise of Thomas More's 'Utopia' to Napoleon's purgatory on Elba, islands have proved irresistible to mankind's imagination since time immemorial. Self-confessed islomaniac Barry Smith explores how islands bewitch us so, and examines the kind of human experiences that islands inspire. Journeying all around the globe to take in the most fascinating stories of Earth's half a million islands, this book considers the unique geography, politics and economics of islands and their cultures. It traces their singular place in literature, religion and philosophy, and disentangles the myths and the facts to reveal just why islands exert such an insistent grip on the human psyche. 'Fascinating and wide-ranging.' Island Review 'A fascinating survey of the interplay between those little dots of land and the human imagination... Smith is excellent on the ways in which islands have always been pawns in geopolitical games...witty.' Geographical "Magisterial... A harrowing, enthralling piece of work that bears comparison with John Prebble's equally dense, equally passionate classic, The Highland Clearances ... [A] fascinating, scrupulous, angry, scholarly book." Jim Perrin, The Great Outdoors
Download or read book Barney s Imagination Island written by Stephen White and published by Barney Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barney and friends sail to Imagination Island where they meet a selfish man and teach him the joy of sharing.
Download or read book IMAGINATION ISLAND THE MOVIE VIDEORECORDING DVD written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
