Download or read book Ancient Maya Politics written by Simon Martin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With new readings of ancient texts, Ancient Maya Politics unlocks the long-enigmatic political system of the Classic Maya.

Download or read book Boundaries written by Maya Lin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned artist and architect Maya Lin's visual and verbal sketchbook—a unique view into her artwork and philosophy. Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book: an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.

Download or read book The Unexpected Everything written by Morgan Matson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andie must learn to embrace the beauty in chaos in this New York Times bestselling novel about friendship, finding yourself, and all the joys in life that happen while you’re busy making other plans. Andie has a plan. And she always sticks to her plan. Future? A top-tier medical school. Dad? Avoid him as much as possible (which isn’t that hard considering he’s a Congressman and he’s never around). Friends? Palmer, Bri, and Toby—pretty much the most awesome people on the planet, who needs anyone else? Relationships? No one’s worth more than three weeks. So it’s no surprise that Andie has her summer all planned out too. Until a political scandal costs Andie her summer pre-med internship, and lands both she and Dad back in the same house together for the first time in years. Suddenly she’s doing things that aren’t Andie at all—working as a dog walker, doing an epic scavenger hunt with her dad, and maybe, just maybe, letting the super cute Clark get closer than she expected. Palmer, Bri, and Toby tell her to embrace all the chaos, but can she really let go of her control?

Download or read book Vaccine Hesitancy written by Maya J. Goldenberg and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Although Wakefield’s findings were later discredited and retracted, and medical and scientific evidence suggests routine immunizations have significantly reduced life-threatening conditions like measles, whooping cough, and polio, vaccine refusal and vaccine-preventable outbreaks are on the rise. This book explores vaccine hesitancy and refusal among parents in the industrialized North. Although biomedical, public health, and popular science literature has focused on a scientifically ignorant public, the real problem, Maya J. Goldenberg argues, lies not in misunderstanding, but in mistrust. Public confidence in scientific institutions and government bodies has been shaken by fraud, research scandals, and misconduct. Her book reveals how vaccine studies sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry, compelling rhetorics from the anti-vaccine movement, and the spread of populist knowledge on social media have all contributed to a public mistrust of the scientific consensus. Importantly, it also emphasizes how historical and current discrimination in health care against marginalized communities continues to shape public perception of institutional trustworthiness. Goldenberg ultimately reframes vaccine hesitancy as a crisis of public trust rather than a war on science, arguing that having good scientific support of vaccine efficacy and safety is not enough. In a fraught communications landscape, Vaccine Hesitancy advocates for trust-building measures that focus on relationships, transparency, and justice.

Download or read book The Fifth Sacred Thing written by Starhawk and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression. Declaration of the Four Sacred Things The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth. Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them. To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves became the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. no one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy. All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity. To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible. To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives. Praise for The Fifth Sacred Thing “This is wisdom wrapped in drama.”—Tom Hayden, California state senator “Starhawk makes the jump to fiction quite smoothly with this memorable first novel.”—Locus “Totally captivating . . . a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.”—Elinor Gadon, author of The Once and Future Goddess “This strong debut fits well against feminist futuristic, utopic, and dystopic works by the likes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula LeGuin, and Margaret Atwood.”—Library Journal

Download or read book Mayan Maiden written by Alyson Belle and published by Alyson Belle Productions. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you’re dumb enough to piss off a goddess, being turned into a woman is the least of your concerns… When best friends Seth and Noah set off for the ultimate spring break Mexican vacation, they have a wild, booze and party-fueled vision of how their week is going to go, and the throngs of hot girls at the airport are just their first taste of that. But all of those plans get cut short when an ill-advised nighttime jaunt to some off-limits, ancient Mayan ruins puts the guys face to face with an actual, incarnate Mayan goddess. She’s powerful, gorgeous, and very pissed off at all the people who keep exploring her temple and taking her sacred objects. Fed up with thieves, she punishes Seth for the intrusion by transforming him into her own image—a ravishingly hot Mayan maiden—and tells him that he can’t have his old body back until they recover her sacred statue from the thieves that took it. But Noah and Seth (now calling herself Sera) don’t even know where to begin looking, and Sera has no experience being a woman! They’ll need to track down the thieves and help Sera adjust to her awkward new situation before her time runs out, which would be hard enough if she wasn’t also completely distracted by the strange, powerful attraction she now feels for her best friend. How did she never notice how hot Noah was before, and how on earth is she going to navigate these feelings that are driving her crazy? It’s getting hard to remember why she even wanted to be a guy in the first place, when it’s so much fun to be a girl…

Download or read book Getting Started in 3D with Maya written by Adam Watkins and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deliver professional-level 3D content in no time with this comprehensive guide to 3D animation with Maya. With over 12 years of training experience, plus several award winning students under his belt, author Adam Watkins is the ideal mentor to get you up to speed with 3D in Maya. Using a structured and pragmatic approach Getting Started in 3D with Maya begins with basic theory of fundamental techniques, then builds on this knowledge using practical examples and projects to put your new skills to the test. Prepared so that you can learn in an organic fashion, each chapter builds on the knowledge gained in the previous chapter, showing you all the essentials of 3D in Maya, from modeling and UV layout, to texture creation, rigging animating and rendering. As you go from project to project you'll develop a strong arsenal of skills that combined will form a complete end to end process to creating complete projects in Maya. The accompanying website provides all the tools you need to develop your skills. Project files to accompany the practical examples used throughout the text, so you can work along with the examples. Additional textures and models will give you all the resources you need to start making your own projects in no time at all.

Download or read book Infinite Maya written by The Divine Artist and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two sojourners take more trips to Riviera Maya and Denver to explore the beauty and artistic qualities of the world. Its all a state of mind that brings quality to the fleeting moments of time. The Glass Bead Game is a very special place hidden from the evil and suffering inherent in the world. It is a secret sanctuary that believes in the immortality of love, beauty, truth, and perfection.

Download or read book THE ADVENTURES OF MAYA THE BEE teaching children that all actions and decisions have consequences written by Waldemar Bonsels and published by Abela Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories and adventures revolve around a little bee named Maya and her friends Willy the bee, Flip the grasshopper, Mrs. Cassandra (Maya's teacher), and many other insects and other creatures. The book follows Maya's development from an adventurous youngster to a responsible adult. Written by Waldemar Bonsels, translated by Adele Seltzer and illustrated by Homer Boss with 4 fill page colour plates and 33 in text Pen and Ink vignettes. The moral of this book teaches children about the consequences of their decisions, as well as the consequences their actions, and inaction. Maya is a bee born in a bee hive during a time of internal unrest: the hive is dividing itself into two new colonies. Maya is raised by her teacher, Mrs. Cassandra. Despite Mrs. Cassandra's warnings, Maya wants to explore the wide world and commits the unforgivable crime of leaving the hive and is exiled. During her adventures, Maya befriends other insects and braves dangers with them. In the climax of the book, Maya is taken prisoner by hornets, the bees' sworn enemies. Prisoner of the hornets, Maya learns of a hornet plan to attack her native hive. Maya is faced with the decision to either return to hive and suffer her due punishment, saving the hive, or leaving the plan unannounced, saving herself but destroying the hive. After long consideration of her options, she makes the decision to return. On her return she announces the coming attack and is unexpectedly pardoned. The forewarned bees triumph over the hornet attack force. Maya, becomes a heroine of the hive and becomes a teacher like Mrs. Cassandra which allows her to share her experiences and wisdom with future generations. ============ KEYWORDS/TAGS: fairy tales, folklore, myths, legends, children’s stories, childrens stories,bygone era, fairydom, kingdom, ethereal, fairy land, classic stories, children’s bedtime stories, childrens books, happy place, happiness, laughter, Hive, woodland, garden, acrobat, air, alois, battle, bee, Bobbie, Bobbie, body, bug, butterfly, Cassandra, child, die, dragon-fly, Effie, eyes, first flight, flew, flower, fly, fortress, Fridolin, frog, golden, grass, great, Hannibal, head, heart, hornets, house of the rose, joy, ladybird, lake, legs, little, lost, lovely, Loveydear, Maya, moral, moonlight, people, poet, Puck, queen, sentinel, shake, shine, spider, sprite, sun, the sprite, web, wings, wonders, world of insects

Download or read book Inside Maya 5 written by Mark Adams and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2003 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-world solutions for real-world production environments! Luis Cataldi, BlueSky Studios Maya is a very powerful application. Before artists can create and share their ideas and visions, they must understand its complicated tools and learn to harness its power.Inside Maya 5can help develop a functional understanding of Maya's many tools through solid examples and production-proven methods. From the back cover Are you familiar with the basic Maya tools? Can you complete most tasks with little or no reliance on the help files? Do your questions about Maya center on how to put all the pieces together and use the software in a production setting? If so,Inside Maya 5is just what you want and need. Industry professionals who have worked for such houses as Digital Domain, ILM, PDI/DreamWorks, and Pixar provide insights into making great production decisions that take advantage of the power of Maya without compromising production quality - real-world solutions to real-world challenges! You'll get coverage of: Using Maya in the digital studio pipeline MEL and the Maya API Modeling techniques for NURBS, polygonal modeling, and subdivision surfaces Modeling characters, sets, and props Maya's node-based architecture Particles and dynamics Character animation and rigging Lighting, shading and rendering Bonus interviews with Scott Clark (Pixar) and Paul Thuriot (Tippett Studios) The companion CD includes the source files you need to complete the exercises in each chapter.

Download or read book Maya Angelou s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays analyzing Angelou's story, I know why the caged bird sings. Also includes a chronology of events in the author's life.

Download or read book Veil of Maya written by Baron Brady and published by Baron's Books. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VEIL OF MAYA examines a week in the lives of five characters living in a nondescript urban metropolis. But while all cities may be fundamentally alike, the same can’t be said of the people. And the characters in Veil of Maya couldn’t be more different from one another. And they tell the story the only way they know how: from their own perspective. Two of the characters are homeless men: one, our crippled narrator, embittered beyond words and anxious to draw blood; and the other, surprisingly well-fed and the very picture of Buddha-like equanimity. When the narrator takes an unsavory interest in an idealistic young man with literary aspirations, the other one vows to oppose him. What follows becomes a battle over one young man’s soul.

Download or read book What a Piece of Work Is Man written by Yvette Heyliger and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatist Yvette Heyliger delivers power-packed full-length plays for leading women, each prefaced by an artistic statement. Her instincts for comic relief are genius." Backstage West "Heyliger has a solid flair for dialogue and a good ear for comedy." Park LaBrea News Bridge to Baraka (Excerpt) Yvette X appeared in a dashiki and huge Afro to bring the 60s Black Arts Movement to the present womens struggle in her side-splitting and astute Bridge to Baraka. The Dramatist White House Wives: Operation Lysistrata! Playwright Yvette Heyliger, herself African American and female (a combination not seen enough in American theatre, particularly when commenting on the nations political landscape) takes advantage of her position and writes dialogue that brings her unique perspective to light. Theatre is Easy Hillary and Monica: The Winter of Her Discontent It's more absurd than any Saturday Night Live sketch on the same subject, but it has more to say about ambition and the reasons behind one's actions than your average comedy routine... you'll end up having a hearty laugh. NYTheatre.com What Would Jesus Do? "Talk about great plays, this powerful drama depicting AIDS and its cover-up is as important as those Larry Kramer plays in the early stages of the dreaded scourge. Listen up theatre producers, this play should make it to Broadway, where it belongs." Celebrity Society Fathers Day A profound psychological drama with hard-hitting, solid characters and realistic dialogue; a tour de force for directors and actors The BCS Experience, GoProRadio Homegirl "A fresh and vivid comedy that connects the political to the personal, American history to Roanetta's story with a light touch and a warm heart." Los Angeles Times

Download or read book The Adventures of Maya the Bee written by Waldemar Bonsels and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maya Wind And Ketu written by AYDEK SULTAN ÖZDEMİR and published by Noetika Medya Yayıncılık Danışmanlık Bilişim.tur.san.ve Tic.a.ş. . This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning this was word ... It was a cold but bright winter day When Maya opened her eyes to life. The coldest was born in the hour just before dawn. When the moment of birth came, she was still not sure she wanted to be born. She was full of doubts, She wonder if she hadn't come? Years later, When she recalled this pre-natal memory, she was surprised because she was still at birth with a feeling of doubt, but despite doubt, the always dominant hope was again at work. Among her recalls was an energy field that encouraged her to be born, facilitated her exit to life, and with that strong support, Maya opened her eyes to this realm with a hope overcoming her suspicion. As the rebellious little girl of a family with two children, she was now in the world. In fact, her rebellion was an inherent flow that came from curiosity, not to oppose anything. Shee had an ordinary childhood in a crowded and loving family. Her older sister Asya was ten years older than her, always more mature than her age, and a socially compatible child. They were two brothers, but throughout her childhood she grew up in a crowded family full of relatives and cousins, and she never even had a memory of being alone in a room. She was in an ordinary life When viewed from the outside, whereas to her, everything she saw was unusual. The people around her thought she was a bit of a rebellion, but she only reacted to situations in which she wanted to be restricted, to unfair behavior, objected to injustice regardless of who was committed, she did not understand people's acceptance of things without question. She was tired of obeying the obligations, always trying to find a vulnerability in the imposed rules. She does not like to directly admit the taught information She was first filtering her, so to society she was a little rebel she was. Although this situation often caused her family to be angry, this nature of her nature had spontaneously narrowed its boundaries in time so that it could not be seen from the outside. In fact, as she grew up, she became a very compliant girl, as everyone wanted, but for Maya these periods of harmony were the beginning of a time When she stopped hearing her creation. The little rebel was a lovely girl with big inquisitive eyes and brown curly hair. E.g; She always thought she could fly until her mother insisted that she wouldn't fly. According to her, the reason she could not fly was that her wing arms had not yet strengthened enough, the wing arms would have become stronger in a little more time and the rest was easy. She would spread her wings and accelerate with every sparrow she saw on the road to experiment. The acceleration part was complete, but it could not pass to the glide part. Even When she grew up, she thought that maybe she would have already flown if her mother hadn't insisted that "you can't fly" she would never know. How easy and how difficult everything was in this world. In fact, other people had sculpted their wings on many issues, do's and can't do. Over the years she would realize that really easy and difficult were at the same time, in the same place, whicshever one we saw and chose was the one. Maya was curious and did not understand that her elders got angry with what she was doing, weren't they? E.g; She had played first, then tried to find out what was inside and opened it When a full ball was taken to her, but her mother was very angry for damaging the toy. It was so exciting to reach the liquid in the ball and the sparkling stars, and for her mother that meant messing up, cutting the ball, not listening. Again one day, wondering how the trousers her mother made for her would look with fringes, she showed it with excitement When she cut it across, but her mother screamed. She would say "OK" every time she was warned, but still read what she knew because her sense of curiosity always dominated. To her, she just went all the way to discover something, so she couldn't make sense of the reactions. In time she had a breaking point and learned to suppress curiosity. She didn't quite know what that breaking point was, but something changed with her adolescence. Each child is beautiful in their own right, but she was a girl with a Mayan build, an ordinary physique, but she stood out and stopped not wanting to stand out with adolescence. The courageous darling girl, who was curious about everything until the age of ten, started to be more cautious with adolescence and stopped after a while on many issues. She learned to manage in the middle When she could do more than she could, trying too much was glaring, she might not be liked When she was glaring. Although her curiosity was trying to emerge, Maya had learned to suppress it step by step. Her poverty relaxed her family.

Download or read book The Sun the Moon the Stars and Maya written by Rich Okun and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sun, the Moon, the Stars and Maya is very different kind of book, in a unique format and richly textured with over 90 full color original illustrations and is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up and most of all both a child and adult together. This book will surprise and delight you and your family and makes the perfect gift. Our lives are bombarded with things that can take us away from the special connections we are capable of. Each of us has the ability to demonstrate love, compassion, gratitude, and generosity. We can choose to live our lives by the Golden Rule. We can make time to appreciate the exquisite construction of our planet and experience the joys of nature. We can look toward the star-spangled heavens, appreciate the velvet silence, and draw peace from spirituality. We have the ability to find beauty in simplicity, and we can marvel at the complexity of what, at first glance, appears deceptively simple. Many of us have just forgotten how. In today's busy, electronics-oriented world, dominated by distractions, special effects, and noisy shoot-'em-ups, simple earth-based spiritual and moral issues have been effectively obscured from view and buried in the smoky haze of the fiery explosion of computer-generated images. The Sun, the Moon, the Stars, and Maya was created to help families discuss important issues with their children. Illustrations of Maya, the Shih Tzu puppy muse, in complementary settings, accompany bits of wisdom relating to spiritual and moral issues. Notable quotations are the inspiration for Maya's simple-language lyrical interpretations meant to evoke awe and wonder in all things and capture the imagination of the child and the child within the parent. Access to downloadable hi-resolution downloads and audio readings online and so much more are also granted with your purchase.

Download or read book Falling for the Movie Star Including Bonus Falling for the Boss Book 2 The Summer Sisters A Movie Star Sweet Romance written by Jean Oram and published by Oram Productions. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One picture. One tabloid. Two lives changed forever. Finian Alexander is one scandalous tabloid photo away from catapulting his acting career onto the A-list. All his bad boy persona needs is an agreeable member of the paparazzi to give him a friendly boost. But vacationing out in the middle of nowhere, the only photographer he knows is way too scrupulous for her own good. Or is she? Hailey Summer is desperate for cash—so desperate that she's willing to do just about anything with her photography skills to save her family's cottage and keep her secrets hidden from her sisters. So when sexy and arrogant movie star Finian makes her an offer, Hailey can't resist. But does his proposition take things too far? And when their plans begin to unravel, will Finian and Hailey find the limelight too blinding? A sweet and funny family romance full of twists and turns that will have readers laughing well into the night as they fall in love with this movie star hero. * * * This special edition includes book 2, Falling for the Boss! * * * One sexy, burned out billionaire. One spitfire graduate. One small island. Tycoon Connor MacKenzie has it all from the penthouse to the world-dominating corporation. At least that's what everyone believes. Underneath it all, his life is disintegrating faster than a stock market crash. When Connor's doctor forces him to take it easy and go deep into cottage country for some much needed R&R he lands on an old cottage veranda in Muskoka which lacks the luxuries he’s accustomed to. Maya Summer, a recent business grad, has been waiting for opportunity to come a knockin’ and not only has it arrived on her doorstep, but it’s presented itself in a very sexy package. However, despite Maya's best advances and proposals, Connor's strict new "no-work diet" has them both starving for much more than than just business. Can Maya convince Connor to let her be his new right-hand business gal while gaining enough income to save her family's cottage? And will Connor, the workaholic, be able to resist her charms, both in and out of the boardroom? Start reading this boss, CEO billionaire romance today and fall in love with the series that will have you laughing and crying!