Download or read book Julio s Magic written by Arthur Dorros and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julio and his friend, master carver Iluminado, find their ideas in the forest, where dragons, lizards, and angels hide in the wood of every twisted branch. At home, Julio can't wait to make sculptures for the annual wood-carving contest. But Iluminado, whose eyesight is failing him, is too humble to enter. When Julio opens his heart to help his friend, he learns that winning is not nearly as important as giving. Both the author and illustrator of Julio's Magic have traveled extensively in Mexico. Now they have translated the deep admiration they feel for the Mexican artisans they've met into a truly magical book which reminds us that inspiration, creativity, and friendship can be found everywhere.

Download or read book Julio s Day written by Gilbert Hernandez and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It begins in the year 1900, with the scream of a newborn. It ends, 100 pages later, in the year 2000, with the death-rattle of a 100-year-old man. The infant and the old man are both Julio, and Gilbert Hernandez's Julio's Day (originally serialized in Love and Rockets Vol. II but never completed until now) is his latest graphic novel, a masterpiece of elliptical, emotional storytelling that traces one life -- indeed, one century in a human life -- through a series of carefully crafted, consistently surprising and enthralling vignettes. There is hope and joy, there is bullying and grief, there is war (so much war -- this is after all the 20th century), there is love, there is heartbreak. This is very much a singular, standalone story that will help cement Hernandez's position as one of the strongest and most original cartoonists of this, or any other, century.

Download or read book Imperial Arts written by John R King, IV and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the first-hand experiences of the author in his exorcism of 24 demons over the past six years. Known from an ancient text called Goetia, perhaps the most infamous of all occult works, these demons were supposedly bound by King Solomon in a vessel of brass, and later released by Babylonians to whom they delivered occult secrets, magic arts, and various blasphemies. Many of these demons are known in history as gods and goddesses, and some are given worship even today. This book describes in detail the circumstances under which the author has bound these demons and made them subject to his will by the names of God. The method the author used, the record of each evocation, and the effects following are all described in detail. These fetaures make this book unique among all works on demonology. This is the only existing printed account of the Goetia performed according to its proper and traditional form.

Download or read book Unnatural Disasters written by Gonzalo Lizarralde and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storms, floods, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters seem not only more frequent but also closer to home. As the world faces this onslaught, we have placed our faith in “sustainable development,” which promises that we can survive and even thrive in the face of climate change and other risks. Yet while claiming to “go green,” we have instead created new risks, continued to degrade nature, and failed to halt global warming. Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing the gaps between abstract concepts like sustainability, resilience, and innovation and the real-world experiences of people living at risk. Gonzalo Lizarralde explains how the causes of disasters are not natural but all too human: inequality, segregation, marginalization, colonialism, neoliberalism, racism, and unrestrained capitalism. He tells the stories of Latin American migrants, Haitian earthquake survivors, Canadian climate activists, African slum dwellers, and other people resisting social and environmental injustices around the world. Lizarralde shows that most reconstruction and risk-reduction efforts exacerbate social inequalities. Some responses do produce meaningful changes, but they are rarely the ones powerful leaders have in mind. This book reveals how disasters have become both the causes and consequences of today’s most urgent challenges and proposes achievable solutions to save a planet at risk, emphasizing the power citizens hold to change the current state of affairs.

Download or read book Food S Frontier written by Richard Manning and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how recent developments in agricultural research will affect different cultures in the future.

Download or read book A Bridge to the Sky written by Glaire Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bridge to the Sky explores the close connections between science, arts, and visual culture as they developed in the medieval Islamic lands. It presents a significant study of the career of 'Abbas Ibn Firnas, (d. 887), the most celebrated 'scientist' and polymath of early Islamic Spain, best known for conducting an experiment that has been celebrated as a milestone in the history of human flight.

Download or read book Underwear Is Optional written by Laura Lago and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-17 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There I was, a girl from Madrid embarked upon a pleasure trip to Ibiza. To free myself of work stress. Sunshine, water, alcohol, sleep and parties. My journey began with Julio as my flight companion. A sexy guy who smiled at me, and whose abs I was checking out in the bathroom half an hour later. Really embarrassing, as you can imagine. But I was on holiday. When I lay down in my hotel bed, I consoled myself by telling myself it had been a temporary moment of madness. We all have those every now and then, right? Julio would go on his way and I would go on mine. And the air hostess’s expression, my tangled hair and red-hot face would remain in the past. Until, that is, I went down to the pool in my bikini and there he was sunbathing on the sunbed next to mine. He wasn’t just staying at the same hotel as me, he was sleeping in the room next door to mine. Oh. My. God. Warning: a relaxed, romantic comedy with large doses of uninhibited sex at high temperatures, not suitable for minors or those who lack a sense of humour.

Download or read book Making Music written by Susan Bonners and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard enough moving to a new place, and for Annie there are plenty of extra burdens. Her mother seems sad and worried all the time, having a baby brother makes getting settled in even harder, a box of her prized horse figurines has been lost, and to top it all off, the new house is far away from Annie's favorite uncle, who shared with her what she loves best of all: piano music. But when Annie roller-skates by Mrs. Bergstrom's house, she hears beautiful melodies -- Maybe this new place may someday feel like home.

Download or read book Humanistic Approaches to Multiculturalism and Diversity written by Louis Hoffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an overview of essential topics in multicultural psychology, Humanistic Approaches to Multiculturalism and Diversity focuses on the intersection of humanistic psychology and multiculturalism, including history, theory, research, and practice. The authors examine the unique contributions of humanistic psychology to multicultural psychology on topics often ignored, such as cultural empathy and indigenous psychology and diversity. The book critiques and rectifies previous failures to adequately engage multicultural issues by providing methods for integrating multicultural psychology and humanistic therapy. Readers will find that each chapter advances scholarship through a dialogue with multicultural perspectives and builds a foundation for future scholarship and clinical practice. This book will be of great interest to mental health professionals interested in humanistic and existential psychology.

Download or read book Justice for Natives written by Andrea P. Morrison and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirty-five essays and stories, Justice for Natives came together around the Oka crisis between Native people in Quebec and the government. Against the backdrop of this deep-rooted conflict, Native elders and leaders, provincial and federal government representatives, leading academics, lawyers, and judges from across Canada and the United States joined to explore various aspects of Native peoples' struggle for justice and to search for solutions.

Download or read book A Stab in the Heartland written by David Clifford Grieser and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking place across the Midwest’s heartland of America, this collection of short stories offers nuance to the darker aspects of human relationships. Told primarily from the intoxicating beginnings of lust before progressing toward love, the stories fluidly transform into stark realities rather than romantic ideals. Each story provides an intimate look at how commitment and affection can turn into disloyalty or even hatred. With subtle mystery and humor sprinkled throughout, readers will be fascinated and shocked at where these winding plots lead, both physically and psychologically. Though at times jarring, the stories ultimately highlight the complexity of bonds between people in both their beauty and brutality.

Download or read book Grow the Tree You Got written by Tom Sturges and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wise and inspiring guide to parenting through the extraordinary- and at times tumultuous-journey that is the adolescent and teenage years. When Tom Sturges became a father, he decided that he wanted to be one of the greatest father that ever walked the earth. But things became a bit more complicated when his older son turned ten, and the chatty kid he'd known suddenly started locking his bedroom door. Tom realized he needed to find a way to stay on track-he needed crib notes. So, if a parenting idea of technique worked well, he wrote it down. And if he stumbled across something another parent did that was particularly ingenious or exemplary, he wrote that down, too. In Grow the Tree You Got, Tom presents "golden rules" for raising happy, healthy, and compassionate adults. His mantra? It's impossible to show our children too much respect, but it's worth the effort to try.

Download or read book Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell written by Susanna Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-05 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Hugo-award winning, epic New York Times Bestseller and basis for the BBC miniseries, two men change England's history when they bring magic back into the world. In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars in 1806, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England - until the reclusive Mr. Norrell reveals his powers and becomes an overnight celebrity. Another practicing magician then emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil, and the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wild, most perilous forms of magic, and he soon risks sacrificing his partnership with Norrell and everything else he holds dear. Susanna Clarke's brilliant first novel is an utterly compelling epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who, first as teacher and pupil and then as rivals, emerge to change its history.

Download or read book Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes written by Lorraine Ryan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almudena Grandes is one of Spain ́s foremost women ́s writers, having sold over 1.1 million copies of her episodios de una guerra interminable, her six-volume series that ranges from the Spanish Civil War to the democratic period; the myriad prizes awarded to her, 18 in total, confirm her pre-eminence. This book situates Grandes ́s novels within gendered, philosophical, and mnemonic theoretical concepts that illuminate hidden dimensions of her much-studied work. Lorraine Ryan considers and expands on existing critical work on Grandes ́s oeuvre, proposing new avenues of interpretation and understanding. She seeks to debunk the arguments of those who portray Grandes as the proponent of a sectarian, eminently biased Republican memory by analysing the wide variety of gender and perpetrator memories that proliferate in her work. The intersection of perpetrator memory with masculinity, ecocriticism, medical ethics and the child’s perspectives confirms Grandes’ nuanced engagement with Spanish memory culture. Departing from a philosophical basis, Ryan reconfigures the Republican victim in the novels as a vulnerable subject who attempts to flourish, thus refuting the current critical opinion of the victim as overly-empowered. The new perspectives produced in this monograph do not aim to suggest that Grandes is an advocate of perpetrator memory; rather, it suggests that Grandes is committed to a more pluralistic idea of memory culture, whereby her novels generate understanding of multiple victim, perpetrator and gender memories, an analysis that produces new and meaningful engagements with these novels. Thus, Ryan contends that Grandes ́s historical novels are infinitely more complex and nuanced than heretofore conceived.

Download or read book Investigation of the Contracting Practices and Other Activities of the Department of Agriculture Relating to Team Nutrition written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Past the Size of Dreaming written by Nina Kiriki Hoffman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nebula and World Fantasy Award-nominated author of A Red Heart of Memories continues the spellbinding story of the wandering witch Matilda (Matt) Black, who possesses the ability to communicate with inanimate objects and see into people’s dreams—and her companion Edmund Reynolds, a young man with magic of his own who is only beginning to come to grips with his past and his powers… The two travelers have come to the town where Edmund grew up, and found shelter in the benevolently haunted house that was a refuge for Edmund and his friends when they were children. But the house begins to speak to Matt, urgently, telling her that she and Edmund have to leave, to seek out the long-scattered friends. For a darkness is rising, a dangerous, powerful entity. And the only chance of stopping it lies in the hearts of the lost children of the house…

Download or read book Moonstone and Magic Fantasy Book written by Jayne Faith and published by Jayne Faith. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in Jayne Faith's highly anticipated new fantasy series! Retired magic crystal hunter Delilah Dane thought her days of adventure and danger were behind her. But an old colleague, handsome Carrick Forbes, shows up with an offer she can't refuse: hunt for a magical moonstone rumored to be one of the most powerful artifacts in the world. The catch? A cult led by Delilah's estranged father is also after the moonstone, and they're willing to kill for it. Welcome back to Jayne Faith's Shattered Magic story world full of action, intrigue, magic, and vivid modern fantasy! For more Shattered Magic books, check out the Ella Grey Series, Stone Blood Series, and Tara Knightley Series – all now complete.