Download or read book Neli s World written by Roni Ray and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neli's World is based on a true story about a border collie named Neli. She takes care of David, her boy who has cerebral palsy and autism, who is being raised by a single mom. Neli guides her boy through life trials.
Download or read book The Mismatched Twins written by Neli Fanning and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of a children's book series, The Mismatched Twins introduces biracial brothers William and Oliver who look nothing alike but share a very special bond. You see, they are twins! They love being around each other as they make new discoveries and navigate through their young life the way toddlers do; smiling, stumbling, falling down and getting right back up.
Download or read book I Broke the Chain written by Mari Neli Bejarano Beltran and published by BookLogix. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When desperate family circumstances in Colombia send young Mari and her sisters to an orphanage for adoption, her biological family thought they would have a better life in America. However, no one could have anticipated the awful reality that awaited them, shattering all images of the American dream. Terrifying living conditions and appalling abuse drove Mari down a dark path to violent outbursts, anger management issues, promiscuity, and drug addiction in an attempt to find an escape any way possible. In spite of these overwhelming circumstances, she changed the course of her life and, through God’s love, not only found herself but the strength and faith to break the chains of abuse.
Download or read book Unaccompanied written by Javier Zamora and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, don't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again—like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Download or read book The Sun Rises written by Stuart Blackburn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the centre of this study is a shaman's chant performed during a three-week long feast in the eastern Himalayas. The book includes a translation of this 12-hour text chanted in Apatani, a Tibeto-Burman language, and a description of the events that surround it, especially ritual exchanges with ceremonial friends, in which fertility is celebrated. The shaman's social role, performance and ritual language are also described. Although complex feasts, like this one among Apatanis, have been described in northeast India and upland Southeast Asia for more than a century, this is the first book to present a full translation of the accompanying chant and to integrate it into the interpretation of the social significance of the total event.
Download or read book SWEET KYRA and the American Dream written by Onin Age-Iron and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-03-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to sweep thru an epic American tale with Sweet Kyra Fjord, a woman for all seasons, as she transforms from an obese girl into alluring, brilliant womanhood: A poet, philosopher, journalist and mother, with a penetrati ng view of the human conditi on. High-adventure-and acti on? You bet! - Flashing you through her family story from the Civil War to modern Chicago. From the moment they meet as children, Sweet Kyra soars in adventures with cousin Helga Steinhoff , whose family story takes us back to the Nazi Lebensborn program to create a master race; and best friend Susan Mifume whose ninja, samurai and kamikaze forebears excelled in World War II. Writi ng from an intriguing female point of view, Onin weaves a big story in a unique short literary form including poetry, that misses no riveti ng detail. Bizet’s opera Carmen overarches as a connecti ng force for many enchanti ng characters. And of course, an evil Dragon threatens Sweet Kyra’s life...enjoy.
Download or read book Electronic Healthcare written by Patty Kostkova and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-02-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is my great pleasure to introduce this special issue of LNSV comprising the sci- tific publications presented at ehealth 2009: The second Congress on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st Century, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey during September 23–25, 2009. Building on the first ehealth 2008 congress held in London, UK, the key topic of ehealth 2009 was investigating a realistic potential of the Internet in providing e- dence-based healthcare information and education to patients and global users. The proudly defined aim of ehealth 2009 –– bringing together the three medical sectors: academia, industry and global healthcare institutions –– was met and made the c- gress a truly unique event. The formal and informal discussions among the conference participants led to numerous stimuli for new collaborations. We accepted 26 full and 10 short technical presentations by speakers from all over the world, having received over 80 submissions. In addition to two keynotes, the commercial angle was provided by invited industrial speakers representing a wide range of healthcare IT companies including Corinne Marsolier of Cisco, Glenn Kenneth Bruun (CSAM Health), Luis Falcón (Thymbra) and Johan Muskens (Philips Research Europe), as well as international healthcare organizations such as Med-e-Tel represented by the international coordinator Frederic Lievens.
Download or read book Working With the Bereaved written by Simon Shimshon Rubin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working With the Bereaved summarizes the major themes in bereavement research and clinical work and uses the authors’ own cutting-edge research to show mental-health practitioners how to integrate these themes into their practice. It provides clinicians with a framework for exploring their own emotional and intellectual assumptions about loss and bereavement, and it goes on to summarize state-of-the-art thinking in the field. The heart of the book focuses on the theoretical and clinical implications of the empirically validated Two-Track Model of Bereavement, as well as a variety of therapeutic techniques designed to help the bereaved both reapproach life and manage their continuing bonds with the deceased. The later chapters examine methods for integrating systems and family perspectives in therapy, for attending to the implications of culture and religion, and for meeting crises and emergencies in bereavement care. The concluding chapter addresses self-care, well-being, and resilience, offering practical guidelines for both the bereaved and those who treat them.
Download or read book A Gazetteer of the Central Province of Ceylon excluding Walapane written by Archibald Campbell Lawrie and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speaking for Ourselves written by Michael B. Bakan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the advent of autism as a diagnosed condition in the 1940s, the importance of music in the lives of autistic people has been widely observed and studied. Articles on musical savants, extraordinary feats of musical memory, unusually high rates of absolute or "perfect" pitch, and the effectiveness of music-based therapies abound in the autism literature. Meanwhile, music scholars and historians have posited autism-centered explanatory models to account for the unique musical artistry of everyone from Béla Bartók and Glenn Gould to "Blind Tom" Wiggins. Given the great deal of attention paid to music and autism, it is surprising to discover that autistic people have rarely been asked to account for how they themselves make and experience music or why it matters to them that they do. In Speaking for Ourselves, renowned ethnomusicologist Michael Bakan does just that, engaging in deep conversations--some spanning the course of years--with ten fascinating and very different individuals who share two basic things in common: an autism spectrum diagnosis and a life in which music plays a central part. These conversations offer profound insights into the intricacies and intersections of music, autism, neurodiversity, and life in general, not from an autistic point of view, but rather from many different autistic points of view. They invite readers to partake of a rich tapestry of words, ideas, images, and musical sounds that speak to both the diversity of autistic experience and the common humanity we all share.
Download or read book Islam and the Limits of the State written by R. Michael Feener and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the complex relationships between the state state implementation of Shariʿa and diverse lived realities of everyday Islam in contemporary Aceh, Indonesia.
Download or read book The Devolution Chronicles Passage to Niburu written by Gary Wayne Clark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Bounty Hunter tracking his nemesis weighs revenge against survival when he stumbles into a world where evolution runs backwards. Marooned on planet Niburu, a disgraced fighter pilot turned Bounty Hunter, Commander Zacary Ryker makes a startling discovery: the assassin that murdered his family on Earth has stowed away on his doomed vessel and thrown in with an alien race of Reptoids to exterminate all humans in his new world. Torn between his thirst for revenge and survival, Ryker's destiny becomes intertwined with the dangerous liaison of a Shakespeare quoting Chimera, a teenage femme fatale and her telepathic wolf-dog shaman as they are plunged into an alternate reality where the law of evolution has run astray. Little do they know that they are about to be drawn into a larger struggle, a struggle beyond their universe; an epic battle for the Multiverse.
Download or read book A Dynamic Modernity written by Seema Bhaduri and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares selected Indian novels with their Western models, to trace the differences appearing in them to the traditions of thought and understanding that had influenced the respective world-views. Beginning with a survey of the rise of modernity in India, this book presents a comparative review of Western and Indian ontological interpretations of the major themes governing these novels. These novels in Bengali, Hindi and English experiment with the form of the Western psychological novel to portray the individual’s private thoughts and experiences realistically. They represent that body of fiction which dwells on the different aspects of the rise of the modernist Indian temperament under British influence. The novels map nearly half a century of the individual’s struggle for meaning and freedom in a society trapped between history, tradition and westernization. Using free translations, this book illustrates the novelists’ methods of improvisation with Western themes, styles and techniques to portray the Indian understanding of selfhood, art, and reality. The concluding comparative poetics discusses in a comparative perspective, the poetic principles underlying the novelists’ assimilation, comparison, and parody of the Western texts. A mutual comparison of the Indian novels illustrates the diversity that characterizes the cross-cultural experience of Indian modernity. Reviews: "A Dynamic Modernity: Adaptation and Parody in Six Twentieth Century Indian Novels is a seminal contribution to the study of literary reception and transformation in the field of comparative literary studies in India. It engages with the stream-of-consciousness novels in Western and Indian literatures, and the choice of the genre becomes important as it allows the reader to rethink questions of modernism, the philosophy of the self in the cultures concerned, representation and realism, and diffferences embedded in concepts of aesthetics in different cultures." - Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta Former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University "A welcome and useful study, competently handled, offering analysis of some of the most outstanding fiction writers." - G. N. Devy
Download or read book My Name Is Nily written by Mahshid Sharif and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I thought she had brought us to the wrong room. The profile of the man lying on the bed was not my dad’s. Nastaran stood frozen. Mom pushed her on forward. I was just looking at them both. Half of the man’s face was bruised. Dried-up bloodstains were all over his neck and down from his head. You could not see the rest of his body as it was covered under the sheets. I gripped Nastaran’s hand. “He is asleep; do you want to wake him up?” “Shut up.” The man’s face was shaved, and there were tubes in his mouth and nose. This man was not my father. Nastaran cried nonstop. I could hear Mom’s breathing and her cries too. I felt so sorry for this man. Nastaran put her head on the sheet covering the man’s hands and continued her crying. I was like a wooden stick standing next to him and looking. All the hospital equipment seemed scarier than the dead man’s face. His skin was as white as a ghost, and his cheekbones were standing out. With puffed eyes and a half-open mouth, he was asleep and was snoring like a baby.
Download or read book A Grammar of Karbi written by Linda Konnerth and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive grammar of the Hills Karbi variety spoken predominantly in the Karbi Anglong districts. Karbi belongs to the Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) family but its exact phylogenetic status has remained unclear. By providing a diachronically-oriented functional analysis of all structural levels of Karbi, this grammar offers a reference work that provides a thorough account of this language. The data in this grammar come from fieldwork that was primarily carried out in the district capital of Diphu although the corpus includes recordings of speakers from all over the two Karbi Anglong districts. This corpus is freely available both as fully glossed text in Himalayan Linguistics (Konnerth and Tisso 2018) and as original media files in ELAR (SOAS University of London). Now also including a glossary, this grammar is a thoroughly revised version of the 2014 dissertation of the author, which won the 2015 Pāṇini Award of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT). In this revised version, a few new sections have been added and numerous other sections have been thoroughly updated.
Download or read book Still Thicker Than Water written by Takerra Allen and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jersey's gritty hoods to Atlanta’s steamy streets, all the way to sultry Jamaica, the Brick City divas introduced in Thicker Than Water, along with some hot newcomers, bring the drama to new heights—wherever they go... As if she hasn’t been through enough, princess Sasha’s got a new struggle on her hands. The love of her life might be locked down, but even that can’t keep her away. Can she choose between the hustler who broke her heart and the good guy who’s trying to mend it?...Tatum’s man, Respect, has been on the run in Jamaica for over a year. She’s sure he wants her with him. But as strong as she is, does she have the courage to follow him—and face what she finds?...With her irresistible body and commanding presence, Jayde is all business, even when it comes to pleasure. And none of it is personal....L.A. girl gone bad, Neli has ruined lives and done more damage than she can make up for. Now she wants to change her ways—if she can stay alive long enough... As desire rules and the secrets keep spilling, it’s another crazy, sexy, dangerous summer for these ladies who are still thicker than water...
Download or read book American Dirt Oprah s Book Club written by Jeanine Cummins and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeanine Cummins's American Dirt, the #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club pick that has sold over two million copies Lydia lives in Acapulco. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the cartels, Lydia’s life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. But after her husband’s tell-all profile of the newest drug lord is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and Luca find themselves joining the countless people trying to reach the United States. Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to?
