Download or read book Red Eggs and Good Luck written by Angela Lam and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China, girls are bad luck and are often drowned. But Angela and her sisters are lucky. They are born in America and allowed to live two lives in one world: eating dim sum and praying the rosary; studying hard at school and playing make believe with their dolls. With a Chinese father who loves consumerism and an American mother determined to give her daughters the opportunities she was denied, Angela and her sisters grow up celebrating both their Chinese heritage and their American culture. But when their father suddenly becomes ill, Angela begins to question the limits of luck and the power of prayer—and to wonder whether she will ever find the courage to be herself.
Download or read book The Year of the Dog written by Grace Lin and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the Chinese Year of the Dog, and as Pacy celebrates with her family, she finds out that this is the year she is supposed to "find herself." Universal themes of friendship, family, and finding one's passion in life make this novel appealing to readers of all backgrounds. This funny and profound book is a wonderful debut novel by a prolific picture book author and illustrator and has all the makings of a classic.
Download or read book Have a Good Year 365 Ways to Get Good Luck written by Michael Junem and published by Muslim School. This book was released on 2022-12-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Islam, Good Luck has 5 pillars: physical powers (Making Good Luck), Balancing powers (Feng Shui), Earth powers (Spells and Charms), Spiritual powers (Prayers), and Mental powers (Manifestations). Total Good Luck Humans have 4 major healths: physical, mental, financial and spiritual. Each of the 5 pillars of good luck are categorized and detailed for each of the 4 major healths, listing more than 500 ways to get good luck for your major healths. The good luck pillars listed here have brought millions of people contentment and tranquility. Here is a brief description of each: Making Good Luck: A study of over 1,000 people who consider themselves lucky and unlucky was made and the research of how their lifestyle increased their good luck is identified. Chinese Feng Shui: Ancient Asian belief system based mainly on increasing good energy via the placement of certain objects in relation to certain elements. The belief system is similar to a computer circuit board where certain components made of various elements are placed in a particular pattern to create a desired flow of energy. 18 Wiccan Earth Magic: Nature based belief system using crystals, candles, herbs and incense to summon energy. Wiccans are diverse and differ in their belief system, for example, there are Christian Wiccans who only use their Lord to summon magic. Jewish Bible: The Holy Book of Judaism, the first Abrahamic religion, Monotheists who believe in all the Prophets prior to Jesus. Christian Gospel: The Holy Book of Christianity, the second Abrahamic religion, who believe in the Messiah Jesus is predicted in the Jewish Bible Muslim Quran: The Holy Book of Islam, the third Abrahamic religion who believes Prophet Muhammad is predicted in the Jewish Bible and Christian Gospel, Islam is also the fastest growing religion. Charms: Various earth items believed through history to attract certain energies, similar to plutonium emitting radiation, certain crystals, amulets, and symbols are also believed to emit certain energies. Manifestation: The art of visualization and materializing good energy via a combination of belief systems
Download or read book Ten Eggs in a Nest written by Marilyn Sadler and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning readers can count to ten—and add—while they learn to read with P.J. Funnybunny author Marilyn Sadler's latest, funniest Bright and Early Book! Gwen the hen has laid her eggs, but just how many is anyone's guess. For now, she's quite content to sit and wait for them to hatch. Red Rooster, however, is too excited to wait. As soon as one egg hatches, he struts over to Worm World and buys ONE worm for his ONE new baby chick. Alas, Red returns to find that not ONE new baby chick, but TWO baby chicks have now hatched, requiring a return trip to Worm World. The hijinks continue back and forth until ten eggs have hatched, Red Rooster is ready to plotz, and young readers have learned a thing or two about ONE: counting to ten; TWO: simple addition; THREE: buying and selling; and FOUR: chickens and eggs! With stylized illustrations by Michael Fleming reminiscent of classic Beginner Books, this is a perfect choice for parents looking to teach reading and math to their own little chicks! Bright and Early Books are perfect for beginning beginner readers! Launched by Dr. Seuss in 1968 with The Foot Book, Bright and Early Books use fewer and easier words than Beginner Books. Readers just starting to recognize words and sound out letters will love these short books with colorful illustrations.
Download or read book The Asian Texans written by Marilyn Dell Brady and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the experiences of Asian immigrants in Texas, and examines their social and cultural contributions to the Lone Star State. Includes illustrations, biographical sketches, a time line, and newspaper excerpts.
Download or read book Food in China written by Frederick J. Simoons and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a study of Chinese food from a cultural and historical perspective. Its focus is on traditional China before establishment of the People's Republic. It identifies and provides comprehensive information on a broad range of Chinese food plants and animals for general readers, as well as for specialists whose interests have led them to questions relating to the food of China. Readers will find discussions regarding origins, how things came to be, time and place of food-plant and animal domestication, the spread of plants and animals from and to China, and other historical questions regarding the foods used by the Chinese people. The book is written with Canton and the southeast as points of departure, but embraces all of China and is directed towards people unfamiliar with China.
Download or read book Wuxia Novels Continuation of New Shu Mountain Swordsmen written by Kexue Ma and published by Kexue Ma. This book was released on with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Greek Mosaic written by Fay N Kozas and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up as the privileged daughter of a Greek family during the time of the Turkish occupation, nothing was good enough for her. Her father, a wealthy merchant, makes deals to smuggle his daughter and her future husband to Odessa where they will be safe until Greece is free once again. What happens on the night before her wedding changes her life forever.
Download or read book All About China written by Allison Branscombe and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the whole family on a whirlwind tour of Chinese culture and history with this award-winning, delightfully illustrated book complete with stories, activities, and games. This Chinese children's book is perfect for educators and parents wishing to teach kids about this fascinating Asian country. Travel from the stone age through the dynasties to the present day with songs and crafts for kids that will educate them about Chinese language and the Chinese way of life. With All About China kids will: Discover fantastic Chinese tales about the creation of the earth and the origin of the Moon Goddess Delve into China's multifaceted cultural heritage, visit breathtaking sites, and learn Chinese folk songs Take a crack at solving a tangram shape puzzle Learn about the twelve Chinese zodiac animals Try their hand at making a traditional brush painting of a panda, bamboo, and other motifs A timeless Chinese book for kids and parents to treasure together, All About China offers not only the essential facts about this unique country but also conveys the innovative spirit that makes it one-of-a-kind. **Winner of Creative Child Magazine 2015 Preferred Choice Award** **Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal** **Winner of Moonbeam Children's Book Awards 2015 Silver Medal**
Download or read book China Land of Dragons and Emperors written by Adeline Yen Mah and published by Ember. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating book about the history and culture of China. The history of China spans thousands of years. Journey through China in this fascinating and absorbing book: discover the land of dragons and emperors, and learn about the significance of its ancient dynasties. Countless tools and materials that people have used every day for centuries—paper, gunpowder, cast iron, matches, and silk, to name just a few—were first made in China. Chinese society has progressed through major changes, but lucky numbers, festivals, beliefs about colors, the practic of footbinding, the building of the Great Wall, and the larger-than-life people of China are all integral parts of this ancient civilization and still have an impact on life today. Bestselling author Adeline Yen Mah explores an extraordinary view of the great story of China over the last two millennia in this nonfiction work, which also includes black-and-white photographs.
Download or read book The Secret Language of Women written by Nina Romano and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Independent Publishers Book Awards (Gold Medal, Romance) Set in China in the late 1800’s, The Secret Language of Women tells the story of star-crossed lovers, Zhou Bin Lian, a Eurasian healer, and Giacomo Scimenti, an Italian sailor, driven apart by the Boxer Rebellion. When Lian is seventeen years old, she accompanies her Swiss father, Dr. Gianluca Brasolin, fluent in Italian, to tend the Italian ambassador, at the Summer Palace of Empress Dowager, where she meets and falls in love with Giacomo. Through voyage and adventure, their love intensifies, but soon is severed by Lian’s dutiful promise as the wife to another. Forbidden from pursuing her chosen profession as a healer, and despised because she does not have bound feet, she is forced to work in a cloisonné factory while her in-laws raise her daughter, Ya Chen. It is in Nushu, the women’s secret writing, that she chronicles her life and her hopes for the future. Rebelling against the life forced upon her, she empowers herself to act out against the injustice and becomes the master of her own destiny. But her quest for freedom comes at a costly price: The life of someone close to her, lost in a raging typhoon, a grueling journey to the Yun-kang Caves, and a desperate search for beauty and love in the midst of brutality.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Easter Celebrations Worldwide written by William D. Crump and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Eastertime, the most important holiday in the Christian world, religious processions in many Latin American countries pass over ornate street "carpets" fashioned from colored sawdust, flowers and fruit. Children in Finland and Sweden dress as "Easter witches." In the Caribbean, those who swim on Good Friday risk bad luck. In the Philippines, some penitents volunteer to be crucified. In some European countries, Easter Monday is the day for dousing women with water. With 240 entries, this book explores these and scores of other unusual and sometimes bizarre international Holy Week customs, both sacred and secular, from pilgrimages to Jerusalem to classic seasonal films and television specials.
Download or read book The Information Please Kids Almanac written by Alice Siegel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen chapters of science, history, and social studies material presented in a combination of core knowledge and facts.
Download or read book Greece written by Gina DeAngelis and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a brief introduction to life in Greece, including its history, climate, family and daily life, and customs.
Download or read book Egg written by Nicole Walker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. This book is about a strange object-strange in part because it is something that we all have been, and that many of us eat. Nicole Walker's Egg relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory habits are considered alongside one another, and personal narrative and broad swaths of natural history jostle, like yolk and albumen. Mapping curious eggs across times, scales, and spaces, Egg draws together surprising perspectives on this common object-egg as food, as art object, as metaphor and feminist symbol, as cultural icon. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Download or read book Five Fold Happiness written by Vivien Sung and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In engaging text and beautiful illustration, this volume explores the five-fold symbols of happiness: luck, prosperity, longevity, happiness, and wealth. Surround yourself with lucky objects, the Chinese believe, and good fortune will come to you. In Five-Fold Happiness, Vivien Sung takes readers on a delightful and enlightening journey through this age-old concept. Drenched in color and lavishly illustrated from ancient and modern sources, it interweaves both Chinese and English text. Peaches, the number eight, the imperial color of gold, a cat with one paw beckoning, or the dragon dance—here are some of the familiar images now revealed in their rich significance. Whether readers choose to embrace these symbols in their everyday lives or simply enjoy them on these glorious pages, Five-Fold Happiness is altogether auspicious.
Download or read book Hello Rainbow written by Momtaz Begum-Hossain and published by Leaping Hare Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome glorious colour into your daily life and embrace well-being through colour therapy! An uplifting, mood-boosting book that promotes the joy of colour,Hello Rainbow takes the reader on a vibrant journey through the rainbow spectrum inspired by the therapeutic benefits of colour therapy. Vibrantly illustrated with full-colour photography, this book explains the principles of colour therapy combined with a new colour theory created by the author and colour therapy expert Momtaz Begum-Hossain: Hello Hue, a seven-point manifesto for how to use colour to boost your mood and mental well-being.This book: Introduces you to thetherapeutic healing benefits of colour theory such as colour breathing and making solar-charged water, alongside fascinating facts. Shows you how colour can be experienced in different aspects of life such as food, nature, travel, interiors and fashion. Celebrates how colour brings community together like rainbows becoming an LGBTQ+ symbol, and colourful festivals that take place around the world. Gives you practical Rainbow Rituals so you can harness the benefits of colour, with prompts and exercises like going on explorative Rainbow Hunting adventures. Encourages you to play with colour by trying mindful crafts techniques such as painting and sewing, making your creativity thrive. Whether you’re a colour lover or are colour cautious, you will gain a renewed confidence and zest for life, you’ll feel good about yourself and your positive energy will be infectious to others. A powerful and life-changing read, Hello Rainbow is sparking a resurgence in colour therapy, a non-invasive, harmless, accessible therapy that everyone can embrace and benefit from.
