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Book Shell We Dance

Download or read book Shell We Dance written by Cora Reef and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon has tons of ideas about how to make his class's dance routine shine for the school showcase, but it soon becomes clear that he might have too many ideas and his friends are having trouble keeping up.

Book Dancing on Coral

    Book Details:
  • Author : Glenda Adams
  • Publisher : Text Publishing
  • Release : 2013-06-26
  • ISBN : 1922148180
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Dancing on Coral written by Glenda Adams and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, 1987. Lark Watter had always planned to run away from her stifling suburban life in 1960s Sydney. At university she encounters an American, Tom, and with him the promise of escape. Following Tom to the other side of the world by freighter is a journey to freedom. But the adventure Lark has embarked on isn't quite what she had anticipated. Not on the way there, and certainly not in New York... A picaresque journey across the high seas and through the extremes of the '60s, Dancing on Coral was Glenda Adams' second novel and established her international reputation. This new edition comes with an introduction by Susan Wyndham. Glenda Adams was born in Sydney in 1939 and studied at the University of Sydney. She later taught Indonesian there after travelling through Indonesia. She moved to New York in 1964 to study Journalism at Columbia University and teach writing, living mainly in the United States until 1990, when she returned to Sydney. She lectured at the University of Technology, Sydney, before her death in 2007. 'A comic epic and sharp satire...a voyage of liberation.' Elizabeth Jolley 'An ebullient comedy...wonderfully satisfying and enriching.' Kate Grenville 'A wicked and witty novel.' Sydney Morning Herald

Book Dancing with Time

Download or read book Dancing with Time written by Angela J. Price and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unknown are the lies and secrets of Kathrin Doolb's life until a sinister plan was set in motion. After her parents' death, Kathrin was sent to live with her uncle whom she has never met. Upon her arrival, Kathrin began having recurring nightmares and visions while she is awake. As Kathrin tries to figure out what the dreams and visions are trying to tell her, she also has to keep her sanity in the process. Filled with mystery, romance, and intrigue, Kathrin's world is turned upside down that will lead Kathrin in a dance she never wanted to learn but must accept.

Book Dancing from the Heart

Download or read book Dancing from the Heart written by Kalissa Alexeyeff and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing from the Heart is the first study of gender, globalization, and expressive culture in the Cook Islands. It demonstrates how dance in particular plays a key role in articulating the overlapping local, regional, and transnational agendas of Cook Islanders. Kalissa Alexeyeff reconfigures conventional views of globalization’s impact on indigenous communities, moving beyond diagnoses of cultural erosion and contamination to a grounded exploration of creative agency and vital cultural production. Central to the study is a rich and textured ethnographic account of contemporary Cook Islands dance practice. Based on fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and archival research, it offers an engrossing analysis of how Cook Islands social life is generated through expressive practices. Dance is explored in a variety of settings, including beauty pageants, tourist venues, nightclubs and community celebrations at home and within Cook Islands communities abroad. Contemporary Cook Islands dance practices are also shaped by competing ideas about the past. Debates about precolonial traditions, missionization, and colonialism pervade discussions about dance and expressive culture. Alexeyeff shows how the politics of tradition reflect the competing moral, political, personal, and economic practices of postcolonial Cook Islanders. Throughout the work the stories and voices of individuals are brought to the fore. Their views are juxtaposed with scholarship on tradition, modernity, and social dynamics. Engaging and accessible, Dancing from the Heart illuminates specific and intimate aspects of Cook Islands social life while, at the same time, addressing fundamental questions within anthropology and indigenous, performance, and postcolonial studies.

Book Stories on the Move

Download or read book Stories on the Move written by Arlene Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energize your story programs by infusing them with the power of movement! This guide offers you dozens of interactive, ready-to-use, age-appropriate and story-based activities that get children actively involved in learning. Designed to expand the child's self-awareness, range of expression, and aesthetic sensibility at particular stages of development, from infancy to puberty, these literature-based programs are simple enough to be used by any educator, even if you have little or no dance experience. Included for each program are learning goals/skill development, a literature-story connection, and detailed instructions for movement and vocal improvisation and creative dramatics. A great resource for after school programs, home schools, and daycare centers. Ages Infant-14 Stories on the Move develops a child's emergent, cultural, and interpretative literacy skills. The first three chapters for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers are based on nationally recognized standards and methods for tapping emergent literacy skills. The fourth chapter takes children on StoryTrips to other countries and includes language, stories, dances, and customs of those countries. The fifth and sixth chapters for older children show them how to interpret story structure and the elements of character, setting, mood, plot, and theme. Included for each program are learning goals/skill development, a literature-story connection, and detailed instructions for movement and vocal improvisation and creative dramatics. A great resource for after school programs, home schools, and daycare centers. Ages Infant-14.

Book Daughter of the Reef

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clare Coleman
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 1497621933
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book Daughter of the Reef written by Clare Coleman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chief’s daughter is storm-tossed onto the strange land of Tahiti in a novel that “shows that the ancient South Pacific can be a dangerous paradise” (Publishers Weekly). In the first volume of the Ancient Tahiti series, Tepua, the daughter of a chief sails from her coral atoll home toward her planned, and ritually mandated, marriage. But she never reaches her destination because a violent storm damages her vessel and leaves her stranded on the shores of Tahiti, a land previously unknown to her. She is made unwelcome because of her foreignness and is victimized because of her weakness and innocence, but her spirit is strong and her will to survive and thrive is boundless. The world of Tahiti is very different from the one she has known, beautiful, savage, and mystical by turns. But she is determined to build herself a new life and, in the process, she will change the destiny of all for generations to come. The Ancient Tahiti series, which continues with Sister of the Sun and Child of the Dawn, is perfect reading for fans of Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear, Linda Lay Shuler's She Who Remembers, and other novels set among pre-historic cultures.

Book Bluebird Rising

    Book Details:
  • Author : John DeCure
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2003-12-15
  • ISBN : 9780312273088
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Bluebird Rising written by John DeCure and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brooding, atmospheric mystery, John DeCure once again brings the seemingly disparate worlds of law and surfing together with engaging results. For J. Shepard, prosecuting attorney with the California State Bar Association, only one thing in his life keeps him centered: riding waves. When the surf is rising, J. has never had a problem coming up with an excuse to cut out of work. But with a new fiancée and a troubling internal audit beginning at work, J. has little time these days to hit the sand. When a legal mentor from his distant past washes up in his office stinking of alcohol and hoping for a second chance at life, J. drops everything, including his surfboard. But will he be able to help? The man is in deep trouble, and J. will have to use every tool at his disposal, both in the courtroom and on the beach, to get him out of it. A wrenching, suspenseful follow-up to John DeCure's critically acclaimed Reef Dance, Bluebird Rising is a taut novel sure to please established fans and new readers alike.

Book Coral Reef Fishes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter F. Sale
  • Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
  • Release : 2006-07-20
  • ISBN : 9780123736093
  • Pages : 574 pages

Download or read book Coral Reef Fishes written by Peter F. Sale and published by Gulf Professional Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral Reef Fishes is the successor of The Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs. This new edition includes provocative reviews covering the major areas of reef fish ecology. Concerns about the future health of coral reefs, and recognition that reefs and their fishes are economically important components of the coastal oceans of many tropical nations, have led to enormous growth in research directed at reef fishes. This book is much more than a simple revision of the earlier volume; it is a companion that supports and extends the earlier work. The included syntheses provides readers with the current highlights in this exciting science. * An up-to-date review of key research areas in reef fish ecology, with a bibliography including hundreds of citations, most from the last decade * Authoritative and provocative chapters written to suggest future research priorities * Includes discussions of regulation of fish populations, dispersal or site fidelity of larval reef fishes, sensory and motor capabilities of reef fish larvae, and complexities of management of reef species and communities

Book Lyrical Iowa

Download or read book Lyrical Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 1670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dancing with Dragons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jenni Ogden
  • Publisher : Sea Dragon Press
  • Release : 2024-07-16
  • ISBN : 1067002626
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Dancing with Dragons written by Jenni Ogden and published by Sea Dragon Press. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOLD MEDAL, BEST FICTION: AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND-AOTEAROA/PACIFIC RIM. 2024 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDAL, LITERARY FICTION, 2024 READERS' FAVORITE BOOK AWARDS From Jenni Ogden, author of multiple-award-winning A Drop in the Ocean, comes another evocative story of friendship, coral reefs, and marine conservation for book-club readers. It is the late 1970s and teenagers Gaia and her brother Bron live with their parents on their isolated property on Western Australia’s Coral Coast. Intensively trained for a career as a professional ballet dancer by her mother, once a Principal Dancer in the American Ballet Theatre, Gaia also loves snorkeling over the coral reef that borders their small market garden. Then comes a day that changes her life forever: she discovers a rare pair of dramatically colored seadragons, their courtship dance over the coral spellbinding, and that night she loses her entire family and her dancing dream. Two years later she returns to the abandoned property, determined to live off the land. For years her only friends are the wild animals of the bush and reef, and Mary and Eddie, an Aboriginal couple who work for the racist farmer on the neighboring property — until one morning Jarrah, Mary’s 11-year-old orphaned nephew, is entranced when he sees Gaia dancing on the beach. As an unlikely friendship between these two lonely and scarred people deepens, they discover that when you lose everything the only way to survive is to open your heart.

Book Echoes at Fishermen   s Rock

Download or read book Echoes at Fishermen s Rock written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Food from the land, the ocean shores and the tree canopy2. The lagoon3. The reef4. The open sea5. Omens, stars, singing and other valuable things.

Book Ocean Flows

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sita Kanaka Valli Rentala
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2010-03
  • ISBN : 1449087973
  • Pages : 54 pages

Download or read book Ocean Flows written by Sita Kanaka Valli Rentala and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the book opens we find all species of salmon on the brink of extinction due to global warming and over fishing. Ocean Flows Book One in poetry: Surfing Essazz is written with the specific goal of raising the consciousness of society in general and school children and college students in particular. Teacher Ali Khan and his school are about to begin their journey to the fresh water rivers where they were born. He guides his students toward the famous Bearing Land Bridge where these Pacific salmon are ready to spawn. A tsunami, a torrential churning seismic force, washes the school to the pristine waters of Australia. As the salmon wash up on the coast of Australia they are confronted by Lord Wavely, the King of the Australian Coral Reef. With tact and talent Ali Khan, with the help of cock salmon Essazz and hen salmon Mathela, wins over Lord Wavely's kind heart. At the same time... Due to global warming another calamity occurs at the South Pole. Because of unusually warm temperatures the ice has begun to melt and a loose mass of ice is gathering force and gaining speed to form an avalanche. Many sharks are caught in the force of this avalanche and are washed up on Australian shores. By the time they arrive the sharks are famished and ready to feast on the salmon. King Wavely protects the salmon by using electrical storms and venom attacks to drive off the sharks. He then asks the salmon to enjoy living in the Australian waters. After a successful spawning season the young salmon become victims of flash floods and drought. Following months of struggle the others head out to sea.

Book Library of Congress Subject Headings

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coral Reefs of the Gulf

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernhard Riegl
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-04-13
  • ISBN : 940073008X
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Coral Reefs of the Gulf written by Bernhard Riegl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral Reefs of the Gulf: Adaptation to Climatic Extremes is a complete review and reference for scientists, engineers and students concerned with the geology, biology or engineering aspects of coral reefs in the Middle East. It provides for the first time a complete review of both the geology and biology of all extant coral areas in the Gulf, the water body between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. In summer, this area is the hottest sea with abundant coral growth on earth and already today exhibits a temperature that is predicted to occur across the topical ocean in 2100. Thus, by studying the Gulf today, much can be learned about tomorrow’s world and the capability of coral reefs to adapt to climatic extremes. This volume provides the most authoritative and up-to-date review of the coral reefs in the Gulf. It can be used as a volume of general reference or as a textbook treating recent coral reefs. Written by local and international experts, the text is richly illustrated and will remain a standard reference for the region for decades to come. Contributions stretch from climatology through geology, biology, ecological modelling and fisheries science to practical conservation aspects. The book is useful for the technical expert and casual reader alike.

Book Identity  Culture  and the Science Performance Volume 2

Download or read book Identity Culture and the Science Performance Volume 2 written by Vivian Appler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance investigates performances that illuminate the hidden recesses and inscrutable mysteries of the natural and human-made worlds. While the first volume of this series prioritizes public, outward-facing, and activist work at the intersections of art and science, this volume considers performances of localized, concealed, inexplicable, or intimate phenomena, from the closed-door procedures of biomedical trials to the impacts of climate change. Interdisciplinary science dialogues have long been shaped by the cultures and identity communities in which they arise and circulate. The essays, interviews, and creative works included here not only expose the historical and contemporary harms created by exclusive and prejudicial processes in art and science, they also contemplate how a diverse, inclusive body of science performers might help deepen how we “see” the unseen forces of our universe, contribute to novel scientific understandings, and disrupt disciplinary hierarchies long dominated by white men of privilege. This collection expands upon extant scholarship on theatre and science by foregrounding identity as a crucial thematic and representational element within past and present performances of science. Featuring interviews with science-integrative artists such as Lauren Gundersen (The Half-Life of Marie Curie) and Kim TallBear (Native American DNA) as well as creative works by playwrights Chantal Bilodeau and Claudia Barnett, among others, Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 2: From the Curious to the Quantum proposes shifts in perspective and procedure necessary to establish and maintain sustainable cultures of science and art.

Book Lippincott s Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Lippincott s Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: