Download or read book River of Painted Birds written by Tessa Bridal and published by Rio de La Plata Editions. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabel Keating flees 18th century Ireland disguised as a man after accidentally killing her abusive husband. She boards a ship bound for South America and there joins forces with the ship's owner and a Jesuit priest devoted to saving native tribes from slavery. Their partnership not only affects their lives but the future of the Spanish colonies.
Download or read book Audubon the Man who Painted Birds written by Norah Smaridge and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th-century naturalist and artist famous for his accurate paintings of birds and animals.
Download or read book The Painted Bird written by Jerzy Kosinski and published by Transaction Large Print. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Award The Painted Bird is one of the most shocking indictments of Nazi madness and terrors of the Holocaust during World War II. It is a story about the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. It is a vivid and graphic portrayal of the hellish Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe as seen through the eyes of a boy struggling for survival, an alien child lost in a world gone mad.
Download or read book Pachamama Tales written by Paula Martín and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual collection of enchanting folk tales from the peoples of Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay, and Paraguay, accompanied by historical and geographical background as well as color photographs. Containing numerous tales that have never before appeared in an English-language children's story collection, this book presents many of author Paula Martín's favorite stories from her many years of experience in storytelling around the world and particularly in South America. It stands as a unique folklore and storytelling resource that will give readers a better understanding of life and culture in the southern part of South America. Readers of all ages will delight in entertaining stories about animals, plants and trees, musical instruments, lost places, fantastic creatures, and witches and devils. This collection also includes never-ending tales, sky stories, and folk tales about fools. The book provides related cultural information about the lands where these stories originated as well as the people who tell these tales, traditional games of South America, and recipes for regional food items that can go hand in hand with the stories.
Download or read book The Birds of America written by John James Audubon and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
Download or read book Painted Birds written by Boston Museum Of Fine Arts and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Painted Bird written by Jerzy Kosinski and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, wanders alone from one village to another in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
Download or read book Open and Innovative Trade Opportunities for Latin America and the Caribbean written by Pablo Alberto Baisotti and published by Business Science Reference. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of international trade relations within Latin American countries"--
Download or read book LogoLounge 5 written by Bill Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents the best designs of the past year (2009) as judged by an elite group of name-brand designers. The first portion of the book profiles ten top designers and spotlights their biggest, newest campaigns. The second half of the book contains almost 2,000 logos organized by visual categories."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Tree of Red Stars written by Tessa Bridal and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magda, a young woman of privilege, is drawn into unexpected danger when she joins the underground struggle against the government of Uruguay.
Download or read book Found in Translation written by Duncan Madden and published by Chambers. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Found in Translation: The Unexpected Origins of Place Names unravels the tangled threads of history and etymology to uncover the strange, intriguing and enlightening stories that have shaped the names of countries and places around the world. Starting in the world's second largest country, Canada, whose name means 'the village', renowned travel writer, Duncan Madden takes us on a spellbinding tour through the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania, visiting the weird and wonderful along the way. Learn about the Land Protected by Fire , otherwise known as Azerbaijan; drop by Hippopotamus, or Mali; and sail to the Land of Frizzy-Haired Men in Papua New Guinea. Found in Translation will entertain and inspire the culturally curious - armchair explorers and avid travellers, historians, linguists and lovers of language - painting a new perspective on the names, histories and origins of the places we live in and travel to. Visiting more than sixty countries across all six continents, Found in Translation includes the stories of Canada, USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, Iceland, Ireland, UK, Germany, Russia, Italy, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Iraq, India, China, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and many more... The foreword, written by bestselling author, explorer and photographer, Levison Wood, sets the context for this revelatory work that is part travelogue, history book and etymological reference.
Download or read book THE BRIGHTNESS ALIVE written by EVERTON PERES and published by Nêmides. This book was released on 2011-07-23 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches controversial themes from another perspective, helping the active reader to take a different view of the world panorama, breaking the paradigm of a society that is blind and hypocritical. ISSUES AS THE MIDDLE EAST, HYPOCRISY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, ON THE "POISON" THAT ARE THE NOVELS, ON THE "GREAT PROSTITUTE" OF THE XXI CENTURY MEDIUM CALL, ON THE MURDERS IN BRAZILIAN AND WORLD POLICY, MOTIVATED BY IMPERIALIST INTERESTS OR MAYBE BY A LARGEST HIDDEN GOVERNMENT.
Download or read book Uruguay written by Deb Nevins and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaning "River of the Colorful Birds," Uruguay is a small country in South America that is covered by crisscrossing rivers and lush hills. Home to approximately 3.5 million people, the country is often regarded as the most stable and prosperous country in Central and South America. Uruguay produces 95 percent of its electricity from renewable energy and is known as one of the most socially progressive nations in the world. Allow your readers to learn more about Uruguay's unique culture through this informative book, which features engaging sidebars and vibrant photographs.
Download or read book I Am Proud of Who I Am written by B. Woster and published by Barbara Woster. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book eight in a 15-book series which introduces readers to different people from around the globe: their homes, cultures, and beliefs. For more information about this series, the author, and her other books, visit her website @ BarbaraWosterAuthor.com
Download or read book The Americas 2 volumes written by Kimberly J. Morse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 1037 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume encyclopedia profiles the contemporary culture and society of every country in the Americas, from Canada and the United States to the islands of the Caribbean and the many countries of Latin America. From delicacies to dances, this encyclopedia introduces readers to cultures and customs of all of the countries of the Americas, explaining what makes each country unique while also demonstrating what ties the cultures and peoples together. The Americas profiles the 40 nations and territories that make up North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, including British, U.S., Dutch, and French territories. Each country profile takes an in-depth look at such contemporary topics as religion, lifestyle and leisure, cuisine, gender roles, dress, festivals, music, visual arts, and architecture, among many others, while also providing contextual information on history, politics, and economics. Readers will be able to draw cross-cultural comparisons, such as between gender roles in Mexico and those in Brazil. Coverage on every country in the region provides readers with a useful compendium of cultural information, ideal for anyone interested in geography, social studies, global studies, and anthropology.
Download or read book Life without Lead written by Daniel Renfrew and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life without Lead examines the social, political, and environmental dimensions of a devastating lead poisoning epidemic. Drawing from a political ecology of health perspective, the book situates the Uruguayan lead contamination crisis in relation to neoliberal reform, globalization, and the resurgence of the political Left in Latin America. The author traces the rise of an environmental social justice movement, and the local and transnational circulation of environmental ideologies and contested science. Through fine-grained ethnographic analysis, this book shows how combating contamination intersected with class politics, explores the relationship of lead poisoning to poverty, and debates the best way to identify and manage an unprecedented local environmental health problem.
Download or read book Birds Color Illustrations Vol 3 written by Various and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT has become a universal custom to obtain and preserve the likenesses of one’s friends. Photographs are the most popular form of these likenesses, as they give the true exterior outlines and appearance, (except coloring) of the subjects. But how much more popular and useful does photography become, when it can be used as a means of securing plates from which to print photographs in a regular printing press, and, what is more astonishing and delightful, to produce the real colors of nature as shown in the subject, no matter how brilliant or varied. We quote from the December number of the Ladies’ Home Journal: “An excellent suggestion was recently made by the Department of Agriculture at Washington that the public schools of the country shall have a new holiday, to be known as Bird Day. Three cities have already adopted the suggestion, and it is likely that others will quickly follow. Of course, Bird Day will differ from its successful predecessor, Arbor Day. We can plant trees but not birds. It is suggested that Bird Day take the form of bird exhibitions, of bird exercises, of bird studies—any form of entertainment, in fact, which will bring children closer to their little brethren of the air, and in more intelligent sympathy with their life and ways. There is a wonderful story in bird life, and but few of our children know it. Few of our elders do, for that matter. A whole day of a year can well and profitably be given over to the birds. Than such study, nothing can be more interesting. The cultivation of an intimate acquaintanceship with our feathered friends is a source of genuine pleasure. We are under greater obligations to the birds than we dream of. Without them the world would be more barren than we imagine. Consequently, we have some duties which we owe them. What these duties are only a few of us know or have ever taken the trouble to find out. Our children should not be allowed to grow to maturity without this knowledge. The more they know of the birds the better men and women they will be. We can hardly encourage such studies too much.” Of all animated nature, birds are the most beautiful in coloring, most graceful in form and action, swiftest in motion and most perfect emblems of freedom. They are withal, very intelligent and have many remarkable traits, so that their habits and characteristics make a delightful study for all lovers of nature. In view of the facts, we feel that we are doing a useful work for the young, and one that will be appreciated by progressive parents, in placing within the easy possession of children in the homes these beautiful photographs of birds. The text is prepared with the view of giving the children as clear an idea as possible, of haunts, habits, characteristics and such other information as will lead them to love the birds and delight in their study and acquaintance.
