Download or read book Four Quarters of the Night written by Tara Singh Bains and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying himself as both an Indian and a Canadian but first and foremost a Sikh, Tara Singh has shuttled back and forth between Canada and India for most of his life, finding personal harmony while incorporating two very different countries and cultures into his life. Tara Singh was raised within an amritdhari, or baptised, Sikh tradition in a small village in Punjab, India; his values and identity are firmly rooted in Punjabi Sikh culture. As a child and adolescent he suffered mercilessly from his father's verbal and physical cruelty, but the support that he drew from his village environment and his religion gave him strength. He married, according to traditional practices, the woman that his family had arranged for him to wed. Sponsored by his sister, Tara Singh emigrated to Canada in the early 1950s and settled in British Columbia. He came alone, without his wife and children, as most Punjabis did. His greatest initial shock in Canada was his experience with racism, and its impact on his relatives who tried to persuade him to shave his beard and abandon his turban - two sacred symbols of the Sikh. Refusing to betray his beliefs, he resisted the relentless pressure of his family just as he later fought against the exploitation of immigrants in the saw mills where he worked. Tara Singh became active in fighting for immigrant rights and protecting the Sikh faith in Canada. The Four Quarters of the Night is more than one man's life story: his single voice reveals much about the collective experience of immigrants. Tara Singh's narrative presents an evocative picture of a newcomer's experiences in a land of foreign customs, culture, and religious beliefs. Hugh Johnston, to whom Tara Singh told his story, has created a unique and invaluable document in immigration and ethnic history.
Download or read book Sing the Four Quarters written by Tanya Huff and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bards of Shkoder hold the country together. They, and the elemental spirits they Sing – earth, air, fire, and water - bring the news of the sea to the mountains, news of the mountains to the plains. They give their people, from peasant to king, a song in common. Annice is a rare talent, able to Sing all four quarters, but her brother, the newly enthroned King Theron, sees her request to study at the Bardic Hall as a betrayal. To his surprise, Annice accepts his conditions, renouncing her royal blood and swearing to remain childless so as not to jeopardize the line of succession. She walks away from political responsibilities, royal privilege and her family. Ten years later, Annice has become the Princess Bard and her real life is about to become the exact opposite of the overwrought ballad her fellow students at the Bardic Hall wrote about her. Now, she's on the run from the Royal Guards with the Duc of Ohrid, the father of her unborn child, both of them guilty of treason – one of them unjustly accused. To save the Duc's life, they'll have to cross the country, manage to keep from strangling each other, and defeat an enemy too damaged for even a Bard's song to reach.
Download or read book All Four Quarters of the Moon written by Shirley Marr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of When You Trap a Tiger and A Place to Belong comes a gentle, “touching” (Booklist, starred review) middle grade novel about love and resilience, interwoven with Chinese mythology, a Little World made completely of paper, and the ever-changing, but constant moon. The night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, making mooncakes with Ah-Ma, was the last time Peijing Guo remembers her life being the same. She is haunted by the magical image of a whole egg yolk suspended in the middle like the full moon. Now adapting to their new life in Australia, Peijing thinks everything is going to turn out okay as long as they all have each other, but cracks are starting to appear in the family. Five-year-old Biju, lovable but annoying, needs Peijing to be the dependable big sister. Ah-Ma keeps forgetting who she is; Ma Ma is no longer herself and Ba Ba must adjust to a new role as a hands-on dad. Peijing has no idea how she is supposed to cope with the uncertainties of her own world while shouldering the burden of everyone else. If her family are the four quarters of the mooncake, where does she even fit in?
Download or read book Annual Report written by Michigan. State Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Life Four Quarters Plus Overtime written by Floyd L. Griffin Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life: Four Quarters plus Overtime is a book created specifically with the African American community in mind. The book will examine the periods of development associated with the human life span with brief overview of the social, emotional, congenital, perceptual, and moral development specific to each life stage. The book will include cutting-edge commentary from experts in the field of psychology, public health, education, religion, genonrology, and the healing arts. Each chapter/quarter will have African American proverbs, cultural maxims, quotes, stories, and words of wisdom from black achievers, along with biblical scripture that will strengthen our faith and belief and help us interpret and experience our lives in a vastly different way. The book will conclude (Epilogue) with Mr. Griffin’s Life Four Quarters plus Overtime Memoirs.
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Download or read book Fortune Telling written by Diagram Group and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So many methods exist for getting a "jump” on time--dowsing, necromancy, different forms of astrology, tarot--and, with this complete encyclopedia of fortune telling, you can choose the one most suited to your talents. To know which way the wind blows, try aeromancy, or divining by atmospheric conditions. Do you know what it means if you see a spider web in your doorway? A dictionary of omens and superstitions says you’re about to have a guest! Or, try Oriental astrology, palmistry, and phrenology, and various forms of casting, such as runes, dice, dominoes, and the Tablets of Fate. Over 500 pages of easy-to-understand explanations, directions, charts and illustrations make this the biggest book of fortune telling ever!
Download or read book A Help to Discourse or More merriment mixt with serious matters Together with the Country mans Counsellor As also the art of cookery and sundry experiments and their extractions of oyl waters c The seventeenth edition By William Basse and E Philips written by and published by . This book was released on 1682 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of the Holy Bible written by Augustin Calmet and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moses and Aaron Civil Ecclesiastical Rites used by the Ancient Hebrewes The eighth edition written by Thomas GODWIN (Rector of Brightwell.) and published by . This book was released on 1672 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Royal Kalendar and Court and City Register for England Scotland Ireland and the Colonies for the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1837-52 include the Companion to the Almanac, or Year-book of general information.
Download or read book The British Imperial Calendar on General Register of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Its Colonies etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calmet s Dictionary of the Holy Bible by the Late Mr Charles Taylor Third Edition written by Augustin Calmet and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calmet s Dictionary of the Bible Abridged modernized and re edited according to the most recent Biblical researches By Theodore Alois Buckley The sixth thousand written by Augustin Calmet and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Book of the Fourth World written by Gordon Brotherston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-24 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Fourth World offers detailed analyses of texts that range far back into the centuries of civilised life from what is now Latin- and Anglo-America. At the time of its 'discovery', the American continent was identified as the Fourth World of our planet. In the course of just a few centuries its original inhabitants, though settled there for millennia and countable in many millions, have come to be perceived as a marginal if not entirely dispensable factor in the continent's destiny. Today the term has been taken up again by its native peoples, to describe their own world: both its threatened present condition, and its political history, which stretches back thousands of years before Columbus. In order to explore the literature of this world, Brotherston uses primary sources that have traditionally been ignored because they have not conformed to Western definitions of oral and written literature, such as the scrolls of the Algonkin, the knotted strings (Quipus) of the Inca, Navajo dry-paintings and the encyclopedic pages of Meso-America's screenfold books.
