Download or read book The Wizard Swami written by Cyril Dabydeen and published by [Leeds] England : Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel set in Guyana, South America.
Download or read book The Wizard and the Prophet written by Charles C. Mann and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle in pre-publication: Two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions of tomorrow's world.
Download or read book Monsters Tricksters and Sacred Cows written by Albert James Arnold and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1992 Quincentennial of the encounter between the New World and the Old resulted in a veritable culture war- an extreme polarization of hardened ideological positions on different ideas of America. Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows brings a fresh perspective to the confusing question of American identity. It clears the minefields laid by the generals commanding the opposing camps, while demonstrating that both sides have been primarily interested in protecting and defending an idea of "Americanness" that cannot resist scrutiny. Some of the leading international scholars in anthropology, comparative literature, and history of the Americas show convincingly in this book that contacts between and among peoples and ethnic groups have, since early colonial times, produced new- and typically American- cultural forms throughout the hemisphere. Monsters, Tricksters, and Sacred Cows will appeal to the general reader and will attract a wide readership in folklore and cultural anthropology as well as in Caribbean and Latin American studies, comparative literature, and history.
Download or read book The Diaspora Writes Home written by Jasbir Jain and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by eminent author Jasbir Jain explores the many ways the diaspora remembers and reflects upon the lost homeland, and their relationship with their own ancestry, history of the homeland, culture and the current political conflicts. Amongst the questions this book asks is, ‘how does the diaspora relate to their home, and what is the homeland's relationship to the diaspora as representatives of the contemporary homeland in another country?’. The last is an interesting point of discussion since the 'present' of the homeland and of the diaspora cannot be equated. The transformations that new locations have brought about as migrants have travelled through time and interacted with the politics of their settled lands---Africa, Fiji, the Caribbean Islands, the UK, the US, Canada, as well as the countries created out of British India, such as Pakistan and Bangladesh---have altered their affiliations and perspectives. This book gathers multiple dispersions of emigrant writers and artistes from South Asia across time and space to the various homelands they relate to now. The word ‘write’ is used in its multiplicity to refer to creative expression, as an inscription, as connectivity, and remembrance. Writing is also a representation and carries its own baggage of poetics and aesthetics, categories which need to be problematised vis-à-vis the writer and his/her emotional location.
Download or read book International Who s Who in Poetry 2004 written by Europa Publications and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Download or read book Hendree s Cure written by Moses Nagamootoo and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madrassis in Guyana used to pour a drop of white rum in memory of their ancestors. Moses Nagamootoo's libation is, like the best high wine, an intoxicating mix of fire, sweetness and pungency. Blending fiction and documentary, he reanimates a world now mostly gone, that of the Madrassi fishermen, market-traders, rice farmers, Kali worshippers, cricketers, turfites and see-far practitioners who inhabited the Corentyne village of Whim in the 1950s and 60s. Though only a small percentage of the quarter million Indians who came to Guyana, the South Indian Madrassis, now much dispersed through emigration to North America, played an influential role in Guyanese life. The Kali-Mai churches they established, for instance, now draw devotees from all Guyanese ethnic groups. At the heart of the narrative are the stories of the entrepreneurial Naga, like pot-salt in everything, his wife Chunoo, resolute in her sense of community and justice, and Hendree, Naga's sidekick, an idler, brilliant drummer and would-be healer. In their lives are played out the polarities which gave Madrassi life its extraordinary dynamism: its spirituality and earthiness, its respect for goodness - and delight in scampishness, its faithfulness to Madrassi culture and openness to the culture of others, particularly the Afro-Guyanese. What is to be savoured above all in this book is its language, particularly when we hear the Whim villagers and the pungent and elegant Creole through which they represented their world and maintained their place in it. Moses Nagamootoo was born in Whim Village. Since 1992 he has been member of the Guyanese Parliament and for a time held the portfolio of Minister of Information.
Download or read book Wizard s Bunker written by Kater Cheek and published by Kater Cheek. This book was released on 2023-05-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a daring heist will save them. Aaliyah is the most powerful psychic alive, strong enough to twist the fabric of space time. But even Aaliyah is caught wrong-footed when powerful sorcerers of the Society of the Golden Mean are killed simultaneously by mysterious supernatural assassinations. A traitor has stolen magical artifacts, and is now using these arcane items to kill. She needs a powerful mage to help her retrieve these priceless relics—but who among the few survivors can she trust? When Morgan gets an opportunity to work at a mysterious occult retreat, she thinks it’s an opportunity to learn the blood magic Kit refuses to teach her. As Morgan explores the subterranean plot, she learns secrets her new employers would kill to keep quiet. But Morgan is determined to steal their treasure for herself, and her ambitions will not be deterred by other thieves getting in her way. Kit and Aaliyah plan a complicated heist to infiltrate the wizards’ bunker and recover the enchanted antiques that enabled this assault. But bad luck plagues their every move. Their meticulous planning hadn’t accounted for a traitor destroying their escape route. Can they survive the betrayal and get home again? Wizard’s Bunker is book eleven in the Kit Melbourne series. If you like heists with double-crossing and plenty of action, then you’ll love Kater Cheek’s thrilling caper. Buy Wizard’s Bunker to steal your own magical treasure.
Download or read book Wizard written by Marc Seifer and published by Citadel. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The story of one of the most prolific, independent, and iconoclastic inventors of this century…fascinating.”—Scientific American Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the founding father of modern electrical technology. Among Tesla’s creations were the channeling of alternating current, fluorescent and neon lighting, wireless telegraphy, and the giant turbines that harnessed the power of Niagara Falls. This essential biography is illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs, including the July 20, 1931, Time magazine cover for an issue celebrating the inventor’s career. “A deep and comprehensive biography of a great engineer of early electrical science--likely to become the definitive biography. Highly recommended.”--American Association for the Advancement of Science “Seifer's vivid, revelatory, exhaustively researched biography rescues pioneer inventor Nikola Tesla from cult status and restores him to his rightful place as a principal architect of the modern age.” --Publishers Weekly Starred Review “[Wizard] brings the many complex facets of [Tesla's] personal and technical life together in to a cohesive whole....I highly recommend this biography of a great technologist.” --A.A. Mullin, U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command, COMPUTING REVIEWS “[Along with A Beautiful Mind] one of the five best biographies written on the brilliantly disturbed.”--WALL STREET JOURNAL “Wizard is a compelling tale presenting a teeming, vivid world of science, technology, culture and human lives.”-
Download or read book Asian American Writers written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents critical perspectives on the works of Asian-American writers, including Gish Jen, Cheng-rae Lee, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Download or read book Classic Aubrey Menen written by Aubrey Menen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbane, irreverent satire—four of Aubrey Menen’s best novels The novels in this omnibus edition are classic Aubrey Menen—brilliant and inventive, displaying his characteristic wit while laying bare people’s idiosyncrasies. Menen attacks affectation and hypocrisy with his crisp prose and true-to-life characters. Classic Aubrey Menen is an abiding testimony to a master craftsman. The Prevalence of Witches, A Conspiracy of Women, A Fig Tree, The Abode of Love.
Download or read book North of the Equator written by Cyril Dabydeen and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of stories, Dabydeens characters live stretched between two worlds: one, an adopted home in Canada; the other, a birthplace in a tropical island.
Download or read book An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature written by King-Kok Cheung and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of Asian American literature.
Download or read book International Who s Who in Poetry 2005 written by Europa Publications and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 1787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In addition to the well known poets, talented up-and-coming writers are also profiled. Contents: * Each entry provides full career history and publication details * An international appendices section lists prizes and past prize-winners, organizations, magazines and publishers * A summary of poetic forms and rhyme schemes * The career profile section is supplemented by lists of Poets Laureate, Oxford University professors of poetry, poet winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, winners of the Pulitzer Prize for American Poetry and of the King's/Queen's Gold medal and other poetry prizes.
Download or read book An H P Lovecraft Encyclopedia written by S. T. Joshi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-09-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century. He is distinctive among writers in having a tremendous popular following as well as a considerable and increasing academic reputation as a writer of substance and significance. This encyclopedia is an exhaustive guide to many aspects of Lovecraft's life and work, codifying the detailed research on Lovecraft conducted by many scholars over the past three decades. It includes hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries on Lovecraft and presents extensive bibliographical information. The volume draws upon rare documents, including thousands of unpublished letters, in presenting plot synopses of Lovecraft's major works, descriptions of characters in his tales, capsule biographies of his major colleagues and family members, and entries on little known features in his stories, such as his imaginary book of occult lore, the Necronomicon. The volume refers to current scholarship on the issues in question and also supplies the literary, topographical, and biographical sources for key elements in Lovecraft's work. As Lovecraft's renown continues to ascend in the 21st century, this encyclopedia will be essential to an understanding of his life and writings.
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Download or read book The Characters of Oz written by Dina Schiff Massachi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he created an American myth that has endured the test of time. Echoes of Dorothy and her friends are everywhere: popular television shows often have an Oz episode, novelists borrow character types and echo familiar scenes, and every media--from Broadway to The Muppets--has some variation or continuation of Baum's work. This collection of essays follows Baum's archetypal characters as they've changed over time in order to examine what those changes mean in relation to Oz, American culture and basic human truths. Essays also serve as a bridge between academia and fandom, with contributors representing a cross-section of Oz scholarship from backgrounds including The International Wizard of Oz Club and the Children's Literature Association.
Download or read book A History of Indian Literature in English written by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This volume surveys 200 years of Indian literature in English. Written by Indian scholars and critics, many of the 24 contributions examine the work of individual authors, such as Rabindranath Tagore, R.K. Narayan, and Salman Rushdie. Others consider a particular genre, such as post-independence poetry or drama. The volume is illustrated with b&w photographs of writers along with drawings and popular prints. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
