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Book Tigers of a Different Stripe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sydney Hutchinson
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-11-21
  • ISBN : 022640546X
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Tigers of a Different Stripe written by Sydney Hutchinson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tigers of a Different Stripe, ethnomusicologist Sydney Hutchinson examines a variety of music genres in the Dominician Republic, and its diasporic communities, to shed light on how gender is performed through music, especially merengue tipico, a traditional, accordion-based genre that has undergone great change since the 1960s. Hutchinson goes beyond looking at just the music itself, to how dancing and listening, as well as viewing and discussing music, all play a part in gender performance and construction. Dominican gender roles are usually defined by a binary understanding of gender that is at its worst sexist and patriarchal, with macho men and subservient women. Hutchinson shows how wrong this is in musical performance, where musicians like Rita Indiana bend both gender and genre. The discussion naturally expands to movement, migration, race, class, and notions of tradition and modernity. In the end, Tigers shows how music can either reinforce entrenched gender roles or help to open up possibilities by imagining new roles and identities for all."

Book How Tiger Got His Stripes  A Folktale from Vietnam

Download or read book How Tiger Got His Stripes A Folktale from Vietnam written by Rob Cleveland and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Many years ago, the proudest animal in the jungle was not the peacock. The proudest animal was the tiger. In this timeless folktale from Vietnam, we see how Tiger's pride leads him to covet wisdom and, with the help of a wise farmer, earn his stripes.

Book A Tiger Without Stripes

Download or read book A Tiger Without Stripes written by Jaimie Whitbread and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young tiger born without stripes wonders why she alone is different. As she grows, her feeling of incompleteness draws her on a quest she hopes will make her whole. Will her efforts to earn her stripes pay off, or will she find a surprising answer to the question that has defined her life?

Book There s a Tiger in the Garden

Download or read book There s a Tiger in the Garden written by Lizzy Stewart and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Board book edition of the best-selling winner of the Waterstones Childrens Book Prize, Illustrated Book Category.

Book The Tiger who Lost His Stripes

Download or read book The Tiger who Lost His Stripes written by Anthony Paul and published by Andersen Press (UK). This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tiger searches for his stripes when he wakes up one morning to discover that they have disappeared.

Book They Earned Their Stripes

Download or read book They Earned Their Stripes written by Detroit News and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all-time Detroit Tiger team, as recently determined by fan balloting, was announced at the conclusion of the 1999 season at the time the final game was played in historic Tiger Stadium. With the opening of a brand-new stadium, Comerica Park, in April 2000, this book looks back over a century of Tiger baseball and highlights the careers of not only the all-time team but many other great Tiger players as well. The all-time team consists of Sparky Anderson, manager; Bill Freehan, catcher; Hank Greenberg, first base; Charlie Gehringer, second base; George Kell, third base; Alan Trammell, shortstop; Ty Cobb, Al Kaline, and Kirk Gibson, outfield; and Hal Newhouser, Jack Morris, Mickey Lolich, and John Hiller, pitchers. Cochrane, Kuenn, Colavito, Horton, Cash, and many other Tiger greats from the past and present are also featured, as are memorable World Series moments, historic home runs, and great hitting and pitching performances.

Book Earn Your Stripes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erik Kincade
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2018-11-26
  • ISBN : 9781731251121
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Earn Your Stripes written by Erik Kincade and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earn Your Stripes is a leadership book and children's book wrapped into one. The story focuses on a group of tigers at the Fairview Zoo. Sam, the leader of the tigers, is a super-striped tiger who has earned her stripes by consistently displaying positive behaviors and by being kind and helpful. Her goal is to help the semi-striped tigers earn their stripes as well. People come from all over to watch Sam and her team perform at the zoo. However, when Sam gets injured during a performance, Edgar, the only stripeless tiger in the zoo, has different plans for the team. Sam has to rally her team to win back the adoration of her fans.This book is inspired by the 10-80-10 leadership principle, and it is written in a way to show younger children that being kind, respectful, dependable, and hard working are qualities that allow individuals and teams to excel. Just like any organization has a top 10-percent, a middle 80-percent, and a bottom 10-percent, the Fairview Zoo has super-striped, semi-striped, and stripeless tigers that represent these categories. It is the goal of the top 10-percenters to bring as much of the middle 80-percent up to the top. Unfortunately, the bottom 10-percent can have the same influence in a negative way.Read along as Sam and her team try to bring prestige to the Fairview Zoo by earning a Blue Ribbon Zoo award. Sam must lead by example and encourage all of the tigers to do their part to earn their stripes and to work together to make the zoo the best that it can be.

Book Daniel Feels One Stripe Nervous

Download or read book Daniel Feels One Stripe Nervous written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new generation of children love Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, inspired by the classic series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood! Daniel Tiger learns how to manage his worried feelings in this 8x8 storybook based on the hit PBS show, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. Daniel Tiger is so excited to sing in the spring play, but he feels worried when a substitute teacher directs the play instead of Teacher Harriet. Daniel learns an important lesson—things sometimes change, and that is okay. You can learn to do things in a different way! © 2020 The Fred Rogers Company

Book August the Tiger

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marieke van Ditshuizen
  • Publisher : Crocodile Books
  • Release : 2022-05-24
  • ISBN : 9781623719470
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book August the Tiger written by Marieke van Ditshuizen and published by Crocodile Books. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny picture book from a leading Dutch children's book author and illustrator August is a tiger, that's for sure, because Mom always says he's wild. And tigers are wild, so August must be a tiger. But what if he becomes a real tiger? A funny and imaginative picture book about an energetic boy for wild tigers ages four and up.

Book Discovering Tigers  Lions   Other Cats

Download or read book Discovering Tigers Lions Other Cats written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Become an expert on all the big cats of the world, from well-known safari favorites like the king cheetah to the elusive snow leopard and the tiny rusty-spotted cat. Learn about the species-specific behavior, habitats, diets, and cool quirks of the most extraordinary cats on the planet"--Back cover.

Book Zebra Stripes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy M. Caro
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2016-12-05
  • ISBN : 022641101X
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Zebra Stripes written by Timothy M. Caro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do zebras have stripes? Popular explanations range from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, and even temperature regulation. It is a challenge to test these proposals on large animals living in the wild, but using a combination of careful observations, simple field experiments, comparative information, and logic, Caro concludes that black-and-white stripes are an adaptation to thwart biting fly attack.

Book The Tiger s Wife

    Book Details:
  • Author : Téa Obreht
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011-03-08
  • ISBN : 0679604367
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book The Tiger s Wife written by Téa Obreht and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • The instant classic debut novel from the author of Inland and The Morningside, hailed as “a thrilling beginning to what will certainly be a great literary career” (Elle) “Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.”—Entertainment Weekly “Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace.”—Time ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times; Entertainment Weekly; The Christian Science Monitor; The Kansas City Star; Library Journal In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of his encounters over the years with “the deathless man.” But most extraordinary of all is the story her grandfather never told her—the legend of the tiger’s wife. Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, hailed by Colum McCann as “the most thrilling literary discovery in years,” has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Economist, Vogue, Slate, Chicago Tribune, The Seattle Times, Dayton Daily News, Publishers Weekly, Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered

Book Creolized Aurality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jérôme Camal
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-07-04
  • ISBN : 022663177X
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Creolized Aurality written by Jérôme Camal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, the complex interplay between anticolonial resistance and accommodation resounds in its music. Guadeloupean gwoka music—a secular, drum-based tradition—captures the entangled histories of French colonization, movements against it, and the uneasy process of the island’s decolonization as an overseas territory of France. In Creolized Aurality, Jérôme Camal demonstrates that musical sounds and practices express the multiple—and often seemingly contradictory—cultural belongings and political longings that characterize postcoloniality. While gwoka has been associated with anti-colonial activism since the 1960s, in more recent years it has provided a platform for a cohort of younger musicians to express pan-Caribbean and diasporic solidarities. This generation of musicians even worked through the French state to gain UNESCO heritage status for their art. These gwoka practices, Camal argues, are “creolized auralities”—expressions of a culture both of and against French coloniality and postcoloniality.

Book Candid Creatures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roland Kays
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2016-05
  • ISBN : 1421418886
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Candid Creatures written by Roland Kays and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting collection of photographs that captures wild animals in their native habitats. In Candid Creatures, the first major book to reveal the secret lives of animals through motion-sensitive game cameras, biologist Roland Kays has assembled over 600 remarkable photographs. Drawing from archives of millions of color and night-vision photographs collected by hundreds of researchers, Kays has selected images that show the unique perspectives of wildlife from throughout the world. Using these photos, he tells the stories of scientific discoveries that camera traps have enabled, such as living proof of species thought to have been extinct and details of predator-prey interactions. Each image captures a moment frozen in the camera’s flash as animals move through their wild habitats. Kays also discusses how scientists use camera traps to address conservation issues, creating solutions that allow humans and wild animals to coexist. More than just a collection of amazing animal pictures, the book’s text, maps, and illustrations work together to describe the latest findings in the fast-moving field of wildlife research. Candid Creatures is a testament to how the explosion of game cameras around the world has revolutionized the study of animal ecology. The powerful combination of pictures and stories of discovery will fascinate anyone interested in science, nature, wildlife biology, or photography.

Book Save the   Tigers

Download or read book Save the Tigers written by Christine Taylor-Butler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tigers have roared and pounced their ways into kids' hearts. With this book, readers can become tiger experts and learn how to save the animals they love. Featuring an introduction from Chelsea Clinton! Did you know that a tiger roar can be heard from two miles away? Or that tiger saliva prevents infection? Or how about that a tiger's urine smells like buttered popcorn? Perfect for all animal lovers--and tiger fans in particular--this book is filled with information that young readers will love to learn. From where tiger habitats are found to what it's like to be a tiger to why tigers are endangered and who has been working hard to save them, this gives readers all the facts they know to become tiger experts. Complete with black-and-white photographs, a list of fun tiger facts, and things that kids can do right this very moment to help save tigers from extinction, this book, with an introduction by animal advocate Chelsea Clinton, is a must for every family, school, and community library.

Book A Stripe of Tammany s Tiger

    Book Details:
  • Author : Louis Eisenstein
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2013-07-12
  • ISBN : 0801468353
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book A Stripe of Tammany s Tiger written by Louis Eisenstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a highly personal glimpse into the world of precinct, district, and county politics. It deals with several stripes of the Tammany Tiger and brings into close focus some of the most forceful background figures in New York City's political framework. Primarily, it is a forty-year panorama of Tammany practices and personalities."—from A Stripe of Tammany's TigerIn this fascinating book, first published in 1966, Louis Eisenstein, a Tammany precinct captain from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, sets out with his coauthor Elliot Rosenberg to chronicle the evolution—or rather devolution—of New York City politics through the first seven decades of the twentieth century. Eisenstein imbues his lively narrative with an overarching theme: that personal interactions and good faith between those at all levels of power are of paramount importance both for sustained political success and for competent municipal administration.

Book Beware of Tigers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dave Horowitz
  • Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Beware of Tigers written by Dave Horowitz and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite being warned, two birds are deceived by a smiling tiger.