Download or read book Tales of Blood and Ink written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate MacLeod writes both fantasy and science fiction. This book collects her nine previously published short stories as well as two new bonus stories. These tales span from Heian era Japan to the near reaches of space, from alternate world fantasies inspired by Babylon and Mohenjo-Daro to post-apocalyptic air ships that never touch the ground, from light-hearted fare like "Trifle" to the darker "On Desperate Seas", based on the ill-fated John Franklin Expedition. This collection includes: Blood and Ink Oil Fire Gardens of Wind Seagull and Raven Mother River Tale of a Fox Full Circle On Desperate Seas Trifle The Onmyoji's Wife Din Ba Din (This short story appeared on the 2013 Locus Magazine Recommended Reading List, was given an honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection, and was recommended reading in Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2014 Edition.)

Download or read book Tales from Heian Kyo and Others written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate MacLeod has been published in both fantasy and science fiction. This books collects four of her previously published short stories as well as one new bonus story. These tales span from Heian era Japan to north of the Arctic circle, from light-hearted fare like "Trifle" to the darker "The Onmyoji’s Wife”. This collection includes: Tale of a Fox Blood and Ink The Onmyoji's Wife Seagull and Raven Trifle

Download or read book An Intimate Wilderness written by Norman Hallendy and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arctic researcher, author, and photographer Norman Hallendy’s journey to the far north began in 1958, when many Inuit, who traditionally lived on the land, were moving to permanent settlements created by the Canadian government. In this unique memoir, Hallendy writes of his adventures, experiences with strange Arctic phenomena, encounters with wildlife, and deep friendships with Inuit elders. Very few have worked so closely with the Inuit to document their traditions, and, in this book, Hallendy preserves their voices and paints an incomparable portrait of a vibrant culture in a remote landscape.

Download or read book Seagull and Raven written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tulugaq held his hand up the sky and counted his heartbeats. It took twelve beats for the light to move from the tip of his little finger to the end of his thumb. A very strange omen, the shaman said. Not so strange as Tulugaq’s dreams of his missing sister, so near he can smell her and yet not hear her words. A cry for help, or a warning? The answer lies where the light fell, across miles of snow and ice, sure death in the long Arctic night.

Download or read book Earth Matters on Stage written by Theresa J. May and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century as it argues for theater’s potential power in the age of climate change. Using cultural and environmental history, seven chapters interrogate key moments in American theater and American environmentalism over the course of the twentieth century in the United States. It focuses, in particular, on how drama has represented environmental injustice and how inequality has become part of the American environmental landscape. As the first book-length ecocritical study of American theater, Earth Matters examines both familiar dramas and lesser-known grassroots plays in an effort to show that theater can be a powerful force for social change from frontier drama of the late nineteenth century to the eco-theater movement. This book argues that theater has always and already been part of the history of environmental ideas and action in the United States. Earth Matters also maps the rise of an ecocritical thought and eco-theater practice – what the author calls ecodramaturgy – showing how theater has informed environmental perceptions and policies. Through key plays and productions, it identifies strategies for artists who want their work to contribute to cultural transformation in the face of climate change.

Download or read book Canada s Waste Flows written by Myra J. Hird and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From shipments of Canadian waste rotting in developing countries to overflowing landfills and ineffective recycling programs, Canada is facing a waste crisis. Canadians are becoming increasingly aware that waste is an acute environmental and human health issue – and a complex one, the solutions to which are often contradictory. Canada's Waste Flows is an honest look at the production and movement of Canadian waste, from region to region and across the globe, and its consequences. Through a series of timely empirical case studies, the book reveals waste as less of a technological problem and more of a material, economic, political, historical, and cultural concern. Canada's Waste Flows demonstrates that Canadians are misdirecting their attention to post-consumer waste and their responsibility for minimizing it through recycling; waste must be understood as a social justice issue, and in particular as a symptom of ongoing settler colonialism. Through a comparative study of waste management in southern and northern Canadian communities, Myra Hird argues that we will only resolve our waste crisis through democratic engagement. A critical and compelling book that will generate conversation and incite change, Canada's Waste Flows uncovers how Canada's role as a global leader in waste production and export is key to changing Canada's waste future.

Download or read book The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest written by Wanni W. Anderson and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich storytelling tradition of the Inupiat of Alaska is showcased in this remarkable collection of over eighty stories. Meticulously compiled from six villages in Northwest Alaska between 1966 and 1987, the stories are presented as part of a living tradition, complete with biographies, photos, and introductory remarks by Native storytellers. Each story provides insight into the Iñupiaq worldview, human-animal relationships, and the organization of family life. The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest includes a new version of the Qayaq cycle, one of the best-known legends from the region, as well as stories such as “The Fast Runner.” A major contribution to the Native literature of Alaska, this collection includes two introductory essays by Wanni W. Anderson that provide historical background and a foundation for understanding gender, age, and regional differences and the narrative context of storytelling. Stories include The Girl Who Had No Wish to Marry by Willie Goodwin, Sr., The Goose Maiden by Nora Norton, The Last War with the Indians by Wesley Woods, The Orphan with No Clothes by Emma Skin, The Qayaq Cycle by Nora Norton, and Raven Who Brought Back the Land by Robert Cleveland (selected Iñupiaq Storyteller by the Inupiat of Northwest Alaska). Additional storytellers include John Brown, Leslie Burnett, Flora Cleveland, Lois Cleveland, Maude Cleveland, Kitty Foster, Sarah Goode, Minnie Gray, Beatrice Mouse, Nellie Russell, and Andrew Skin.

Download or read book Searching for Franklin written by Ken McGoogan and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2023-10-07 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery. Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s expeditions were monumental failures—the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discovering the Northwest Passage. This book, McGoogan's sixth about Arctic exploration, challenges that vision. It rejects old orthodoxies, incorporates the latest discoveries, and interweaves two main narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy’s Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men to exhaustion, starvation, and murder. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin’s last expedition? The well-preserved wrecks of Erebus and Terror—located in 2014 and 2016—promise to yield more clues about what cost the lives of the expedition members, some of whom were reduced to cannibalism. Contemporary researchers, rejecting theories of lead poisoning and botulism, continue to seek conclusive evidence both underwater and on land. Drawing on his own research and Inuit oral accounts, McGoogan teases out many intriguing aspects of Franklin’s expeditions, including the explorer’s lethal hubris in ignoring the expert advice of the Dene leader Akaitcho. Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845, yet people remain fascinated with his final doomed voyage: what happened? McGoogan will captivate readers with his first-hand account of traveling to relevant locations, visiting the graves of dead sailors, and experiencing the Arctic—one of the most dramatic and challenging landscapes on the planet.

Download or read book Epic of Qayaq written by Lela Oman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-07-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a splendid presentation of an ancient northern story cycle, brought to life by Lela Kiana Oman, who has been retelling and writing the legends of the Inupiat of the Kobuk Valley, Alaska, nearly all her adult life. In the mid-1940s, she heard these tales from storytellers passing through the mining town of Candle, and translated them from Inupiaq into English. Now, after fifty years, they illuminate one of the world's most vibrant mythologies. The hero is Qayaq, and the cycle traces his wanderings by kayak and on foot along four rivers - the Selawik, the Kobuk, the Noatak and the Yukon - up along the Arctic Ocean to Barrow, over to Herschel Island in Canada, and south to a Tlingit Indian village. Along the way he battles with jealous fathers-in-law and other powerful adversaries; discovers cultural implements (the copper-headed spear and the birchbark canoe); transforms himself into animals, birds and fish, and meets animals who appear to be human.

Download or read book Chronicles of Ha Ha Bay written by Edward Bessey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A historical collection of true, oft times embellished, forgotten sagas of tremendous hardship, daring exploits, hilarious anecdotes, devoted love, foolhardy capers, of the rugged, resilient people of Ha Ha Bay and area, eking out a subsistence living on the stormy, unforgiving North Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, told with a human face. Canada’s first European settlement, most destructive hurricane, most devastating tsunami, most deadly disease epidemic, even genocide; all occurred in Newfoundland."

Download or read book Towards an Ecocritical Theatre written by Mohebat Ahmadi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards an Ecocritical Theatre investigates contemporary theatre through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism. It assesses how Anthropocene thinking engages different modes of theatrical representation, as well as how the theatrical apparatus can rise to the representational challenges of changing interactions between humans and the nonhuman world. To explore these problems, the book investigates international Anglophone plays and performances by Caryl Churchill, Stephen Sewell, Andrew Bovell, E.M. Lewis, Chantal Bilodeau, Jordan Hall, and Miwa Matreyek, who have taken significant steps towards re-orienting theatre from its traditional focus on humans to an ecocritical attention to nonhumans and the environment in the Anthropocene. Their theatrical works show how an engagement with the problem of scale disrupts the humanist bias of theatre, provoking new modes of theatrical inquiry that envision a scale beyond the human and realign our ecological culture, art, and intimacy with geological time. Moreover, the plays and performances studied here, through their liveness, immediacy, physicality, and communality, examine such scalar shifts via the problem of agency in order to give expression to the stories of nonhuman actants. These theatrical works provoke reflections on the flourishing of multispecies responsibilities and sensitivities in aesthetic and ethical terms, providing a platform for research in the environmental humanities through imaginative conversations on the world’s iterative performativity in which all bodies, human and nonhuman, are cast horizontally as agential forces on the theatrical world stage. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of theatre studies, environmental humanities, and ecocritical studies.

Download or read book Alicia Unworthy Life written by Jim Schrang and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on actual events and real people, ALICIA (Unworthy Life) is the self-empowering story of a teenage girl from Spanish Harlem who qualifies in today's throw- away society as an 'unworthy life.'

Download or read book Modern and Ancient Fluvial Systems written by J. D. Collinson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of research articles focused on fluvial processes The book is divided into a several main sections for ease of reference: Hydrodynamics and Bedforms; Present?Day Channel Processes; Facies Models; and Economic Aspects. Geographical and geological investigations are also described in Modern and Ancient Fluvial Systems. Research articles include the topics of bedforms and structures near the transition between dunes and a plane bed, as well as the vertical and lateral relationships between five major delta distributary channels. Research papers are also shared within the publication, such as a review of the major developments in the study of channel changes during this century. The individual chapter authors take readers from the Colorado Plateau of the Western United States to the Witwatersrand of South Africa.

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Download or read book Overland to Starvation Cove written by Heinrich Klutschak and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1987-12-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1845 Sir John Franklin sailed westward from England in search of the Northwest Passage and was never seen again. Some thirty-five years later, Heinrich Klutschak of Prague, artist and surveyor on a small expedition led by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka of the 3rd US Cavalry Regiment, stumbled upon the grisly remains at Starvation Cove of the last survivors among Franklin's men. Overland to Starvation Cove is the first English translation of Klutschak's account. A significant contribution to Canadian exploration history, it is also an important anthropological document, providing some of the earliest reliable descriptions of the Aivilingmiut, the Utkuhikhalingmiut, and the Netsilingmiut. But above all, it is a fascinating story of arctic adventure.

Download or read book Otter s Journey through Indigenous Language and Law written by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling has the capacity to address feelings and demonstrate themes – to illuminate beyond argument and theoretical exposition. In Otter’s Journey, Borrows makes use of the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how the work in Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. She follows Otter, a dodem (clan) relation from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, on a journey across Anishinaabe, Inuit, Māori, Coast Salish, and Abenaki territories, through a narrative of Indigenous resurgence. In doing so, she reveals that the processes, philosophies, and practices flowing from Indigenous languages and laws can emerge from under the layers of colonial laws, policies, and languages to become guiding principles in people’s contemporary lives.

Download or read book December Moon written by SG Turner and published by Chill Out Press. This book was released on 2019-10-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When December Moon discovers she is actually a witch, she will do everything in her power to help prevent her best friend, Lilly Taylor, from becoming a ruthless vampire’s next meal What would you do if you found out you’re actually a descendant from a family of witches? And your best friend, who now lives on another continent, is in extreme danger from one of the world’s most evil vampires? Would you do everything in your power to keep her safe? This is the very question December Moon must answer. But first, she must delve into her family history and find out the truth about who she really is, and where she comes from. Questions her quirky, yet dead, grandmother might be able to answer. As the danger intensifies, can December and Lilly work together to rid the world of the evil vampire? Or will they discover that their new-found powers just aren’t strong enough? December Moon is the second paranormal coming-of-age adventure story in The Raven Witch Saga. If you like quirky characters and light paranormal romance that appeals to all ages, then you’ll love S G Turner’s December Moon. Praise for December Moon ‘The excitement and tension and danger ramp up a bit more than the last book. There is still plenty of paranormal romance to go around with the cast of the original novel and a handful of new players.’ ‘Enjoy the read. It's s 2-day read and full of colorful antics and more surprises.’ ‘Be sure to have something to wipe the tears. Some parts are just so touching.’ ‘Delightful. I was impressed with the broad scope of imagination that will appeal to all ages. The storyline certainly keeps you engrossed.’ ‘What a fun adventure. The best friends are finally together and there is such love, respect and sisterhood between Lilly and December’