Download or read book Wise Hyenas written by J. Lilly and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-06-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once in a long while, appears a writer who is, "literally," extra-ordinary. Less extraordinarily, the works of such writers are routinely published to deaf ears: Before Moby Dick, Melville had scored two popular successes with tales of adventure on the South Seas. His finest work, spurned by contemporary American readers, was a commercial failure. Ironically, the high place now occupied by Melville's American classic is vindicated--perhaps inadvertently--in the name brand of a highly popular and successful billion-dollar corporate retailer of coffee beverages. Ironically again, the hugely successful Catcher In The Rye was cited in self-defense of a failed presidential assassin. One moral of the story: In the near term, commercially unsuccessful books fail to gain the readers they may deserve; in the long, successful ones deserve the readers they get. Irony and Obscurity, first cousins to the recluse, Truth, are no strangers to J Lilly. True to his roots, Lilly has "leveraged" his training in the Greek and Roman classics into a latter-day version of the Greco-Roman literary farce, which numbers post-classical practitioners as varied as Swift and Nabokov. (Contrary to received wisdom, Lolita and Gulliver's Travels are not stories about or for children.) Wise Hyenas is a very novel ghost story for very mature readers, told from multiple points of view monitored by a Julio-Claudian observer of present-day American mores. Wise Hyenas is not a book for the culturally myopic or inattentive, the neo-puritanically moral, the artistically invertebrate, the politically punctilious, the merely legally sane. Nor is it a book for alt-Kultur reactionaries with a reflexive preference for a mythopoeic American Paradise Lost. It is a book for the studiously wise, weary of a voyeuristic society, in which the distinction between licentiousness and liberty has been perilously and perversely obscured. Caveat lector-Let the reader beware. She is about to enter a free-spin zone. Cover art work entitled Miro Scultore, by Joan Miro

Download or read book Tell Me A Story written by Dante Fabiello and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: /head Once upon a time there was a little girl called Alexandra who asked her daddy, “Daddy, please tell me a stoooweee”. Well this is my story on how I created thousands of children stories. These stories come from a world where animals of all kinds all talk and learn, like children, about life. Around the age of three my daughter got tired of me reading little kiddy stories and asked me “Daddy, please tell me a stoooweee”. So every night I would make up a new short story. One day, when she was 7 years old, I decided to tape these stories so she could hear them over and over. Well that went on for 7 more years with over 110 hours and over 3,000 stories. There are so many stories that I will have to write many more volumes. So here we are, the first book is published and now kids all over the world can enjoy them as my daughter did for many years. The time you spend with your child is most rewarding. Never get tired of loving, kissing and hugging them, no matter how old they get. Please view the book website by Clicking here. Please view sample stories from the book by Clicking here. /html

Download or read book The Adventures of a Wise Badger written by Mohammed Ayya and published by Mohammed Ayya. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bedtime Stories For Kids-Short Bedtime Stories Series Do you want to make your child fall asleep faster at night? Do you want your child to learn mindfulness while reading beautiful short stories? In this book, you will find a collection of stories written to help children enter a place of dreams and eventually drift off to sleep. These stories are intended to stir their imaginations in such a way that the transition from fantasy and adventure into dreamland will be a seamless one. Best of all, your children will be able to get a good night’s sleep and wake up feeling refreshed and happy. The chapters are designed to take you and your family on an exciting adventure through different situations, laden with imagination and surprises, while also attempting to disseminate valuable lessons about important principles, such as family, home, wrongdoing, and numerous other themes. While each story is unique, the underlying purpose of each remains the same: to confer on readers some degree of insight into moral behaviour and proper conduct. Through the careful application of allegory, the stories contained herein are intended not only to engage and captivate but also to serve as thought-provoking tools by which your children might avail themselves of one of mankind’s most powerful attributes: thoughtfulness and self-reflection. In addition, each story uses colourful and imaginative characters, settings, and situations to create an environment that will not only help children become interested in the story itself but also serve as a vehicle to convey a moral lesson. Plus, the stories in this book seek to create traditions and memories that will create everlasting moments that your children will treasure for the rest of their lives. These are the kind of moments that your children will surely love to share with their children someday, too. So, let’s jump right in and take a trip into a magical world from which your children will drift off in their sleep. Don’t be surprised if they don’t want to wake up after having such beautiful dreams. Dreamland is a cherished place for children of all ages. After all, it is a place where kids can truly let their imaginations flourish. This book includes: Bedtime stories that will truly captivate the young mind of your child Fun stories about animals, adventures, and legends A valuable lesson for each story In addition: They will put down their phones. This is a good way to encourage your child to go to sleep by listening to the scripts. Each story will enhance your child’s imagination and thinking. And Much More... Are you excited? Do you want to read more? Would you like your child to learn and relax, falling asleep in peace? Get our book now!

Download or read book Don t Take Shit from Hyenas in the Workplace written by Susan M. Steinman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Literature of Pity written by Punter David Punter and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pity represents a combination of fear, helplessness and overwhelming agitation. It is a term which suffuses our everyday lives; it is also a dangerous term hovering between approval of sympathy and disapproval of emotional wallowing (as in 'self-pity'). This book traces an entire history of pity, as an emotion and as an element in the arts, engaging as it does so with a wealth of theoretical ideas including Freud, Derrida, Levinas and others. It begins with an 'Introduction: Distinguishing Pity', followed by chapters on the Aristotelian framework; Buddhism and pity; the pieta in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Shakespeare on pity; Milton's pitiless Christianity; pity and charity in the early novel; Blake's views on pity; the Victorian debate, from Austen to Dickens and George Eliot; Brecht and Chekhov on pity and self-pity; 'war, and the pity of war'; Jean Rhys and Stevie Smith; pity, immigration and the colony; and finally three contemporary texts by Michel Faber, Kazuo Ishiguro and Cormac McCarthy.Features* Original treatment of the concept of pity providing detailed textual criticism and speculative argument* Wide-ranging: running from ancient Greek theory to the present day* Covers a wide variety of texts, including fiction, poetry and drama* Engages with the most recent theoretical debates about literature and the emotions

Download or read book Hyena written by Mikita Brottman and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyenas are almost universally regarded as nasty, scheming charlatans that skulk in the back alleyways of the animal kingdom. They have been scorned for centuries as little more than scavenging carrion-eaters, vandals, and thieves. Here to restore the Hyena’s reputation is Mikita Brottman, who offers an alternate view of these mistreated and misunderstood creatures and proves that they are complex, intelligent, and highly sociable animals. Investigating representations of the hyena throughout history, Brottman divulges that the hyena, though shrouded in taboo, has been the source of talismanic objects since the ancient Greek and Roman empires. She discovers that many cultures use parts of the hyena—from excrement and blood to genitalia and hair—to make charms that both avert evil and promote fertility. Brottman also considers representations of hyenas in today’s popular fiction, including The Lion King and The Life of Pi,where they are often depicted as villains, cowardly henchmen, or clowns, while ignoring their more noble qualities. Rightly returning hyenas to their proper place in the animal pantheon, this richly illustrated book will be enjoyed by any animal lover with an interest in the unusual and offbeat.

Download or read book Corporate Hyenas at Work written by Susan M. Steinman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hansberry s Drama written by Steven R. Carter and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful study opens with an overview of Hansberry's cultural, social, political, and philosophical views and their relations to her artistic goals.

Download or read book Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age written by Om Prakash Dwivedi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new essays in this collection examine newer forms of colonialism operating today in an increasingly globalized world. Recognizing the complexities and culpability of postcolonial politics, the contributors fill gaps that exist at theoretical levels of postcolonial studies. By studying film, literature, history and architecture, they arrive at new ideas about immigration, gender, cultural translation, identity and the future. The collection is driven by notions of ethics, an increasingly influential force at the grassroots if not the international level, addressing capitalism and its attendant drawbacks throughout the course of the book.

Download or read book Dramatic Movement of African American Women written by Yuvraj Nimbaji Herode and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book demonstrates the experiences of Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Suzan-Lori Parks in comparison with the dramas of each other and those of other African American women. These women playwrights created a militant theatre and a theatre of experience that applied to both the African American community in general and African and African American women in particular. They have been encompassed within African American woman’s aesthetics that shares the militancy and experiencecharacterized by a triple factor: race, gender, and class.

Download or read book Rudyard Kipling s Verse written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Meddler written by C. M. Edward and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Cobbington's high profile job with The Jockey Club of South Africa draws him into a web of deceit and complicity, pitting him against a man who will induce the ultimate destruction of his comfortable, affluent life. Anton Medli is the man who becomes David's perfidious and relentless nemesis. The unctuous Corsican is a man for whom thoroughbred racing is both a business and a pleasure and whose only philosophy is money. Known in racing circles as The Meddler, he engineers not only the demolition of David's quiet gentlemanly existence, but eventually the lives of both his brother, Kit, and their influential and wealthy father. The action shifts from the dusty highveldt of Johannesburg, to the wild, blond savannah of Kenya and, finally, to the neon smeared metropolis of Hong Kong. The choices that the two brothers make, whether recklessly, blindly or judiciously are irrevocable and David becomes trapped in a moral maze when both he and his brother step beyond the boundaries of the law. The denouement comes as a shocking and thought-provoking twist in this riveting story of a doomed family, whose integrity and tenets are shattered by the provocations of Anton Medli and his cohorts.

Download or read book Knockout Mice written by J M Fulgham and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Jonathan Goodman is desperate to cure his son Daniel's cancer. His wife, Lilith, becomes pregnant with another child, a sibling whose DNA can potentially cure Daniel. Their hopes are dashed when a genetic disorder is detected in their unborn child. When Daniel dies and their unborn child miscarries, grief and devastation splinter the couple's bond. Under emotional duress but driven to honor Daniel's memory, Jonathan, a brilliant medical researcher, makes a major breakthrough using genetically modified laboratory mice. He develops a novel treatment for several disease clusters, including cancer. Bypassing all protocols to push his findings forward, Goodman unethically secures approval and funding for a human clinical trial. With enough funding for four participants, Goodman carefully chooses those upon whom he'll experiment. Each participant faces a terminal illness, and Dr. Goodman's exploratory treatment is their last hope for survival. Despite his noble intentions, Goodman is motivated to exorcise the demons that haunt him. Those spirits, however, also besiege each member of the clinical trial. Lives will be forever changed-and possibly lost. Saving those whom Goodman has put in harm's way and saving what is left of his family and career presents an almost insurmountable challenge.

Download or read book Les Blancs The Collected Last Plays written by Lorraine Hansberry and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1994-12-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are Lorraine Hansberry's last three plays--Les Blancs, The Drinking Gourd, and What Use Are Flowers?--representing the capstone of her achievement. Includes a new preface by Jewell Gresham Nemiroff and a revised introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson.

Download or read book Her Majesty s Other Children written by Lewis Ricardo Gordon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon provides an explosive critique of contemporary popular and intellectual cultures.

Download or read book Verse written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Specter is Haunting Texas written by Fritz Leiber and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on 1971 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GREATER TEXAS No more U.S.A. Just the giant, hormone-fed Texans and the dwarf slaves they call "Mexes." VS, SCULLY CHRISTOPHER CROCKETT LA CRUZ Actor, Orator, Lady's Man, a free-fall phenomenon, a 97-pound weakling from the Sack circling the Moon. Just the man to stir up the Mexes. THIS MEANS WAR!!