Download or read book Cooked Chickens Falling from the Sky written by Darrin Atkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooked Chickens Falling from the Sky is a collection of short, offbeat children's stories, with fine, wonderful illustrations and interesting, unusual tales. From “One-on-One with Mister Tree” to “Nature Has a Funny Way,” these stories should entertain, enlighten and mesmerize all types of children, even the wild, raucous, brazen whippersnappers.

Download or read book The Befana Is Returning written by Steve Siporin and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of January 5, in certain areas of southern Tuscany, a costumed, singing troupe of characters visits residents' homes, expecting to be fed and feted. This is the Befanata, a mumming tradition centered in Tuscany, whose main character--the Befana--is a kindly old woman or grandmotherly witch who delivers toys, candies, and gifts. The Befana Is Returning is a deeply researched, deftly insightful presentation of this living tradition that adds a large missing piece to the array of contemporary ethnographic scholarship on mumming.

Download or read book The New Toyan Ranch written by Darrin Atkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dora Toyan fell in love up in the mountains, fell in love with a man named Theodore, a man instrumental in helping her and her family build the New Toyan Ranch and construct it to the exact designs of the Toyan ranch that preceded it by nearly twenty years.

Download or read book People Die in the Tenderloin written by Darrin Atkins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco crime reporter and investigator Joshua Sloat endures the greatest challenge of his career when San Francisco comes under siege and everyone looks to him to find a way out.

Download or read book The Road That You Take written by Darrin Atkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-06-27 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which path will you choose? Which road will you take? Do you want to be like college students Aileen and John T., who care only for their sexual desires for each other, who betray their friends and sink into a pit of deception and denial with Leila in order to continue their affair, who wander around Reno and Tahoe in a perpetual state of insiduous sin, lust, gambling, sex in the woods, and a little violence. Or like James and Edward who let alcohol and marijauna absorb them. Be careful what you decide to do and make your choices wisely.

Download or read book Away from Lisa Larkin written by Darrin E. Atkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cynical reporter Joshua Sloat accepts an unpaid investigative assignment, a seemingly typical case of a man leaving his wife for someone more glamorous and interesting. With his newspaper job at stake, he follows all leads in the matter of Ana's husband, which takes him from San Francisco to Thailand, Zimbabwe, Russia and Finland. His love to his editor in jeopardy, his money dwindling, ruffians beating the hell out of him because of what he unearths, and implications of multi-national interference and cover-ups cannot force him away from the misery and mystery of a woman named Lisa Larkin.

Download or read book False Relationships written by Darrin Atkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-01-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch the man named Steem run away in terror from the prospect of the police capturing him and charging him with murder plus mayhem. See his young lover Jessica C. wait for his return, hoping for romantic days together at the Hotel del Coronado. Then the wretched man named Davito Senner.

Download or read book The Thinker s Thesaurus Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words Expanded Third Edition written by Peter E. Meltzer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over twenty percent more material, a must for any lover of distinctive words. This entertaining and informative reference features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with no-fail guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses’ mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word—whether it’s protrepic, apostrophize, iracund, or emulous—in context by using examples from a broad range of contemporary books, periodicals, and newspapers. His new introduction makes the case for why we should widen our vocabulary and use the one right word. This groundbreaking thesaurus remains a unique venture, one that enriches your writing while helping you find the perfect word.

Download or read book Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics written by Eszter Salgó and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in mothers’ hands is a playful exploration of how people’s desires, fantasies, and emotions shape political events and social phenomena. It highlights the mythical sources of today’s political projects, the power of political imagination, and the function of symbolism in political thought. Eszter Salgó argues that the driving force for the formation of political communities is fantasy – ‘illusions’ in a Winnicottian sense, ‘phantasies’ in a Lacanian sense, ‘phantoms’ as described by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, and ‘dreams’ as interpreted by Sándor Ferenczi. She introduces the metaphor of the ‘fantastic family’ as a symbolic representation of political communities, both to reflect on people’s deeply felt desire to find in public life the resolution, love, and wholeness of early childhood, and to unveil the political elite’s readiness to don the mask of the ‘ideal parent’. The book is divided into two parts. The first part of the book explores the theories of Donald Winnicott and Jacques Lacan: the matrimony on the stage of politics between the ‘good-enough mother’ and the Symbolic Father which inaugurates the story of democracy’s ‘fantastic family’. The second part presents the ‘fantastic families’ of selected countries such as Hungary, Italy, and the world community to explain the proliferation of cosmogony projects, and to document the failure of the political elites to offer a satisfactory performance of their maternal and paternal functions. Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in mothers’ hands presents a new way of considering the art of politics, based on the understanding that people perceive reality through imagination and unconscious fantasy. It will be of interest to psychoanalysts, and academics from across the disciplines of politics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, literature, and art.

Download or read book Dragon of Heaven written by Du Cheng and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vampire ancestor, a five-clawed golden dragon, a Flaming Mirror of Emperor, a Sorrowful God Sword, and a young man in white clothes floating over from Hua Xia, stepping into the underworld with a sword. In this great dark yellow world, laughing at the buddhas of the world, wanting to break the will of heaven to die, to live to the end of time, until the mountains and rivers are reborn, until the universe is cleared, the gods are silent, the sky is clear, the end of cultivation, we cultivators will bear the burden of our hearts! 

Download or read book Slovene Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Everyday Dorie written by Dorie Greenspan and published by Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The James Beard Award-winning and New York Times magazine columnist shares the irresistibly informal food she makes for her husband and friends.

Download or read book The Sky is Falling written by Robert D. Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chickens unite in an effort to halt air pollution.

Download or read book The Chicken Book written by Page Smith and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberating today's chicken from cartoons, fast food, and other demeaning associations, The Chicken Book at once celebrates and explains this noble fowl. As it traces the rise and fall of Gallus domesticus from the jungles of ancient India to the assembly-line hatcheries sprawled across modern America, this original, frequently astounding book passes along a trove of knowledge and lore about everything from the chicken's biology and behavior to its place in legend and mythology. The book includes lively discussions of the chicken's role in literature and history, the cruel attractions of cockfighting, the medicinal uses of eggs and chicken parts, the details of the egg-laying process, the basics of the backyard coop, recipes, and much more. Entertaining and insightful, The Chicken Book will change the way we regard this too often underappreciated animal.

Download or read book Imagined States written by Luisa Del Giudice and published by . This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international ensemble of folklore scholars looks at varied ways in which national and ethnic groups have traditionally and creatively used imagined states of existence-some idealizations, some demonizations-in the construction of identities for themselves and for others. Drawing on oral traditions, especially as represented in traditional ballads, broadsides, and tale collections, the contributors consider fertile landscapes of the mind where utopias overflow with bliss and abundance, stereotyped national and ethnic caricatures define the lives of "others," nostalgia glorifies home and occupation, and idealized and mythological animals serve as cultural icons and guideposts to harmonious social life.

Download or read book Good Day Today written by Daniel Neofetou and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his speech following the 2011nationwide riots in Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron spoke out against people “being too unwilling for too long to talk about what is right and what is wrong” and proclaimed “this relativism – it’s not going to cut it anymore”. He was, then, presumably laying the foundation for one-size-fits-all absolutist authoritarianism and, worryingly, the moral outrage induced by the riots means a large proportion of the British public might not oppose such measures. When such a mindset is on the verge of becoming pandemic, where do we turn? This book suggests that the work of another David, born 20 years before and 3,000 miles away from Cameron, might engender a mode of thinking which does not apprehend the world in terms of such easy distinctions. In David Lynch, we find a director whose films – by utilising the tropes of the Hollywood movie, but subverting their accepted meanings - profoundly destablise spectators, and lead them to consider things not in terms of prescribed binaries, but as complex and multi-faceted. ,

Download or read book The Rise Fall of Great Powers written by Tom Rachman and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Seattle Times • The Globe and Mail • Kirkus Reviews • Daily Mail • The Vancouver Sun From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past. Look in the back of the book for a conversation between Tom Rachman and J. R. Moehringer Following one of the most critically acclaimed fiction debuts in years, New York Times bestselling author Tom Rachman returns with a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past. Tooly Zylberberg, the American owner of an isolated bookshop in the Welsh countryside, conducts a life full of reading, but with few human beings. Books are safer than people, who might ask awkward questions about her life. She prefers never to mention the strange events of her youth, which mystify and worry her still. Taken from home as a girl, Tooly found herself spirited away by a group of seductive outsiders, implicated in capers from Asia to Europe to the United States. But who were her abductors? Why did they take her? What did they really want? There was Humphrey, the curmudgeonly Russian with a passion for reading; there was the charming but tempestuous Sarah, who sowed chaos in her wake; and there was Venn, the charismatic leader whose worldview transformed Tooly forever. Until, quite suddenly, he disappeared. Years later, Tooly believes she will never understand the true story of her own life. Then startling news arrives from a long-lost boyfriend in New York, raising old mysteries and propelling her on a quest around the world in search of answers. Tom Rachman—an author celebrated for humanity, humor, and wonderful characters—has produced a stunning novel that reveals the tale not just of one woman but of the past quarter-century as well, from the end of the Cold War to the dominance of American empire to the digital revolution of today. Leaping between decades, and from Bangkok to Brooklyn, this is a breathtaking novel about long-buried secrets and how we must choose to make our own place in the world. It will confirm Rachman’s reputation as one of the most exciting young writers we have. Praise for The Rise & Fall of Great Powers “Ingenious . . . Rachman needs only a few well-drawn characters to fill a large canvas and an impressive swath of history.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “A superb follow-up to 2010’s The Imperfectionists . . . ambitious and engaging.”—The Seattle Times “Engaging and inventive . . . full of wonderfully quirky, deeply flawed, but lovable characters . . . On the spectrum of interesting literary childhoods, Tooly Zylberberg—the protagonist of Tom Rachman’s second novel—would rank somewhere in the vicinity of Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist.”—San Francisco Chronicle “I found it impossible not to fall in love with shape-shifting Tooly. As an adult, she sports an ironical sense of humor and an attraction to dusty old books. As a child, her straight-faced mirth and wordplay are break-your-heart irresistible.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post “[A] read-it-all-in-one-weekend book.”—The New Republic “A compelling page-turner . . . intricate, sprawling, and almost Dickensian.”—USA Today