Download or read book The Complete Guide to National Symbols and Emblems 2 volumes written by James B. Minahan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 1097 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two volumes offer an unprecedented collection of flags, seals, and symbols used every day around the world. In today's global society it is necessary to recognize and identify not only our own symbols, but symbols from nations and territories far removed from home. Empowering readers to identify symbols in daily use all over the world, The Complete Guide to National Symbols and Emblems features an extensive collection of international symbols and cultural emblems never before compiled in such a concise and easy-to-use work. It is inclusive of all the UN member states and some of the most prominent stateless nations. This refreshing alternative to other commonly used sites blends both the political and cultural, including not only flags, national seals, and national anthems, but also foods and recipes, national heroes, sports teams, festivals, and pivotal events that figure in the formation of national identity. This versatile source will prove valuable to a wide audience, benefiting not only high school and undergraduate student researchers, but international businesses, journalists, and government offices.
Download or read book Samoan Adult Coloring Book written by Gerard Aflague and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Samoan Adult Coloring Book is hand drawn art that highlights the beautiful images of the Samoan islands and the tropics. Bertha Aflague, a Chamorro native of Guam, enjoys practicing the artful dance of her pen as she creates beautiful island patterns that bring Samoans and its visitors across the world back to the islands! Detach yourself from the everyday distractions, excite your senses and unwind with detailed designs that will keep you entertained. Enjoy coloring a new collection of unique tropical and Samoan-related images for your artistic endeavor. These unique hand-drawn designs are best colored with fine colored pens and pencils. The use of heavy felt tip markers may bleed through and are not recommended. Note: These are generic island patterns and are not Samoan specific patterns.
Download or read book Say it in Samoan written by Ulrike Mosel and published by Better English Language Teaching. This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Semantics of Colour written by C. P. Biggam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of basic vocabulary, subsets, specialised terms and the significance of non-colour features. Each point is illustrated by case studies drawn from modern and historical languages from around the world. These include discussions of Icelandic horses, Peruvian guinea-pigs, medieval roses, the colour yellow in Stuart England, and Polynesian children's colour terms. Major techniques used in colour research are presented and discussed, such as the evolutionary sequence, Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Vantage Theory. The book also addresses whether we can understand the colour systems of the past, including prehistory, by combining various semantic techniques currently used in both modern and historical colour research with archaeological and environmental information.
Download or read book Siapo written by Mary J. Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The artistic, cultural and economic functions of siapo in Samoan life prevail today... My little book is a modest contribution to understanding this important aspect of Samoan culture..."--Preface.
Download or read book The Colors of Zion written by George Bornstein and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major reevaluation of relationships among Blacks, Jews, and Irish in the years between the Irish Famine and the end of World War II, The Colors of Zion argues that the cooperative efforts and sympathies among these three groups, each persecuted and subjugated in its own way, was much greater than often acknowledged today. For the Black, Jewish, and Irish writers, poets, musicians, and politicians at the center of this transatlantic study, a sense of shared wrongs inspired repeated outpourings of sympathy. If what they have to say now surprises us, it is because our current constructions of interracial and ethnic relations have overemphasized conflict and division. As George Bornstein says in his Introduction, he chooses “to let the principals speak for themselves.” While acknowledging past conflicts and tensions, Bornstein insists on recovering the “lost connections” through which these groups frequently defined their plights as well as their aspirations. In doing so, he examines a wide range of materials, including immigration laws, lynching, hostile race theorists, Nazis and Klansmen, discriminatory university practices, and Jewish publishing houses alongside popular plays like The Melting Pot and Abie’s Irish Rose, canonical novels like Ulysses and Daniel Deronda, music from slave spirituals to jazz, poetry, and early films such as The Jazz Singer. The models of brotherhood that extended beyond ethnocentrism a century ago, the author argues, might do so once again today, if only we bear them in mind. He also urges us to move beyond arbitrary and invidious categories of race and ethnicity.
Download or read book Whiteness of a Different Color written by Matthew Frye Jacobson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new field of "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry, Jacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants "race" has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities, in becoming American, were re-racialized to become Caucasian.
Download or read book Chuukese Alphabet written by Lori Phillips and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with children's artwork collected by the Regional Educational Laboratory at Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), the book features 4 or 5 illustrated examples for each letter as well as a word list of English translations.
Download or read book Samoan Art and Artists written by Sean Mallon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book has a broad sweep, covering all facets of the Samoan arts, including canoe and housebuilding, siapo (tapa), weaving, tattooing, oratory, adornment, all forms of performance art, the visual arts and literature"--Inside front cover.
Download or read book English as a Global Language written by David Crystal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.
Download or read book Colors in Afrikaans written by Gerard Aflague and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This softcover book offers adults the resources to teach young children colors in Afrikaans - a language spoken in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Designed in a very simple, yet effective way, children will be learning a new language while they are having fun being entertained with the beautiful imagery.
Download or read book My First Pashto Alphabets Picture Book with English Translations written by Gzifa S. and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Pashto ? Learning Pashto can be fun with this picture book. In this book you will find the following features: Pashto Alphabets. Pashto Words. English Translations.
Download or read book My First Sinhala Alphabets Picture Book with English Translations written by Avanthi S. and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever want to teach your kids the basics of Sinhala ? Learning Sinhala can be fun with this picture book. In this book you will find the following features: Sinhala Alphabets. Sinhala Words. English Translations.
Download or read book Our Big Cool USA Big Activity Book written by Carole Marsh and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take advantage of this great reduction! It will only be available until August 31, 2009. The Big, Cool USA 150 Page Activity book is not only all the things kids of all ages expect from an activity book, but also full of standards based on educational facts along with unexpected history, geography, and famous Americans from the past and present and even the future! Plus lot of contemporary stuff like those super popular Sudoku type puzzles!Great gift! Great Fun! Great Smarts!Also included: - Activities for all 50 states and U.S. Territories!- Lots of USA activitiess: historic, geographic, people and more!- A FREE USA graphic organizer!- Elections Activities: Meet some candidates and take a vote!
Download or read book Through the Language Glass written by Guy Deutscher and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how—and whether—culture shapes language and language, culture Linguistics has long shied away from claiming any link between a language and the culture of its speakers: too much simplistic (even bigoted) chatter about the romance of Italian and the goose-stepping orderliness of German has made serious thinkers wary of the entire subject. But now, acclaimed linguist Guy Deutscher has dared to reopen the issue. Can culture influence language—and vice versa? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? Could our experience of the world depend on whether our language has a word for "blue"? Challenging the consensus that the fundaments of language are hard-wired in our genes and thus universal, Deutscher argues that the answer to all these questions is—yes. In thrilling fashion, he takes us from Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, from how to name the rainbow to why Russian water—a "she"—becomes a "he" once you dip a tea bag into her, demonstrating that language does in fact reflect culture in ways that are anything but trivial. Audacious, delightful, and field-changing, Through the Language Glass is a classic of intellectual discovery.
Download or read book Our Big Cool USA Activity Book written by Carole Marsh and published by Gallopade International. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big, Cool USA 150 Page Activity book is not only all the things kids of all ages expect from an activity book, but also full of standards based on educational facts along with unexpected history, geography, and famous Americans from the past and present and even the future! Plus lot of contemporary stuff like those super popular Sudoku type puzzles! Great gift! Great Fun! Great Smarts! Also included: - Activities for all 50 states and U.S. Territories! - Lots of USA activitiess: historic, geographic, people and more! - 6 USA graphic organizer! included in the book - Elections Activities: Meet some candidates and take a vote!
Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
