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Manfish

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Author : Jennifer Berne
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2012-10-26

Manfish written by Jennifer Berne and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-26 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.

A colorfully illustrated biography of a little French boy who would become an internationally known oceanographer and champion of the seas. Once upon a time in France, a baby was born under the summer sun. His parents named him Jacques. As he grew, Jacques fell in love with the sea. He dreamed of breathing beneath the waves and swimming as gracefully as a fish. In fact, he longed to become a manfish. Jacques Cousteau grew up to become a champion of the seas and one of the best-known oceanographers in the world. In this lovely biography, poetic text and gorgeous paintings come together to create a portrait of Cousteau that is as magical as it is inspiring. Praise for Manfish “Berne offers a luminous picture-book biography about Jacques Cousteau . . . . Puybaret’s smooth-looking acrylic paintings extend the words’ elegant simplicity and beautifully convey the sense of infinite, underwater space.” —Booklist (starred review) “This moving tribute to the great nautical observer and filmmaker is shot through with an authentically childlike sense of adventure and the thrill of discovery . . . . This poetic profile of a doer and a dreamer is certain to inspire fresh interest in discovering, and in caring for, our world’s wonders.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A new generation of children is introduced to the pioneering oceanographer and filmmaker. Beginning with Cousteau’s childhood in France where he marveled at the sea and dreamed of breathing underwater, Berne reveals the unique mix of curiosity, ingenuity, and passion that drove Cousteau to make underwater exploration possible.” —School Library Journal

The Fire Festival

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Author : Tim Ronald O.
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2018-07-25

The Fire Festival written by Tim Ronald O. and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-25 with Fiction categories.

Fini Kiri is the land of fire where citizens worship the mysterious beings that rule over them and force people to adhere to their tyrannical reign. An unyieldingly valiant youth, Tee is only twenty fire festivals old when he damns the consequences in order to defy the so-called gods. They took something from him that can never be replaced. Tee was born into a world where his mother and father were eventually killed by the superlative beings they once trusted and adored. Now that Tee has finally come to terms with being an orphaned prince and king-to-be, the fire gods strike again and steal his beloved, Tonye. Tee digs into the depths of his heart to find the bravery he needs to fight back. His rebellious valor challenges the foundation of Fini Kiri as he prepares to attack the powers that be. With a little help from cryptic creatures and against deathly odds, Tee strives to rescue his love, uncover inconceivable truths, and free his land from the cruelty of both the fire and rain gods. It takes but one voice to ignite change, and Tee will scream to the heavens.

Nature S Saviours

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Author : Graham Huggan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-08-22

Nature S Saviours written by Graham Huggan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-22 with Nature categories.

Today's celebrity conservationists, many of whom made their reputations through television and other visual media, play a major role in drawing public attention to an increasingly threatened world. This book, one of the first to address this contribution, focuses on five key figures: the English naturalist David Attenborough, the French marine adventurer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the American primatologist Dian Fossey, the Canadian scientist-broadcaster-activist David Suzuki, and the Australian 'crocodile hunter' Steve Irwin. Some of the issues the author addresses include: What is the changing relationship between western conservation and celebrity? How has the spread of television helped shape and mediate this relationship? To what extent can celebrity conservation be seen as part of a global system in which conservation, like celebrity, is big business? The book critically examines the heroic status accorded to the five figures mentioned above, taking in the various discourses – around nature, science, nation, gender – through which they and their work have been presented to us. In doing so, it fills in the cultural, historical and ideological background behind contemporary celebrity conservationism as a popular expression of a chronically endangered world.

Black River

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Author : M. Turville Heitz
language : en
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Release Date : 2024-12-17

Black River written by M. Turville Heitz and has been published by Crossroad Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-17 with Fiction categories.

Sent to Earth in the midst of war as an infant, the traveling stone gripped in his tiny hand, Kyle Nelson grew up feeling like a fish out of water, despite his family's deep Wisconsin roots. His strange Uncle Rupert filled his head with fanciful tales of world-hopping wizards, but it wasn't until he turned 21 that a deeper truth emerged. When Rupert uses magic to send him to another world, Metatha, a world which has bypassed technological evolution by scavenging from other worlds, he learns he is the last of a ruling caste with the power to use a magical stone and travel between them, and a catalyst that re-ignites an ancient civil war. The Metathans have dreamed of the return of a Traveler, so they could access the hidden magic and power of other worlds. What Kyle doesn’t know is that it’s his drunken “Uncle” Rupert that Metathans most fear will swim home. And Rupert hopes Kyle will be his key to do just that.

Emerging Perspectives On Dambudzo Marechera

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Author : A. J. Chennells
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1999

Emerging Perspectives On Dambudzo Marechera written by A. J. Chennells and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.

Regarded by some as mad and by others as a genius, Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera is today, ten years after his death, considered to be one of the most innovative writers that Africa has produced. This new book is a collection of critical essays devoted entirely to Marechera's work and includes contributions from academics in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Italy, Nigeria, Germany and the United Kingdom who show the complexity and variety of responses that Marechera's writing evokes.

Life Writing And The Southern Hemisphere

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Author : Elleke Boehmer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-11-14

Life Writing And The Southern Hemisphere written by Elleke Boehmer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-14 with Literary Criticism categories.

Exploring lives lived, written and narrated in and from the Global South, the far South and the ultimate South, Antarctica, this book asks how life writing from southerly compass points impact both how we understand and read life narratives, and ultimately how we perceive our planet. Southern geographies, histories and lives have often been overlooked and defined by northern perspectives; Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere redresses this North/South alignment in its critical examination of life stories, memoirs, biographies and autobiographies from the southern hemisphere, providing a countervailing and alternative perspective that will unsettle, challenge and enrich the imaginative norms that inform life writing studies. From Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia in South America, through southern Africa, to Australia and New Zealand and as far down as Antarctica, this collection brings together writers and scholars in the oceanic humanities, postcolonial, Global South and polar studies, and presents works on human, animal and plant life captured in words, music, performance, visual arts and photography. Interdisciplinary and vast in its comparative range, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere convenes a diversity of perspectives and positions that demonstrate that the south has rich internal knowledge sources of its own, allowing us to better conceptualize the planet 'from below'.

Give A Man A Fish

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Author : James Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Release Date : 2015-05-20

Give A Man A Fish written by James Ferguson and has been published by Duke University Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-20 with Social Science categories.

In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death of the welfare state. These programs' successes at reducing poverty under conditions of mass unemployment, Ferguson argues, provide an opportunity for rethinking contemporary capitalism and for developing new forms of political mobilization. Interested in an emerging "politics of distribution," Ferguson shows how new demands for direct income payments (including so-called "basic income") require us to reexamine the relation between production and distribution, and to ask new questions about markets, livelihoods, labor, and the future of progressive politics.

City Under The Sea

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Author : Kenneth Bulmer
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2019-02-10

City Under The Sea written by Kenneth Bulmer and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-10 with Fiction categories.

Jeremy Dodge knew the Earth would face starvation if it were not for the new science of ""aquaculture."" With the world's population numbering many billions, only the extra food being cultivated on the bottom of the sea could feed everyone. But, like the rest of the surface-dwellers, Jeremy did not know what a vicious monopoly underwater cultivation had become. That is, until the dreadful moment when he himself was kidnaped and dragged beneath the depths. And there he was to learn that just making his own escape would not be enough-he would have to save mankind from the tyranny of a new race of water-breathing human monsters!

Proceedings Of The 4th Science And Mathematics International Conference Smic 2024

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Author : Tian Abdul Aziz
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-12-26

Proceedings Of The 4th Science And Mathematics International Conference Smic 2024 written by Tian Abdul Aziz and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-26 with Mathematics categories.

This is an Open Access publication. Welcome to the 4th Science and Mathematics International Conference (SMIC) 2024, which will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, 23 to 24 September 2024. The theme of SMIC 2024 is “Connecting Sustainable World and Future Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges in Science, Mathematics, and Education”. SMIC 2024 aims to bring together researchers, academics, scientists, students, and practitioners to share and discuss theoretical and practical knowledge, new trends and application in the fields of Mathematics and Mathematics Education, Science and Science Education, Computer Science, and Statistics. SMIC 2024 is the fourth SMIC organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, after the huge success in SMIC 2018, SMIC 2020, and SMIC 2022 with more than 6 countries participants and resulting in an international reputable book as well as proceedings.

The Bauhaus Group

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Author : Nicholas Fox Weber
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2009-10-27

The Bauhaus Group written by Nicholas Fox Weber and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-27 with Art categories.

Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists and teachers, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well these figures’ lesser-known wives and girlfriends. In this extraordinary group biography, Weber brilliantly brings to life the Bauhaus geniuses and the community of the pioneering art school in Germany’s Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s. Here are: Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, the architect who streamlined design early in his career and who saw the school as a place for designers to collaborate in an ideal setting . . . a dashing hussar, the ardent young lover of the renowned femme fatale Alma Mahler, beginning when she was the wife of composer Gustav Mahler . . . Paul Klee, the onlooker, smoking his pipe, observing Bauhaus dances as well as his colleagues’ lectures from the back of the room . . . the cook who invented recipes and threw together his limited ingredients with the same spontaneity, sense of proportion, and fascination that underscored his paintings . . . Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian-born pioneer of abstract painting, guarding a secret tragedy one could never have guessed from his lively paintings, in which he used bold colors not just for their visual vibrancy, but for their “sound” effects . . . Josef Albers, who entered the Bauhaus as a student in 1920 and was one of the seven remaining faculty members when the school was closed by the Gestapo in 1933 . . . Annelise Else Frieda Fleischmann, a Berlin heiress, an intrepid young woman, who later, as Anni Albers, made art the focal point of her existence . . . Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, imperious, decisive, often harsh, an architect who became director—the last—of the Bauhaus, and the person who guided the school’s final days after SS storm troopers raided the premises. Weber captures the life, spirit, and flair with which these geniuses lived, as well as their consuming goal of making art and architecture. A portrait infused with their fulsome embrace of life, their gift for laughter, and the powerful force of their individual artistic personalities.