Author:
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781442413313
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Kai-lan thinks her surprise party is ruined until she gets a little help from her friends.
Kai-lan Loves YeYe!
Author:
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781442413313
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Kai-lan thinks her surprise party is ruined until she gets a little help from her friends.
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781442413313
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Kai-lan thinks her surprise party is ruined until she gets a little help from her friends.
Get Dressed with Kai-lan!
Author: Natalie Shaw
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781416997412
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It's time for Kai-lan to get dressed! What should she wear? With touch-and-feel outfits for every season, getting dressed is so much fun!
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9781416997412
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
It's time for Kai-lan to get dressed! What should she wear? With touch-and-feel outfits for every season, getting dressed is so much fun!
Back to the Future
Author:
Publisher: Quirk Books
ISBN: 1683690249
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Great Scott! The hilarious hit movie from the 1980s is now a wild and wacky picture book perfect for kids of any age! More than 35 years after its theatrical debut, Back to the Future remains a perennial favorite in classrooms and at family movie nights across the country. This story illustrated by Kim Smith captures all the classic moments of the film through fun and kid-friendly illustrations. Follow teenage Marty McFly as he travels from 1985 to 1955, meets his parents (as teenagers), and teaches his father how to stand up to bullies. Complete with a time-traveling DeLorean, a mad scientist companion, and a lightning-fueled finale, this is the perfect book for kids, parents, and anyone looking to go back in time.
Publisher: Quirk Books
ISBN: 1683690249
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Great Scott! The hilarious hit movie from the 1980s is now a wild and wacky picture book perfect for kids of any age! More than 35 years after its theatrical debut, Back to the Future remains a perennial favorite in classrooms and at family movie nights across the country. This story illustrated by Kim Smith captures all the classic moments of the film through fun and kid-friendly illustrations. Follow teenage Marty McFly as he travels from 1985 to 1955, meets his parents (as teenagers), and teaches his father how to stand up to bullies. Complete with a time-traveling DeLorean, a mad scientist companion, and a lightning-fueled finale, this is the perfect book for kids, parents, and anyone looking to go back in time.
A Dakota-English Dictionary
Author: Stephen Return Riggs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Along with An English-Dakota Dictionary, this remains the most comprehensive and accurate lexicon available.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Along with An English-Dakota Dictionary, this remains the most comprehensive and accurate lexicon available.
Eminent Nuns
Author: Beata Grant
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824832027
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The seventeenth century is generally acknowledged as one of the most politically tumultuous but culturally creative periods of late imperial Chinese history. Scholars have noted the profound effect on, and literary responses to, the fall of the Ming on the male literati elite. Also of great interest is the remarkable emergence beginning in the late Ming of educated women as readers and, more importantly, writers. Only recently beginning to be explored, however, are such seventeenth-century religious phenomena as "the reinvention" of Chan Buddhism—a concerted effort to revive what were believed to be the traditional teachings, texts, and practices of "classical" Chan. And, until now, the role played by women in these religious developments has hardly been noted at all. Eminent Nuns is an innovative interdisciplinary work that brings together several of these important seventeenth-century trends. Although Buddhist nuns have been a continuous presence in Chinese culture since early medieval times and the subject of numerous scholarly studies, this book is one of the first not only to provide a detailed view of their activities at one particular moment in time, but also to be based largely on the writings and self-representations of Buddhist nuns themselves. This perspective is made possible by the preservation of collections of "discourse records" (yulu) of seven officially designated female Chan masters in a seventeenth-century printing of the Chinese Buddhist Canon rarely used in English-language scholarship. The collections contain records of religious sermons and exchanges, letters, prose pieces, and poems, as well as biographical and autobiographical accounts of various kinds. Supplemental sources by Chan monks and male literati from the same region and period make a detailed re-creation of the lives of these eminent nuns possible. Beata Grant brings to her study background in Chinese literature, Chinese Buddhism, and Chinese women’s studies. She is able to place the seven women, all of whom were active in Jiangnan, in their historical, religious, and cultural contexts, while allowing them, through her skillful translations, to speak in their own voices. Together these women offer an important, but until now virtually unexplored, perspective on seventeenth-century China, the history of female monasticism in China, and the contributionof Buddhist nuns to the history of Chinese women’s writing.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824832027
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The seventeenth century is generally acknowledged as one of the most politically tumultuous but culturally creative periods of late imperial Chinese history. Scholars have noted the profound effect on, and literary responses to, the fall of the Ming on the male literati elite. Also of great interest is the remarkable emergence beginning in the late Ming of educated women as readers and, more importantly, writers. Only recently beginning to be explored, however, are such seventeenth-century religious phenomena as "the reinvention" of Chan Buddhism—a concerted effort to revive what were believed to be the traditional teachings, texts, and practices of "classical" Chan. And, until now, the role played by women in these religious developments has hardly been noted at all. Eminent Nuns is an innovative interdisciplinary work that brings together several of these important seventeenth-century trends. Although Buddhist nuns have been a continuous presence in Chinese culture since early medieval times and the subject of numerous scholarly studies, this book is one of the first not only to provide a detailed view of their activities at one particular moment in time, but also to be based largely on the writings and self-representations of Buddhist nuns themselves. This perspective is made possible by the preservation of collections of "discourse records" (yulu) of seven officially designated female Chan masters in a seventeenth-century printing of the Chinese Buddhist Canon rarely used in English-language scholarship. The collections contain records of religious sermons and exchanges, letters, prose pieces, and poems, as well as biographical and autobiographical accounts of various kinds. Supplemental sources by Chan monks and male literati from the same region and period make a detailed re-creation of the lives of these eminent nuns possible. Beata Grant brings to her study background in Chinese literature, Chinese Buddhism, and Chinese women’s studies. She is able to place the seven women, all of whom were active in Jiangnan, in their historical, religious, and cultural contexts, while allowing them, through her skillful translations, to speak in their own voices. Together these women offer an important, but until now virtually unexplored, perspective on seventeenth-century China, the history of female monasticism in China, and the contributionof Buddhist nuns to the history of Chinese women’s writing.
Jamaica Anansi Stories
Author: Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Swahili Grammar and Vocabulary
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swahili language
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swahili language
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A Glossary of Words and Phrases in the Oral Performing and Dramatic Literatures of the Jin, Yuan, and Ming
Author: Dale Johnson
Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
ISBN: 0472038230
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
For many years, the oral performing and dramatic literatures of China from 1200 to 1600 CE were considered some of the most difficult texts in the Chinese corpus. They included ballad medleys, comic farces, Yuan music dramas, Ming music dramas, and the novel Shuihu zhuan. The Japanese scholars who first dedicated themselves to study these works in the mid-twentieth century were considered daring. As late as 1981, no comprehensive dictionary or glossary for this literature existed in any language, Asian or Western. A Glossary of Words and Phrases fills this gap for Western readers, allowing even a relative novice who has resonable command of Chinese to read, translate, and appreciate this great body of literature with an ease undreamed of even two decades ago. The Glossary is organized into approximately 8,000 entries based on the reading notes and glosses found in various dictionaries, thesauruses, glossaries, and editions of works from the period. Main entries are listed alphabetically in the pinyin romanization system. In addition to glosses, entries include symbolic annotations, guides to pronunciation, and text citations. The result is a broadly useful glossary serving the needs of students of this literature as well as scholars researching Jin and Yuan language and its usage.
Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
ISBN: 0472038230
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
For many years, the oral performing and dramatic literatures of China from 1200 to 1600 CE were considered some of the most difficult texts in the Chinese corpus. They included ballad medleys, comic farces, Yuan music dramas, Ming music dramas, and the novel Shuihu zhuan. The Japanese scholars who first dedicated themselves to study these works in the mid-twentieth century were considered daring. As late as 1981, no comprehensive dictionary or glossary for this literature existed in any language, Asian or Western. A Glossary of Words and Phrases fills this gap for Western readers, allowing even a relative novice who has resonable command of Chinese to read, translate, and appreciate this great body of literature with an ease undreamed of even two decades ago. The Glossary is organized into approximately 8,000 entries based on the reading notes and glosses found in various dictionaries, thesauruses, glossaries, and editions of works from the period. Main entries are listed alphabetically in the pinyin romanization system. In addition to glosses, entries include symbolic annotations, guides to pronunciation, and text citations. The result is a broadly useful glossary serving the needs of students of this literature as well as scholars researching Jin and Yuan language and its usage.
A Handbook of the Swahili Language
Author: Edward Steere
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swahili language
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swahili language
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Singing to the Goddess
Author: Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195134338
Category : Devotional poetry, Bengali
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems were written from the early-18th century up to the contemporary period. They represent the Bengali tradition of goddess worship (Saktism).
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195134338
Category : Devotional poetry, Bengali
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems were written from the early-18th century up to the contemporary period. They represent the Bengali tradition of goddess worship (Saktism).