Author: Aleksandra Kuburovic
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460262018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Sasha loved budgies. She had them since her early childhood. When she was at university the war started in her hometown. She had to leave the city together with her Mom. Sasha's father and talking budgie Riki, remained in the city. Sasha was very sad. She didn't know if she will ever see her father and her budgie Riki. She was desperate, but still she had faith that one day her family will be reunited.
Rikis
Author: Aleksandra Kuburovic
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460262018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Sasha loved budgies. She had them since her early childhood. When she was at university the war started in her hometown. She had to leave the city together with her Mom. Sasha's father and talking budgie Riki, remained in the city. Sasha was very sad. She didn't know if she will ever see her father and her budgie Riki. She was desperate, but still she had faith that one day her family will be reunited.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460262018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Sasha loved budgies. She had them since her early childhood. When she was at university the war started in her hometown. She had to leave the city together with her Mom. Sasha's father and talking budgie Riki, remained in the city. Sasha was very sad. She didn't know if she will ever see her father and her budgie Riki. She was desperate, but still she had faith that one day her family will be reunited.
Rikis
Author: Aleksandra Kuburovic
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 146026200X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Sasha loved budgies. She had them since her early childhood. When she was at university the war started in her hometown. She had to leave the city together with her Mom. Sasha's father and talking budgie Riki, remained in the city. Sasha was very sad. She didn't know if she will ever see her father and her budgie Riki. She was desperate, but still she had faith that one day her family will be reunited.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 146026200X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Sasha loved budgies. She had them since her early childhood. When she was at university the war started in her hometown. She had to leave the city together with her Mom. Sasha's father and talking budgie Riki, remained in the city. Sasha was very sad. She didn't know if she will ever see her father and her budgie Riki. She was desperate, but still she had faith that one day her family will be reunited.
Riki's Birdhouse
Author: Monica Wellington
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781087852348
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Riki builds a birdhouse for the beautiful birds that visit his garden. When spring comes, bluebirds move in. Soon there are eggs and babies! As the seasons change, Riki finds joy in helping and learning about his avian friends. Perfect introduction to the fun of backyard bird-watching.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781087852348
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Riki builds a birdhouse for the beautiful birds that visit his garden. When spring comes, bluebirds move in. Soon there are eggs and babies! As the seasons change, Riki finds joy in helping and learning about his avian friends. Perfect introduction to the fun of backyard bird-watching.
Imagining Transgender
Author: David Valentine
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390213
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. Working as a safer-sex activist in Manhattan during the late 1990s, David Valentine conducted ethnographic research among mostly male-to-female transgender-identified people at drag balls, support groups, cross-dresser organizations, clinics, bars, and clubs. However, he found that many of those labeled “transgender” by activists did not know the term or resisted its use. Instead, they self-identified as “gay,” a category of sexual rather than gendered identity and one rejected in turn by the activists who claimed these subjects as transgender. Valentine analyzes the reasons for and potential consequences of this difference, and how social theory is implicated in it. Valentine argues that “transgender” has been adopted so rapidly in the contemporary United States because it clarifies a model of gender and sexuality that has been gaining traction within feminism, psychiatry, and mainstream gay and lesbian politics since the 1970s: a paradigm in which gender and sexuality are distinct arenas of human experience. This distinction and the identity categories based on it erase the experiences of some gender-variant people—particularly poor persons of color—who conceive of gender and sexuality in other terms. While recognizing the important advances transgender has facilitated, Valentine argues that a broad vision of social justice must include, simultaneously, an attentiveness to the politics of language and a recognition of how social theoretical models and broader political economies are embedded in the day-to-day politics of identity.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390213
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. Working as a safer-sex activist in Manhattan during the late 1990s, David Valentine conducted ethnographic research among mostly male-to-female transgender-identified people at drag balls, support groups, cross-dresser organizations, clinics, bars, and clubs. However, he found that many of those labeled “transgender” by activists did not know the term or resisted its use. Instead, they self-identified as “gay,” a category of sexual rather than gendered identity and one rejected in turn by the activists who claimed these subjects as transgender. Valentine analyzes the reasons for and potential consequences of this difference, and how social theory is implicated in it. Valentine argues that “transgender” has been adopted so rapidly in the contemporary United States because it clarifies a model of gender and sexuality that has been gaining traction within feminism, psychiatry, and mainstream gay and lesbian politics since the 1970s: a paradigm in which gender and sexuality are distinct arenas of human experience. This distinction and the identity categories based on it erase the experiences of some gender-variant people—particularly poor persons of color—who conceive of gender and sexuality in other terms. While recognizing the important advances transgender has facilitated, Valentine argues that a broad vision of social justice must include, simultaneously, an attentiveness to the politics of language and a recognition of how social theoretical models and broader political economies are embedded in the day-to-day politics of identity.
Riki and The Dream Seed
Author: Aammton Alias
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 179489926X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Riki finds a mysterious 'pebble' on the beach, and finds out much later that it is no ordinary seed. Riki and her cat have a mini-adventure with the 'dream seed'. This is a STEM theme children's book. Age Recommendation: 6 to 12 Lexile Range: 610L - 800L
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 179489926X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Riki finds a mysterious 'pebble' on the beach, and finds out much later that it is no ordinary seed. Riki and her cat have a mini-adventure with the 'dream seed'. This is a STEM theme children's book. Age Recommendation: 6 to 12 Lexile Range: 610L - 800L
Legacy
Author: Whiti Hereaka
Publisher: Huia Publishers
ISBN: 1775503607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about school and the future, but mostly about his girlfriend, Gemma, who has suddenly stopped seeing or texting him. But on his way to see her, he’s hit by a bus and his life radically changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, and finds he’s living through his great-great-grandfather’s experiences in the Māori Contingent. At the same time that Riki tries to make sense of what’s happening and find a way home, we go back in time and read transcripts of interviews Riki’s great-great-grandfather gave in 1975 about his experiences in this war and its impact on their family. Gradually we realise the fates of Riki and his great-great-grandfather are intertwined.
Publisher: Huia Publishers
ISBN: 1775503607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Seventeen-year-old Riki is worried about school and the future, but mostly about his girlfriend, Gemma, who has suddenly stopped seeing or texting him. But on his way to see her, he’s hit by a bus and his life radically changes. Riki wakes up one hundred years earlier in Egypt, in 1915, and finds he’s living through his great-great-grandfather’s experiences in the Māori Contingent. At the same time that Riki tries to make sense of what’s happening and find a way home, we go back in time and read transcripts of interviews Riki’s great-great-grandfather gave in 1975 about his experiences in this war and its impact on their family. Gradually we realise the fates of Riki and his great-great-grandfather are intertwined.
Beyond Suspicion
Author: Nissim Mizrachi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520382862
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. For more than four decades, socially disadvantaged Israeli Mizrahim—descendants of Jews from Middle Eastern and North African communities—have continuously supported right-wing political parties. Scholars, left-wing politicians, and activists tend to view Mizrahim as reacting against their structural exclusion, or more crudely as acting against their own interests, but Nissim Mizrachi locates the source of their so-called paradoxical behavior within the limitations of the liberal grammar by which their outlook and behavior are read. In Beyond Suspicion, Mizrachi turns the direction of inquiry back on itself, contrasting liberal grammar—which values autonomy, equality, and universal reason and morality as the only authentic human choice—with the grammar of rootedness, in which the self is experienced through a web of relational commitments, temporal ties, and codes of collective identity. Recognizing rootedness as a fundamental need and desire for belonging is necessary to understand both scholarly and political rifts in Israel and throughout the world.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520382862
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. For more than four decades, socially disadvantaged Israeli Mizrahim—descendants of Jews from Middle Eastern and North African communities—have continuously supported right-wing political parties. Scholars, left-wing politicians, and activists tend to view Mizrahim as reacting against their structural exclusion, or more crudely as acting against their own interests, but Nissim Mizrachi locates the source of their so-called paradoxical behavior within the limitations of the liberal grammar by which their outlook and behavior are read. In Beyond Suspicion, Mizrachi turns the direction of inquiry back on itself, contrasting liberal grammar—which values autonomy, equality, and universal reason and morality as the only authentic human choice—with the grammar of rootedness, in which the self is experienced through a web of relational commitments, temporal ties, and codes of collective identity. Recognizing rootedness as a fundamental need and desire for belonging is necessary to understand both scholarly and political rifts in Israel and throughout the world.
Queer Theory, Gender Theory
Author: Riki Wilchins
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459608437
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
"In this one-stop, no-nonsense introduction to the work of postmodern sex and gender theorists, nationally known gender activist Riki Wilchins clearly explains the key ideas that have shaped contemporary sex and gender studies. Using straightforward prose and concrete examples from LGBT politics -- as well as her own life -- Wilchins makes thinkers like Derrida, Foucault, and Judith Butler easily accessible to students, activists, and others who are interested in some of the most compelling and divisive issues of the last 100 years. Additionally, Wilchins reports on the ways queer youths today are using the tools of queer theory and gender theory to reshape their world. This is that rare, invaluable book that connects postmodern theory to political passion, personal experience, and the patterns of everyday life."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459608437
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
"In this one-stop, no-nonsense introduction to the work of postmodern sex and gender theorists, nationally known gender activist Riki Wilchins clearly explains the key ideas that have shaped contemporary sex and gender studies. Using straightforward prose and concrete examples from LGBT politics -- as well as her own life -- Wilchins makes thinkers like Derrida, Foucault, and Judith Butler easily accessible to students, activists, and others who are interested in some of the most compelling and divisive issues of the last 100 years. Additionally, Wilchins reports on the ways queer youths today are using the tools of queer theory and gender theory to reshape their world. This is that rare, invaluable book that connects postmodern theory to political passion, personal experience, and the patterns of everyday life."--Page 4 of cover.
Alpha Heat
Author: Leta Blake
Publisher: Leta Blake
ISBN: 1626227756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A desperate young man. An older doctor with a hero complex. A forbidden love that can’t be denied. In a world where forbidden desires ignite against the backdrop of rigid societal norms, Xan Heelies yearns for the kind of love he can never have. It’s not only forbidden by the prevailing faith of the land, but such acts are illegal. When Urho Chase, a middle-aged doctor known for his cautious demeanor, discovers a dangerous side to Xan’s life, the carefully sewn seams that once held him together come apart. He wants more than anything to protect and care for Xan. But to love each other and make a life together, Xan and Urho risk utter ruin. With the acceptance and support of Caleb, Xan’s ace partner and confidante, they must find the strength to embrace danger and build the family they deserve.
Publisher: Leta Blake
ISBN: 1626227756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A desperate young man. An older doctor with a hero complex. A forbidden love that can’t be denied. In a world where forbidden desires ignite against the backdrop of rigid societal norms, Xan Heelies yearns for the kind of love he can never have. It’s not only forbidden by the prevailing faith of the land, but such acts are illegal. When Urho Chase, a middle-aged doctor known for his cautious demeanor, discovers a dangerous side to Xan’s life, the carefully sewn seams that once held him together come apart. He wants more than anything to protect and care for Xan. But to love each other and make a life together, Xan and Urho risk utter ruin. With the acceptance and support of Caleb, Xan’s ace partner and confidante, they must find the strength to embrace danger and build the family they deserve.
Our Home Is the Sea
Author: Riki Levinson
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140545524
Category : Boat living
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Chinese boy hurries home from school to his family's houseboat in Hong Kong harbor. It is the end of the school year, and he is anxious to join his father and grandfather in their family profession, fishing.
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780140545524
Category : Boat living
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Chinese boy hurries home from school to his family's houseboat in Hong Kong harbor. It is the end of the school year, and he is anxious to join his father and grandfather in their family profession, fishing.