Maya's Rainy Day
Author: Brenda Bradley
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-05-16
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 1105769054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaya discovers that there are lots of things to do outside even on rainy days.
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My Rainy Day Rocket Ship
Author: Markette Sheppard
Publisher: Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1534461779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRainy summer days are no match for a little astronaut who builds the perfect rocket ship for an indoor space adventure to another galaxy, where the sky is his only limit! A stormy afternoon and an order from Mom to stay inside are no match for this little dreamer, who uses everyday household items—a rocket chair, a cardboard box, an old dish rag, and a super-duper imagination—to whip up a trip around the universe he won’t soon forget. My Rainy Day Rocket Ship is a high-spirited, engaging salute to the imagination of Black boys who use their beautiful minds to transform the mundane into the extraordinary, dream out loud, and boldly go where their sky is the only limit.
Endless Scribbles Before Rain
Author: Hemant Bansal and Mukesh Narayana
Publisher: Spectrum of Thoughts
Published: 2024-06-01
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Endless Scribbles and Before Rain" is a poetry and story anthology divided into two parts. The first part,"Before Rain," includes stories by Hemant Bansal & The second part, "Endless Scribbles," . Both sections of the anthology weave a rich tapestry of emotions and experiences, offering readers a deep dive into the human psyche. "Endless Scribbles" presents poetry, where each verse captures fleeting moments of beauty, sorrow, and introspection. His words paint vivid pictures that resonate with the reader's inner world, inviting them to pause and reflect. On the other hand, "Before Rain" showcases storytelling. Each story is a journey, brimming with nuanced characters and intricate plots that explore themes of RAIN. Together, the anthology offers a symphony of literary art, where poems and stories harmonize to celebrate the myriad shades of life. Whether you are a lover of poignant poetry or gripping tales, "Endless Scribbles Before Rain" promises an enriching and immersive reading experience.
Star Gods of the Maya
Author: Susan Milbrath
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 0292778511
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A prodigious work of unmatched interdisciplinary scholarship” on Maya astronomy and religion (Journal of Interdisciplinary History). Observations of the sun, moon, planets, and stars played a central role in ancient Maya lifeways, as they do today among contemporary Maya who maintain the traditional ways. This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Pre-Columbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples. Susan Milbrath opens the book with a discussion of modern Maya beliefs about astronomy, along with essential information on naked-eye observation. She devotes subsequent chapters to Pre-Columbian astronomical imagery, which she traces back through time, starting from the Colonial and Postclassic eras. She delves into many aspects of the Maya astronomical images, including the major astronomical gods and their associated glyphs, astronomical almanacs in the Maya codices and changes in the imagery of the heavens over time. This investigation yields new data and a new synthesis of information about the specific astronomical events and cycles recorded in Maya art and architecture. Indeed, it constitutes the first major study of the relationship between art and astronomy in ancient Maya culture. “Milbrath has given us a comprehensive reference work that facilitates access to a very broad and varied body of literature spanning several disciplines.” ―Isis “Destined to become a standard reference work on Maya archeoastronomy . . . Utterly comprehensive.” —Andrea Stone, Professor of Art History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community
Author: Dean E. Arnold
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2015-02-15
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1607323141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatán, and their production space over a period of more than four decades. This follow-up to his 2008 work Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution uses narrative to trace the changes in production personnel and their spatial organization through the changes in production organization in Ticul. Although several kinds of production units developed, households were the most persistent units of production in spite of massive social change and the reorientation of pottery production to the tourist market. Entrepreneurial workshops, government-sponsored workshops, and workshops attached to tourist hotels developed more recently but were short-lived, whereas pottery-making households extended deep into the nineteenth century. Through this continuity and change, intermittent crafting, multi-crafting, and potters' increased management of economic risk also factored into the development of the production organization in Ticul. Illustrated with more than 100 images of production units, The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community is an important contribution to the understanding of ceramic production. Scholars with interests in craft specialization, craft production, and demography, as well as specialists in Mesoamerican archaeology, anthropology, history, and economy, will find this volume especially useful.
Mayan Messages: The Mayan Tzolkin Calendar, Daily Guide to Self-Empowerment
Author: Theresa Crabtree
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0557463947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mayan Messages are a collection of 260 channeled messages, one for each day of the sacred Tzolkin Mayan calendar. In today’s world, there is much debate over what may or may not happen in the year 2012.The Day Keepers of the Mayan calendar speak from the “Other Side,†encouraging the reader to look within, on a daily basis, for ways to create the reality one chooses to experience.No matter when the world comes to an end, these pearls of wisdom will allow you to create a life filled with peace, joy and abundance. . . NOW and in every moment, no matter what chaos is spinning around you.Consider purchasing a copy for your local church, school, jail or public library. Contact the author for possbile discounts on multiple book orders! A portion of the sale of this book is used to supply the Mayan Messages to jails and public libraries throughout the United States. For more information, visit our website at: www.t-a-d-a.com
Mayan Voices for Human Rights
Author: Christine Kovic
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2005-06-01
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0292706405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last decades of the twentieth century, thousands of Mayas were expelled, often violently, from their homes in San Juan Chamula and other highland communities in Chiapas, Mexico, by fellow Mayas allied with the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). State and federal authorities generally turned a blind eye to these human rights abuses, downplaying them as local conflicts over religious conversion and defense of cultural traditions. The expelled have organized themselves to fight not only for religious rights, but also for political and economic justice based on a broad understanding of human rights. This pioneering ethnography tells the intertwined stories of the new communities formed by the Mayan exiles and their ongoing efforts to define and defend their human rights. Focusing on a community of Mayan Catholics, the book describes the process by which the progressive Diocese of San Cristóbal and Bishop Samuel Ruiz García became powerful allies for indigenous people in the promotion and defense of human rights. Drawing on the words and insights of displaced Mayas she interviewed throughout the 1990s, Christine Kovic reveals how the exiles have created new communities and lifeways based on a shared sense of faith (even between Catholics and Protestants) and their own concept of human rights and dignity. She also uncovers the underlying political and economic factors that drove the expulsions and shows how the Mayas who were expelled for not being "traditional" enough are in fact basing their new communities on traditional values of duty and reciprocity.
Maya Angelou’s Celebration of Words
Author: Akṣapāda
Publisher:
Published: 2019-02-12
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaya Angelou’s Celebration of Words: 1001 Expressions of an Uncaged Bird The prolific author, Maya Angelou is the best known for her influencing words that threw light on the contemporary quandary of human kind. In spite of being the the first black lady director in Hollywood, Maya Angelou always preferred to be known as a ‘teacher who writes’. Honored with the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton in 2000, Maya Angelou was bestowed with Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest civilian honor in United States, in 2010 by President Barrack Obama. After the success of the critically acclaimed first autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, Angelou wrote another six books on her life experiences. Acquaintance with Martin Luther King Jr. made her involving in civil right movements. This book has the best and biggest collection of quotes from great advocate of humanity…Spare your time to read her thought provoking quotes. Indulging and thought-provoking words from the famous poet, writer, autobiographer and spokesperson for black people and women...
The Maya Barton Thrillers Books One to Three
Author: Kate Bendelow
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2024-07-05
Total Pages: 1121
ISBN-13: 1504096231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of three gripping crime novels from a real-life CSI . . . Definitely Dead Maya Barton has just embarked on her dream job as a scene-of-crime officer, and she’s already facing a tough challenge. When she attends her first dead-persons case, the post-mortem deems it to be non-suspicious and the case is closed. But despite the lack of evidence, she suspects a crime has been committed . . . “A brilliant novel . . . stunning.” —Lynda La Plante, Edgar Award–winning author of Prime Suspect Shattered Bones How do you catch a killer if you can’t identify the victim? SOCO Maya Barton is called to a canal where a decomposed male body has been discovered. A bank card belonging to Trevor Dawlish is found in the corpses’s pocket, and the name matches that of a missing person. All seems straightforward—until Trevor’s wife phones the police to say that Trevor has returned home . . . Flesh and Blood Maya Barton is an experienced SOCO—but gathering evidence after the crime’s been committed is one thing, and being targeted for murder is another. Now she must untangle her own dark past to solve her toughest case yet.
The Forest of the Lacandon Maya
Author: Suzanne Cook
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-03-15
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1461491118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, with active links to audio-video recordings, serves as a comprehensive guide to the botanical heritage of the northern Lacandones. Numbering fewer than 300 men, women, and children, this community is the most culturally conservative of the Mayan groups. Protected by their hostile environment, over many centuries they maintain autonomy from the outside forces of church and state, while they continue to draw on the forest for spiritual inspiration and sustenance. In The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, linguist Suzanne Cook presents a bilingual Lacandon-English ethnobotanical guide to more than 450 plants in a tripartite organization: a botanical inventory in which main entries are headed by Lacandon names followed by common English and botanical names, and which includes plant descriptions and uses; an ethnographic inventory, which expands the descriptions given in the botanical inventory, providing the socio-historical, dietary, mythological, and spiritual significance of most plants; and chapters that discuss the relevant cultural applications of the plants in more detail provide a description of the area’s geography, and give an ethnographic overview of the Lacandones. Active links throughout the text to original audio-video recordings demonstrate the use and preparation of the most significant plants.
