The Rainbow Builders
The Rainbow Builders

Author: Robert Joseph Ahola

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0595207707

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Book One in the GODWIN/the Boy Magician series: The Rainbow Builders It is a troubled time in our Galaxy. On the planet Saturn, the arch sorcerer Kretch completes his plans to kidnap the elemental fairies-of earth, water, wind and fire-from all the planets in the galaxy. By doing he plunges each planet into one long season of drought and desolation. All the while, a lingering legend haunts his waking hours: the legend of Godwin, the Boy Magician-the one person who, if he grows to manhood, will rival Kretch's powers. That is, if he is able to grow to manhood. Prepared for higher magic by the Rainbow Builders themselves, introduced to his own magnificent potential by the high white Wizardess Shalimar, Godwin is sent on a mission to Saturn to infiltrate the evil kingdom of Mortemonde and steal the Orb of Luna back from Kretch, and his evil minions. Captured by the stupid seven-legged Scurries, and imprisoned by the Ice Witches of Pluto, Godwin finally comes to realize that he has it within his power to free the entire planet of Saturn from Kretch's reign of terror. The question is, will he? And will he turn the key to his true potential before Kretch steals all the color from the galaxy as we know it. The first book in The Tales of GODWIN/The Boy Magician, The Rainbow Builders sets the stage for all future works in this remarkable fantasy book series for young readers and the young at heart. Book Cover Design by Edgar Arce

Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation
Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation

Author: Rekgotsofetse Chikane

Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1770105913

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Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation is a first-hand account of the university protests that gripped South Africa between 2015 and 2017, widely better known as the #FeesMustFall. Chikane outlines the nature of student politics in the country before, during and after the emergence of #MustFall politics, exploring the political dynamics that informed and drove the student protests, and the effect that these #MustFall movements have had on the nature of youth politics in the country. Chikane looks at how the current nature of youth politics is different from previous youth upheavals that have defined South Africa, specifically due to the fact that the protests were being led by so-called coconuts, who are part of the black elite. Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation poses the provocative question, can coconuts be trusted with the revolution?

Character Building
Character Building

Author: Jeri A. Carroll

Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press

Published: 1997-03-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1573100714

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Recommends stories that teach honesty, responsibility, compassion, self-discipline, and perseverance, among other values, with follow-up discussions and activities.

The Black and White Rainbow
The Black and White Rainbow

Author: Carolyn Holmes

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2020-10-13

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0472127179

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Nation-building imperatives compel citizens to focus on what makes them similar and what binds them together, forgetting what makes them different. Democratic institution building, on the other hand, requires fostering opposition through conducting multiparty elections and encouraging debate. Leaders of democratic factions, like parties or interest groups, can consolidate their power by emphasizing difference. But when held in tension, these two impulses—toward remembering difference and forgetting it, between focusing on unity and encouraging division—are mutually constitutive of sustainable democracy. ​Based on ethnographic and interview-based fieldwork conducted in 2012–13, The Black and White Rainbow: Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa explores various themes of nation- and democracy-building, including the emotional and banal content of symbols of the post-apartheid state, the ways that gender and race condition nascent nationalism, the public performance of nationalism and other group-based identities, integration and sharing of space, language diversity, and the role of democratic functioning including party politics and modes of opposition. Each of these thematic chapters aims to explicate a feature of the multifaceted nature of identity-building, and link the South African case to broader literatures on both nationalism and democracy.

Apello the Piffel
Apello the Piffel

Author: Robert Joseph Ahola

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001-12

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0595207766

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Book Two in the GODWIN/the Boy Magician series: Apello the Piffel, The evil sorcerer Kretch holds court in his castle on Saturn and hatches a new sinister plan with Blendin the Light Pirate to steal the Orb of Luna from the forces of Light, and at the same time wreak vengeance on Godwin. But by now, the Boy Magician has already grown a brand of magic that is not easily overcome ¡ª if only he will learn to use it before Blendin and the mad, greedy Marcom the Gemgnasher can seize it to serve their darker needs. Along the way, Godwin learns of the ways of earth magic from the Earth Fairy Landolen, befriends a dying dog and brings him back to life as an indestructible rock, a Piffel, whom he names Apello. Afterward, the two set out on a rescue mission to save the flower people, the Plories, from the clutches of the giant jewel devouring diamond, Marcom the Gemgnasher. In the end, in a final encounter with Kretch and the Scourge of Bramblehoards, it is Apello the Piffel who saves Godwin certain destruction, and becomes his lifelong friend. As Book Two in the Godwin the Boy Magician Series, Apello the Piffel brings to life a delightful set of characters and forms a turning point in this exceptional fantasy series for young readers and the young at heart. Apello the Piffel is also available in electronic book form at www.funwithscienceclub.com Look for Book One: The Rainbow Builders, and other books the in the Godwin/The Boy Magician series, wherever fine books are sold.