Chizi's Tale

Chizi's Tale

Author: Jack Jones

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2017-07-01

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 143230884X

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On an August day, in Zimbabwe, a newborn black rhino lost his mother. Because black rhinos are critically endangered and knowing that the calf would not survive without help, a park ranger made an astonishing decision: he took the rhino home. Chizi’s Tale is the story of how one of Africa’s fiercest animals was raised by a remarkable family until it was time to return him to the wild.


Chizi's Tale

Chizi's Tale

Author: Jack Jones

Publisher: Peek-A-Boo Publishing Group

Published: 2016-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781943154074

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An orphaned baby black rhino is taken in by the manager of the local national park, who names him Chizi and raised him along with his own children. As Chizi grows, he becomes a big part of the family. Chizi's Tale teaches that all of us can, and should, show mercy and compassion.


Who Moved My Cheese?

Who Moved My Cheese?

Author: Spencer Johnson

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1998-09-08

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 1101495871

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THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WITH OVER 28 MILLION COPIES IN PRINT! A timeless business classic, Who Moved My Cheese? uses a simple parable to reveal profound truths about dealing with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life. It would be all so easy if you had a map to the Maze. If the same old routines worked. If they'd just stop moving "The Cheese." But things keep changing... Most people are fearful of change, both personal and professional, because they don't have any control over how or when it happens to them. Since change happens either to the individual or by the individual, Dr. Spencer Johnson, the coauthor of the multimillion bestseller The One Minute Manager, uses a deceptively simple story to show that when it comes to living in a rapidly changing world, what matters most is your attitude. Exploring a simple way to take the fear and anxiety out of managing the future, Who Moved My Cheese? can help you discover how to anticipate, acknowledge, and accept change in order to have a positive impact on your job, your relationships, and every aspect of your life.


How You Grow Wings

How You Grow Wings

Author: Rimma Onoseta

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2022-08-09

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1643751913

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Sisters Cheta and Zam's paths to break free of their oppressive home diverge wildly--one moves into an aunt's luxurious home and the other struggles to survive on her wits alone--and when they finally reunite, Zam realizes how far Cheta has fallen, leaving Cheta's fate in Zam's hands.


The Five Continents of Theatre

The Five Continents of Theatre

Author: Eugenio Barba

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-02-11

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9004392939

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The Five Continents of Theatre undertakes the exploration of the material culture of the actor, which involves the actors’ pragmatic relations and technical functionality, their behaviour, the norms and conventions that interact with those of the audience and the society in which actors and spectators equally take part. The material culture of the actor is organised around body-mind techniques (see A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology by the same authors) and auxiliary techniques whose variety concern: ■ the diverse circumstances that generate theatre performances: festive or civil occasions, celebrations of power, popular feasts such as carnival, calendar recurrences such as New Year, spring and summer festivals; ■ the financial and organisational aspects: costs, contracts, salaries, impresarios, tickets, subscriptions, tours; ■ the information to be provided to the public: announcements, posters, advertising, parades; ■ the spaces for the performance and those for the spectators: performing spaces in every possible sense of the term; ■ sets, lighting, sound, makeup, costumes, props; ■ the relations established between actor and spectator; ■ the means of transport adopted by actors and even by spectators. Auxiliary techniques repeat themselves not only throughout different historical periods, but also across all theatrical traditions. Interacting dialectically in the stratification of practices, they respond to basic needs that are common to all traditions when a performance has to be created and staged. A comparative overview of auxiliary techniques shows that the material culture of the actor, with its diverse processes, forms and styles, stems from the way in which actors respond to those same practical needs. The authors’ research for this aspect of theatre anthropology was based on examination of practices, texts and of 1400 images, chosen as exemplars.


Kubuka & the Magic Calabash

Kubuka & the Magic Calabash

Author: Janet Keegans

Publisher: Struik Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9781868729500

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Set in Africa at the time of drought, this is the tale of Kubuka's quest to find the magic calabash u an instruction given to him by Amanzi the rain spirit, who dwelled in the depths of a baobab tree.


The Metaphysics of Chinese Moral Principles

The Metaphysics of Chinese Moral Principles

Author: Mingjun Lu

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-01-17

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9004503544

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This book seeks to construct and establish the metaphysics of Chinese morals as a formal and independent branch of learning by abstracting and systemizing the universal principles presupposed by the primal virtues and key imperatives in Daoist and Confucian ethics.


Orthodox Passions

Orthodox Passions

Author: Maram Epstein

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-02-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1684176069

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In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. At a time when Manchu regulations made chastity the primary metaphor for obedience and social duty, filial discourse increasingly embraced the dramatic and passionate excesses associated with late-Ming chastity narratives. Qing texts, especially those from the Jiangnan region, celebrate modes of filial piety that conflicted with the interests of the patriarchal family and the state. Analyzing filial narratives from a wide range of primary texts, including local gazetteers, autobiographical and biographical nianpu records, and fiction, Epstein shows the diversity of acts constituting exemplary filial piety. This context, Orthodox Passions argues, enables a radical rereading of the great novel of manners The Story of the Stone (ca. 1760), whose absence of filial affections and themes make it an outlier in the eighteenth-century sentimental landscape. By decentering romantic feeling as the dominant expression of love during the High Qing, Orthodox Passions calls for a new understanding of the affective landscape of late imperial China.


The Paradox of Being

The Paradox of Being

Author: Poul Andersen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1684171040

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The question of truth has never been more urgent than today, when the distortion of facts and the imposition of pseudo-realities in the service of the powerful have become the order of the day. In The Paradox of Being Poul Andersen addresses the concept of truth in Chinese Daoist philosophy and ritual. His approach is unapologetically universalist, and the book may be read as a call for a new way of studying Chinese culture, one that does not shy away from approaching “the other” in terms of an engagement with “our own” philosophical heritage. The basic Chinese word for truth is zhen, which means both true and real, and it bypasses the separation of the two ideas insisted on in much of the Western philosophical tradition. Through wide-ranging research into Daoist ritual, both in history and as it survives in the present day, Andersen shows that the concept of true reality that informs this tradition posits being as a paradox anchored in the inexistent Way (Dao). The preferred way of life suggested by this insight consists in seeking to be an exception to ordinary norms and rules of behavior which nonetheless engages what is common to us all.


Understanding China’s School Leadership

Understanding China’s School Leadership

Author: Daming Feng

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-15

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 981150749X

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This open access book outlines key terms of China’s school leadership in Chinese political and legal, financial, administrative, and cultural contexts. It reveals and interprets the real meaning of these practical terms based on existing laws, government documents, school policy texts as well as the latest empirical findings from school leaders and teachers’ surveys and interviews in China. Providing a holistic picture of China’s school leadership through the unique meanings of these terms, the book offers researchers and graduate students insights into school leadership practice and its context in China. Thus, it would likely intensify readers’ knowledge base to analyse and interpret the phenomenon and research data regarding China’s school leadership.