The book is a story about friendship and accompany. The snake likes wriggling. Therefore, no matter where he goes, the place is in a mess. Until one day, it meets a boy named Amu who plays the flute and changes his lifestyle.
This book tells the story of a youth choir in Wuhan during the founding era of New China. The novel could be seen as a "musical novel" for citing many famous Chinese and foreign songs. Just like in Vladimir Korolenko's novel The Blind Musician, where the melodious flute sound of the old groom Joachim has been guiding the growth of the five-year-old blind child, the songs in this book that were created in different eras also play a role as the "spiritual nourishment" for the teenager Jiangnan and his partners in his childhood, leading them to grow from narrow-minded, hesitant, and fragile to broad, firm, and strong. In this novel, apart from the fact that music forms a great part, it also has another prominent feature, which is the regional culture and folk customs of old Wuhan city. The loud and strong chanting on the pier of the Yangtze River, the mighty sound of the surging river, the melodious bells of Hankow Customs House, the vendor's hawking in the alleys of the old Hankou, as well as various customs, snacks, and dialects, all of which help create a vivid painting of local customs that presents lively daily life and the wharf culture.
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Stained glass reached the height of its popularity in the Victorian period. But how did it become so popular and who was involved in this remarkable revival? The enthusiasm for these often exquisite pieces of artwork spread from specialist groups of antiquarians and architects to a much wider section of the Victorian public. By looking at stained glass from the perspective of both glass-painter and patron, and by considering how stained glass was priced, bought and sold, this enlightening study traces the emergence of the market for stained glass in Victorian England. Thus it contains new insights into the Gothic Revival and the relationship between architecture and the decorative arts. Beautifully illustrated with colour plates and black and white illustrations, this book will be valuable to those interested in stained glass and the wider world of Victorian art.
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Ghassan Al Ghurairi had to accompany his old grandfather to the Leewy Museum in the middle of the desert. They are attending a ceremony honoring his grandfather, who spent his entire life in service of the desert. As they head to their destination onboard an ancient train, Ghassan came across a conspiracy plotted by the criminal Aqrabawi and his bald friend— disguised as two elderly women—to poison the oasis’s water supply. In place of the ecological life in the desert, they want to make way for an international resort and take over the place. Although Ghassan doesn’t mean to confront this conspiracy alone, he finds himself embroiled face-to-face with the criminals. Fortunately for him, a girl appears at his side to help. Sophia Al-Adnani from Chiparazumpia is also heading with her grandfather and his great eco-friendly invention, the glass ball, to the Leewy Museum, where her grandfather is to be honored. The two children are able to hold off the criminals initially, but not for long, as Aqrabawi and his friend soon reappear—this time deadest on revenge against the two children. Ghassan and Sophia resist in the face of intimidation and threats, and, using clever intrigue, they manage to disarm the conspirators and escape seconds before the desert guards arrive and arrest the criminals.
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Between self-realisation and love: the story of the woman behind the famous champagne brand Veuve Clicquot. The French champagne city Reims in 1805: despite resistance from her family, young widow Barbe-Nicole Clicquot takes over the champagne and wine production from her late husband - and turns out to be a talented winemaker. But it is the time of the Napoleonic Wars and business is not going well. Supported by her employee Louis Bohne and the German accountant Christian Kessler, Barbe-Nicole nevertheless manages to get her company started, develops a new production process and thus gives champagne its seductive tingle. Enchanted by her esprit, both men develop feelings for her - but it is only as a widow that Barbe-Nicole can run the company under her name ...
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In Walking the Wheel of the Year holistic life coach, spiritual guide and pagan priestess Emma-Jane Cross supports you to create your own spiritual and personal growth path using nature’s seasonal rhythm as the catalyst for personal and spiritual growth.An inspirational tool to start living a lifestyle connected to nature’s rhythm, this book can be used as a year-long workbook to carry out various seasonal activities, journeys and ceremonies throughout the year.
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Windows for the world explores the display and reception of nineteenth-century British stained glass in a secular exhibition context. International in scope, the book focuses on the global development of stained glass in this period as showcased at, and influenced by, these exhibitions. It recognises those who made and exhibited stained glass and demonstrates the long-lasting impact of the classification and modes of display at these events. A number of exhibits are illustrated in colour and are analysed in relation to stylistic developments, techniques and material innovations, as well as the broader iconographies of nation and empire in the nineteenth century.
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Since the early 1990s, economic exchanges between China and Taiwan have paved the way to migration across a previously closed border and to social and cultural interactions between the two populations. Despite these broader changes, the unresolved issue of Taiwan sovereignty has tainted not only the relations between the two governments but also the everyday life of those who move across the Taiwan Strait. In this politicised environment, intimate and affective practices linked to cross-border marriage and family formation are never just private. Instead, they are deeply entangled with the emotional and affective processes generated at the macro and meso level of political and social life and revolving around national interests. Tracing the intimate, emotional and affective practices linked to family creation, identity formation and integration with the local and national communities, this ethnographic study offers a subjective, dynamic, and complex picture of what it means to be a mainland spouse in Taiwan.
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What if your drawings magically came to life, only to prove rather demanding art critics? Oh, the hassle! In The Chalk Giraffe we follow an artistic child who finds herself drawing a giraffe with chalk… but she is surprised when her creation comes alive and demands changes to his surrounding landscape. What follows is a quirky and humorous tale of creativity and perspective, with the beautiful African landscape as a backdrop to this new and unlikely friendship.
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Based on an ethnographic study on the Andean Tri-border (between Chile, Peru, and Bolivia), this volume addresses the experience of Aymara cross-border women from Bolivia employed in the rural valleys on the outskirts of Arica (Chile's northernmost city). As protagonists of transborder mobility circuits, these women are intersectionally impacted by different forms of social vulnerability. With a feminist anthropological perspective, the book investigates how the boundaries of gender are constructed in the (multi)situated experience of these transborder women. By building a bridge between classical anthropological studies on kinship and contemporary debates on transnational and transborder mobility, the book invites us to rethink structuralist theoretical assertions on the elementary character of family alliances.
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This is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity and the concept of 20:20 vision. Demonstrating how this unique assistive device can connect the histories of medicine, technology and disability, it charts how technology has influenced our understanding of sensory perception, both through the diagnostic methods used to measure visual impairment and the utility of spectacles to ameliorate its effects. Taking a material culture approach, the book assesses how the design of spectacles thwarted ophthalmologists' attempts to medicalise their distribution and use, as well as creating a mainstream marketable device on the high street.
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Welches Kind träumt nicht davon, ein eigenes Pony zu haben oder wenigstens mal auf einem reiten zu dürfen? In den fantasievollen Geschichten von Autoren wie Marliese Arold, Ursel Scheffler, Dagmar Geisler und Isabel Abedi gehen diese Träume in Erfüllung. Da erlebt Paula ein span-nendes Abenteuer auf dem Ponyhof, Jan dressiert sein Pony Schimmi, und Greta stellt fest, das ihr Pony Charly ziemlich kitzlig ist ... Passende Musik zu den einzelnen Geschichten rundet diesen Hörspaß für kleine Ponyfreunde ab!
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From the same talents that brought you The Chalk Giraffe comes a new adventure, My Brother's Squiggle. What if your drawings magically came to life, only to prove rather demanding art critics? Oh, the hassle! One morning, a little boy with a big imagination draws a tiger. He’s just certain it’s a fearsome tiger! But his sister has doubts… it looks just like a line and a squiggle! As their debate takes off, suddenly the two siblings are thrown into a colourful world where make-believe and reality find a meeting place, and a tiger, a T-Rex and a family of giraffes become their teammates to figure it all out. Dive into this tale of creativity and perspective/empathy, this story knits each child's unique creativity into the universal theme of complex and growing sibling relationships.
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Gefahr für unsere Gletscher! Das neue Schuljahr an der Gletscherakademie beginnt! Am gleichen Tag weiht Jacques Frost seinen neuen Skilift ein, mit Menschenmassen und Lärm. Seitdem gehen immer wieder Lawinen ab! Ist Jacques Frost schuld, da er Teile des Gletschers abgetragen hat? Cléo vermutet, dass es mit dem magischen Eissplitter zusammenhängt, der aus der Akademie gestohlen wurde. Der Eissplitter soll dem, der ihn trägt, zu Unsterblichkeit und unbegrenzter Macht über die Gletscher verhelfen. Eigentlich ist Cléo damit beschäftigt, ihre eismagischen Fähigkeiten unter Kontrolle zu bringen, doch sie fühlt sich verfolgt. Hat es jemand auf ihre Fähigkeiten abgesehen? Und was hat das alles mit ihrer Mutter zu tun, die den Eissplitter einst hütete? Ice Guardians 2. Der magische Eissplitter: Die Ice Guardians schützen unsere Gletscher Eine geheimnisvolle Familiengeschichte: Fantastische Abenteuergeschichte für Kinder ab 10 Jahren, die von spannenden Freundschaftsgeschichten nicht genug bekommen können Mitreißend und tiefgründig: Das Buch thematisiert einfühlsam und altersgerecht die Auswirkungen der Gletscherschmelze. Starke Hauptfigur: Cléo sucht mit Mut, Klugheit und ihren eismagischen Fähigkeiten nach ihrer Bestimmung. Der Rückgang des ewigen Eises: Die renommierte Drehbuchautorin Anna Maria Praßler sensibilisiert dafür, dass die Gletscher weltweit bis zum Jahr 2050 rund 25% ihrer Masse verlieren werden. Auch im zweiten Band der Reihe „Ice Guardians“ wartet eine Welt voller Geheimnisse und uralter Legenden auf die junge Cléo. Die Mischung aus realen Umweltproblemen und magischen Elementen macht das Kinderbuch zu einer unterhaltsamen Lektüre, bei der Kinder ab 10 Jahren viel über den Schutz der Gletscher lernen können.
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Willkommen bei den Ice Guardians! Sie beschützen die Gletscher unserer Erde. Es gibt kaum einen Fleck auf der Erde, an dem die zwölfjährige Cléo noch nicht war. Mit ihrem Papa, der Musiker ist, tingelt sie durch die Weltgeschichte und fühlt sich nie richtig zugehörig. Nur Cléos Geburtsort in den französischen Alpen würde ihr Vater niemals betreten. Denn von dort verschwand ihre Mutter einst spurlos. Als ihr Vater einen Unfall hat, wird Cléo ausgerechnet dorthin geholt: in ein geheimnisvolles Internat auf dem Mont Blanc. Cléo begibt sich auf Spurensuche. Was ist passiert, als sie klein war? Weshalb wird Wasser in ihrer Nähe plötzlich zu Eis? Und was hat es mit den aggressiven Nagetieren auf sich, die ihr auflauern und die sie zu verstehen glaubt? Cléo steht das Abenteuer ihres Lebens bevor! Spüre die Macht der Gletscher und erlebe ein magisches Abenteuer mit den Ice Guardians. Triff eine außergewöhnliche Heldin mit besonderen Fähigkeiten vor atemberaubender Kulisse im ewigen Eis der Alpen. Abenteuerroman für Kinder: Fesselnde Story mit aktuellem Bezug zur Gletscherschmelze und zum Klimaschutz. Einfühlsam, warmherzig und bewegend erzählt für Kinder ab 10 Jahren. Du folgst Alea Aquarius und der Alpha Cru über alle Weltmeere? Du bist ein Fan der Woodwalkers? Dann werden dich auch die Ice Guardians begeistern.
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Lena liebt Ponys und darf ihre Ferien auf dem Reiterhof verbringen. Nur kann sie nicht so gut reiten wie Mara, diese Angeberin! Als Lena am Abend ihr Lieblingspony auf der Weide besucht, lässt sie aus Versehen das Gatter offen. Ausgerechnet Maras Pony entwischt. Ob Lotti helfen kann, Maras Pony wiederzufinden?
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What am I doing in New York City? fragt der jüngste und vielversprechendste Songwriter New Yorks, ein Aufnahmegerät in der Hand, ein Notizbuch griffbereit in der Hosentasche. Und was ihm einfällt, landet entweder als Song im Recorder und später auf CD oder im Heft und wird zum pulsierenden Text: Eine Zeitlang sammelte Adam Green seine Textproduktion jenseits der Musik in Fanzines, den sogenannten magazines. Jetzt sind diese, zusammen mit dem Langgedicht "Flowers of Capitalism" und anderen zwischen 2001 und 2004 entstandenen Texten, erstmals in Buchform erhältlich.
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Lesen lernen leicht gemacht - Das macht fit für die 1. Klasse Ferien auf dem Ponyhof - Lena freut sich schon riesig! Obwohl sie nicht so gut reiten kann, wie Mara. Die Angeberin! Dann passiert ihr auch noch ein Missgeschick: Als Lena abends ihr Lieblingspony auf der Weide besucht, lässt sie das Gatter offen. Ausgerechnet das Pony von Mara entwischt. Ob Lena es zusammen mit ihrem Pony wiederfindet? Lesen lernen mit dem Bücherbär - Für starke Mädchen und Pferdefans Dieses Buch richtet sich an Leseanfänger in der 1. Klasse. Die übersichtlichen Leseeinheiten und kurzen Zeilen sind ideal zum Lesenlernen. Zahlreiche Bildergeschichten unterstützen das Leseverständnis. Zusätzlich regen lustige Buchstaben- und Leserätsel am Ende des Buches zum Nachdenken und zum Gespräch über die Geschichte an. Denn Kinder, die viel Gelegenheit zum Sprechen haben, lernen schneller lesen. - Empfohlen von Westermann - Mit Bücherbärfigur am Lesebändchen - Der Titel ist auf Antolin.de gelistet
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