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Publisher | : Alfred A. Knopf |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Journey through the mysterious Mayan ruins of the Yucatan and Central America and learn about the fascinating Mayan civilization through this lavishly illustrated and information-packed book, with more than 1,000 drawings, photos and maps. Colorful cross sections and plans of city-states illustrate the Route of the Mayas. National ads/media.
Author | : Tavis Smiley |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2015-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0316341738 |
A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage. When Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often, of art, politics, history, race, religion, music, love, purpose, and -- more than anything -- courage. Courage to be open, to follow dreams, to believe in oneself. In My Journey with Maya, Smiley recalls a joyful friendship filled to the brim with sparkling conversation -- in Angelou's gardens surrounded by her caged birds, before lectures, sharing meals, and on breaks from it all, they sought each other out for comfort, advice, and above all else, friendship. It began when he, a recent college graduate and a poor kid from a big family in the Midwest, was invited to join the revered writer on a sojourn to Africa. He would be handling her bags, but Maya didn't let that stop a friendship waiting to happen. Angelou was generous, challenging, and inspirational. Like a mother to him, she was selfless. Here Tavis Smiley shares his personal memories of Maya Angelou, of a decades-long friendship with one of history's most fascinating women, one who left as indelible an imprint on American culture as she did on him.
Author | : Mary Jo McConahay |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Mayas |
ISBN | : 1569765480 |
Author | : Susan E. Lindsley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 2008-11-01 |
Genre | : Orphaned animals |
ISBN | : 9780982210901 |
Maya is a baby panda living in an orphanage in China. Will she ever get a family to call her own?.
Author | : Maya Angelou |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2011-11-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307807592 |
Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this bestselling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power of spirituality to move and shape your life. Passionate, lively, and lyrical, Maya Angelou’s latest unforgettable work offers a gem of truth on every page. Maya Angelou speaks out . . . On Faith: “I'm taken aback when people walk up to me and tell me they are Christians. My first response is the question 'Already?' It seems to me a lifelong endeavor to try to live the life of a Christian. It is in the search itself that one finds ecstasy.” On Racism: “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter their color.” On Taking Time for Ourselves: “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. A day away acts as a spring tonic. It can dispel rancor, transform indecision, and renew the spirit.” On Death and Grieving: “When I sense myself filling with rage at the absence of a beloved, I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns should be focused on what I can learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life?” On Style: “Style is as unique and nontransferable and perfectly personal as a fingerprint. It is wise to take the time to develop one's own way of being, increasing those things one does well and eliminating the elements in one's character which can hinder and diminish the good personality.”
Author | : Pat Miller |
Publisher | : Carson-Dellosa Publishing |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2018-07-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1641567325 |
Moving can be difficult. Find out how Maya's sadness at leaving friends and neighbors changes when she makes a friend at her new home. This title focuses on sight words, decoding, and retelling.
Author | : Renée Watson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1599906686 |
A captivating and poignant coming-of-age urban YA debut about sisters, friends, and what it means to embrace change.
Author | : Nuril Basri |
Publisher | : Monsoon Books |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2024-05-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1915310334 |
Maya, a thirty-something Indonesian caught in the undercurrent of life's uncertainty, takes a leap of faith from the chaos of Jakarta to a job as a waitress aboard a European cruise ship. There, she meets sexy Kanompang, Oleksii with his European-sized totem, and Maroje, her first love and Croatian prince. In a world where relationships are as transient as the ports she visits, Maya grapples with lies, love and unfulfilled desires. But when her voyage of discovery takes a darker turn in the backstreets of London, where betrayal and misery are a familiar fate for migrant workers, Maya must navigate unscrupulous women, naked men, challenging relationships and the pull of home. Set in cruise ship cabins, East London pubs and West End brothels, this tragicomedy is a tale of survival, a search for identity, and the hope of finding a harbour in life's stormy sea.
Author | : Ronald Wright |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802137289 |
The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico speak Mayan languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day. Traveling through Central America's jungles and mountains, Ronald Wright explores the ancient roots of the Maya, their recent troubles, and prospects for survival. Embracing history, anthropology, politics, and literature, Time Among the Maya is a riveting journey through past magnificence and the study of an enduring civilization with much to teach the present. "Wright's unpretentious narrative blends anthropology, archaeology, history, and politics with his own entertaining excursions and encounters." -- The New Yorker; "Time Among the Maya shows Wright to be far more than a mere storyteller or descriptive writer. He is an historical philosopher with a profound understanding of other cultures." -- Jan Morris, The Independent (London).
Author | : Jayne Pettit |
Publisher | : Puffin Books |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 014038359X |
"Traces the journey of this Afro-American woman from childhood through her life as an entertainer, civil rights activist, writer, poet, and university professor."--