Visit the Bhil Carnival

Visit the Bhil Carnival
Author: Gita Wolf
Publisher: Tara Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Bhil (Indic people)
ISBN: 9789383145119

A brother and sister visit the fair together.

The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business

The Frankfurt Book Fair and Bestseller Business
Author: Beth Driscoll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2020-10-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108945309

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the leading global industry venue for rights sales, facilitating business-to-buzzness deals and international networks. In this Element, we pursue an Ullapoolist approach to excavate beneath the production of bestsellers at the Fair. Our investigation involved three consecutive years of fieldwork (2017–2019) including interviews and autoethnographic, arts-informed interventions. The Element argues that buzz at the Fair exists in two states: as market-ready media reports and partial, lived experiences linked to mood. The physical structures and absences of the Fair enact its power relations and direct the flow of books and buzz. Further, the Fair is not only a site for commercial exchange but a carnival of sorts, marked by disruptive historical events and problematic socio-political dynamics. Key themes emerging from the Element are the presence of excess, the pseudo(neo)liberal self-satisfaction of book culture, and the interplay of optimism and pessimism in contemporary publishing.

What's an American Doing Here? Reflections on Travel in the Third World

What's an American Doing Here? Reflections on Travel in the Third World
Author: Stanley C. Diamond
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1609116593

Stan Diamond's adventurous travel to remote corners of the world provides inspiration to the prospective and seasoned traveler alike. As a life-long educator, his observations about the value and meaning of such travel are thoughtful and informative, while his encounters with all kinds of people in unusual places offer knowledge, humor, surprise and joy. Stan's memoir begins with his childhood thumbing through pictures in an old World Book Encyclopedia and continues through his development as an enthusiastic voyager to some of the least likely destinations imaginable. So what else is there to worry about beside disease and sanitation, running out of gas or unavailability of medical care! Well, maybe rockslides and landslides, storms and floods, frozen roads and crazy drivers, marauding bandits and slippery thieves, insurrections and civil wars, spewing volcanoes and other such precarious hazards one might stumble upon... Frankly, I do not have any good advice for the reader about such things. Just try to avoid them if you can. Stan Diamond spent most of his life teaching children, directing schools and writing about his educational ideas. In his retirement he transformed those skills to become a popular lecturer, consultant and author. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with his wife Beverly. Publisher's Web site: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/WhatsAnAmericanDoing Here.htm

The Parrot Who Wouldn’t Talk & Other Stories

The Parrot Who Wouldn’t Talk & Other Stories
Author: Ruskin Bond
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2015-02-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 8184750595

‘I think everyone has at least one eccentric aunt or uncle in the family. I had more than one. My boyhood days were enlivened by their presence.’ India’s best-loved children’s writer Ruskin Bond introduces us to some of the most endearing and adorable characters he has ever written about—his grandfather, with his unusual ability to disguise himself as just about anyone; the eccentric Uncle Ken, with his knack for trouble; the stationmaster Mr. Ghosh and his amazing family; and the unforgettable Aunt Ruby and her hilarious encounter with a parrot! Heart-warming, funny and delightful, The Parrot Who Wouldn’t Talk and Other Stories features some old favourites as well as refreshingly new stories. Marked by Bond’s inimitable style and trademark humour, and embellished with lively illustrations, this book will be a firm favourite with children.

Tree Matters

Tree Matters
Author: Gita Wolf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-05
Genre: Bhil (Indic people)
ISBN: 9789383145232

The Bhil people of Central India are amongst the oldest indigenous communities in India. To them, the natural world of trees, creatures that inhabit them, and the forest of which they are a part is not out there, but rather exists in a seamless relationship to their home and the everyday. Gangubai, Bhil artist, explores this relationship through her memories of food, work, festivals, illness, medicine, and much more. Her tales center around trees, and so each of her memories has a tree as its focus. Illustrated in vivid and cheerful colors, the paintings in this book foreground a universe of brightly colored dots, and lines and shapes that encompass and hold all living creatures, including human beings."

An Indian Beach

An Indian Beach
Author:
Publisher: Tara Books
Total Pages: 16
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Beaches
ISBN: 9789383145676

This beach on the South Indian coast is full of activity. By day you can see fishermen bring in the catch, women selling fish, people and animals going about their business... but then, when the sun starts to set, the beach becomes a different place - now it's time for everyone to play, talk, sit around, eat and have fun... until the fisherfolk go to sleep, and all the others go home. French artist Joëlle Jolivet takes you through a day - and night - on an Indian beach. Have fun exploring, colouring, and adding to this never-ending book surrounded by the sea!

Cat Traps

Cat Traps
Author: Molly Coxe
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2010-05-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307554988

Cat wants a snack. Cat sets a trap. Cat gets...in trouble! Simple sentences and snappy illustrations make this a purr-fect first step into the joy of reading.

A Carnival of Parting

A Carnival of Parting
Author: Ann Grodzins Gold
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2023-07-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520911555

Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both characters, while still in their prime, leave thrones and families to be initiated as yogis—a process rich in adventure and melodrama, one that offers unique insights into popular Hinduism's view of world renunciation. Ann Grodzins Gold presents these living oral epic traditions as flowing narratives, transmitting to Western readers the pleasures, moods, and interactive dimensions of a village bard's performance. Three introductory chapters and an interpretive afterword, together with an appendix on the bard's language by linguist David Magier, supply A Carnival of Parting with a full range of ethnographic, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Gold gives a frank and engaging portrayal of the bard Madhu Nath and her work with him. The tales are most profoundly concerned, Gold argues, with human rather than divine realities. In a compelling afterword, she highlights their thematic emphases on politics, love, and death. Madhu Nath's vital colloquial telling of Gopi Chand and Bharthari's stories depicts renunciation as inevitable and interpersonal attachments as doomed, yet celebrates human existence as a "carnival of parting."

8 Ways to Draw Fish

8 Ways to Draw Fish
Author: Luisa Martelo
Publisher: Tara Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Drawing
ISBN: 9789383145393

Art activity book that introduces children to Indian indigenous art traditions through an exciting set of activities

Knock! Knock!

Knock! Knock!
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-04-12
Genre: Bears
ISBN: 9789383145324

A little girl knocks on all the doors in her apartment building as she searches for her teddy bear.