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Drawing on an intimate knowledge of modern Arabic writing, Denys Johnson-Davies brings together in this collection a colorful mosaic of life as lived and portrayed by Arabs from Morocco to Iraq. From a diverse area of the world with the common factor of a written language, these thirty stories tell of an old Moroccan peasant woman who kills snakes; an Iraqi soldier who returns home as a stranger after years as a prisoner-of-war; a repairer of lost virginities in a Tunisian village; a typically Mahfouzian start to a train journey; the steamy meeting of two women and a cat at the height of an Iraqi summer; the ill-fated attraction of a boy to a magical bird in the Tuareg deserts of Libya; and a novel way of hunting ducks in the Nile Delta. The purveyors of this strange and delightful cornucopia of fictions include Naguib Mahfouz, Yusuf Idris, Gamal al-Ghitani, and Mohamed El-Bisatie from Egypt; Fuad al-Takarli and Mohamed Khudayyir from Iraq; Zakaria Tamer from Syria; Hanan al-Shaykh from Lebanon; and Ibrahim al-Kouni from Libya.
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Stories From Under the Sky
John Madson
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This digital document is an article from Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada, published by Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada on September 22, 1993. The length of the article is 1556 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: The Rankin siblings fuse traditional Scots-Gaelic language, music, and dance with country and pop music for a distinctive sound and performance. John Morris, Cookie, Raylene, Jimmy, and Heather grew up in Mabou on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, where Gaelic lingers.
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Title: The Rankin Family: under a tartan sky. (Highland musicians and dancers) (Cover Story)
Author: Peter Steen
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Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1993
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Title: A sense of control under the big sky.(Interview)(Cover story)
Author: Cheryl Ursin
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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on March 22, 1998. The length of the article is 565 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Under African Skies: Modern African Stories.
Author: Harold A. Waters
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World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1998
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Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World. : An article from: World Literature Today
Saad A. Al-Bazei
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Title: Under the Naked Sky: Short Stories from the Arab World.
Author: Saad A. Al-Bazei
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World Literature Today (Refereed)
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Smart, instructive, and beautifully designed, every book in the Trailside Guide series contains the essential information readers need to master outdoor activities and have fun in the process.
Norton proudly reissues these best-selling guides with fully revised "Sources & Resources" sections (including where to find the Web sites, gear, services, books, clubs, and organizations that make for foolproof outings); updates to reflect the latest in gear technology, wilderness medicine, and first aid; and advances in techniques.
You can take it with you: Trailside Guides are designed to be used on the trail. Their handy size makes them easy to take along on outdoor adventures.
Picture this: Trailside Guides show you how it's done. Each book has more than 100 color photographs and dozens of informative, full-color technical illustrations you'll refer to again and again.
Buying Guide: Each Guide has all the information readers need to make informed decisions about what gear is available, and what they should buy.
Step-by-step: Tutorials take readers through every aspect of a given outdoor activity. Each Guide covers planning and preparing for a trip, getting in shape, technique, safety, and first-aid tips, and how to have more fun along the way!
Easy to use: Trailside Guides provide information quickly. Every book contains detailed illustrations, information-packed sidebars, and a complete index and bibliography.
Technique tips: Any physical activity is more fun when it's done right. Trailside Guides are written by experts and contain lucid explanations that help the reader quickly achieve proficiency.
It's a big world out there. Get into it with the Trailside Guides. Color photographs and drawings throughout.
Customer Reviews:
Great book for begginers and serious backpackers!!!.......2007-10-11
I bought this book looking for a guide of some kind to help me know what to exspect, equipment I needed, and how to plan a trip. I got all I was looking for and more, I live and have grown up what most would consider a typical countryboy and have been hunting, camping, and fishing since I was old enough to walk, but I had never been on a long backpacking trip and have really always wanted to try it and this book is a great way to do it, it tells you everything you can think to ask and some you hadn't.I am going to head out on my first trip with confidence and ready for things that are going to happen. I have to say this guy knows what he is talking about andI would recamend you to buy this if you are planning even a short day hike. also the book is made to carry along in your pack with its plastic covered covers and pages. I would like to thank the auther in closing for this book it may have saved me alot of problems and maybe alot of injures.
Fantastic!.......2006-08-27
I'm new to backpacking. I bought a few backpacking books recently, and none of them are more interesting and clearly written than this book. Karen Berger has a great, down to earth writing style without being too "breathy" or wordy. She gets down to the point, shows specific examples,and breaks things down in a way that can be understood by anybody.
A solid introduction to backpacking.......2004-05-08
In 1996 I took my first backpacking trip ever. It was in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Became lost, carried too much weight...but enjoyed myself anyway. Two years later was on Katahdin in Maine. A big smile on my face...had just completed a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail.
After that first fun, yet disaster prone trip, stumbled upon the first edition of this book. Read it cover to cover and quickly learned many aspsects of backpacking I was woefully ignorant about. All that summer put into practice what was in the book.
Over the years since I've read that book have done much backpacking. Two end to hikes on the Long Trail, a thru-hike on both the AT and the Pacific Crest Trail. From reading the book was able to get the confidence to tackle longer hikes...and be fired up for them as well.
Now that I head up beginner backpacking trips myself, I always reccomend the book to anyone starting out with this past timne that has become a lifestyle for me.
I rated this book 4 stars, but would actually give it 4 1/2. Why not five? Berger is still skeptical of lightweight hiking (despite her new book about the subject) and it shows in not only in book but hiking videos, articles, etc. But, for the beginner, the solid info about traditional backpacking will get them on to a great start! Worked for me!
Comprehensive and fun to read ..........2003-11-12
I bought this book recently to expand on what I know about hiking and backpacking. I mainly do day hikes, and living in the desert of the southwest, I obviously end up doing a lot of desert hikes.
This book is very comprehensive, but by no means an all-inclusive description of what you need to know about hiking and backpacking.
It puts great emphasize on backpacking and not so much on hiking, although both activities are very similar in their nature. The book puts its main focus on backpacking in the Northeast of the USA, and talks a lot about the Appalachian Trail, which the author has hiked from one end to another.
The book contains all types of useful and important details about equipment, behavior on the trail, personal safety etc. Personally, I would've liked for it to mention more about travelling by foot in the desert, but that said, you can still find the most important information about desert hiking scattered around the book.
Pros:
* Very comprehensive - Contains information about most things you need to know about hiking and backpacking
* Easy and fun to read - very nice format
* Contains checklists
* Author is very knowledgable on the subject and an accomplished hiker/backpacker
* Good value for money
Cons:
* Not enough information about desert hiking/backpacking
* Very heavy - not something you'd want to bring in your pack unless you had to. On the flip side, it makes it more durable than your average book.
* Not all that good as a reference - best read from beginning to end.
All in all, I would rate it a 4 since it's a quite well written and comprehensive book. It covers what most people would expect to find in this type of book. It falls short of a rating of 5 mainly for the reasons mentioned in CON above.
(This review is of the February 2003 edition)
Excellent resource.......2001-03-07
This book is a terrific resource for those just starting out or those who would like to know more about hiking and backpacking. The author's topics cover everything from the complete basics like, why you should hike, straight through to the more complex, like how to adjust your compass for declination. She also makes extremely helpful suggestions on purchasing products such as tents, sleeping bags, water purifiers, stoves, and basically all types of gear. The author has a writing style that generates interest in the reading material. She also focuses on particular topics, like handling problems only women encounter in the outdoors, or what you should know before taking children hiking. This book is a must have.
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Now you can hear how natives speak! Because Americans shorten and combine words when they speak in everyday conversations, understanding them can be extremely difficult...but there is help!
You need to know how English really sounds and get used to the speed!
Each audio product contains "real speak" versions of the dialogues and vocabulary. "Real speak" features the shortened or "real" pronunciation Americans use every day. If you want to feel comfortable speaking with Americans and understanding conversations in English, these audio products are essential.
Listen to these audio products and you will be ready to hear English, understand English, and use English!
SLANGMAN has created an audio program for each book, which helps you say each word just like an American!
Cassettes also available.
See why so many ESL students around the world love The Slangman Guide to Street Speak series!
The book was written by American native and slang expert Slangman David Burke, author of more than 24 books on slang and idioms.
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Popular and practical.......2007-05-22
This series fills a vital niche in the ESL world where too many teachers and professors continue to act as if English were a static language stuck in the past. I've had several young college students, often in IEP programs, approach me for advice on how to learn "real" slang and modern idioms. The Slangman Guide works - although it will not help students on TOEFL exams or academic essays.
Yet we, and I speak as an ESL instructor at a private university, need to recognize the diverse desires and needs of our students. While I would never use this book as a textbook for a wide variety of reasons, the casual and hip tone encourages, even cajoles, many young students into studying more and living better inside the English language. Better for the 15-25 year old crowd than the older adult population, David Burke deserves far more respect than he has been given in the ESL world.
Good job!
Very Good.......2006-03-21
It's a very good book.It teach you not only the words but it teach you how to use words. You can learn the correct grammar, the accent and most important the context.
Advice: Buy also the CDs( not included with the book) or you have to order again !!!!!!
Are you tired of speaking in childish English?!! .......2004-08-25
I would like thank Slangman David Burke for his wonderful books. Actually, this series helped me a lot to understand American culture and daily conversations , especially with its comical pictures.May be the main attracting feature of this book which also has differentiated it from other similar idiom books is its nice division of slangs into some daily topics with pictorial format.
Now when I listen to radio or watch TV, I feel like hearing something new I couldn't have heard before.
Ali
Montreal,Canada
This book is WAY COOL!.......2004-08-16
I recommend this book "BIG TIME"!! It's the most useful book I have found on American slang and idioms. I have spent a lot of money of other books to learn how Americans REALLY speak (what they teach us in school is not the real language). They are more like dictionaries, and use old terms that Americans don't use any more. David Burke, who calls himself "Slangman," has created a series of books that are really great for ESL students who are
trying to learn American English. I showed Street Speak 1 to an American friend and he said that the words in the books are very popular. In the book, Slangman gives many examples of the everyday slang words and expressions using dialogues in context. One of the BEST things about it is that he also shows you the dialogue on the next page rewritten as it would actually be spoken by a native!! This is so important because American pronunciation is very strange to non-native speakers. For example, instead of "We are going to have a blast at the party," the rewritten dialogue shows "W'r gonna have a blast 'it the pardy!" The audio CD follows the books exactly which I thought was really important. It's the only way to speak like a native. The exercises in the book were also very useful. It only takes about an hour to finish a chapter and after doing the exercises in the book, you really remember everything. The exercises were really fun too and the illustrations are very funny. They help you to remember the words. It's just a really fun book. I'm "HAVING A BLAST!"
A wonderful book for learning current American slang!.......2000-04-27
I purchased this book so that I could help one of my high-intermediate students understand American slang. I have been nothing but pleased with this book and have used it with several of my students. THE GOOD: Each chapter has about 10 new slang words (or phrases) to really concentrate on. The pictures are hilarious and help the students to relax and have fun as they get started on each chapter. After introducing the words, the book then incorporates them into a delightful dialogue. Each chapter also has a section entitled "A closer look at 'real speak'." This is my favorite feature and helps students to understand how American slang is really produced. For example, it explains when a "T" is really pronounced like a "D" (or flapped). The rest of the chapter then has TONS of practice for the students in all four skills - reading, writing, listening and speaking. THE BAD: There really isn't too much to say here. If anything I would say that the book doesn't cover a lot of slang words. There are only 10 chapters, so students really only learn somewhere around 100 new words and phrases, but they really learn those 100! The only other bad thing that I have noticed is that my more advanced students seem to pick up the slang more quickly and then find the remaining practice to be redundant. But hey, it could be worse! OVERALL: A wonderful book of current and useful American slang that I would recommend to anyone - teacher, tutor or student! I would suggest that you buy the cassette tapes if you are going to use this book as a self-study guide.
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Have fun and learn "real" American conversational English!
Our books contain the most common slang and idioms used every day by Americans. Look at this example:
English taught in schools: "Please stop doing that, I do not like it."
Real American English: "Cut it out!"
Both of them mean the same thing, but "Real American English" is the way Americans speak. With our books, you will learn American English conversation using slang and idioms naturally through dialogues, pictures, quizzes, games, etc. You'll be talking like a native "in no time" (very quickly)!
Expensive classes won't teach you the "real" English conversation spoken by Americans. With our Slangman books, you will learn popular slang and idioms spoken by every American through entertaining dialogues, activities, and games. Learn as few or as many words as you want. (There are over 500 in the book!)
This book includes expressions dealing with: Work, Parties, The Phone, The Park, The Subway, Houseguests, and more...
There are no "dirty" or impolite expressions in this book. For the best results, purchase the audio CDs or cassettes.
See why so many ESL students around the world love The Slangman Guide to Street Speak series!
This book was written by American native and slang expert Slangman David Burke, author of more than 24 books on slang and idioms.
Book Description
Now you can hear how natives speak! Because Americans shorten and combine words when they speak in everyday conversations, understanding them can be extremely difficult...but there is help!
You need to know how English really sounds and get used to the speed!
Each audio product contains "real speak" versions of the dialogues and vocabulary. "Real speak" features the shortened or "real" pronunciation Americans use every day. If you want to feel comfortable speaking with Americans and understanding conversations in English, these audio products are essential.
Listen to these audio products and you will be ready to hear English, understand English, and use English!
SLANGMAN has created an audio program for each book that helps you say each word just like an American!
Cassettes also available.
See why so many ESL students around the world love The Slangman Guide to Street Speak series!
The book was written by American native and slang expert Slangman David Burke, author of more than 24 books on slang and idioms.
Customer Reviews:
Great book 4 ESL students.......2005-08-04
This book really help me understand what is going on when I watch tv or something/ It is fun to learn those vivid slang expressions! I plan to buy all the slangman's serial 'cos I think
through that I can really understand the real English that cannot be taught in class. If you dont learn it on you own you will never get to learn the real English
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Candy on the Edge
Don Kerr
Manufacturer: Coteau Books
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Release Date: 2001-09-01 |
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Straight-laced Candy McFarlane encounters life on the edge when she starts hanging out with some cool older kids and finds herself in over her head.
Candy is thirteen, living in Saskatoon with her parents, her little brother "Carboy," and Murphy the dog. She is tired of waiting for Grade 8 to end, her mom's constant nagging, and Gerald the geek hurling insults from across the street. She starts hanging out with some new and exciting friends - friends her mother wouldn't approve of.
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Life at the Edge of the Sea
Manufacturer: Coastal Carolina Press
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· The nation's second-largest estuarine system…
· A unique and threatened brogue…
· The U.S. Lifesaving Service's only all-black crew and station…
· A colony and its inhabitants that mysteriously vanished, leaving few clues behind…
· An island whose longtime residents believe that boat building is embedded in their genes…
What do all of these have in common? The answer: coastal North Carolina, home to a complex and vibrant ecosystem, a diverse population, and a rich culture all its own. For years, self-reliant natives existed in harmony with their environment. But then, thousands of visitors discovered the charms of the Carolina coast. Suddenly, everything started to change. In the name of progress, developers built condos on vast stretches of barrier islands and converted sleepy waterside villages to tourist traps replete with fast-food joints and convenience stores.
In 1993, motivated by the need to protect and preserve our coast, concerned citizens founded the Southern Coastal Heritage Workshop for Educators, a series dedicated to raising awareness about our coast's unique features and traditions. Since its inception, the series has offered nine residential seminars with a hands-on, shoes-off approach to learning. Lectures are often on site, at a carver's knee or knee-deep in estuarine muck, and consultants talk from the head and the heart, sharing histories, theories, and passionate beliefs stemming from years of coastal experience.
Life at the Edge of the Sea is a response to our participants' many requests for workshop leaders to `write it down.' In these pages you will hear from many of the `old hands' who have made our educators' workshops a resounding success. From coastal geology to estuarine dynamics, Outer Banks brogue to boat building, working waterfronts to coastal literature, African-American history to the evolution of Cape Lookout National Seashore, and Native American archaeology to pony roundups, this book provides a glimpse into the fascinating realm of Life at the Edge of the Sea. Please join us on a behind-the-scenes tour of North Carolina's coast. We hope that this revealing voyage will inspire you to learn more about our coastal culture and keep alive the spirit of our shores.
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Got candy? : An article from: Combat Edge
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Release Date: 2005-11-15 |
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This digital document is an article from Combat Edge, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1210 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Got candy?
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Combat Edge (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 14
Issue: 5
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This digital document is an article from Food Processing, published by Putman Media, Inc. on July 1, 1993. The length of the article is 1505 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Radio frequency (RF) cooking offers fast and efficient processing in a smaller unit than the equivalent conventional oven. Tom's Foods Inc chose RF equipment to complement its high-output snack packaging operation. The 17-foot RF oven heats the crackers evenly and quickly, and remaining moisture levels are within 0.2% of specifications. Tom's estimates that the RF equipment has improved output 20%, with packaging upgrades contributing a further 10% increase.
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Title: RF technology sharpens bakery's competitive edge. (radio frequency, Tom's Foods Inc.) (includes related article on technology and quality control)
Author: Judy Rice
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Food Processing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 1993
Publisher: Putman Media, Inc.
Volume: v54
Issue: n7
Page: p18(5)
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Books:
- Walking Santa Barbara: City Strolls and Country Hikes (Walking the West Series)
- WATCHING WASHINGTON BUTTERFLIES. AN INTERPRETIVE GUIDE TO THE STATE'S 134 SPECIES, INCLUDING MOST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF OREGON, IDAHO AND BRITISH COLUMBIA.
- Wave-Swept Shore: The Rigors of Life on a Rocky Coast
- Wetlands
- What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Caldecott Honor Book)
- Wildlife Warrior: Steve Irwin: 1962 - 2006, a Man Who Changed the World
- Xeriscape Gardening: Water Conservation for the American Landscape
- A Field Guide to Atlantic Coast Fishes : North America (Peterson Field Guides)
- A Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs
- A Wild Flower by Any Other Name: Sketches of Pioneer Naturalists Who Named Our Western Plants
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