Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China, Iza Ding

Автор: Trapani, Iza
Название: Jingle bells
ISBN: 1580890962 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580890960
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: A book of Christmas traditions from around the world.

Автор: Steiner Iza N.
Название: Decoding the Night: Greek Myth as a Celestial Map
ISBN: 1387588222 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781387588220
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Цена: 27540.00 T
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"The heavens are full of gods, to whom we give the names of stars." - Aristotle

Decoding the Night is a scholarly exploration of the astronomical basis of Greek myth and religion. Ancient Greeks relied on the steady movements of the stars for an accurate calendar and for navigation at sea or in other unmarked territory. What may have started as a practical, graphic tool for identifying the stars developed into an oral tradition of stories that have become Greek myth. The astronomical information became sacred not only for its practical value, but also because it represented an unchanging and perfect universe untouched by the vicissitudes of life on earth.

Seeded by the original idea that "immortal" gods refers to circumpolar stars, who reside at the "highest seat of heaven", or North Celestial Pole, a map of the night sky has emerged from works by ancient authors, which places Greek myth in a logical and concrete context. The North Celestial Pole, as the pivot point of all stellar movement, was considered the most sacred and immutable part of the heavens. Mount Olympus to the Greeks, was the home of the "immortal gods", because those stars were always visible in the night sky. "Dying and resurrected" gods were found at lower latitudes, where their annual disappearance below the horizon, was considered a death and entrance into the Underworld. Resurrection occurred at the helical rising of that star/god months or days later. The "death and resurrection" of rise and set stars were the foundation of the Greek religious calendar and ceremonies. The Greeks and other ancient cultures aimed not simply to appease their gods, but used ceremony to mimic the heavens and bring the divine order above down to earth.

Decoding the Night leads the reader through the astronomical, geographical, and cultural framework of ancient Greece, which lends new meaning to many facets of myth. The primary constellations are discussed as representatives of well-known gods and goddesses, with the connections and similarities richly illustrated in myth, sculpture, and other art.

Автор: Kavedzija, Iza Walker, Harry
Название: Values of happiness - toward an anthropology of purpose in life
ISBN: 0986132578 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986132575
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Описание: How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging how happy people are than with how happiness figures as an idea, mood, and motive in everyday life, the book explores how people strive to live well within challenging or even hostile circumstances.

The contributors explore how happiness intersects with dominant social values as well as an array of aims and aspirations that are potentially conflicting, demonstrating that not every kind of happiness is seen as a worthwhile aim or evaluated in positive moral terms. In tracing this link between different conceptions of happiness and their evaluations, the book engages some of the most fundamental questions concerning human happiness: What is it and how is it achieved? Is happiness everywhere a paramount value or aim in life? How does it relate to other ideas of the good? What role does happiness play in orienting peoples' desires and life choices? Taking these questions seriously, the book draws together considerations of meaning, values, and affect, while recognizing the diversity of human ends.

Автор: Kavedzija Iza
Название: Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan
ISBN: 0812251369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812251364
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that which makes one's life worth living," ikigai has also come to mean that which gives a person happiness. In Japan, where the demographic cohort of elderly citizens is growing, and new modes of living and relationships are revising traditional multigenerational family structures, the elderly experience of ikigai is considered a public health concern. Without a relevant model for meaningful and joyful older age, the increasing older population of Japan must create new cultural forms that center the ikigai that comes from old age.

In Making Meaningful Lives, Iza Kavedzija provides a rich anthropological account of the lives and concerns of older Japanese women and men. Grounded in years of ethnographic fieldwork at two community centers in Osaka, Kavedzija offers an intimate narrative analysis of the existential concerns of her active, independent subjects. Alone and in groups, the elderly residents of these communities make sense of their lives and shifting ikigai with humor, conversation, and storytelling. They are as much providers as recipients of care, challenging common images of the elderly as frail and dependent, while illustrating a more complex argument: maintaining independence nevertheless requires cultivating multiple dependences on others. Making Meaningful Lives argues that an anthropology of the elderly is uniquely suited to examine the competing values of dependence and independence, sociality and isolation, intimacy and freedom, that people must balance throughout all of life's stages.

Автор: Trapani, Iza
Название: Vole And Troll
ISBN: 1580898858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580898850
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Loosely based on "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," this sweet, funny tale introduces two loveable characters who just can't get along . . . until they start singing.

Troll-dee-roll, I'm a troll, and my favorite food is vole.

Meet mischievous Vole and grouchy old Troll, the newest characters by bestselling author/illustrator Iza Trapani. Vole wants to cross the bridge to where the literal and proverbial grass is greener, but grumpy old Troll lives under the bridge and offers two options: pay the toll or eat Vole. Vole outwits Troll three times by distracting him with clever, interactive songs (which will be quite familiar to young children and caregivers). But in the end, the pair lays aside their differences and embraces their common love of music.

Автор: Ruebens Karen, Romanowska Iza, Bynoe Rachel
Название: Unravelling the Palaeolithic
ISBN: 1407309951 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781407309958
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 94410.00 T
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Автор: Trapani, Iza
Название: Mary Had A Little Lamb
ISBN: 1580890903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580890908
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 4870.00 T
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Описание: Everyone knows the story of Mary and her little lamb with fleece as white as snow. But what happens one day when the lamb decides to go off alone?

Fans of Iza Trapani will delight as this adorable little lamb wanders across the farm, meeting an assortment of equally appealing characters. From a big brown horse to a tough old goose to a pen full of happy pigs, children will laugh out loud as Mary's little lamb stumbles from one mess to the next in this fun-filled rhyming adventure.

Автор: Moreau Iza
Название: The News in Small Towns: (Small Town Series, Number 1)
ISBN: 0962487880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780962487880
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 13150.00 T
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Автор: Trapani Iza
Название: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
ISBN: 1580890156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580890151
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Board Book edition. In this expanded version of the favorite nursery rhyme, Iza Trapani takes the earliest readers on a journey across the night sky. With playful verse and bright illustrations Iza Trapani introduces us to our irresistible young heroine as she wishes upon a mischievous, twinkling star. Granting her wish, the little star takes her on a dazzling and daring trip among swirling planets and beaming stars for one magical night. This new spin on the much-loved classic is a wonderful gift for even the littlest stargazers.