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Author : Silvio Sirias
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 1611922194
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Meet Me under the Ceiba written by Silvio Sirias and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel is based on a true story, which Sirias researched while visiting Nicaragua. He is personified as a professor spending the summer near his parents birthplace, where he hears the story of the lesbian lovers, and attempts to reconstruct the days before and after Adelas demise. By means of his interviews, the reader comes to know Adelas family, her former lover (who feared for Adelas safety), Adelas former husband (who never dreamed that being a lesbian would get her killed), and Adelas magnetic and stunningly beautiful lover Ixelia, who was prostituted by her mother at age 11.
Author : Kit Anderson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292792247
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees written by Kit Anderson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big old trees inspire our respect and even affection. The poet Walt Whitman celebrated a Louisiana live oak that was solitary "in a wide flat space, / Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near." Groves and alleys of live oaks remain as distinctive landscape features on Louisiana's antebellum plantations, while massive individuals still cast their shade over churches, graveyards, parks, and roads. Cajuns have adopted the "Evangeline Oak" as one of their symbols. And the attachment that Louisianians feel for live oaks is equaled by that of Guatemalans for ceibas, the national tree of Guatemala. Long before Europeans came to the Americas, the ceiba, tallest of all native species, was the Mayan world tree, the center of the universe. Today, many ceibas remain as centers of Guatemalan towns, spreading their branches over the central plaza and marketplace. In this compelling book, Kit Anderson creates a vibrant portrait of the relationship between people and trees in Louisiana and Guatemala. Traveling in both regions, she examined and photographed many old live oaks and ceibas and collected the stories and symbolism that have grown up around them. She describes who planted the trees and why, how the trees have survived through many human generations, and the rich meanings they hold for people today. Anderson also recounts the natural history of live oaks and ceibas to show what human use of the landscape has meant for the trees. This broad perspective, blending cultural geography and natural history, adds a new dimension to our understanding of how big old trees and the places they help create become deeply meaningful, even sacred, for human beings.
Author : Vartika Jain
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642279031
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pharmacology of Bombax ceiba Linn. written by Vartika Jain and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first monograph devoted solely to Bombax ceiba, popularly known as the Red Silk Cotton Tree. Consisting of seven chapters, it covers all relevant aspects of this plant, from its historical and spiritual importance, to its botanical characterization, pharmacognostical details and ethnobiological uses, to its scientific validation in various animal and human studies. Each part of the tree is of medicinal value and possesses many novel chemical constituents such as shamimicin, bombasin, bombamalone, bombamaloside etc. along with other bioactive secondary metabolites. The book presents the chemical structures of the most important constituents and highlights various pharmacological activities, predominantly antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-mutagenic, hypoglycemic, hypotensive, hepatoprotective and fibrinolytic, which may prove to be a source for the development of a novel phyto-pharmaceutical agent to treat diabetes, heart disease and cancer. In addition, separate chapters deal with the commercial and ecological significance of B. ceiba, as well as a case study on its conservation. Numerous color illustrations are included to identify the plant and to justify its nickname, the “Little Bird’s Cafeteria”.
Author : Terry Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733788809
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Power of ABCs written by Terry Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of our reality itself is a dynamic continuum, carrying us through lessons, epiphanies, and growth. Life as we define it can either feel painful or joyous in its most impermanent wonder and mystery. Nonetheless, the journey ahead depends on one's choices and willingness to transcend even the most impactful life experiences. Yet, are we always ready to take that deep dive within ourselves?The Power of ABCs is an inspirational guidance tool. It offers a unique approach on how to transform those rooted experiences of lies, abuse, and hatred into powerful words of wisdom. The guide features inspired life stories from Terry's childhood to adulthood. It provides bountiful intuitive insights and practical techniques for self-transformation and growth. Using the sacred Ceiba, the Maya cosmic tree, you will be taken on a wild, adventurous, and healing journey through the heart and soul of reality. You will learn how to turn the old, limited definitions of love, acceptance, trust, and forgiveness, among 22 other word choices, into a higher level of awareness based on life's lessons. Open your heart and mind to receive the subtle magical powers of the captivating and majestic Ceiba tree, the Maya tree of life.
Author : Terry K Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733788823
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Power of ABCs written by Terry K Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of ABCs is an inspirational guidance tool for growth, transformation, and expansion of our inner soul. Using the sacred Ceiba, the Maya cosmic tree, the guide takes you on a wild, adventurous, and healing journey through the heart and soul of reality. Buy the Power of ABCs to harness the inner tools you need to transform your life.
Author : United States. Office of Geography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cuba written by United States. Office of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philadelphia (Pa.). Office of Housing and Community Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ceiba Plan written by Philadelphia (Pa.). Office of Housing and Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gretchen C. Daily
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595348530
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book One Tree written by Gretchen C. Daily and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-16 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through words and photographs, environmental scientist Gretchen C. Daily and photographer Charles J. Katz describe how one relict tree—the magnificent Ceiba pentandra in Sabalito, Costa Rica—carries physical and spiritual importance. The people in the town of Sabalito call the tree la ceiba, a term said to be derived from a Taíno word referring to a type of wood used for making canoes in the West Indies. Ceiba evokes times and places where people hollowed out the great cylindrical trunks and glided along languid rivers winding through lush tropical forest. Today the tree is known by different names in regions ranging from southern Mexico and the Caribbean to the southern edge of the Amazon Basin and in western Africa. The ceiba has survived what is probably the highest rate of tropical deforestation in the world. It is a legendary and vital tree in centuries-old forests in places like Costa Rica that were once almost completely forested (98 percent in the mid-twentieth century) and decades later have suffered devastating deforestation (34 percent by 1980). One Tree grew out of a conversation between photographer Chuck Katz and acclaimed ecologist Gretchen Daily about the relict tree—a single tree that remains standing in a pasture, for example, after the forest has been cleared from the land, and takes on iconic importance for the animals, plants, and people in the ecosystem. During a trip the authors took to Costa Rica, Katz focused his lens on the ceiba and a story was born. In descriptive language interwoven with scientific fact, Daily discusses the tree's historical and natural history and the ceiba species in general. She touches on the science of the Costa Rican rainforest and its deforestation and the cultural traditions, legends, and folklore of forests and relict trees. Katz's photographs of the massive tree and the village that takes care of it create an intimate work celebrating the visual and biological intricacies of trees.
Author : United States. Office of Geography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book Venezuela, Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States. Office of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: