Author: Sue Halpern
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: monarch, butterfly, mystery, caught, wings, prayer, four
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-07-09
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 037570194X
ISBN-13: 9780375701948
Every autumn, the monarch butterflies east of the Rockies migrate from as far north as Canada to Mexico. Memory is not their guide — no one butterfly makes the round trip — but each year somehow find their way to the same fifty acres of forest on the high slopes of Mexico’s Neovolcanic Mountains, and then make the return trip in the spring.In Four Wings and a Prayer, Sue Halpern sets off on an adventure to delve into the secrets behind this extraordinary phenomenon. She visits scientists and butterfly lovers across the country, offering a keenly observed portrait of the monarchs’ migra
Author: Mahmoud Darwish
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Keywords: arabic, burden, butterfly
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1556592418
ISBN-13: 9781556592416
“Mahmoud Darwish is the Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of images that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into the world’s whole heart. What he speaks has been embraced by readers around the world—his in an utterly necessary voice, unforgettable once discovered.”—Naomi Shihab Nye Mahmoud Darwish is the leading poet in the Arab world, an artist and activist who attracts thousands to his public readings. The Butterfly’s Burden combines the complete text of Darwish’s two most recent full
Authors:Judy Allen, Tudor Humphries,
Publisher: Kingfisher
Keywords: books, backyard, butterfly
Number of Pages: 28
Published: 2003-05-16
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0753456087
ISBN-13: 9780753456088
Caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly; follow the metamorphosis of this familiar backyard creature as it evolves into a delicate flying insect.
Author: Rigoberto Gonzalez
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: writing, latinidad, mariposa, chicano, memories, butterfly
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-06-20
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0299219003
ISBN-13: 9780299219000
Heartbreaking, poetic, and intensely personal, Butterfly Boy is a unique coming out and coming-of-age story of a first-generation Chicano who trades one life for another, only to discover that history and memory are not exchangeable or forgettable. Growing up among poor migrant Mexican farmworkers, Rigoberto González also faces the pressure of coming-of-age as a gay man in a culture that prizes machismo. Losing his mother when he is twelve, González must then confront his father’s abandonment and an abiding sense of cultural estrangement, both from his adopted home in the United States
Author: Dawn FitzGerald
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Keywords: biography, greens, gateway, butterfly, julia
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $23.90
ISBN-10: 0761326545
ISBN-13: 9780761326540
Author: Kuang-Ming Wu
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: chuang, tzu, religion, philosophy, chapters, three, companion, meditations, first, butterfly
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1990-01
List price: $35.50
ISBN-10: 0887066852
ISBN-13: 9780887066856
Chuang Tzu’s first three chapters are arranged into free verse (in Chinese, in the original word order) and translated, nearly word-for-word, with extensive critical glosses vis-a-vis over fifty Chinese, Japanese, and Western commentators. The exegetical, philosophical, and contemporary implications of these chapters are then meditated upon. Here, in Chuang Tzu’s world, all strivings are a play, parodying stories and arguments; each plays off of and refers to the others. Chuang Tzu lived during the third and fourth centuries B.C. Historically, he is the foremost spokesman for Ta
Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: death, life, memoir, butterfly, diving
Number of Pages: 131
Published: 1998-06-23
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0375701214
ISBN-13: 9780375701214
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye functioned, allowing him to see and, by blinking it, to make clear that his mind was unimpaired. Almost miraculously, he was soon able to express himself in the richest detail: dictating a word at a time, blin
