The Shades of Meaning combines autobiography and fiction across three continents. It is a quest for passion and spiritual fulfilment, which ultimately steers the main character towards ancient Oriental thought in his search for peace.

It's never a good idea to be overly-relient on technology while traveling! Look up words quickly and easily with this great little Tagalog dictionary.Intended for use by tourists, students, and business people traveling to The Philippines Pocket Tagalog Dictionary is an essential tool for communication and a great way to learn Tagalog. It features all the essential Tagalog vocabulary appropriate for beginning to intermediate students. It's handy pocket for...

Basic Hindi For Beginners. Basic Hindi for Travel in India, Everyday words and useful phrases, words for Greetings, Shopping, eating out, Directions and lots more. English to Hindi as well as the Hindi Characters..

This is a userfriendly and concise Japanese phrase book and guide to Japanese slang and Japanese curses.The Japanese are extraordinarily polite and soft-spoken people who are always indirect and evasive in their dealings with each other. Right? Well, not really. They can be just as explicit, vicious, vile and downright vulgar as anyone else when they want to be. This little gem of a book teaches you hundreds and hundreds of Japanese taunts, threats, curses and exp...

Beautifully illustrated with watercolor paintings, The Magic Gem is a much-loved Korean folk tale that tells the story of why cats and dogs don't get along.A poor fisherman wins a fabulous magic gem that grants his every wish before it's lost to a conniving neighbor. His cat and dog manage to recover the gem, but on the way home the dog loses it in the river. The clever cat gets it back and becomes the favored house pet, while the jealous dog gets nothing,...

This Book seeks to help those interested in learning the Igbo language do so with ease. Some of the fascinating words that you can discover in the book include the following: Handwriting (Cursive) is Akika, Bathroom – Oworko, Squander – Mehue Ogbogho, Profit – Uru, Calendar – Okali, School – Uloeekwo, Hospital – Ulogwu, Moon – Onwa, Jewel – Ola, Ram – Ebulu, Goat – Ewu , Season – Adisi, and so on. Please Grab a copy to teach your children the Igbo Language or to read through at your leisur...

The 21 colourful Burmese folk tales in this volume have been retold in English by teachers from the Phaung Daw Oo Monastic Education High School, Mandalay, Myanmar, formerly Burma. Accompanying the stories are 22 illustrations created by their young pupils.Herein you will find stories like The Crow Is As Proud As The Peacock , The Three Sisters, The Blind Boy, Shin Mwe Lon And Min Nanda, The Greedy King, A Disrespectful Daughter and many more.As with most folk tales with Eas...

In True Malay Ghost Stories (1), RahimAbdul explores the Malay folklore of ghosts, spirits and genies through a collection of short stories, set specifically in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. In these areas, unlike India, China, and the West where traditional ghost stories were written down long ago, tales of haunting, possession and black magic are handed down by word of mouth. The supernatural still features strongly in the culture and Abdul brings together first-hand experiences, s...

Learn the most common Filipino language. Communicate effectively.

A commemorative volume for the House of Netjer's first annual “Red Week” celebration, containing original artworks, stories, poems, hymns, prayers, and rituals for Set (also known as Seth or Sutekh), one of Ancient Egypt's most well-known gods of strength, storms, and change.

Thank you for your interest in this booklet. The "...The Basics" series, is a series of booklets designed to help you get the basics or foundations about a subject. Time is one of our most precious resources and as such it does not comeback, for that reason the Amber siblings have created this series. It is a series of small quick and easy to read and understand booklets, designed to give you a quick idea on a subject. Instead of spending a lot of time and money on a subject to find out th...

Marnie, the grand matriarch and her elephant herd have been told that there is a plague spreading across the land. Their kindly human neighbours offer to help prevent them from getting sick by making them special kerchiefs to cover their trunks., However, there is a problem. Although the herd feels grateful for the kerchiefs the human have made, they find it almost impossible to go about their daily routines of living while wearing them. Marnie feels sad and concerned about this and knows ...