Author : Eagle Ngo
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780648374428
Amazing Amber is a superhero who uses her laser eyes to save her friends from Pie-throwing Pete. But when Pie-throwing Pete invents a new pie-throwing machine, Amazing Amber discovers that she has a lazy laser eye. Can Dr Teddy help her save the day once again?
Author : Andrew Ross
Publisher : National Museums of Scotland
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Brings together National Museums Scotland's amber collection plus loans from the V&A in London to reveal the origins, properties and uses of this precious substance.
Author : Vivienne Hambly
Publisher : Amber Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781838861988
From the gardens of the Palace of Versailles to Beatrix Potter's garden in the Lake District, from Monet's garden in France to the Tivoli Gardens in Rome, from the Japanese garden in Portland, Oregon, to city gardens in Tokyo, this book is a wide-ranging celebration of all types of gardens around the globe. Including formal French gardens and English landscape gardens; famous botanical gardens and little-known curiosities; Iranian and Persian gardens; grand, country-house gardens and inner-city gardens; Zen gardens, strolling Japanese gardens and Chinese gardens; medicinal gardens and one poison garden; knot gardens and Roman gardens, Amazing Gardens of the World explores a huge variety of the approaches and uses of gardening around the world over millennia. In telling the stories of these places, the book touches on the lives of the people who worked in them, designed them, and owned them--people such as Prince Charles, Capability Brown, Gertrude Jekyll, Edith Wharton, and Agatha Christie. Amazing Gardens of the World not only champions the splendor of the world's most magnificent gardens but also reveals many fascinating stories about the history of these places and the people who created them.
Author : George O. Poinar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691057286
The Poinars are world leaders in the study of amber fossils and have spent years examining the uniquely rich supply that has survived from the ancient forests of the Dominican Republic. They draw on their research here to reconstruct in words, drawings, and spectacular color photographs the ecosystem that existed on the island of Hispaniola between fifteen and forty-five million years ago. The Poinars present richly detailed drawings of how the forests once appeared. They discuss how and when life colonized Hispaniola and what caused some forms to become extinct. Along the way, they describe how amber is formed, how and where it has been preserved, and how it is mined, sold, and occasionally forged for profit today.
Author :
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1619048892
Author : Amber Sparks
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1631496212
Amber Sparks holds her crown in the canon of the weird with this fantastical collection of “eye-popping range” (John Domini, Washington Post). Boldly blending fables and myths with apocalyptic technologies, Amber Sparks has built a cultlike following with And I Do Not Forgive You. Fueled by feminism in all its colors, her surreal worlds—like Kelly Link’s and Karen Russell’s—are all-too-real. In “Mildly Happy, With Moments of Joy,” a friend is ghosted by a text message; in “Everyone’s a Winner at Meadow Park,” a teen coming-of-age in a trailer park befriends an actual ghost. Rife with “sharp wit, and an abiding tenderness” (Ilana Masad, NPR), these stories shine an interrogating light on the adage that “history likes to lie about women,” as the subjects of “You Won’t Believe What Really Happened to the Sabine Women” will attest. Written in prose that both shimmers and stings, the result is “nothing short of a raging success, a volume that points to a potentially incandescent literary future” (Kurt Baumeister, The Brooklyn Rail).
Author : Amber Share
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0593185552
**A New York Times Bestseller!** Based on the wildly popular Instagram account, Subpar Parks features both the greatest hits and brand-new content, all celebrating the incredible beauty and variety of America’s national parks juxtaposed with the clueless and hilarious one-star reviews posted by visitors. Subpar Parks, both on the popular Instagram page and in this humorous, informative, and collectible book, combines two things that seem like they might not work together yet somehow harmonize perfectly: beautiful illustrations and informative, amusing text celebrating each national park paired with the one-star reviews disappointed tourists have left online. Millions of visitors each year enjoy Glacier National Park, but for one visitor, it was simply "Too cold for me!" Another saw the mind-boggling vistas of Bryce Canyon as "Too spiky!" Never mind the person who visited the thermal pools at Yellowstone National Park and left thinking, “Save yourself some money, boil some water at home.” Featuring more than 50 percent new material, the book will include more depth and insight into the most popular parks, such as Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and Acadia National Parks; anecdotes and tips from rangers; and much more about author Amber Share's personal love and connection to the outdoors. Equal parts humor and love for the national parks and the great outdoors, it's the perfect gift for anyone who loves to spend time outside as well as have a good read (and laugh) once they come indoors.
Author : Michael Kerrigan
Publisher : Amber Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838860943
Organized by continent, Amazing Temples of the World offers the reader an intimate portrait of some spectacular and unusual places of worship dating from the fourth millennium BCE to the present. Ornate or spartan, immense or intimate, from the Middle East to California, this book features such impressive places of worship as the Mahabhodi Temple, India, built in the location where Buddha is thought to have achieved enlightenment; the fifth-century BCE Temple of Confucius in Qufu, China, the largest Confucian temple in the world; Abu Simbel, in southern Egypt, the great carved monument to the Pharaoh Ramses II; the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, the spiritual home of the world's 25 million Sikhs; and the Shri Swaminarayan Temple in Neasden, London, the biggest Hindu temple outside India. Illustrated with 180 photographs, Amazing Temples of the World includes more than 150 places of worship, from Ancient Greece and Rome, through traditional synagogues to modern Buddhist, Taoist, and Sikh temples.
Author : Bridgitte Lesley
Publisher : XinXii
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 398646431X
Amber had a pressurized job as a sales representative. Driving sales and earning astronomical commission was her goal and passion. Not having the support of the marketing department, she went the extra mile and did her marketing and arranged well-received promotions. Wheeling and dealing where she could made a huge difference to the company she worked for. On a Friday evening, she let her hair down and sang in a band. A true entertainer, she could pelt out any tune. Keeping her day job apart from her singing gig was easy. She didn’t allow the two to overlap. Until Jordan Becker walked in to the nightclub.
Author : Roger Zelazny
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN :
