Author : Derek Landy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0008386323
Skulduggery, Valkyrie and Omen return in the 14th and penultimate novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series – and their most epic test yet...
Author : Derek Landy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0008463921
A brand new Skulduggery Pleasant novella for World Book Day: a hilarious and thrilling standalone story in the internationally bestselling series – perfect for new readers, and essential for Skulduggery fans...
Author : Chris Colfer
Publisher : Little, Brown Ink
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316355925
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer comes a graphic novel in the Land of Stories series featuring Goldilocks—as you've never seen her before! When we first meet her in The Land of Stories:The Wishing Spell, Goldilocks is a beautiful and tough-as-nails outlaw. Discover her origin story and more in this brand new, lushly illustrated full-color graphic novel, as she takes you on adventures where she may or may not break a few laws along the way. Once upon a time, the kingdoms of the fairy-tale world lived in perfect harmony under the guidance of the Happily Ever After Assembly. But not all creatures and territories have been invited to this peaceful union. Monsters and criminals have found refuge in the Dwarf Forests, a land without rulers or law. When a plot by the Charming brothers is unveiled and threatens to push society's unwanted from their homes, the fairy-tale world's harmony and Goldilocks' home are put in jeopardy . . . New and returning fans of the Land of Stories will fall in love with the adventures of Goldilocks before she met Alex and Conner Bailey. Fans will recognize familiar characters including Porridge, Jack, and Queen Red Riding Hood; and a ragtag team of misfits is introduced, including Puss in Boots, Little Miss Muffet, Pinocchio, and more.
Author : David Ray Griffin
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 9781566567831
"In this book, David Ray Griffin examines the evidence for the claim - made by everyone from former CIA agent Robert Baer to Oliver North - that bin Laden is surely no longer with us. He analyzes the purported messages from bin Laden and finds that, as many have suspected, they do not provide evidence of bin Laden's existence after 2001. This leads naturally to the question: if Osama bin Laden did indeed die in 2001, how and why have dozens of "messages from bin Laden" appeared since then?"--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Cornelia Müller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0226548260
Traditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive. Conventional expressions from everyday language are classified as dead, while much rarer novel or poetic metaphors are alive. In the 1980s, new theories on the cognitive processes involved with the use of metaphor challenged these assumptions, but with little empirical support. Drawing on the latest research in linguistics, semiotics, philosophy, and psychology, Cornelia Müller here unveils a new approach that refutes the rigid dead/alive dichotomy, offering in its place a more dynamic model: sleeping and waking. To build this model, Müller presents an overview of notions of metaphor from the classical period to the present; studies in detail how metaphors function in speech, text, gesture, and images; and examines the way mixed metaphors sometimes make sense and sometimes do not. This analysis leads her to conclude that metaphors may oscillate between various degrees of sleeping and waking as their status changes depending on context and intention. Bridging the gap between conceptual metaphor theory and more traditional linguistic theories, this book is a major advance for the field and will be vital to novices and initiates alike.
Author : Michael McGarrity
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525950813
Racing to his New Mexico ranch home after a disturbing phone call, retired Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney is horrified to learn that his horse-training partner, Riley Burke, has been murdered by an escaped prisoner, prompting Kerney to team up with his half-Apache son. 40,000 first printing.
Author : Daniel Clark
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
ISBN : 1844741567
Christians claim that Jesus of Nazareth rose bodily from the grave, three days after being brutally executed. If that claim isn't true, Jesus was nothing more than a good man, and the whole of the Christian faith collapses in a pile of dust. But what if it is true? Daniel Clark shows how Jesus' resurrection is the key which unlocks answers to some of life's biggest questions: *Is there anybody out there? *Why is there so much suffering in the world? *Does life have a meaning or purpose?Using real-life stories of those who have come to believe in Jesus' resurrection, he explores the evidence so that we can make our own, informed conclusion. If Jesus is alive rather than dead, then another altogether more startling question emerges
Author : Maria Fabricius Hansen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 8771843523
The image is an ontological paradox; it is made of dead matter, yet appears to be alive. For millennia, artists have created images of the living world - images that are static and yet possess the power to bring to life a frozen moment in time. While this tension has constituted a fundamental challenge for as long as theories on the nature of images have existed, recent scholarship has rekindled interest in the question of what images 'do to us'. Despite the rational discourse of Modernity, we must acknowledge that we view images as half-living entities. This book addresses the perpetual relevance of images' enigmatic life-likeness through studies that engage with a variety of visual material by asking the same question: what qualifies animation? Covering a wide range of image practices, such as early paleolithic stone engravings, medieval tomb sculpture, renaissance death masks and baroque painting to modern fashion, park design, early cinema and BioArt, the twelve chapters, written by scholars of art history and visual culture, demonstrate that the ontological paradox of the image is not limited to a specific historical period or certain types of images, but can be seen throughout the history of images across different cultures.
Author : Denys Cazet
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0060730129
When Minnie and Moo are mistaken for bank robbers, will they escape the long arm of the law?
Author : Craig Shaw Gardner
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780425169308
While trying to stop a robbery, Spider-Man is blamed for the accidental shooting of an innocent bystander. Based on the comic book character that comes to life on the big screen in the upcoming film from Columbia Pictures, directed by Sam Raimi ("Darkman, The Gift") and starring Tobey McGuire, Kirsten Dunst, and Willem Dafoe, and scheduled for release in May.
