Author : Sylvia A. Johnson
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 1989-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822595575
An introduction to the domesticated silkworm moth, raised on farms in Japan and elsewhere for the sake of the silk thread out of which its cocoons are constructed.
Author : Robert Galbraith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1405514973
'Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence ... A pleasure to read' TIMES ----- Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . . A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott. *** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, TROUBLED BLOOD, is out now! *** ----- PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES: 'One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years' MARK BILLINGHAM 'The work of a master storyteller' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Unputdownable. . . Irresistible' SUNDAY TIMES 'Will keep you up all night' OBSERVER 'A thoroughly enjoyable classic' PETER JAMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS
Author : Iris Chang
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 0786725656
The definitive biography of Tsien Hsue-Shen, the pioneer of the American space age who was mysteriously accused of being a communist, deported, and became -- to America's continuing chagrin -- the father of the Chinese missile program.
Author : Robert Galbraith
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316413232
The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case. When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity. Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits – and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . . A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force. *Some of the more complex layouts in the book are rendered as images in the ebook version so that you can enlarge on your preferred reading device*
Author : Ron Fridell
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781432925284
An introduction to the life cycle of the silkworm.
Author : Donna Schaffer
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736832977
Describes the physical characteristics, habits and stages of development of silkworms, as well as how they are raised to produce silk.
Author : Timothy J. LeCain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 110713417X
The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.
Author : conte Vincenzo Dandolo
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 1825
Category : Sericulture
ISBN :
Author : Anna Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9786162151576
The earliest phase of Thai history is an exciting but little understood period that bridged the gap between protohistory and the fully developed historical period. Ten international scholars examine the inception of the Dvāravatī period in the fifth century with a focus on archaeology and consider the art and architecture of the sixth to tenth centuries. Defining Dvāravatī provides an overview of the art historical characteristics of Dvāravatī style; collates the epigraphic evidence, including previously unpublished texts; considers the importance of trade and religion in cementing relationships between early Southeast Asian societies and as paramount incentives for its expansion and development; and discusses the end of the period.
Author : Robert Galbraith
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 2993 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316263826
The first four novels in Robert Galbraith's "wonderfully entertaining" series (Harlan Coben) featuring the private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. This omnibus set includes the novels The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, and Lethal White. Each of these novels is compulsively readable, with twists at every turn. You may think you know detectives, but you’ve never met one quite like Strike. "Rowling’s wizardry as a writer is on abundant display...This is a crime series deeply rooted in the real world, where brutality and ugliness are leavened by the oh-so-human flaws and virtues of Galbraith’s irresistible hero and heroine." --USA Today
