Book Description
A collection of twenty-five traditional tales from countries around the world, including Iran, Brazil, and Greece. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Humanities Press International
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9780744543667
A collection of twenty-five traditional tales from countries around the world, including Iran, Brazil, and Greece. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Author : Mark Steinmetz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 9781590052310
Author : Greve
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615906967
Young Readers Learn About North, South, East, And West Through Simple Text And Photos.
Author : David Szalay
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 155597984X
Never before published in the United States, the debut novel by the wildly talented author of Booker Prize Finalist All That Man Is “That clattering noise you hear is the sound of critics and readers racing to find [David Szalay’s] earlier books, an activity worth the effort,” wrote Dwight Garner in his New York Times review of Szalay’s All That Man Is. And now American readers finally have their chance with his debut novel, London and the South-East. Paul Rainey, the hapless antihero at the center of this “compulsively readable” (Independent on Sunday) story works, miserably, in ad sales. He sells space in magazines that hardly exist, and through a fog of booze and drugs dimly perceives that he is dissatisfied with his life—professionally, sexually, recreationally, the whole nine yards. If only there were something he could do about it—and “something” seems to fall into his lap when a meeting with an old friend and fellow salesman, Eddy Jaw, leads to the offer of a new job. But when that offer turns out to be as misleading as Paul’s own sales patter, his life is transformed in ways very much more peculiar than he ever thought possible. London and the South-East, which won the Betty Trask Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, is both a gloriously told shaggy-dog story about the compromising inanities of office life and consumer culture, and the perfect introduction to one of the best writers at work today.
Author : Mark Steinmetz
Publisher : Nazraeli Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Photography
ISBN :
Author : Richard Benson
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870708163
Richard Benson, former dean of the Yale School of Art and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, has been a photographer for more than four decades, but until now his art often took a back seat to his prodigious achievements as a printer and a teacher. This volume presents one hundred photographs by Benson, highlighting the unique properties of his prints and exemplifying his fresh techniques for reproducing them for publication. From direct digital capture through inkjet output, his renowned technical wizardry has yielded unusually vibrant and beguiling colour prints that are at once ultra vivid and utterly natural, like our everyday visual experience. Their uncanny lushness and clarity give voice to Benson's generous, inquisitive eye. An essay by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator of Photography at MoMA, surveys the work, and a text by Benson explains how it was made.
Author : Dimitar Bechev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230306314
Regional cooperation has become a distinctive feature of the Balkans, an area known for its turbulent politics. Exploring the origins and dynamics of this change, this book highlights the transformative power of the EU and other international actors.
Author : Frederick Courtney Selous
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1602061319
In this first-hand account from explorer Frederick Selous, first published in 1893, readers follow the true story of a trailblazing adventurer in an unknown land. Selous explored the area around the Limpopo River in what is now northern South Africa and Zimbabwe. From fending off lions and hyenas to hunting the most dangerous game Africa, Selous' safari was mythic-the very foundation of the Western world's romance with the Dark Continent. Anyone who has ever dreamed of visiting Africa will be enchanted by the real-life adventures of the man who inspired the fictional Allan Quatermain. British hunter and explorer FREDERICK COURTENEY SELOUS (1851-1917) was a renowned traveler and conservationist, spending much of his time charting the continent of Africa. He sent many animal trophies back to England to be displayed in museums and helped American president Teddy Roosevelt on a similar mission to supply the Smithsonian. Selous wrote a number of books about his adventures, including A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa (1881) and Sunshine & Storm in Rhodesia (1896). A hunting reserve in Tanzania now bears his name.
Author : David Szalay
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1555979483
Finalist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2016 Paris Review Plimpton Prize for Fiction A magnificent and ambitiously conceived portrait of contemporary life, by a genius of realism Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving--in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel--to understand what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, the ostensibly separate narratives of All That Man Is aggregate into a picture of a single shared existence, a picture that interrogates the state of modern manhood while bringing to life, unforgettably, the physical and emotional terrain of an increasingly globalized Europe. And so these nine lives form an ingenious and new kind of novel, in which David Szalay expertly plots a dark predicament for the twenty-first-century man. Dark and disturbing, but also often wickedly and uproariously comic, All That Man Is is notable for the acute psychological penetration Szalay brings to bear on his characters, from the working-class ex-grunt to the pompous college student, the middle-aged loser to the Russian oligarch. Steadily and mercilessly, as this brilliantly conceived book progresses, the protagonist at the center of each chapter is older than the last one, it gets colder out, and All That Man Is gathers exquisite power. Szalay is a writer of supreme gifts--a master of a new kind of realism that vibrates with detail, intelligence, relevance, and devastating pathos.
Author : Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060262785
From Margaret Wise Brown, the bestselling author of classics like Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, comes a never-before-published story about a little bird’s first journey, brought to life by Geisel Award-winning illustrator Greg Pizzoli. It’s time for a little bird to fly away to the north, the south, the east, and the west. Which direction will she like best?