Author : Dan Oliverio
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Fetishism (Sexual behavior)
ISBN : 9780997280203
The Round World is the first book to explore obesity from the perspective of the people who find it erotic and seek fat people as romantic partners. By discussing the prejudices, medical issues, sexual kink, as well as proposing new models for sexuality, the book is a primer on loving yourself as you are, fat or not.
Author : Ellie Peterson
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1635921740
We all know the earth is round. But HOW do we know? Join intrepid young scientist-adventurer Joulia Copernicus as she takes readers on a historical journey through time and space. From jumping on board Columbus's ship to planet-hopping in the outer reaches of our solar system, Joulia explains with humor and wit the ins and outs of how we learned that the earth is round.
Author : David F. Dorr
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 1858
Category : African American authors
ISBN :
Author : Kay Chorao
Publisher : Dutton Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780525478751
Sweet and full of wonder, from catchy to quiet, children's poems captivate readers of all ages. Here, familiar nursery rhymes and folk songs join poetry selections from many traditions. Recall old favorites and discover new poems, from Poland to Mozambique, Japan to Mexico, and every corner in between. Cheerful illustrations capture the beauty of diversity the world over.
Author : B E S
Publisher : B.E.S. Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438088983
First fact books in the Where in the World? series are filled with beautiful illustrations and detailed maps, showing where countries are, where wild animals can be found, and even what's in outer space! Young readers of My Big Round World will discover where they can find all the countries of the world. Best of all, when opened, the book turns into a free-standing globe!
Author : Woodes Rogers
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 1712
Category : Latin America
ISBN :
Author : Gina Cascone
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1634724046
In this multicultural travelogue through each of the 24 time zones, young readers are invited to travel the world and experience all the people, places, and things that exist on our planet right now. In every minute of every hour of every day, something wonderful is happening around our world. In Santa Fe, New Mexico, an artist sits behind his easel working on a painting. While at the same time in Greenland, an Inuit boy begins training his first pack of sled dogs. While in Madagascar, a playful lemur is trying to steal treats from a family's picnic, just as a baby humpback whale is born deep in the Pacific Ocean. A perfect read-aloud to help introduce geography and time-telling as well as a celebration of the richness and diversity of life on our planet.
Author : David Damrosch
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,50 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0141981504
'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen Greenblatt A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books 'It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent and understanding about them all' Orhan Pamuk Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience, and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on perennial problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat and the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle, from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to that of Margaret Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways.
Author : Rebecca J. H. Woods
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1469634678
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire. Attending to the relationship between type and place and what it means to call a particular breed of livestock "native," Woods highlights the inherent tension between consumer expectations in the metropole and the ecological reality at the periphery. Based on extensive archival work in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, this study illuminates the connections between the biological consequences and the politics of imperialism. In tracing both the national origins and imperial expansion of British breeds, Woods uncovers the processes that laid the foundation for our livestock industry today.
Author : Barbara Savage
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1680510371
This is the same amazing story as the current version, but with an updated cover and foreword. If you'd like to read Barbara Savage's two-year around the world bicycle trip now, you can order the current version here. Miles from Nowhere is the story of Barbara and Larry Savage’s sometimes dangerous, often zany, but ultimately rewarding 23,000-mile bicycle odyssey, which took them through 25 countries in two years. Along the way, these near-neophyte cyclists on their ten-speeds encountered warm-hearted strangers eager to share food and shelter, bicycle-hating drivers who ran them off the road, various wild animals (including an attack camel), rock-throwing Egyptians, overprotective Thai policeman, motherly New Zealanders, meteorological disasters, bodily indignities, and great personal joys. The stress of traveling together constantly tested yet strengthened the young couple's relationship and as their trip ends, you'll find yourself yearning for Barbara and Larry to jump back on their bikes and keep pedaling. Originally published in 1983, Miles from Nowhere has provided inspiration for legions of modern travel-adventurers and writers.
