Author : Wheeler
Publisher : Wayland
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 9780750021449
Through letters to her godson, Daniel, and her own photographs, Sara Wheeler tells of her experiences during seven months spent in Antarctica. Also includes factual information, photographs, maps and diagrams on Antarctica. Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
Author : Susan Kirby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2001-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0689809719
Daniel leaves the family farm in 1890 to find his father in South Dakota -- and finds a big surprise as well.
Author : Daniel Parker Coke
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 1803
Category : Elections
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Author : Aaron Marcus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3319619616
This state of the art monograph presents a unique introduction to thinking about cuteness and its incorporation into modern, especially computer-based, products and services. Cuteness is defined and explored in relation to user-centered design concepts and methods, in addition to considering the history of cuteness and cuteness in other cultures, especially in relation to eastern Asia. The authors provide detailed analyses and histories of cuteness in Japan and in China, the rise of Kawaii and Moe cultural artifacts, and their relation to social, psychological, and design issues. They also attempt an initial taxonomy of cuteness. Finally, detailed interviews with leading designers of cute products and services, such as Hello Kitty, provide an understanding of the philosophy and decision-making process of designers of cuteness. Cuteness Engineering: Designing Adorable Products and Services will be of interest and use to a wide range of professionals, researchers, academics, and students who are interested in exploring the world of cuteness in fresh new ways and gaining insights useful for their work and studies.
Author : The Believer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0307476723
A compendium of advice from the producers, writers, and actors of The Office, Saturday Night Live, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Knocked Up, Flight of the Conchords, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, Reno 911!, and The Hangover along with other people who should really never give advice. In these pages Fred Armisen offers help telling your dad you’re a lesbian—give him the phone number and he’ll do it for you. Mindy Kaling provides guidance on ending things with your mistress—dude, you totally have to kill her. Rainn Wilson offers insight on contacting that girl you dreamed about last night—he has created all-purpose web portal for such interactions. Amy Sedaris identifies the best way to a man’s heart—bone saw through the chest cavity. Aziz Ansari, Judd Apatow, Fred Armisen, Maria Bamford, Todd Barry, Samantha Bee, Michael Ian Black, Andy Borowitz, Michael Cera, Vernon Chatman, Rob Corddry, David Cross, Larry Doyle, Paul Feig, Jim Gaffigan, Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, Daniel Handler, Todd Hanson, Tim Heidecker, Ed Helms, Buck Henry, Mindy Kaling, John Lee, Thomas Lennon, Al Madrigal, Aasif Mandvi, Marc Maron, Adam McKay, Eugene Mirman, Morgan Murphy, Bob Odenkirk, John Oliver, Patton Oswalt, Martha Plimpton, Harold Ramis, Amy Sedaris, Michael Showalter, Sarah Silverman, Paul F. Tompkins, Sarah Vowell, David Wain, Eric Wareheim, Rainn Wilson, Lizz Winstead
Author : Benjamin Weiser
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0786738901
In August 1972, Ryszard Kuklinski, a highly respected colonel in the Polish Army, embarked on what would become one of the most extraordinary human intelligence operations of the Cold War. Despite the extreme risk to himself and his family, he contacted the American Embassy in Bonn, and arranged a secret meeting. From the very start, he made clear that he deplored the Soviet domination of Poland, and believed his country was on the wrong side of the Cold War. Over the next nine years, Kuklinski rose quickly in the Polish defense ministry, acting as a liaison to Moscow, and helping to prepare for a "hot war" with the West. But he also lived a life of subterfuge--of dead drops, messages written in invisible ink, miniature cameras, and secret transmitters. In 1981, he gave the CIA the secret plans to crush Solidarity. Then, about to be discovered, he made a dangerous escape with his family to the West. He still lives in hiding in America. Kuklinski's story is a harrowing personal drama about one man's decision to betray the Communist leadership in order to save the country he loves, and the intense debate it spurred over whether he was a traitor or a patriot. Through extensive interviews and access to the CIA's secret archive on the case, Benjamin Weiser offers an unprecedented and richly detailed look at this secret history of the Cold War.
Author : Richard Henry Clarke
Publisher : New York : P. O'Shea
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Bishops
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Page : 418 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : Helena Austin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134575017
What is a child? How is the concept of childhood defined? This book aims to explore these perennial and complex questions by looking at the way in which society constructs and understands childhood. The authors focus in particular on the school, a key location within which social and cultural notions of childhood are defined and performed. The book is divided into three major parts: Part 1 frames the accepted notions of childhood and schooling, and introduces ethnomethodological analysis as a tool to rethink current versions of the child. Part 2 focuses on how school students become members of a category within the institution of the classroom. The authors explore this idea through transcripts of talk between teachers and students, and amongst students themselves in two classroom studies. Part 3 looks at the materials of education, concentrating specifically on children's texts. The authors examine how such texts portray a notion of the child within the story, and also assume a notion of the child as reader of the story. This important book shows how much is at stake for children in accepting adults' deep-seated notions of childhood. It will be of great interest to educational researchers and policy makers, sociologists of childhood, teachers and student teachers.
Author : Alphonse Daudet
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 3760 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2021-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1801700362
A master of French Naturalism, the nineteenth century novelist Alphonse Daudet is chiefly remembered today as the author of sentimental tales of provincial life in the south of France. Unlike his fellow Naturalists, Daudet upheld that the world in its diversity was misrepresented by novelists that concentrated only on its bleaker aspects. He is celebrated for his objective interest in external detail, as well as his compassionate personality and his reverence for the mystery of all things and individuals. Daudet tempers his satire with pity, drawing comparisons in style to the works of Dickens and Maupassant. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Daudet’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Daudet’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 16 novels, with individual contents tables * Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Includes a selection of Daudet’s rare non-fiction – available in no other collection * Features the memoir penned by the author’s son – discover Daudet’s literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Tartarin Trilogy Tartarin of Tarascon (1872) Tartarin on the Alps (1885) Port Tarascon (1890) The Novels Little What’s-His-Name (1868) Artists’ Wives (1874) Fromont and Risler (1874) Jack (1876) The Nabob (1877) Kings in Exile (1879) Numa Roumestan (1880) The Evangelist (1883) Sappho (1884) The Immortal (1888) Rose and Ninette (1892) The Little Parish Church (1895) The Support of the Family (1898) The Shorter Fiction Letters from My Mill (1869) The Monday Tales (1873) Robert Helmont (1874) La Belle Nivernaise (1886) The Siege of Berlin (1891) Arlatan’s Treasure (1897) La Fedor (1897) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Letters to an Absent One (1871) Between the Flies and the Footlights (1894) The Memoir Memoir (1898) by Léon Daudet Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
