Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Rats
ISBN :
"Want to know who's who in the sewers of London? Well, they're all here: Roddy, Rita, the Toad, le Frog, and many more. Learn their likes and dislikes, their ambitions big and small, even read their journal entries. It's the ultimate guide to life underground"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Kim Brown
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439900768
From the creators of Shrek and Wallace & Gromit comes a madcap animated comedy set on and beneath the streets of London. The story of a pampered, uptown rat named Roddy who is flushed down the toilet in his penthouse apartment and ends up in the London sewers. In the city of Ratropolis, he meets the lovely Rita, who might-or might not-help him to return home. But first, he must confront the villainous Toad and his henchfrogs who plan to take over Ratropolis. Roddy must learn a different way of life if he's to survive and save the world.
Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2006
Category : United States
ISBN : 9780099461869
A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog. At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion-makers, leaders and crackpots with characteristic discernment and wit. Included in a gallery of Great American Novelists are Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Joseph Heller, William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Paul Theroux, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. Amis also takes us to Dallas, where presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is attempting to liaise with born-again Christians. We glimpse the beau monde of Palm Beach, where each couple tries to out-Gatsby the other, and examine the case of Claus von Bulow. Steven Spielberg gets a visit, as does Brian de Palma, whom Amis asks why his films make no sense, and Hugh Hefner's sybaritic fortress and sanitized image are penetrated. There can be little that escapes the eye of Martin Amis when his curiosity leads him to a subject, and America has found in him a superlative chronicler.
Author : Samantha Brooke
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780439900805
The story of a pampered, uptown rat named Roddy who is flushed down the toilet in his penthouse apartment and ends up in the London sewers. In the city of Ratropolis, he meets the lovely Rita, who might-or might not-help him to return home. But first, he must confront the villainous Toad and his henchfrogs who plan to take over Ratropolis. Roddy must learn a different way of life if he's to survive and save the world.
Author : B. R Nanda
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History & Archaeology
ISBN :
Motilal and Jawaharlal Nehru were both prominent Indian men in their own right, Motilal as a widely successful civil lawyer and a popular political figure, and Jawaharlal as a firm nationalist leader and possible heir of the Mahatma. This book discusses Motilal's life and achievements, and examines the first four decades of Jawaharlal's life. It shows that while the father-son tandem played different roles in the nationalist struggle of India, their close emotional bonds helped them influence each other
Author : Valerie Henitiuk
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1771991674
Spark of Light is a diverse collection of short stories by women writers from the Indian province of Odisha. Originally written in Odia and dating from the late nineteenth century to the present, these stories offer a multiplicity of voices—some sentimental and melodramatic, others rebellious and bold—and capture the predicament of characters who often live on the margins of society. From a spectrum of viewpoints, writing styles, and motifs, the stories included here provide examples of the great richness of Odishan literary culture. In the often shadowy and grim world depicted in this collection, themes of class, poverty, violence, and family are developed. Together they form a critique of social mores and illuminate the difficult lives of the subaltern in Odisha society. The work of these authors contributes to an ongoing dialogue concerning the challenges, hardships, joys, and successes experienced by women around the world. In these provocative explorations of the short-story form, we discover the voices of these rarely heard women.
Author : K Edgington
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810876531
In this reference volume, more than 200 fictional feature-length movies with a primary focus on an athletic endeavor are discussed, including comedies, dramas, and biopics. Brief summaries and credit information are provided for an additional 200 films, and appendixes include made-for-teleivion movies and documentaries.
Author : John Caliber
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781447661351
CITY OF DREDD is an unofficial guide to all the official Mega-City One locations to have ever featured in the vast JUDGE DREDD mythology and will overload the 'thrill-receptors' of even the most hard-core 'Dreddhead'! In the year 2133AD, in the tumultuous decades after the GREAT ATOMIC WAR, the Earth's nations have been left devastated, falling into living nightmares where only the most brutal and phantasmagoric survive. The old world governments, fearful and corrupted, have been replaced by the JUDGES, an elite organisation part law-enforcer, part army, who rule with an iron fist. The Judges are more dangerous than the toughest criminal, alien invader or rampaging mutant horde, because only they have the LAW on their side! Among their number, one man with a resolve tougher than rockcrete has through the years of slaughter exemplified the very best and the worst that Mankind can offer. He is the ultimate law enforcer, the living legend that is JUDGE DREDD!
Author : Dreamworks Animation
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439900799
This movie storybook accompanies the madcap, animated comedy scheduled for theater release November 3, 2006. Full color.
Author : J. G. Ballard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0871403420
A final statement from the greatest clairvoyant of twentieth-century literature. Never before published in America, this revelatory autobiography—hailed as “fascinating [and] amazingly lucid” (Guardian)—charts the remarkable story of James Graham Ballard, a man described by Martin Amis as “the most original English writer of the last century.” Beginning with his Shanghai childhood, Miracles of Life guides us from the deprivations of Lunghua Camp during World War II, which provide the back story for his best-selling Empire of the Sun, to his arrival in war-torn England and his emergence as “the ideal chronicler of our disturbed modernity” (Observer). With prose of characteristic precision, Ballard movingly recalls his first attempts at science fiction, the 1970 American pulping of The Atrocity Exhibition—which sprang from his fascination with JFK conspiracy theories—and his life as a single father after the premature death of his wife. “This book should make yet more converts to a cause that Ballard’s devotees have been pleading for years” (Independent).
