Author : Jan Jenner
Publisher : Innovative Kids
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781584762683
Explore the remarkable world of reptiles. Learn how crocodiles defend their territories, how snakes "see" with their tongues, how chameleons change color, and much more! Groovy Tube Book: Packed with collectible minatures in a resealable, snap-top tube, these best-selling kits explore favorite topics in an innovative, totally groovy way.
Author : Estelle Laure
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0544636481
“A funny, heartwrenching, and soulful” debut novel about family, friends, and first love from the acclaimed author of Mayhem and But Then I Came Back (Bustle). Lucille Bennett is pushed into adulthood after her mom decides to take a break from parenting, from responsibility, from Lucille and her little sister, Wren. Left to cover for her absentee parents, Lucille thinks, “Wren and Lucille. Lucille and Wren. I will do whatever I have to. No one will pull us apart.” Now is not the time for level-headed Lucille to fall in love. But love—messy, inconvenient love—is what she’s about to experience when she falls for Digby Jones, her best friend’s brother. With blazing longing that builds to a fever pitch, Estelle Laure’s soulful debut will keep readers hooked and hoping until the very last page. “I loved this book. I was torn between wanting to devour it in one breathless read and needing to stop and savor each gorgeous turn of phrase. This is a remarkable debut.”—Morgan Matson, New York Times-bestselling author of The Unexpected Everything “Estelle Laure’s This Raging Light might be YA, but it’s got plenty of grown-up appeal.”—Entertainment Weekly “A funny, poetic, big-hearted reminder that life can—and will—take us all by surprise.”—Jennifer E. Smith, bestselling author of Field Notes on Love “Lucille may not take down a beast or assassinate any super bads, but she’s what heroines look like and love like in real life.”—Justine Magazine “Heartbreakingly hopeful, lyrically told.”—Kirkus Reviews
Author : Sherryl Jordan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0689828772
Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers that the village madman is not crazy but deaf, and she begins to communicate with him through hand gestures.
Author : Alec Ross
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,93 MB
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1250770939
In the face of unprecedented global change, New York Times bestselling author Alec Ross proposes a new social contract to restore the balance of power between government, citizens, and business in The Raging 2020s. For 150 years, there has been a contract. Companies hold the power to shape our daily lives. The state holds the power to make them fall in line. And the people hold the power to choose their leaders. But now, this balance has shaken loose. As the market consolidates, the lines between big business and the halls of Congress have become razor-thin. Private companies have become as powerful as countries. As Walter Isaacson said about Alec Ross’s first book, The Industries of the Future, “The future is already hitting us, and Ross shows how it can be exciting rather than frightening.” Through interviews with the world’s most influential thinkers and stories of corporate activism and malfeasance, government failure and renewal, and innovative economic and political models, Ross proposes a new social contract—one that resets the equilibrium between corporations, the governing, and the governed.
Author : Richard Martin
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810833379
Classic film noir was Hollywood's 'dark cinema' of crime and corruption; a genre underpinned by a tone of existential cynicism which stripped bare the myth of the American Dream and offered a bleak, nightmarish vision of a fragmented society that rhymed with many of the social realities of forties and fifties America. Mean Streets and Raging Bulls explores how, since its apparent demise in the late fifties, the noir genre has been revitalized during the post-studio era. The book is divided into two sections. In the first, the evolution of film noir is contextualized in relation to both American cinema's industrial transformation and the post-Depression history of the United States. In the second, the evolution of neo-noir and its relation to classic film noir is illustrated by detailed reference to representative texts including Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974), Night Moves (Arthur Penn, 1975), Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976), Blood Simple (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1984), After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985), Sea of Love (Harold Becker, 1989), Resevoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992), and Romeo is Bleeding (Peter Medak, 1994).
Author : Mark S. Ferrara
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0231561253
The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade, drove the rise of industrial cities in once sparsely populated areas, and accelerated the westward expansion of the United States. Yet few of the laborers who toiled along the canal shared in the prosperity it brought. Mark S. Ferrara tells the stories of the ordinary people who lived, worked, and died along the banks of the canal, emphasizing the forgotten role of the poor and working class in this epochal transformation. The Raging Erie chronicles the fates of the Native Americans whose land was appropriated for the canal, the European immigrants who bored its route through the wilderness, and the orphan children who drove draft animals that pulled boats around the clock. Ferrara also shows how the canal served as a conduit for the movement of new ideas and religions, a corridor for enslaved people seeking freedom via the Underground Railroad, and a spur for social reform movements that emerged in response to the poverty and suffering along its path. Brimming with vivid characters drawn from the underbelly of antebellum life, The Raging Erie explores the social dislocation and untold hardships at the heart of a major engineering feat, shedding light on the lives of the canallers who toiled on behalf of American expansion.
Author : Brian Franks
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1512771945
The Raging Sea is a devotional collection of forty connected poems. Together they describe the story of our relationship with God through all phases of life. We are The Raging Sea as we face our sins and struggle to follow God. Despite us, God works faithfully to bring the storm to still. As a devotional, these poems are meant to bring comfort, introspection, and insight during that journey. Each poem captures a moment in time with its own style and can be considered stand alone or part of the whole.
Author : Nova Edwins
Publisher : Black Umbrella Publishing
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 2024-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3911483171
Just a moment ago I was on Earth with one foot in the grave—and all of a sudden I'm on a planet called Horgerion. I should probably be happy about it. Even though I didn't expect nor plan to be abducted by aliens and freed by the Horgerians, at least I'm no longer dying. Ragash, the village's healer, saved my life. Maybe a quick death would've been better, though, because I can already imagine what Ragash expects in return for his help ... A slightly dark alien romance with a happy ending.
Author : Caroline Lamwaka
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9970196758
The Raging Storm: A Reporter’s Inside Account of the Northern Uganda War, 1986-2005 is a highly personal and inside account of the northern Uganda war by a young woman whose early encounter with the conflict was as an on-the-ground war correspondent. Caroline Lamwaka’s experiences as a war-time journalist inform the narrative, the research and the broader perspective of an academically trained war and peace researcher. The book examines four phases of the northern Uganda war. These are: the war in Acholi, Lango and Teso; the peace efforts to end the war; the impact of the war; and coping with the impact of insurgency. Caroline Lamwaka joins other authentic voices examining the northern Uganda war.
Author : Rossi
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558619038
“[A] juicy memoir about growing up, becoming a chef, and working as New York’s most unconventional wedding caterer.” —BUST magazine When their high-school-aged, punk, runaway daughter is found hosting a Jersey Shore hotel party, Rossi’s parents feel they have no other choice: they ship her off to live with a Chasidic rabbi in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Within the confines of this restrictive culture, Rossi’s big city dreams take root. Once she makes her way to Manhattan, Rossi’s passion for cooking, which first began as a revolt against the microwave, becomes her life mission. The Raging Skillet is one woman’s story of cooking her way through some of the most unlikely kitchens in New York City—at a “beach” in Tribeca, an East Village supper club, and a makeshift grill at Ground Zero in the days immediately following 9/11. Forever writing her own rules, Rossi ends up becoming the owner of one of the most sought-after catering companies in the city. This heartfelt, gritty, and hilarious memoir shows us how the creativity of the kitchen allows us to give a nod to where we come from, while simultaneously expressing everything that we are. This “moving, witty memoir” (Nigella Lawson) includes unpretentious recipes for real people everywhere. “A humorous and witty chronicle of a woman’s pulling-herself-up-by-her-bootstraps rise through the culinary ranks.” —Kirkus Reviews
