Author: E. Reid Ross
Publisher: Adams Media
ISBN: 1507210787
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Atlas Obscura meets 1001 Facts to Scare the Sh*t Out of You in this serious survey of the most bizarre, creepy, and sometimes hilarious customs from cultures around the world. Every culture handles life differently. From the “blackening of the bride” in Scotland and the custom of not looking babies in the eyes in Kenya, to enlisting geese as part of the police squad in China and the tradition of children eating bread with chocolate sprinkles for breakfast in Amsterdam, there are so many unique behaviors all across the world. In Bizarre World, journey across the globe to understand how various cultures approach everything from grief, beauty standards, food, parenting, death, stress management, happiness, and more. Many customs may seem perfectly sane, while others, not so much. Some are just downright strange, funny, or weird. There’s so much to discover about the people around us and the beliefs they hold. Let Bizarre World be your armchair guide to a different way of life with quick facts and “did you knows?” that will leave you saying, “huh, that’s strange.”
Bizarre World
Author: E. Reid Ross
Publisher: Adams Media
ISBN: 1507210787
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Atlas Obscura meets 1001 Facts to Scare the Sh*t Out of You in this serious survey of the most bizarre, creepy, and sometimes hilarious customs from cultures around the world. Every culture handles life differently. From the “blackening of the bride” in Scotland and the custom of not looking babies in the eyes in Kenya, to enlisting geese as part of the police squad in China and the tradition of children eating bread with chocolate sprinkles for breakfast in Amsterdam, there are so many unique behaviors all across the world. In Bizarre World, journey across the globe to understand how various cultures approach everything from grief, beauty standards, food, parenting, death, stress management, happiness, and more. Many customs may seem perfectly sane, while others, not so much. Some are just downright strange, funny, or weird. There’s so much to discover about the people around us and the beliefs they hold. Let Bizarre World be your armchair guide to a different way of life with quick facts and “did you knows?” that will leave you saying, “huh, that’s strange.”
Publisher: Adams Media
ISBN: 1507210787
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Atlas Obscura meets 1001 Facts to Scare the Sh*t Out of You in this serious survey of the most bizarre, creepy, and sometimes hilarious customs from cultures around the world. Every culture handles life differently. From the “blackening of the bride” in Scotland and the custom of not looking babies in the eyes in Kenya, to enlisting geese as part of the police squad in China and the tradition of children eating bread with chocolate sprinkles for breakfast in Amsterdam, there are so many unique behaviors all across the world. In Bizarre World, journey across the globe to understand how various cultures approach everything from grief, beauty standards, food, parenting, death, stress management, happiness, and more. Many customs may seem perfectly sane, while others, not so much. Some are just downright strange, funny, or weird. There’s so much to discover about the people around us and the beliefs they hold. Let Bizarre World be your armchair guide to a different way of life with quick facts and “did you knows?” that will leave you saying, “huh, that’s strange.”
Adventures of the Wishing Chair
Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Adventures of the Wishing Chair" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Adventures of the Wishing Chair" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Little Worlds
Author: Peter Guthrie
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780883341841
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780883341841
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The World Displayed, Or, A Collection of Voyages and Travels
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Gangsta Granny
Author: David Walliams
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780008147419
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This spectacularly special anniversary edition is illustrated in glorious colour for the very first time and contains a unique introduction from the author.Gangsta Granny is one of David Walliams' best-loved and critically acclaimed books - heartfelt and uplifting, it has been successfully adapted for both stage and screen. A highly collectable edition for fans old and new.
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
ISBN: 9780008147419
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This spectacularly special anniversary edition is illustrated in glorious colour for the very first time and contains a unique introduction from the author.Gangsta Granny is one of David Walliams' best-loved and critically acclaimed books - heartfelt and uplifting, it has been successfully adapted for both stage and screen. A highly collectable edition for fans old and new.
A Collection of Voyages Round the World
Author: James Cook
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
These works which detail the experiences of the voyages of Captain James Cook from 1772 until his untimely death in the Hawaiian Islands in early 1779. These volumes were written not by Cook, but by those who accompanied him.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
These works which detail the experiences of the voyages of Captain James Cook from 1772 until his untimely death in the Hawaiian Islands in early 1779. These volumes were written not by Cook, but by those who accompanied him.
The Stamp Collection
Author: Dennis Stamp
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781501089312
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Before attaining a cult fan following as a result of his appearance in the documentary film Beyond the Mat, Dennis Stamp was a wrestling star who competed across the globe. In his career, he faced the very best athletes in his profession, and worked in various territories of the National Wrestling Alliance, the American Wrestling Association and across Japan. Stamp shares some of his favorite stories and poems which celebrate an industry filled with moments and characters that are simply larger than life. In these tales, Stamp recounts the intensity of his greatest matches, and provides us with anecdotes from a life on the road with the top stars of his generation. He reveals the inspiration that kept him fighting in his battle to survive cancer and shares the emotion of the many friendships he built with promoters, his fellow wrestlers and the fans.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781501089312
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Before attaining a cult fan following as a result of his appearance in the documentary film Beyond the Mat, Dennis Stamp was a wrestling star who competed across the globe. In his career, he faced the very best athletes in his profession, and worked in various territories of the National Wrestling Alliance, the American Wrestling Association and across Japan. Stamp shares some of his favorite stories and poems which celebrate an industry filled with moments and characters that are simply larger than life. In these tales, Stamp recounts the intensity of his greatest matches, and provides us with anecdotes from a life on the road with the top stars of his generation. He reveals the inspiration that kept him fighting in his battle to survive cancer and shares the emotion of the many friendships he built with promoters, his fellow wrestlers and the fans.
A Treasury of Poems
Author:
Publisher: Galahad Books
ISBN: 9781578660421
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
A Compendium of best-loved verse, this giant anthology of over 440 poems contains many of the favorite poems of the American people. Thios volume celebrates the ability of poetry to capture in a few words the thoughts and emotions that reach to the heart of human experience.
Publisher: Galahad Books
ISBN: 9781578660421
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
A Compendium of best-loved verse, this giant anthology of over 440 poems contains many of the favorite poems of the American people. Thios volume celebrates the ability of poetry to capture in a few words the thoughts and emotions that reach to the heart of human experience.
The World Goes On (Third Edition)
Author: László Krasznahorkai
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László Krasznahorkai: “a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful.”—Marina Warner, announcing the Booker International Prize In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahorkai himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative…” A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, India, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on and on about the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. “The excitement of his writing,” Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in The New York Review of Books, “is that he has come up with his own original forms—there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.”
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Now in paperback, a transcendent and wide-ranging collection of stories by László Krasznahorkai: “a visionary writer of extraordinary intensity and vocal range who captures the texture of present-day existence in scenes that are terrifying, strange, appallingly comic, and often shatteringly beautiful.”—Marina Warner, announcing the Booker International Prize In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, then narrates a number of unforgettable stories, and then bids farewell (“here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me”). As László Krasznahorkai himself explains: “Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative…” A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveler, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, India, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on and on about the nature of a single drop of water. A child laborer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils. “The excitement of his writing,” Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in The New York Review of Books, “is that he has come up with his own original forms—there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.”
The World's Work
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
A history of our time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
A history of our time.