Author: Martin Handford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780744544435
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Torben Kuhlmann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0735844445
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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"When an inventive mouse misses the biggest cheese festival the world has ever seen, he's determined to turn back the clock. But what is time, and can it be influenced? With the help of a mouse clockmaker, a lot of inventiveness, and the notes of a certain famous Swiss physicist he succeeds in traveling back in time. But when he misses his goal by eighty years, the only one who can help is an employee of the Swiss Patent Office, who turned our concept of space and time upside down."--Amazon.com

Author: Martin Handford
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316342827
Category : DEVINETTES ET ENIGMES.
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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The reader tries to follow Waldo as he embarks on a fantastic journey among the Gobbling Gluttons, the Battling Monks, the Deep-sea Divers, the Underground Hunters, and the Land of Waldos in search of a special scroll.

Author: Paul Murray
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1873410239
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) has long been marginalised as a failed Victorian Romantic whose writings on Japan were poetic but inconsequential; as a person, he emerges as a one-dimensional neurotic. In this new study, based on a wealth of hitherto unpublished sources, as well as a fresh reading of Hearn's writings, Paul Murray reveals a multi-faceted character of considerable depth, intelligence and literary skill. This is a book, therefore, that will appeal on many levels. The story of Hearn's life makes fascinating reading; his fantastic journey took him from conception outside marriage on a Greek island to a protected upbringing in Dublin; from a Gothic education in England to Cincinnati in the United States where, as Paddy Hearn, he established himself as a journalist of the macabre par excellence. In New Orleans, in the 1860s, he transformed himself into Lafcadio Hearn, litterateur and a man of the South. Finally after two years in the West Indies, he spent the last fourteen years of his life in Japan - arriving in 'the land of the gods' in the spring of 1890. Although it was always to be an ambiguous relationship with his adopted country, Hearn gave to the world some of the most valuable and enduring insights into Japanese society and culture that continue to stand the test of time. For students of the Anglo-Irish tradition, a little explored strand of Hearn's heritage, this book is also essential reading, providing substantial insights into Hearn's mastery of the literary horror genre. Equally, students of Japan will want to understand, for the first time, the make-up and motivation of one of its greatest ever Western interpreters.

Author: Andreas Feininger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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96 brilliant photographs -- 11 in full color -- by outstanding contemporary master: an eroding claybank, sand-scrubbed driftwood, the spine of a skate, a barnacle colony, a pebble polished by the sea, the jaw of an anglerfish, and much more. "The author works at his art with zest and a poet's perception". -- Publishers Weekly.

Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: Martin Handford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780744561685
Category : Picture puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 27

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Author: Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: Rodale
ISBN: 0452286670
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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A leading scientist and an expert on human longevity explain how new discoveries in the fields of genomics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology could radically extend the human life expectancy and enhance physical and mental abilities, and introduce a cutting-edge program designed to enhance the immune system and slow the aging process on a cellular level. Reprint.

Author: Gerald Durrell
Publisher: House of Stratus Limited
ISBN: 9780755113361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Great-Uncle Lancelot, redoubtable explorer and enthusiastic naturalist, takes his niece and twin nephews on an extraordinary journey around the world, introducing them to a wide variety of animals.

Author: David Bainbridge
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674020421
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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In his latest book, Bainbridge combines an otherworldly journey through the central nervous system with an accessible and entertaining account of how the brain's anatomy has often misled anatomists about its function. Bainbridge uses the structure of the brain to set his book apart from the many volumes that focus on brain function.