Author: Jed W. Atkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107107008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A thematic introduction to Roman political thought that shows the Romans' enduring contribution to key political ideas.
Roman Political Thought
Author: Jed W. Atkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107107008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A thematic introduction to Roman political thought that shows the Romans' enduring contribution to key political ideas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107107008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
A thematic introduction to Roman political thought that shows the Romans' enduring contribution to key political ideas.
Jed and the Junkyard War
Author: Steven Bohls
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1484730399
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Jed is a regular kid with a normal, loving family . . . that is, if it's normal for a loving family to drop their child off in the middle of nowhere and expect him home in time for Sunday dinner. Luckily, Jed excels at being a regular kid who-armed with wit and determination-can make his way out of any situation. At least until the morning of his twelfth birthday, when Jed wakes to discover his parents missing. Something is wrong. Really wrong. Jed just doesn't realize it's floating-city, violent-junk-storm, battling-metals, Frankensteined-scavengers kind of wrong. Yet. A cryptic list of instructions leads Jed into a mysterious world at war over . . . junk. Here, batteries and bottled water are currency, tremendously large things fall from the sky, and nothing is exactly what it seems. Resilient Jed, ready to escape this upside-down place, bargains his way onto a flying tugboat with a crew of misfit junkers. They set course to find Jed's family, but a soul-crushing revelation sends Jed spiraling out of control . . . perhaps for good.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1484730399
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Jed is a regular kid with a normal, loving family . . . that is, if it's normal for a loving family to drop their child off in the middle of nowhere and expect him home in time for Sunday dinner. Luckily, Jed excels at being a regular kid who-armed with wit and determination-can make his way out of any situation. At least until the morning of his twelfth birthday, when Jed wakes to discover his parents missing. Something is wrong. Really wrong. Jed just doesn't realize it's floating-city, violent-junk-storm, battling-metals, Frankensteined-scavengers kind of wrong. Yet. A cryptic list of instructions leads Jed into a mysterious world at war over . . . junk. Here, batteries and bottled water are currency, tremendously large things fall from the sky, and nothing is exactly what it seems. Resilient Jed, ready to escape this upside-down place, bargains his way onto a flying tugboat with a crew of misfit junkers. They set course to find Jed's family, but a soul-crushing revelation sends Jed spiraling out of control . . . perhaps for good.
A Big Bed for Jed
Author: Laurie Friedman
Publisher: Dial
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
When Jed is reluctant to move from his crib into a big-kid bed, his entire family comes up with a plan to make him change his mind.
Publisher: Dial
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
When Jed is reluctant to move from his crib into a big-kid bed, his entire family comes up with a plan to make him change his mind.
Jed's Boy
Author: Warren Lee Goss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Jed's Job: Set 2: Book 6
Author: Linda Richards
Publisher: Gatehouse Books
ISBN: 1842313541
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Jed’s dog Bob got Jed some cash when he needed it. Will he be able to get him a job? This is one of a series of books written for older beginner readers. The books are graded to support a synthetic phonic approach.
Publisher: Gatehouse Books
ISBN: 1842313541
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Jed’s dog Bob got Jed some cash when he needed it. Will he be able to get him a job? This is one of a series of books written for older beginner readers. The books are graded to support a synthetic phonic approach.
Uncle Jed's Barber Shop
Author: Margaree King Mitchell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442443642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Coretta Scott King Award winner A young girl’s beloved uncle is a talented barber without a shop who never gives up on his dream in this richly illustrated, stirring picture book. Everyone has a favorite relative. For Sarah Jean, it’s her Uncle Jed. Living in the segregated South of the 1920s, where most people are sharecroppers, Uncle Jed is the only black barber in the county and has to travel all over the county to cut his customers’ hair. He lives for the day when he could open his very own barbershop. But there are a lot of setbacks along the way. Will Uncle Jed ever be able to open a shiny new shop?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442443642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Coretta Scott King Award winner A young girl’s beloved uncle is a talented barber without a shop who never gives up on his dream in this richly illustrated, stirring picture book. Everyone has a favorite relative. For Sarah Jean, it’s her Uncle Jed. Living in the segregated South of the 1920s, where most people are sharecroppers, Uncle Jed is the only black barber in the county and has to travel all over the county to cut his customers’ hair. He lives for the day when he could open his very own barbershop. But there are a lot of setbacks along the way. Will Uncle Jed ever be able to open a shiny new shop?
Jed's Sweet Revenge
Author: Deborah Smith
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307796590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
When Wyoming cowboy Jed Powers came to claim Sancia Island, he was prepared to evict a squatter -- but instead found himself bewitched by a woman.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0307796590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
When Wyoming cowboy Jed Powers came to claim Sancia Island, he was prepared to evict a squatter -- but instead found himself bewitched by a woman.
Let's Meet Farmer Jed
Author: Matt Mitter
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780794414252
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Visit the farm and see how farmer Jed grows crops and raises livestock. Each scene includes a tip about healthy eating.
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780794414252
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Visit the farm and see how farmer Jed grows crops and raises livestock. Each scene includes a tip about healthy eating.
Calder: The Conquest of Time
Author: Jed Perl
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0451494210
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography, which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal. This beautifully written, deeply researched book opens with Calder's wonderfully peripatetic upbringing in Philadelphia, California, and New York. Born in 1898 into a family of artists--his father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter and a pioneering feminist--Calder went on as an adult to forge important friendships with a who's who of twentieth-century artists, including Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian. We move through Calder's early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s, and to his emergence as a leader in the international abstract avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James--she was a great-niece of Henry James--is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and nuance. Calder's life takes on a transatlantic richness, from New York's Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to the Left Bank of Paris during the Depression, and then back to the United States, where the Calders bought a run-down old farmhouse in western Connecticut. New light is shed on Calder's lifelong interest in dance, theater, and performance, ranging from the Cirque Calder, the theatrical event that became his calling card in bohemian Paris to collaborations with the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Virgil Thomson. More than 350 illustrations in color and black-and-white--including little-known works and many archival photographs that have never before been seen--further enrich the story.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0451494210
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 705
Book Description
The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography, which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal. This beautifully written, deeply researched book opens with Calder's wonderfully peripatetic upbringing in Philadelphia, California, and New York. Born in 1898 into a family of artists--his father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter and a pioneering feminist--Calder went on as an adult to forge important friendships with a who's who of twentieth-century artists, including Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian. We move through Calder's early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s, and to his emergence as a leader in the international abstract avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James--she was a great-niece of Henry James--is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and nuance. Calder's life takes on a transatlantic richness, from New York's Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to the Left Bank of Paris during the Depression, and then back to the United States, where the Calders bought a run-down old farmhouse in western Connecticut. New light is shed on Calder's lifelong interest in dance, theater, and performance, ranging from the Cirque Calder, the theatrical event that became his calling card in bohemian Paris to collaborations with the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Virgil Thomson. More than 350 illustrations in color and black-and-white--including little-known works and many archival photographs that have never before been seen--further enrich the story.
One
Author: Conrad Williams
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753520524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This is the United Kingdom, but it's no country you know. No place you ever want to see, even in the howling, shuttered madness of your worst dreams. You survived. One man. You walk because you have to. You have no choice. At the end of this molten road, running along the spine of a burned, battered country, your little boy is either alive or dead. You have to know. You have to find an end to it all. One hope. The sky crawls with venomous cloud and burning red rain. The land is a scorched sprawl of rubble and corpses. Rats have risen from the depths to gorge on the carrion. A glittering dust coats everything and it hides a terrible secret. New horrors are taking root. You walk on. One chance.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0753520524
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This is the United Kingdom, but it's no country you know. No place you ever want to see, even in the howling, shuttered madness of your worst dreams. You survived. One man. You walk because you have to. You have no choice. At the end of this molten road, running along the spine of a burned, battered country, your little boy is either alive or dead. You have to know. You have to find an end to it all. One hope. The sky crawls with venomous cloud and burning red rain. The land is a scorched sprawl of rubble and corpses. Rats have risen from the depths to gorge on the carrion. A glittering dust coats everything and it hides a terrible secret. New horrors are taking root. You walk on. One chance.