Author: Anon E Mouse
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
A GREAT READ FOR YOUNG PRINCES AND PRINCESSES! PEACHY PRINCESSES AND DRAGONS TALES - 54 Illustrated tales and fables at WHOLESALE RATES - DISCOUNTED by 50% Ideal for young princes and princesses!!! Full of the adventure and romance from days of old and suitable for ages 6 to 15. Can also be read to younger audiences. Both books exquisitely illustrated by numerous illustrators. In book one you will find 28 tales of dragons and serpents drawn from the mists of time, and in book 2 you will find a further 26 tales of peachy princesses and impetuous princes who dash in on white chargers to save the princess and the day. Our heroes always sally forth willfully, but cautiously, engage dragons, evil stepmothers, wicked witches and the like to save a beautiful damsel in distress from sure destruction or banishment to oblivion. Also included is a FREE eBOOK - Fairy Tales, Folklore, Myths and Legends from Around the World which contains 15 complimentary stories. Scattered amongst the 69 tales you will find stories like: THE DELUDED DRAGON, THE SLIPPERS OF THE TWELVE PRINCESSES, THE GYPSY AND THE DRAGON, BINNORIE, THE TWO PRINCES, THE PRINCESS OF CANTERBURY, THE DRAGON OF GHENT, THE OUTCAST PRINCE, THE MAGIC EGG, THE GREAT BATTLE, THE IVORY CITY AND ITS FAIRY PRINCESS, THE SWORD GRAM AND THE DRAGON FAFNIR and many, many more. These 54 illustrated tales have been drawn from old and forgotten volumes and the many illustrations are by a range of artists bringing styles that are as different as the stories themselves.
PEACHY PRINCESSES and DRAGONS TALES FOR BOYS ONLY - a 2 Bookset at WHOLESALE rates 50% OFF!
Author: Anon E Mouse
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
A GREAT READ FOR YOUNG PRINCES AND PRINCESSES! PEACHY PRINCESSES AND DRAGONS TALES - 54 Illustrated tales and fables at WHOLESALE RATES - DISCOUNTED by 50% Ideal for young princes and princesses!!! Full of the adventure and romance from days of old and suitable for ages 6 to 15. Can also be read to younger audiences. Both books exquisitely illustrated by numerous illustrators. In book one you will find 28 tales of dragons and serpents drawn from the mists of time, and in book 2 you will find a further 26 tales of peachy princesses and impetuous princes who dash in on white chargers to save the princess and the day. Our heroes always sally forth willfully, but cautiously, engage dragons, evil stepmothers, wicked witches and the like to save a beautiful damsel in distress from sure destruction or banishment to oblivion. Also included is a FREE eBOOK - Fairy Tales, Folklore, Myths and Legends from Around the World which contains 15 complimentary stories. Scattered amongst the 69 tales you will find stories like: THE DELUDED DRAGON, THE SLIPPERS OF THE TWELVE PRINCESSES, THE GYPSY AND THE DRAGON, BINNORIE, THE TWO PRINCES, THE PRINCESS OF CANTERBURY, THE DRAGON OF GHENT, THE OUTCAST PRINCE, THE MAGIC EGG, THE GREAT BATTLE, THE IVORY CITY AND ITS FAIRY PRINCESS, THE SWORD GRAM AND THE DRAGON FAFNIR and many, many more. These 54 illustrated tales have been drawn from old and forgotten volumes and the many illustrations are by a range of artists bringing styles that are as different as the stories themselves.
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 799
Book Description
A GREAT READ FOR YOUNG PRINCES AND PRINCESSES! PEACHY PRINCESSES AND DRAGONS TALES - 54 Illustrated tales and fables at WHOLESALE RATES - DISCOUNTED by 50% Ideal for young princes and princesses!!! Full of the adventure and romance from days of old and suitable for ages 6 to 15. Can also be read to younger audiences. Both books exquisitely illustrated by numerous illustrators. In book one you will find 28 tales of dragons and serpents drawn from the mists of time, and in book 2 you will find a further 26 tales of peachy princesses and impetuous princes who dash in on white chargers to save the princess and the day. Our heroes always sally forth willfully, but cautiously, engage dragons, evil stepmothers, wicked witches and the like to save a beautiful damsel in distress from sure destruction or banishment to oblivion. Also included is a FREE eBOOK - Fairy Tales, Folklore, Myths and Legends from Around the World which contains 15 complimentary stories. Scattered amongst the 69 tales you will find stories like: THE DELUDED DRAGON, THE SLIPPERS OF THE TWELVE PRINCESSES, THE GYPSY AND THE DRAGON, BINNORIE, THE TWO PRINCES, THE PRINCESS OF CANTERBURY, THE DRAGON OF GHENT, THE OUTCAST PRINCE, THE MAGIC EGG, THE GREAT BATTLE, THE IVORY CITY AND ITS FAIRY PRINCESS, THE SWORD GRAM AND THE DRAGON FAFNIR and many, many more. These 54 illustrated tales have been drawn from old and forgotten volumes and the many illustrations are by a range of artists bringing styles that are as different as the stories themselves.
My Friend Mr Leakey
Author: J. B. S. Haldane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903252192
Category : Magicians
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903252192
Category : Magicians
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
A Taste of Power
Author: Elaine Brown
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1101970103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
"Profound, funny ... wild and moving ... heartbreaking accounts of a lonely black childhood.... Brown sees racial oppression in national and global context; every political word she writes pounds home a lesson about commerce, money, racism, communism, you name it ... A glowing achievement.” —Los Angeles Times Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August 1974. From a small Oakland-based cell, the Panthers had grown to become a revolutionary national organization, mobilizing black communities and white supporters across the country—but relentlessly targeted by the police and the FBI, and increasingly riven by violence and strife within. How Brown came to a position of power over this paramilitary, male-dominated organization, and what she did with that power, is a riveting, unsparing account of self-discovery. Brown’s story begins with growing up in an impoverished neighborhood in Philadelphia and attending a predominantly white school, where she first sensed what it meant to be black, female, and poor in America. She describes her political awakening during the bohemian years of her adolescence, and her time as a foot soldier for the Panthers, who seemed to hold the promise of redemption. And she tells of her ascent into the upper echelons of Panther leadership: her tumultuous relationship with the charismatic Huey Newton, who would become her lover and her nemesis; her experience with the male power rituals that would sow the seeds of the party's demise; and the scars that she both suffered and inflicted in that era’s paradigm-shifting clashes of sex and power. Stunning, lyrical, and acute, this is the indelible testimony of a black woman’s battle to define herself.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1101970103
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
"Profound, funny ... wild and moving ... heartbreaking accounts of a lonely black childhood.... Brown sees racial oppression in national and global context; every political word she writes pounds home a lesson about commerce, money, racism, communism, you name it ... A glowing achievement.” —Los Angeles Times Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August 1974. From a small Oakland-based cell, the Panthers had grown to become a revolutionary national organization, mobilizing black communities and white supporters across the country—but relentlessly targeted by the police and the FBI, and increasingly riven by violence and strife within. How Brown came to a position of power over this paramilitary, male-dominated organization, and what she did with that power, is a riveting, unsparing account of self-discovery. Brown’s story begins with growing up in an impoverished neighborhood in Philadelphia and attending a predominantly white school, where she first sensed what it meant to be black, female, and poor in America. She describes her political awakening during the bohemian years of her adolescence, and her time as a foot soldier for the Panthers, who seemed to hold the promise of redemption. And she tells of her ascent into the upper echelons of Panther leadership: her tumultuous relationship with the charismatic Huey Newton, who would become her lover and her nemesis; her experience with the male power rituals that would sow the seeds of the party's demise; and the scars that she both suffered and inflicted in that era’s paradigm-shifting clashes of sex and power. Stunning, lyrical, and acute, this is the indelible testimony of a black woman’s battle to define herself.
Oil!
Author: Upton Sinclair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
First edition of Sinclair's savage satire, loosely based on the life and career of Edward L. Doheny, and the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding administration. Although Sinclair's famous novel The Jungle deals with Chicago's meatpacking industry, he moved west to Pasadena in 1916 and began writing novels set in California, the best of which was Oil!, the story of the education of Bunny Ross, son of wildcat oil man Joe Ross after oil is discovered outside Los Angeles. The novel was the basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood. In California Classics, Lawrence Clark Powell called Oil! "Sinclair's most sustained and best writing."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
First edition of Sinclair's savage satire, loosely based on the life and career of Edward L. Doheny, and the Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding administration. Although Sinclair's famous novel The Jungle deals with Chicago's meatpacking industry, he moved west to Pasadena in 1916 and began writing novels set in California, the best of which was Oil!, the story of the education of Bunny Ross, son of wildcat oil man Joe Ross after oil is discovered outside Los Angeles. The novel was the basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood. In California Classics, Lawrence Clark Powell called Oil! "Sinclair's most sustained and best writing."
The Queen of the Damned
Author: Anne Rice
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307575896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
“With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead. Praise for The Queen of the Damned “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307575896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
“With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead. Praise for The Queen of the Damned “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe
Cuisine and Culture
Author: Linda Civitello
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470403713
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Cuisine and Culture presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the culinary traditions of different societies. Witty and engaging, Civitello shows how history has shaped our diet--and how food has affected history. Prehistoric societies are explored all the way to present day issues such as genetically modified foods and the rise of celebrity chefs. Civitello's humorous tone and deep knowledge are the perfect antidote to the usual scholarly and academic treatment of this universally important subject.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470403713
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Cuisine and Culture presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the culinary traditions of different societies. Witty and engaging, Civitello shows how history has shaped our diet--and how food has affected history. Prehistoric societies are explored all the way to present day issues such as genetically modified foods and the rise of celebrity chefs. Civitello's humorous tone and deep knowledge are the perfect antidote to the usual scholarly and academic treatment of this universally important subject.
Soldier Extraordinaire
Author: Alfred E. Cornebise
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940804538
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Soldier Extraordinaire explores the colorful life and varied accomplishments of Brig. Gen. Frank "Pinkie" Dorn, an unusual player on the world stage during the 1920s and beyond World War II. Over the course of his 30-year Army career, Dorn manifested probing observations and analyses especially of Asia. He produced writings on subjects ranging from Philippine native tribes to Peking's Forbidden City and the origins of the Sino-Japanese War that began in 1937. Following the end of World War II, he was closely involved in Gen. Douglas MacArthur's brilliant occupation and pacification of Japan. Beyond his military successes, Dorn created world-class art, enjoyed cooking and writing cookbooks, was renowned for his cartography skills, and relished opportunities to comment on the frequent maelstroms and interplay of relevant personalities on social and military scenes."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940804538
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Soldier Extraordinaire explores the colorful life and varied accomplishments of Brig. Gen. Frank "Pinkie" Dorn, an unusual player on the world stage during the 1920s and beyond World War II. Over the course of his 30-year Army career, Dorn manifested probing observations and analyses especially of Asia. He produced writings on subjects ranging from Philippine native tribes to Peking's Forbidden City and the origins of the Sino-Japanese War that began in 1937. Following the end of World War II, he was closely involved in Gen. Douglas MacArthur's brilliant occupation and pacification of Japan. Beyond his military successes, Dorn created world-class art, enjoyed cooking and writing cookbooks, was renowned for his cartography skills, and relished opportunities to comment on the frequent maelstroms and interplay of relevant personalities on social and military scenes."--Provided by publisher.
Adventures of the Karaoke King
Author: Harold Taw
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
ISBN: 9781935597568
Category : Asian American men
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Guy Watanabe is a thirty-something man who is marginally in touch with his Asian heritage and completely out of touch with his own needs and desires. Recovering from a divorce, Watanabe is unsure of himself and the course his future might take. When he wins a local karaoke contest, he discovers not only a newfound confidence, but the courage to take risks. With the victor's medallion in hand, he seizes the moment--and his life changes dramatically, albeit not as he might have hoped. From a weekend romp with Megumi, a former hooker, comes a physical beating and the loss of his beloved medallion. Stung by this humiliation, and yet able to muster a courage long dormant, his quest begins. From the western states and on to Asia, with a return trip in a shipping container, we follow his wild ride. Will a Korean barmaid be his downfall--or his redemption? Will Billy, a closeted gay man, or Milt, a heavily-armed dwarf, help Guy on his journey? And what about the patricidal Chinese businessman who will stop at nothing to create a global karaoke empire?"--Amazon.com, viewed May 17, 2011.
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
ISBN: 9781935597568
Category : Asian American men
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Guy Watanabe is a thirty-something man who is marginally in touch with his Asian heritage and completely out of touch with his own needs and desires. Recovering from a divorce, Watanabe is unsure of himself and the course his future might take. When he wins a local karaoke contest, he discovers not only a newfound confidence, but the courage to take risks. With the victor's medallion in hand, he seizes the moment--and his life changes dramatically, albeit not as he might have hoped. From a weekend romp with Megumi, a former hooker, comes a physical beating and the loss of his beloved medallion. Stung by this humiliation, and yet able to muster a courage long dormant, his quest begins. From the western states and on to Asia, with a return trip in a shipping container, we follow his wild ride. Will a Korean barmaid be his downfall--or his redemption? Will Billy, a closeted gay man, or Milt, a heavily-armed dwarf, help Guy on his journey? And what about the patricidal Chinese businessman who will stop at nothing to create a global karaoke empire?"--Amazon.com, viewed May 17, 2011.
Mortal Doubt
Author: Anthony W. Fontes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520969596
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and US deportation, maras (transnational gangs) have become the face of this new era of violence. They are brutal organizations engaged in extortion, contract killings, and the drug trade, and yet they have also become essential to the emergence of a certain kind of social order. Drawing on years of fieldwork inside prisons, police precincts, and gang-dominated neighborhoods, Anthony W. Fontes demonstrates how gang violence has become indissoluble from contemporary social imaginaries and how these gangs provide cover for a host of other criminal actors. Ethnographically rich and unflinchingly critical, Mortal Doubt illuminates the maras’ role in making and mooring collective terror in Guatemala City while tracing the ties that bind this violence to those residing in far safer environs.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520969596
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and US deportation, maras (transnational gangs) have become the face of this new era of violence. They are brutal organizations engaged in extortion, contract killings, and the drug trade, and yet they have also become essential to the emergence of a certain kind of social order. Drawing on years of fieldwork inside prisons, police precincts, and gang-dominated neighborhoods, Anthony W. Fontes demonstrates how gang violence has become indissoluble from contemporary social imaginaries and how these gangs provide cover for a host of other criminal actors. Ethnographically rich and unflinchingly critical, Mortal Doubt illuminates the maras’ role in making and mooring collective terror in Guatemala City while tracing the ties that bind this violence to those residing in far safer environs.
This Messy Magnificent Life
Author: Geneen Roth
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150118248X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food and God, explains how to take the journey to find one’s own best self in this “beautiful, funny, deeply relevant” (Glennon Doyle) collection of personal reflections. With an introduction by Anne Lamott, This Messy Magnificent Life is a personal and exhilarating read on freeing ourselves from daily anxiety, lack, and discontent. It’s a deep dive into what lies behind our self-criticism, whether it is about the size of our thighs, the expression of our thoughts, or the shape of our ambitions. And it’s about stopping the search to fix ourselves by realizing that on the other side of the “Me Project” is spaciousness, peace, and the capacity to reclaim one’s power and joy. This Messy Magnificent Life explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women’s feelings about their bodies but also their confidence, choices, and relationships. After years of teaching retreats and workshops on weight, money, and other obsessions, Roth realized that there was a connection that held her students captive in their unhappiness. With laugh-out-loud humor, compassion, and dead-on insight she reveals the paradoxes in our beliefs and shows how to move beyond our past to build lives that reflect our singularity and inherent power. This Messy Magnificent Life is a brilliant, bravura meditation on who we take ourselves to be, what enough means in our gotta-get-more culture, and being at home in our minds and bodies.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150118248X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Geneen Roth, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food and God, explains how to take the journey to find one’s own best self in this “beautiful, funny, deeply relevant” (Glennon Doyle) collection of personal reflections. With an introduction by Anne Lamott, This Messy Magnificent Life is a personal and exhilarating read on freeing ourselves from daily anxiety, lack, and discontent. It’s a deep dive into what lies behind our self-criticism, whether it is about the size of our thighs, the expression of our thoughts, or the shape of our ambitions. And it’s about stopping the search to fix ourselves by realizing that on the other side of the “Me Project” is spaciousness, peace, and the capacity to reclaim one’s power and joy. This Messy Magnificent Life explores the personal beliefs, hidden traumas, and social pressures that shape not just women’s feelings about their bodies but also their confidence, choices, and relationships. After years of teaching retreats and workshops on weight, money, and other obsessions, Roth realized that there was a connection that held her students captive in their unhappiness. With laugh-out-loud humor, compassion, and dead-on insight she reveals the paradoxes in our beliefs and shows how to move beyond our past to build lives that reflect our singularity and inherent power. This Messy Magnificent Life is a brilliant, bravura meditation on who we take ourselves to be, what enough means in our gotta-get-more culture, and being at home in our minds and bodies.