Author: Mirriam Mosha
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1622956265
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
"Polly!" Mother called, walking into Polina's room early the following morning. Polina had fallen asleep on her bedroom floor next to her science project. "Wake up, Polina," Mother said as she gently tugged on Polina's shoulder. "Polina, you fell asleep on the floor." "Hmmm...I'm getting up, Mama." Polina, like most school girls, would always like to do things in the last minute. One night, she stayed up too late making her science project, which was due in the morning. The next day, her Mama left for work after waking her up, but Polina who was very tired, stayed on the floor and slept again. When she woke up because of the noise of other children going to school, she realized that she was going to be late. She ran after her school bus, but she didn't catch it. She felt really upset and was teary eyed. On her way to school, she faced a lot of problems. When she arrived at her classroom, an unexpected thing happened. She would never forget that day and biggest lesson that she has learned.
Polina!
Author: Mirriam Mosha
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1622956265
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
"Polly!" Mother called, walking into Polina's room early the following morning. Polina had fallen asleep on her bedroom floor next to her science project. "Wake up, Polina," Mother said as she gently tugged on Polina's shoulder. "Polina, you fell asleep on the floor." "Hmmm...I'm getting up, Mama." Polina, like most school girls, would always like to do things in the last minute. One night, she stayed up too late making her science project, which was due in the morning. The next day, her Mama left for work after waking her up, but Polina who was very tired, stayed on the floor and slept again. When she woke up because of the noise of other children going to school, she realized that she was going to be late. She ran after her school bus, but she didn't catch it. She felt really upset and was teary eyed. On her way to school, she faced a lot of problems. When she arrived at her classroom, an unexpected thing happened. She would never forget that day and biggest lesson that she has learned.
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1622956265
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
"Polly!" Mother called, walking into Polina's room early the following morning. Polina had fallen asleep on her bedroom floor next to her science project. "Wake up, Polina," Mother said as she gently tugged on Polina's shoulder. "Polina, you fell asleep on the floor." "Hmmm...I'm getting up, Mama." Polina, like most school girls, would always like to do things in the last minute. One night, she stayed up too late making her science project, which was due in the morning. The next day, her Mama left for work after waking her up, but Polina who was very tired, stayed on the floor and slept again. When she woke up because of the noise of other children going to school, she realized that she was going to be late. She ran after her school bus, but she didn't catch it. She felt really upset and was teary eyed. On her way to school, she faced a lot of problems. When she arrived at her classroom, an unexpected thing happened. She would never forget that day and biggest lesson that she has learned.
Polina
Author: Bastien Vivès
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448130123
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
As a very young girl, Polina Oulinov is taken on as a special pupil by the famous ballet teacher Professor Bojinsky. He is very demanding and refuses to adapt his standards to the talents of his pupils, and Polina has to work hard and make great sacrifices in order to reach the level Bojinsky senses she has the talent for. When she graduates and is admitted to the official theatre school, she discovers that Bojinsky’s view of ballet is only one of many and that she can’t adapt to new rules, new visions. She flees Russia for Berlin, where she meets a group of drama students. Together they create a new form of theatre – and conquer the world. Brilliantly drawn, Polina is a moving and intimate story of self-discovery. It confirms Bastien Vivès as one of the most exciting talents at work in the graphic novel field today.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448130123
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
As a very young girl, Polina Oulinov is taken on as a special pupil by the famous ballet teacher Professor Bojinsky. He is very demanding and refuses to adapt his standards to the talents of his pupils, and Polina has to work hard and make great sacrifices in order to reach the level Bojinsky senses she has the talent for. When she graduates and is admitted to the official theatre school, she discovers that Bojinsky’s view of ballet is only one of many and that she can’t adapt to new rules, new visions. She flees Russia for Berlin, where she meets a group of drama students. Together they create a new form of theatre – and conquer the world. Brilliantly drawn, Polina is a moving and intimate story of self-discovery. It confirms Bastien Vivès as one of the most exciting talents at work in the graphic novel field today.
Kingdom of Rainbows and Unicorns,Or Polina’s New Year’s Adventure
Author: Katya Romanoff
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490798676
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
The New Year’s Eve is truly a magical time. It is when the old year departs, and a new year arrives, and Father Frost, also known as Santa Claus, pays a visit to children who have been good, bringing wonderful gifts. It is at this magical moment that little Polina finds herself in the Kingdom of Rainbows and Unicorns. There she meets her “twin” – Princess Alina and her little helpers, unikittens, and a creature of her dreams, a unicorn named Prince Rainbow. Together with Alina and Prince Rainbow, Polina explores the fairy-take kingdom and encounters alicorns – the flying unicorns and a rainbow “bubblefall.” Polina’s amazing adventure would be completely fantastic, if the next morning, she wouldn’t wake up to realize that all that has happened to her was only a beautiful dream.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490798676
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
The New Year’s Eve is truly a magical time. It is when the old year departs, and a new year arrives, and Father Frost, also known as Santa Claus, pays a visit to children who have been good, bringing wonderful gifts. It is at this magical moment that little Polina finds herself in the Kingdom of Rainbows and Unicorns. There she meets her “twin” – Princess Alina and her little helpers, unikittens, and a creature of her dreams, a unicorn named Prince Rainbow. Together with Alina and Prince Rainbow, Polina explores the fairy-take kingdom and encounters alicorns – the flying unicorns and a rainbow “bubblefall.” Polina’s amazing adventure would be completely fantastic, if the next morning, she wouldn’t wake up to realize that all that has happened to her was only a beautiful dream.
Hot Cheese
Author: Polina Chesnakova
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452184097
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Turn up the heat, it's time to get cheesy! The cookbook Hot Cheese celebrates the magical combination of heat and cheese in over 50 recipes. Whether melted between crusty bread, baked until browned and bubbly, or fried for the perfect crunch-to-ooze factor, there are limitless ways to enjoy the thrill of hot cheese. • Includes no-fuss snacks, hearty and healthy-ish meals, and party favorites • Features twists on beloved classics and inventive, cheesy combinations • Filled with bright and stylish photography to satisfy any cheese lover Melt over delectable recipes like Easy Poutine, Smoked Gouda Chicken Cordon Bleu, and The Best Nachos in the World. This cheesy cookbook also features handy guides to throwing your own fondue or raclette party. • Filled with plenty of guilty pleasures, kid-friendly recipes, and crowd-pleasers, this is the perfect book for anyone who loves cheese and comfort food. • Good for newbie chefs, parents who cook for picky kids, and hosts who want to serve something they know everyone will enjoy. • You'll love this book if you love books like The Mac + Cheese Cookbook: 50 Simple Recipes from Home by Allison Arevalo and Erin Wade, QUESO! Regional Recipes for the World's Favorite Chile-Cheese Dip by Lisa Fain, and World Cheese Book by Juliet Harbutt.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452184097
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Turn up the heat, it's time to get cheesy! The cookbook Hot Cheese celebrates the magical combination of heat and cheese in over 50 recipes. Whether melted between crusty bread, baked until browned and bubbly, or fried for the perfect crunch-to-ooze factor, there are limitless ways to enjoy the thrill of hot cheese. • Includes no-fuss snacks, hearty and healthy-ish meals, and party favorites • Features twists on beloved classics and inventive, cheesy combinations • Filled with bright and stylish photography to satisfy any cheese lover Melt over delectable recipes like Easy Poutine, Smoked Gouda Chicken Cordon Bleu, and The Best Nachos in the World. This cheesy cookbook also features handy guides to throwing your own fondue or raclette party. • Filled with plenty of guilty pleasures, kid-friendly recipes, and crowd-pleasers, this is the perfect book for anyone who loves cheese and comfort food. • Good for newbie chefs, parents who cook for picky kids, and hosts who want to serve something they know everyone will enjoy. • You'll love this book if you love books like The Mac + Cheese Cookbook: 50 Simple Recipes from Home by Allison Arevalo and Erin Wade, QUESO! Regional Recipes for the World's Favorite Chile-Cheese Dip by Lisa Fain, and World Cheese Book by Juliet Harbutt.
Living Pictures
Author: Polina Barskova
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681376601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A poignant collection of short pieces about the author's hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the siege of Leningrad that combines memoir, history, and fiction. Living Pictures refers to the parlor game of tableaux vivants, in which people dress up in costume to bring scenes from history back to life. It’s a game about survival, in a sense, and what it means to be a survivor is the question that Polina Barskova explores in the scintillating literary amalgam of Living Pictures. Barskova, one of the most admired and controversial figures in a new generation of Russian writers, first made her name as a poet; she is also known as a scholar of the catastrophic siege of Leningrad in World War II. In Living Pictures, Barskova writes with caustic humor and wild invention about traumas past and present, historical and autobiographical, exploring how we cope with experiences that defy comprehension. She writes about her relationships with her adoptive father and her birth father; about sex, wanted and unwanted; about the death of a lover; about Turner and Picasso; and, in the final piece, she mines the historical record in a chamber drama about two lovers sheltering in the Hermitage Museum during the siege of Leningrad who slowly, operatically, hopelessly, stage their own deaths. Living Pictures introduces a startlingly daring and original new voice from world literature.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681376601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A poignant collection of short pieces about the author's hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the siege of Leningrad that combines memoir, history, and fiction. Living Pictures refers to the parlor game of tableaux vivants, in which people dress up in costume to bring scenes from history back to life. It’s a game about survival, in a sense, and what it means to be a survivor is the question that Polina Barskova explores in the scintillating literary amalgam of Living Pictures. Barskova, one of the most admired and controversial figures in a new generation of Russian writers, first made her name as a poet; she is also known as a scholar of the catastrophic siege of Leningrad in World War II. In Living Pictures, Barskova writes with caustic humor and wild invention about traumas past and present, historical and autobiographical, exploring how we cope with experiences that defy comprehension. She writes about her relationships with her adoptive father and her birth father; about sex, wanted and unwanted; about the death of a lover; about Turner and Picasso; and, in the final piece, she mines the historical record in a chamber drama about two lovers sheltering in the Hermitage Museum during the siege of Leningrad who slowly, operatically, hopelessly, stage their own deaths. Living Pictures introduces a startlingly daring and original new voice from world literature.
There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories
Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141973137
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness. By turns sly and sweet, earthy and sublime, these fables of flawed love blend black humour and macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141973137
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-fated holiday romances, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, tentative courtships, rampant infidelity, tender devotion and terrifying madness. By turns sly and sweet, earthy and sublime, these fables of flawed love blend black humour and macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace.
Dostoevsky’s The Gambler
Author: Svetlana Evdokimova
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1666945307
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Gambler is one of the most profound literary works to treat the phenomenon of gambling with a remarkable depth of psychological analysis and a wide-ranging cultural and philosophical exploration of obsessive behavior, from addictive gambling to erotic passion. This novel delves into the cultural, psychological, and philosophical issues surrounding games of chance such as temporality, freedom, rebellion, choice, uncertainty, determinism, and creativity. This is the first book in English dedicated to The Gambler. This volume considers the phenomenon of gambling from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, focusing not only on medical and psychological concepts of gambling as pathology, but also on the broader cultural, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic aspects of the problem. What triggers fascination with risk-taking and various aleatory activities? What are the relations between gambling, play, and creativity? Can gambling be seen as a form of social or existential rebellion and protest or even a quest for freedom? Scholars from a variety of fields, including psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, literary studies, and musicology, have contributed to this volume and analyzed Dostoevsky’s view of gambling as a fundamental problem of human existence, with implications in the realms of philosophy, religion, and aesthetics.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1666945307
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Gambler is one of the most profound literary works to treat the phenomenon of gambling with a remarkable depth of psychological analysis and a wide-ranging cultural and philosophical exploration of obsessive behavior, from addictive gambling to erotic passion. This novel delves into the cultural, psychological, and philosophical issues surrounding games of chance such as temporality, freedom, rebellion, choice, uncertainty, determinism, and creativity. This is the first book in English dedicated to The Gambler. This volume considers the phenomenon of gambling from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, focusing not only on medical and psychological concepts of gambling as pathology, but also on the broader cultural, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic aspects of the problem. What triggers fascination with risk-taking and various aleatory activities? What are the relations between gambling, play, and creativity? Can gambling be seen as a form of social or existential rebellion and protest or even a quest for freedom? Scholars from a variety of fields, including psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, literary studies, and musicology, have contributed to this volume and analyzed Dostoevsky’s view of gambling as a fundamental problem of human existence, with implications in the realms of philosophy, religion, and aesthetics.
Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages
Author: Hannah Gibson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3985540918
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation. Recent work has demonstrated fine-grained morphosyntactic variation across many Bantu languages focusing on grammatical topics such as double object constructions, inversion constructions, or object marking, adopting formal, comparative and typological perspectives. Continuing in this vein, this volume builds on the momentum of the dynamic field of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu and contributes to the growing body of work which examines morphosyntactic variation, with a regional focus on the Bantu languages of East Africa. The East African region is characterized by high linguistic complexity in terms of the number of languages spoken, in terms of the four different linguistic phyla present, and in terms of the inherent sociolinguistic dynamics. The current volume explores this complexity further by bringing together studies which investigate features of morphosyntax of an individual language as well as those which develop an in-depth examination of a single morphosyntactic phenomena in a small sample of languages. The book seeks also to add to the descriptive status of the languages under examination, as well as raising questions relating to language, language contact, language change, and micro-variation in related languages spoken in close geographic proximity.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3985540918
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal morphology. However, the languages also exhibit a high degree of micro-variation. Recent work has demonstrated fine-grained morphosyntactic variation across many Bantu languages focusing on grammatical topics such as double object constructions, inversion constructions, or object marking, adopting formal, comparative and typological perspectives. Continuing in this vein, this volume builds on the momentum of the dynamic field of morphosyntactic variation in Bantu and contributes to the growing body of work which examines morphosyntactic variation, with a regional focus on the Bantu languages of East Africa. The East African region is characterized by high linguistic complexity in terms of the number of languages spoken, in terms of the four different linguistic phyla present, and in terms of the inherent sociolinguistic dynamics. The current volume explores this complexity further by bringing together studies which investigate features of morphosyntax of an individual language as well as those which develop an in-depth examination of a single morphosyntactic phenomena in a small sample of languages. The book seeks also to add to the descriptive status of the languages under examination, as well as raising questions relating to language, language contact, language change, and micro-variation in related languages spoken in close geographic proximity.
Stories of Addiction Recovery
Author: Lisa Ogilvie
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1804555525
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Stories of Addiction Recovery explores first-hand structured accounts of addiction recovery through the G-CHIME model, bringing together shared experiences, lessons learnt, and describing the growth achieved to highlight to others what is possible in their own recovery.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1804555525
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Stories of Addiction Recovery explores first-hand structured accounts of addiction recovery through the G-CHIME model, bringing together shared experiences, lessons learnt, and describing the growth achieved to highlight to others what is possible in their own recovery.
It's the End of the World, My Love
Author: Alla Gorbunova
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1646052366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of underground life, adolescence and rebellion, myth and fairy tale all swirl in Alla Gorbunova's audacious and spectacular novel. Children, students, beggars, young poets: Alla Gorbunova's heroes and heroines live their lives intensely, experiencing the longing, joy, anticipation, and heartbreak of youth in 1990s Saint Petersburg. But Gorbunova's interconnected episodes don't limit themselves to the realm of the everyday, as they move from harsh, material realities to delirious dark fantasies. Characters escape, decline, self-destruct, and transform. In vivid prose she conjures a fragile and haunted society, and renders it with frank and uncompromising tenderness. A stunning work of fiction, It's the End of the World, My Love is a compassionate, terrifying, and rewarding book from an undeniable literary voice.
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN: 1646052366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Otherworldly forces, dark phantasmagoria, the horrors of underground life, adolescence and rebellion, myth and fairy tale all swirl in Alla Gorbunova's audacious and spectacular novel. Children, students, beggars, young poets: Alla Gorbunova's heroes and heroines live their lives intensely, experiencing the longing, joy, anticipation, and heartbreak of youth in 1990s Saint Petersburg. But Gorbunova's interconnected episodes don't limit themselves to the realm of the everyday, as they move from harsh, material realities to delirious dark fantasies. Characters escape, decline, self-destruct, and transform. In vivid prose she conjures a fragile and haunted society, and renders it with frank and uncompromising tenderness. A stunning work of fiction, It's the End of the World, My Love is a compassionate, terrifying, and rewarding book from an undeniable literary voice.