Author: Felice Holman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689710666
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"Artemis Slake, at the age of thirteen, took his fear and misfortune and hid them underground. The thing is, he had to go with them".
Slake's Limbo
Author: Felice Holman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689710666
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"Artemis Slake, at the age of thirteen, took his fear and misfortune and hid them underground. The thing is, he had to go with them".
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689710666
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"Artemis Slake, at the age of thirteen, took his fear and misfortune and hid them underground. The thing is, he had to go with them".
Hollywood Gothic
Author: David J. Skal
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429998458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
A fully updated edition of David J. Skal's Hollywood Gothic, "The ultimate book on Dracula" (Newsweek). The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. includes black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429998458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
A fully updated edition of David J. Skal's Hollywood Gothic, "The ultimate book on Dracula" (Newsweek). The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. In this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. includes black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.
Phoenix Rising
Author: Karen Hesse
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466801336
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Nyle's life with her grandmother on their Vermont sheep farm advances rhythmically through the seasons until the night of the accident at the Cookshire nuclear power plant. Without warning, Nyle's modest world fills with protective masks, evacuations, contaminated food, disruptions, and mistrust. Nyle adjusts to the changes. As long as the fallout continues blowing to the East, Nyle, Gran, and the farm can go on. But into this uncertain haven stumble Ezra Trent and his mother, "refugees" from the heart of the accident, who take temporary shelter in the back bedroom of Nyle's house. The back bedroom is the dying room: It took her mother when Nyle was six; it stole away her grandfather just two years ago. Now Ezra is back there and Nyle doesn't want to open her heart to him. Too many times she's let people in, only to have them desert her. Karen Hesse's voice and vision are grounded in truth; she takes on a nearly unharnessable subject, contains it, and makes it resonate with honesty. Part love story, part coming of age, Phoenix Rising is a tour de force by a gifted writer.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1466801336
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Nyle's life with her grandmother on their Vermont sheep farm advances rhythmically through the seasons until the night of the accident at the Cookshire nuclear power plant. Without warning, Nyle's modest world fills with protective masks, evacuations, contaminated food, disruptions, and mistrust. Nyle adjusts to the changes. As long as the fallout continues blowing to the East, Nyle, Gran, and the farm can go on. But into this uncertain haven stumble Ezra Trent and his mother, "refugees" from the heart of the accident, who take temporary shelter in the back bedroom of Nyle's house. The back bedroom is the dying room: It took her mother when Nyle was six; it stole away her grandfather just two years ago. Now Ezra is back there and Nyle doesn't want to open her heart to him. Too many times she's let people in, only to have them desert her. Karen Hesse's voice and vision are grounded in truth; she takes on a nearly unharnessable subject, contains it, and makes it resonate with honesty. Part love story, part coming of age, Phoenix Rising is a tour de force by a gifted writer.
The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755
Author: Winthrop Sargent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Braddock's Campaign, 1755
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Braddock's Campaign, 1755
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The French Revolution
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Four Archetypes
Author: C. G. Jung
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691150494
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: 1959; 1st Princeton/Bollingen pbk. ed. published: 1970.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691150494
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: 1959; 1st Princeton/Bollingen pbk. ed. published: 1970.
My Side of the Mountain (Puffin Modern Classics)
Author: Jean Craighead George
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142401110
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude-and danger-of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142401110
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the solitude-and danger-of the mountains, where he finds a side of himself he never knew.
Unspoken Sermons
Author: George MacDonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Buyology
Author: Martin Lindstrom
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0385523890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0385523890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.
Dispositions
Author: McKenzie Wark
Publisher: Salt Publishing
ISBN: 9781876857257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Armed with only a notebook and a handheld global positioning device, Wark tracks the secret passage free time and free thought through the spaces of an everyday life.
Publisher: Salt Publishing
ISBN: 9781876857257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Armed with only a notebook and a handheld global positioning device, Wark tracks the secret passage free time and free thought through the spaces of an everyday life.