Author: Tony Penn
Publisher: Boys Town Press
ISBN: 1545721661
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
When snooty Harriet finishes her show and tell about her great-great-great-great-grandma's ring from Prince Something, she dares Michael McMichaels to try and top it. Michael's quest to have the most stupendous show and tell ever leads to sticky fingers, white lies and a few bribes.
The Misadventures of Michael McMichaels Vol. 2: The Borrowed Bracelet
Author: Tony Penn
Publisher: Boys Town Press
ISBN: 1545721661
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
When snooty Harriet finishes her show and tell about her great-great-great-great-grandma's ring from Prince Something, she dares Michael McMichaels to try and top it. Michael's quest to have the most stupendous show and tell ever leads to sticky fingers, white lies and a few bribes.
Publisher: Boys Town Press
ISBN: 1545721661
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
When snooty Harriet finishes her show and tell about her great-great-great-great-grandma's ring from Prince Something, she dares Michael McMichaels to try and top it. Michael's quest to have the most stupendous show and tell ever leads to sticky fingers, white lies and a few bribes.
The Borrowed Bride
Author: SWEETBLUNCH
Publisher: Summit Publishing Company Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Leila Fiorenza, heiress of a massive Sicilian estate, has been on the run all her life from all the men who have tried to control her. There’s her tyrant of a father who betrothed her to a man she does not love. There’s her fiancé, who fell in love with and married her twin sister instead. And then there’s the Spanish count, Leandro Salazar, with whom she has spent many a passionate night with. But she’s had enough. She’s marrying her childhood friend—who happens to be the same man her twin sister has been in love with since she was young. But Leandro will do anything to take back the mysterious Italian heiress—including borrowing the bride on the day of her wedding.
Publisher: Summit Publishing Company Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Leila Fiorenza, heiress of a massive Sicilian estate, has been on the run all her life from all the men who have tried to control her. There’s her tyrant of a father who betrothed her to a man she does not love. There’s her fiancé, who fell in love with and married her twin sister instead. And then there’s the Spanish count, Leandro Salazar, with whom she has spent many a passionate night with. But she’s had enough. She’s marrying her childhood friend—who happens to be the same man her twin sister has been in love with since she was young. But Leandro will do anything to take back the mysterious Italian heiress—including borrowing the bride on the day of her wedding.
Cinderella's Sisters
Author: Dorothy Ko
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520941403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of footbinding as patriarchal oppression often neglect its complex history and the incentives of the women involved. This revisionist history, elegantly written and meticulously researched, presents a fascinating new picture of the practice from its beginnings in the tenth century to its demise in the twentieth century. Neither condemning nor defending foot-binding, Dorothy Ko debunks many myths and misconceptions about its origins, development, and eventual end, exploring in the process the entanglements of male power and female desires during the practice's thousand-year history. Cinderella's Sisters argues that rather than stemming from sexual perversion, men's desire for bound feet was connected to larger concerns such as cultural nostalgia, regional rivalries, and claims of male privilege. Nor were women hapless victims, the author contends. Ko describes how women—those who could afford it—bound their own and their daughters' feet to signal their high status and self-respect. Femininity, like the binding of feet, was associated with bodily labor and domestic work, and properly bound feet and beautifully made shoes both required exquisite skills and technical knowledge passed from generation to generation. Throughout her narrative, Ko deftly wields methods of social history, literary criticism, material culture studies, and the history of the body and fashion to illustrate how a practice that began as embodied lyricism—as a way to live as the poets imagined—ended up being an exercise in excess and folly.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520941403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of footbinding as patriarchal oppression often neglect its complex history and the incentives of the women involved. This revisionist history, elegantly written and meticulously researched, presents a fascinating new picture of the practice from its beginnings in the tenth century to its demise in the twentieth century. Neither condemning nor defending foot-binding, Dorothy Ko debunks many myths and misconceptions about its origins, development, and eventual end, exploring in the process the entanglements of male power and female desires during the practice's thousand-year history. Cinderella's Sisters argues that rather than stemming from sexual perversion, men's desire for bound feet was connected to larger concerns such as cultural nostalgia, regional rivalries, and claims of male privilege. Nor were women hapless victims, the author contends. Ko describes how women—those who could afford it—bound their own and their daughters' feet to signal their high status and self-respect. Femininity, like the binding of feet, was associated with bodily labor and domestic work, and properly bound feet and beautifully made shoes both required exquisite skills and technical knowledge passed from generation to generation. Throughout her narrative, Ko deftly wields methods of social history, literary criticism, material culture studies, and the history of the body and fashion to illustrate how a practice that began as embodied lyricism—as a way to live as the poets imagined—ended up being an exercise in excess and folly.
The Lamp [ed. by T.E. Bradley].
Author: Thomas Earnshaw Bradley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Nostratic
Author: Joseph C. Salmons
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027236461
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The "Nostratic" hypothesis -- positing a common linguistic ancestor for a wide range of language families including Indo-European, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic -- has produced one of the most enduring and often intense controversies in linguistics. Overwhelmingly, though, both supporters of the hypothesis and those who reject it have not dealt directly with one another's arguments. This volume brings together selected representatives of both sides, as well as a number of agnostic historical linguists, with the aim of examining the evidence for this particular hypothesis in the context of distant genetic relationships generally.The volume contains discussion of variants of the Nostratic hypothesis (A. Bomhard; J. Greenberg; A. Manaster-Ramer, K. Baertsch, K. Adams, & P. Michalove), the mathematics of chance in determining the relationships posited for Nostratic (R. Oswa< D. Ringe), and the evidence from particular branches posited in Nostratic (L. Campbell; C. Hodge; A. Vovin), with responses and additional discussion by E. Hamp, B. Vine, W. Baxter and B. Comrie.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027236461
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The "Nostratic" hypothesis -- positing a common linguistic ancestor for a wide range of language families including Indo-European, Uralic, and Afro-Asiatic -- has produced one of the most enduring and often intense controversies in linguistics. Overwhelmingly, though, both supporters of the hypothesis and those who reject it have not dealt directly with one another's arguments. This volume brings together selected representatives of both sides, as well as a number of agnostic historical linguists, with the aim of examining the evidence for this particular hypothesis in the context of distant genetic relationships generally.The volume contains discussion of variants of the Nostratic hypothesis (A. Bomhard; J. Greenberg; A. Manaster-Ramer, K. Baertsch, K. Adams, & P. Michalove), the mathematics of chance in determining the relationships posited for Nostratic (R. Oswa< D. Ringe), and the evidence from particular branches posited in Nostratic (L. Campbell; C. Hodge; A. Vovin), with responses and additional discussion by E. Hamp, B. Vine, W. Baxter and B. Comrie.
The Sisters Mederos
Author: Patrice Sarath
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 0857667769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Two sisters fight with manners, magic, and mayhem to reclaim their family’s name, in this captivating historical fantasy adventure. House Mederos was once the wealthiest merchant family in Port Saint Frey. Now the family is disgraced, impoverished, and humbled by the powerful Merchants Guild. Daughters Yvienne and Tesara Mederos are determined to uncover who was behind their family's downfall and get revenge. But Tesara has a secret – could it have been her wild magic that caused the storm that destroyed the family's merchant fleet? The sisters’ schemes quickly get out of hand – gambling is one thing, but robbing people is another… Together the sisters must trust each another to keep their secrets and save their family. File Under: Fantasy
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 0857667769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Two sisters fight with manners, magic, and mayhem to reclaim their family’s name, in this captivating historical fantasy adventure. House Mederos was once the wealthiest merchant family in Port Saint Frey. Now the family is disgraced, impoverished, and humbled by the powerful Merchants Guild. Daughters Yvienne and Tesara Mederos are determined to uncover who was behind their family's downfall and get revenge. But Tesara has a secret – could it have been her wild magic that caused the storm that destroyed the family's merchant fleet? The sisters’ schemes quickly get out of hand – gambling is one thing, but robbing people is another… Together the sisters must trust each another to keep their secrets and save their family. File Under: Fantasy
The Atlantic Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Index to Short Stories
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Works of George Borrow
Author: George Borrow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Computers and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Do Your Best
Author: Patricia Kloehn
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662451393
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Share Negus Kloehn’s story of how he overcame many obstacles presented to him daily. Growing up in a remote area of Africa, Gambella, Ethiopia, Negus learned to live off the land, raised his younger brother and sister, and never gave up. Negus’s early years illustrate living in a one-room hut with no water or electricity. Yet he found one love, playing soccer. Negus explains how in Africa it is common to make balls out of plastic bags and twine, and there are no nets, rather they mark boundaries with stones. Early on, Negus wanted to change this to play more soccer. Understand how his grandmother’s extreme actions changed the course of his life forever. Negus and sister, Elilta, went to two orphanages and were adopted by a single woman. Travel to America for the first time with Negus and learn how he navigated early on in Vail, Colorado. Step into his life as he becomes a strong confident athlete who continues his love of soccer and is taught rules of the game from all coaches. As Negus’s story unfolds, experience what it feels like to have a medical condition you cannot control, yet it controls you. As Negus struggles with epilepsy, he breaks down many stereotypes and is able to play sports and turn his epilepsy into an interesting dilemma which supports his new view of handling any obstacle thrown his way. Negus has a dream which he again shared two weeks before his death. He wants to become a professional soccer player and distribute nets and balls to Africa. Negus’s dream lives on through his nonprofit organization, Save the Ball, Soccer for Africa, Inc. Negus will show you how the saying he said often can be a part of your vocabulary too: “Do Your Best!”
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662451393
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Share Negus Kloehn’s story of how he overcame many obstacles presented to him daily. Growing up in a remote area of Africa, Gambella, Ethiopia, Negus learned to live off the land, raised his younger brother and sister, and never gave up. Negus’s early years illustrate living in a one-room hut with no water or electricity. Yet he found one love, playing soccer. Negus explains how in Africa it is common to make balls out of plastic bags and twine, and there are no nets, rather they mark boundaries with stones. Early on, Negus wanted to change this to play more soccer. Understand how his grandmother’s extreme actions changed the course of his life forever. Negus and sister, Elilta, went to two orphanages and were adopted by a single woman. Travel to America for the first time with Negus and learn how he navigated early on in Vail, Colorado. Step into his life as he becomes a strong confident athlete who continues his love of soccer and is taught rules of the game from all coaches. As Negus’s story unfolds, experience what it feels like to have a medical condition you cannot control, yet it controls you. As Negus struggles with epilepsy, he breaks down many stereotypes and is able to play sports and turn his epilepsy into an interesting dilemma which supports his new view of handling any obstacle thrown his way. Negus has a dream which he again shared two weeks before his death. He wants to become a professional soccer player and distribute nets and balls to Africa. Negus’s dream lives on through his nonprofit organization, Save the Ball, Soccer for Africa, Inc. Negus will show you how the saying he said often can be a part of your vocabulary too: “Do Your Best!”