Author: Jeff Gottesfeld
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0385753977
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids, 2016 Told from the perspective of the tree outside Anne Frank's window—and illustrated by a Caldecott Honor artist—this book introduces her story in a gentle and incredibly powerful way to a young audience. The tree in the courtyard was a horse chestnut. Her leaves were green stars; her flowers foaming cones of white and pink. Seagulls flocked to her shade. She spread roots and reached skyward in peace. The tree watched a little girl, who played and laughed and wrote in a diary. When strangers invaded the city and warplanes roared overhead, the tree watched the girl peek out of the curtained window of the annex. It watched as she and her family were taken away—and when her father returned after the war, alone. The tree died the summer Anne Frank would have turned eighty-one, but its seeds and saplings have been planted around the world as a symbol of peace. Its story, and Anne’s story, are beautifully told and illustrated in this powerful picture book.
The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window
Author: Jeff Gottesfeld
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0385753977
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids, 2016 Told from the perspective of the tree outside Anne Frank's window—and illustrated by a Caldecott Honor artist—this book introduces her story in a gentle and incredibly powerful way to a young audience. The tree in the courtyard was a horse chestnut. Her leaves were green stars; her flowers foaming cones of white and pink. Seagulls flocked to her shade. She spread roots and reached skyward in peace. The tree watched a little girl, who played and laughed and wrote in a diary. When strangers invaded the city and warplanes roared overhead, the tree watched the girl peek out of the curtained window of the annex. It watched as she and her family were taken away—and when her father returned after the war, alone. The tree died the summer Anne Frank would have turned eighty-one, but its seeds and saplings have been planted around the world as a symbol of peace. Its story, and Anne’s story, are beautifully told and illustrated in this powerful picture book.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0385753977
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book A New York Public Library Best Book for Kids, 2016 Told from the perspective of the tree outside Anne Frank's window—and illustrated by a Caldecott Honor artist—this book introduces her story in a gentle and incredibly powerful way to a young audience. The tree in the courtyard was a horse chestnut. Her leaves were green stars; her flowers foaming cones of white and pink. Seagulls flocked to her shade. She spread roots and reached skyward in peace. The tree watched a little girl, who played and laughed and wrote in a diary. When strangers invaded the city and warplanes roared overhead, the tree watched the girl peek out of the curtained window of the annex. It watched as she and her family were taken away—and when her father returned after the war, alone. The tree died the summer Anne Frank would have turned eighty-one, but its seeds and saplings have been planted around the world as a symbol of peace. Its story, and Anne’s story, are beautifully told and illustrated in this powerful picture book.
Courtyards
Author: John Reynolds
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471398844
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Courtyards presents a survey of courtyards, contemporary design guidelines, and a diverse selection of examples. Readers will acquire a basic understanding of the balance that must exist between garden and building, including practical advice for planting."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471398844
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Courtyards presents a survey of courtyards, contemporary design guidelines, and a diverse selection of examples. Readers will acquire a basic understanding of the balance that must exist between garden and building, including practical advice for planting."--BOOK JACKET.
Always A Guest
Author: Barbara Brown Taylor
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1646980093
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
From beloved writer and renowned preacher Barbara Brown Taylor comes a new collection of stories and sermons of faith, grace, and hope. Taylor, author of the best-selling books Holy Envy and An Altar in the World, among others, finds that when you are the invited guest speaking of faith to people you don't know, one must seek common ground: exploring the central human experience. Full of Taylor's astute observations on the Spirit and the state of the world along with her gentle wit, this collection will inspire Taylor’s fans and preachers alike as she explores faith in all its beauty and complexity.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 1646980093
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
From beloved writer and renowned preacher Barbara Brown Taylor comes a new collection of stories and sermons of faith, grace, and hope. Taylor, author of the best-selling books Holy Envy and An Altar in the World, among others, finds that when you are the invited guest speaking of faith to people you don't know, one must seek common ground: exploring the central human experience. Full of Taylor's astute observations on the Spirit and the state of the world along with her gentle wit, this collection will inspire Taylor’s fans and preachers alike as she explores faith in all its beauty and complexity.
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard
Author: Paul Bowles
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 9780872860025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of...
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
ISBN: 9780872860025
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
These are four tales of contemporary life in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of...
Ruler of the Courtyard
Author: Rukhsana Khan
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
After confronting what she believes to be a snake in the bath house, Saba finds the courage to overcome her fear of the chickens in the courtyard.
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
After confronting what she believes to be a snake in the bath house, Saba finds the courage to overcome her fear of the chickens in the courtyard.
The Courtyard House
Author: Nasser O. Rabbat
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138246850
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using an innovative architectural and social science approach, this book examines the political, economic, social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys, interviews with residents, architects, and planners, time diaries, drawings, photos, planning documents, observation notes, and real estate brochures, the book proposes new courtyard garden house design strategies that promote healthy communities and human care for one another, a concept that is universally applicable. It provides a holistic view, encompassing eastern and western tangible and intangible cultures in the theorization of 'cultural sustainability'.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781138246850
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using an innovative architectural and social science approach, this book examines the political, economic, social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys, interviews with residents, architects, and planners, time diaries, drawings, photos, planning documents, observation notes, and real estate brochures, the book proposes new courtyard garden house design strategies that promote healthy communities and human care for one another, a concept that is universally applicable. It provides a holistic view, encompassing eastern and western tangible and intangible cultures in the theorization of 'cultural sustainability'.
In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist
Author: Ruchama Feuerman
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150409414X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
National Jewish Book Award Finalist: A “sophisticated and engaging” novel of three innocents drawn into a criminal scheme in modern-day Jerusalem (The Wall Street Journal). Brokenhearted haberdasher Isaac Markowitz has fled the Lower East Side for Israel, where he now assists a renowned elderly rabbi who tends to the hungry and hopeless in his courtyard. Tamar is an American hipster-turned-observant Jew who has come to Jerusalem to find a devout man to spend her life with. And Mustafa, a devoted Muslim, works as a janitor at the Temple Mount, also known as al-Aqsa, a site holy to both faiths. After Mustafa finds a shard of pottery that may date back to the ancient era of the First Temple, he brings it to Isaac. But this simple act of friendship will lead Isaac into Israel’s criminal underworld, put Mustafa in lethal danger, and send Tamar on a quest to save them both . . . This edition also includes “The Rebbetzin’s Courtyard,” a short-story sequel to In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist. “How do people get along when they have been taught they can’t? . . . [A] lively, witty, and entertaining novel . . . hard to put down.” —Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point and In The Gloaming “Beautifully detailed and vivid . . . a delicate balance of courtship tale and thriller.” —Dallas Morning News “Confused about the background of the Gaza conflict? This vibrant evocation of modern Jerusalem may shed some light.” —Daily Mail “A story that is spiritually generous and astutely realistic about an Arab-Israeli and an Israeli-Jew, who may be the most unlikely pair of friends we’ve seen in current fiction.” —The Brooklyn Rail “The best novel I’ve read all year.” —The Wall Street Journal
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 150409414X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
National Jewish Book Award Finalist: A “sophisticated and engaging” novel of three innocents drawn into a criminal scheme in modern-day Jerusalem (The Wall Street Journal). Brokenhearted haberdasher Isaac Markowitz has fled the Lower East Side for Israel, where he now assists a renowned elderly rabbi who tends to the hungry and hopeless in his courtyard. Tamar is an American hipster-turned-observant Jew who has come to Jerusalem to find a devout man to spend her life with. And Mustafa, a devoted Muslim, works as a janitor at the Temple Mount, also known as al-Aqsa, a site holy to both faiths. After Mustafa finds a shard of pottery that may date back to the ancient era of the First Temple, he brings it to Isaac. But this simple act of friendship will lead Isaac into Israel’s criminal underworld, put Mustafa in lethal danger, and send Tamar on a quest to save them both . . . This edition also includes “The Rebbetzin’s Courtyard,” a short-story sequel to In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist. “How do people get along when they have been taught they can’t? . . . [A] lively, witty, and entertaining novel . . . hard to put down.” —Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point and In The Gloaming “Beautifully detailed and vivid . . . a delicate balance of courtship tale and thriller.” —Dallas Morning News “Confused about the background of the Gaza conflict? This vibrant evocation of modern Jerusalem may shed some light.” —Daily Mail “A story that is spiritually generous and astutely realistic about an Arab-Israeli and an Israeli-Jew, who may be the most unlikely pair of friends we’ve seen in current fiction.” —The Brooklyn Rail “The best novel I’ve read all year.” —The Wall Street Journal
Alan Moore The Courtyard (Color Edition)
Author: Alan Moore
Publisher: Avatar Press
ISBN: 9781592910601
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
FBI agent Aldo Sax investigates a series of ritual murders committed by unlikely and unrelated killers, and gets too close to the supernatural source of their madness. A Lovecraftian horror tale by Alan Moore, the Hugo-Award winning author of WATCHMEN. The most celebrated writer in the comic book industry, Alan Moore, teams up with brilliant artist Jacen Burrows to unleash this timeless tale of Lovecraftian psychological horror. FBI agent Aldo Sax is a highly skilled detective, assigned to the most baffling case of his career. A series of murders, each featuring bizarre ritual dismemberment, appear to be committed by unlikly and unrelated suspects. Descending into Brooklyn's Club Zothique for clues, Sax meets a dealer of hallucinogenic drugs that unlock the barriers of the mind... and allow a terrible, evil force to enter. Featuring an introduction by writer Garth Ennis (Preacher).
Publisher: Avatar Press
ISBN: 9781592910601
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
FBI agent Aldo Sax investigates a series of ritual murders committed by unlikely and unrelated killers, and gets too close to the supernatural source of their madness. A Lovecraftian horror tale by Alan Moore, the Hugo-Award winning author of WATCHMEN. The most celebrated writer in the comic book industry, Alan Moore, teams up with brilliant artist Jacen Burrows to unleash this timeless tale of Lovecraftian psychological horror. FBI agent Aldo Sax is a highly skilled detective, assigned to the most baffling case of his career. A series of murders, each featuring bizarre ritual dismemberment, appear to be committed by unlikly and unrelated suspects. Descending into Brooklyn's Club Zothique for clues, Sax meets a dealer of hallucinogenic drugs that unlock the barriers of the mind... and allow a terrible, evil force to enter. Featuring an introduction by writer Garth Ennis (Preacher).
Confucius’ Courtyard
Author: Xing Ruan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350217646
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
For more than three thousand years, Chinese life – from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home – was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China's artistic, philosophical and institutional classes. Confucius' Courtyard tells the story of how the courtyard – that most singular and persistent architectural form – holds the key to understanding, even today, much of Chinese society and culture. Part architectural history, and part introduction to the cultural and philosophical history of China, the book explores the Chinese view of the world, and reveals the extent to which this is inextricably intertwined with the ancient concept of the courtyard, a place and a way of life which, it appears, has been almost entirely overlooked in China since the middle of the 20th century, and in the West for centuries. Along the way, it provides an accessible introduction to the Confucian idea of zhongyong ('the Middle Way'), the Chinese moral universe and the virtuous good life in the absence of an awesome God, and shows how these can only be fully understood through the humble courtyard – a space which is grounded in the earth, yet open to the heavens. Erudite, elegant and illustrated throughout by the author's own architectural drawings and sketches, Confucius' Courtyard weaves together architecture, philosophy and cultural history to explore what lies at the very heart of Chinese civilization.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350217646
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
For more than three thousand years, Chinese life – from the city and the imperial palace, to the temple, the market and the family home – was configured around the courtyard. So too were the accomplishments of China's artistic, philosophical and institutional classes. Confucius' Courtyard tells the story of how the courtyard – that most singular and persistent architectural form – holds the key to understanding, even today, much of Chinese society and culture. Part architectural history, and part introduction to the cultural and philosophical history of China, the book explores the Chinese view of the world, and reveals the extent to which this is inextricably intertwined with the ancient concept of the courtyard, a place and a way of life which, it appears, has been almost entirely overlooked in China since the middle of the 20th century, and in the West for centuries. Along the way, it provides an accessible introduction to the Confucian idea of zhongyong ('the Middle Way'), the Chinese moral universe and the virtuous good life in the absence of an awesome God, and shows how these can only be fully understood through the humble courtyard – a space which is grounded in the earth, yet open to the heavens. Erudite, elegant and illustrated throughout by the author's own architectural drawings and sketches, Confucius' Courtyard weaves together architecture, philosophy and cultural history to explore what lies at the very heart of Chinese civilization.
Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles
Author: Stefanos Polyzoides
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9780910413534
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Essays, drawings, plans, and over 200 black-and-white photographs document the courtyard housing in Los Angeles. The style, expressed in both grand and humble dwellings, was at its height in the 1920's and 1930's, but is still around to provide privacy and greenspace in the dense urban area. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9780910413534
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Essays, drawings, plans, and over 200 black-and-white photographs document the courtyard housing in Los Angeles. The style, expressed in both grand and humble dwellings, was at its height in the 1920's and 1930's, but is still around to provide privacy and greenspace in the dense urban area. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR