Author: Angela Ahn
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 0735268266
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. But in one summer, that all falls apart. Told in short, accessible journal entries and combining the humor of Timmy Failure with the poignant family dynamics of Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Peter Lee will win readers' hearts. Eleven year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. Okay, maybe two: to get his genius kid-sister, L.B., to leave him alone. But his summer falls apart when his real-life dinosaur expedition turns out to be a bust, and he watches his dreams go up in a cloud of asthma-inducing dust. Even worse, his grandmother, Hammy, is sick, and no one will talk to Peter or L.B. about it. Perhaps his days as a scientist aren't quite behind him yet. Armed with notebooks and pens, Peter puts his observation and experimental skills to the test to see what he can do for Hammy. If only he can get his sister to be quiet for once -- he needs time to sketch out a plan.
Peter Lee's Notes from the Field
Author: Angela Ahn
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 0735268266
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. But in one summer, that all falls apart. Told in short, accessible journal entries and combining the humor of Timmy Failure with the poignant family dynamics of Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Peter Lee will win readers' hearts. Eleven year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. Okay, maybe two: to get his genius kid-sister, L.B., to leave him alone. But his summer falls apart when his real-life dinosaur expedition turns out to be a bust, and he watches his dreams go up in a cloud of asthma-inducing dust. Even worse, his grandmother, Hammy, is sick, and no one will talk to Peter or L.B. about it. Perhaps his days as a scientist aren't quite behind him yet. Armed with notebooks and pens, Peter puts his observation and experimental skills to the test to see what he can do for Hammy. If only he can get his sister to be quiet for once -- he needs time to sketch out a plan.
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 0735268266
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Eleven-year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. But in one summer, that all falls apart. Told in short, accessible journal entries and combining the humor of Timmy Failure with the poignant family dynamics of Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Peter Lee will win readers' hearts. Eleven year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. Okay, maybe two: to get his genius kid-sister, L.B., to leave him alone. But his summer falls apart when his real-life dinosaur expedition turns out to be a bust, and he watches his dreams go up in a cloud of asthma-inducing dust. Even worse, his grandmother, Hammy, is sick, and no one will talk to Peter or L.B. about it. Perhaps his days as a scientist aren't quite behind him yet. Armed with notebooks and pens, Peter puts his observation and experimental skills to the test to see what he can do for Hammy. If only he can get his sister to be quiet for once -- he needs time to sketch out a plan.
The Forgotten Bracha
Author: Leiba Rimler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781427638533
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781427638533
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Carved Wooden Torah Arks of Eastern Europe
Author: Bracha Yaniv
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800343436
Category : Jewish decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Monumental carved wooden Torah arks were an outstanding feature of east European synagogues between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, yet virtually none survived the Second World War. Bracha Yaniv therefore breathes a new life into a lost genre with this extensively researched, meticulously documented, and richly illustrated book. She is the first to paint a vivid portrait of their history and to offer a detailed explanation of the motifs that adorned them.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800343436
Category : Jewish decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Monumental carved wooden Torah arks were an outstanding feature of east European synagogues between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, yet virtually none survived the Second World War. Bracha Yaniv therefore breathes a new life into a lost genre with this extensively researched, meticulously documented, and richly illustrated book. She is the first to paint a vivid portrait of their history and to offer a detailed explanation of the motifs that adorned them.
An Introduction to Holocaust Studies
Author: Michael Bernard-Donals
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315507919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This single volume traces three approaches to the study of the Holocaust - through notions of history, theories of memory, and a focus on art and representation. It introduces students to the different ways we have come to understand the Holocaust, gives them an opportunity to ask questions about those conclusions, and examines how this event can be understood once all the survivors are gone. In addition, the book looks at the different disciplines - history, sociology, religious studies, and literary interpretation, among others - through which studies of the Holocaust take place.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315507919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This single volume traces three approaches to the study of the Holocaust - through notions of history, theories of memory, and a focus on art and representation. It introduces students to the different ways we have come to understand the Holocaust, gives them an opportunity to ask questions about those conclusions, and examines how this event can be understood once all the survivors are gone. In addition, the book looks at the different disciplines - history, sociology, religious studies, and literary interpretation, among others - through which studies of the Holocaust take place.
Forgetful Memory
Author: Michael Bernard-Donals
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Examines the role of forgetfulness in our understanding of the Holocaust.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791477185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Examines the role of forgetfulness in our understanding of the Holocaust.
Spoiling the Stories
Author: Tamar Merin
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810133725
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In Spoiling the Stories, Tamar Merin presents the as yet untold story of the rise of prose by Israeli women, while further exploring and expanding the gendered models of literary influence in modern Hebrew literature. The theoretical idea upon which this book is based is that of intersexual dialogue, a term that refers to the various literary strategies employed by Israeli female fiction writers expressing their voice within a male-dominated and (still) inherently Oedipal literary tradition. Spoiling the Stories focuses on intersexual dialogue as it evolved in the first three decades after the establishment of the state of Israel in the works of Yehudit Hendel, Amalia Kahana Carmon, and Rachel Eytan. According to Merin, these three women writers were the most important in the history of modern Hebrew literature: each was a significant participant in the poetic development of her time.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810133725
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In Spoiling the Stories, Tamar Merin presents the as yet untold story of the rise of prose by Israeli women, while further exploring and expanding the gendered models of literary influence in modern Hebrew literature. The theoretical idea upon which this book is based is that of intersexual dialogue, a term that refers to the various literary strategies employed by Israeli female fiction writers expressing their voice within a male-dominated and (still) inherently Oedipal literary tradition. Spoiling the Stories focuses on intersexual dialogue as it evolved in the first three decades after the establishment of the state of Israel in the works of Yehudit Hendel, Amalia Kahana Carmon, and Rachel Eytan. According to Merin, these three women writers were the most important in the history of modern Hebrew literature: each was a significant participant in the poetic development of her time.
I Want to Be Famous
Author: Bracha Goetz
Publisher: Saturn's Moon Press
ISBN: 9780997536348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Seymour is minding his own business one day when he is filmed burping by a passerby. Soon his burp is all over the internet and he becomes a hit!Seymour learns the hard way how fickle people can be and how he put his self-image in their hands instead of his own.
Publisher: Saturn's Moon Press
ISBN: 9780997536348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Seymour is minding his own business one day when he is filmed burping by a passerby. Soon his burp is all over the internet and he becomes a hit!Seymour learns the hard way how fickle people can be and how he put his self-image in their hands instead of his own.
Reducing Bodies
Author: Elizabeth M. Matelski
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134810202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies—through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery—and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in postwar America. Drawing on novel and untapped sources, including insurance industry records, this engaging study considers questions of gender, health, and race and provides historical context for the emergence of fat studies and contemporary conversations of the "obesity epidemic."
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134810202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Reducing Bodies: Mass Culture and the Female Figure in Postwar America explores the ways in which women in the years following World War II refashioned their bodies—through reducing diets, exercise, and plastic surgery—and asks what insights these changing beauty standards can offer into gender dynamics in postwar America. Drawing on novel and untapped sources, including insurance industry records, this engaging study considers questions of gender, health, and race and provides historical context for the emergence of fat studies and contemporary conversations of the "obesity epidemic."
'To Save the People from Themselves'
Author: Robert J. Steinfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108995985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
In this expansive history, Robert J. Steinfeld offers a thorough re-interpretation of the origins of American judicial review and the central role it quickly came to play in the American constitutional system. Beginning with Privy Council review of American colonial legislation, the book goes on to provide detailed descriptions of the character of the first American constitutions, showing that they drew heavily on traditional Anglo/American constitutional assumptions, which treated legislatures as the primary interpreters of constitutions. Steinfeld then expertly analyses the central role lawyers and judges played in transforming these assumptions, creating the practice and doctrine of American judicial review in a half dozen state cases during the 1780s. The book concludes by showing that the ideas formulated during those years shaped critical decisions taken by the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which turned the novel practice into a permanent, if still deeply controversial, feature of the American constitutional system.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108995985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
In this expansive history, Robert J. Steinfeld offers a thorough re-interpretation of the origins of American judicial review and the central role it quickly came to play in the American constitutional system. Beginning with Privy Council review of American colonial legislation, the book goes on to provide detailed descriptions of the character of the first American constitutions, showing that they drew heavily on traditional Anglo/American constitutional assumptions, which treated legislatures as the primary interpreters of constitutions. Steinfeld then expertly analyses the central role lawyers and judges played in transforming these assumptions, creating the practice and doctrine of American judicial review in a half dozen state cases during the 1780s. The book concludes by showing that the ideas formulated during those years shaped critical decisions taken by the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which turned the novel practice into a permanent, if still deeply controversial, feature of the American constitutional system.
Slavery and Sacred Texts
Author: Jordan T. Watkins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847814X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
An analysis of the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, using the debate over slavery as a case study.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847814X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
An analysis of the development of historical consciousness in antebellum America, using the debate over slavery as a case study.