Author: W. Awdry
Publisher: Egmont Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781405251280
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
One windy day, Thomas and the engines see ten bright balloons floating in the sky. But the balloons keep flying away. First there are ten... then nine... then eight.
Thomas' Ten Balloons
Author: W. Awdry
Publisher: Egmont Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781405251280
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
One windy day, Thomas and the engines see ten bright balloons floating in the sky. But the balloons keep flying away. First there are ten... then nine... then eight.
Publisher: Egmont Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781405251280
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
One windy day, Thomas and the engines see ten bright balloons floating in the sky. But the balloons keep flying away. First there are ten... then nine... then eight.
The Twenty-One Balloons
Author: William Pene du Bois
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140320970
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A Newbery Medal Winner Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is now available in a handsome new edition. "William Pene du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific tastes, and brilliant artistry to tell astory that has no age limit."—The Horn Book
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140320970
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A Newbery Medal Winner Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is now available in a handsome new edition. "William Pene du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific tastes, and brilliant artistry to tell astory that has no age limit."—The Horn Book
The Works of Thomas Dick
Author: Thomas Dick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, LL.D.
Author: Thomas Dick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Author: Jon Meacham
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812979486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Bloomberg Businessweek In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things—women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson’s world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity—and the genius of the new nation—lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From the writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in Paris and in the President’s House; from political maneuverings in the boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and New York to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicated life at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation in Virginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jefferson was central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a man of appetite, sensuality, and passion. The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amid economic change and external threats, and also because he embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world. Praise for Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power “This is probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.”—Gordon S. Wood “A big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before.”—Entertainment Weekly “[Meacham] captures who Jefferson was, not just as a statesman but as a man. . . . By the end of the book . . . the reader is likely to feel as if he is losing a dear friend. . . . [An] absorbing tale.”—The Christian Science Monitor “This terrific book allows us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality that it seems as if he might still be alive today.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812979486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Bloomberg Businessweek In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things—women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson’s world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity—and the genius of the new nation—lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From the writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in Paris and in the President’s House; from political maneuverings in the boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and New York to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicated life at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation in Virginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jefferson was central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a man of appetite, sensuality, and passion. The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amid economic change and external threats, and also because he embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world. Praise for Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power “This is probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.”—Gordon S. Wood “A big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before.”—Entertainment Weekly “[Meacham] captures who Jefferson was, not just as a statesman but as a man. . . . By the end of the book . . . the reader is likely to feel as if he is losing a dear friend. . . . [An] absorbing tale.”—The Christian Science Monitor “This terrific book allows us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality that it seems as if he might still be alive today.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Complete Works of Thomas Dick
Author: Thomas Dick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Alaskan Saga of Thomas Churchill O'Brien
Author: Thomas William
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583485902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A hilariously funny satire of life in Alaska as seen through the misadventures of a warm-hearted but bumbling neophyte.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1583485902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A hilariously funny satire of life in Alaska as seen through the misadventures of a warm-hearted but bumbling neophyte.
The Political Writings of Thomas Paine
Author: Thomas Paine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Greatest Works of Thomas Wolfe
Author: Thomas Wolfe
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2683
Book Description
Thomas Wolfe's 'The Greatest Works of Thomas Wolfe' is a comprehensive collection of some of the most influential and captivating works by the renowned author. Wolfe's literary style is characterized by his detailed and vivid descriptions of the American South in the early 20th century, capturing the essence of time and place with unmatched eloquence. From the sprawling epic 'Look Homeward, Angel' to the poignant and reflective 'You Can't Go Home Again', this collection showcases Wolfe's ability to delve into the complexities of human emotions and relationships. His prose is marked by a lyrical and introspective quality that resonates with readers long after the final page is turned. Wolfe's works are considered essential reading for anyone interested in American literature and the exploration of personal identity and growth. Through his unique storytelling and profound insights, Wolfe offers a timeless exploration of the human experience and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2683
Book Description
Thomas Wolfe's 'The Greatest Works of Thomas Wolfe' is a comprehensive collection of some of the most influential and captivating works by the renowned author. Wolfe's literary style is characterized by his detailed and vivid descriptions of the American South in the early 20th century, capturing the essence of time and place with unmatched eloquence. From the sprawling epic 'Look Homeward, Angel' to the poignant and reflective 'You Can't Go Home Again', this collection showcases Wolfe's ability to delve into the complexities of human emotions and relationships. His prose is marked by a lyrical and introspective quality that resonates with readers long after the final page is turned. Wolfe's works are considered essential reading for anyone interested in American literature and the exploration of personal identity and growth. Through his unique storytelling and profound insights, Wolfe offers a timeless exploration of the human experience and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world.
The Political Works of Thomas Paine ...
Author: Thomas Paine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description