Author: Elias Muhanna
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069119145X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012.
The World Book Encyclopedia
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
The World in a Book
Author: Elias Muhanna
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069119145X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069119145X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012.
The World Factbook 2003
Author: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher: Potomac Books
ISBN: 9781574886412
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
Publisher: Potomac Books
ISBN: 9781574886412
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
The Word in the World
Author: Candy Gunther Brown
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807855119
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The evangelical publishing community has been growing for more than two hundred years. Candy Gunther Brown explores the roots of this far-flung conglomeration of writers, publishers, and readers, from the founding of the Methodist Book Concern in 1789 to the 1880 publication of the runaway best-seller Ben-Hur.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807855119
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The evangelical publishing community has been growing for more than two hundred years. Candy Gunther Brown explores the roots of this far-flung conglomeration of writers, publishers, and readers, from the founding of the Methodist Book Concern in 1789 to the 1880 publication of the runaway best-seller Ben-Hur.
A Map Into the World
Author: Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (R)
ISBN: 1541538366
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A heartfelt story of a young girl seeking beauty and connection in a busy world.
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (R)
ISBN: 1541538366
Category : FICTION
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A heartfelt story of a young girl seeking beauty and connection in a busy world.
The Only Girl in the World
Author: Maude Julien
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316466603
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman's rise above an unimaginable childhood. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor -- raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity. By turns horrifying and magical, The Only Girl in the World is a story that will grip you from the first page and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316466603
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman's rise above an unimaginable childhood. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor -- raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity. By turns horrifying and magical, The Only Girl in the World is a story that will grip you from the first page and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.
All the Beauty in the World
Author: Patrick Bringley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982163313
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982163313
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard"--
The World in a Second
Author: Isabel Minhós Martins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Space and time
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Inspired by the question, "What are they doing right at this moment on the other side of the world?" this book focuses on natural and human events happening all over the world in the same second. Talking about the world and how it's so different in places but also so similar and shared, so incredible and surprising, the books takes us to New York, Chicago, Mexico, Portugal, Angola, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Hungry, Brazil, and South Africa, among others. So, while you sit turning the pages of this book, things are happening everywhere. Somewhere, a wave is reaching the shore. Elsewhere, an orange falls from a tree. In yet other places, there's a traffic jam, a stuck elevator, and someone's going to sleep. Inevitably, a book is coming to an end as another is beginning. Time is always in a hurry, never, ever stopping, and yet as you focus on these lovely illustrations, which stand as true evocations of place, time begins to slow down and, for moments, it even feels as if time has stopped, and you are transported -- out of the flow of time and into the wholeness and purity of a moment. A moment of bird flight; a moment of daydreaming while washing the dishes; a moment of wondering how something felt and what came next."--
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Space and time
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Inspired by the question, "What are they doing right at this moment on the other side of the world?" this book focuses on natural and human events happening all over the world in the same second. Talking about the world and how it's so different in places but also so similar and shared, so incredible and surprising, the books takes us to New York, Chicago, Mexico, Portugal, Angola, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Hungry, Brazil, and South Africa, among others. So, while you sit turning the pages of this book, things are happening everywhere. Somewhere, a wave is reaching the shore. Elsewhere, an orange falls from a tree. In yet other places, there's a traffic jam, a stuck elevator, and someone's going to sleep. Inevitably, a book is coming to an end as another is beginning. Time is always in a hurry, never, ever stopping, and yet as you focus on these lovely illustrations, which stand as true evocations of place, time begins to slow down and, for moments, it even feels as if time has stopped, and you are transported -- out of the flow of time and into the wholeness and purity of a moment. A moment of bird flight; a moment of daydreaming while washing the dishes; a moment of wondering how something felt and what came next."--
In My World
Author: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152054298
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
In this colorful die-cut picture book by award-winning author Lois Ehlert, a child thanks the world for all of nature's wonders.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152054298
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
In this colorful die-cut picture book by award-winning author Lois Ehlert, a child thanks the world for all of nature's wonders.
All the Water in the World
Author: George Ella Lyon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442432950
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
All the water in the world is all the water in the world. We are all connected by water, and this message is beautifully, lyrically delivered from poet-musician-author George Ella Lyon. Where does water come from? Where does water go? Find out in this exploration of oceans and waterways that highlights an important reality: Our water supply is limited, and it is up to us to protect it. Dynamic, fluid art paired with pitch-perfect verse makes for a wise and remarkable read-aloud that will resonate with any audience.On sale: 03.22.11
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442432950
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
All the water in the world is all the water in the world. We are all connected by water, and this message is beautifully, lyrically delivered from poet-musician-author George Ella Lyon. Where does water come from? Where does water go? Find out in this exploration of oceans and waterways that highlights an important reality: Our water supply is limited, and it is up to us to protect it. Dynamic, fluid art paired with pitch-perfect verse makes for a wise and remarkable read-aloud that will resonate with any audience.On sale: 03.22.11