Author: Poppy Collins
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407147056
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Princess Honey has invited the fairy princesses for a holiday on Shimmer Island! The fairies fly to the island where they are welcomed by Honey and the other sand fairies. But the next day, they find the islanders in uproar. The bottles of sunshine, stored behind the waterfall, are missing! The fairies must work together to trace the sunshine.
Author: Jonathan Pugh
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
ISBN: 1914386019
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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'A must read … a new analytical agenda for the Anthropocene, coherently drawing out the power of thinking with islands.' – Elena Burgos Martinez, Leiden University ‘This is an essential book. [The] analytics they propose … offer both a critical agenda for island studies and compass points through which to navigate the haunting past, troubling present, and precarious future.’ – Craig Santos Perez, University of Hawai’i, Manoa ‘All academic books should be like this: hard to put down. Informative, careful, sometimes devasting, yet absolutely necessary - if you read one book about the Anthropocene let it be this. You will never think of islands in the same way again.’ – Kimberley Peters, University of Oldenburg ‘ … a unique journey into the Anthropocene. Critical, generous and compelling’. — Nigel Clark, Lancaster University The island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity’s capacities for progress, vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic climate change and the afterlives of empire and coloniality. Today, however, the island is increasingly important for both policy-oriented and critical imaginaries that seek, more positively, to draw upon the island’s liminal and disruptive capacities, especially the relational entanglements and sensitivities its peoples and modes of life are said to exhibit. Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds explores the significant and widespread shift to working with islands for the generation of new or alternative approaches to knowledge, critique and policy practices. It explains how contemporary Anthropocene thinking takes a particular interest in islands as ‘entangled worlds’, which break down the human/nature divide of modernity and enable the generation of new or alternative approaches to ways of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology). The book draws out core analytics which have risen to prominence (Resilience, Patchworks, Correlation and Storiation) as contemporary policy makers, scholars, critical theorists, artists, poets and activists work with islands to move beyond the constraints of modern approaches. In doing so, it argues that engaging with islands has become increasingly important for the generation of some of the core frameworks of contemporary thinking and concludes with a new critical agenda for the Anthropocene.
Author: Ian C. Esslemont
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765329980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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This followup to Ian C. Esslemont's Blood and Bone is sure to delight Malazan fans. Tens of thousands of years of ice is melting, and the land of Assail, long a byword for menace and inaccessibility, is at last yielding its secrets. Tales of gold discovered in the region's north circulate in every waterfront dive and sailor's tavern, and now countless adventurers and fortune-seekers have set sail in search of riches. All these adventurers have to guide them are legends and garbled tales of the dangers that lie in wait -- hostile coasts, fields of ice, impassable barriers and strange, terrifying creatures. But all accounts concur that the people of the north meet all trespassers with the sword. And beyond are rumoured to lurk Elder monsters out of history's very beginnings. Into this turmoil ventures the mercenary company, the Crimson Guard. Not drawn by contract, but by the promise of answers: answers to mysteries that Shimmer, second in command, wonders should even be sought. Arriving also, part of an uneasy alliance of Malazan fortune-hunters and Letherii soldiery, comes the bard Fisher kel Tath. And with him is a Tiste Andii who was found washed ashore and cannot remember his past life, yet who commands far more power than he really should. Also venturing north is said to be a mighty champion, a man who once fought for the Malazans, the bearer of a sword that slays gods: Whiteblade. And lastly, far to the south, a woman guards the shore awaiting both her allies and her enemies. Silverfox, newly incarnated Summoner of the undying army of the T'lan Imass, will do anything to stop the renewal of an ages-old crusade that could lay waste to the entire continent and beyond. Casting light on mysteries spanning the Malazan empire, and offering a glimpse of the storied and epic history that shaped it, "Assail" is the final chapter in the epic story of the Empire of Malaz.
Author: Rabia Gale
Publisher: Rabia Gale
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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The mages of old saved their world, but left it in eternal darkness. Now it’s time to bring back the light. After two years of training his magical gifts, Rafe returns home to a land wracked by war. Desperate states struggle to protect their resources of luminous quartz. Magic pulses and earthquakes devastate a world on the brink of extinction. Rafe’s old enemy Karzov has gathered a band of prodigies obedient to his will. He seeks the power of the ancient mages for an audacious and sinister purpose. It’s up to Rafe and his ally, Isabella, to stop him—and undo the mistakes of the past to put their world right again.
Author: William Pond Bostock
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475906676
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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In this imaginative history, reincarnating souls traverse the first thirty millennia of humanity. One soul, Shimmer, searches in life after life for Sita and Ahalya, his beloved wives. From Africa to the Gangetic Plain, he helps good people seek homes and beauty, peace and love, but others raid and kill. The Great Ice Age collapses; near-annihilation follows. Will good people survive when they can no longer move beyond the villains' reach? Will there be war? Yes, there are battles – and a gigantic bird, a small unicorn, nephelim, pyramids, time travel, the universe of worlds, the first basket, the wheel, Second Dynasty Egyptians, English Romantics, and more.
Author: Robert A. G. Erickson
Publisher: Book Venture Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1946735361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Twins Lenny and Cassy must overcome a power struggle between two powerful sorcerers and a wicked fairy before they can return home. Skeldon, an apprentice sorcerer searching for magic wizors to help him compete at The Wizor Fair, transports himself from a parallel world to modern day Seattle where he enlists twins Lenny and Cassy to help him, but he accidentally transforms Cassy into a fairy called a whelf. The twins return with him to the medieval Kingdom of Duscany, but the magic of the Whelf Fen inescapably draws Cassy into the Long Night to compete for the whelf queenship against the evil Night Shadow. Lenny and Skeldon must unravel the mysterious relationship of the shadow wolves stalking the sorcerers of the kingdom, the power struggle between two powerful sorcerers and the whelf battle being waged during the Long Night, which ultimately will decide the fate of the Kingdom of Duscany and perhaps the world.
Author: Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780230532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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When Lost’s Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific island. And Jurassic Park kept its dinosaur population confined to an island off the coast of Central America. Islands often find themselves at the center of imagined worlds, secluded and sometimes mystical locales filled with strange creatures and savage populations. The cannibals, raptors, and smoke monsters that exist on the islands of popular culture aside, the more than one million islands and islets on the planet are indeed small , geological, biological, and cultural laboratories. From Britain to Japan, from the Galapagos to Manhattan, this book roams the planet to provide the first global introduction to these waterlocked landforms. Longtime island dweller Steven Roger Fischer shows that, since time began, islands have been one of the primary birthplaces for plants, animals, and proto-humans. These eyots of stone and sand—whether in ocean, lake, or river—fostered the human race, and Fischer recounts how humanity then exploited these remarkable habitats as stepping stones to global dominion. He explores island economics, warfare, and politics, and he examines the role they have played in literature, art and psychology. At the same time, he sparks our imagination with visions of islands—from Atlantis to Tahiti, Treasure Island to Hawaii. Ultimately, he reveals, these isolated mini-worlds are a measure of humankind itself. An engaging account of the islets that have enriched, lured, terrified, and inspired us, Islands shines new light on these cradles of earth—and human—history.
Author: Poppy Collins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781407152639
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Fashion Fairy Princess: Shimmer Island Sticker Book is a full-colour sticker-dressing and activity book for fashion royalty everywhere. Join the four fairies - Violet, Bluebell, Buttercup and Rosa - as they visit the beach paradise of Shimmer Island. Choose dresses for the beach party, drink bottles of sunshine from behind the waterfall, decorate the fairy-princesses' beach hut, design super-cool tropical fairy outfits, make a shell necklace and much, much more. Includes hundreds of gorgeous colour stickers to dress-up the fairies and use throughout the book.
Author: Anna J Walner
Publisher: Anna J Walner
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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After a desperate attempt to end the war between Drugan and the pure essence of Enrovia, Hailey finds herself at the forefront of the war, and a prisoner on the island of Ealdume. She will need to stay strong and true to herself, while an unlikely alliance forms to rescue her. Surprising revelations about the world and the friends she’s made will lead to a proposition that will change her life forever. The second book of the Enrovia series continues the journey of Hailey through moral dilemmas and perilous quests in a thrilling book for children and adults to enjoy.
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Languages : en
Pages : 146
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