Download or read book CelebraTORI written by Tori Spelling and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meals for social and public occasions.
Download or read book WESDEACON written by Ryan Gutierrez and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We had all walked too far from ourselves, end ended up children lost in the woods. A hand grabbed all of us at once, and it was the Being called Wesdeacon, pulling us toward each other. His home is empty now, but his art still covers the walls. The tracks of his passed steps have been smoothed over by rain, but the earth remembers. Above us now, vigilant constellations shift. The arms of trees flourish and curl, and form Wesdeacon’s banner. They don’t care much that he’s not here, nor they seem to make a distinction between any of his incarnations when he was. He reminds us of what he learned; that the stories have always been false. There are no prophecies or destinies, and there never were any chosen ones. The dark will rush in at us sideways, and poison the rain, and set the fire to our homes. And when it does, it will find us already outside, not waiting for a chosen one, but having each chosen ourselves, and each other. This is our pact with Wesdeacon. Heart of fire, hands of stone. NADIN CHOUNY, THE 1899th YEAR OF GARAS
Download or read book The Ocean Dark written by Jack Rogan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ocean Dark is a riveting novel of suspense from Christopher Golden, author of Tin Men, written under the pseudonym Jack Rogan. In the uncharted waters of the Caribbean, far from the usual shipping lanes, lies a mysterious island surrounded by a graveyard of sunken ships—an island so remote that it’s the perfect rendezvous point for a handful of Central American arms dealers and the Antoinette, a gun-smuggling cargo ship out of Miami. Amid the wreckage of ships new and old, the crew of the Antoinette—and the undercover FBI agent on board—enter what looks like a haven for modern pirates, only to discover that it hides something far more terrifying. In Washington, two Department of Defense scientists might understand what is about to happen. On an FBI ship monitoring the Antoinette’s illegal trade, armed agents might be able to intervene. But this assumes that the Antoinette’s crew survives their first encounter with a creature virtually unknown to man, yet whose eerie songs nevertheless echo down the corridors of mankind’s darkest legends. From the Paperback edition.
Download or read book The World s Must See Places written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World's Must-See Places takes you on a tour of over 100 of the world's greatest sights. In true DK Eyewitness Travel Guide style, each page of the book will show you what other books only tell you, with unique 3-D cutaway artworks that let you look inside each building as if you were there. Each featured sight has been selected for its uniqueness, or its historical or architectural importance, and many are included on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites. Situated across the five continents, the sights include iconic landmarks, such as Chartres Cathedral and Sydney Opera House, and lesser-known gems, including the Kairouan Mosque in Tunisia and the Toshu-gu Shrine in Japan. In addition to engaging text that describes each sight, sidebars and text panels cover topics such as the architectural style of the building, the architect and his works, or historic events or people that shaped the building as we know it today. This book will not only inspire readers to visit some, if not all, of the featured sights, but will also appeal to armchair travelers who prefer to view the sights from the comfort of their own home.
Download or read book Gold Rush Girl written by Avi and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Medalist Avi brings us mud-caked, tent-filled San Francisco in 1848 with a willful heroine who goes on an unintended — and perilous — adventure to save her brother. Victoria Blaisdell longs for independence and adventure, and she yearns to accompany her father as he sails west in search of real gold! But it is 1848, and Tory isn’t even allowed to go to school, much less travel all the way from Rhode Island to California. Determined to take control of her own destiny, Tory stows away on the ship. Though San Francisco is frenzied and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory finds freedom and friendship there. Until one day, when Father is in the gold fields, her younger brother, Jacob, is kidnapped. And so Tory is spurred on a treacherous search for him in Rotten Row, a part of San Francisco Bay crowded with hundreds of abandoned ships. Beloved storyteller Avi is at the top of his form as he ushers us back to an extraordinary time of hope and risk, brought to life by a heroine readers will cheer for. Spot-on details and high suspense make this a vivid, absorbing historical adventure.
Download or read book Japan s Ocean Borderlands written by Paul Kreitman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desert islands are the focus of intense geopolitical tensions in East Asia today, but they are also sites of nature conservation. In this global environmental history, Paul Kreitman shows how the politics of conservation have entangled with the politics of sovereignty since the emergence of the modern Japanese state in the mid-nineteenth century. Using case studies ranging from Hawai'i to the Bonin Islands to the Senkaku (Ch: Diaoyu) Isles to the South China Sea, he explores how bird islands on the distant margins of the Japanese archipelago and beyond transformed from sites of resource extraction to outposts of empire and from wartime battlegrounds to nature reserves. This study examines how interactions between birds, bird products, bureaucrats, speculators, sailors, soldiers, scientists and conservationists shaped ongoing claims to sovereignty over oceanic spaces. It considers what the history of desert islands shows us about imperial and post-imperial power, the web of political, economic and ecological connections between islands and oceans, and about the relationship between sovereignty, territory and environment in the modern world.
Download or read book Masterminds written by Gordon Korman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the action-packed trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman is perfect for fans of Stranger Things and James Patterson. Eli Frieden has never left Serenity, New Mexico...why would he ever want to? Then one day, he bikes to the edge of the city limits and something so crazy and unexpected happens, it changes everything. Eli convinces his friends to help him investigate further, and soon it becomes clear that nothing is as it seems in Serenity. The clues mount to reveal a shocking discovery, connecting their ideal crime-free community to some of the greatest criminal masterminds ever known. The kids realize they can trust no one—least of all their own parents.
Download or read book It s Not Just You written by Tori Tsui and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate activist Tori Tsui's investigation into the correlation between eco-anxiety and the climate crisis.
Download or read book The Kappa Legend written by Eiichirō Ishida and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tori Amos s Boys for Pele written by Amy Gentry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard to think of a solo female recording artist who has been as revered or as reviled over the course of her career as Tori Amos. Amy Gentry argues that these violent aesthetic responses to Amos's performance, both positive and negative, are organized around disgust-the disgust that women are taught to feel, not only for their own bodies, but for their taste in music. Released in 1996, Amos's third album, Boys for Pele, represents the height of Amos's willingness to explore the ugly qualities that make all of her music, even her more conventionally beautiful albums, so uncomfortably, and so wonderfully, strange. Using a blend of memoir, criticism, and aesthetic theory, Gentry argues that the aesthetics of disgust are useful for thinking in a broader way about women's experience of all art forms.
Download or read book The Curly Girl Blues written by Tori Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Curly Girl Blues is a story about a young girl named Emma who admires everyone's hairstyles but her own. She decides to head to a local fair to get inspiration for a new hairdo. Once she arrives, and with the help of her friends, community and a hair stylist, Emma discovers the beauty of her own hair.
Download or read book Folklore Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancient Ocean Crossings written by Stephen C. Jett and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant interchange between the chiefdoms and civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the alleged terra incognita beyond the great oceans. More than a hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age hunters are conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth’s two hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result of the post-Pleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans that covered that bridge. The oceans, along with arctic climates and daunting terrestrial distances, formed impermeable barriers to interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed independently. Drawing on abundant and concrete evidence to support his theory for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett suggests that many ancient peoples had both the seafaring capabilities and the motives to cross the oceans and, in fact, did so repeatedly and with great impact. His deep and broad work synthesizes information and ideas from archaeology, geography, linguistics, climatology, oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics, medicine, and the history of navigation and seafaring, making an innovative and persuasive multidisciplinary case for a new understanding of human societies and their diffuse but interconnected development.
Download or read book Parable of the Talents written by Octavia E. Butler and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. Long awaited, Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of 1994's Nebula-Prize finalist, bestselling Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Talents is told in the voice of Lauren Olamina's daughter&...from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life&...with sections in the form of Lauren's journal. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. presidency, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder, and where the basic physical and emotional needs of people seem almost impossible to meet.
Download or read book Undelimited Maritime Boundaries of the Asian Rim in the Pacific Ocean written by John Robert Victor Prescott and published by IBRU. This book was released on 2001 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Ocean Boundary Problems written by Mark J. Valencia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The South China Sea Arbitration written by Stefan Talmon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically engages with each step of the proceedings in the South China Sea landmark arbitration case, showing that the Arbitral Tribunal lacked jurisdiction to decide the case and that several of the claims presented were also inadmissible.
