Download or read book Poetry Reader for Russian Learners written by Julia Titus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the poetry of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian authors, including Pushkin and Akhmatova, Poetry Reader for Russian Learners helps upper-beginner, intermediate, and advanced Russian students refine their language skills. Poems are coded by level of difficulty. The text facilitates students' interaction with authentic texts, assisted by a complete set of learning tools, including biographical sketches of each poet, stress marks, annotations, exercises, questions for discussion, and a glossary. An ancillary Web site contains audio files for all poems.
Download or read book The Meek written by Der-shing Helmer and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angora is an inexperienced young girl who has been sent on a quest to save the world.Since the last world war, tensions have increased between the recovering Northern Territories and the unapologetic southern lands of Caris. The world is overwhelmed with as much terror, crime, and disease as it is by those who yearn for peace. Now, a new war looms between the two countries, and mysterious, monstrous entities may be playing for much higher stakes than anyone realizes.Armed with only her instincts and an unexplainable power, Angora must journey through this world-- and perhaps decide once and for all if it is truly worth saving.The Meek Volume 1 collects the first three chapters from the epic online comic, which updates regularly at www.meekcomic.com
Download or read book The Gambler written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Meek written by J. D. Palmer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOLD MEDAL WINNER - 2017 DAN POYNTER'S GLOBAL E-BOOK AWARDS - THRILLER The world didn't end with a religious war, or a race war, or an economic collapse. It didn't end with everyone blowing each other up with nuclear warheads and it didn't end with a natural disaster. It didn't end because someone got offended in one of the million petty squabbles that were real, or fake, or imagined. It ended quietly. Harlan is visiting his friend in Los Angeles when people start dying. His friend, the neighbors, the entire city falls victim to an unknown disease. Except for Harlan. Or so he thinks. And he learns quickly that just because there are other survivors, not all are to be trusted. Morality becomes blurred as Harlan is forced to commit questionable acts to protect himself and those around him. He must navigate through a darkening landscape fraught with violence and despair as he desperately tries to get home to the love of his life, Jessica, and the child she is carrying. IF they are still alive.
Download or read book Mia the Meek written by Eileen Boggess and published by Bancroft Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready to start her freshman year at St. Hilary's High School, Mia Fullerton has set two goals for herself: to shed her long-held nickname of "Mia the Meek" and then to soar confidently into a new social, academic, and family life.
Download or read book Woodcutters written by Thomas Bernhard and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiercely observed, often hilarious, and “reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg” (The New York Times Book Review), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author’s homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna’s bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an ‘artistic dinner’ hosted by a composer and his society wife—a couple he once admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, a distinguished actor from the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently, they are seen through the critical eye of the writer, who narrates a silent but frenzied tirade against these former friends, most of whom have been brought together by Joana, a woman they buried earlier that day. Reflections on Joana’s life and suicide are mixed with these denunciations until the famous actor arrives, bringing an explosive end to the evening that even the writer could not have seen coming.
Download or read book The Meek Cutoff written by Brooks Geer Ragen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845, an estimated 2,500 emigrants left Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, for the Willamette Valley in what was soon to become the Oregon Territory. It was general knowledge that the route of the Oregon Trail through the Blue Mountains and down the Columbia River to The Dalles was grueling and dangerous. About 1,200 men, women, and children in over two hundred wagons accepted fur trapper and guide Stephen Meek's offer to lead them on a shortcut across the trackless high desert of eastern Oregon. Those who followed Meek experienced a terrible ordeal when his memory of the terrain apparently failed. Lost for weeks with little or no water and a shortage of food, the Overlanders encountered deep dust, alkali lakes, and steep, rocky terrain. Many became ill and some died in the forty days it took to travel from the Snake River in present-day Idaho to the Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon. Stories persist that children in the group found gold nuggets in a small, dry creek bed along the way. From 2006 to 2011, Brooks Ragan and a team of specialists in history, geology, global positioning, metal detecting, and aerial photography spent weeks every spring and summer tracing the Meek Cutoff. They located wagon ruts, gravesites, and other physical evidence from the most difficult part of the trail, from Vale, Oregon, to the upper reaches of the Crooked River and to a location near Redmond where a section of the train reached the Deschutes. The Meek Cutoff moves readers back and forth in time, using surviving journals from members of the 1845 party, detailed day-to-day maps, aerial photographs, and descriptions of the modern-day exploration to document an extraordinary story of the Oregon Trail.
Download or read book Jesus the Meek King written by Deirdre J. Good and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most recent books about Jesus focus on history and biography. This book, however, focuses on culturally specific understandings of humility and meekness. Jesus the Meek King is a study of kingship in Matthew's Gospel that, unlike similar studies embedded within various commentaries on this Gospel, links meekness and kingship, placing both within the context of the Hellenistic world. In addition, it explores the specific virtue of "meekness" in Paul and in English literature from Tyndale to the present. Modern readers probably understand Jesus' use of the term "meek" to commend and exemplify submissive or humble behavior. "The meek" may even be seen unfavorably as those likely to submit tamely to oppression of injury. This provocative volume, however, proposes that Jesus as the meek king is better and more accurately understood as exercising the virtue of "disciplined calmness".
Download or read book Conversational Russian Dialogues written by Lingo Mastery and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversational Russian Dialogues is an immersion book for Russian learners. The student will be provided with over 100 conversational stories in both Russian and English so the two texts can easily be compared as it is a dual language book.
Download or read book The River of the West written by Frances Fuller Victor and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Meek was one of the West's irresistible characters. He was dashing, devil-may-care, cheeky, irreverent, and more fun than a playful grizzly cub. Initially, he covers his early life adventuring in the Rocky Mountains, California, and the Southwest. His firsthand account of fur-traders is priceless, as are his descriptions of the country, mountains, and the life of a mountain man. Then, Joe Meek's life as pioneer, sheriff, U.S. Marshall, and legislator is told in his own engaging voice. The turbulent years in the Northwest include the story of trappers, traders, missionaries, women, pioneers, and Native Americans that finally came together and created a state--Oregon.
Download or read book The Meek One written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.' Based on a St Petersburg news report, Dostoyevsky's searing tale of a man who drives his wife to suicide.
Download or read book Dostoevsky s Crime and Punishment written by Deborah A. Martinsen and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime and Punishment: A Reader’s Guide focuses on narrative strategy, psychology, and ideology. Martinsen demonstrates how Dostoevsky first plunges the reader into Raskolnikov’s fevered brain, creating sympathy for him, and she explains why most readers root for him to get away from the scene of the crime. Dostoevsky subsequently provides outsider perspectives on Raskolnikov’s thinking, effecting a conversion in reader sympathy. By examining the multiple justifications for murder Raskolnikov gives as he confesses to Sonya, Dostoevsky debunks rationality-based theories. Finally, the question of why Raskolnikov and others, including the reader, focus on the murder of the pawnbroker and forget the unintended murder of Lizaveta reveals a narrative strategy based on shame and guilt.
Download or read book There s Only One You written by Kathryn Heling and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate your individuality with this picture book that honors all the wonderful things that make you . . . you. “A picture-book celebration of individuality and diversity. . . . Affirming and welcome.” —Kirkus “In all the world over, this much is true: You’re somebody special. There’s only one YOU.” This feel-good book reassures kids that, whoever and whatever they are, it’s awesome being YOU! Expertly written to include all kinds of children and families, it embraces the beauty in a range of physical types, personalities, and abilities. Kids will love discovering and recognizing themselves in these pages—and they’ll feel proud to see their special qualities acknowledged. Adorable illustrations by Rosie Butcher show a diverse community that many will find similar to their own.
Download or read book The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tragedy turns on an inability to resist crime. Presented in chronological order, in David Magarshack's celebrated translation, this is the definitive edition of Dostoevsky's best stories.
Download or read book Terrible Trail written by Keith Clark and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Meek written by Der-shing Helmer and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angora has been sent on a quest. Alone in the jungle, and with only a few cryptic words from her grandfather to guide her, she must embark on a journey to The Center -- and avoid dangers that threaten to end her adventure before it even begins! This volume contains the first chapter in the epic graphic novel by Der-shing Helmer.
Download or read book The Meek written by Brad Poynter and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End of the World as We Know It.Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has wondered how they would meet their end. Fears of plagues and natural disasters gave way to fears of our own creations as we gained more control over our environment. No one could have predicted what would finally be our undoing.The last day of our dominion over the earth began as any other. Across the globe, people went about their daily business. They felt secure in the knowledge that they would go to bed in the same world they woke up in. Then, in an instant, everything changed.Every human being on the planet suddenly found themselves in a giant and seemingly alien environment. However, it wasn't the world that had grown; it was they who had shrunk. In this new reality, pets had become predators, homes had become prisons, and even the simple task of getting a drink of water had become a monumental undertaking.Young Devin found himself alone and confused. Not knowing how, why, or even if he was the only one affected, he struggles to survive the challenges of being 1/16th his normal size. Despite the obstacles, he sets off to find his girlfriend, Dakotah, and ends up on an adventure that will determine the fate of all mankind.
