Download or read book The Only Harmless Great Thing written by Brooke Bolander and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fission -- Cascade Reaction.
Download or read book No Flight Without the Shatter written by Brooke Bolander and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the wondrous mind of Brooke Bolander, the author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, who "shares literary DNA with Le Guin" (John Scalzi). After the world's end, the last young human learns a final lesson from Earth's remaining animals. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds written by Nick Nicholas and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas (U. of Melbourne, Australia) and Baloglou (State U. of New York, Oswego) have done an admirable job in creating a translation and commentary of this 15th-century Byzantine text that's accessible to specialist and non-specialist alike. The tales are of very human-like activities, banter, and scuffles between talking animals. In their lengthy (159- page) introduction to the side-by-side translation, Nicholas and Baloglou describe the political and cultural context of the work, emphasizing the political innuendo that might be gleaned from the tale's satirical tone. They describe the tales within the context of other texts, both Byzantine and foreign. Appendices provide the texts of some of these influences, as well as discussion of literary and historical issues raised in the animals' stories. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book The Amboseli Elephants written by Cynthia J. Moss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe and Hannibal used them in warfare. This book is the summation of what's been learned from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project (AERP) - the longest continuously running elephant research project in the world.
Download or read book The Harmless People written by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A study of primitive people which, for beauty of . . . style and concept, would be hard to match.” —The New York Times Book Review In the 1950s Elizabeth Marshall Thomas became one of the first Westerners to live with the Bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana and South-West Africa. Her account of these nomadic hunter-gatherers, whose way of life had remained unchanged for thousands of years, is a ground-breaking work of anthropology, remarkable not only for its scholarship but for its novelistic grasp of character. On the basis of field trips in the 1980s, Thomas has now updated her book to show what happened to the Bushmen as the tide of industrial civilization—with its flotsam of property rights, wage labor, and alcohol—swept over them. The result is a powerful, elegiac look at an endangered culture as well as a provocative critique of our own. "The charm of this book is that the author can so truly convey the strangeness of the desert life in which we perceive human traits as familiar as our own. . . . The Harmless People is a model of exposition: the style very simple and precise, perfectly suited to the neat, even fastidious activities of a people who must make their world out of next to nothing." —The Atlantic
Download or read book Harmless written by Dana Reinhardt and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a man. He had a knife. He attacked us down by the river.It was just a harmless little lie.Anna, Emma and Mariah concoct a story about why they're late getting home one night—a story that will replace their parents' anger withconcern. They just have to stand by it. No matter what. Suddenly the police are involved, and the town demands that someone be punished. And then there is the man who is arrested and accused of a crime that never happened.
Download or read book And Another Thing written by Eoin Colfer and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And Another Thing ... will be the sixth novel in the now improbably named Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. Eight years after the death of its creator, Douglas Adams, the author's widow, Jane Belson, has given her approval for the project to be continued by the international number one bestselling children's writer, Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl novels. Douglas Adams himself once said, 'I suspect at some point in the future I will write a sixth Hitchhiker book. Five seems to be a wrong kind of number, six is a better kind of number.' Belson said of Eoin Colfer, 'I love his books and could not think of a better person to transport Arthur, Zaphod and Marvin to pastures new.' Colfer, a fan of Hitchhiker since his schooldays, said, 'Being given the chance to write this book is like suddenly being offered the superpower of your choice. For years I have been finishing this incredible story in my head and now I have the opportunity to do it in the real world.' Prepare to be amazed...
Download or read book The Rhetoric of John Donne s Verse written by Wightman Fletcher Melton and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Do One Thing Every Day to Change the World written by Robie Rogge and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 365 inspiring quotes and prompts for anyone who aspires to be more politically active, environmentally friendly, or socially conscious--part of the bestselling Do One Thing Every Day series. "In a gentle way, you can shake the world." --Mahatma Gandhi Activism is on the rise. Consumers, shareholders, employees, students, and many other social groups want to get involved with political, environmental, and social issues. Do One Thing Every Day to Change the World is the ideal tool for turning those ambitions into positive change. This guided journal offers a quote and a prompt or activity for every day of the year, encouraging readers to do one thing each day that makes the world a better place. Daily doses of energizing inspiration from famous writers, athletes, musicians, entrepreneurs, and others invite readers to take a stand for what they believe in and work for change.
Download or read book The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Thirteen written by Elizabeth Bear and published by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A librarian helps a desperate student find the door into a book; Sir Thomas Moore’s head is stolen and a messy rescue ensues; a mother sells a piece of her memory so her daughter can afford an education. Science fiction is the story of what if and what comes next. It’s more playful, more inclusive and more entertaining than it has ever been before and as the world falls apart around us, it offers us a chance to understand how things could be better, or just how a great story can get us through another night. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Thirteen brings together the very best clashes between zombies and unicorns, robots and fairies, spaceships and more in a definitive volume that takes us everywhere from the distant future and the moons of our own solar system, to one last visit to Earthsea... Featuring stories from Kelly Barnhill // Elizabeth Bear // Brooke Bolander // Zen Cho // P. Djèlí Clark // John Crowley // Andy Duncan // Jeffrey Ford // Daryl Gregory // Alix E. Harrow // Maria Dahvana Headley // Simone Heller // S. L. Huang // Dave Hutchinson // N. K. Jemisin // T. Kingfisher // Naomi Kritzer // Rich Larson // Ursula K. Le Guin // Yoon Ha Lee // Ken Liu // Carmen Maria Machado // Annalee Newitz // Garth Nix // Naomi Novik // S. Qiouyi Lu // Kelly Robson // Vandana Singh // Tade Thompson // Alyssa Wong
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Download or read book Poems written by John Donne and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Specimens with memoirs of the less known British poets With an intr essay by G Gilfillan The text ed by C C Clarke written by George Gilfillan and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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