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Book Giles The Collection 2017

Download or read book Giles The Collection 2017 written by Carl Giles and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Giles will be thrilled to receive the latest annual treat from the archives of the celebrated cartoonist, whose work won him huge popular admiration and accolades including being voted the best cartoonist of the 20th century. In this collection, Giles takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the views and antics of Grandma, with 150 cartoons taken from the Express and the Sunday Express archives. Brilliantly witty and full of irreverent fun, this compilation is the ideal addition to your Giles collection.

Book Giles the Collection 2022

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Giles
  • Publisher : Hamlyn
  • Release : 2021-10-07
  • ISBN : 9780600636588
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Giles the Collection 2022 written by Carl Giles and published by Hamlyn. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ****The nation's favourite cartoonist - Express**** Giles enthusiasts will be thrilled with this latest collection of classic cartoons. Capturing Giles' trademark style and British humour, the 2022 annual collection takes a look inside the Giles family home and showcases the comings and goings within. Full of satirical wit and detailed artwork, this collection perfectly captures the chaos of typical British domestic life through political remarks, heated dinner conversations and unwanted visitors. Due to COVID-19, the home has become the centre of daily life for many across Britain, and so Giles' raw and comical cartoons embody more than ever the small details and dynamics of family life. While the characters' physical appearances never change, the steady progression of British culture can be seen through music references, fashion choices and interior décor. Fans of Giles will be delighted to receive the latest annual compilation, featuring 150 cartoons from the archives of one of the most celebrated cartoonists of the once biggest selling daily newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, whose work led to him being voted the best cartoonist of the 20th century.

Book Take Back the Block

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chrystal D. Giles
  • Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2021-01-26
  • ISBN : 0593175174
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Take Back the Block written by Chrystal D. Giles and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book made me want to step aside, hand over the mic, and listen to Wes. A must-read." --Mariama J. Lockington, author of For Black Girls Like Me Brand-new kicks, ripped denim shorts, Supreme tee-- Wes Henderson has the best style in sixth grade. That--and hanging out with his crew (his best friends since little-kid days) and playing video games--is what he wants to be thinking about at the start of the school year, not the protests his parents are always dragging him to. But when a real estate developer makes an offer to buy Kensington Oaks, the neighborhood Wes has lived his whole life, everything changes. The grownups are supposed to have all the answers, but all they're doing is arguing. Even Wes's best friends are fighting. And some of them may be moving. Wes isn't about to give up the only home he's ever known. Wes has always been good at puzzles, and he knows there has to be a missing piece that will solve this puzzle and save the Oaks. But can he find it . . . before it's too late? Exploring community, gentrification, justice, and friendship, Take Back the Block introduces an irresistible 6th grader and asks what it means to belong--to a place and a movement--and to fight for what you believe in. * "Outstanding."—School Library Journal, Starred Review * “Transformative.”—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "Filled with hope, friendship, and grit." --Stacy McAnulty, best-selling author of The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl "Timely and penetrating." --Kelly Starling Lyons, author of Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations "Chrystal Giles's sparkling debut will have you standing up and cheering." --Lisa Yee, award winning author of Millicent Min, Girl Genius "Chrystal Giles really nailed it. I loved this book." --Linda Williams Jackson, award winning author of Midnight Without a Moon "Necessary and inspiring. An empowering read." --Ashley Herring Blake, author of the Stonewall Honor Book Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World "Wes will welcome middle grade readers into his delightful circle of friends, his strong and loving family, and his powerful community." --Barbara Dee, author of the ALA Notable Children's Book Maybe He Just Likes You

Book Giles s War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Benson
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2017-07-13
  • ISBN : 1473543924
  • Pages : 533 pages

Download or read book Giles s War written by Tim Benson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few contemporaries captured Britain’s indomitable wartime spirit as well or as wittily as the cartoonist Carl Giles. Now, for the first time, the very best of the cartoons he produced between 1939 and 1945 are brought together, including many that have not seen the light of day in over 75 years. As a young cartoonist at Reynold’s News and then the Daily Express, Giles's work provided a crucial morale boost – and much-needed laughs – to a population suffering daily privations and danger, and Giles's War shows why. Here are his often hilarious takes on the great events of the war – from the Fall of France, via D-Day, to the final Allied victory – but also his wryly amusing depictions of ordinary people in extraordinary times, living in bombed-out streets, dealing with food shortages, coping with blackouts, railing against bureaucracy and everyday annoyances. It's a brilliantly funny chronicle of our nation’s finest hour, as well as a fitting tribute to one of our greatest cartoonists.

Book Rough Translations

    Book Details:
  • Author : Molly Giles
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 1993-10-01
  • ISBN : 0820323705
  • Pages : 149 pages

Download or read book Rough Translations written by Molly Giles and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly Giles's engaging collection of stories was the winner not only of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction but also of the 1985 San Francisco Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA) Award for Fiction and the 1986 Boston Globe Fiction Award. Many of the stories in Rough Translations have been anthologized and adapted for radio performance. A master of the complexities of language, Molly Giles writes of the missed connections in life and of the rough translations that we employ when we try to convey, through words and gestures, what we are thinking and what we want from our loved ones.

Book Why Calories Don t Count

Download or read book Why Calories Don t Count written by Giles Yeo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cambridge obesity researcher upends everything we thought we knew about calories and calorie-counting. Calorie information is ubiquitous. On packaged food, restaurant menus, and online recipes we see authoritative numbers that tell us the calorie count of what we're about to consume. And we treat these numbers as gospel—counting, cutting, intermittently consuming and, if you believe some 'experts' out there, magically making them disappear. We all know, and governments advise, that losing weight is just a matter of burning more calories than we consume. But it's actually all wrong. In Why Calories Don't Count, Dr. Giles Yeo, an obesity researcher at Cambridge University, challenges the conventional model and demonstrates that all calories are not created equal. He addresses why popular diets succeed, at least in the short term, and why they ultimately fail, and what your environment has to do with your bodyweight. Once you understand that calories don't count, you can begin to make different decisions about how you choose to eat, learning what you really need to be counting instead. Practical, science-based and full of illuminating anecdotes, this is the most entertaining dietary advice you'll ever read.

Book Faithful and Fearless

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giles, Zeny
  • Publisher : Giles
  • Release : 2021-10-12
  • ISBN : 9781913875015
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Faithful and Fearless written by Giles, Zeny and published by Giles. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, giftable, richly-illustrated look at the special connection between people and their beloved pet.

Book Wife with Knife

    Book Details:
  • Author : Molly Giles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-11-16
  • ISBN : 9781948585293
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Wife with Knife written by Molly Giles and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wife with Knife is a collection of quick and quirky short stories, that are an utter delight and winner of the Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize 2020

Book The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection

Download or read book The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection written by Ben Brashares and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chuck Whipplethorp learns that he comes from a fascinating lineage of Whipplethorps, so he sets off to carve his own mark--by collecting bugs"--

Book Scenes of New York

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giles, Zeny
  • Publisher : Giles
  • Release : 2022-02-22
  • ISBN : 9781911282853
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Scenes of New York written by Giles, Zeny and published by Giles. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seeing Differently  The Phillips Collects for a New Century

Download or read book Seeing Differently The Phillips Collects for a New Century written by David C. Driskell and published by Giles. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansive collection catalogue that offers a multiplicity of fresh perspectives on recent modern and contemporary art acquisitions in The Phillips Collection

Book Giles   the Collection 2012

Download or read book Giles the Collection 2012 written by Giles and published by Hamlyn. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the 20th century's greatest cartoonist's work once more with this superb collection of some of Giles' wittiest cartoons. From politics to the family, his cartoons parodied every aspect of British life and delighted Daily Express readers for over four decades. This brand new compilation includes 150 cartoons packed with fun details and the clever characterizations that made Giles a household name.

Book Florence and Giles

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Harding
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 000731504X
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Florence and Giles written by John Harding and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1891. In a remote and crumbling New England mansion, 12-year-old orphan Florence is neglected by her guardian uncle and banned from reading. Left to her own devices she devours books in secret and talks to herself - and narrates this, her story - in a unique language of her own invention.

Book Aristotle

Download or read book Aristotle written by Barbara Scalvini and published by Giles. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways in which the Aristotelian corpus has been transmitted over time, focusing on one crucial, extended moment: the moment when, thanks to the invention of printing, Aristotle's works became widely available.

Book Deep Wheel Orcadia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harry Josephine Giles
  • Publisher : Picador
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 1529066603
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Deep Wheel Orcadia written by Harry Josephine Giles and published by Picador. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep Wheel Orcadia is, effortlessly, a first: a science-fiction verse novel written in the Orcadian dialect, it's also the first full-length book in the Orkney language in over 50 years Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind. Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science fiction verse novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyric and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire - all with the lightness of touch, fluency and musicality one might expect of one the most talented poets to have emerged from Scotland in recent years. Hailing from Orkney, Harry Josephine Giles is widely known as a fine poet and spellbindingly original performer of their own work; Deep Wheel Orcadia now strikes out into audacious new space.

Book Collection Thinking

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jason Camlot
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2022-09-07
  • ISBN : 1000625710
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Collection Thinking written by Jason Camlot and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understand the meaning of "collection" as an entity and as an act. It offers new models for understanding how collections have been imagined and defined, assembled, created, and used as cultural phenomena. Featuring over 70 illustrations and 21 original chapters that explore cases from a wide range of fields, including library and archival studies, literary studies, art history, media studies, sound studies, folklore studies, game studies, and education, Collection Thinking builds on the important scholarly works produced on the topic of the archive over the past two decades and contributes to ongoing debates on the historical status of memory institutions. The volume illustrates how the concept of "collection" bridges these institutional and structural categories, and generates discussions of cultural activities involving artifactual arrangement, preservation, curation, and circulation in both the private and the public spheres. Edited and introduced collaboratively by three senior scholars with expertise in the fields of literature, art history, archives, and museums, Collection Thinking is designed to stimulate interdisciplinary reflection and conversation. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in how we organize materials for research across disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. With case studies that range from collecting Barbie dolls to medieval embroideries, and with contributions from practitioners on record collecting, the creation of sub-culture archives, and collection as artistic practice, this volume will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered about why and how collections are made.

Book How to Read Portraits

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Calley Galitz
  • Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Release : 2024-04-29
  • ISBN : 1588397645
  • Pages : 123 pages

Download or read book How to Read Portraits written by Kathryn Calley Galitz and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. This intimate genre sheds light on the subjects’ and makers’ politics, relationships, aspirations, and insecurities. Featuring more than fifty works across time and cultures, from the lifelike Faiyum funerary masks of ancient Roman Egypt to Pablo Picasso’s and Marsden Hartley’s abstractions to likenesses imagined by contemporary artists, this publication probes the notion of what constitutes a portrait, beyond mere verisimilitude. Bestselling author Kathryn Calley Galitz illuminates how artists through the ages have exploited the genre to reveal character and convey power and status; how artists as varied as Rembrandt and Cindy Sherman embraced artifice and roleplaying to explore identity; and how the term “portraiture” encompasses a wider variety of works than typically thought. This reexamination of a deceptively familiar genre provides fascinating ideas about what these images can tell us about the sitter, the artist, the culture in which they lived, and ourselves.