Download or read book My Name Is Light written by Elsa Osorio and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vacationing in Madrid with her husband and newborn son, Luz, a twenty-one-year-old Argentinean, secretly searches for her real father, a political activist who disappeared during the country's dictatorship in the 1970s. Original.

Download or read book Vinland Saga written by Makoto Yukimura and published by Kodansha Comics. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITHIN THE KING’S GRASP As Canute plots to become ruler of the entire Danish world, Thorfinn’s only ambition is to see a harvest profitable enough to buy his own life back. But the fates of prince and slave will come together once again, as Canute plans to seize Ketil Farm from its kindhearted master. What sinister tricks does the have up his sleeve, and could they dash Thorfinn’s hopes for freedom? Meanwhile, Einar’s infatuation with Arnheid takes an unexpected turn when her former husband – an escaped slave – barges onto the farm, insisting she run away with him… "A fascinating, violent, and moving story [that’s] firmly among other timeless classics… Seriously, I don’t know how many different ways I can say this manga is worth reading." -Kotaku

Download or read book Manhattan Beach 1957 written by Yves H. and published by Graphic Sha Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Reed is bored with his life and his uneventful police career in a sleepy town in Missouri, until a girl is found dead in the nearby forest. The event triggers John's suppressed memories of the summer of 1957, when he was on his way to Las Vegas and crossed paths with a girl that was on the run, trying to get to the resort at Manhattan beach. They traveled together for a few days by stealing cars, until the police and her uncle caught up to them, with tragic results. As he investigates the brutal murders of several young girls, the past and present begin to blur in his mind.

Download or read book The Nutcracker written by Alexandre Dumas and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Each edition has been optimized for maximum readability, using our patent-pending conversion technology. We are partnering with leading publishers around the globe to create accessible editions of their titles. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to readatoday.

Download or read book The Bear written by Raymond Briggs and published by Random House. This book was released on 1996 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night a great big, white polar comes to stay with Tilly. The bear's got black hooked claws and huge yellow teeth; but his white furry coat is warm and soft and Tilly decides he's the cuddliest thing in the whole world. Tilly soon finds out that a big bear can cause big problems - he takes a LOT of looking after! But when she describes the bear's latest antics to her parents they think he's a figment of her imagination - but is he?

Download or read book Zippel written by Alex Rühle and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul returns home from school one day to discover a tiny ghost is living in the keyhole of his front door. He names him Zippel, and the little ghost is curious about everything, from food and clothes to how the toilet flushes! But Paul's parents want to change the locks - can Paul find Zippel a new home in time? Filled with colourful pictures from best-loved illustrator Axel Scheffler, Zippel is a charming story about finding friends in the most unexpected of places.

Download or read book APOSIMZ Volume 1 written by Tsutomu Nihei and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story takes place on the frigid, massive artificial planet known as Aposimz. Eo, Biko and Etherow, residents of the White Diamond Beam, are in the middle of combat training when suddenly a girl appears, Rebedoan Empire soldiers in hot pursuit. The girl asks for their help in keeping safe a “code” and seven mysterious “bullets.” This chance encounter marks a major shift in the fate of the entire planet…

Download or read book Oh written by Josse Goffin and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1991-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belgian illustrator Josse Goffin offers an imaginative visual surprise that literally unfolds before children's eyes. Colorful, lighthearted illustrations combine with large-format foldouts to provide a series of unexpected transformations. 24 full-color illustrations.

Download or read book The Disney Poster Book written by Walt Disney Productions and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1977 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved Disney characters and scenes from classic Disney movies are depicted in a collection of posters

Download or read book Memoirs of a Yellow Dog written by O.Henry and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story is narrated by a yellow dog who lives in New York. The yellow dog recounts his life, his owners, and his love for his master (and his dislike for his master’s wife). Man and dog really do have a stronger bond in this story than man and wife, and ‘Memoirs of a Yellow Dog’ is a classic short story about our four-legged friends. O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.

Download or read book Naruto Vol 26 written by Masashi Kishimoto and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle between former best friends Sasuke and Naruto grows even more fierce. Will Sasuke risk everything, even Naruto’s life, to obtain the power of the Mangekyo? -- VIZ Media

Download or read book Invisible Genealogies written by Regna Darnell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invisible Genealogies is a landmark reinterpretation of the history of anthropology in North America. During the past two decades, theorizing by many American anthropologists has called for an "experimental moment" grounded in explicit self-reflexive scholarship and experimentation with alternate forms of presentation. Such postmodern anthropology has effectively downplayed connections with past luminaries in the field, whose scholarship is perceived to be uncomfortably colonialist and nonreflexive. Ironically, as the American Anthropological Association nears its one hundredth anniversary and interest in the history of the discipline is at an all-time high, that history has been effectively presented as removed from and irrelevant to the new generation. Invisible Genealogies offers an alternative, compelling vision of the development of anthropology in North America, one that emphasizes continuity rather than discontinuity from legendary founder Franz Boas to the present. Regna Darnell identifies key interpretive assumptions and practices that have persisted, sometimes in modified form, since the groundbreaking work of A. L. Kroeber, Boas, Ruth Benedict, Edward Sapir, Elsie Clews Parsons, Paul Radin, Benjamin Lee Whorf, and A. Irving Hallowell during the founding decades of anthropology. Also highlighted are the Americanist roots of postmodern anthropology and the work of innovative recent scholars like Claude Lävi-Strauss and Clifford Geertz.

Download or read book People of the Earth written by Brian M. Fagan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand major developments of human prehistory People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory 14/e, provides an exciting journey though the 7-million-year-old panorama of humankind's past. This internationally renowned text provides the only truly global account of human prehistory from the earliest times through the earliest civilizations. Written in an accessible way for beginning students, People of the Earth shows how today's diverse humanity developed biologically and culturally over millions of years against a background of constant climatic change.

Download or read book A Language of Our Own written by Peter Bakker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Michif language -- spoken by descendants of French Canadian fur traders and Cree Indians in western Canada -- is considered an "impossible language" since it uses French for nouns and Cree for verbs, and comprises two different sets of grammatical rules. Bakker uses historical research and fieldwork data to present the first detailed analysis of this language and how it came into being.

Download or read book Citizens Plus written by Alan C. Cairns and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Citizens Plus, Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state. He considers the assimilationist policy assumptions of the imperial era, examines more recent government initiatives, and analyzes the emergence of the nation-to-nation paradigm given massive support by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. We are battered by contending visions, he argues - a revised assimilation policy that finds its support in the Canadian Alliance Party is countered by the nation-to-nation vision, which frames our future as coexisting solitudes. Citizens Plus stakes out a middle ground with its support for constitutional and institutional arrangements which will simultaneously recognize Aboriginal difference and reinforce a solidarity which binds us together in common citizenship. Selected as a BC Book for Everybody

Download or read book History Mathematics written by Peter Turchin and published by Editorial URSS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book With Good Intentions written by Celia Haig-Brown and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Good Intentions examines the joint efforts of Aboriginal people and individuals of European ancestry to counter injustice in Canada when colonization was at its height, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. These people recognized colonial wrongs and worked together in a variety of ways to right them, but they could not stem the tide of European-based exploitation. The book is neither an apologist text nor an attempt to argue that some colonizers were simply "well intentioned." Almost all those considered here -- teachers, lawyers, missionaries, activists -- had as their overall goal the Christianization and civilization of Canada's First Peoples. By discussing examples of Euro-Canadians who worked with Aboriginal peoples, With Good Intentions brings to light some of the lesser-known complexities of colonization.