Download or read book Magical History Tour Vol 5 written by Fabrice Erre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern day kids Annie and Nico go on a magical history tour back to explore some of the worst infectious diseases of all time. The plague has caused the loss of millions and shaped the course of history for the modern world. Together, Annie and Nico explore the history of pandemics and learn about history’s most notorious pandemics to better understand today’s current health crisis. Experience the ins and outs of this complicated topic with Annie and Nico as the helpful guides in this pocket-sized book.
Download or read book Magical History Tour Vol 13 written by Fabrice Erre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Marie Curie? Learn about the renowned chemist and Nobel Prize winner with modern-day kids, Annie and Nico. Join them as they go back in time and roam around the globe, learning about the noble French-Polish woman that furthered the sciences and discovered radium. Strap on your goggles and remember lab safety! What will readers learn with Annie and Nico today?
Download or read book Magical History Tour Vol 9 written by Fabrice Erre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern day kids Annie and Nico go on a magical history tour to uncover one of the biggest disasters of modern times, the sinking of The Titanic. A floating palace on her maiden voyage, this passenger luxury cruise ship met its tragic fate on April 14th, 1912 when it collided with an iceberg. Join Annie and Nico as they clearly describe what went wrong and show some of the opulence that is lost to the sea and lost to time in this pocket-sized book, perfect for classrooms and libraries!
Download or read book Magical History Tour Vol 10 written by Fabrice Erre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buckle in and join modern day kids Annie and Nico as they witness another historic feat: Man first setting foot on the moon on July 21, 1969. Get to know the astronauts behind the landing, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, as well as the 12 who followed, as they took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind. Also discover the origins of the space race and the efforts NASA as well as the USSR space programs took to launch human beings into uncharted territory: outer space! Annie and Nico will (moon) walk your through everything in a clear and easy to understand way in this pocket-sized book, perfect for classrooms and libraries!
Download or read book The Magical History of Britain written by Martin Wall and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to consider British history from a magical perspective, and how these arcane magical themes developed over time.
Download or read book Magical History Tour Vol 14 written by Fabrice Erre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join modern-day kids Annie and Nico as they learn about the infamous Roman warriors in this educational and entertaining middle grade graphic novel – perfect for reluctant readers!
Download or read book Magical History Tour Vol 11 written by Fabrice Erre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern-day kids Annie and Nico go on a magical history tour to understand one of society’s lowest points… Slavery. The right of ownership over individuals found in all major societies, exploiting masses of people and contributing to the wealth and power of privileged civilizations. From the oriental slave trade to transatlantic slave trade that pillaged Africa of its peoples and riches, Annie and Nico explain this tragic phenomenon with compassion, clarity, and the keys to how we can reconcile with history’s tragic past in this important pocket-sized book, perfect for classrooms and libraries.
Download or read book Edison s Eve written by Gaby Wood and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and informative exploration of our age-old obsession with “making life.” Could an eighteenth-century mechanical duck really digest and excrete its food? Was “the Turk,” a celebrated chess-playing and -winning machine fabricated in 1769, a dazzling piece of fakery, or could it actually think? Why was Thomas Edison obsessed with making a mechanical doll—a perfect woman, mass-produced? Can a twenty-first-century robot express human emotions of its own? Taking up themes long familiar from the realms of fairy tales and science fiction, Gaby Wood traces the hidden prehistory of a modern idea—the thinking, hoaxes, and inventions that presaged contemporary robotics and the current experiments with artificial intelligence. Informed by the author’s scientific and historical research, Edison’s Eve is also a brilliant literary, cultural, and philosophical examination of the motives that have driven human beings to pursue the creation of mechanical life, and the effects of that pursuit—both in its successes and in its failures—on our sense of what makes us human.
Download or read book The Magical Chorus written by Solomon Volkov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the first book to fully examine the intricate and often deadly interconnection between Russian rulers and Russian artists, cultural historian Solomon Volkov brings to life the experiences that inspired artists like Tolstoy, Stravinsky, Akhmatova, Nijinsky, Nabokov, and Eisenstein to create some of the greatest masterpieces of our time. Epic in scope and intimate in detail, The Magical Chorus is the definitive account of a remarkable era in Russia's complex cultural life.
Download or read book Magical History Tour Vol 3 written by Fabrice Erre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Annie and Nico as they travel through time and discover the history and importance of “black gold,” the non-renewable natural resource known as oil. Witness the rise of oil throughout history from its unique uses in ancient times to the hunt to dig up more oil as it was discovered underground in 1859. All packaged in a pocket hardcover with easily accessible facts, figures, and trivia retelling the magical history of oil from a kids perspective.
Download or read book The Book of Wizards written by Tim Dedopulos and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beat Bugs Magical Mystery Tour written by Anne Lamb and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Beat Bugs, the Netflix TV show inspired by songs made famous by the Beatles. When the Beat Bugs meet Jasper the grasshopper, Jasper offers to take them on an adventure where the sky is the limit. They all agree to go on the mysterious trip, but it turns out to be nothing like what they expected it to be. Based on the new Netflix original show Beat Bugs and inspired by the hit song "Magical Mystery Tour," this 8x8 storybook is filled with fun and adventure.
Download or read book Living Dolls written by Gaby Wood and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Dolls tells the story of humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men - and it gives the history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations.
Download or read book Magical x Miracle Volume 5 written by Yuzu Mizutani and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a tale of magic, mystery, and mistaken identity.
Download or read book The Magical Imagination written by Karl Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative history of popular magical mentalities in nineteenth-century England explores the dynamic ways in which the magical imagination helped people to adjust to urban life. Previous studies of modern popular magical practices and supernatural beliefs have largely neglected the urban experience. Karl Bell, however, shows that the magical imagination was a key cultural resource which granted an empowering sense of plebeian agency in the nineteenth-century urban environment. Rather than portraying magical beliefs and practices as a mere enclave of anachronistic 'tradition' and the fantastical as simply an escapist refuge from the real, he reveals magic's adaptive and transformative qualities and the ways in which it helped ordinary people navigate, adapt to and resist aspects of modern urbanization. Drawing on perspectives from cultural anthropology, sociology, folklore and urban studies, this is a major contribution to our understanding of modern popular magic and the lived experience of modernization and urbanization.
Download or read book Conjuring Spirits Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book David Copperfield s History of Magic written by David Copperfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this personal journey through a unique performing art, David Copperfield profiles some of the world's most groundbreaking magicians. From the sixteenth-century magistrate who wrote an early book on conjuring, to the roaring twenties and the man who fooled Houdini, to the woman who levitated, vanished, and caught bullets in her bare hands, David Copperfield's History of Magic takes you on a wild journey through the remarkable feats of some of the greatest magicians in history. The result is a sweeping tale that reveals how these astonishing performers were outsiders who used magic to escape class, challenge conventions, transform popular culture, explore the innermost workings of the human mind, and inspire scientific discovery. Their incredible stories are complemented by more than 100 never-before-seen photographs of artifacts from Copperfield's exclusive Museum of Magic, including a sixteenth-century manual on sleight-of-hand; Houdini's straitjackets, handcuffs, and water torture chamber; Dante's famous sawing-in-half apparatus; Alexander's high-tech turban that allowed him to read people's minds; and even some coins that may have magically passed through the hands of Abraham Lincoln. By the end of the book, you'll be sure to share Copperfield's passion for the power of magic. --
