5/23/2023 0 Comments Edge of extinction the ark plan![]() To find her dad-and possibly even save the world-Sky and her best friend, Shawn, must break out of their underground home and venture topside to a land reclaimed by nature and ruled by dinosaurs. Now she has just stumbled on a clue that not only suggests his disappearance is just the tip of an even larger mystery, but also points directly to the surface. The only way to survive was to move into underground compounds.įive years ago, Sky Mundy’s father vanished from North Compound without a trace. Soon after, they replaced humans at the top of the food chain. ![]() ![]() One hundred and fifty years ago, the first dinosaurs were cloned. Jurassic World meets Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in this epic new middle grade series full of heart-pounding action and breathtaking chills! "Amazing adventures!" raves as they recommend Edge of Extinction as a Holiday Gift for Tween Readers. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Mauldin willie and joe![]() ![]() ![]() Their uniforms, however, have become so filthy during their assignment that they cannot enter the city without being arrested by M.P.s. After several grueling weeks on the job, they are finally rewarded with a one-week leave permit to Tokyo. Joe then realizes that they can volunteer for the Quartermaster Corps in order to stay together, but when they do so, they are immediately assigned to be test subjects for a series of torturous equipment tryouts. When the friends learn that they will soon be separated, they pretend not to care but are saddened. Rose treats the wily veterans roughly, requiring them to lead their troop in various physical endurance tests. Harkins tears up their discharges and sends them to Japan to repeat basic training. During their cavorting, they start a bar fight and are arrested, after which Col. After convincing the Army doctors that Willie has lost his hearing and Joe his eyesight, however, Joe insists that they join their old troop buddies for drinks that night. ![]() Within weeks of rejoining the service, Joe has a new plan to obtain discharges by faking injuries. When they are recalled to active duty only months later, however, Willie is furious. At the end of World War II, reluctant soldier Joe convinces his pal Willie to sign up for the Inactive Reserve in order to obtain early discharges. ![]() ![]() ![]() In retrospect, I argue, similar ideas can be found in Saussure’s view of the langue as a complex algebra. The criticism of structuralist treatments of morphology in Process models of inflection, however, stands as an exception to this tendency. Eventually, post-structuralism rejected the static nature of the linguistic sign, forcing linguistics into relative isolation (since it held on to sign-based models of language). ![]() Edited, introduced, and translated by the leading Saussure scholars. The Saussurean sign allowed French structuralists to revolutionize the methods of modern social science, eschewing the motives and intentions of human actors to focus on the system of oppositions that make signification possible in each domain. First publication in English of the manuscript on general linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure which lay undiscovered in a Geneva summerhouse for eighty years and which in the form of his students' lecture notes helped shape the thought of linguistics in the twentieth century. ![]() But close examination of the examples of inflectional morphology throughout the Cours brings Saussure’s ideas more in line with Process morphology, a model in which recurrent elements in word forms are exponents of content features, and realizational rules license a word form inferentially from the word’s content. Saussure’s notion of the linguistic sign as a unit of an acoustic image (signifier) and a concept (signified) immediately suggests such a model. ![]() In Item-and-Arrangement models of inflection, morphemes are associations of form and meaning stored in a mental lexicon. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Metropolis by elizabeth gaffney![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He was too young and maybe not quite cool enough to be a Beatnik, to old by a shade to be a hippie. He had long hair and little round glasses and was a member of a coop gallery in SoHo, when SoHo was for art, not shopping. He was reading Marvel comics and talking about peace in Southeast Asia. Around this same time, my father was getting involved in a teachers’ union and picketing his own campus in a t-shirt stenciled with a red fist and the word ‘strike.’ He was smoking hashish and painting beautiful, terrifying pictures. My mother, a graphic designer and artist and gifted impresario of outings, orchestrated these events, while my father, an artist and college art professor, provided the materials: huge pads of rice paper and various large charcoal sticks and conte crayons that he pilfered from a vast store of supplies ordered for the benefit of his undergraduates. When I was a girl, we sometimes went out on rubbing expeditions. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The uncommon reader![]() ![]() The president, not briefed on the subject of Genet, is dumbfounded. ![]() "Homosexual and jailbird, was he nevertheless as bad as he was painted?" she asks. In the palace, the queen finds an unlikely but helpful literary guide, a well-read kitchen worker who's gay and favors gay writers.Īt a state dinner, the queen, unscripted, asks the president of France about the writer Jean Genet. She read of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people." But before long, the queen would rather be reading Nancy Mitford than dutifully attending endless ceremonies.īennett, whose plays and screenplays include The History Boys and The Madness of King George, has a deft touch for dialogue and intrigue. To be polite, she borrows an Ivy Compton-Burnett novel, although "she'd never taken much interest in reading. The reader in Alan Bennett's hilarious and pointed novella, The Uncommon Reader, is a modern-day queen of England who happens upon a mobile library outside Buckingham Palace. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Booker t washington biography book![]() ![]() Listed by Modern Library as one of the greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. "It remains one of the most important works on such an influential African-American leader" (Delia Crutchfield Cook). ![]() It was originally published as a serial in the Outlook Magazine… and was ultimately published in more than 12 languages” (Blockson 51). Washington’s Up From Slavery is listed among the most widely read autobiographies. Washington was an educator who spoke for many African Americans during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Washington s contribution to educational equality was made greater by his influence in the social circles of millionaires and self-starters, and he was the first African American invited to the White House by President Theodore Roosevelt. After emancipation, Washington attended college in Virginia, and gained fame as a result of his 1895 speech about the importance of educating African Americans and his belief that African Americans were capable of great feats through education. Born in Virginia in 1856, Washington was of the last generation born into slavery. ![]() Washington was an African-American teacher, author, presidential advisor, and civil-rights leader. An exceptional example, rare and desirable as a first edition and signed.īooker T. Washington.” In near fine condition, bookplate and signature of educator W. ![]() With a autographed note signed by Washington to the front free endpaper, which reads, “By this mail I am also sending you a book called ‘Tuskegee and Its People,’ which I hope you may find time to read. Item Number: 111521įirst edition of Booker T. ![]() ![]() ![]() He looks forward to recognition after death not because he expects to achieve something, but as a “present pleasure” – an inert, pure hope. ![]() He fondly remembers an office boy who collected travel brochures, but never travelled. He advocates buying books never to read them. Spending most of his time alone, Soares sits thinking, celebrating the “sombre majesty of splendours no one knows”. But, constructed through 20 years of unpublished writings, Soares is considered the mask closest to the author’s own personality. He wrote prose and poetry under an array of personae he called “heteronyms”, many of which had their own sub-identities and pseudonyms. ![]() Pessoa, who died in 1935, is now considered Portugal’s finest modernist. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Rudyard kiplings kim![]() ![]() The name is derived from Rudyard Kiplings 1901 novel Kim, in which the protagonist plays the game during his training as a spy. The game develops a persons capacity to observe and remember details. He was the author of many short stories and novels including The Jungle Book. Kims Game is a game or exercise played by Boy Scouts, the military, and other groups, in which a selection of objects must be memorised. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay, India. ![]() So much more than just a spy story, Kim is one of the most enjoyable books that you will ever read - or have read to you. Taking time off from his role as the traveling companion of an aged Tibetan lama, the boy is trained as a spy, matches wits with various evildoers, and wins out in the end. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling fashion) highly moral Anglo-Indian boy who becomes enmeshed the “the Great Game” -– the competition between Britain and Russia for control over Asia. Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. Rudyard Kiplings final novel, Kim (1901), begins with an intriguing if paradoxical description of the eponymous Kim, or Kimball OHara: he is an English boy with an Irish name and Irish parentage who speaks the Indian vernacular by preference (1). ![]() ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert Kim ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Crazy love by francis chan![]() ![]() To put it plainly, churchgoers who are lukewarm are not Christians. He gives a profile of the lukewarm and concludes,”A lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron there’s no such thing. ![]() In the second section of the book Chan challenges professing Christians to examine themselves. He reviews God’s character from the Bible and challenges our small understanding of who God is. In the first section, Chan addresses the problem. Chan argues that the problem with nominal or lukewarm Christianity is an inaccurate view of God (22).Ĭrazy Love has a simple format. ![]() In the preface, Chan says that this book is “written for those who want more Jesus, and are bored with American Christianity” (21). His book Crazy Love challenges the “Christian” status-quo. So sings Beyonce in her song “Crazy in Love.” Francis Chan doesn’t quite use this line in his book Crazy Love, but switch out Beyonce’s mythical man for the eternal God, and the lyric works nicely: God’s love should make us look crazy right now.Ĭhan is the teaching pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley California and a regular speaker at Passion conferences. “Your love has got me looking so crazy right now.” ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Trilby by George du Maurier![]() ![]() Most fedoras are made of fur or wool felt, while trilbies are usually made from cotton or straw. ![]() Straw trilby hats are popular in Latin American and the Caribbean. Trilbies have a thinner brim that turns downward in the front and curves up in the back. Stingy Brim Hatsīecause of the shorter brim on the trilby, it's earned the nickname the "stingy brim hat." Fedoras are much more flexible and versatile, allowing you to snap the brim up or down according to your preference. Fedoras have a two to three-inch brim, while trilbies are often two inches or less. However, despite their appearance, the main difference between a trilby vs fedora is the brim size. When you think about a Trilby vs Fedora hat, both can look similar, leading to confusion among both casual wearers and fashionistas. What is the Difference Between a Trilby vs Fedora? ![]() Trilby hats have brims less 1.5 inches wide and fedoras have brims 2 or wider. ![]() |