Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135195250
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Here Russell reflects on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. This book provides valuable insight into the range of interests and depth of conviction of one of the world’s greatest philosophers.
Author: John Grigg Hewlett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: Charles de Lint
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765316783
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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A tale of love, courage, and the transforming power of imagination
Author: Tim O'Brien
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547420293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Look for O’Brien’s new book, American Fantastica, on sale October 24th A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Author: Dan Gutman
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062306227
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Think fast with A.J. and Andrea from My Weird School! Did you know that Antarctica’s largest land animal is an insect? Did you know that the smallest country in the world is only 0.2 square miles?! Learn more weird-but-true geography facts with A.J. and Andrea from Dan Gutman’s bestselling My Weird School series. This fun series of nonfiction books features hundreds of hysterical facts, plus lots of photos and illustrations. Whether you’re a kid who wants to learn more about geography or simply someone who wants to know if there’s really a town called Scratch Ankle, this is the book for you! With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!
Author: Edmund J. Farrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780673034076
Category : Readers (Secondary)
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Author: George W. Beahm
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781571744401
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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For fans who want to know about the myths, folklore, legends, and Muggle history embedded in the Harry Potter novels, this treasure trove of fun facts and tantalizing trivia covers the fabulous beasts and creatures, the wizards, magical artifacts, and magical places in the Harry Potter world. Full color.
Author: Christine Sneed
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608199681
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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The people who orbit around Renn Ivins, an actor of Harrison Ford-like stature--his girlfriends, his children, his ex-wives, those on the periphery--long to experience the glow of his flame. Anna and Will are Renn's grown children, struggling to be authentic versions of themselves in a world where they are seen as less important extensions of their father. They are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows every part of them. Most of us can imagine the perks of celebrity, but Little Known Facts offers a clear-eyed story of its effects--the fallout of fame and fortune on family members and others who can neither fully embrace nor ignore the superstar in their midst. With Little Known Facts, Christine Sneed emerges as one of the most insightful chroniclers of our celebrity-obsessed age, telling a story of influence and affluence, of forging identity and happiness and a moral compass; the question being, if we could have anything on earth, would we choose correctly?
Author: Alan Sandison
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403919291
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines some of the ways in which writers, artists, film-makers, strategists and political thinkers have imagined the future over the last two centuries. Although a number of contributions discuss 'mainstream' science fiction, the collection's emphasis is not on any single genre, but rather on the ways in which different histories - technological, cultural, military, ideological - generate and inform different modes of speculation about things to come. These histories also disclose that our patterns of expectation are much influenced by our relationship to the past.
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Author: Andrew Reed
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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