Plus, sometimes when I want to read but don’t feel like picking up a 300+ page book, children’s books can be great palate cleansers or stepping stones into future reads. Whether you’re checking out children’s nonfiction from the library for your own child, buying a book for a young reader in your life, or looking to spark a little wonder in your own life, these books will hit the spot!Ī few of the reasons why I personally love children’s nonfiction books so much is that they provide lots of straightforward and exciting information paired with pictures that make the facts pop even more. Under Earth, Under Water by Aleksandra Mizielinski Hardcover £11.99 Customers who viewed this item also viewed Product description Theres also the accompanying 'Under Water', again by Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski. You don’t have to be a kid to enjoy a good children’s nonfiction book!
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Throughout his speech, Antony calls the conspirators "honourable men" – his implied sarcasm becoming increasingly obvious. Summary Īntony has been allowed by Brutus and the other conspirators to make a funeral oration for Caesar on condition that he will not blame them for Caesar's death however, while Antony's speech outwardly begins by justifying the actions of Brutus and the assassins, Antony uses rhetoric and genuine reminders to ultimately portray Caesar in such a positive light that the crowd is enraged against the conspirators. Occurring in Act III, scene II, it is one of the most famous lines in all of Shakespeare's works. " Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. "Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany If you are a UK/EU consumer, you have the legal right, under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 to cancel your order within twenty eight (28) working days following your receipt of the goods or the date on which we begin provision of the services. When she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for each other. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance network in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - a group of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. But when Léonie stumbles across a ruined sepulchre she uncovers a timeless mystery and a unique deck of tarot cards that seem to hold power over life and death.ġ942, Nazi-occupied France. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her older brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine de la Cade. Although Alaïs cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in keeping the secret of the labyrinth safe.ġ891. Seventeen-year-old Alaïs Pelletier is given a mysterious book by her father, which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. You have to break down walls, learn to trust, and heal from your past in order to win. Love is a racecourse of unexpected twists and turns that must be negotiated. Hell yes, she's worth the fight…but how do you fight for someone you know you don't deserve? Became the lifeline I never knew I needed. Made me whole when all I thought I could ever be was incomplete. Mine started the minute Rylee fell out of that damn storage closet. You must overcome all your fears, confront the demons that chase you, and cleanse the poison that clings to your soul or you risk the chance of losing everything. Summary When life crashes down around us, how hard are we willing to fight for the one thing we can't live without, each other?Įvery single moment prepares you for that one instance that defines your life. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! Crashed - The Driven Series #3 K. We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. The Gomez family that live in Mexico was awarded the Guinness World Record for the largest hairy family.įour family members have around 98% of their bodies covered in hair and were awarded the record on February 1, 2000. Some people are hairier than others, but there is one family that tops them all. A family in Mexico has 98% of their bodies covered in hair. Here are 21 weird and wonderful world records that you didn’t know existed. Guinness World Records was the first and only of its kind to measure and document incredible and dare devilish acts of humankind. It was first published in 1955, following a dispute over the fastest game bird for shooting. Guinness World Records is the globally recognized official awarding body of any world record attempt. World record attempts are associated with extreme, weird and wonderful acts of both humans and the natural world. “Alar scare” of 1989 illustrates a basic limitation in the ability of our mind to deal with small risks: we either ignore them altogether or give them far too much weight-nothing in between. “The emotional tail wags the rational dog.” Moses Illusion "How many animals of each kind did Moses take into the ark?”Īnchoring effects explained - the case of the limited sales of Campbell soup. How friendly Stock Symbols help a Company. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. Our impulse to make quick decisions which are usually wrong. How Judges make decisions based on when they ate! In the words of the author "Much of the discussion in this book is about biases of intuition." There are economic, psychology & real-life examples all through. The crux of the book is about how humans think and make decisions. You need to read 5-7 pages a day max and ingest, think, revise and then continue reading. This is a Nobel Prize winner giving away all his secrets in a single book and the knowledge, facts, data, experiments and trivia inside are University Degrees all packed into this neat package! If you came to me and said, "Alok, I dropped out of College but I've read "Thinking Fast and Slow" and have understood it, I may not reprimand you. Thinking, Fast and Slow is an incredible book written by Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman. The other two point-of-view characters, Jemma and Wilson, were built from a conglomeration of other accounts. “Sometimes having too much is not good, but I made my way through it,” she said. At times it was difficult to choose which stories to include, especially since she would be limited to writing them from Georgy’s perspective. Many of the plot points were taken directly from the Woolsey family’s extensive correspondence. With all of her no-nonsense parenting, she was able to raise eight children on her own, after the early death of her husband. “It has been my experience,” she says at one point, “that the people who can profit most from lessons seldom know they need them.” During the war, Woolsey crosses paths with Jemma, a young enslaved girl, and Ann-May Wilson, a harsh plantation mistress whose husband is fighting for the Confederacy.īurns opened the discussion with a question about Woolsey’s mother, Jane Eliza, and the pieces of wisdom she shares throughout. In “Sunflower Sisters,” Kelly introduces readers to Ferriday’s ancestor, Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse and ardent abolitionist. Author Martha Hall Kelly joined Northwest Passages Book Club to discuss her latest historical fiction novel, “Sunflower Sisters,” with The Spokesman-Review’s Kristi Burns Friday.īased on a true story, Kelly’s bestselling debut novel “Lilac Girls” introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite turned philanthropist who helped 72 women escape from the Ravensbruck concentration camp. While Thomas and Niko are both trying to figure out what their feelings for each other mean, I would not in any sense call this story “gay for you.” They don’t really have context. There’s a lot about leaving, shedding, moving away that resonates. This is already a time filled with ambivalent feelings, and while there is obviously a literal meaning to the story, I couldn’t help feeling as if it was also a nice metaphor for the changes a person goes through at that time. The characters are just graduating high school and starting their final summer at home before heading off to college. When I started this book, I wasn’t sure what to expect. He writes what comes across to me as a lot on the theme of “I’m not sure of what I’m feeling, but I want to ponder it and explore it from every angle.” It’s heavily character-driven rather than plot-driven. If I could sum it up in a word, that might be introspective. I already knew from prior experience that I like the author’s writing style. **I was provided a copy of this in exchange for an honest review.** From 1942 he took drawing lessons from the painter and restorer Alois Schiemann. Austrian painter, architect, graphic artist and musician, founder and most important representative of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Ernst Fuchs (1930 Vienna, lives and works in Vienna). Ernst Fuchs was an Austrian painter who was born in Vienna in 1930. This contains the three-part original etching 'Eva Triptych' (work number 116/I) with Ernst Fuchs' personal signature, 3 further original etchings on rolled Indian paper with Ernst Fuchs' personal signature (work numbers 113, 114 and 115) and flyleaf. 163/200 numbered copies of the luxury edition. 192 p., original imitation leather with illustrated original cellophane cover and also illustrated original linen slipcase. Etchings by Ernst Fuchs and other illustrations, some in colour. Illustrated book with 5 (2 folded several times) sign. It’s more difficult to market a book that’s not like the book that everybody bought and enjoyed before. The advice has been not to do that, not to mix genres, not to try different kinds of storytelling, and I understand that. It’s a formula-driven business-if you’ve written one book about a bricklayer, they want you to write 1,000 books about a bricklayer-but I’m constantly changing things up. If I wrote the same book every time, which is what publishers prefer you to do, I would go profoundly nuts. So there’s never been a time when you’ve thought, I can’t keep doing this anymore? I’ve never stopped being excited about books and the potential of them. I realized that you can make what you want of life, and I don’t think I’ve ever stopped feeling that way. And that was plenty of motivation to change my destiny. They showed me the level of success the world offered. Books were both an escape and a lesson that other lives were different. Koontz: It goes back to what books meant to me when I was young. HBR: Where do you find your creative energy and stamina? |