The World in a Book
Title | The World in a Book PDF eBook |
Author | Elias Muhanna |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2019-05-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 069119145X |
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012.
The World Book Encyclopedia
Title | The World Book Encyclopedia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 554 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
The World in a Second
Title | The World in a Second PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel Minhós Martins |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 56 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | JUVENILE NONFICTION |
ISBN | 9781592701575 |
A story inspired by the question, "What are people doing right at this moment on the other side of the world?" depicts natural and human events happening all over the world—from New York and Turkey to South Africa and Greece—at the same second.
The World Factbook 2003
Title | The World Factbook 2003 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
Publisher | Potomac Books |
Total Pages | 712 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781574886412 |
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
The Only Girl in the World
Title | The Only Girl in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Maude Julien |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Total Pages | 221 |
Release | 2017-12-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0316466603 |
For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one woman's rise above an unimaginable childhood. Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor -- raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity. By turns horrifying and magical, The Only Girl in the World is a story that will grip you from the first page and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.
A Map Into the World
Title | A Map Into the World PDF eBook |
Author | Kao Kalia Yang |
Publisher | Carolrhoda Books (R) |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 2019-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1541538366 |
"Filled with wonder and sorrow and happiness." --Alison McGhee, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Someday A heartfelt story of a young girl seeking beauty and connection in a busy world. As the seasons change, so too does a young Hmong girl's world. She moves into a new home with her family and encounters both birth and death. As this curious girl explores life inside her house and beyond, she collects bits of the natural world. But who are her treasures for? A moving picture book debut from acclaimed Hmong American author Kao Kalia Yang.
All the Time in the World
Title | All the Time in the World PDF eBook |
Author | Jessica Kerwin Jenkins |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-10-29 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 0385535414 |
Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins’s Encyclopedia of the Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages. All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book of hours, which prescribed certain readings and contemplations for certain parts of the day throughout the year. Divided into more than seventy-five entries, All the Time in the World is brimming with witty bons mots, interesting etymologies, and arresting anecdotes encompassing an array of cultures and eras. Subjects covered include the daylong ceremony of laying a royal Elizabethan tablecloth; the radicalization of sartorial chic in 1890s Paris; Nostradamus's belief in the aphrodisiac power of jam; the sensuous practice of sniffing incense in fifteenth-century Japan; the American fascination with flaming desserts; the short-lived artistic discipline of “lumia,” or visual music; the evolution of coffee from a religious ritual to a forbidden delight in the Middle East; Henriette d'Angeville's fearless and wine-fueled ascent of Mont Blanc; the elaborate treasure hunts concocted by London's Bright Young Things; and the musical revolution known as bebop. An antidote to the contemporary cult of “getting things done,” All the Time in the World revives forgotten treasures of the past while inspiring a passion for good living in the present.