![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The subplots here are too numerous to mention suffice it to say that the climactic victory ends in a grand melÉe of players, spectators, police, hamsters, school officials, and other interested parties. ![]() He is brilliant the team claws and stumbles its way into the play-offs. Then Kevin Klapper, a Curriculum Inspector and former football addict who is preparing a devastating report on the Hall's new football mania, succumbs and appoints himself coach. To conceal this illegal player from coaches and the school administration, Bruno and Boots pass her off as Elmer Drimsdale, Macdonald Hall's reclusive science whiz meanwhile, Elmer's giant Manchurian Bush hamsters escape and discover a perfect nesting spot-under the bleachers, where tons of delicious (to them) fried zucchini sticks have been dumped. Macdonald Hall has a new football stadium but a pathetic team-until nearby Miss Scrimmage's Finishing School for Young Ladies furnishes a brilliant quarterback in the person of Cathy Burton. As in Korman's other books, the plot quickly grows spaghettilike. Another zany adventure featuring Bruno Walton, ""Boots"" O'Neal, and the gang from Macdonald Hall. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I Capture The Castle was a bestseller by an Englishwoman living in the U.S.A, and one of the most beloved 20th Century romances. As the photos show, there is chipping and tearing across top and bottom edge of jacket. The dust jacket is only in fair condition in addition to the damp stain noted on rear there is a smaller one on front cover that appears not to have penetrated the jacket. FFL also contains pencilled notation of gift.The dust jacket is price clipped (all four corners of flaps). Aside from the damp stain the boards are very good. The damp stain also impacts final 5 leaves, 3 with text, 2 blank end matter. Damp stain on rear board (lower sixth, which contains an adhered transfer of about 1/2/inch square of paper from the dust jacket, a paper conservator could fix. The text block is clean, with no signatures or marks and very few signs of previous use. Light blue cloth boards with iconic illustration of castle and tower on front board in deep blue titling on spine in deep blue. First American Edition, early printing (missing, Published October 1948 from verso of title page). Little, Brown and Company, Boston: 1948, 1948 Hardcover. ![]() ![]() ![]() With everything her parents have sacrificed to make her cushy life a reality, Mei can’t bring herself to tell them the truth-that she (1) hates germs, (2) falls asleep in biology lectures, and (3) has a crush on her classmate Darren Takahashi, who is decidedly not Taiwanese.īut when Mei reconnects with her brother, Xing, who is estranged from the family for dating the wrong woman, Mei starts to wonder if all the secrets are truly worth it. Now a freshman at MIT, she is on track to fulfill the rest of this predetermined future: become a doctor, marry a preapproved Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer, produce a litter of babies. “Charmed my socks off.” -David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Kids of Appetite and Mosquitolandįour starred reviews for this incisive, laugh-out-loud contemporary debut about a Taiwanese-American teen whose parents want her to be a doctor and marry a Taiwanese Ivy Leaguer despite her squeamishness with germs and crush on a Japanese classmate.Īt seventeen, Mei should be in high school, but skipping fourth grade was part of her parents’ master plan. ![]() ![]() “Weepingly funny.” - The Wall Street Journal ![]() ![]() ![]() ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Generation which has come to terms with the new political and econimic climate. 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Since then, Garner has become somewhat of an Australian literary hero and if you're going to read her, you might as well start at the beginning. ![]() Author Michael Mohammed Ahmad is the director of Sweatshop, a movement that creates creative space for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Western Sydney.Īt a time when Australian literature was all about Drovers and their wives, Helen Garner stepped in unveiling a lifestyle of communal households, music, drugs and sex - one thought only to exist in the US. Set in Bankstown during the early aughts - a time in Australia that was blackened with anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment - The Lebs is a satire of the homogenising paint brush of White Australia. Below, we're rounding up 35 Australian books from the country's first and original storytellers to the voices, cemented and emerging, as well as those who have suffered under our systems. ![]() ![]() ![]() Season One of Amazon’s series is expected to span only the first installment, The Eye of the World, so we recommend starting there, then plowing through the ensuing books in their publication order. We’ve spelunked our way through The Wheel of Time to bring you this roadmap to the sprawling series, with guidance on how best to navigate the novels and what to expect from each outing. (And you thought Dune was convoluted!) The unacquainted would be forgiven for wondering how best to scale the mountain. ![]() Despite the series’ global popularity, with over ninety million copies sold, the saga isn’t for the faint of heart, clocking in at fifteen dense books, 2782 named characters, and thousands of pages. ![]() But, be warned, the barrier to entry is steep. The Wheel of Time has just arrived on Amazon Prime Video, all but ensuring that Robert Jordan’s best-selling series is about to captivate legions of new readers. Lord of the Rings isn't the only set of fantasy novels getting the big budget screen treatment courtesy of Jeff Bezos. ![]() ![]() ![]() It features an expanded library of cast-ons, increases, decreases, and bind-offs in-depth sections on newly favorite techniques such as brioche, entrelac, double knitting, and mosaic knitting and design and construction chapters that go beyond just sweaters to encompass dozens of options for hats, mittens, socks, gloves, and more than 25 shawl shapes. ![]() The past 15 years have seen many exciting advances in knitting, and this update encompasses them all. The second edition, released in 2002, further cemented its place as the most trusted knitting resource. The ultimate knitting reference, from the world's most recognized knitting magazine, gets a thorough update-including 1,600 color images and brand-new sections with techniques and designsįirst published in 1989, Vogue Knitting The Ultimate Knitting Book instantly became a beloved resource for knitters. " An essential addition to the knitter's bookshelf." - Library Journal (starred review) ![]() ![]() ![]() As Gabriel protects her from their unknown adversaries, they realize their devil’s bargain may just turn out to be a match made in heaven. But soon she discovers that her entrepreneurial endeavors have accidentally involved her in a dangerous conspiracy-and only her husband can keep her safe. He’ll do whatever it takes to possess her, even if their marriage of convenience turns out to be the devil’s own bargain.Īfter succumbing to Gabriel’s skilled and sensuous persuasion, Pandora agrees to become his bride. But Gabriel finds the high-spirited Pandora irresistible. In fact, she wants nothing to do with him. Vincent, has finally been caught-by a rebellious girl who couldn’t be less suitable. But one night at a glittering society ball, she’s ensnared in a scandal with a wickedly handsome stranger.Īfter years of evading marital traps with ease, Gabriel, Lord St. The ambitious young beauty would much rather stay at home and plot out her new board game business than take part in the London Season. Lady Pandora Ravenel has different plans. ![]() Most debutantes dream of finding a husband. ![]() The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art by Linda Dalrymple Henderson6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a remarkable turn of events, it has returned as an important theme in contemporary culture in the wake of the emergence in the 1980s of both string theory in physics (with its ten- or eleven-dimensional universes) and computer graphics. Although largely eclipsed by relativity theory beginning in the 1920s, the spatial fourth dimension experienced a resurgence during the later 1950s and 1960s. In an extensive new Reintroduction, Henderson surveys the impact of interest in higher dimensions of space in art and culture from the 1950s to 2000. That iconoclastic idea encouraged radical innovation by a variety of early twentieth-century artists, ranging from French Cubists, Italian Futurists, and Marcel Duchamp, to Max Weber, Kazimir Malevich, and the artists of De Stijl and Surrealism. The possibility of a spatial fourth dimension suggested that our world might be merely a shadow or section of a higher dimensional existence. The long-awaited new edition of a groundbreaking work on the impact of alternative concepts of space on modern art.In this groundbreaking study, first published in 1983 and unavailable for over a decade, Linda Dalrymple Henderson demonstrates that two concepts of space beyond immediate perception-the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and, most important, a higher, fourth dimension of space-were central to the development of modern art. ![]() ![]() Los efectos negativos que ambas especies tienen sobre la biodiversidad incluyen la depredación y competencia con fauna nativa, su hibridación con especies filogenéticamente cercanas o poblaciones silvestres de su propia especie, y la transmisión de enfermedades a la fauna silvestre y a los humanos. Los efectos que estos animales tienen sobre la fauna silvestre han sido estudiados principalmente en países con baja biodiversidad de vertebrados (EUA, Nueva Zelanda y Europa), y salvo por algunos trabajos realizados en Australia, Brasil, y México, no contamosĬon información sobre sus efectos en países con alta biodiversidad. ![]() A pesar de su buena relación con nuestra especie, tienen un impacto ecológico negativo con consecuencias para las políticas de conservación. Los gatos y perros domésticos son las mascotas preferidas del hombre, por lo que se han convertido en especies invasoras y los carnívoros más abundantes del planeta. ![]() Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MorelosĮspecies invasoras, Manejo de mascotas, Carnívoros, Conservación de vertebrados, Animales domésticos, Animales ferales Resumen ![]() |