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Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501124781
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Swan Book written by Alexis Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Australia: Giramondo, 2013.
Author : Robin Ridington
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772822019
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Swan people written by Robin Ridington and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents some of the myths and oratories of the Dunne-za or Beaver of the upper Peace River. The first section offers a discussion of how the Dunne-za adapt the prophet tradition common to northwestern Native peoples to a nomadic hunter lifestyle while the second presents a collection of mythic and oratorical texts.
Author : Claudia Swan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691213526
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Rarities of These Lands written by Claudia Swan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of Dutch seventeenth-century art and material culture against the backdrop of the geopolitics of the early modern world The seventeenth century witnessed a great flourishing of Dutch trade and culture. Over the course of the first half of the century, the northern Netherlands secured independence from the Spanish crown, and the nascent republic sought to establish its might in global trade, often by way of diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Muslim powers. Central to the political and cultural identity of the Dutch Republic were curious foreign goods the Dutch called "rarities." Rarities of These Lands explores how these rarities were obtained, exchanged, stolen, valued, and collected, tracing their global trajectories and considering their role within the politics of the new state. Claudia Swan’s insightful, engaging analysis offers a novel and compelling account of how the Dutch Republic turned foreign objects into expressions of its national self-conception. Rarities of These Lands traces key elements of the formation of the Dutch Republic—artistic and colonialist ventures alike—offering new perspectives on this momentous period in the history of the Netherlands and its material culture.
Author : Teal Swan
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786784475
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Hunger of the Pine written by Teal Swan and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aria Abbott has never had a home. Drifting through the foster system for most of her life, she finally finds herself in a situation so unbearable that she has no choice but to run away. Sleeping on the streets pushes Aria beyond any suffering she has felt before; the only thing worse than seeing no escape is the knowledge that no one in the world cares enough to try and find her. Enter Taylor, a homeless young man with a charismatic smile and a dream of fame, fortune, and the sunshine of LA. Swept up in his energy, Aria and Taylor board a greyhound bus and never look back. In this bright new world, Aria will discover a whole community of people living in the shadows, in the margins of society. As Taylor follows his dreams, Aria follows her heart. But she will discover that it isn’t always clear who you can trust, that strangers can be kind, or treacherous, or sometimes as familiar as your own reflection, if you’re willing to look hard enough.
Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101652950
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar written by Roald Dahl and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-05-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven superb short stories from the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is coming soon to Netflix! Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A clever mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins. "All the tales are entrancing inventions." —Publishers Weekly
Author : Shanna H. Swan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982113677
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Count Down written by Shanna H. Swan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scientist, in this urgent, thought-provoking and meticulously researched book, shows how chemicals in the modern environment are changing--and endangering--human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale.
Author : Sallie Bingham
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374711860
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Silver Swan written by Sallie Bingham and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.” —Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her lifetime, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother and various ex-lovers. She established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson; flaunted interracial relationships; and adopted a thirty-two year-old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter. This is also the story of the great houses she inhabited, including the classically proportioned limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue, the sprawling Duke Farms in New Jersey, the Gilded Age mansion Rough Point in Newport, Shangri La in Honolulu, and Falcon’s Lair overlooking Beverly Hills. Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny, little beyond the tabloid accounts of her behavior has been publicly known. In 2012, when eight hundred linear feet of her personal papers were made available, Sallie Bingham set out to probe her identity. She found an alluring woman whose life was forged in the Jazz Age, who was not only an early war correspondent but also an environmentalist, a surfer, a collector of Islamic art, a savvy businesswoman who tripled her father’s fortune, and a major philanthropist with wide-ranging passions from dance to historic preservation to human rights. In The Silver Swan, Bingham is especially interested in dissecting the stereotypes that have defined Duke’s story while also confronting the disturbing questions that cleave to her legacy.
Author : Dr Norman Swan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1783255315
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book So you think you know what's good for you? written by Dr Norman Swan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over thirty years, Dr Norman Swan has been delivering straight, honest, common-sense health information as both a physician and much-loved broadcaster. After many years of listening, Norman Swan knows what medical issues people are curious and concerned about. Drawing on the questions he hears time and again, from millennials to baby boomers and all the generations between, So You Think You Know What's Good For You? is a one-stop handbook that will settle fruitless anxieties and allow people to focus on what matters to them. Replace medical myths, half-truths and misconceptions with the information you need to make better decisions about how to eat and how to live to put your mind at ease and ensure your and your family's health is the best it can be. So You Think You Know What's Good For You? is the new authoritative must-have manual for everyone who cares about for their health and wants to cut through the myths and fads.
Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439106495
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Wild Swans written by Jung Chang and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-20 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
Author : J'nell Ciesielski
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0785248439
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)
Download or read book The Ice Swan written by J'nell Ciesielski and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the violent last days of the glittering Russian monarchy, a princess on the run finds her heart where she least expects it. 1917, Petrograd. Fleeing the murderous flames of the Russian Revolution, Princess Svetlana Dalsky hopes to find safety in Paris with her mother and sister. But the city is buckling under the weight of the Great War, and the Bolsheviks will not rest until they have erased every Russian aristocrat from memory. Svetlana and her family are forced into hiding in Paris’s underbelly, with little to their name but the jewels they sewed into their corsets before their terrifying escape. Born the second son of a Scottish duke, the only title Wynn MacCallan cares for is that of surgeon. Putting his talents with a scalpel to good use in the hospitals in Paris, Wynn pushes the boundaries of medical science to give his patients the best care possible. After treating Svetlana for a minor injury, he is pulled into a world of decaying imperial glitter. Intrigued by this mysterious, cold, and beautiful woman, Wynn follows Svetlana to an underground Russian club where drink, dance, and questionable dealings collide on bubbles of vodka. Out of money and options, Svetlana agrees to a marriage of convenience with the handsome and brilliant Wynn, who will protect her and pay off her family’s debts. It’s the right thing for a good man to do, but Wynn cannot help hoping the marriage will turn into one of true affection. When Wynn’s life takes an unexpected turn, so does Svetlana’s—and soon Paris becomes as dangerous as Petrograd. And as the Bolsheviks chase them to Scotland, Wynn and Svetlana begin to wonder if they will ever be able to outrun the love they are beginning to feel for one another. “The Ice Swan is a ray of light in the middle of a Europe that was sinking into darkness. Ciesielski’s talent for storytelling from the heart is a feast for the readers’ eyes.” —Mario Escobar, international bestselling author of Remember Me and Children of the Stars Adventurous World War I historical romance For fans of Kate Quinn, Beatriz Williams, and Aimie K. Runyan Full-length, stand-alone novel (approx. 120,000 words) Includes discussion questions for book clubs
Author : Mark Nicolaides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781326281205
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Swan Life written by Mark Nicolaides and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A touching, life affirming true story that grips you from the time they hatch, until moment they finally leave." Swan Life is the heart-warming account of the trials and tribulations experienced by a pair of mute swans, as they struggle to raise a family on Dorset's River Stour. Gaining the complete trust of the birds, the author reveals rarely seen aspects of a swan's life. Discover the extraordinary level care given to their young and the close relationship forged between the adults. Experience the tension as the family battles with a rival swan, along with the touching moment when the female bird buries one of her own dead cygnets. This is a unique book, it will give the reader a brand new insight into how the swan's graceful nature often belies the tumultuous life they lead. This is not just a wildlife book though, it's a story of a parent's love, devotion and sacrifice. It will change the way you see these birds forever. "Unforgettable - one reading will not be enough."
Author : Hubert J. C. Schuurman
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412079624
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book People of the Swan written by Hubert J. C. Schuurman and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2007-03-21 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The swan ballets on the river Sanctus drew Elves, Fairies, and many other visitors to town. Life flowed joyously. None heeded the Dwarves' warnings. They always talked gloom and doom!
Author : Teal Swan
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786781972
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Anatomy of Loneliness written by Teal Swan and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Completion Process offers a blueprint for overcoming loneliness and returning to a place of love, acceptance, and meaningful connection Following in the footsteps of the success of The Completion Process, bestselling author and modern spiritual leader Teal Swan offers an in-depth exploration and understanding of loneliness. Drawing on her extraordinary healing technique, the Connection Process, Teal offers a way to experience connection once again. Loneliness is reaching endemic proportions in our society, reflected by rising suicide rates and increased mental illness. Now, more than ever we need to find a way to connect. Loneliness is a feeling of separation or isolation; it is not necessarily the same as the physical state of being alone. This book is for people who suffer from loneliness, the kind that cannot be solved by simply being around other people. Their aloneness is a deeply embedded pattern that is both negative and painful; it is often fueled by trauma, loss, addiction, grief and a lack of self-esteem and insecurity. In The Anatomy of Loneliness, Teal identifies the three pillars or qualities of loneliness: Separation, Shame and Fear and goes on to share her revolutionary technique; The Connection Process, a form of intuitive journeying, usually involving two people a ‘receiver’ and a ‘journeyer’. Through a series of exercises each person experiences ‘walls’ and ‘blockages’ as they move through the process both participants face their fears learning from these to reach a place of unconditional love and acceptance.
Author : Susan Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Black Swan written by Susan Anderson and published by . This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina is an exceptionally talented ballerina in a New York City ballet company. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth Macintyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But she has competition: new dancer Lily, who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side - a recklessness that threatens to destroy her. | Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2010. | Performed by: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder. Directed by Darren Aronofsky ; screenplay by Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin ; story by Andres Heinz ; produced by Mike Medavoy, Arnold W. Messer, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin ; director of photography, Matthew Libatique ; production designer, Therese DePrez ; editor, Andrew Weisblum ; costume designer, Amy Westcott ; original score, Clint Mansell ; visual effects supervisor, Dan Schrecker ; ballet choreography, Benjamin Millepied ; ballet costumes designed by Kate and Laura Mulleavy ; music for 'Swan Lake' composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. | In English, English audio descriptive for the visually impaired, Castilian Spanish, Italian; with optional subtitles in English for the hearing impaired, Castilian Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish. | R16 - Restricted to persons 16 years and over. Note: Violence, sex scenes and content that may disturb. | Region 4, PAL.
Author : Karen Swan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1529006155
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Midnight in the Snow written by Karen Swan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set amongst the snow-covered mountains of the Austrian Alps, Midnight in the Snow is the story of a forbidden attraction that will reveal long-buried secrets, from Sunday Times bestselling author of Christmas at Tiffany's, Karen Swan. Award-winning director Clover Phillips is riding high when she encounters Kit Foley; a surfer and snowboarder as well-known for controversy as he is for winning championships. Involved in an accident that had devastating consequences for a bitter rival, Kit has never spoken about what really happened that day. Determined to find out the truth, Clover heads to the snowy wilderness of the Austrian Alps, sharing a romantic winter wonderland with a man who can’t stand her. But as she delves deeper, Clover finds herself both drawn to Kit, and even more convinced he’s hiding something. Is Kit Foley really as cold as he seems? *** What readers are saying about Midnight in the Snow: ‘Heartwarming, romantic, uplifting. Great writing that wraps you like a blanket’ ‘Real and wonderfully, subtly painted so that, yet again, her novel makes you stay up until silly o’clock’ ‘An amazing gift for taking you to fabulous locations & gradually unwrapping secrets about her characters’ ‘Glamorous, thrilling and unashamedly romantic’
Author : James G. Swan
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375165463
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (751 download)
Download or read book The Northwest Coast written by James G. Swan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.
Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501124803
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Swan Book written by Alexis Wright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hypnotic and “astonishingly inventive” (O, The Oprah Magazine) novel about an Aboriginal girl living in a future world turned upside down—where ancient myths exist side-by-side with present-day realities. Oblivia Ethelyne was given her name by an old woman who found her deep in the bowels of a gum tree, tattered and fragile, the victim of a brutal assault by wayward local youths. These are the years leading up to Australia’s third centenary, and the woman who finds her, Bella Donna of the Champions, is a refugee from climate change wars that devastated her country in the northern hemisphere. Bella Donna takes Oblivia to live with her on an old warship in a polluted dry swamp and there she fills Oblivia’s head with story upon story of swans. Fenced off from the rest of Australia by the Army, its traditional custodians left destitute, the swamp has become “the world’s most unknown detention camp” for Indigenous Australians. When Warren Finch, the first Aboriginal president of Australia invades the swamp with his charismatic persona and the promise of salvation, Oblivia agrees to marry him, becoming First Lady, a role that has her confined to a tower in a flooded and lawless southern city. In this multilayered novel, winner of the Australian Literature Society's Gold Medal, Wright toys with the edges of the world we live in and “deftly highlights the racial and cultural politics facing Australia's indigenous people in a story that defies genre. It is a challenging and heartbreaking story that illuminates the culture and struggles of an often overlooked people” (Publishers Weekly).
