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The Gold Swan

Author : James S Thayer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501131923
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Gold Swan written by James S Thayer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thayer paints a rich picture of Hong Kong politics as well as of the world of international architecture" (Publishers Weekly) in this gripping thriller about the world's most famous architect, who makes a fatal mistake in building the world's tallest skyscraper for the Chinese government. To mark five thousand years of civilization, China has commissioned master architect John Llewellyn to construct a building like no other—a three-thousand-foot-tall crescent of bronze, steel, and concrete, towering above the Hong Kong skyline. Its official name is the Fifth Millennium, but the city's citizens have dubbed it the Gold Swan. It will be the eighth wonder of the world, a testament to China's glory. And it may hold a fatal flaw that could bring it crashing to the ground before it is completed. Llewellyn's chief security man, ex-FBI agent Clay Williams, and young architect Anne Iverson suspect the impending disaster, and they are thrust into the deadly world of Chinese politics—where the truth is a lie, and lies are the only answers they can find. What they cannot know is that there are those in power who want the tower to fall, and with it, the very heart of one of the most powerful nations on earth....

The Swan Book

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501124781
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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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.

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Author : Roald Dahl
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101652950
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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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

Swan Fake

Author : Maya Gold
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545227690
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Swan Fake written by Maya Gold and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Diana's friend Amelia needs Diana to fill in for her during a ballet performance, Diana borrows one of the dance costumes at Cinderella Cleaners, but once she is onstage she realizes she cannot dance.

The Trumpet of the Swan

Author : E. B. White
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008139431
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Trumpet of the Swan written by E. B. White and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-loved children’s classic from the author of Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little, available in eBook for the very first time!

A Wild Swan

Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712603
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book A Wild Swan written by Michael Cunningham and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away—the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder—are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. The Beast stands ahead of you in line at the convenience store, buying smokes and a Slim Jim, his devouring smile aimed at the cashier. A malformed little man with a knack for minor acts of wizardry goes to disastrous lengths to procure a child. A loutish and lazy Jack prefers living in his mother's basement to getting a job, until the day he trades a cow for a handful of magic beans. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.

From the Nation State to Stateless Nations

Author : Tom W. Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107161460
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book From the Nation State to Stateless Nations written by Tom W. Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Next Government? From the Nation State to Stateless Nations reveals the revolution quietly transforming governments bottom-up, inside-out, worldwide. It will attract scholars of international law and trade, special jurisdictions, development policy, urban planning, and political philosophy, as well as lay readers interested in these topics.

Carpentaria

Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811238040
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Carpentaria written by Alexis Wright and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis Wright’s award-winning classic Carpentaria: “a swelling, heaving tsunami of a novel—stinging, sinuous, salted with outrageous humor, sweetened by spiraling lyricism” (The Australian) Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of northwestern Queensland, Australia. Its portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centers on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight’s renegade Eastend mob, on the one hand, and with the white officials of Uptown and the nearby rapacious, ecologically disastrous Gurfurrit mine on the other. Wright’s masterful novel teems with extraordinary characters—the outcast savior Elias Smith, the religious zealot Mozzie Fishman, the murderous mayor Bruiser, the moth-ridden Captain Nicoli Finn, the activist Will Phantom, and above all, the rulers of the family, the queen of the garbage dump and the fish-embalming king of time: Angel Day and Normal Phantom—who stand like giants in a storm-swept world. Wright’s storytelling is operatic and surreal: a blend of myth and scripture, politics and farce. She has a narrative gift for remaking reality itself, altering along her way, as if casually, the perception of what a novel can do with the inside of the reader's mind. Carpentaria is “an epic, exhilarating, unsettling novel” (Wall Street Journal) that is not to be missed.

The Business Educator

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Business Educator written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Artifactual Literacies

Author : Kate Pahl
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 080777829X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Artifactual Literacies written by Kate Pahl and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To re-engage students with literacy, teachers need an entry point that recognizes and honors students’ out-of-school identities. This book looks at how artifacts (everyday objects) access the daily, sensory world in which students live. Exploring how artifacts can generate literacy learning, the book shows teachers how to use a family photo, heirloom, or recipe to tell intergenerational tales; how to collaborate with local museums and cultural centers; how to create new material artifacts; and much more. Featuring vignettes, lesson examples, and photographs, the text includes chapters on community connections, critical literacy, adolescent writing, and digital storytelling. Book Features: A theoretical framework for teaching literacy that unites the domains of home and school and brings students’ passions to the forefront.A fresh, integrated synthesis of the fields of New Literacy Studies, multimodality, material cultural studies, and literacy education.New field-tested ideas for creating lessons that improve literacy standards. “This engaging book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how artifactual knowledge and practices cross borders in ways that can lead to powerful learning.” —Rebecca Rogers, University of Missouri–St. Louis “Pahl and Rowsell provide a rich framework for approaching and engaging everyday artifacts as potential sites of story, community building, and identity performance. . . . They open significant new avenues to literacy educators.” —From the Foreword by Lesley Bartlett and Lalitha Vasudevan, both at Teachers College, Columbia University

Where Honeybees Thrive

Author : Heather Swan
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271080736
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Where Honeybees Thrive written by Heather Swan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colony Collapse Disorder, ubiquitous pesticide use, industrial agriculture, habitat reduction—these are just a few of the issues causing unprecedented trauma in honeybee populations worldwide. In this artfully illustrated book, Heather Swan embarks on a narrative voyage to discover solutions to—and understand the sources of—the plight of honeybees. Through a lyrical combination of creative nonfiction and visual imagery, Where Honeybees Thrive tells the stories of the beekeepers, farmers, artists, entomologists, ecologists, and other advocates working to stem the damage and reverse course for this critical pollinator. Using her own quest for understanding as a starting point, Swan highlights the innovative projects and strategies these groups employ. Her mosaic approach to engaging with the environment not only reveals the incredibly complex political ecology in which bees live—which includes human and nonhuman actors alike—but also suggests ways of comprehending and tackling a host of other conflicts between postindustrial society and the natural world. Each chapter closes with an illustrative full-color gallery of bee-related artwork. A luminous journey from the worlds of honey producers, urban farmers, and mead makers of the United States to those of beekeepers of Sichuan, China, and researchers in southern Africa, Where Honeybees Thrive traces the global web of efforts to secure a sustainable future for honeybees—and ourselves.

Antique Trader Perfume Bottles Price Guide

Author : Kyle Husfloen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440219141
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Antique Trader Perfume Bottles Price Guide written by Kyle Husfloen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-26 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A precious commodity since ancient times, the powerful presence of perfume lies not in the fragrance alone, as you'll discover after spending just a few minutes with the beautiful new reference to the regal world of antique and vintage perfume bottles. Each of the bottles in this book (which includes commercial successes such as Avon and Coty, and high-end spectacles including Chanel No. 5 and Lalique) is represented in a stunning color photos, accompanies by recent auction and realized pricing, plus, production information to assist the accurate identification of these containers.

Fabergé Eggs

Author : Will Lowes
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810839465
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Fabergé Eggs written by Will Lowes and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents detailed technical descriptions of 66 Faberge eggs, as well as the stories of people involved in their making or presentation.

Nostradamus, Bibliomancer

Author : Peter Lemesurier
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601637179
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Nostradamus, Bibliomancer written by Peter Lemesurier and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you think Nostradamus, the famous 16th century "Prophet of Provence," was some kind of magician, perhaps a doctor, astrologer, and seer, too? If so, Peter Lemesurier's revelation that he was really just an ordinary man using an equally ordinary technique may come as a shock. After re-examining the original sources, Lemesurier concludes that Nostradamus was in fact neither a doctor nor an astrologer, nor even (by his own admission) a prophet. He merely believed that history repeats itself, thus and projected known past events onto the future. To do so, he used the process of bibliomancy—randomly selecting extracts of randomly chosen books, then claiming "divine inspiration." Unsurprisingly, he has almost never been proved right.

Swan's Braid

Author : Tanya Huff
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625670389
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Swan's Braid written by Tanya Huff and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new short story collection from Tanya Huff. You can't belong to the Thieves' Guild if you can't break into the Thieves' Guild. When Terizan dropped out of the secret passage, past the net, and into the Inner Sanctum, she was astonished to discover that no one else had ever made it that far. Unfortunately, neither Terizan nor the Guild are thrilled about the sudden perception that she's the best thief in Oreen – the title comes with expectations and the Guild only ever expects the worst. In these five tales, mercenary captains, murderous royal families, ghosts, gods, and wizards prove that while it may not always be lonely at the top, it's definitely annoying. Good thing half a dozen gods owe Terizan a favour.

The Swan House (The Swan House Series Book #1)

Author : Elizabeth Musser
Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 1441207163
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Swan House (The Swan House Series Book #1) written by Elizabeth Musser and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Swan Middleton has always taken for granted the advantages of her family's wealth. But a tragedy that touches all of Atlanta sends her reeling in grief. When the family maid challenges her to reach out to the less fortunate as a way to ease her own pain, Mary Swan meets Carl--and everything changes. For although Carl is her opposite in nearly every way, he has something her privileged life could not give her. And when she seeks his help to uncover a mystery, she learns far more than she ever could have imagined.

Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter

Author : Christian Cameron
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 1398707554
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter written by Christian Cameron and published by Orion. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BRAND NEW ADVENTURE FROM 'THE MASTER OF HISTORICAL FICTION' (SUNDAY TIMES) TOM SWAN - SOLDIER, SCHOLAR, BASTARD, SPY. Tom Swan and his friends are trying to save Europe from the Turks, but most of his adversaries seem to be other Europeans. This time, an unnamed cabal is trying to kill him and, incidentally, ruin the banks and trade of England, France, and Italy. . . Join Tom Swan on his latest adventure as the likes of Cosimo di Medici, Warwick the Kingmaker, Bessarion the cardinal and Aneas Picclomini the Pope show Tom the Renaissance in all its deadly glory! * * * * * PRAISE FOR CHRISTIAN CAMERON 'The master of historical fiction' SUNDAY TIMES 'A storyteller at the height of his powers' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY 'Superb' THE TIMES 'A sword-slash above the rest' IRISH EXAMINER