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Book Synopsis Among Stone Giants by : JoAnne Van Tilburg
Download or read book Among Stone Giants written by JoAnne Van Tilburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the first woman archaeologist to work in Polynesia documents Routledge's experiences on Easter Island, beginning with the launch of the 1913 Mana Expedition and continuing with her emersion into local customs and beliefs and battle with schizophrenia.
Book Synopsis The Buried Giant by : Kazuo Ishiguro
Download or read book The Buried Giant written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
Book Synopsis In Our Hearts We Were Giants by : Yehuda Koren
Download or read book In Our Hearts We Were Giants written by Yehuda Koren and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable, never-before-told account of the Ovitz family, seven of whose ten members were dwarves, readers bear witness to the best and worst of humanity and to the terrible irony of the Ovitz's fate: being burdened with dwarfism helped them endure the Holocaust. Israeli authors Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev weave the tale of a beloved and successful family of performers who were famous entertainers in Central Europe until the Nazis deported them to Auschwitz in May 1944. Descending into the hell of the concentration camp from the transport train, the Ovitz family—known widely as the Lilliput Troupe—was separated from other Jewish victims. Dr. Josef Mengele was notified of their arrival and they were assigned better quarters and provided more nutritious food than other inmates. The authors chronicle Mengele's experiments upon the Ovitz's, and the creepy fondness he developed for these small people, even the songs he composed and sang to this family of singers, dancers, and klezmorim. Finally liberated by Russian troops, the family returned to their deserted village in Transylvania, and eventually found their way to a new home in Israel. They resumed their careers, overcame their handicaps and became wealthy and successful performers.
Download or read book Giants written by Charles DeLoach and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the role that giants have played in the history of humankind. ...style is breezy and accessible...a pleasant browse. --BOOKLIST ...will likely be of interest to the general reader as well as serve as a useful reference tool. Recommended for all collections. --PUBLIC LIBRARY QUARTERLY
Book Synopsis Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons of the Great Town0 by : John Timbs
Download or read book Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons of the Great Town0 written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Giants and Dwarfs by : Edward J. Wood
Download or read book Giants and Dwarfs written by Edward J. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Curiosities of London by : John Timbs
Download or read book Curiosities of London written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Table Book, of Daily Recreation and Information: by : William Hone
Download or read book The Table Book, of Daily Recreation and Information: written by William Hone and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Giants in the Earth by : Ole Edvart Rølvaag
Download or read book Giants in the Earth written by Ole Edvart Rølvaag and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism on the boundless Dakota prairie, as a Norwegian-American immigrant family passed through Ellis Island and worked to eke out a living in America's midwest.
Book Synopsis Legends In Their Time by : George Sherwood
Download or read book Legends In Their Time written by George Sherwood and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-02-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable cast of past and present young Canadians stride across the pages of Legends In Their Time, each having a significant role to play in Canadian history. Beginning in the 1500s and moving on into the 20th century, each chapter contributes insights into the evolution of Canada as a nation. Author George Sherwood’s thorough research and his scene setting bring to life the heroic accomplishments and tragic exploits that make Canada’s story a fascinating and entertaining account. Included are explorer Etienne Brule; Osborne Anderson, survivor of Harper’s Ferry; inventor Armand Bombardier; human rights activist Toy Jin "Jean" Wong; and the heroic Terry Fox, to name but a few of the extraordinary lives that are chronicled. Complementing the text are historic photographs and original artwork by award-winning artist Stewart Sherwood. "For those who think Canada lacks heroes or Canada does not honour its heroes, Legends In Their Time is the book for you. Extensively researched and written in an engaging style, it recognizes that heroes and heroines come in many forms, as shown in the richness of our history.” - John Myers, Teacher Educator, OISE/UT
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, 1876 by : New South Wales. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, 1876 written by New South Wales. Library and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the free public library, Sydney, 1876. Reference dept. [With] by : New South Wales state libr
Download or read book Catalogue of the free public library, Sydney, 1876. Reference dept. [With] written by New South Wales state libr and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Speculative Fictions by : Herb Wyile
Download or read book Speculative Fictions written by Herb Wyile and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-02-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herb Wyile provides a comparative analysis of the historical concerns and textual strategies of twenty novels published since the appearance of Rudy Wiebe's groundbreaking The Temptations of Big Bear in 1973. Drawing on the work of theorists and critics such as Hayden White, Mikhail Bakhtin, Fredric Jameson, Linda Hutcheon, and Michel De Certeau, Speculative Fictions examines the nature of these novels' engagement with Canadian history, historiography, and the writing of historical fiction. In the 1970s and early 1980s, writers such as Wiebe, Joy Kogawa, and Timothy Findley set the stage for a predominantly postcolonial and postmodern interrogation of traditional conceptions of Canadian history, the writing of history and fiction, and the idea of nation. Through his comparative approach, Wyile emphasizes the ways in which this spirit has been sustained in more recent historical novels by Jane Urquhart, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Tom Wharton, Margaret Atwood, and others. He concludes that the writing of history in English-Canadian fiction over the last thirty years makes a substantial contribution to a revisioning of history and to a postcolonial renegotiation of Canada and Canadian society as we enter into a new century.
Download or read book Difference and Community written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together essays which suggest that the relationship between Canada and Europe is a two-way process, as historically the traffic between them has been: either may have something to offer the other. Europe too acknowledges situations today in which difference and community are hard terms to reconcile. Difference refers to gender, sexuality, race, nationality, or language. Community is the collective understanding which must continually be renegotiated and reconstructed among these factors. The Canadian-European connection is one in which it seems especially appropriate to explore such circumstances. The topics covered include pioneer women's writing, transcultural women's fiction, canonical taxonomy of the contemporary novel, the city poem in Confederate Canada, poetry of the Great War, various ethno-cultural perspectives (Jewish, South Asian, Italian; Native reappropriations; Quebec cinema), literature and the media, and small-press publishing. Some of the authors treated: Sandra Birdsell, Nicole Brossard, Jack Hodgins, Henry Kreisel, Robert Kroetsch, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Archibald Lampman, Malcolm Lowry, Lesley Lum, Daphne Marlatt, Susanna Moodie, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Munro, Frank Paci, and Susan Swan.
Book Synopsis Canadian Books for Young People/Livres canadiens pour la jeunesse, 3e by : Irma McDonough
Download or read book Canadian Books for Young People/Livres canadiens pour la jeunesse, 3e written by Irma McDonough and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1980-12-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third, completely revised edition contains hundreds of new entries for a total of almost 2,000 children's books and magazines carefully selected and described by a team of children's librarians. Entries are arranged by subject, with reading levels indicated where necessary, and are also listed in a separate author-title index. A list of prize-winning Canadian children's books and a basic book list for librarians, teachers, and parents are included in this charmingly illustrated volume.
Book Synopsis Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by : Joshua B. Freeman
Download or read book Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World written by Joshua B. Freeman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freeman’s rich and ambitious Behemoth depicts a world in retreat that still looms large in the national imagination.…More than an economic history, or a chronicle of architectural feats and labor movements." —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has reflected both our dreams and our nightmares of industrialization and social change. He whisks readers from the early textile mills that powered the Industrial Revolution to the factory towns of New England to today’s behemoths making sneakers, toys, and cellphones in China and Vietnam. Behemoth offers a piercing perspective on how factories have shaped our societies and the challenges we face now.