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Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience: Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors, lawyers, politicians, artists, and everyday people whose daily lives are, in the words of playwright Neil Marcus, "an art . . . an ingenious way to live." According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible,...
62) Hidden planet
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lifelike illustrations accompany this book on how animals survive.
"The creatures in this book are hidden in various ways. Some survive by means of symbiotic relationships with other creatures, like the clownfish living among an anemone's poisonous tentacles. Some are closely related to seemingly unconnected animals, like the elephant and the manatee. Some use hidden abilities to do amazing things. Some change color. Some change sex. Some disguise...
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A young adult adaptation of Alice Wong's Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century"--
According to the last census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden-- but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by contemporary disabled writers. Inside you will find activists, authors,...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sally Hurst is going to Rhode Island to live with her father Alex and his new girlfriend Kim in the nineteenth-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the estate, Sally finds a hidden basement and accidentally lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house's bottomless depths. Before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all, Sally must convince Alex and Kim that it's...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An elder justice expert uncovers the failures in the systems that are supposed to protect us as we age, and provides a battle plan for families and policy-makers to counter the greed and incompetence. Between 1900 and 2000, Americans gained, on average, thirty years of life. That dazzling feat allowed tens of millions of Americans to reach the once-rare age of 85, now the fastest-growing age group. The bad news: For millions of Americans, the Golden...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century - widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world - many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack evidence and create political catastrophe: Private markets are always more efficient than public ones; investment capital flows efficiently to necessary projects; massive inequality is the unavoidable...
Author
Publisher
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is world renowned for a superb collection of over 10,000 objects that range from ancient Chinese bronzes to Renaissance tapestries, from paintings by Raphael and Rubens to those of Whistler and Matisse. This guidebook charts new pathways through the beloved institution and tells the story its founder, a trail-blazing American who was among the most prominent patrons of her day. Isabella Stewart Gardner built a Venetian-inspired...
68) The fire oath
Author
Series
Guardians of Horsa volume 4
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Guardians seek a hidden relic inside the Fire Realm, but there's no warm welcome here. Instead they find the Fire Oath, a promise that Ray made as prince of the Solar Herd to protect his realm at all costs...even if that means turning against his friends."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"At what temperature do bees stay home? Why do southerly winds in winter often bring storms? How can you plant a garden that tells the time, or know how many tumbles a hailstone has made through a cloud? These are among the many questions that international-bestselling author Peter Wohlleben poses in his newly translated book. Full of the very latest discoveries, combined with ancient, now forgotten lore, The Weather Detective helps you read nature's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"TV producer Johanna Patterson has worked long and hard to make a name for herself in a man's world. She's tough, self-sufficient and isn't about to be impressed by a man like actor Sam Weaver, whose tough good looks have propelled him to movie stardom. Johanna can't be won over by a pretty face. Sam has a reputation, and Johanna is determined to protect herself at all costs. The problem is that Sam is not quite the man Johanna thought he was. He's...
71) Divergente
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue -- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family...
Author
Series
Annotated Sandman volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Description
Offers a fascinating look at the celebrated comic book series written by New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman. This annotated edition is a page-by-page, panel-by-panel journey through every installment of The Sandman, issues 1-20. Includes commentary, references, and hidden meaning presented side-by-side with the original comic book pages.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"Although almost everyone has heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls, few people can explain what they say or why they are significant. In The Mystery and Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hershel Shanks, the distinguished editor of Biblical Archaeology Review, gives a vivid account of their religious and historical context and their dissemination, meaning, and implications." "Of the eight hundred manuscripts that were eventually found, fewer than a dozen were...
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"'The Book of Symbols' combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all eras of history. The texts and beautiful full-color images come together in a unique way to convey hidden dimensions of meaning. Each of the essays examines a given symbol's psychic background, and how it evokes psychic processes and dynamics. Etymological roots, the play of opposites, paradox and shadow,...
76) A needle in the right hand of God: the Norman conquest of 1066 and the making of the Bayeux tapestry
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Bayeux Tapestry is the worldʼs most famous textile - an exquisite 230-foot-long embroidered panorama depicting the events surrounding the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is also one of historyʼs most mysterious and compelling works of art. This account of the battle that redrew the map of medieval Europe has inspired dreams of theft, waves of nationalism, visions of limitless power, and esthetic rapture. R. Howard Bloch reveals the history, the...
77) Herman Melville
Language
English
Description
A collection of critical essays on Melville and his works. Also includes a chronology of events in the author's life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Astrolog Pub. House
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Tarot reading is a serious, consistent, & logical system. This book discusses the meaning of the cards, displays various layouts & shows what can be revealed using the hidden information in the cards. In an easy & systematic way, readers will become familiar with Tarot Cards & will learn to use them for spiritual & everyday purposes.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Since China joined the WTO in December 2001, the West has been developing ever closer business and political ties. China's hosting of the Olympic Games and its economic leadership in 2008 as the world faced recession were signs that China's new power and wealth would herald greater global prosperity for all. But that era is over. What was the cause of this rupture, leading China expert Andrew Small asks and what does it mean for the future? Using...
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: This spirited anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem-the hybrid-a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles. As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration....
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