Author: Ann Turner
Publisher: Aladdin
Keywords: summer, grasshopper
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0689835221
ISBN-13: 9780689835223

In 1874, eleven-year-old Sam White and his family are moving from Kentucky to the Dakota Territory. These hardy pioneers know it will be hard work, but they don’t expect the devastating plague that comes like an unstoppable force to sweep away all their hopes for the future. They will cope. But they will never forget this grasshopper summer.

Author: Jordan Ellenberg
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Keywords: king, grasshopper
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2003-04-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1566891396
ISBN-13: 9781566891394

Chandler State University is the one thing keeping the dusty, Western town of Chandler on the map. Now that its basketball program has fallen apart, CSU’s only claim to fame is its Gravinics Department, dedicated to the study of an obscure European country -- its mythology, its extraordinarily difficult language, and especially its bizarre star poet, Henderson. Having discovered Henderson’s poetry in a trash bin, Stanley Higgs becomes the foremost scholar of the poet’s work, accepts a position at Chandler State University, achieves international academic fame, marries the Dea

Author: Philip Taylor
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree
Keywords: books, grasshopper
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1403483108
ISBN-13: 9781403483102

This updated edition asks some great questions. How do grasshoppers sing? How big are grasshoppers? How high can grasshoppers jump? This book introduces readers to the physical characteristics, diet, life cycle and habitat of grasshoppers.

Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: grasshopper
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1419164511
ISBN-13: 9781419164514

Hunching up his shoulders and stretching his fingers wide apart, Korostelev played some chords and began singing in a tenor voice, "Show me the abode where the Russian peasant would not groan," while Dymov sighed once more, propped his head on his fist, and sank into thought.

Author: Femi Osofisan
Publisher: Howard University Press
Keywords: plays, grasshopper, oriki
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 1995-05
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0882581813
ISBN-13: 9780882581811

Author: Wilfrid Swancourt Bronson
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Keywords: book, grasshopper
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0865346909
ISBN-13: 9780865346901

The author introduces his fascinating book about grasshoppers and their relations by pointing out the error of Aesop’s fable which compares the grasshopper unfavorably to the ant. ’Actually,’ he says, ’the grasshopper is no more a ner’er-do-well than the ant; it simply does the things it has to for a happy and successful life.’ He then shows how grasshoppers and the other related insects-crickets, katydids, etc.-are equipped for life and how they act from birth to death. Particularly interesting are in the incidents and examples that were drawn from the auth

Author: Bernard Suits
Publisher: Broadview Press
Keywords: utopia, life, games, grasshopper
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 2005-11-09
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 155111772X
ISBN-13: 9781551117720

The Grasshopper Games, Life and Utopia By Bernard Suits Introduced by Thomas Hurka In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common threads that link them all. "Nonsense," says the sensible Bernard Suits: "playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles." The short book Suits wrote demonstrating precisely that is as playful as it is insightful, as stimulating as it is delightful. Suits not only argues that games can be meaningfully defined; he also suggests that playing games is