Author: Troy CLE
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Keywords: marvelous, world, effect
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-05-22
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 141693958X
ISBN-13: 9781416939580
Louis Proof is an ordinary kid.He loves listening to hip-hop, racing radio-controlled cars, and hanging out with his best friend, Brandon. Then a mysterious letter invites him to visit the local junkyard. There he finds a secret, underground amusement park like no other in existence. This is the best day of Louis’s life. The park even has the most amazing race course for radio-controlled cars. Louis starts racing right away. It’s a close contest; he’s about to activate his nitro boost to take the lead, when...This is the worst day of Louis’s life. Without warning or rea
Author: Tom Paxton
Publisher: Imagine Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: toy, marvelous
Number of Pages: 26
Published: 2009-08-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0982293925
ISBN-13: 9780982293928
For nearly half a century, The Marvelous Toy composed by the legendary singer/songwriter Tom Paxton has enchanted children and adults alike. A simple tale about a mysterious, magical, and mystical toy that a father gives to his son and that eventually gets passed down to the next generation it celebrates a child s sense of wonder. The witty, evocative lyrics spark the imagination. No surprise, then, that the song has been recorded by countless major artists, from Peter, Paul, and Mary to the Chad Mitchell Trio to John Denver, and won legions of fans through the years. Paxton s marvelous song h
Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Keywords: marvelous, monstrous
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0872863549
ISBN-13: 9780872863545
Literary Criticism. With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous -- as transmuted in the alembic of Rikki Ducornet’s open-hearted vision -- in literature, art and film. For her, excess anomaly, and heterodoxy entice the imagining mind to embrace "otherness," enlarge the world, and regenerate Eden.
Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: thing, marvelous, one
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 156478519X
ISBN-13: 9781564785190
This year Rikki Ducornet is being presented with a lifetime achievement award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for her beloved work as a novelist and essayist, but perhaps most of all for her work as a writer of short stories. In the tradition of Italo Calvino, Donald Barthelme, and Angela Carter, Ducornet creates modern-day fables filled with characters as complex and surprising as any in American short fiction. This landmark collection of new stories is generously illustrated by T. Motley, whose gritty, fantastical cartooning explores the same post-magical realism that has been th
Author: Pam Scheunemann
Publisher: Abdo Publishing Company
Keywords: craze, cat, coons, maine, marvelous
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2009-08-15
List price: $24.21
ISBN-10: 160453723X
ISBN-13: 9781604537239
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: world, new, wonder, possessions, marvelous
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1992-10-15
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0226306526
ISBN-13: 9780226306520
Marvelous Possessions is a study of the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World.In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Stephen Greenblatt shows that the experience of the marvelous, central to both art and philosophy, was cunningly yoked by Columbus and others to the service of colonial appropriation. He argues that the traditional symbolic actions and legal rituals through which European sovereignty was
Author: Meenakshi Mukerji
Publisher: A K Peters
Keywords: origami, modular, marvelous
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2007-04-24
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1568813163
ISBN-13: 9781568813165
This richly illustrated book provides step-by-step instructions for the construction of over 30 different modular origami structures. The author describes basic folding techniques required to construct the modules that are used as building blocks to construct complex ornamental models. The diagrams are clear, crisp, and easy to follow, and are accompanied by inspiring color photographs. Additional tips encourage the reader to design their own original creations.
