Author: Kendall Haven
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Keywords: wonders, science, myth, phenomena, natural, sea, nature
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2005-07-30
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 1591582792
ISBN-13: 9781591582793
Renowned story teller, Kendall Haven brings his expertise as an oceanographer to the authorship of this third book in a four- book series intended for teachers to use with students in the upper elementary and middle school grades. It focuses on natural phenomena of the sea (tides, tsunamis, sea spouts, giant squid, killer whales) through the eyes of ancient myth and looks at the modern day science that explains each myth, using the interdisciplinary style of teaching. Haven, bringing his knowledge of the science of oceanography, integrates various scientific fields of oceanic study—Phys
Author: Norma Svenhard
Publisher: Xulon Press
Keywords: wonders, wonder
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2003-03-15
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 1591603811
ISBN-13: 9781591603818
Author: Aron Appelfeld
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: wonders
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1990-02-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0879237988
ISBN-13: 9780879237981
The secure world of a well-established and apparently perfectly assimilated Jewish writer living in an Austrian town before World War II, disintegrates under the force of political and social realities that daily sanctify the old and endemic Austrian anti-Semitism. We learn what we learn through Bruno, the thirteen-year-old son of the family, whose spare and uninflected account discloses the slow onset of disaster. His father, a successful Austrian intellectual, refuses the implications of what s happening and embraces the humiliating routines of Jewish self-hatred. To the vicious attacks on h
Author: Tim Downs
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Keywords: cease, wonders
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-05-11
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1595543090
ISBN-13: 9781595543097
Author: Ron Fridell
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Keywords: transportation, wonders, seven
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2010-01
List price: $33.26
ISBN-10: 0761342389
ISBN-13: 9780761342380
In every age, science and technology have advanced human civilization. From architecture to engineering, medicine to transportation, humans have invented extraordinary wonders. Transportation technology has seen significant changes over the centuries. Ancient people traveled on foot and on the backs of animals. People invented wheels and sailing ships, which helped them travel farther and carry larger loads. Fast forward to modern cars, subways, and airplanes and we’ll find that even the sky’s not the limit. In the twenty-first century, people are planning tourist flights into spac
Author: Encyclopaedia Britannnica, Inc.
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Keywords: wonders, wildlife
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1593395078
ISBN-13: 9781593395070
Part of the Britannica Learning Library series, in Wildlife Wonders, you will encounter amazing animals, study their actions, and learn how their habitats have changed over time.
Author: Franco Moretti
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: wonders, signs
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1988-05-17
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0860919064
ISBN-13: 9780860919063
A compelling analysis of the relations between high and mass culture, from tragedy and horror to detective fiction and classical realism. Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstein and The Waste Land — all are celebrated “wonders” of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that sometimes hinders our ability to understand them. Franco Moretti applies himself to this problem by drawing skilfully on structuralist, sociological and psy
