![]() "The Art of How to Train Your Dragon" is a spectacularly designed, full-color insider's guide to the creative process that went into turning Cressida Cowell's popular book into a feature-length, animated film. But then, in a world where Dragons and Vikings do not coexist peacefully, Hiccup encounters and ultimately befriends an injured dragon, at which point his world is turned upside down. Entering dragon training, Hiccup has a chance to prove his worthiness to his tribe and father. Hiccup is a member of a Viking tribe and wants to make his father, the chief, proud of him. "How to Train Your Dragon" is the story of a scrawny teenaged Viking, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, who lives on the island of Berk in the North Sea. ![]() ![]() This official illustrated tie-in book showcases over 350 spectacular images from the DreamWorks Animation feature film, based on Cressida Cowell's popular children's book. Название: The Art of How to Train Your Dragon ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Otsuka when the emperor was divine![]() As soon as the government detains her husband under suspicion of being a spy, the woman destroys all the cultural links to Japan in their home. In this home, the characters do not need to sacrifice one side of their identity in order to conform to the other. Containing a multiplicity of cultural objects, their home illustrates the possibility of the coexistence of Japanese and American cultural identities. ![]() ![]() But rather than the mingling of two cultural identities, When the Emperor was Divine depicts Japanese-American assimilation as more like the gradual loss of one’s identity altogether.īefore the war, the family’s home was full of the markers of their assimilated, Westernized life (a grand piano, a framed picture of a classic Western artwork, a baseball glove) and also of their Japanese heritage (a bonsai tree, pictures of a family member in Japanese military regalia, a Japanese flag). Typically, assimilation refers to a group of people with their own heritage, traditions, and values adopting the culture of another group. ![]() ![]() A paleontologist who has spent so many years looking at dried-up fossils, she's almost become one herself. But first she needs to believe in herself, in her abilities, and in her friends at the club. ![]() Shirley has a secret dream: a wellness spa that nurtures body and soul. Though her yoga-slender body belies her years, decades of dating losers and the strain of being broke make her feel her age. Now she's got a tricky problem to bring to the club's table: How can they catch her perfect son-in-law cheating on her only daughter, Laura? A determinedly cheerful widow and connoisseur of control-top pantyhose, she's struggling with creative block and an empty, lonely house. Now, as the Hot Flash Club, where the topics of motherhood, sex, and men are discussed with double servings of chocolate cake, they vow to help each other.and themselves.įaye, the artist. ![]() ![]() But in a moment of delicious serendipity, they meet and realize they share more than raging hormones and lost dreams. Four women with skills, smarts, and secrets - all feeling over the hill and out of the race. From the best-selling author of Between Husbands and Friends and An Act of Love comes a wise, wonderful, and delightfully witty coming-of-age novel about four intrepid women who discover themselves as they were truly meant to be: passionate, alive, and ready to face the best years of their lives. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Harper lee second book![]() ![]() In 2015, Harper Collins announced the discovery of “Go Set a Watchman,” a lost manuscript dating back to1957. It came, but more than fifty years later. The novel was adapted into an Oscar-winning picture that added to her celebrity and fanned expectations for her next work. Published in 1960, it sold more than 10 million copies, catapulting Ms. Her first and most beloved work tells the story of Atticus Finch, a righteous Southern lawyer who stands firm against racism in a small Alabama town, much like the one she grew up in. Harper Lee, the famously reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, spent most of her life out of the spotlight. ![]() Transcript Harper Lee, 1926- 2016 Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies, died at the age of 89. ![]() ![]() She also collected tons of Harlequin and Silhouette Books that her mother found it difficult to organize back home. When she attended the Smith College, she took a double major in art history and history which focused on the medieval period. After completing her first unpublished novel, she wrote regularly but only for herself. The young Jessica began writing stories in her diaries and before she went for college, she was able to write her first romance novels. Jessica Bird is born in Massachusetts, USA in 1969 from W. ![]() Although she started writing her novels at an early age, she actually published her first manuscript decade ago thus making her one of the breakthrough romantic novelists in the turn of the century. Surprisingly, Jessica Bird hasn’t been in the literary industry for a long time. ![]() With her imaginativeness, she was able to receive the Romance Writers of America RITA Award which is considered as the most prominent award given to romantic fiction writers. Ward specializes in the sub-genre of paranormal romance. ![]() Jessica Bird writes contemporary romance novels but the name J.R. Ward is actually a pseudonym used by Jessica Rowley Pell Bird. It is a sub-genre for romance and speculative fiction which involves elements beyond scientific explanation. ![]() Ward is famous in the literary world for writing paranormal romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Cover-Up Behind UFO Cover-Up? 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That’s what happened to writer Elisa Segrave, who found the diaries her mother wrote as a young woman in pre-war and wartime Europe.Īt the time, Segrave was caring for her elderly mother, who was stricken with Alzheimer’s after decades of depression and alcoholism. Sometimes it’s mere chance that opens a door to a fuller comprehension of who the parent is - or was - as a separate human being. How much do children really know their parents? So often their understanding is clouded, especially when the relationship to the parent is a difficult one. We hear two Stories of British intelligence during World WWar II: Elisa Segrave talks about her memoir/history, The Girl from Station X: My Mother’s Unknown Life, and we replay our 2008 interview with Jennet Conant about The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Jennet Conant Elisa Segrave ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Or maybe he's just decided that the debate about the book is more important than the book itself. Ed Miliband unashamedly told people he hadn't got beyond the first chapter – and kept on saying that for several weeks. Indeed for some, not having read it was a badge of pride. Say what you like about the theory, the argument went, you had to thank him for the numbers.Īt this point you didn't need to read it to have an opinion about it. ![]() But at first even they heaped praise on Thomas Piketty for casting fresh light on inequality – an area where the official statistics are notoriously weak. Writing a bestselling economics book is usually a good way to make other economists hate you. This was the "Piketty as rockstar" phase, when the book was an "improbable hit" and people wrote breathless articles about the modern successor to Marx who could crunch the numbers but also quote Balzac, The Simpsons and The West Wing. We hadn't had anything like that in ages. At first it was important because it was a big book on a big subject: a book of grand ambition about inequality, written not by the latest "thinker" but a respected academic economist with real numbers to go with his theory. But the reasons for its importance have changed in the months since it was published. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Defy me by tahereh mafi![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I couldn’t put it down.” - Lauren Kate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Fallen series “Addictive, intense, and oozing with romance. I dare you to stop reading.” - Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures series “ Unravel Me is dangerous, sexy, romantic, and intense. A thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love, the Shatter Me series is a must-read for fans of dystopian young adult literature-or any literature!” - Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children PRAISE FOR THE SERIES: “Tahereh Mafi’s bold, inventive prose crackles with raw emotion. The prose moves readers swiftly from crisis to crisis.” - Booklist Online PRAISE FOR Defy Me: “Written with precision and a sense of urgency, each chapter a strobe light–like moment in the lives of the teens trying to save their world. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Wonderland book steven johnson![]() ![]() “Ignore the pleasure those institutions generated,” he suggests, “and focus on the innovations or historical sea changes they helped bring about: public museums, the age of exploration, the rubber industry, stock markets, programmable computers, the industrial revolution, robots, the public sphere, global trade.” In an entertaining and accessible style, he takes tangents that arrive at sometimes startling conclusions, like a magician practicing misdirection. ![]() In food, fashion, athletics, and commerce, Johnson explores the surprising ways in which one discovery follows from another, often over the course of centuries. ![]() “This is a history of play,” he writes, “a history of the pastimes that human beings have concocted to amuse themselves as an escape from the daily grind of subsistence.” According to Johnson, the development of music led to the computer age, the invention of public eating and drinking establishments progressed to cultural and ideological revolution, and games of chance inspired the creation of whole new mathematical fields. In this charming study, Johnson ( How We Got to Now) examines how the seemingly frivolous and unproductive aspects of society-the things people do for fun, pleasure, and entertainment-have influenced, defined, and created the world. ![]() |