![]() Weintraub's scholarship focused on culture, autobiography, and the history of the self he was the author of Visions Of Culture (1966) and The Value Of The Individual: Self and Circumstance in Autobiography (1978). He received his post-secondary education at the University of Chicago, attaining a B.A. ![]() He and his sister Tatjana Wood emigrated to the United States in 1948. During this time, Weintraub attended the Quaker Eerde School. ![]() Weintraub was born in Germany to parents of German and Russian- Jewish ancestry in reaction to the increasing Nazi discrimination against Jews, they fled to the Netherlands in 1935, where they were forced into hiding during the Nazi occupation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This book was published in 2013 but makes a lot more sense with the pandemic situation in 2021. One of the lessons that humans can learn from this story is the willingness of the animals to work together so that they can protect themselves from the deadly virus, and also in finding a cure. "A great stag never runs away from his fate." Kester and his animal friends embark on a journey to find the cure to save those left in the last of the Wild. ![]() It looks like Kester is the only hope now, as he finds out having a special ability to communicate with those still left in the Wild. ![]() The virus known as the Red Eye is claiming the lives of the animals at a fast pace. It is a thought-provoking read, and a book with a valuable message, particularly for young readers. The story also attempts to highlight the contribution of humans in much of the damage to the animal kingdom and also to the environment. This book is well-written and the storyline is captivating and engaging. Piers Torday`s The Last Wild is the story of twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes and his adventurous journey to save wild animals and also humans from a deadly virus. Kester is forced to stay in a home for troubled children, and the wardens keep telling him that something is wrong with him. ![]() "It's weird, but I kind of enjoy feeling sad sometimes." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the next few days, we read it dozens of times, and she insisted that both of my parents read it to her (they both thought it was delightfully clever too) and the first morning that Bart was back from the UK, it was the first thing Ella asked him to do with her (the second thing was to ask if he’d brought back any Jammie Dodgers). She begged to read it a second time and, to my surprise, she laughed just as much that time through. ![]() That afternoon, Ella and I read it together and she laughed so much, I thought she was going to pass out. I’d been hearing buzz about The Book with No Pictures for MONTHS, but didn’t manage to get my hands on a copy until we returned to the United States and I picked up one at my parents’ library. Nope, not one single picture in the whole book. The Book With No Pictures deserves its own post.īut actually, as you might suspect from the cover, this book isn’t really a picture book at all. ![]() It’s only for the very most exceptional picture books that I write an entire post about a single book (I think the last one that got its own post was Journey). Usually, when I write about picture books, I do it as a list, with a bunch of picture books together. ![]() ![]() While the full explanation of the aliens’ presence and purpose is relegated to an enormous information dump more than half-way through the book, it nevertheless contains some interesting ideas and concepts that could be plausible given the circumstances. Simple in its execution, but brilliant in its reveal, The Body Snatchers builds up an inherent distrust of the people surrounding the main characters as they investigate why everyone seems “off” in this small, California town. While the source material is inherently pulpy, a result of the genre and the era in which it was published, there is an entertaining quality to the story that has allowed it to survive for so long. In fact, I like to think that many facets of this story have become a part of popular culture, including the replication “pods” and Donald Sutherland’s scream in the 1978 film version. ![]() Most people know this book by its numerous film adaptations, including Invasion of the Body Snatchers (19), Body Snatchers (1993), and The Invasion (2007). ![]() ![]() ![]() The authority of the signer of the letter to bind the corporate owner was admitted. "It is, however, understood that you will again put the present furnace in the same usable condition as it is now." ![]() In view of the fact that you are paying for this outfit and we are not contributing any money toward its purchase, we hereby state the installation is your property and you may take it out on vacating our premises. "We understand that you are about to install an oil burner in our house which you now occupy on a rental basis. This permission was granted by the then owner, Realty & Security Company, in the following letter dated November 3, 1939: The tenants sought permission of the then owner to install an oil burner unit in the existing furnace and to install a storage tank for oil outside the cellar. In February, 1939, the defendants were tenants of a onefamily house in Paterson, New Jersey, which at the time was heated by a coal furnace. ![]() The opinion of the court was delivered by McGEEHAN, S.J.A.D.Ī judgment of $350 in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant George Wolff was entered in the Passaic County District Court after trial before the judge sitting without a jury. ![]() ![]() ![]() Traditionally Shakespeare play types are categorised as C omedy, History, and Tragedy, with some additional categories proposed over the years – including ‘tragicomedy’Ī tragicomedy is a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy, although it has the features of both. ![]() Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. ![]() Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15. ![]() ![]() ![]() To help her cut up and get rid of the dead body, Masako recruits Yoshie and Kuniko, two fellow factory workers caught up in other kinds of domestic traps. ![]() When Yayoi, the youngest and prettiest of the women, strangles her philandering gambler husband with his own belt in an explosion of rage, she turns instinctively for help to her co-worker Masako, an older and wiser woman whose own family life has fallen apart in less dramatic fashion. Despite the female bonding, this dark, violent novel is more evocative of Gogol or Dostoyevsky than Thelma and Louise. Four women who work the night shift in a Tokyo factory that produces boxed lunches find their lives twisted beyond repair in this grimly compelling crime novel, which won Japan's top mystery award, the Grand Prix, for its already heralded author, now making her first appearance in English. ![]() ![]() SIR JAMES ALMONT, appointed by His Majesty Charles II Governor of Jamaica, was habitually an early riser. ![]() He has published over a dozen scientific papers and holds four patents. Wilson earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. He recently wrote the Earth 2: Society comic book series for DC Comics. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as ten other books. Crichton remains the only writer to have a number one book, movie, and TV show in the same year.ĭaniel H. He wrote and directed Westworld, The Great Train Robbery, Runaway, Looker, Coma and created the hit television series ER. His books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, have been translated into forty languages, and have provided the basis for fifteen feature films. ![]() Michael Crichton (1942-2008) was the author of the bestselling novels The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Jurassic Park, Sphere, Disclosure, Prey, State of Fear, Next and Dragon Teeth, among many others. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() MiniLima's imaginative artwork, exquisite detail, and engaging design recreate this timeless romantic adventure as never before in a lush unabridged gift edition sure to be cherished for years to come. This unique gift edition takes readers on a captivating journey through a mystical land filled with enchanting inhabitants. The Beauty and the Beast is packed with specially commissioned, full-color artwork and nine exclusive interactive features, including: * a fold-out map of the rich French city where the Merchant (Beauty's father) and his family reside * a fold out that reveals the interior of the Beast's enchanted palace * a series of flaps (similar to an Advent calendar) that open to reveal different entertainments available to Beauty in the Beast's palace * a dial of the ring Beauty turns on her finger to return to the Beast. ![]() Now, the classic fairy tale is brought to life in this spectacular illustrated edition as originally envisioned by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve in 1740. Generations of readers have been bewitched by the epic love story of a beautiful young girl imprisoned in the magical castle of a monstrous beast. ![]() ![]() ![]() When asked about his profession Mead tells the car that he is a writer, but the car does not understand since no one buys books or magazines in the television-dominated society. It is the only police unit in a city of three million as the purpose of law enforcement has disappeared with everyone watching television at night. "In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not one in all that time." On one of his usual walks, he encounters a police car, which is robotic. Mead enjoys walking through the city at night, something which no one else does. In the city the sidewalks have fallen into decay. The story features Leonard Mead, a citizen of a television-centered world in November of A.D. ![]() It is included in the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953), but was dropped from later editions of this collection (19). ![]() This story was originally published in the Augissue of The Reporter by The Fortnightly Publishing Company. " The Pedestrian" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. ![]() For other uses, see The Pedestrian (disambiguation). ![]() |