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Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in "only what's necessary." For fifty years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. In all, 17,897 strips were published, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being," according to Robert Thompson, professor...
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Libros Para Ninos
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
¡Celebra actos cotidianos de bondad y valentía con la pandilla de Peanuts en este inspirador libro de cartón perfecto para regalos! Regala de corazón, que al final de la jornada... ser amable toma tiempo, pero no te cuesta nada. Es difícil ser valiente cuando levantas el vuelo. Es cierto: puedes caerte, ¡o puedes llegar al cielo! Ve a cantar bajo la lluvia si hacerlo te hace feliz. No hay nadie más como tú. ¡Tienes tu propia matriz! En esta...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Few people know that Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an accomplished and innovative pilot in her own right. In fact, she was one of the defining figures of American aviation, a bright and adventurous woman who helped to pioneer air routes, traveled around the world, and came to be adored by the American public. In this revealing biography, aviation historian and pilot Winters recreates the adventure and excitement of many of Anne's early flights, including...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Joan of Arc was the girl who led an army . . . the peasant who crowned a king . . . the maid who became a legend . . . In the 15th century, the tumultuous Hundred Years' War rages on. English soldiers tear through the countryside destroying all who cross their path, and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army. But in the quiet of her parents' garden in Domrémy, a peasant girl sees a spangle of light...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843, he likely had no idea that the story and its main character, Ebenezer Scrooge, would remain so popular nearly two centuries later. Today, readers still find themselves entertained by the story of a grumpy, selfish man who becomes a holiday hero after he learns generosity through the help of three spirits in Victorian-era England. Whether a Dickens fan or someone in love with all things "Christmas,"...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Charles Darwin knew that there was a significant event in the history of life that his theory did not explain. In what is known today as the "Cambrian explosion," 530 million years ago many animals suddenly appeared in the fossil record without apparent ancestors in earlier layers of rock. In Darwin's Doubt Stephen C. Meyer tells the story of the mystery surrounding this explosion of animal life -- a mystery that has intensified, not only because...
95) Mind and cosmos: why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Argues that consciousness, intentionality, and value, all products of mind, are inadequately explained by standard materialist science, and that, therefore, standard materialist science is inadequate to provide the only way to understand the world. Devoted particularly to the origin of life from non-living matter and to the evolution of mind as problems for materialist science. Insists on a non-religious alternative.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of the nineteenth-century literary master from the challenges he faced as the imprisoned son of a profligate father, his rise to one of England's foremost novelists, and the personal demons that challenged his relationships.
Author
Series
Thinker's library volume no. 7
Publisher
Distributed in the USA by National Book Network
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From 1848 to 1881, a small utopian colony in upstate New York, the Oneida Community, was known for its shocking sexual practices, from open marriage and free love to the sexual training of young boys by older women. And in 1881, a one-time member of the Oneida Community, Charles Julius Guiteau, assassinated President James Garfield in a brutal crime that shook America to its core. This is the first book to weave together these explosive stories in...
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