The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading, Paperback - Francis Spufford

Reducere. In this extended love letter to children's books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his fath...

Costa-award winning author of Golden Hill returns with a memoir that investigates the consequences of what we read as children, with Spufford revis...

Reducere. An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books This intimate account...

Reducere. DescriptionBill Marriott, son of J. Williard Marriott who opened a root-beer stand that grew into the Hot Shoppes Restaurant chain and evolved into...

Reducere. Generations of children have delighted in the nursery rhyme about Jack and his house. Starting with the familiar refrain ``This is the house that J...

DescriptionAn irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spuff...

Reducere. Tuskegee University Cemetery Stories chronicles the important contributions of those whose last home on this earth is the Tuskegee University Cemet...

Reducere. "Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." The Times (London)Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppr...

From the author of Men Explain Things to Me - -A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters- (The New York T...

Reducere. "A gutsy success story" (The New York Times Book Review) about one tenacious woman's journey to escape rural poverty and create a billion-dollar fa...

Offers an account of how British boffins triumphed across the decades in creating everything from computer games to Martian landers. This book cont...

Reducere. A Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of 1996 'Without books how could I have become myself?' In this wonderfully written meditation, Lynne Sha...

Reducere. DescriptionAfrican-American stories were overlooked by mainstream media until John H. Johnson showed the world the value of black life. In his maga...

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Award NameAsian/Pacific American Award for LiteratureAward categoryChildren's LiteratureDescription"If this book were a house, the rooms would be f...

Reducere. The Roaring Twenties: America is dancing to jazz, gangsters are selling bootleg liquor, and the New York Yankees are building a baseball dynasty. I...

Reducere. Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic w...

Reducere. What happened in the house that Jack built? It all started with the cheese that lay in the house that Jack built. And then came the rat that ate th...

Reducere. DescriptionAfrican-American stories were overlooked by mainstream media until John H. Johnson showed the world the value of black life. In his maga...

Reducere. The scarecrow from Old Mac Donald's farm emcees a barnyard theater production that collapses into hilarious chaos in this rollicking rendition of "...

Reducere. Francis Spufford's Unapologetic is a wonderfully pugnacious defense of Christianity. Refuting critics such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the ...

Reducere. This is the story of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, who transformed a poor neighborhood in Chicago by open...

This fascinating and highly original book presents a longitudinal systematic study of the earliest form of human dreaming in a child, from ages fou...

Reducere. Bursting with adventurous and humorous spirit, Julia Child captures post-war Paris with wonderful vividness and charm.

When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination.

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Description#1 Amazon Best Seller ─ Rediscover All the Reasons Why You Love Star WarsCelebrate the greatest saga ever told: All of us who are deeply...

Reducere. In America today, 43 percent of our children fall below grade level in reading. In her meticulously researched and groundbreaking work, Diane McGui...

Reducere. DescriptionNorth America's fastest mammal, the pronghorn, can accelerate explosively from a standing start to a top speed of 60 miles per hour - bu...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Robert J. (UTS: Insearch, Australia) McMurtrieIllustration(s): 10 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages:...

Reducere. From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Golden Hill, a mesmerizing and boldly inventive novel tracing the infinite possibilities ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kerry FisherYou can run from your past, but it will always catch up with you... Susie was forced to do something she will a...

Reducere. The bestselling story of Julia's years in France--and the basis for Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams--in her own words. Although ...

The Unborn Child is essential reading for parents, potential parents and grandparents, as well as professionals with responsibility for children, a...

Reducere. Give beginning readers and second language learners the support they need with these adorable little books in both English and Spanish. Written to ...

DescriptionThe much-anticipated follow-up to the E. B. White Award-winning picture book If I Built a Car In If I Built a Car, imaginative Jack drea...

Children live deeply in the experience of the seasons. Their unity with nature is initially unconscious and uncritical, and this ``Garden of Eden``...

** From the author of Golden Hill **'Glorious.' Evening Standard'Exhilarating.' TLS'Brilliant.' Observer'Dazzling.' The Times'Extraordinary.' Finan...

Reducere. 100 Marvel comics that built a universe. Which comic books have helped define Marvel Comics and make them the pop-culture phenomenon they are today...

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Literary icon Edmund White looks back at his life in relation to literature, from the consolation found in Proust during a closeted time at boardin...

Reducere. The purpose of this book is to unlock the hidden potential of its introverted readers which is why it essentially outlined their greatest strengths...

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An unparalleled account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision and matchless determination: the building of the railroad that united Ameri...

Reducere. "Far greater even than the loss of land, or the relentless coercion to surrender cultural traditions, the deaths of over six hundred children by th...

Reducere. DescriptionBeg, Borrow, or Steal.Worlds collide when a car thief and a self-proclaimed entrepreneur meet. Pearla is a born hustler, and Cash was bo...

Reducere. This engaging book is narrated by a Middle-School African American girl.She is being teased and bullied by her schoolmates. They lack empathy for t...