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In this modern-day fable, Wanda calls her brother and sister
"fans," keeps up with celebrity news, and never misses a chance to
share a selfie. She's ready to show the world how Wanda-ful she
really is, but all people are interested in is . . . her dog!
Superstar cartoonists Eleanor Davis and Drew Weing will have young
readers in stitches with this hilarious tale of fame and fandom
where friendship and family triumph.
This first English translation of the only comprehensive and
thorough history of Russian culture in any language is a
publication of unique importance. Endowed with scholarly authority,
it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development
of religion, literature, and the arts from their earliest
manifestations to modern times. Originally published in 1941 in
three sections, Religion and the Church, Literature, and
Architecture, Painting and Music, it is here presented in one
volume.
This translation makes available to English readers the only
comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any
language. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad
outline the long rich story of the development of religion,
literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to
modern times. For the convenience of those only interested in
separate sections, the book is issued in three parts as standalone
volumes: Part I: Religion and the Church Part II: Literature Part
III: Architecture, Painting and Music
This translation makes available to English readers the only
comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any
language. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad
outline the long rich story of the development of religion,
literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to
modern times. The contrast of Christianity in Russia with the
Western Church, the retarded development and then suddenly blooming
of literature in the 19th century, the individuality of Russian
genius in architecture, painting, and music are described and
evaluated, the whole forming a penetrating insight into Russian
backgrounds and character. For the convenience of those only
interested in separate sections, the book is issued in three parts
as standalone volumes: Part I: Religion and the Church Part II:
Literature Part III: Architecture, Painting and Music
This translation makes available to English readers the only
comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any
language. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad
outline the long rich story of the development of religion,
literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to
modern times. For the convenience of those only interested in
separate sections, the book is issued in three parts as standalone
volumes: Part I: Religion and the Church Part II: Literature Part
III: Architecture, Painting and Music
Hannah is a thirty-something wife, home- health worker, and antiwar
activist. Her husband, Johnny, is a stay-at-home pot- head working
or working on building them a house before the winter chill sets
in. They re currently living and screw-ing in the back of a truck,
hoping for a pregnancy, which seems like it will never come. Legs
in the air, for a better chance at conception, Hannah scans
fertility Reddits while Johnny dreams about propagating plants
kale, tomatoes to ensure they have sufficient sustenance should the
end times come, which, given their fragile democracy strained under
the weight of a carceral state and the risk of horrible war, doesn
t seem so far off. Helping Hannah in her fight for the future is
her best friend Gabby, a queer naturalist she idolizes and who
adores her. Helping Johnny build the house is Tyler, an
off-the-grid conspiracy theorist driven sick by his own cloudy
notions of reality. Told with tenderness and care in an undefined
near future, Eleanor Davis s The Hard Tomorrow blazes unrestrained,
as moments of human connection are doused in fear and threats. Her
astute projections probe at current anxieties in a cautionary tale
that begs the question: What will happen after tomorrow?
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Why Art? (Paperback)
Eleanor Davis
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R430
R349
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Super-smart Julian Calendar thinks starting junior high at a new
school will mean he can shed his nerdy image-but then he meets Ben
and Greta, two secret scientists like himself! The three form a
secret club, complete with a high-tech lair. There, they can work
to their hearts content on projects like the Stink-O-Meter, the
Kablovsky Copter, and the Nightsneak Goggles.
All that tinkering comes in handy when the trio discovers an
evil scientist's dastardly plan to rob a museum. Can three
inventors, armed with their wacky creations, hope to defeat this
criminal mastermind?
Eleanor Davies (1590-1652) was one of the most prolific women
writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes
thirty-eight of the sixty-some prophetic tracts that she published.
Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625, the year of
Charles I's accession to the throne, she devoted herself to warning
her contemporaries that the Day of Judgement was imminent. Her zeal
and her intricately constructed tracts confounded contemporaries
who called her mad. She experienced repeated imprisonment and also
confinement to Bedlam, London's mental hospital. The tracts tell
her own story as woman and prophet. They offer an opportunity to
study her experiences as wife, mother, and widow; they also exhibit
her extraordinary intellect, extensive education, and fascination
with words. In showing how England's history was fulfilling the
biblical prophecies in the book of Daniel and the book of
Revelation, she commented about the political and religious
controversies of the turbulent period preceding and during the
English Civil War and Revolution.
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