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An adapted, easy-to-read edition of Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves - with engaging illustrations throughout. In a forest in
Syria, a poor woodcutter called Ali Baba spots a cloud of dust in
the distance. Fearing attack, he hides as forty men on horseback
unload stolen treasure. Once they are gone, he helps himself.
Ali Baba’s fortunes are looking up – until the robbers return
and discover they have been, well, robbed. Now their leader will
stop at nothing to find who did it, but it won’t be easy with the
clever Morgiana out to stop them. About The Easy Classics Arabian
Nights Collection: Do you want stories with genies, a flying carpet
and a magic lamp? Your wish is our command! Join Aladdin, Ali Baba,
Sinbad and others on their thrilling
adventures. The Arabian Nights Children's
Collection is perfect for young readers to enjoy for a
thousand and one nights and beyond … Suitably adapted and
illustrated for younger readers aged 7+.
Adapted and illustrated editions of classic Middle Eastern and
Asian tales at easy-to-read levels for all ages! Do you want
stories with genies, a flying carpet and a magic lamp? Your wish is
our command! Join Aladdin, Ali Baba, Sinbad and others on their
thrilling adventures. This 10-book set is perfect for young readers
to enjoy for a thousand and one nights and beyond … Suitably
adapted and illustrated for younger readers aged 7+. Includes QR
codes for the FREE audiobooks! This 10-book box set includes
adapted and illustrated editions of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Ali
Baba and the Forty Thieves, Gulnare of the Sea, Prince Camar and
Princess Badoura, Sinbad the Sailor, The Fisherman and the Genie,
The Magic Horse, The Merchant and the Genie, The Three Princes and
the Magic Carpet and Zobeida and the Three Qalandars.
A poetic book highlighting everyday nature. The perfect blend of
science and poetry, Hidden City demonstrates that nature can thrive
anywhere, even in highly populated areas. In this graceful
collection of poems, skyscrapers serve as perches for falcons,
streetlights attract an insect buffet for hungry bats, and an
overgrown urban lot offers shelter to both flora and fauna. Hidden
City also includes engaging supplementary materials, which provide
scientific information about the animals and plants featured in the
book. Coupled with beautiful collage illustrations, the poems in
Hidden City offer readers the perfect reminder to notice and care
about their environment.
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines. The fifth volume of this annual series
features several articles examining the interaction of medieval
romance with textiles and clothing. French Gothic ivory carvings
illustrating courtly romances reveal details of fashionable dress;
the distinct languages of narrative poetry and Parisian tax records
offer contrasting views of medieval embroiderers; and scenes from
the Tristan legend provide clues to the original form of the
earliest surviving decorativequilt. Other papers look at
ecclesiastical attempts to restrict extravagance in secular women's
dress, the use of clothing references to signal impending conflict
in Icelandic sagas, the development and possible construction of
the Tudor-era court headdress called the French hood, and the way
Cesare Vecellio drew on both existing artwork and the Venetian
image to present historical dress in his sixteenth-century treatise
on costume. Also included are reviews of recent books on clothing
and textiles. ROBIN NETHERTON is a professional editor and a
researcher/lecturer on the interpretation of medieval European
dress; GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture
atthe University of Manchester. Contributors: KATE D'ETTORE,
SARAH-GRACE HELLER, THOMAS M. IZBICKI, PAULA MAE CARNS, SARAH
RANDLES, MELANIE SCHUESSLER, TAWNY SHERRILL
Sarah Grace is a sexual assault survivor. On 17 July 2019, she fell
asleep like any other night. A burglar broke into her apartment and
attacked her as she slept. What followed was a fight for her life.
That violent assault blew apart her world, reducing everything in
it to ashes. From that battle, Sarah has waged many more. She had
to fight her way through post-traumatic stress, the social stigma
around sexual assault and an archaic court system in her bid to
ensure her attacker couldn't do the same to another woman. Some
adversities were predictable - nightmares, panic attacks and the
devastating loss of self. Others were surprising - toxic social
reactions, friends withdrawing and a nightmarish trial that
unearthed how heavily the criminal justice system is loaded against
victims. Ash + Salt is a raw and powerful account of healing and
thriving after sexual assault. Armed with courage and brazen
candour, Sarah takes you through her own story to reveal the
experience of a survivor. She offers the tools to survive the
assault, its aftermath and the trial, and charts the path back to
recovery. Because while ash marks the place of devastation, it is
also the fertile soil from which new life can grow. This is a book
for everyone - not just survivors, but their families, friends and
colleagues too. Sexual assault affects us all, regardless of
background or gender. It is one woman's personal testimony, but it
is also a call to arms. The time to speak up is now.
Twelfth- and thirteenth-century medieval French texts reveal the
presence of a developed fashion system long before the previously
accepted birth of Western fashion in the mid-fourteenth century.
How are we to distinguish between a culture organized around
fashion, and one where the desire for novel adornment is latent,
intermittent, or prohibited? How do fashion systems organize social
hierarchies, individual psychology,creativity, and production?
Medieval French culture offers a case study of "systematic
fashion", demonstrating desire for novelty, rejection of the old in
favor of the new, and criticism of outrageous display. Texts from
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries describe how cleverly-cut
garments or unique possessions make a character distinctive, and
even offer advice on how to look attractive on a budget or gain
enough spending money to shop for oneself. Suchdescriptions suggest
fashion's presence, yet accepted notions date the birth of Western
fashion to the mid-fourteenth-century revolution in men's clothing
styles. A fashion system must have been present prior to this
'revolution'in styles to facilitate such changes, and abundant
evidence for the existence of such a system is cogently set out in
this study. Ultimately, fashion is a conceptual system expressed by
words evaluating a style's ephemeral worth,and changes in visual
details are symptomatic, rather than determinative. SARAH-GRACE
HELLER is an associate professor in Medieval French at Ohio State
University.
During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking
good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds
imported from great distances and at considerable risk to
merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest
and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment; and
vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of
verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping
experiences. Drawing on a wealth of pictorial, textual and object
sources, the volume examines how dress cultures developed - often
to a degree of dazzling sophistication - between the years 800 to
1450. Beautifully illustrated with 100 images, A Cultural History
of Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age presents an overview of
the period with essays on textiles, production and distribution,
the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual
representations, and literary representations.
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Aurora & Grace (Paperback)
Christopher David Brown, Sarah Grace Austin, Avant Garde Theatre of Dance
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R180
Discovery Miles 1 800
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During the medieval period, people invested heavily in looking
good. The finest fashions demanded careful chemistry and compounds
imported from great distances and at considerable risk to
merchants; the Church became a major consumer of both the richest
and humblest varieties of cloth, shoes, and adornment; and
vernacular poets began to embroider their stories with hundreds of
verses describing a plethora of dress styles, fabrics, and shopping
experiences. Drawing on a wealth of pictorial, textual and object
sources, the volume examines how dress cultures developed – often
to a degree of dazzling sophistication – between the years 800 to
1450. Beautifully illustrated with 90 images, A Cultural History of
Dress and Fashion in the Medieval Age presents an overview of the
period with essays on textiles, production and distribution, the
body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, visual
representations, and literary representations.
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Burden (Hardcover)
L Steinworth; Edited by Sarah Grace Liu
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R783
Discovery Miles 7 830
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Love, Hate & Betrayal (Paperback)
Sarah Grace; Dorothy Davis Collins; Edited by Kayamia Elizabeth Ann Collins
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R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
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Due to the passing of her mother at the young age of seven,
Dorothy's world was immediately turned upside down. She experienced
feelings of abandonment and rejection from her father when he sent
her to live with her older sister. She had not only lost her
mother, but her father too. She faced many challenges in her life.
From low self-esteem, rape, having three children in three years by
the age of twenty-three and the ultimate betrayal by her husband
and her church family. Dorothy's story will inspire you by showing
you how God will never leave you or forsake you, even when you feel
like you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel.
See how the wonders of music played in our minds and hearts. Know
the effect of music in alleviation of physiological condition such
as anxiety. The therapeutic practice is evidenced by some
mythological or historical reflections, which have explained the
origins of music in healing. Music Touched the troubled soul of
King Saul as David played his harp, the evil spirit departed from
him. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is
impossible to be silent" by Victor Hugo. Read the miracles of Music
in our life.
Welcome to Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where social rank is determined
by the age of your money and the dryness of your martini. The new
girl in town, Emma Harris, must prove herself hip to the rigid
rules of adolescent conformity. The quest for cool, she discovers,
is one long final exam. To pass she must be cruel to be kind
(ditching her best friend for the popular crowd), dress to impress
(trading her favorite Esprit shirt for three plastic bracelets),
and master the art of seduction (puckering up with Mulberry Stain
or Peaches 'n' Cream lip gloss). Life is all about making choices
-- the right ones. Will Emma's social acrobatics put her on the
short list for that coveted country club membership? Will the
digits of her zip code pass muster? If her parents split up, will
the gossip help or hurt her in the rankings? Grosse Pointe Girl
serves as an indispensable road map through the dysfunction
privilege brings. So put on your Guess? jeans and your jelly shoes
and come along for the ride to the adolescent days that time
forgot, but you never will.
As a lowly freshman named for "The King," Presley Moran walks high
school corridors paved with the stuff of family legend. Her cousin
Barry, a senior heartthrob and brainy varsity letterman, insists
that looking good on paper is the key to success. But Presley's
young aunt Betsi, a former homecoming queen, has her own ideas
about good looks and how to use them.
"Can you keep a secret?" Betsi asks Presley, who, at age fourteen,
is eager for entree into the adult world of beauty, attraction, and
romance. But as Presley is about to discover, some secrets should
never be revealed. Will the illicit thrill of being a trusted
confidante, privy to the details of muddled entanglements and
incompatible desires, be worth the consequences of guilt by
association?
Propelled by the crash of falling idols, "The Girl I Wanted to Be"
is a timeless and true portrait of passion, loss, and hard-won
wisdom.
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