Welcome to the All-World School of Sportsmanship, where kids from all over train to become the best athletes in a world obsessed with even the most marginal sports. PENG! follows students Rocky, Sassy, Ven, and Radley—also known as the FOOT KNUX. Together they will master action-packed "fringe” sports like kickball, breakdancing and hacky sack! Our heroes battle boredom, the sun in their eyes, their own self-doubt, as well as strange and unusual baddies like the Aurora Skeddos and The Biter, mystical foes who are also vying for victory! With a little love and luck, the FOOT KNUX may just win the game—and your heart!
Brad Thor's Summer 2018 Fiction Pick for THE TODAY SHOW! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Elle • Refinery29 • PopSugar • Verge Author of LA Times Prize finalist The Cartographers “The Book of M is devastating and inventive as Shepherd examines the value of memory, packing in imaginative twists as she goes.” —USA Today "Eerie, dark, and compelling, [The Book of M] will not disappoint lovers of The Passage and Station Eleven." —Booklist WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories. Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears too. Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless. As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure. Like The Passage and Station Eleven, this haunting, thought-provoking, and beautiful novel explores fundamental questions of memory, connection, and what it means to be human in a world turned upside down. Don't miss the latest captivating novel by Peng Shepherd: The Cartographers
This is Topic 9 of the Selected Topics from The Revival of China. The full book is about the revival of China in the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century. This topic is about the main activities in his life, including the suffering childhood, in the Hunan Army (joining the Hunan Army, promoted to Colonel, joined the Communist Party), the Pingjiang Uprising (the Pingjiang Uprising, going to Mount Jinggang to join the ZHU-MAO Red Army, staying behind in Mount Jinggang for garrison), the Red 3rd Army Group (attacking Changsha City, the Fourth Counter Encirclement and Suppression Fight, the Fifth Counter Encirclement and Suppression Fight, in the Long March of the Red Army) , the One Hundred Regiments Battle (the One Hundred Regiments Battle, in the Yanan Rectification), fighting in Northern Shaanxi Province (withdrawing from Yanan Town, fighting in Northern Shaanxi), the liberation of Northwestern China (destroying the MA Army, liberation of Xinjiang Province) , the Korean War (breaking up of the war, U.S. troops landed at Inchon, establishment of the People's Volunteer Army of China, the first campaign, the second campaign, the third campaign, the fourth campaign, the fifth battle, the MIG Alley, peace talks began, the Shangganling Battle, the Korean Armistice Agreement signed) , the enlarged meeting of the Central Military Commission in 1958 (against military dogmatism, against individualism) , the Mount Lu Conference in 1959 (the early stage of the conference, a letter from PENG De-huai to MAO Ze-dong, criticizing PENG De-huai, the later stage of the conference, the enlarged meeting of the Military Commission after the Mount Lu Conference, the nationwide Against Right Deviations Movement, PENG De-huai going to Southwestern China) , in the Great Cultural Revolution (PENG De-huai’s ribs were broken by beating), the last years of life, and vindication.
"Dialogues with Chin Peng: New Light on the Malayan Communist Party includes background papers, previously unseen Communist Party documents, propaganda posters, and other data. These materials, from both sides of the conflict, shed new light on the Malayan Communist Party, and present history as dialogue and debate."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
★ "Elegantly and economically retold . . . with lustrous illustrations." –STARRED REVIEW, Shelf Awareness Young Peng shows courage and honesty when brought before the emperor of China in this retelling of a classic folktale from China. The old childless emperor gives a challenge to the children of the city to determine who will become his heir. He gathers them together, and gives them a task; take one seed each, plant it and return in one year to show the flowers that each has grown. Little Peng is determined to do his best, but despite planting and tending the seed, he fails to grow a flower. But Peng brings a flower of different kind to his meeting with the emperor, one that just might win him the challenge. A new retelling of this classic Chinese folktale, brought to new generations of children through the exquisite illustrations by Paolo Proietti.
Soul of Ink: Lim Tze Peng at 100 pays tribute to the remarkable achievement of artistic renaissance at 100. It traces the lean beginnings of Lim Tze Peng's early years, relives the times of controversy over the artist's innovations in Chinese calligraphy, and celebrates his breakthroughs. Throughout the book, attention is paid to Lim Tze Peng the man, the foundation of everything that is admirable about Lim Tze Peng the artist. It looks at the man behind the art, and how art has given life to him and his family.Farmer, teacher, principal, and artist, Lim Tze Peng counts Lee Man Fong, Cheong Soo Pieng, and Liu Kang as his mentors. These men, like the others from the pioneering generation of Nanyang artists, are no longer around. Lim Tze Peng remains standing, a witness to and player in Singapore's art history since the 1940s.His life started late; everything got going only after the ripe old age of 80. A Cultural Medallion winner at 82 and a Meritorious Service recipient at 95, Lim Tze Peng is used to the twists and turns of life and has been trained by experience to endure the vagaries of fate. You could describe his art as the art of perseverance. The works he produces these days need to be seen to be believed. Bigger, bolder, and boasting far more colour than ever before, his art is as invigorating as that of a young man, whilst embodying the soul of a sage.At the heart of this book is the word 'soul'. What pushes a man at the age of 100 to continue breaking new ground in his life's work? How has he been able to surprise not just the art community but himself?This is Woon Tai Ho's second book on a Singaporean artist. His first, To Paint a Smile, is about the artist Tan Swie Hian.
Learn to draw with this sneakily accessible and fun approach, tested through years of classroom teaching. There’s no doubt about it: whether you’re a newbie or a pro, drawing can be daunting. That’s why expressive and humorous cartoons are the best place to start! From experienced teacher Peng comes a stylish yet playful approach to drawing cartoons, designed to excite even the most tentative artists. Over several decades teaching in schools and art colleges, artist and illustrator Peng has developed expert knowledge of the building blocks of drawing and sketching. As he shows, creativity can come from anywhere and entire sketches can spring up from the simplest lines or curves. Peng’s easy-to-follow guide inspires confidence and creativity by showing how even complete novices can quickly learn how to draw characters and develop their own individual style. Starting with the basics of figure construction and moving through to expression, storytelling, and animals, the artist conjures up delightful cartoons with wicked humor and a lightness of touch. Simple tips and exercises reveal how anyone and everyone can master the art of drawing. This volume encourages everyone to experiment with a variety of techniques executed through brush, pencil, and pen. Don’t be afraid of drawing! In this addictive starter book, you make the rules.
More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees—one that changes not only her life, but also the fate of our world. Inspired by the real-life “Future Library,” a long-term environmental and literary public art project currently underway in the Norwegian wilderness. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
"This is the first study that adopts a comprehensive, thorough, and interdisciplinary approach toward early Chinese lost-wax castings. With more than 80 images, this book provides a study on the "norms," which are seldom questioned. By examining the reasons why Chinese founders often chose not to use the lost-wax process they had clearly mastered, the book refutes the idea that lost-wax technology is the only "right way" to cast bronzes. This study demonstrates that a "norm" is in many ways an illusion that twists our comprehension of art, technology, civilization, and history"--
