Your Papers, Please
Your Papers, Please

Author: Sue Adasiewicz

Publisher: Children's Press

Published: 2008-02-20

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780531188415

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FEATURES: - Pairs social studies and science thematically - Shakes up the curriculum with Shocker facts that interest this age group, and a lively page layout that encourages readers to discuss and share knowledge with one another - Builds background knowledge and vocabulary through front-of-book features labeled Get on the Wavelength and High-Powered Words - Includes a Comprehension Coach that appears regularly to model and reinforce key comprehension strategies - Provides links to relevant Internet Web sites - Exposes students to a variety of formats and text features

The Art of Failure
The Art of Failure

Author: Jesper Juul

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 0262019051

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An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them.

Papers Please!
Papers Please!

Author: Ray R. Cowdery

Publisher: Usm

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780910667364

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In a clear encyclopedic-style, this book describes and shows a range of over 80 fascinating German World War II identity documents (Nazi membership books, passports, paybooks, civilian IDs, etc.) in full color and gives a page-by-page analysis of the contents of each one.

The Process Genre
The Process Genre

Author: Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-03-20

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1478007079

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From IKEA assembly guides and “hands and pans” cooking videos on social media to Mister Rogers's classic factory tours, representations of the step-by-step fabrication of objects and food are ubiquitous in popular media. In The Process Genre Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky introduces and theorizes the process genre—a heretofore unacknowledged and untheorized transmedial genre characterized by its representation of chronologically ordered steps in which some form of labor results in a finished product. Originating in the fifteenth century with machine drawings, and now including everything from cookbooks to instructional videos and art cinema, the process genre achieves its most powerful affective and ideological results in film. By visualizing technique and absorbing viewers into the actions of social actors and machines, industrial, educational, ethnographic, and other process films stake out diverse ideological positions on the meaning of labor and on a society's level of technological development. In systematically theorizing a genre familiar to anyone with access to a screen, Skvirsky opens up new possibilities for film theory.

Why I Write
Why I Write

Author: George Orwell

Publisher: Renard Press Ltd

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 15

ISBN-13: 1913724263

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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

De Dónde?
De Dónde?

Author: Mary Gallagher

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780822202950

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THE STORY: Freely translated as Where are you from? the title of the play refers to the increasing tide of illegal aliens who flee north to the United States from the economically and politically oppressed countries of Latin America. Seeking jobs

Criminal Kabbalah
Criminal Kabbalah

Author: Lawrence W. Raphael

Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1580231098

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This anthology of 13 mystery stories touches on various aspects of Judaism, with selections from Kinky Friedman, Stuart Kaminsky and more.

All the Clouds
All the Clouds

Author: Michael Barnes Selvin

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-03-02

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1387504274

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This novel is based on first-hand accounts of life during WW2 in southern France. The genesis and principal events of the novel were recounted some seventy years after the fact by a close friend: architect, scholar, father, government official, musician. When the occupation began, he joined the Résistance, helping people escape France. As the war continued, he became dangerously caught up in resistance, transporting charcoal from Spain. In March 1943, the Gestapo arrested him following an all-night jam session with Django Reinhardt and Georges Ulmer (neither arrested). The Americans liberated him from Buchenwald in April 1945. As a recipient of the Légion d'Honneur, among numerous other decorations, his story lies at the heart of this novel. He spent hours recounting his life during the war, literally with great pain. Although making this exception, his war-time experience never left his mind a single day of his long life.

The Swords of the Sultan
The Swords of the Sultan

Author: J. Eric Booker

Publisher: B.E. Books

Published: 2013-01-02

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1456577670

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Deep within the heart of an ancient city ruled by a powerful empire, a young orphan named Baltor struggles daily to survive, having to drink from animal troughs and steal food. Pursuant to imperial law, the minimum penalty for thievery means the loss of a hand…the maximum penalty is death! Like what happens to most thieves, the day inevitably comes when Baltor gets caught stealing—this time, a link of sausage. Thankfully he is not caught by a guard, by a beautiful and exotic woman named Lady Lydia, who not only graciously offers the boy some breakfast, yet surprisingly offers him a proposition to become “a master thief” like herself. Having no other choices in life, he agrees. After breakfast, Lydia leads the boy to a “top secret” underground labyrinth located underneath the city, where expert thief-training grounds were built five centuries earlier. Instead of training him however, she unexpectedly hands him off to a man she introduces as Drill Instructor Humonus before disappearing. Right away, this cold-and-cruel man’s hardcore training proves to be hellish and dangerous…will the poor boy even survive DAY 1? And what in the world do the pictured swords have to do with Baltor’s past and future? Read the first book in this Epic Fantasy Trilogy to find out not only these “mysterious answers”…yet many, many more!

Mysteries of the French Countryside: Bruno, Chief of Police; The Dark Vineyard; Black Diamond
Mysteries of the French Countryside: Bruno, Chief of Police; The Dark Vineyard; Black Diamond

Author: Martin Walker

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2023-01-17

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 0593686063

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From internationally acclaimed author Martin Walker comes the first three books in Mysteries of the French Countryside and an introduction to the world of Bruno, Chief of Police Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, is a policeman in St. Denis, a small town in the Périgord region of France. When trouble arises, Bruno is on the case, settling local disputes, tracking down lawbreakers, and solving tantalizing mysteries. From a disturbance in the wine business and threats against the truffle trade to murders of national and even international scale, Bruno deals with it all. In story after story, Walker weaves in familiar characters from past novels, whether they are helping Bruno on a case or helping him prepare a delicious meal. Mystery readers will delight in Bruno’s adventures, and hunger for more! “With Bruno in charge, there’s always time for one of those classic feasts that makes this series such a mouthwatering treat.”—The New York Times Book Review “Whether he’s preparing a gourmet dinner, enjoying a glass of wine, or solving a murder, it’s a pleasure to be in Bruno’s company.”—Publishers Weekly