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Looking Through Stone

Susan Ioannou
Looking Through Stone Book PDF

Author : Susan Ioannou
Publisher : Wordwrights Canada
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780920835340

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Much past Canadian poetry described our people and landscape in lyrical terms. Combining research and wonder, Looking Through Stone burrows deeper -- the first collection of poems in Canada devoted exclusively to geology and mining. Quite literally, it goes underground. From volcanoes to vitamins, the book presents a wealth of factual information. It also explores past, more fanciful notions about how rocks, metals, and minerals fit into our human picture. In its pages, knowledge and imagination meet. Part I introduces a little basic geology. Part II focuses on the seven metals of the ancients, linked to the planets and days of the week, plus platinum and uranium. Part III delves into myths and legends about the power of gemstones. Part IV looks at the history and technology of mining, and its social and economic impact. A helpful glossary concludes this unique book that brings science and poetry together.

The Seeing Stone

Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black
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Author : Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781665930024

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The Seeing Stone by Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black Pdf

The Grace kids are just beginning to get used to Aunt Lucinda's strange old mansion when Simon suddenly disappears. Jared and his sister have to rely on the help of a mischievous house boggart, a nasty bridge troll, and a loud-mouthed hobgoblin to get him back. Illustrations.

The Seeing Stone

Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher : Orion Children's Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781444011418

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The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland Pdf

Medieval life meets Arthurian magic in a novel that transcends boundaries of time and age, appealing to children of 9+ and older readers alike. The winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Smarties Prize bronze award in 2001, this timeless novel is stunningly reissued for a new generation. The year is 1199, the place the Welsh Marches. Young Arthur de Caldicot is given a magical shining stone in which his legendary namesake is revealed. In 100 short chapters that brilliantly evoke life in a medieval manor, stories of the boy King Arthur begin to echo - and anticipate - the secrets and mysteries that emerge in his own life . . . "As bright and as vivid as the pictures in a Book of Hours. Deep scholarship, high imagination, and great gifts of storytelling have gone into this; I was spellbound." - Philip Pullman, The Guardian

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese
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Author : Abraham Verghese
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184001754

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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese Pdf

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr
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Author : Anthony Doerr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476746609

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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

Stories in Stone

David B. Williams
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Author : David B. Williams
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780295746470

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Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In Stories in Stone, he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood, and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the consistency of a granola bar. Williams also weaves in the cultural history of stone, explaining why a white fossil-rich limestone from Indiana became the only building stone used in all fifty states; how in 1825, the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument led to America’s first commercial railroad; and why when the same kind of marble used by Michelangelo clad a Chicago skyscraper it warped so much after nineteen years that all 44,000 panels of it had to be replaced. This love letter to building stone brings to life the geology you can see in the structures of every city.

Seeing Into Stone

Kathy Park
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Author : Kathy Park
Publisher : Mercury Heartlink
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0983993505

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Seeing Into Stone by Kathy Park Pdf

Set in a ghost town in California's Mojave Desert, Seeing Into Stone: A Sculptor's Journey is a memoir about the author's struggle with flaws in her vision, her carvings and her new marriage as she searches for her identity as an artist. Through her fifteen-year apprenticeship with Gordon Newell, a wise and patient stone sculptor, she learns that carving stone and wood can be understood as a metaphor for life: go with the grain and not against it; trust that the form inside will emerge in its own good time; and realize that understanding comes slowly, chip by chip.

Seeing David in the Stone

James B. Swartz,Joseph E. Swartz
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Author : James B. Swartz,Joseph E. Swartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0977945650

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Seeing David in the Stone by James B. Swartz,Joseph E. Swartz Pdf

Masterfully answers three timeless questions: How did some people find and seize the great opportunities of their times? What can we learn from them to help us find and seize great opportunities? How did innovative leaders help organizations find and seize great opportunities? The successes and failures of great leaders including Gates, Einstein, Michelangelo, Edison, Winfrey, Da Vinci, Curie, Smith, and Galileo are used to explain the actions on the path to greatness. Original.

The Field Guide

Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black
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Author : Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1665928654

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The Field Guide by Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black Pdf

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the #1 New York Times bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles and get ready for the series soon to be streaming on Disney+ with this first installment in the adventures of the Grace children featuring an all-new look. After finding a mysterious, handmade field guide in the attic of the ramshackle old mansion they’ve just moved into, Jared; his twin brother, Simon; and their older sister, Mallory, discover that there’s a magical and maybe dangerous world existing parallel to their own—the world of faerie. The Grace children want to share their story, but the faeries will do everything possible to stop them...

Mirrors of Stone

Charlie Angus
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Author : Charlie Angus
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781896357492

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Mirrors of Stone by Charlie Angus Pdf

Mirrors of Stone delves into the many ethnic cultures that thrived in the mining areas of Northern Ontario from the 1920s to the 1960s. The stormy history of hardrock mining camps has never fit into the comfortable cliches by which Canada tells its story. Angus unearths the dark sides of this history-the wild tales of bootleggers, mobsters, and prostitution rings' and in so doing opens up new ways of seeing Ontario's history and culture. This is Angus' third work on the economic and cultural history of Northern Ontario, and the second collaboration between Angus and Louie Palu. We Lived a Life and Then Some (BTL, 1996) tells the marvelous story of Cobalt, Ontario, and Industrial Cathedrals of the North (BTL, 1999) portrays in images and words the ghostly mining structures now largely abandoned in the north.

Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone

Janet Burnett Grossman
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Author : Janet Burnett Grossman
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367083

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Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone by Janet Burnett Grossman Pdf

What is a an anthemion? What is giallo antico marble? Who was Praxiteles? This richly illustrated book -- in the popular Looking At series -- presents definitions and descriptions of these and many other terms relating to Greek and Roman sculpture encountered in museum exhibitions and publications on ancient stone sculpture. This is an indispensable guide to anyone looking for greater understanding of ancient sculpture and heightened enjoyment of the objects. Book jacket.

The Spiderwick Chronicles, the Complete Series (Boxed Set)

Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black
The Spiderwick Chronicles the Complete Series Boxed Set Book PDF

Author : Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442487984

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The Spiderwick Chronicles, the Complete Series (Boxed Set) by Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black Pdf

Experience the fantastical with this complete collection of the #1 New York Times bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles series. Join twins Jared and Simon and their older sister, Mallory, as they discover the fantastical world of Spiderwick. This complete set of The Spiderwick Chronicles includes The Field Guide, The Seeing Stone, Lucinda’s Secret, The Ironwood Tree, and The Wrath of Mulgrath. Each paperback in this boxed set of the #1 New York Times bestselling Spiderwick Chronicles series, which has more than 12 million copies in print worldwide, features all-new art from Tony DiTerlizzi.

The Seeing Stone

Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black
The Seeing Stone Book PDF

Author : Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442496200

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The Seeing Stone by Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black Pdf

Thanks to the mysterious field guide left behind by their long-lost great-great-uncle Arthur Spiderwick, life for the Grace kids—Jared, Simon, and Mallory—is beyond weird. When Simon goes missing, Jared is convinced creatures from the faerie world have something to do with it. Mallory is not convinced. That is, until she and Jared have to contend with a band of menacing, marauding goblins. Simon is clearly in danger, and it’s up to Mallory and Simon to save him, before it’s too late…

Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You

Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black
Arthur Spiderwick s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You Book PDF

Author : Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416960959

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Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You by Tony DiTerlizzi,Holly Black Pdf

With 41 fabulous full-color plates, six gatefolds, six watercolor landscapes, scores of black-and-white and color sketches of 31 faierie species, this book is destined to be a favorite of even the most demanding faierie enthusiast. Illustrations.

Over Sea, Under Stone

Susan Cooper
Over Sea Under Stone Book PDF

Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442458956

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Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper Pdf

Three siblings embark on an epic quest for a mythic grail in this first installment of Susan Cooper’s epic and award-winning The Dark Is Rising Sequence, now with a brand-new look! All through time, the two great forces of Light and Dark have battled for control of the world. Now, after centuries of balance, the Dark is summoning its terrifying forces to rise once more…and three children find themselves caught in the conflict. The Drew siblings—Simon, Jane, and Barney—are on a family holiday in Cornwall when they discover an ancient map in the attic of the house they are sharing with their Great Uncle Merry. They know immediately that the map is special but have no way of knowing how much. For the map leads to a grail: a vital weapon for the Light’s fight against evil. In taking on the quest to find the grail, the Drews will have to race against the sinister human beings who serve the dreadful power of the dark—an adventure that puts their own lives in grave peril.