Seven Story Tower

Author : Curtiss Hoffman
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465012381

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Seven Story Tower by Curtiss Hoffman Pdf

From the white stag to the green knight, The Seven Story Tower examines how myth colors our perception of history, nature, and ourselves. Organized around seven key myths-representing the Irish, Greek, Sumerian, Indonesian, Amazonian, and Inuit cultures, as well as the fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien-this book is the perfect intro-duction to the common themes found in world mythology. Curtiss Hoffman, a noted archaeologist and anthropologist, takes us beyond the entertaining stories and uses insights from cultural anthropology and analytical psychology to analyze the many common themes found throughout. In particular, he examines the significance of names, numbers, plants, animals, the heavenly bodies, and the human body. The Seven Story Tower will enhance the reader's appreciation of myth's power today over our lives and cultures.

Author : Garth Nix
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780007261192

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The Fall by Garth Nix Pdf

First of a thrilling fantasy adventure series set on the Dark World, where society is ranked according to its colour clan and the most precious commodity is light. In all the world there is only one place that ever sees the sun. A seven-towered castle built upon a mountain high above the desolate ice lands below.

Author : Polly Ho-Yen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780241534328

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Penguin Readers Level 2: Boy In The Tower (ELT Graded Reader) by Polly Ho-Yen Pdf

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. Boy In The Tower, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework. Sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the future tenses will and going to, present continuous for future meaning, and comparatives and superlatives. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages. Ade lives in a tower block in London. One day, something bad happens to Ade's mum. After that, she stays in her bedroom all the time and sleeps. Then buildings start falling down in the night, and there are strange plants on the street. What will happen to Ade and his friend Gaia? Visit the Penguin Readers website Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.

Author : Jill Jonnes
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781609809065

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Eiffel's Tower for Young People by Jill Jonnes Pdf

Eiffel's Tower for Young People is a vivid, lively pageant of people and cultures meeting—and competing—on the world stage at the dawn of the modern era. The 1889 World's Fair was a worldwide event showcasing the cutting-edge cultural and technological accomplishments of the world's most powerful nations on the verge of a new century. France, with its long history of sophistication and cultivation and a new republican government, presented the Eiffel Tower, the world's tallest structure, crafted from eighteen thousand pieces of wrought iron and 2.5 million rivets, as a symbol of national pride and engineering superiority. The United States, with its brash, can-do spirit, full of pride in its frontier and its ingenuity, presented the rollicking Wild West show of Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley, and the marvelous new phonograph of Thomas Edison. With historical photos throughout, outsized personalities, squabbling artists, and a sprinkling of royalty, this dramatic history opens a window to a piece of the past that, in its passions and politics, is an unforgettable portrait of a unique moment in history.

Author : Karen Sirvaitis
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761359913

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Seven Wonders of Green Building Technology by Karen Sirvaitis Pdf

In every age, science and technology have advanced human civilization. From architecture to engineering, medicine to transportation, humans have invented extraordinary wonders. People have been constructing buildings for thousands of years. But in modern times, people have become more interested in new kinds of building techniques. They want to make buildings that are “green,” or good for the environment. Some green builders make houses out of recycled materials. Others make buildings that use the sun and wind for heating and cooling. In some places, whole communities are based on green building technology. In this book, we’ll explore seven wonders of green building technology. We’ll learn about Earthships, which collect rain for drinking water and make heat and electricity from the sun’s rays. We’ll visit Menara Mesiniaga, a skyscraper in Malaysia that is cooled by fresh tropical breezes. We’ll explore BedZED, a green community in the United Kingdom that has gardens on rooftops, and we’ll visit Samso, an island in Denmark that makes its own electricity from wind turbines. These and other buildings and communities are leading the way to a new, greener future.

Author : Anne Feldhaus,Ramdas Atkar,Rajaram Zagade
Publisher : South Asia Research
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199357642

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Say to the Sun, "don't Rise," and to the Moon, "don't Set" by Anne Feldhaus,Ramdas Atkar,Rajaram Zagade Pdf

Pastoralist traditions have long been extraordinarily important to the social, economic, political, and cultural life of western India. The Marathi-language oral literature of the Dhangar shepherds is not only one of the most important elements of the traditional cultural life of its region, but also a treasure of world literature. This volume presents translations of two lively and well-crafted examples of the ovi, a genre typical of the oral literature of Dhangars. The two ovis in the volume narrate the stories of Biroba and Dhuloba, two of these shepherds' most important gods. Each of the ovis tells an elaborate story of the birth of the god-a miraculous and complicated process in both cases-and of the struggles each one goes through in order to find and win his bride. The extensive introduction provides a literary analysis of the ovis and discusses what they reveal about the cosmology, geography, society, and political arrangements of their performers' world, as well as about the performers' views of pastoralists and women.

Author : Damon DiMarco
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595807878

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Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition) by Damon DiMarco Pdf

Damon DiMarco's Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition), eternally preserves a monumental tragedy in American history through the voices of the people who were in New York City on that fateful day. At the same time, the individuals featured in the book speak to the myriad ways by which Americans rose to meet the challenges presented by 9/11, and celebrates the many heroes that are found within its pages. In the tradition of Studs Terkel, DiMarco's literary time capsule includes a wide variety of viewpoints, including: The small group of people who miraculously made it safely down from the 89th floor of Tower 1, the New York Times reporter who desperately fought her way through the fleeing crowds to get back into Lower Manhattan, the paramedic who set up a triage area 200 yards from the base of the Towers before they collapsed, and the bereaved citizens of New York City who struggled to get on with their lives in the days and months following the tragic event, among dozens of others. The original edition of Tower Stories was one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed books on 9/11 ever published, and for this 20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition, DiMarco has conducted additional interviews that offer a contemporary perspective on the 9/11 tragedy. The individuals DiMarco interviewed for the new edition include: • Alice Greenwald (President and CEO of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum) • Father Jim Martin (New York Times bestselling author) • Tom Haddad (survivor of the 89th floor, Tower 1) • Stephen Adly Guirgis (Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright). The 20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition of DiMarco's moving oral history preserves all of the voices from the original edition for generations to come, while offering new insights that benefit from twenty years of reflection on the world-shattering event. The voices in Tower Stories are in turn haunting and heartbreaking, always emotional, yet ultimately heroic. It’s no wonder that MSNBC called Tower Stories “Arguably the most successful attempt at capturing the enormity of the events of 9/11,” while Publishers Weekly wrote that “DiMarco’s contribution to the memory of that horrific day is enormous; the testimonies collected here form a one-of-a-kind account.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1971-12
Category : Building materials
ISBN : MINN:30000010247645

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Building Science Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Tauranac
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801471087

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The Empire State Building by John Tauranac Pdf

The Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac’s book, focused on the inception and creation of the building, has stood as the most comprehensive account of the structure. Moreover, it is far more than a work in architectural history; Tauranac tells a larger story of the politics of urban development in and through the interwar years. In a new epilogue to the Cornell edition, Tauranac highlights the continuing resonance and influence of the Empire State Building in the rapidly changing post-9/11 cityscape.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Geology
ISBN : UFL:31262043553758

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Geological Survey Professional Papers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph J. Korom, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780786493265

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Skyscraper Facades of the Gilded Age by Joseph J. Korom, Jr. Pdf

This book is about the design of the facade of 51 of America's most extravagant early skyscrapers. Included are the biographies of noted architects and the aristocrats who financed America's first skyscrapers. This book discusses the influences of European aesthetic values in America--and scandals, rogues and class distinctions. Interpretations by contemporary critics are sprinkled throughout the text. Woven throughout the book are inquiries about the validity of Greek and Roman mythologies and their relationships to "modern" America and its spirit of invention and progress. Foreign traditions were challenged by some architects but then accepted by most. Why was it necessary for the long-dead hero of a faraway civilization to be included on the facade of a newly invented American skyscraper? This book tells why.

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013193193

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Geological Survey Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Geology
ISBN : UOM:39015055357001

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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : UCR:31210020751366

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The San Fernando, California, Earthquake of February 9, 1971 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aravind Adiga
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385669894

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Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga Pdf

The magnificent new novel from the million-selling Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger: one of the most eagerly anticipated literary novels of 2011--"a kaleidoscopic portrait of a changing Mumbai." — Guardian (Best Books of 2011) Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society--Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society--and you will be told that it is unimpeachably pucca. Despite its location close to the airport, under the flight path of 747s and bordered by slums, it has been pucca for some fifty years. But Bombay has changed in half a century--not least its name--and the world in which Tower A was first built is giving way to a new city; a Mumbai of development and new money; of wealthy Indians returning with fortunes made abroad. When real estate developer Dharmen Shah offers to buy out the residents of Vishram Society, planning to use the site to build a luxury apartment complex, his offer is more than generous. Initially, though, not everyone wants to leave; many of the residents have lived in Vishram for years, and many of them are no longer young. But none can benefit from the offer unless all agree to sell. As tensions rise among the once civil neighbours, one by one those who oppose the offer give way to the majority, until only one man stands in Shah's way: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher, once the most respected man in the building. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse, but as the demolition deadline looms, Masterji's neighbours--friends who have become enemies, acquaintances turned co-conspirators--may stop at nothing to score their payday. A suspense-filled story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, and a rich tapestry peopled by unforgettable characters, not least of which is Bombay itself, Last Man in Tower opens up the hearts and minds of the inhabitants of a great city--ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.