The Bluest Of Blues

Author : Fiona Robinson
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781683352891

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The Bluest of Blues by Fiona Robinson Pdf

A gorgeous picture book biography of botanist and photographer Anna Atkins--the first person to ever publish a book of photography After losing her mother very early in life, Anna Atkins (1799–1871) was raised by her loving father. He gave her a scientific education, which was highly unusual for women and girls in the early 19th century. Fascinated with the plant life around her, Anna became a botanist. She recorded all her findings in detailed illustrations and engravings, until the invention of cyanotype photography in 1842. Anna used this new technology in order to catalogue plant specimens—a true marriage of science and art. In 1843, Anna published the book Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions with handwritten text and cyanotype photographs. It is considered the first book of photographs ever published. Weaving together histories of women, science, and art, The Bluest of Blues will inspire young readers to embark on their own journeys of discovery and creativity.

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307278449

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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).

Author : Rolf Sachsse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3777438286

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Anna Atkins by Rolf Sachsse Pdf

Author : Alexis O'Neill
Publisher : Thinkingdom
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635923650

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Jacob Riis's Camera by Alexis O'Neill Pdf

This revealing biography of a pioneering photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis shows how he brought to light one of the worst social justice issues plaguing New York City in the late 1800s--the tenement housing crisis--using newly invented flash photography. Jacob Riis was familiar with poverty. He did his best to combat it in his hometown of Ribe, Denmark, and he experienced it when he immigrated to the United States in 1870. Jobs for immigrants were hard to get and keep, and Jacob often found himself penniless, sleeping on the streets or in filthy homeless shelters. When he became a journalist, Jacob couldn't stop seeing the poverty in the city around him. He began to photograph overcrowded tenement buildings and their impoverished residents, using newly developed flash powder to illuminate the constantly dark rooms to expose the unacceptable conditions. His photographs inspired the people of New York to take action. Gary Kelley's detailed illustrations perfectly accompany Alexis O'Neill's engaging text in this STEAM title for young readers.

Author : Catherine A. Welch
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1575050498

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Margaret Bourke-White by Catherine A. Welch Pdf

Examines the personal life and photographic career of the woman who served as a photojournalist for the magazine "Life" during World War II and the Korean War.

Author : Sheila Anderson
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541503069

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What Can Live in a Grassland? by Sheila Anderson Pdf

Lions, and zebras, and termites, oh my! See why a grassland is a perfect habitat for these animals and more.

Author : Anna Prokos
Publisher : Red Chair Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634401616

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Ice Queen by Anna Prokos Pdf

Have you ever wondered what the coldest place on Earth is like? Antarctica is a large ice-covered continent at the southernmost point on the planet. Readers will explore this icy land and learn about the various types of glaciers and icebergs.

Author : C. W. COOKE
Publisher : Bluewater Productions
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Orbit: Howard Schultz: The Man Behind STARBUCKS by C. W. COOKE Pdf

Chances are, you've had a Starbucks coffee recently. You might be drinking one now, or thinking of having one. I know I am. But do you know who helped get that Starbucks into your hands? Who had the idea to take Starbucks in a new direction? Learn the true tale of the man who pushed Starbucks into the stratosphere, taking it from its small coffee bean sales to its global coffee domination. See here, in comic book form, the true story of Howard Schultz, the man who made Starbucks a legend.

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612288871

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The Life and Times of Aristotle by Jim Whiting Pdf

Science wasn't the only area that Aristotle examined. He founded one of the most important schools of the ancient world. He offered ideas on the best way to live. He developed a theory of drama that many modern screenwriters follow. He studied scores of different systems of government. Some of the conclusions from this study are reflected in the U.S. Constitution. This all-around genius had a huge impact on history.

Author : Sheila Anderson
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541503090

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What Can Live in the Mountains? by Sheila Anderson Pdf

How do animals like bighorn sheep, yaks, and snow leopards survive in the mountains? Discover their adaptations and see!

Author : Barb Rosenstock
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635924480

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Dorothea's Eyes by Barb Rosenstock Pdf

USBBY Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities Colonial Dames of America Book Award ALA/Amelia Bloomer Book List NCSS Notable Trade Book Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year “An excellent beginner’s resource for biography, U.S. history, and women’s studies.” —Kirkus Reviews Here is the powerful and inspiring biography of Dorothea Lange, one of the founders of documentary photography. After a childhood bout of polio left her with a limp, all Dorothea Lange wanted to do was disappear. But her desire not to be seen helped her learn how to blend into the background and observe. With a passion for the artistic life, and in spite of her family's disapproval, Lange pursued her dream to become a photographer and focused her lens on the previously unseen victims of the Great Depression. This poetic biography tells the emotional story of Lange's life and includes a gallery of her photographs, an author's note, a timeline, and a bibliography.

Author : Sheila Anderson
Publisher : Lerner Digital ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512462722

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What Can Live in a Forest? by Sheila Anderson Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Find out why the forest is a perfect habitat for animals like porcupines, bears, and deer.

Author : Maggie Nelson
Publisher : Wave Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781933517643

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Bluets by Maggie Nelson Pdf

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781430130420

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A Picture Book of George Washington by David A. Adler Pdf

"A lively fife and drum playing Yankee-Doodle-Dandy welcome the listener...A narrative tone that is sincere and respectful and a slow, even pace afford the young listener time to absorb facts." - AudioFile Magazine

Author : Tom Robbins
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553897890

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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins Pdf

“This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all “bursting with dimples and hormones”—and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all. Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins’s classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind.