The Famous Nini

Author : Mary Nethery
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547487359

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The Famous Nini by Mary Nethery Pdf

In Venice in the 1890s, a café owner takes in a stray cat she names Nini. This is against her better judgment, for the café is modest, and she has nothing to spare. But in no time at all, the cat becomes a celebrity, charming all sorts of important visitors, including Giuseppe Verdi and the pope himself. In the end, Nini’s resonant purr and the comfort it brings to a little girl produce a small miracle. Featuring humorous illustrations with a vintage feel, this inspiring story about a real cat assures us that acts of kindness can be rewarded in unexpected ways. Includes an author’s note.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Music
ISBN : HARVARD:32044043849835

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The Musical World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anna Tybinko,Lamonte Aidoo,Daniel F. Silva
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781835534113

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Migrant Frontiers by Anna Tybinko,Lamonte Aidoo,Daniel F. Silva Pdf

This book examines today’s massive migrations between Global South and Global North in light of Spain and Portugal’s complicated colonial legacies. It offers unique material on Spanish-speaking and Lusophone Africa in conjunction to transatlantic and transpacific perspectives encompassing the Americas, Asia, and the Caribbean. For the first time, these are brought together to explore how movement within and beyond these former metropoles came to define the Iberian Peninsula. The collection is composed of papers that study human mobility in Spanish-speaking or Lusophone contexts from a myriad of approaches. The project thus sheds critical light on migratory movement within the Luso-Hispanic world, and also beyond its traditional geo-linguistic parameters, through an eclectic and inter-disciplinary collection of essays, traversing anthropology, literary studies, theater, and popular culture. Beyond focusing solely on the geo-political limits of Peninsular space, several essays interrogate the legacies of Iberian colonial projects in a global perspective, and how the discursive underpinnings of these impact the politics of migration in the broader Luso-Hispanic world.

Author : Thomas J. Schaeper
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1571810501

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France and America in the Revolutionary Era by Thomas J. Schaeper Pdf

"... a well-written and thoroughly researched biography of a 'forgotten Frenchman' ... Schaeper wades masterfully through the conflicting evidence and interpretations and produces an admirable synthesis of recent scholarship on the French-American alliance ... also presents excellent background on the many aspects of the prewar French economy ..." - William and Mary Quarterly This is the first detailed study account of the life and career of Chaumont whose chief claim to fame was the fact that from 1777 to 1785 Benjamin Franklin livedin his home in the Parisian suburb of Passy. Basing his work on documents from two dozen archives in the United States and France, Schaeper demonstrates that Chaumont was far more than merely a landlord. Prior to the American Revolution he had become one of the most powerful and respected businessmen of the Old Regime. For personal as well as patriotic reasons he aided the American insurgents and worked with a wide array of persons. In addition to Franklin, these included John Adams, Silas Deane, Caron de Beaumarchais, the marquis de Lafayette and the comte de Vergennes. Chaumont performed an astounding range of services - acting as intermediary, an adviser, and a supplier of arms and clothing. His most dramatic contribution to the American cause involved John Paul Jones. It was Chaumont who obtained the famous Bonhomme Richard for the commodore. Through looking at the activities of this intriguing individual the author is able to offer many new insights into both American and French history. Lively and well written this biography will appeal to both the historian and the general reader. Thomas J. Schaeper, Professor of History at St. Bonaventure University and a member of the board of French Historical Studies. His previous books include The Economy of France in the Second Half of the Reign of Louis XIV (1980) and John Paul Jones and the Battle of Flamborough Head: A Reconsideration (1989).

Author : Michal Ephratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108471671

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Silence as Language by Michal Ephratt Pdf

With examples from a variety of contexts, this book provides a linguistic analysis of the role of silence in language.

Author : Dimitris Papanikolaou,Dēmētrēs Papanikolaou
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music and literature
ISBN : 9781904350620

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Singing Poets by Dimitris Papanikolaou,Dēmētrēs Papanikolaou Pdf

This book shows how the model of singing poets becomes then an organizing principle for a system of national popular music. It responds to the growing call for the teaching of the textual networks of popular music within the domains of literary and cultural studies.

Author : Barbara A. Lewis
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781575426501

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Building Character with True Stories from Nature by Barbara A. Lewis Pdf

This flexible resource combines character education with analogies to powerful stories from nature. The heart of each of the book’s twenty-five lessons is an engaging story, written to kids, describing a particular animal or plant and its distinctive qualities. Busy classroom teachers will like this book’s accessibility and flexibility. Kids can read a story individually or in groups, or follow along as the teacher reads it aloud. Accompanying each story, teachers will find several activities—most of them quick, easy, and requiring few supplies—that further investigate animals or plants and the connections between their qualities and human behaviors. Every lesson examines several main character traits, providing starting points and sample questions for discussing and exploring analogies between events in nature and human acts of character. Features include a chart cross-referencing lessons to specific character traits and a list of further resources. Digital content contains all of the book’s reproducible forms, including a color photo of each plant and animal, plus a complete bonus lesson.

Author : John Manders
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780547328201

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The Really Awful Musicians by John Manders Pdf

A wacky tall tale about how musicians first learned to play together. All the musicians in the kingdom are so awful that the king sends his men-at-arms to round up musicians and feed them to the royal crocodiles. Pipe and drum player Piffaro heads for the border, collecting other refugee musicians on the way.

Author : Christina Willis Oko
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004409491

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A Grammar of Darma by Christina Willis Oko Pdf

A Grammar of Darma provides a comprehensive description of this threatened Tibeto-Burman language spoken in India’s Himalayan region. The description is based on a corpus that includes natural discourse and elicited data. The analysis is informed by a functional-typological framework.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015030656147

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McClure's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Davide Longo
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529408225

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Young Beasts at Play by Davide Longo Pdf

"Northern Italy's answer to Inspector Montalbano" Alessandro Baricco September 2008. Commissario Arcadipane arrives at the scene of a macabre discovery: the bones of twelve men and women buried in the countryside near Torino. By the next morning, a task force specialising in mass graves from WWII is already in place. But something doesn't feel right: one of the femurs shows signs of an operation that couldn't have taken place before the seventies. Suspecting a cover-up, Arcadipane launches his own investigation, enlisting his old mentor, Corso Bramard, long retired, and Isa, a young officer still haunted by the unexplained death of her father. These mismatched allies - one at last at peace, one jaded to the point of breakdown and one under a permanent disciplinary cloud - will unveil a cruel political conspiracy that someone wants covered up for the second time. Translated from the Italian by Silvester Mazzarella

Author : Joan Schenkar
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429961011

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The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar Pdf

Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes A 2010 New York Times Notable Book A 2010 Lambda Literary Award Winner A 2009 Edgar Award Nominee A 2009 Agatha Award Nominee A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. Joan Schenkar maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, Strangers on a Train, to her long, strange self-exile in Europe. We see her as a secret writer for the comics, a brilliant creator of disturbing fictions, and an erotic predator with dozens of women (and a few good men) on her love list. The Talented Miss Highsmith is the first literary biography with access to Highsmith's whole story: her closest friends, her oeuvre, her archives. It's a compulsive page-turner unlike any other, a book worthy of Highsmith herself.

Author : Margaret Forster
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409089315

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Isa and May by Margaret Forster Pdf

Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who have both formed and influenced her whole life in very particular ways. Now almost thirty, Isamay is trying to write a thesis about grandmothers in history but is instead constantly ambushed by the startling secrets her own family has been keeping. When disturbing truths are revealed that force Isamay to examine her own certainties, will her grandmothers be able to build a bridge across the generations?

Author : Christina Civantos
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438466712

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The Afterlife of al-Andalus by Christina Civantos Pdf

The first study to undertake a wide-ranging comparison of invocations of al-Andalus across the the Arab and Hispanic worlds. Around the globe, concerns about interfaith relations have led to efforts to find earlier models in Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus). This book examines how Muslim Iberia operates as an icon or symbol of identity in twentieth and twenty-first century narrative, drama, television, and film from the Arab world, Spain, and Argentina. Christina Civantos demonstrates how cultural agents in the present ascribe importance to the past and how dominant accounts of this importance are contested. Civantos’s analysis reveals that, alongside established narratives that use al-Andalus to create exclusionary, imperial identities, there are alternate discourses about the legacy of al-Andalus that rewrite the traditional narratives. In the process, these discourses critique their imperial and gendered dimensions and pursue intercultural translation. Christina Civantos is Associate Professor of Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami and the author of Between Argentines and Arabs: Argentine Orientalism, Arab Immigrants, and the Writing of Identity, also published by SUNY Press.

Author : Eugène Sue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Wandering Jew
ISBN : HARVARD:HWAEWB

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The Wandering Jew by Eugène Sue Pdf