The Shape Of Stories

Author : Mark Sperring
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781408840610

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The Shape of My Heart by Mark Sperring Pdf

The world is filled with shapes. A bird, a car, the stars in the sky - what shapes can you see? Children will love spotting familiar shapes on every page. With bright illustrations and a heartwarming message about the shape of something very special - love. Brilliantly read by Katy Ashworth. Please note that audio is not supported by all devices, please consult your user manual for confirmation.

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307568069

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Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut Pdf

“[Kurt Vonnegut] is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review In this self-portrait by an American genius, Kurt Vonnegut writes with beguiling wit and poignant wisdom about his favorite comedians, country music, a dead friend, a dead marriage, and various cockamamie aspects of his all-too-human journey through life. This is a work that resonates with Vonnegut’s singular voice: the magic sound of a born storyteller mesmerizing us with truth. “Vonnegut is at the top of his form, and it is wonderful.”—Newsday

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307567239

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Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Pdf

“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York Times In Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. What follows is murderously funny satire, as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth. “Free-wheeling, wild and great . . . uniquely Vonnegut.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : Øyvind Hammer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783319473734

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The Perfect Shape by Øyvind Hammer Pdf

This book uses the spiral shape as a key to a multitude of strange and seemingly disparate stories about art, nature, science, mathematics, and the human endeavour. In a way, the book is itself organized as a spiral, with almost disconnected chapters circling around and closing in on the common theme. A particular strength of the book is its extremely cross-disciplinary nature - everything is fun, and everything is connected! At the same time, the author puts great emphasis on mathematical and scientific correctness, in contrast, perhaps, with some earlier books on spirals. Subjects include the mathematical properties of spirals, sea shells, sun flowers, Greek architecture, air ships, the history of mathematics, spiral galaxies, the anatomy of the human hand, the art of prehistoric Europe, Alfred Hitchcock, and spider webs, to name a few.

Author : Rashin Kheiriyeh
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781646141395

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The Shape of Home by Rashin Kheiriyeh Pdf

“A joyful, wildly imaginative book” —The New York Times It’s Rashin’s first day of school in America! Everything is a different shape than what she’s used to: from the foods on her breakfast plate to the letters in the books! And the kids' families are from all over! The new teacher asks each child to imagine the shape of home on a map. Rashin knows right away what she’ll say: Iran looks like a cat! What will the other kids say? What about the country YOUR family is originally from? Is it shaped like an apple? A boot? A torch? Open this book to join Rashin in discovering the true things that shape a place called home. P R A I S E ★ “A creative, child-centered picture book about finding a new home after immigration. Ebulliently illustrated.” —Kirkus (starred) ★ “It’s hard to find a more joyful take on the first day of school in a new country than that found in Kheiriyeh’s new work.” —School Library Journal (starred) ★ “Exuberant...A warm and welcoming story about a group of children who may have come from other places but have found a classroom that is ‘shaped like a home.’” —Booklist (starred)

Author : Angela Ferrari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692055096

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The Shape Escape by Angela Ferrari Pdf

Welcome to Shape Valley, where shapes of all sizes live side by side in harmony. The valley is home to a mighty Octogan, a brave Square, and a tiny Triangle. All is well for the shapes until a big bully Circle escapes and wreaks havoc! Who will save the day?

Author : Dayle Ann Dodds
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Geometry
ISBN : 0606290095

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The Shape of Things by Dayle Ann Dodds Pdf

A square is just a square until it becomes a house in this clever book. A circle becomes a spinning ferris wheel, and when some string and a tail are added, it becomes a kite flying high in the sky. With sprightly rhymes and energetic illustrations, this book reveals that shapes are everywhere. Full color.

Author : Gina Konstantopoulos,Sophus Helle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004539761

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The Shape of Stories by Gina Konstantopoulos,Sophus Helle Pdf

How were narratives composed in the ancient Near East? What patterns and principles, constraints and considerations guided the shaping of cuneiform stories? The study of narrative structures has emerged as a promising approach to the textual heritage of the cuneiform world. Engaging with practically any ancient text—whether literary, historical, or religious—requires some understanding of the narrative forms that shaped their content. This volume gives researchers the tools to better understand those form, illustrating each approach to narrative analysis with a case study from the cultures of the ancient Near East: Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite.

Author : Nino Cipri
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466886308

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The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri Pdf

The Shape of My Name by Nino Cipri is a time travel story about what it means to truly claim yourself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Joyce Hesselberth
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781250110893

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Shape Shift by Joyce Hesselberth Pdf

Round, curvy, pointy, or straight-shapes are all around us. With vibrant illustrations that highlight shapes in all their forms, this informative book reinforces the identification of circles, squares, crescents, diamonds, triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, and ovals while encouraging kids to pair shapes together to make new forms.

Author : Kristin Haas
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781628552201

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Shape Family Babies, The by Kristin Haas Pdf

Mr. and Mrs. Shape are expecting a baby, but they are surprised when three arrive! The first is just like Mother Rhombus, the other just like Father Rectangle, the third baby is a different shape. What should her name be? Go on a geometry naming adventure as all the shape family relatives weigh in. Will Cousin Triangle, Aunt Hexagon or Grandma Rhombus have the right angle?

Author : Anna Miss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952082706

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The Shape Story 2 by Anna Miss Pdf

Author : Susan Jennifer Navarette
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813147949

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The Shape of Fear by Susan Jennifer Navarette Pdf

During the last decades of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Walter Pater and others changed the nature of thought concerning the human body and the physical environment that had shaped it. In response, the 1890s saw the publication of a series of remarkable literary works that had their genesis in the intense scientific and aesthetic activity of those preceding decades -- texts that emphasized themes of degeneration and were themselves stylistically decompositive, with language both a surrogate for physical deformity and a source of anxiety. Susan J. Navarette examines the ways in which scientific and cultural concerns of late nineteenth-century England are coded in the horror literature of the period. By contextualizing the structural, stylistic, and thematic systems developed by writers seeking to reenact textually the entropic forces they perceived in the natural world, Navarette reconstructs the late Victorian mentalité. She analyzes aesthetic responses to trends in contemporary science and explores horror writers' use of scientific methodologies to support their perception that a long-awaited period of cultural decline had begun. In her analysis of the classics Turn of the Screw and Heart of Darkness, Navarette shows how James and Conrad made artistic use of earlier "scientific" readings of the body. She also considers works by lesser-known authors Walter de la Mare, Vernon Lee, and Arthur Machen, who produced fin de siècle stories that took the form of "hybrid literary monstrosities." To underscore the fascination with bodily decay and deformation that these writers explored, The Shape of Fear is enhanced with prints and line drawings by Victor Hugo, James Ensor, and other artists of the day. This elegantly written book formulates a new canon of late Victorian fiction that will intrigue scholars of literature and cultural history.

Author : Jerome Stern
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393077698

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Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern Pdf

A deft analysis and appreciation of fiction—what makes it work and what can make it fail. Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension," Stern says, "is the mother of fiction. When tension and immediacy combine, the story begins." Dialogue and action, beginnings and endings, the true meaning of "write what you know," and a memorable listing of don'ts for fiction writers are all covered. A special section features an Alphabet for Writers: entries range from Accuracy to Zigzag, with enlightening comments about such matters as Cliffhangers, Point of View, Irony, and Transitions.

Author : Joanne Gallant
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1771089768

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A Womb in the Shape of a Heart by Joanne Gallant Pdf

I am the space between motherhood and longing for it, bit it's a space that doesn't exist. I can't be both fertile and infertile, our language doesn't have space for it. So, this is the space I have created for myself. This is where I love. Forever fertile and infertile. A mother to six, a mother of one. I am childless, with child. Barren and fruiful. Pregnant and then not. Luckly, unlucky.