Автор: Silvey Anita Название: Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall ISBN: 1426315198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781426315190 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 3357 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Silvey Anita Название: Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall ISBN: 142631518X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781426315183 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1948 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Jane Goodall, one of the most recognized scientists in the Western world, became internationally famous because of her ability to observe and connect with another species.
Автор: Silverman Stephen M., Silver Raphael D. Название: The Catskills: Its History and How It Changed America ISBN: 030727215X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307272157 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 4615 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Catskills ("Cat Creek" in Dutch), America's original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties--Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America's first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and landscapes, the skies, waterfalls, pastures, cliffs . . . refuge and home to poets and gangsters, tycoons and politicians, preachers and outlaws, musicians and spiritualists, outcasts and rebels . . . Stephen Silverman and Raphael Silver tell of the turning points that made the Catskills so vital to the development of America: Henry Hudson's first spotting the distant blue mountains in 1609; the New York State constitutional convention, resulting in New York's own Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and its own constitution, causing the ire of the invading British army . . . the Catskills as a popular attraction in the 1800s, with the construction of the Catskill Mountain House and its rugged imitators that offered WASP guests "one-hundred percent restricted" accommodations ("Hebrews will knock vainly for admission"), a policy that remained until the Catskills became the curative for tubercular patients, sending real-estate prices plummeting and the WASP enclave on to richer pastures . . . Here are the gangsters (Jack "Legs" Diamond and Dutch Schultz, among them) who sought refuge in the Catskill Mountains, and the resorts that after World War II catered to upwardly mobile Jewish families, giving rise to hundreds of hotels inspired by Grossinger's, the original "Disneyland with knishes"--the Concord, Brown's Hotel, Kutsher's Hotel, and others--in what became known as the Borscht Belt and Sour Cream Alps, with their headliners from movies and radio (Phil Silvers, Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, et al.), and others who learned their trade there, among them Moss Hart (who got his start organizing summer theatricals), Sid Caesar, Lenny Bruce, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Joan Rivers. Here is a nineteenth-century America turning away from England for its literary and artistic inspiration, finding it instead in Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and his childhood recollections (set in the Catskills) . . . in James Fenimore Cooper's adventure-romances, which provided a pastoral history, describing the shift from a colonial to a nationalist mentality . . . and in the canvases of Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederick Church, and others that caught the grandeur of the wilderness and that gave texture, color, and form to Irving's and Cooper's imaginings. Here are the entrepreneurs and financiers who saw the Catskills as a way to strike it rich, plundering the resources that had been likened to "creation," the Catskills' tanneries that supplied the boots and saddles for Union troops in the Civil War . . . and the bluestone quarries whose excavated rock became the curbs and streets of the fast-growing Eastern Seaboard. Here are the Catskills brought fully to life in all of their intensity, beauty, vastness, and lunacy.
Автор: Silvey Craig Название: Jasper Jones ISBN: 0375866272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375866272 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1025 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A 2012 Michael L. Printz HonorBook Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night. Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie witnesses Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion. He locks horns with his tempestuous mother, falls nervously in love, and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend. In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart. From the Hardcover edition.
Автор: Silvey, Craig Название: Jasper Jones ISBN: 0375866663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375866661 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1743 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Charlie Bucktin, a bookish 13-year-old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night.Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie witnesses Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion. He locks horns with his tempestuous mother, falls nervously in love, and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend. In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.
Автор: Silvey, Craig Название: Jasper Jones (Glb) ISBN: 0375966668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375966668 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 2050 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Silvey Craig Название: Amber Amulet ISBN: 1742379982 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742379982 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1877 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: You`re in safe hands - the Masked Avenger and Richie the Power Beagle are here to protect you! A charming story from the bestselling author of Jasper Jones.
Автор: Silvey Diane Название: The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada ISBN: 1554539307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781554539307 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 1741 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This title in the acclaimed Kids Book of series offers an in-depth look at the cultures, struggles and triumphs of Canada’s first peoples.
Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and dangerous animals. They battled piranhas, tigers, and vampire bats. Even the plants themselves could be lethal But these intrepid eighteenth- and nineteenth-century explorers were determined to find and collect new and unusual specimens, no matter what the cost. Then they tried to transport the plants--and themselves--home alive. Creating an important legacy in science, medicine, and agriculture, the plant hunters still inspire the scientific and environmental work of contemporary plant enthusiasts.
Working from primary sources--journals, letters, and notes from the field--Anita Silvey introduces us to these daring adventurers and scientists. She takes readers into the heart of their expeditions to then-uncharted places such as the Amazon basin, China, and India. As she brings a colorful cast of characters to life, she shows what motivated these Indiana Jones-type heroes. In The Plant Hunters, science, history, and adventure have been interwoven to tell a largely forgotten--yet fascinating--story.
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