![]() ![]() ![]() The printed color illustrations on the stationery show the main characters of the film. The outstanding letter in this small group is a Typed Letter Signed on "Walt Disney presents The Jungle Book" stationery, 4to, Burbank CA, Feb. ![]() The letters range in dates between 1980-1983. He wrote three of the letters to fans referring to his work on Disney's, "The Jungle Book," based on Rudyard Kipling's stories of the same name. ![]() In addition, each copy has been numbered and individually signed by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston' this is number 2817. 'Three thousand five hundred copies of the first Hyperion edition of "The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation" have been specially bound with sixteen drawings by the authors, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Gilt-pictorial purple cloth lettered in gilt on the spine minimal foxing to the front endpaper, the first and last page of text, and the outer surfaces of the folded signed sheet (there is no foxing to the signed illustrated pages) very small name label affixed to the front flyleaf an excellent copy with the lightly marked slipcase (in matching cloth, lettered in gilt - with a mounted colour plate - on one side). Square quarto, 575 pages with approximately 500 colour illustrations (and thousands of black and white ones) plus the signed folding sheet of printed colour illustrations tipped in before the half-title. New York, Hyperion, 1995 (first edition thus)/ 1981. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He was an interesting peripheral character in Warcross, and he was poised to step up and take on a starring role. Tremaine, also, I was excited to see more from. One of the things I was most excited for in Wildcard was the prospect of Roshan, Hammie, and Asher being more central. Even before she trusts the team to help her outside of the game, she has an obvious affection for them-and them for her-and I loved the moments when she would relax and let herself enjoy their company. ![]() She is slow to trust, but watching her friendship bloom with her Warcross team is really lovely. What I loved most about Emika, though, is that she goes it alone but she is not aggressively antisocial. ![]() She’s tough and independent, just rough enough around the edges that she prickles, but no so much that she cuts. It’s fast paced and dynamic and the protagonist Emika is incredible. Warcross is The Hunger Games meets Ready Player One. I think I actually loved it more the second time around. It’s not a bad book, per se, but it pulled the focus away from the elements I loved most in Warcross and instead introduced a set of new characters who dominated the narrative at the expense of those I already knew and loved. ![]() ![]() Though I don’t have any official statistics to share, my experience in person and across the web has been that most adults prefer the past tense and many are reluctant to (or flat out won’t) read present tense. ![]() While MG and YA readers may embrace the present tense without distress, adult readers may not do the same. Quick shout out to Writeditor reader Aimee for this awesome blog post idea! Past Tense Pro: Tradition/Consider Your Reader There are certainly advantages and disadvantages to both tenses, but how do you choose? In this post, I explain the pros and cons of the two tenses and why you might choose one over the other. ![]() Should you write your novel in past or present tense? If you don’t have a default, “go to” tense that you write in, this is one of the first decisions a writer has to make when starting a new novel. ![]() ![]() Among her many awards and honors are the 2011 Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association the 2010 Margaret E. She regularly comments on books on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. More About Nancy: Nancy Pearl is a librarian and lifelong reader. I read everything - mysteries, non-fiction (especially history, memoirs, and current events), literary fiction, science fiction and fantasy, andchildren's books (lots and lots, for my upcoming book, Book Crush), and anything else that looks interesting. The books I love most tend to have three-dimensional characters and be very well-written (although that definition is fluid). ![]() Every time I open a new book to read, it's like embarking on a voyage to an unexplored place that just might be filled with wonder and excitement. ![]() From Nancy: My lust for books and reading began when I was a very young child, and has continued unabated for lo, these many many years. ![]() ![]() He served in the United States Air Force during the peak of the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972, though not in Vietnam. from Chapman College in Orange, California, in 1972. from the University of Iowa, where he also played football and became a member of the Iowa Beta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, in 1967. ![]() He graduated from Notre Dame High School in Harper Woods, Michigan, in 1963, where he excelled in sports. He traces his family history from Ukraine and Poland. Early life īonior was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Irene (Gavreluk) and Edward Bonior. House of Representatives in 1976, Bonior served as Democratic whip in the House from 1991 to 2002, during which time Democrats were in both the majority (1991–1995) and minority (1995–2002), making Bonior the third and second highest-ranking Democrat in the House, respectively.ĭuring his tenure in office, Bonior was the public face of Democratic opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and was known for his tenacity in opposing Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, against whom Bonior filed more than seventy-five ethics charges. ![]() David Edward Bonior (born June 6, 1945) is an American politician from the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The article shows how events unfolded and it implicitly compares the triangular relations between local society, central government and the armed forces at the boundaries between both countries.Ī Narrative History of Peru’s Invasion and Occupation of Leticia (Colombia, Amazon River, September 1932)Ĭon base en archivos peruanos, colombianos y británicos, este artÃculo reconstruye los inicios del Conflicto de Leticia entre Perú y Colombia (1932-1933) en los niveles local y regional. ![]() Facts are presented in three chronological series that overlap partially: the invasion and occupation of Leticia Colombian reactions from the Putumayo river basin and Bogotá and Peruvian reactions from Iquitos and Lima. A Narrative History of Peru’s Invasion and Occupation of Leticia (Colombia, Amazon River, September 1932ĭirectory of Open Access Journals (Sweden)įull Text Available Based on Peruvian, Colombian and British archives, this paper reconstructs the beginnings of the Leticia Conflict between Peru and Colombia (1932-1933 at the local and regional levels. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the Secret Service may have other ideas. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, Maisie encounters unexpected dangers-and finds herself questioning whether it’s time to return to the work she loved. Her nemesis-the man she holds responsible for her husband’s death-has learned of her journey, and is also desperate for her help. ![]() The British government is not alone in its interest in Maisie’s travel plans. Because the man’s wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie-who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter-to retrieve the man from Dachau, on the outskirts of Munich. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. ![]() On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square-a place of many memories-she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. It’s early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. By Jacqueline Winspear, ISBN: 9780062220639, Paperback (Large Print). Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler’s Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue-the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear’s New York Times bestselling “series that seems to get better with each entry” ( Wall Street Journal). ![]() ![]() When he was just a boy of the age of 10, Aristotle's father died (which meant that Aristotle could not now follow in his father's profession of doctor) and his mother seems also to have died young, so he was taken under the care of a man named Proxenus. Aristotle's mother, Phaestis, came from Chalcis on the island of Euboea, and her family owned property there. ![]() His father, Nicomachus, was the personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon, and Aristotle was trained and educated as a member of the aristocracy. ![]() LifeĪristotle was born to an aristocratic family in Stageira on the Chalcidice Peninsula of Macedonia (a region of northern Greece) in 384 B.C. His own school of philosophy, known as Aristotelianism or the Peripatetic School, influenced almost all later philosophical thinking, particularly the Medieval movements such as Scholasticism, Averroism and Avicennism. He is one of the most important founding figures in Western Philosophy, and the first to create a comprehensive system of philosophy, encompassing Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, Metaphysics, Logic and science. (Roman copy of a lost bronze sculpture by Lysippos, 1st or 2nd Century)Īristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) was an important Greek philosopher from the Socratic (or Classical) period, mainly based in Athens. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guide to the Classics: Albert Camus' The Plague Derived from Greek, the word decameron means ten days and is an allusion to Saint Ambrose’s Hexameron, a poetic account of the creation story, Genesis, told over six days. Each of the book’s ten storytellers tells a story a day for ten days. He vividly describes physical, social and psychological sufferings, writing of people dying in the street, rotting corpses, plague boils, swollen glands known as “buboes” – some the size of eggs, others as large as apples – bruises and the blackening skin that foreshadowed death.īoccaccio’s introduction is followed by ten sections containing short stories. In the introduction to his book, Boccaccio estimates that more than 100,000 people - over half of the city’s inhabitants - died within the walls of Florence between March 1348 and the following July. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1969, disillusioned with the slow pace of racial progress in the United States, Carmichael emigrated to the west African country of Guinea, and changed his name to Kwame Ture. ![]() ![]() “We been saying ‘freedom’ for six years - he said - What we are going to start saying now is ‘Black Power.'” Civil rights leader James Meredith had been shot marching from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi in a peaceful protest called the “Walk Against Fear,” and Stokely Carmichael was outraged at the shooting. Stokely Carmichael was the man who made “Black Power” a household phrase back in 1966. Rediscovered Radio producer Jocelyn Robinson tells us more. Later, Carmichael became the national chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, and was an early member of the Black Panther party, too.Ĭarmichael was a brilliant and inflammatory public speaker, and the WYSO Archives contains one of his speeches. He was a young activist in the 1960s-one of the youngest jailed during Freedom Summer in 1964. That change can be described best by learning the story of Stokely Carmichael. Today on Rediscovered Radio, a return to the time when the Civil Rights movement took a more militant turn toward Black Nationalism. ![]() |