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Author: Jillian Rose Sherwin Publisher: ISBN: 9781677777686 Category : Languages : en Pages : 346
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One Saturday afternoon Sylvia is at her sister's wedding, and the next minute, the world as she knows it ends. Liam loses everything after the world ends, but he also gains the most important person in his life. His best friend, his teammate, and the love of his life: Sylvia Blue. When Chairman Clementine ends the world, he starts a new one with one rule he thought would solve everyone's problems: classification. According to him, if everyone knows exactly who they are, what their purpose is, and where they fit into the world, they will be perfectly content and happy in life. The world is black and white, and we like it that way.Ten years later in A World Colored Blue, the people of the community are finding it very hard not to acknowledge the grey area. Specifically, Sylvia Blue and Liam Wood, recent graduates of the House school, who find themselves challenging this idea of a perfect black and white world everyday. Their last names and the way they look classify them into categories, ones they must stick with for fear of being declassified. Sylvia tries to navigate the world around her with Liam by her side. Liam finds himself desperate for answers to questions he's not allowed to ask. He grapples with new discoveries, strange feelings, and one mission: to show his world the value of a human life.
Author: Jillian Rose Sherwin Publisher: ISBN: 9781677777686 Category : Languages : en Pages : 346
Book Description
One Saturday afternoon Sylvia is at her sister's wedding, and the next minute, the world as she knows it ends. Liam loses everything after the world ends, but he also gains the most important person in his life. His best friend, his teammate, and the love of his life: Sylvia Blue. When Chairman Clementine ends the world, he starts a new one with one rule he thought would solve everyone's problems: classification. According to him, if everyone knows exactly who they are, what their purpose is, and where they fit into the world, they will be perfectly content and happy in life. The world is black and white, and we like it that way.Ten years later in A World Colored Blue, the people of the community are finding it very hard not to acknowledge the grey area. Specifically, Sylvia Blue and Liam Wood, recent graduates of the House school, who find themselves challenging this idea of a perfect black and white world everyday. Their last names and the way they look classify them into categories, ones they must stick with for fear of being declassified. Sylvia tries to navigate the world around her with Liam by her side. Liam finds himself desperate for answers to questions he's not allowed to ask. He grapples with new discoveries, strange feelings, and one mission: to show his world the value of a human life.
Author: Patricia Lynne Duffy Publisher: Henry Holt and Company ISBN: 1429928271 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 192
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Imagine a world in which words have colors and sounds have tastes. In his autobiography, Vladimir Nabokov described this neurological phenomenon, which helped inspire David Hockney's sets for the Metropolitan Opera. Richard Feynman experienced it while formulating the quantum theory that won him a Nobel Prize. Sometimes described as a blending of perceptions, synesthesia occurs when only one of the fives senses is aroused but two respond. Journalist Patricia Lynne Duffy draws from her own struggles and breakthroughs with synesthesia to help us better understand the condition, while describing some of the major theories surrounding it. An illuminating examination of the world of synesthetes, Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens is a must-read for science and health buffs, as well as for artists, writers, and creative thinkers-or anyone generally intrigued by the brain, the senses, and perception.
Author: Jessica Young Publisher: ISBN: 9781536235944 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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What is your blue like? A lyrical ode to colors -- and the unique ways we experience them -- follows a little girl as she explores the world with her family and friends. Your neighbor says red is angry like a dragon's breath, but you think it's brave like a fire truck. Or maybe your best friend likes pink because it's pretty like a ballerina's tutu, but you find it annoying -- like a piece of gum stuck on your shoe. In a subtle, child-friendly narrative, art teacher and debut author Jessica Young suggests that colors may evoke as many emotions as there are people to look at them -- and opens up infinite possibilities for seeing the world in a wonderful new way.
Author: Andrea Feeser Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820338176 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 161
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Like cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing textiles, paper, and other goods with a bit of blue. But when blue became the most popular color for the textiles that Britain turned out in large quantities in the eighteenth century, the South Carolina indigo that colored most of this cloth became a major component in transatlantic commodity chains. In Red, White, and Black Make Blue, Andrea Feeser tells the stories of all the peoples who made indigo a key part of the colonial South Carolina experience as she explores indigo's relationships to land use, slave labor, textile production and use, sartorial expression, and fortune building. In the eighteenth century, indigo played a central role in the development of South Carolina. The popularity of the color blue among the upper and lower classes ensured a high demand for indigo, and the climate in the region proved sound for its cultivation. Cheap labor by slaves—both black and Native American—made commoditization of indigo possible. And due to land grabs by colonists from the enslaved or expelled indigenous peoples, the expansion into the backcountry made plenty of land available on which to cultivate the crop. Feeser recounts specific histories—uncovered for the first time during her research—of how the Native Americans and African slaves made the success of indigo in South Carolina possible. She also emphasizes the material culture around particular objects, including maps, prints, paintings, and clothing. Red, White, and Black Make Blue is a fraught and compelling history of both exploitation and empowerment, revealing the legacy of a modest plant with an outsized impact.
Author: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers ISBN: 1984894366 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 41
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Discover a world of creativity and tradition in this fascinating picture book that explores the history and cultural significance of the color blue. From a critically acclaimed author and an award-winning illustrator comes a vivid, gorgeous book for readers of all ages. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • New York Public Library • Chicago Public Library • Kirkus Reviews For centuries, blue powders and dyes were some of the most sought-after materials in the world. Ancient Afghan painters ground mass quantities of sapphire rocks to use for their paints, while snails were harvested in Eurasia for the tiny amounts of blue that their bodies would release. And then there was indigo, which was so valuable that American plantations grew it as a cash crop on the backs of African slaves. It wasn't until 1905, when Adolf von Baeyer created a chemical blue dye, that blue could be used for anything and everything--most notably that uniform of workers everywhere, blue jeans. Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond's riveting text combined with stunning illustrations from Caldecott Honor Artist Daniel Minter, this vibrant and fascinating picture book follows one color's journey through time and across the world, as it becomes the blue we know today.
Author: Kassia St Clair Publisher: John Murray ISBN: 1473630827 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 361
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring primer.' Simon Garfield The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that protected against the plague, Picasso's blue period to the charcoal on the cave walls at Lascaux, acid yellow to kelly green, and from scarlet women to imperial purple, these surprising stories run like a bright thread throughout history. In this book Kassia St Clair has turned her lifelong obsession with colours and where they come from (whether Van Gogh's chrome yellow sunflowers or punk's fluorescent pink) into a unique study of human civilisation. Across fashion and politics, art and war, The Secret Lives of Colour tell the vivid story of our culture.
Author: Brienna Rossiter Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc. ISBN: 1646192591 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 16
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This title identifies places where young readers might find the color blue. Simple text with closely matching pictures and a photo glossary makes this book perfect for beginning readers.
Author: Guy Deutscher Publisher: ISBN: 9780434016907 Category : Comparative linguistics Languages : en Pages : 0
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Generalisations about language and culture are at best amusing and meaningless, but is there anything sensible left to be said about the relation between language, culture and thought? *Does language reflect the culture of a society? *I
Author: Roger Hutchison Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA) ISBN: 9781612619231 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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The text and illustrations of this lushly colored picture book guide the reader through different emotions and reactions related to grieving, including shock, tears, anger, and hope. My Favorite Color is Blue. Sometimes. is a children's picture book by design, but accessible to people of all ages.
Author: Ally Condie Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101558466 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 416
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Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's destined to lead with Xander. But Cassia can't stop thinking about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility and is faced with an impossible choice: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to follow. Look for CROSSED, the sequel to MATCHED, in Fall 2011! Watch a Video
Author: Jillian Rose Sherwin
Author: Jillian Rose Sherwin
Author: Patricia Lynne Duffy
Author: Jessica Young
Author: Andrea Feeser
Author: Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Author: Kassia St Clair
Author: Brienna Rossiter
Author: Guy Deutscher
Author: Roger Hutchison
Author: Ally Condie