Author: Dennis Bloodworth
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814677337
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Caught pants down by a dance hostress in a Laotian nightclub; hitching a ride into battle with a chain-smoking pilot in a plane filled with cans of leaking kerosene; fielding cables that arrive in the dead of night from an editor screaming for urgent copy overnight… It’s all in a day’s work for the foreign correspondent, says author Dennis Bloodworth, who ought to know. He took it all in his stride during the more than 30 years that he spent as foreign correspondent of the London Observer. For those who have always wondered how the news gets into the papers, here’s the story behind the stories, and even some stories that couldn’t be told
Memoirs of a Goldfish
Author: Devin Scillian
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN: 1684520053
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Day One I swam around my bowl. Day Two I swam around my bowl. Twice. And so it goes in this tell-all tale from a goldfish. With his bowl to himself and his simple routine, Goldfish loves his life..until one day... When assorted intruders including a hyperactive bubbler, a grime-eating snail, a pair of amorous guppies, and a really crabby crab invade his personal space and bowl, Goldfish is put out, to say the least. He wants none of it, preferring his former peace and quiet and solitude. But time away from his new companions gives him a chance to rethink the pros and cons of a solitary life. And discover what he's been missing. Devin Scillian is an award-winning author and Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist. He has written more than 10 books with Sleeping Bear Press, including the bestselling A is for America: An American Alphabet and Brewster the Rooster. Devin lives in Michigan and anchors the news for WDIV-TV in Detroit. Early in his career Tim Bowers worked for Hallmark Cards, helping to launch the Shoebox Greetings card line. He has illustrated more than 25 children's books, garnering such awards as the Chicago Public Library's "Best of the Best" list. He also illustrated the widely popular First Dog. Tim lives in Granville, Ohio.
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN: 1684520053
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Day One I swam around my bowl. Day Two I swam around my bowl. Twice. And so it goes in this tell-all tale from a goldfish. With his bowl to himself and his simple routine, Goldfish loves his life..until one day... When assorted intruders including a hyperactive bubbler, a grime-eating snail, a pair of amorous guppies, and a really crabby crab invade his personal space and bowl, Goldfish is put out, to say the least. He wants none of it, preferring his former peace and quiet and solitude. But time away from his new companions gives him a chance to rethink the pros and cons of a solitary life. And discover what he's been missing. Devin Scillian is an award-winning author and Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist. He has written more than 10 books with Sleeping Bear Press, including the bestselling A is for America: An American Alphabet and Brewster the Rooster. Devin lives in Michigan and anchors the news for WDIV-TV in Detroit. Early in his career Tim Bowers worked for Hallmark Cards, helping to launch the Shoebox Greetings card line. He has illustrated more than 25 children's books, garnering such awards as the Chicago Public Library's "Best of the Best" list. He also illustrated the widely popular First Dog. Tim lives in Granville, Ohio.
Edgar Allan's Official Crime Investigation Notebook
Author: Mary Amato
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823426777
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
First Slurpy the goldfish gets fishnapped. Then other things begin to disappear from Ms. Herschel's classroom. Odder still, the culprit leaves poetry behind. Edgar intends to find the criminal responsible with the help of his notebook. However, he's going to have to beat his rivals, form careful alliances, and make sense of a few suprising discoveries.
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823426777
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
First Slurpy the goldfish gets fishnapped. Then other things begin to disappear from Ms. Herschel's classroom. Odder still, the culprit leaves poetry behind. Edgar intends to find the criminal responsible with the help of his notebook. However, he's going to have to beat his rivals, form careful alliances, and make sense of a few suprising discoveries.
The Reporter’s Notebook
Author: Dennis Bloodworth
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814677337
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Caught pants down by a dance hostress in a Laotian nightclub; hitching a ride into battle with a chain-smoking pilot in a plane filled with cans of leaking kerosene; fielding cables that arrive in the dead of night from an editor screaming for urgent copy overnight… It’s all in a day’s work for the foreign correspondent, says author Dennis Bloodworth, who ought to know. He took it all in his stride during the more than 30 years that he spent as foreign correspondent of the London Observer. For those who have always wondered how the news gets into the papers, here’s the story behind the stories, and even some stories that couldn’t be told
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814677337
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Caught pants down by a dance hostress in a Laotian nightclub; hitching a ride into battle with a chain-smoking pilot in a plane filled with cans of leaking kerosene; fielding cables that arrive in the dead of night from an editor screaming for urgent copy overnight… It’s all in a day’s work for the foreign correspondent, says author Dennis Bloodworth, who ought to know. He took it all in his stride during the more than 30 years that he spent as foreign correspondent of the London Observer. For those who have always wondered how the news gets into the papers, here’s the story behind the stories, and even some stories that couldn’t be told
Style-book for Writers and Editors
Author: Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Embroidery and Cross Stitch
Author: Eaglemoss Editors
Publisher: Betterway Publications
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Each of these richly illustrated books features dozens of step-by-step sewing projects that make it easy to craft beautiful fabric accessories in just hours. Complete with a array of unique styles and designs, these guides offer endless sewing possibilities for "do-it-yourself" decorating with professional results. Elaborate decorative embroidery is made easy and fun with more than 40 beautiful hand-stitched projects. A range of designs offers something for everyone-from classic floral motifs to playful animals, antique lettering and more.
Publisher: Betterway Publications
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Each of these richly illustrated books features dozens of step-by-step sewing projects that make it easy to craft beautiful fabric accessories in just hours. Complete with a array of unique styles and designs, these guides offer endless sewing possibilities for "do-it-yourself" decorating with professional results. Elaborate decorative embroidery is made easy and fun with more than 40 beautiful hand-stitched projects. A range of designs offers something for everyone-from classic floral motifs to playful animals, antique lettering and more.
Historical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper
Author: Margaret Holben Ellis
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064320
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This book is the seventh in the Readings in Conservation series, which gathers and publishes texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural heritage. The present volume provides a selection of more than ninety-five texts tracing the development of the conservation of works of art on paper. Comprehensive and thorough, the book relates how paper conservation has responded to the changing place of prints and drawings in society. The readings include a remarkable range of historical selections from texts such as Renaissance printmaker Ugo da Carpi’s sixteenth-century petition to the Venetian senate on his invention of chiaroscuro, Thomas Churchyard’s 1588 essay in verse “A Sparke of Frendship and Warme Goodwill,” and Robert Bell’s 1773 piece “Observations Relative to the Manufacture of Paper and Printed Books in the Province of Pennsylvania.” These are complemented by influential writings by such figures as A. H. Munsell, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida, along with a generous representation of recent scholarship. Each reading is introduced by short remarks explaining the rationale for its selection and the principal matters covered, and the book is supplemented with a helpful bibliography. This volume is an indispensable tool for museum curators, conservators, and students and teachers of the conservation of works of art on paper.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064320
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This book is the seventh in the Readings in Conservation series, which gathers and publishes texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural heritage. The present volume provides a selection of more than ninety-five texts tracing the development of the conservation of works of art on paper. Comprehensive and thorough, the book relates how paper conservation has responded to the changing place of prints and drawings in society. The readings include a remarkable range of historical selections from texts such as Renaissance printmaker Ugo da Carpi’s sixteenth-century petition to the Venetian senate on his invention of chiaroscuro, Thomas Churchyard’s 1588 essay in verse “A Sparke of Frendship and Warme Goodwill,” and Robert Bell’s 1773 piece “Observations Relative to the Manufacture of Paper and Printed Books in the Province of Pennsylvania.” These are complemented by influential writings by such figures as A. H. Munsell, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida, along with a generous representation of recent scholarship. Each reading is introduced by short remarks explaining the rationale for its selection and the principal matters covered, and the book is supplemented with a helpful bibliography. This volume is an indispensable tool for museum curators, conservators, and students and teachers of the conservation of works of art on paper.
First Reader Series: Multisyllabic Words
Author: Paul J. Mullen
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 138743165X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
This is the fourth book of the First Reader Series, which is designed to teach children to read using the phonetic method. The goal of the phonetic method is to have children learn basic letter sounds and then "sound out" a word rather than simply memorizing the sound of an entire word. With the phonetic method, early readers will not be limited by the words that they have already seen. They will be able to sound out any new word that they encounter. This book introduces the reader to multisyllabic words. It does this by presenting the following concepts: prefixes, suffixes, compound words and words ending in "Y" where the "Y" makes the "long E" sound.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 138743165X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
This is the fourth book of the First Reader Series, which is designed to teach children to read using the phonetic method. The goal of the phonetic method is to have children learn basic letter sounds and then "sound out" a word rather than simply memorizing the sound of an entire word. With the phonetic method, early readers will not be limited by the words that they have already seen. They will be able to sound out any new word that they encounter. This book introduces the reader to multisyllabic words. It does this by presenting the following concepts: prefixes, suffixes, compound words and words ending in "Y" where the "Y" makes the "long E" sound.
Fish
Author: Ann Heinrichs
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756512293
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Describes different types of fish and their physical characteristics, methods of motion, feeding habits, and life cycles.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756512293
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Describes different types of fish and their physical characteristics, methods of motion, feeding habits, and life cycles.
The Matlock Paper
Author: Robert Ludlum
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0345539230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The name on the computer screen is James Barbour Matlock, college professor and Vietnam veteran. He’s Washington’s choice to stop a far-reaching conspiracy in an undercover assignment destined to put his neck against the razor’s edge of danger. But the faceless men behind the scenes don’t care if it means savaging the woman he loves or trapping him in a maze of unrelenting terror. They just care about one thing: Matlock is the perfect man for the job—and the reason why is disturbing, explosive, and extremely deadly. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Matlock Paper “A sure winner . . . fast paced, suspenseful, and bound to keep you turning the pages.”—The Denver Post “A 110% story all in overdrive . . . Ludlum writes better and better.”—Kirkus Reviews “Suspense, violence, and total readability.”—Chicago Tribune
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0345539230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The name on the computer screen is James Barbour Matlock, college professor and Vietnam veteran. He’s Washington’s choice to stop a far-reaching conspiracy in an undercover assignment destined to put his neck against the razor’s edge of danger. But the faceless men behind the scenes don’t care if it means savaging the woman he loves or trapping him in a maze of unrelenting terror. They just care about one thing: Matlock is the perfect man for the job—and the reason why is disturbing, explosive, and extremely deadly. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Matlock Paper “A sure winner . . . fast paced, suspenseful, and bound to keep you turning the pages.”—The Denver Post “A 110% story all in overdrive . . . Ludlum writes better and better.”—Kirkus Reviews “Suspense, violence, and total readability.”—Chicago Tribune
Solutions to GET Smart Book for Class 2
Author: Leena Kapoor
Publisher: Goyal Brothers Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Goyal Brothers Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description