How is academia portrayed in children’s literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children, who are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists. Professors fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of…
Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future… Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives on money…
Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future… Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives on money…
Read moreA little boy, Tip, escapes from his evil guardian, the witch Mombi, with the help of a walking wooden figure with a jack-o’-lantern head named Jack Pumpkinhead (brought to life with the magic Powder of Life Tip stole from Mombi), as well as a living Sawhorse (created from the same powder). Tip ends up on…
Read moreThis Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup’s harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin Burke’s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: · The illustrations printed in the original book. · Contemporary sources (1853—62), among them newspaper accounts of…
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Read moreBarbara Walters, arguably the most important woman in the history of television, has had an amazingly full life. In the bestselling Audition, she describes her extraordinary public and private journey. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“kyQtc4gxScUC”, 500,400);
Read moreGoodbye to Berlin GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“hQElSwAACAAJ”, 500,400);
Read more(Five Finger Piano Songbook). This collection contains 8 great tunes arranged in five-finger notation that even very beginners can play and enjoy! Includes the songs: Charlie Brown Theme * Christmas Time Is Here * Great Pumpkin Waltz * Linus and Lucy * Love Will Come * Oh, Good Grief * Schroeder * and Skating, plus…
Read moreA young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“7sxvDwAAQBAJ”, 500,400);
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