Now toddlers can help spot the different colored cars of Crews s freight train in this sturdy board book edition of the Caldecott Honor Book. (Baby/Preschool) In simple powerful words and vibrant illustrations Donald Crews evokes the rolling wheels of that childhood favorite: a train. This board book features sturdy pages and is just the right size for little hands. This Caldecott Honor Book features bright colors and bold shapes. Even a child not lucky enough to have counted freight cars will feel he or she has watched a freight train passing after reading Freight Train. Donald Crews used childhood memories of trains seen during his travels to his grandparents farm in the American South as the inspiration for this timeless favorite. Red caboose at the back orange tank car green cattle car purple box car black tender and a black steam engine.. freight train. Forlag: Greenwillow Books Udg
Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author Nicholas Carr shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical effect this is having on our ability to learn and solve problems. In May 2009 an Airbus A330 passenger jet equipped with the latest 'glass cockpit' controls plummeted 30,000 feet into the Atlantic. The reason for the crash: the autopilot had routinely switched itself off. In fact, automation is everywhere - from the thermostat in our homes and the GPS in our phones to the algorithms of High Frequency Trading and self-driving cars. We now use it to diagnose patients, educate children, evaluate criminal evidence and fight wars. But psychological studies show that we perform best when fully involved in a task, while the principle of automation - that humans are inefficient - is self-fulfilling. The glass cockpit is becoming a glass ca
A Novel Today s foremost storyteller of the authentic West thrills western fans by brining to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier. Reissue. East Texas wasn t much of a home for Cullen Baker. Few liked him and some even tried to kill him. Yet after three hard years of wandering he s come back to farm the land that s rightfully his. Only Cullen s in for an unwelcome homecoming: his neighbors have long memories the Reconstructionists have greedy hearts and his worst enemy has teamed up with a vicious outlaw. But Cullen isn t about to back down. Instead he s intent on perfecting a new way of gunfighting: the fast draw. And now with enemies closing in on three sides and threatening the woman he loves he ll have to be faster than lightning--and twice as deadly--just to survive. Forlag: Bantam Books Udgivelsesår: 1985 Sider: 203 Sprog: Engelsk
"Since the Berlin wall came down eight years ago, many other barriers have come down also, and we have been allowed to see things we never knew before about the communist East, notably its intelligence operations. Markus Wolf's book is perhaps the most important to date absorbing, intelligent and well written. ' Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Sunday Times They called him 'the man without a face', a figure of such secrecy that it took almost twenty years before Western intelligence had any idea what he looked like. He was the West's great adversary in the secret war for intelligence, information and advantage. He is Markus Wolf, the greatest spymaster of our century, a shadowy legend throughout the Cold War and a continuing mystery - until now. In what will surely stand as a classic book on the history and art of espionage, Markus wolf finally breaks his silence and tells his story. Not just a grip
Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult explores the demands of having a family on a new mother in this gripping bestseller. THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Picoult has an uncanny knack of dreaming up moral dilemmas that you cannot ignore: you must know the resolution' Sunday Express Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her when she was five. Now, having left home for art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. But Paige cannot forget her mother's absence or the shameful memories from her own past, and running away is in her blood. Emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed by the demands of her family, she knows that this time, if she runs, she must leave behind her newborn child - but could it be possible Paige's baby would be better off without her?Exploring motherhood, absence and the legacy it leaves
The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering Summary: This fascinating investigation into the production of American cultural memory focuses on two of the most traumatic and contested events in recent U.S. history: the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic. Each, Marita Sturken argues, disrupts our conventional understanding of nationhood, identity, and American culture. She brilliantly compares the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the AIDS Quilt as key sites where cultural memory is produced and debated. While debunking the characterization of the United States as a culture of amnesia, Sturken shows that remembering is itself a form of forgetting, and memory an inventive social practice Forfatter: Marita Sturken (1957-) Forlag: University of California Press Udgivelsesår: 1997 Sider: 368 Sprog: Engelsk
Have you always dreamed of being able to escape to faraway places with all their exotic allure? This book is for you. Wendy Dewar Hughes has created a most delightful coloring book, featuring the romance and uniqueness of southern France. This is not only a book of gifted sketching; it is full of her own personal memories of having lived there and loved it. You will enjoy nuances of little things a non-artist might miss, small details which make you feel as though you're right in the South of France, experiencing its sights, sounds, and delights. Travel with Wendy, a skilled artist, and lose yourself in the fantasy of the South of France any time you feel the longing to escape. You can create your own special South of France experience! These images are small coloring projects. PLEASE NOTE: They are NOT postcards. Forlag: Summer Bay Press
A Novel A mesmerizing first novel about trust, dependence, and fear, from a major new writerRuth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside of town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. This woman--Frida--claims to be a care worker sent by the government. Ruth lets her in. Now that Frida is in her house, is Ruth right to fear the tiger she hears on the prowl at night, far from its jungle habitat? Why do memories of childhood in Fiji press upon her with increasing urgency? How far can she trust this mysterious woman, Frida, who seems to carry with her own troubled past? And how far can Ruth trust herself? "The Night Guest," Fiona McFarlane's hypnotic first novel, is no simple tale of a crime committed and a mystery solved. This is a tale that soars above its own suspe
