Author: Alan AtKissonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1849711720
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Believing Cassandra
Author: Alan AtKissonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113654061X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A bestseller on Amazon.com within months of its first release, Alan AtKisson's debut book quickly became a modern classic of sustainability literature. Global companies, grassroots groups, university courses, government agencies, and even the US Army ordered it by the box. Now fully revised and updated, Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World is even more relevant, fresh, and motivating than when it first appeared in 1999. In a style that's refreshingly candid and vivid, with unforgettable personal anecdotes, AtKisson provides us with a bridge over the sea of despair, and shows us how to catch the wave to an enticing, sustainable future. He empowers the reader to join the pioneers who created the ideas, techniques and practices of sustainable living - the people who prove Cassandra's warnings wrong, by believing in them, and taking strategic action.
Believe: If I Can, You Can
Author: Cassandra HousePublisher:
ISBN: 9781951503727
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
For the past two decades, Cassandra House has inspired hundreds of thousands across the globe to take hold of one of the most powerful forces on the planet: Belief. In her debut book, Cassandra shares her greatest tips for unwavering confidence, courageous growth, and self-belief. Believe: If I Can, You Can an inspiring, humorous look at life, a refreshing perspective on success, and the mindset and heart set it takes to turn your dreams into a reality.
Muse Squad: The Cassandra Curse
Author: Chantel AcevedoPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062947710
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The first in an action-packed debut middle grade fantasy duology about a Cuban American girl who discovers that she’s one of the nine Muses of Greek mythology. Perfect for fans of The Serpent’s Secret, the Aru Shah series, and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Callie Martinez-Silva didn’t mean to turn her best friend into a pop star. But when a simple pep talk leads to miraculous results, Callie learns she’s the newest muse of epic poetry, one of the nine Muses of Greek mythology tasked with protecting humanity’s fate in secret. Whisked away to Muse Headquarters, she joins three recruits her age, who call themselves the Muse Squad. Together, the junior muses are tasked with using their magic to inspire and empower—not an easy feat when you’re eleven and still figuring out the goddess within. When their first assignment turns out to be Callie’s exceptionally nerdy classmate, Maya Rivero, the squad comes to Miami to stay with Callie and her Cuban family. There, they discover that Maya doesn’t just need inspiration, she needs saving from vicious Sirens out to unleash a curse that will corrupt her destiny. As chaos erupts, will the Muse Squad be able to master their newfound powers in time to thwart the Cassandra Curse . . . or will it undo them all?
Cassandra
Author: Christa WolfPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374519049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
"Retells the story of the fall of Troy ... from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. Written as a result of the author's Greek travels and studies, Cassandra speaks to us in a pressing monologue whose inner focal points are patriarchy and war. In the four accompanying pieces, which take the form of travel reports, journal entries, and a letter, Wolf describes the novel's genesis."--Cover p. [4].
Chaucer Translator
Author: Paul Beekman TaylorPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761809647
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Examines Chaucer's re-contextualizing of story and the ways in which he re-tailors old texts into new apparel. After a polemical introduction, five chapters reveal Chaucer confronting the implications of Nominalism and Realism to translation in his Canterbury Tales. The next four chapters consider "borrowings" from old texts which are put to modern use in Chaucer's stories. A final chapter sums up Chaucer's style of translation with a look at two translations from Petrarch. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Emily J. PillingerCassandra the Lucky
Author: Joan HolubPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442488182
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Determined to prove that her prophecies are real, Cassandra sends special fortune cookies to Mount Olympus Academy, and her fortunes end up coming true in very unexpected ways.
The Winter's Child
Author: Cassandra ParkinPublisher: Legend Press Ltd
ISBN: 1785079026
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A woman’s desperation over her long-missing son leads her into dark places: “A stunning, beautifully disturbing mystery.”—Foreword Reviews Five years ago, Susannah Harper’s teenage son Joel went missing without a trace. Bereft of her son, and then abandoned by her husband, Susannah tries to accept that she may never know for certain what has happened to her lost loved ones. But then, on the last night of Hull Fair, a Roma fortune-teller makes an eerie prediction—on Christmas Eve, Joel will finally come back to her. Soon, Susannah is drawn into a world of psychics and charlatans, half-truths and hauntings, friendships and betrayals—forcing her to confront the buried truths of her family’s past… “Parkin is best at dramatizing the tension between the rational and irrational sides of her heroine’s mind.”—Publishers Weekly “Utterly addictive.”—Louise Beech, award-winning author of I Am Dust
Code Name Cassandra
Author: Meg CabotPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689868456
Category : Missing children
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
When struck by lightning, Jess Mastriani developed a psychic ability to find missing children--but now she wants the government and the media to think she's lost her power.
