Close Your Eyes

Author: Kate Banks
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374301018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
A little tiger takes an imaginative journey The little tiger lay on his back in the tall grass. "Close your eyes, little tiger," said his mother, "and go to sleep." But the little tiger is worried about what sleep might bring. His mother reassures him that once he closes his eyes, he will dream of magical places. And when he awakens, she will be right there, waiting for him. Alternating between real-life scenes with the baby tiger and his mother and enchanted dream scenes of sleep's possibilities, Kate Banks's simple, comforting text and Georg Hallensleben's bright, colorful illustrations make this a charming bedtime story for small children. Close Your Eyes is a 2002 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year and a 2003 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Che Guevara

Author: Nick Caistor
Publisher: Interlink Books
ISBN: 9781566567596
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An accessible and well-researched biography that explores the life and ideas of an iconic revolutionary. “At Last, at last, a biography of Che Guevara for grown-ups! Nick Caistor, well-known for years as a commentator on Latin America for the BBC, has produced a study of a man who is all too often treated either as a plaster saint incapable of doing wrong or as some devil from the deepest pit of Marxism-Leninism. Caistor portrays him with sympathy and elegance as what he was, a human being with doubts and weaknesses, which he combined with a devotion to the world’s poor.” —Hugh O’Shaughnessy, journalist Argentine by birth, Ernesto “Che” Guevara came to embody the spirit of the Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro. Guevara spent two years fighting in the sierras of Cuba, and after the revolutionaries’ victory became one of the leading members of the government as well as one of Castro’s closest and most controversial associates. Also an important writer, Guevara constantly developed ideas about how to spread anti-imperialist revolution throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. Guevara made a huge contribution to theories of socialism, predicting the emergence of a “new man” who would represent what for him were humanist values of the Cuban revolution. His later years took him to Africa, in search of another guerilla war, and finally to a tragic end in the mountains of Bolivia. Che Guevara was someone who showed few contradictions between his life and his writing, and his example continues to win admirers among new generations anxious to explore ways of changing their world.

Up and Down the Andes

Author: Laurie Krebs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846864674
Category : Inti Raymi Festival
Languages : en
Pages : 27

Book Description
Travel and holiday.

ENTER NationalNomics (The King-dom of Divine Free-dom) The Moorish Code

Author: T. King Connally-Bey
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466981857
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 85

Book Description
TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE Imagine that there is a bank which credits your account each morning with $86,400 carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount that you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Of course, draw out every CENT!!! Everyone has such a bank. Its name is TIME, every morning, it credit you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this time you have failed to invest for good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdrafts. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the record of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow". You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get the utmost in health, happiness and success! To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who has failed a grade. To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother that has given birth to a premature baby. To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask an unprepared defendant who stands trial, or a lawyer unprepared for trial. To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask the daily wage laborer who has children to feed. To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet. to realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask the person who has just missed the bus or the train. To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask the person who has avoided an accident. To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics. Therefore, TREASURE every moment that you have, and always remember that TIME WAITS FOR NO ONE... Truly I Am, Forever Moor... King Connally-Bey Psalm 1:1-3/119:97

The Scandal of the Century

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 052565643X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
“The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding . . . He had a way of connecting the souls in all his writing, fiction and nonfiction, to the melancholy static of the universe.” --Dwight Garner, The New York Times From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction. "I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism," Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career--years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla . . . his longer, more fictionlike reportage from Paris and Rome . . . his monthly columns for Spain's El País. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be "the best in the world."

Power Over Peoples

Author: Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691154325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
In this work, Daniel Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies and sheds light on the environmental and social factors that have brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat in others.

Three Monsters

Author: David McKee
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9781593541316
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Two monsters, one red and one blue, live lazily and happily in a jungle at the edge of the sea until, one day, a new monster arrives. He is yellow and strange and he needs somewhere to live ...A wise and wonderful fable for our time, Three Monsters is a simple story of acceptance and understanding that addresses the issues of sharing, skin colour and greed.Ages 5 and up

Before Gatsby

Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781570033711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 596

Book Description
A collection of "commercial short stories F. Scott Fitzgerald published before he began to work on what would become his great American novel, The Great Gatsby."--Back cover.

Think and Grow Rich for Women

Author: Sharon Lechter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698160754
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Women are the future of American business. According to a recent Nielsen report, women will control two-thirds of American consumer wealth in less than a decade. And yet almost all business and success literature is still written for men—dispensing advice that doesn’t take into account women’s unique strengths or address the demands of family life on mothers. Think and Grow Rich for Women is a powerful new book—from the award-winning author of Think and Grow Rich: Three Feet from Gold and coauthor of the multimillion-selling Rich Dad, Poor Dad. It combines Hill’s classic Thirteen Steps to Success with case studies of noteworthy women (including Sandra Day O’Connor, Maya Angelou, Katie Couric, Caroline Kennedy, Madonna, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Thatcher, Condoleeza Rice, J. K. Rowling, Barbara De Angelis, Marianne Williamson Angela Merkel, Mary Kay Ash, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty and many more), outlining a master plan for success for all women.

Adiós Hemingway

Author: Leonardo Padura
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781841955414
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
In a detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba, the discovery of the skeletal remains of the victim of a forty-year-old murder on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, draws ex-cop Mario Conte back into the game to investigate a crime with roots in Hemingway's Cuba four decades earlier.