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Mirette On the High Wire
by Emily MccullyWinner of the 1993 Caldecott Medal. One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at the boardinghouse of the widow Gâteau-a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow's daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it. But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini- master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again. Emily Arnold McCully's sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris, and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.
Samajik Vigyan Itihas Evam Nagarik Shastra Bhag 1 class 8 - S.C.E.R.T. Raipur - Chhattisgarh Board: सामाजिक विज्ञान इतिहास एवं नागरिक शास्त्र भाग 1 कक्षा 8 - एस.सी.ई.आर.टी. रायपुर - छत्तीसगढ़ बोर्ड
by Rajya Shaikshik Anusandhan Aur Prashikshan Parishad Raipur C. G.सामाजिक विज्ञान इतिहास एवं नागरिक शास्त्र भाग 1 पाठ्यपुस्तक कक्षा 8वी का राज्य शैक्षिक अनुसंधान और प्रशिक्षण परिषद् छत्तीसगढ़ रायपुर ने हिंदी भाषा में प्रकाशित किया गया है, सामाजिक विज्ञान पाठ्यपुस्तक में भूगोल, इतिहास, नागरिकता एवं अर्थशास्त्र के पाठों का समावेश किया गया है। इस पुस्तक में इतिहास और नागरीकशास्त्र का अध्ययन किया गया है। इस पुस्तक में छत्तीसगढ़ राज्य के संसाधनों के साथ ही छत्तीसगढ़ के राष्ट्रीय परिप्रेक्ष्य में स्थानीय इतिहास का भी समावेश है। इस पुस्तक में विषयवस्तु को समझने के लिए निर्देश दिये गए हैं चित्र देखिए, मानचित्र टांगिए, तुलना कीजिए। इसके साथ-साथ विषयवस्तु को स्थानीय परिवेश से जोड़ने का प्रयास किया गया है। आवश्यकतानुसार प्रश्नों को भी समाहित किया गया है। पुस्तक में प्रत्येक पाठ का पूर्व के पाठों से संबंध जोड़ने का प्रयास भी है, उसके पश्चात आगे का ध्यान दिया गया है। पाठों में मूल्य शिक्षा, सामाजिकता, पर्यावरण संरक्षण तथा राष्ट्रीय स्तर की समस्याओं को बताने का सार्थक प्रयास किया गया है।
Harold's Circus
by Crockett Johnson"One moonlit evening, mainly to prove to himself he could do it, Harold went for a walk on a tightrope. He made sure the rope was drawn tight and straight, so it wouldn't sway. He skipped lightly across it, finding it fun to be a tightrope walker, high up over the rest of the circus. He stayed up on the rope with the greatest of ease, until he lost his balance. It also is easy to fall off a tightrope. Harold fell, twisting and turning, with his purple crayon tight in his hand. By a stroke of luck, a comfortable-looking curve appeared beneath him. And he landed on ..." "An Astounding Colossal, Purple Crayon Event!" Charming and fun.
Indian Geography For IAS Prelims Competetive Exam
by Indic TrustThis is a compilation of questions answer of Indian Geography for Prelims Exam.
Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn #16)
by Ngaio MarshIn the make-believe world of the theater, Inspector Alleyn deals with the stark reality of murder and recasts the players in a deadly drama.
Beverly: An Autobiography
by Beverly Sills Lawrence LindermanBeverly Sills unleashes the full power of her personality and unlocks the key to her phenomenal success as a singer, mother, wife, impresario and goodwill ambassador.
Images of Blind and Visually Impaired People in the Movies, 1913-1985: An Annotated Filmography with Notes
by Wendy Erickson Diane WolfeListed in this book are the titles and other information about movies that include characters who are blind or visually impaired.
Sex, Death and Money
by Gore Vidal26 articles by Vidal on a wide range of subjects - pornography, television, several fellow writers...
Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner
by Nina MunkA carefully explained business debacle.
Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War
by Howard KurtzDan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings: They were on a first-name basis with the country for a generation, leading viewers through moments of triumph and tragedy. But now that a new generation has succeeded them, the once-glittering job of network anchor seems unmistakably tarnished. In an age of instantaneous Internet news, cable echo chambers and iPod downloads, who really needs the evening news? And, by extension, who needs Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Charlie Gibson?
The Lucille Ball Story
by James GregoryHer life in public, in private, her triumphs and her troubles, with a never-before-published interview with the famous actress.
Brighton Beach Memoirs
by Neil SimonFourteen-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin, Nora. Eugene's comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness and the growing Nazi threat to relatives in Europe.
The Church Cantatas of J. S. Bach
by Alec RobertsonFor nearly every Sunday from 1723 to 1728, J S Bach composed and his young orphan boy-students performed, a half-hour cantata in the Lutheran church services of the Saint Thomas Church in Leipzig, Germany. A cantata usually began with a chorus, contained recitatives (narrative) and arias (meditations) and closed with a hymn (chorale). Bach's cantatas contain more than 1500 movements, filling 67 compact discs in today's recordings. They contain dozens of magnificent choruses and hundreds of deeply-felt and spectacular arias and chorales. Alec Robertson analyzes 173 of Bach's roughly 210 extant cantatas. He organizes them according to the Lutheran church year, starting with Advent and ending with the Reformation Festival of October 30. He introduces each Sunday and feast day with the Biblical citations which were usually the basis for the cantatas. He discusses each movement, even listing the instrumentation. Bach's cantatas are at the pinnacle of western classical music. Not only do they give spiritual nourishment to Christians and non-Christians but they are studied the world over by amateur and professional musicians for their penetrating pictorialization, harmonizations, counterpoint and beautiful melodies. They contain great choruses, arias for all types of singers, plus some duets and trios. Whether you are an amateur or serious musician, this book will help you to understand and appreciate these works. Cantatas not discussed in this book are those intended for special occasions such as weddings, funerals, birthdays of prominent persons, civic events such as town council inaugurations, those with secular themes and those originally included in the Bach canon but which modern scholarship has determined not to have been his compositions (de-established). Accordingly, the following cantatas are not discussed: 11, 15 (deest.), 29, 50, 53 (deest), 54, 71, 97, 106, 117, 118, 119, 120, 131, 141 (deest.), 142 (deest.), 150, 160 (deest.), 189 (deest.), 191, 192, 193, 195, 196, 197, 198 and 200-215. In this braille file, German words are shown using Braille grade 2 English contractions. If you download the DAISY file, you will get the German words uncontracted. Note: an excellent internet source for all things Bach cantatas is http://bach-cantatas.com/ .
Japan: It's Now All Raw Fish
by Don MaloneyHumorist Don Maloney describes life as a Westener living in Japan.
Jack Benny: An Intimate Biography
by Irving A. FeinFein joined Benny in 1947 as publicity and advertising director of his company, which was sold to CBS. Fein then became executive producer of Benny's programs, winning an Emmy in 1961.
The Old Time Radio Book
by Ted Sennett"This book is a collection of articles, quizzes, and photographs which attempts to recapture radio's golden years and provide entertainment for those who lived through them. The articles deal with many of the popular programs and versatile people of old-time radio; the quizzes should challenge even the longest memories, and the photographs- well, there were actual people behind all those voices, and they are seen here doing their jobs and doing them well." Bookshare offers many other books about old-time radio.
Twelve Angry Men and Other Plays
by Paddy Chayefsky Carroll Howe Budd Schulberg Reginald RoseThis Scope Play Series book has four plays: The Big Deal by Paddy Chayefsky, The Long Fall by Carroll Howe, On the Waterfront by Budd Schulberg, and Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose.
Requiem for a Heavyweight and Other Plays
by Reginald Rose Jerome Ross Herbert Gardner Rod SerlingIncludes; Tragedy in a Temporary Town by Reginald Rose, The White Cane by Jerome Ross, The Elevator by Herbert Gardner and Requiem for a Heavyweight by Rod Serling.
The Winner!
by Florence Aquino KaufmanThe Winner! was first performed in 1965 at the Clinton Youth Center in New York City. Since then, it has toured schools, churches, and community centers, mostly in the New York area. The cast has always been multi-racial and consisted of amateurs who have participated in the Knickerbocker Creative Theatre workshops
M*A*S*H Goes to London
by Richard Hooker William E. ButterworthFurther misadventures of Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan and Hawkeye Pierce, only this time in Merry Old England.
Film Genere Holywood And Beyond
by Barry LangfordThe overall approach of Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond situates genres in their historical - primarily, cultural and (film) industrial contexts; the overarching context of the book is the transition from the ‘classical’ Hollywood system to a ‘post-classical’ mode that extends to the present day. In making this separation, I neither explicitly challenge nor endorse arguments about the extent to which ‘post-classical’ Hollywood represents a qualita¬tively different set of visual stylistics in Hollywood film.
Movie Trivia Quiz Book
by The Editors at Ventura BooksHundreds of questions (and answers) about movies made before 1981.