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Alia & Ayman's big book of Palestine
\"Coloring pages and a variety of activity pages inspired by the best selling children's book series!\"--Cover.
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Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians
The word bibliophilia indicates a love of books, both as texts to be read and objects to be cherished for their physical qualities. Throughout the history of Iberian print culture, bibliophiles have attempted to explain the psychological experiences of reading and collecting books, as well as the social and economic conditions of book production.
Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians analyses Spanish bibliophiles who catalogue, organize, and archive books, as well as the publishers, artists, and writers who create them. Robert Richmond Ellis examines how books are represented in modern Spanish writing and how Spanish bibliophiles reflect on the role of books in their lives and in the histories and cultures of modern Spain. Through the combined approaches of literary studies, book history, and the book arts, Ellis argues that two strains of Spanish bibliophilia coalesce in the modern period: one that envisions books as a means of achieving personal fulfilment, and another that engages with politics and uses books to affirm linguistic, cultural, and regional and national identities.
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The big book adventure
Foxy and Piggy cannot wait to tell each other about all of their adventures, including flying over Neverland, swimming with a mermaid, joining in a mad tea party, and soaring on a magic carpet.
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Shakespeare and the idea of the book
The ‘book’ — both material and metaphoric — is a recurring theme in William Shakespeare’s plays: it is held by Hamlet as he turns through revenge to madness; buried deep in the mudded ooze by Prospero when he has shaken out his art like music and violence; forced by Richard II to withstand the mortality of deposition, fetishised by lovers, tormented by pedagogues, lost by kings, written by the alienated, and hung about war with the blood of lost voices. The ‘book’ begins and ends Shakespeare’s dramatic career as change itself, standing the distance between violence and hope, between holding and losing. This book is about the book in Shakespeare’s plays and focuses on seven plays, not only for the chronology and range they present, but also for their particular relationship to the book — whether it is political or humanist, cognitive or illusory, satirical or sexual, spiritual or secular, social or subjective. It is argued that the book on stage, its literal and semantic presence, offers one of the most articulate and developed hermeneutic tools available for the study of early modern English culture.
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Way to glow! : amazing creatures that light up in the dark
Featuring stunning photographs and information about the world's most fascinating bioluminescent animals (or animals that can produce their own light), this book will take readers deep into the depths of the ocean to discover everything there is to know about these incredible creatures.
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THE BB BOOK
MY FIRST BOOK was yellow. On its cover was a bumblebee and the words 'All the best things in the world begin with a b.' I look at the words, and the words make sense, and suddenly the book springs into story. All these years later I can open that book's hard yellow covers and I am six years old, alone at night, and making a discovery that will mean I am never alone again.
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The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism
This new edition of The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism has been fully revised and updated and includes two wholly new essays, one on recent developments in the field, and one on the rapidly expanding publishing industry of this period. It also features a comprehensive chronology and a fully up-to-date guide to further reading. For the past decade and more the Companion has been a much-admired and widely-used account of the phenomenon of British Romanticism that has inspired students to look at Romantic literature from a variety of critical angles and approaches. In this new incarnation, the volume will continue to be a standard guide for students of Romantic literature and its contexts.
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