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Author: Jeff Strand
Publisher: Mundania Press LLC
Published: 2006-07
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781594264535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of Randall, a squire assigned to escort the lovely Princess Janice on a diplomatic journey of utmost importance. When she is killed, Randall must overcome desperate odds and dangers in his quest to bring her back to life.
Author: James Massola
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2018-11-14
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1760870064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The complete story of the miraculous rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team boys and their coach in Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand in July 2018. The extraordinary story of the Thai cave rescue is now the subject of a major feature film, The Rescue. Keen to go exploring after soccer practice, the boys of the Wild Boars soccer team ignored the sign at the cave entrance warning visitors not to enter during the monsoon season. What followed was a high-stakes international mission that very nearly didn't succeed. The ordeal riveted millions around the world. First came the awful news that twelve Thai boys, aged 11 to 17, and their young coach were missing. Then the flickering video of the huddle of anxious and hungry boys found by a pair of British divers nine days later. But the most difficult part was yet to come. Monsoon rains had raised the water level in the cave system, and the boys were trapped in an air pocket, surrounded by rising muddy water, over two kilometres from the cave entrance. None of them knew how to dive. Expert British, Australian, American, Chinese and other international divers joined the Thai Navy SEALs and hundreds of local volunteers to mount one of the most risky and complex rescue operations the world has ever seen. Australian doctor Richard Harris and his dive partner, Craig Challen, were among the last out of the cave, 18 days later. Massola recreates the drama, tension and inspiration of the days in July 2018 when the eyes of the whole world were trained on a remote Thai mountain.
Author: Sandra Lynch
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-01-27
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9811026432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While firmly acknowledging the importance of play in early childhood, this book interrogates the assumption that play is a birthright. It pushes beyond traditional understandings of play to ask questions such as: what is the relationship between play and the arts – theatre, music and philosophy – and between play and wellbeing? How is play relevant to educational practice in the rapidly changing circumstances of today’s world? What do Australian Aboriginal conceptions of play have to offer understandings of play? The book examines how ideas of play evolve as children increasingly interact with popular culture and technology, and how developing notions of play have changed our work spaces, teaching practices, curricula, and learning environments, as well as our understanding of relationships between children and adults. This multidisciplinary volume on the subject of play combines the work of some of the world’s leading researchers in the field of early childhood education with contributions from distinguished and emerging scholars in areas as diverse as education, theatre studies, architecture, literature, philosophy, cultural studies, theology and the creative arts. Reconsidering the common focus on play in early education, to investigate its broader impact, this collection offers a refreshing and valuable addition to studies on play, reconceptualizing it for the 21st century.
Author: Mingmen Shuixiang
Publisher: Funstory
Published: 2020-09-13
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 1636540554
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Once transmigrated, two lifetimes old, the young miss from a modern ancient Chinese medicine family, Murong, after a long time, opened her eyes and found that she had become an ancient version of the receiving bag, she resolutely said, "My life is my decision." From then on. She had a hypocritical stepmother who let you know why the flowers were so red. "Little sister Er Dou Hua, let's see how you dare to be cocky in front of me in the future." Father San Dou, you're heartless to me, so don't blame me for being unjust and end your official journey. Today, you all love to ignore me, but tomorrow I will make it so that you all can't climb any higher, but I don't want to make a mistake by provoking a certain kind of evil man, and from then on, I will be dead.
Author: Lian Hearn
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-06-07
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0374536325
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An epic, fantastical adventure in the mythical Japan, a world inhabited by warriors, assassins, acrobats, ghosts, guardian spirits, demons, horses, and monkeys"--
Author: Stith Thompson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780520035379
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As interest in folklore increases, the folktale acquires greater significance for students and teachers of literature. The material is massive and scattered; thus, few students or teachers have accessibility to other than small segments or singular tales or material they find buried in archives. Stith Thompson has divided his book into four sections which permit both the novice and the teacher to examine oral tradition and its manifestation in folklore. The introductory section discusses the nature and forms of the folktale. A comprehensive second part traces the folktale geographically from Ireland to India, giving culturally diverse examples of the forms presented in the first part. The examples are followed by the analysis of several themes in such tales from North American Indian cultures. The concluding section treats theories of the folktale, the collection and classification of folk narrative, and then analyzes the living folklore process. This work will appeal to students of the sociology of literature, professors of comparative literature, and general readers interested in folklore.
Author: Herbert Halpert
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-20
Total Pages: 1175
ISBN-13: 1317551486
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intention was to collect as broad a spectrum of traditional material as possible, and Folktales of Newfoundland is notable not only for the number and quality of its narratives, but also for the format in which they are presented. A special transcription system conveys to the reader the accents and rhythms of each performance, and the endnote to each tale features an analysis of the narrator’s language. In addition, Newfoundland has preserved many aspects of English and Irish folk tradition, some of which are no longer active in the countries of their origin. Working from the premise that traditions virtually unknown in England might still survive in active form in Newfoundland, the researchers set out to discover if this was in fact the case.
Author: Richard Greene
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2015-11-14
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0812699165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Princess Bride is the 1987 satirical adventure movie that had to wait for the Internet and DVDs to become the most quoted of all cult classics. The Princess Bride and Philosophy is for all those who have wondered about the true meaning of “Inconceivable!,” why the name “Roberts” uniquely inspires fear, and whether it’s truly a miracle to restore life to someone who is dead, but not necessarily completely dead. The Princess Bride is filled with people trying to persuade each other of various things, and invites us to examine the best methods of persuasion. It’s filled with promises, some kept and some broken, and cries out for philosophical analysis of what makes a promise and why promises should be kept. It’s filled with beliefs which go beyond the evidence, and philosophy can help us to decide when such beliefs can be justified. It’s filled with political violence, both by and against the recognized government, and therefore raises all the issues of political philosophy. Westley, Buttercup, Prince Humperdinck, Inigo Montoya, the giant Fezzik, and the Sicilian Vizzini keep on re-appearing in these pages, as examples of philosophical ideas. Is it right for Montoya to kill the six-fingered man, even though there is no money in the revenge business? What’s the best way to deceive someone who knows you’re trying to deceive him? Are good manners a kind of moral virtue? Could the actions of the masked man in black truly be inconceivable even though real? What does ethics have to say about Miracle Max’s pricing policy? How many shades of meaning can be conveyed by “As You Wish”?
Author: J. A. Konrath
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9781932557206
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