![]() Now they must learn to work together to raise each other up. That is, until one of the girls goes rogue, testing the limits of their friendship and pushing the friends to question the power of their own voices. Brit, Sasha, Christine and Abby are four sophomore friends, who share laughs, rides, cookies and quiet conversations about their struggles. It's no easy task, especially while grappling with everything from crushes to trig to JV track but they have each other's backs. Go with the Flow (First Second, 2020) is written and illustrated by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann, co-creators of the online comic series The Mean Magenta and is the book I wish I had when I was a teen. ![]() ![]() Sick of an administration that puts football before female health, the girls confront a world that shrugs - or worse, squirms - at the thought of a menstruation revolution. Go with the Flow is a delightful graphic novel about four best friends experiences during their second year of high school. ![]() Sophomores Abby, Brit, Christine, and Sasha are fed up. ![]() High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues in Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann's graphic novel Go With the Flow.īest friends help you start a revolution. In Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann’s lively young adult graphic novel Go With the Flow, high school sophomores Abby, Brit, and Christine, welcome Sasha, a new student, and bond in. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() While the graphic novel visualizes characteristic features of its mother text, this paper explores the different modes of narrative sound in three German radio play adaptations of Auster’s novel. It is perhaps above all this feature which made the adaptation of the novel’s first instalment, City of Glass, into a graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazucchelli so successful. An analysis of radio play adaptations acquires a special significance in the case of this highly enigmatic work, which makes a seriously playful use of postmodern narrative strategies. Much less attention, if any, has been accorded to radio play adaptations of novels like Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy. Abstract In line with the strong emphasis on visuality in the wake of the “visual turn” in literary and cultural studies, graphic novel adaptations of literary texts have recently been the objects of scholarly study and narratological theory building. ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed reading this book to my own children, who got a laugh out of the twin fishes. Using rhyming words the usage of the fish throughout the story helps young children with early literacy. This is great for children, who are familiar with and still learning about opposites, numbers, similarities, sizes differentiation. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. The size of the typography is on the large side but it very easy to read. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. The typography looks handwritten and not a computer font, which gives it a more friendly feeling. And the Montage of fishes was an excellent over view of what fishes were mentioned as Little Fish friends. The double page spread really captures all the different fishes and the medium with the vibrant colors with the black borders help separate all the different fishes. The book is fairly large but the inside makes up for that because the illustrations are just amazing. But Little Fish favorite fish is introduced in the end of the story, can you guess who this special fish could be? Little Fish friends are all different, colors, shapes, appearances, sizes and there are some friends that are the same. In this story Little Fish takes you along to meet all his friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() Valerie says of the writing of Zemindar which took place over a span of nine years, "l have no recollection of just when, or more important, why l set about telling the story of the Siege. Fitzgerald's soldier father was posted to Luchnow during World War II, she spent her adolescent years in the city and her summers on a zemindari estate similar to Oliver Erskin's fabulous realm. Her grandmother lived through the Indian mutiny so vividly recreated in this splendid novel. This incomparable saga of love and war, tragedy and trumph, is drawn from personal experience. Valerie Fitzgerald's novel, Zemindar, won in 1980 the Georgette Heyer Historical Novel prize and in 1982 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. ![]() ![]() Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. ![]() Més enllà de l'anàlisi tècnica o sociològica de la fotografia, Roland Barthes ofereix en aquest llibre, a partir d'imatges públiques però també privades, sobretot la fotografia de l'hivernacle, una escriptura fragmentària, corporitzada, de la mort. Visibilitat infinita d'allò que fou, que havia estat allà i que ara somou, altera el subjecte que en mira el deixant o també el capdevall, experiència del subjecte davant l'evidència del Temps i de la Mort-experiència del dol. , és la metàfora que Roland Barthesfa servir per designar la fotografia: una designació fecunda, en què la presència del referent després de la sevaádesaparició, obtinguda tècnicament mitjançant la fotografia, esdevéála seva particularitat essencial. áLa superposició del referent amb la imatge reproduïda, característica de la càmera lúcida. La càmera lúcida és un instrument òptic inventat l'any 1804 per Wollaston que permetia als dibuixants, als paisatgistes, als naturalistes o als fisiologistes de dibuixar,áoámés aviat de calcar, la imatge d'un objecte resseguint-ne els contorns amb la punta del llapis. ![]() ![]() The first time I saw them, I was bowled over. My mother would come to visit and take me out on weekends and we always went to the Vancouver Art Gallery to look at the Emily Carr paintings. ![]() K.P.: I grew up in Edmonton but went to boarding school in Vancouver. ![]() We visited Pearson at her Oak Bay home which she shares with artist Katherine Farris and their two dogs, Piper and Brio, for a discussion on her book, and the two protagonists who lived in Victoria in 1881 – 9-year-old Emily and 13-year-old Kathleen O’Reilly.ĪGGV: What inspired you to write about Emily Carr? This is the imagined Emily Carr as a child, dreamed up by the award-winning Victoria-based children’s author, Kit Pearson, in her book A Day of Signs and Wonders (Harper Collins, 2016). She’s a bit scruffy in a proper pinafore dress that has been muddied by some exuberant playing in the woods where said girl has been talking to birds and enjoying the wonders of nature. Imagine a nine-year-old girl in Victoria, B.C., 1881. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written for beginners and scholars, for students and teachers, for philosophers and engineers, What is Mathematics?, Second Edition is a sparkling collection of mathematical gems that offers an entertaining and accessible portrait of the mathematical world. Its goal is to put the meaning back into mathematics. This new edition of Richard Courant's and Herbert Robbins's classic work seeks to address this problem. The teaching and learning of mathematics has degenerated into the realm of rote memorization, the outcome of which leads to satisfactory formal ability but does not lead to real understanding or to greater intellectual independence. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. ![]() ![]() Geordie and Dwyn have few distinguishing characteristics beyond their lust for one another, and Sand’s always excellent depiction of clan loyalties cannot overcome the story’s weaknesses. The plot shifts dramatically halfway through, introducing a one-dimensional villain who brings unnecessary drama. As the pair grows closer, Dwyn continues to need rescuing and Geordie vows to protect her in every way possible. When one potential bride, Lady Dwyn Innes, climbs a tree to escape the catty machinations of the others, Geordie rescues her from the branches and becomes enamored of the lowland lady. Geordie Buchanan, one of the three remaining unmarried Buchanan brothers, returns to his family home to find the keepĪwash with eligible women who’ve come hoping to catch the eye of him and his single brothers. ![]() The middling eighth historical romance in Sands’s Highland Brides series (after The Wrong Highlander) relies heavily on goodwill built in previous installments without offering much new. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think. This 40th anniversary edition includes a new epilogue from the author discussing the continuing relevance of these ideas in evolutionary biology today, as well as the original prefaces and foreword, and extracts from early reviews. ![]() Remain as relevant today as on the day it was published. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research. They are inherently selfish in that they only care about their own survival and the survival of its copies. Replicators, the units that evolve, are genes. He claims that organisms are survival shells for the replicators within us. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as In his book, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins argues for the gene as the basic unit of evolution. Description The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages.Īs influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. ![]() ![]() Even though you might feel as lost as anyone could be, if you just keep moving, then you can make it. It was relatively early in the book – within the first few pages, yet I kept thinking about it throughout. I’m paraphrasing, but the gist of the analogy is there. He shares analogies which really make you think, such as likening depression to being lost in the woods and learning that, like being lost in the woods, if you keep moving forward in a straight line, you’re likely to get through. The book is full of warm, encouraging messages and advice directly from the author’s heart. The great thing is you don’t necessarily have to read the book in any specific order you can turn to any chapter and read. The Comfort book is an easy read, and though Some of the chapters or sections are long, many are very short, some even a single line. The fact that he appears to be thriving now shows that recovery is possible, even though it may sometimes not feel like it. Matt has been very candid about his struggle with poor mental health, specifically anxiety and depression and this sort of honesty and insight can help give others hope. There’s really only one character here, and that’s the author. It’s more of a collection of Matt’s experiences with mental illness, advice and wise passages of hope for anyone feeling anything less than ‘happy’. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Comfort book has no plot it’s not that sort of book. The Comfort Book by Matt Haig was first published in July 2021 by Canongate Books and is 272 pages long. ![]() |