Автор: Welsh Irvine Название: Marabou Stork Nightmares ISBN: 009943511X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099435112 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 8790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy`s bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer casuals.
Автор: Harris Robie H. Название: It`s NOT the Stork: A Book about Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends ISBN: 0763633313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780763633318 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 7970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "In their previous landmark volumes . . . Harris and Emberley established themselves as the purveyors of reader-friendly, straightforward information on human sexuality for readers as young as seven. Here they successfully tackle the big questions . . . for even younger kids." - The Horn Book (starred review) Young children are curious about almost everything, especially their bodies. And young children are not afraid to ask questions. What makes me a girl? What makes me a boy? Why are some parts of girls' and boys' bodies the same and why are some parts different? How was I made? Where do babies come from? Is it true that a stork brings babies to mommies and daddies? IT'S NOT THE STORK helps answer these endless and perfectly normal questions that preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary school children ask about how they began. Through lively, comfortable language and sensitive, engaging artwork, Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley address readers in a reassuring way, mindful of a child's healthy desire for straightforward information. Two irresistible cartoon characters, a curious bird and a squeamish bee, provide comic relief and give voice to the full range of emotions and reactions children may experience while learning about their amazing bodies. Vetted and approved by science, health, and child development experts, the information is up-to-date, age-appropriate, and scientifically accurate, and always aimed at helping kids feel proud, knowledgeable, and comfortable about their own bodies, about how they were born, and about the family they are part of. Back matter includes an index.
Автор: Stork Travis Название: The Doctor`s Diet: Dr. Travis Stork`s Stat Program to Help You Lose Weight & Restore Your Health ISBN: 1939457033 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781939457035 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 23870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Doctor's Diet is the cure to unhealthy eating -- an American epidemic with a death toll higher than that of car accidents, drug abuse, smoking, and gun violence combined. Dr. Stork is genuinely concerned about what he considers to be a true crisis. He has created a flexible and workable diet plan that will help readers lose weight, restore health, prevent disease and ultimately add years to their lives. In the book, Dr. Stork explains all of the potentially fatal health risks associated with an unhealthy diet and the specific food groups that can act as medicines to attain immediate results. Flexibility is built into the recipes in order to accommodate all different diets and skill levels, from meat lovers to vegetarians and chefs to non-cooks. In The Doctor's Diet, Dr. Stork outlines the steps to a healthier life with encouragement, personal anecdotes, and a passionate sense of urgency to rescue the reader from diet-related demise.
Автор: Stork Francisco X. Название: The Memory of Light ISBN: 0545474337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780545474337 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 12570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Now in paperback: This beautiful novel from the author of Marcelo in the Real World about life after a suicide attempt is perfect for fans of Gayle Forman and Thirteen Reasons Why.
Автор: Collishaw Stephan Название: Song of the Stork ISBN: 1785079190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785079191 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 23430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
'Stephan Collishaw takes your hand and leads you into a world of tragic beauty, inspiring strength and delicate kindness in the midst of horror' Aiste Dirziūte
Fifteen-year-old Yael is on the run. The Jewish girl seeks shelter from the Germans on the farm of the village outcast. Aleksei is mute and solitary, but as the brutal winter advances, he reluctantly takes her in and a delicate relationship develops.
As her feelings towards Aleksei change, the war intrudes and Yael is forced to join a Jewish partisan group fighting in the woods.
Torn apart and fighting for her life, The Song of the Stork is Yael's story of love, hope and survival. It is the story of one woman finding a voice as the voices around her are extinguished.
What Reviewers and Readers Say:
'An elegantly crafted, beautifully written novel about love, survival and hope against all the odds- The Song of the Stork is a reading experience to savour.' William Ryan
'At once tightly written and suspenseful, Collishaw's historical novel is a darkly compassionate fable of human endurance in absolute extremity' Stevie Davies
'The subtle melody of The Song of the Stork caught my soul with its first notes and didn't leave me until the very last ones. Stephen Collishaw takes your hand and leads you into a world of tragic beauty, inspiring strength and delicate kindness in the midst of horror and through this journey he reminds you of the sound of hope.' Aiste Dirziūte
'A harrowing novel about a Jewish girl abandoned in World War 2 and forced to fend for herself in a landscape crawling with sexual ambiguity and brutal violence. It's a dark jewel that holds up for examination the proximity of terror and savagery to innocence and love. Yet The Song of The Stork is as much about the future as the past. Stephan Collishaw warns us how the times we live in might end up: with an oafish peasantry drunk on Brexit chasing children through the woods, just because their parents voted Remain.' Guy Kennaway
' ...a masterly work of condensed fiction that synthesises the art of a great writer with the knowledge of a keen researcher who has become immersed in the first-hand sources of the period... A beautiful book that will go down as one of the classics of the literature of the anti-Nazi partisans in the forests around Vilna during the Holocaust.' David Katz
'The prose is sparse and understated and it reminded me at times of The Secret Diary of Anne Frank, which hints at the barbaric events going on in the world without ever displaying them in all their technicolour horror... The writing is hauntingly beautiful and poetic.' Madhouse Family Reviews
'It is a refreshing read that is full of so much love and hope... I really loved this book, and is one that I have already been recommending.' The Reading Lodge
'There are so many beautiful moments in the story, acts of kindness and small mercies that show human nature at its best... he gets under the skin of his characters and brings them fully to life on the page.' One More Page blog
'The Song of the Stork is a beautifully written and poignant novel about a young girl in Poland during the Second World War... a moving read about an awful period in history, which is in fact troublingly relevant in the current political climate.' A View from the Balcony blog
'Collishaw has done a fine job of balancing historical reality with the license of fiction, the grim facts of the holocaust with the poignancy of love, and through all it, he manages to offer a sense of optimism.' Words and Leaves blog
Автор: Penkov Miroslav Название: Stork Mountain ISBN: 1250118107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250118103 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Цена: 12260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
"Stork Mountain" tells the story of a young Bulgarian immigrant who, in an attempt to escape his mediocre life in America, returns to the country of his birth. Retracing the steps of his estranged grandfather, a man who suddenly and inexplicably cut all contact with the family three years prior, the boy finds himself on the border of Bulgaria and Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains. It is a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, the boy reunites with his grandfather. Here in the mountain, he falls in love with an unobtainable Muslim girl. Old ghosts come back to life and forgotten conflicts, in the name of faith and doctrine, blaze anew.
"Stork Mountain" is an enormously charming, slyly brilliant debut novel from an internationally celebrated writer. It is a novel that will undoubtedly find a home in many readers' hearts.
Автор: Stork Barb Название: Jeep the Cat ISBN: 1320464742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781320464741 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 16870.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Stork Francisco X. Название: Disappeared ISBN: 1338312820 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781338312829 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10110.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: You've never read Francisco X. Stork like this A missing girl, a determined reporter, and a young man on the brink combine for a powerful story of choices, suspense, and survival. Four Months Ago Sara Zapata's best friend disappeared, kidnapped by the web of criminals who terrorize Ju rez. Four Hours Ago Sara received a death threat -- and with it, a clue to the place where her friend is locked away. Four Weeks Ago Emiliano Zapata fell in love with Perla Rubi, who will never be his so long as he's poor. Four Minutes Ago Emiliano got the chance to make more money than he ever dreamed -- just by joining the web. In the next four days, Sara and Emiliano will each face impossible choices, between life and justice, friends and family, truth and love. But when the criminals come after Sara, only one path remains for both siblings: the way across the desert to the United States. Award-winning author Francisco X. Stork delivers his most gripping novel yet in this tense and timely international thriller.
Every year as the seasons turned, the birds would depart heavenward, but then mysteriously return, seemingly young again. Could Earthbound humans to do the same? With this question, the human adventure began.
No way was found to follow the birds but the haunting question endured and in time our ancestors would replace storks and other birds by "Eland," starry counterpart of the greatest of the African antelopes. For at the beginning of spring, the time of year when all is reborn, Eland would seemingly walk up the Milky Way to the abode of the Hereafter. Though unable to fly with Stork, humans might perhaps follow the tracks of Eland, or so it was hoped.
Related beliefs have been shared since earliest prehistory. The sharing of these beliefs and their accompanying hopes is what makes us human.
Reconstruction of our most distant past became possible by joining accounts given by Bushman (San) who lived in far southern Africa during the 19th century with information from present-day Hadza hunter-gatherers living in northern Tanzania just south of the Equator.
The Bushman and the Hadza have been separated from one another for tens of thousands of years and the genetic differences between them is apparently the greatest among any pair of human populations anywhere. Their separation may be the earliest among surviving human groups. Yet their most deeply held beliefs are the same.
Humans have a single biological heritage. It now appears that we also have a single cultural heritage.
John M. Saul has a doctorate in geology. Geology is an historical science.
Автор: Falk David R., Brill Dieter R., Stork David G. Название: Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision, and Holography ISBN: 1626541094 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626541092 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 39820.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Finally, a book on the physics of light that doesn't require advanced mathematics to understand. Seeing the Light is the most accessible and comprehensive study of optics and light on the market. With a focus on conceptual study, Seeing the Light leaves the heavy-duty mathematics behind, instead using practical analogies and simple empirical experiments to teach the material. Each chapter is a self-contained lesson, making it easy to learn about specific optical concepts without having to read the whole book over. Inside you'll find clear and easy-to-understand explanations of topics including:
Processes of vision and the eye
Atmospherical optical phenomena
Color perception and illusions
Color in nature and in art
Digital photography
Holography
And more
Diagrams, photos, and illustrations help bring difficult concepts to life, and optional sections at the ends of chapters explore the more advanced aspects of each topic. A truly one of a kind book for physics students and teachers, this updated edition of Seeing the Light is not to be missed.
