![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of their adventures, Chirri and Chirra even become guests to a family of bears, spending the night in their igloo and dreaming of the northern lights. Chirri & Chirra, in the Tall Grass Kaya Doi, trans. Chirri and Chirra travel into the heart of an icy palace, where they discover all sorts of creatures, sights, and foods!īook three in the charming Chirri & Chirra series, here we have foxes, bears, birds, goats, and cats all taking shelter together in an icy cavern, enjoying everything from freshly-baked delights to long soaks in hot springs. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Using her signature minimalist prose and stripped-down art, Portis follows the journey of a sunflower seed from the moment it settles into the soil to its emergence as a blossom that eventually parents new sunflower plants. Antoinette Portis is the author of A New Green Day, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and NCTE Notable Book in Poetry, as well as the Sibert Honor winning Hey. ![]() ![]() Leading up to a striking fold-out spread of a full-grown sunflower, the lively, bold illustrations in A Seed Grows offer a close-up view of each step of the growth cycle.Īdditional material in the back of the book explains the science of plant life cycles, and goes into more detail on the ways in which flowers and seeds depend on other creatures. A piecemeal overview of the life cycle of a plant. Additional material in the back of the book explains the science of plant life cycles, and goes into more detail on the ways in which flowers and seeds depend on other creatures. To understand how a seed becomes a sunflower, you have to peek beneath the soil and wait patiently as winding roots grow, a stalk inches out of the earth, and new seeds emerge among blooming petals. From a tiny seed to a huge, fold-out bloom, the transformative life cycle of a sunflower plays out in this bold read-aloud. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Ranger Exclusive: Don’t post rumors and reports unless they are from verified or trusted sources. ![]() A Bad Reflection on You: Be judicious in posting your own content (podcasts, blog posts, art) and flair self-promotion and OC appropriately.Silence is Golden: Mark all spoilers from the latest season and from the latest comic out, unmarked posts may be subject to a limited ban.No Clowning Around: Meme posts belong on /r/MorphinMemes.These include tier lists, "favorite season" posts, “who would win” questions, rumors, photos of you with actors and photos of toys you just bought (outside of haul threads). Low-quality posts may be deleted at moderators’ discretion. Yesterday Again: Posts must be interesting or worthy of discussion. ![]() Personal attacks, including hate speech, are forbidden. Never escalate a fight, and remember the report function. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Only fragments of Epicurus' own writing have survived. (Lucretius lived from about 99 to about 55 BCE.) His poem is the fullest extant rendering of the ancient philosophy known as Epicureanism, after its founder, the Greek philosopher Epicurus, who lived in Athens in 341-270 BCE. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things Introductionĭe Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is a remarkable philosophical poem in six books of Latin hexameters, composed by the poet Titus Lucretius Carus toward the middle of the first century BCE. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mixing traits extracted from her profound knowledge of anthropology acquired from growing up with her father, the famous anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber. She was known for her treatment of gender ( The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems ( The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. ![]() Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In subsequent issues of Blackwood’s, Mullion will again wake, eat, shave, and interact with the other characters of “Noctes” in a unique dimension where the boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred in the service of the magazine’s cultural, literary, and political interests. For he, like the Shepherd and the Opium-Eater, is a character created for a textual world, embodied in print, not flesh. “The Shepherd” has a point of course Mullion will be fine. ![]() I’ll wauger he’ll be eating twa eggs to his breakfast the morn, and a shave o’ the red roun’ lurking frae him a’ the time wi’een as sharp as darnin’ needles, and paunin’ in his cup for mair sugar. Mullion will fall into a state of utter insensibility in a couple of hours. Eat a’ the kidneys! –That he did, I’ll swear. Mullion did really eat all the kidneys, he must now have in his stomach that which is about equal to five hundred and seventy drops of laudanum. I must give this case, in a note, to a new edition of my Confessions. In the twelfth installment of “Noctes Ambrosiane,” the popular, dialogic serial that appeared in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine between March 1822 and February 1835, the magazine’s editors enjoy supper with “The English Opium-Eater.” All is going well until the Opium-Eater spills a few grains of opium onto a plate of kidneys, which are then consumed by “Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() The curtain falls on the kitties now dressed as baby dinos themselves and sure to fall into another heap of adorable trouble. Slack subtly builds to his final comedic punch: the dinosaurs the kitties have climbed are actually baby dinos, and the much taller Mommysaurs present a greater challenge for our intrepid crew. The clear, conversational text includes plenty of bolding and font size changes to help encourage an active telling and it is sure to result in some listeners choosing to read along. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Dinosaurs on Kitty Island Michael Slack 10.99 10.99 Publisher Description A playdate between intrepid kitties and cautious dinosaurs doesnt go quite as planned in this hilarious story of friendship and compromise Life on Dinosaur Island is so boring. Slack's jewel-toned digital art is full of action, onomatopoeic text emanata, and visual puns that are sure to bring out the storytime giggles especially delightful are the kitties' mobile litterbox and the dinosaurs hopscotching over hot lava. Dinosaurs on Kitty Island is written by Michael Slack and published by Dial Books. ![]() While the narrator repeatedly warns the cats that this may be a bad idea, the trio concocts ever more harebrained schemes to achieve their goal. Having conquered cat trees, real trees, and "an ancient litter box in a tree," this little litter sets their eyes on something higher: the dinosaurs on Dinosaur Island. Three colorful kitties are on a mission to climb everything there is to climb. ![]() ![]() These extras are available on the 2-disc and limited edition versions of the DVD release. The episodes were originally available on the Sky One website, but they were later released on the 2-disc and limited editions of the DVD. ![]() Teatime (Marc Warren, Hustle) to kill the Hogfather. Richard Katz: Visit-The-Infidel-With-Explanatory-PamphletsĪlso known as 'Death's Guide to Discworld' these are a series of short 4-5 minute episodes in which Death interviews the creators of the Hogfather TV series and explains facets of the Discworld's lore. Hogfather - The Complete Miniseries, Part Two FantasyNov 25, 20071 hr 8 miniTunes Available on Philo, Tubi TV, iTunes S1 E2: They approach Lord Downey (David Warner, The Omen) the Head of The Assassins Guild with a proposal: enlist the ruthless Mr.Michelle Dockery: Susan Sto Helit / Death of Rats. ![]() Later when released on DVD the two episode format was kept. The show was originally broadcast on Sky One in two parts of 1hr 30mins. ![]() Now it's up to Death's granddaughter Susan to find the Hogfather before the night is out, or the sun will not rise again. AKA: The Hogfather, Le père porcher, Terry Pratchetts Hog Father, Terry Pratchetts Hogfather. Based on Hogfather, Death has left his post again, only this time he's taken on the role of another being, the holiday spirit The Hogfather who's really gone missing. ![]() ![]() ![]() These two qualities are often considered contradictory. (vi)įor propaganda to succeed, a society must first have two complementary qualities: it must be both an individualist and a mass society. ![]() In fact, education is largely identical with what Ellul calls “pre-propaganda”-the conditioning of minds with vast amounts of incoherent information, already dispensed for ulterior purposes and posing as “facts” and as “education.” Ellul follows through by designating intellectuals as virtually the most vulnerable of all to modern propaganda, for three reasons: (1) they absorb the largest amount of secondhand, unverifiable information (2) they feel a compelling need to have an opinion on every important question of our time, and thus easily succumb to opinions offered to them by propaganda on all such indigestible pieces of information (3) they consider themselves capable of “judging for themselves.” They literally need propaganda. On the contrary he says, education, or what usually goes by that word in the modern world, is the absolute prerequisite for propaganda. ![]() Full PDF here.Ĭentral in Ellul’s thesis, is that modern propaganda cannot work without “education” he thus reverses the widespread notion that education is the best prophylactic against propaganda. Selected excerpts from Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes, without commentary. ![]() ![]() ![]() from the Author’s NoteĬhild Bride reveals the hidden story of rock icon Elvis Presley’s affair with fourteen-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, the ninth-grader he wooed as a G.I. Priscilla Beaulieu Presley is not, and never was, the fragile, demure child-woman she has come to personify she is, in a word, a survivor, a woman of indomitable will and almost frightening determination. The real story is infinitely more powerful than the myth and, ultimately, tragic the true Priscilla more complex. Finstad’s research and her analysis of Priscilla’s complex character make for a riveting read.”- New York Post The myth-shattering account of the most famous-and most taboo-marriage in rock-and-roll history ![]() |