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Showing posts with label Review Other Media Books. Show all posts

Friday, February 18, 2011

Magic and Other Misdemeanors (The Sisters Grimm, Book 5) (Bk.5)

Magic and Other Misdemeanors (The Sisters Grimm, Book 5) (Bk.5)

Magic and Other Misdemeanors (The Sisters Grimm, Book 5) (Bk.5) by Michael Buckley
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When the past and future start mixing with the present, Sabrina and Daphne have their first case to tackle solo—with a little help from the troublemaker Puck. The girls suspect that a rash of magical thefts may be at the root of the problem, but with Mayor Heart’s outrageous taxes to pay and Mr. Canis’s continuing transformation into the Big Bad Wolf, the Grimms have a lot to worry about and not a lot of time to waste. Can Sabrina and Daphne solve the crime and change the future for the better?

Magic and Other Misdemeanors (The Sisters Grimm, Book 5) (Bk.5)

Thank You Prayer (My First Taggies Book)

Thank You Prayer (My First Taggies Book)

Thank You Prayer (My First Taggies Book)
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Read this popular child's prayer with your little one while they tug at the ever-popular taggies tags and gaze at the sweet, soft illustrations.

Thank You Prayer (My First Taggies Book)

Puppies, Pussycats & Other Friends

Puppies, Pussycats & Other Friends

Puppies, Pussycats & Other Friends
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What an irresistible combination: a menagerie of Gyo Fujikawa’s most irresistible animals with their human companions! Mrs. Cat and her kitten family parade with a little girl, fuzzy puppies hug and snuggle, a gentle fawn comes by to say hello, and an elephant gives a small boy a ride while carrying another child on her trunk. A charming final picture shows several children with some small furry and feathery friends.

Puppies, Pussycats & Other Friends

Hickory, Dickory, Dock: And Other Favorite Nursery Rhymes (Padded Nursery Rhyme Board Books)

Hickory, Dickory, Dock: And Other Favorite Nursery Rhymes (Padded Nursery Rhyme Board Books)

Hickory, Dickory, Dock: And Other Favorite Nursery Rhymes (Padded Nursery Rhyme Board Books)
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Everyone’s favorites are included in this delightfully illustrated assortment of favorite children’s nursery rhymes. Visit with Humpty Dumpty, Little Miss Muffet, Old King Cole and many other favorite childhood nursery rhyme characters. The padded covers, rounded corners and sturdy pages make this title a perfect fit for smaller hands!

Hickory, Dickory, Dock: And Other Favorite Nursery Rhymes (Padded Nursery Rhyme Board Books)

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Other Media : Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series


thirty years on, 'Ways of Seeing' continues to be a major primary textbook, not just for those studying or interested in fine art, but in any of the humanities from literature to cinema. You can see the appeal for lecturers - difficult but essential theorists such as Benjamin and Barthes are explained with bite-size lucidity, even if this sometimes has the effect of caricaturing their work. As Geoff Dyer has noted, much of the impetus given to Cultural Studies, the critical/academic form of post-modernism, can be traced to Berger's TV series and this book: many of the questions raised and areas for study pinponted have generated a whole academic industry.

In seven chapters, Berger assaults the traditional bastions of art 'appreciation', with its obfuscating jargon, elitist interests and, most damagingly, its insistence on timeless, non-'historical' values. three of these essays are text-free, image-based, and Berger claims all the essays can be read independently and in any order, as part of the process of 'deconstructing' the apparatus of art criticism that includes laying bare the mechanics, manipulations and limitations of his arguments, and undermining the very idea of coherent authorship by suggesting the name 'John Berger' signifies a five-piece collective.

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