The Mansion of Cervantes tells the story of Carolina Del Valle. A young paranormal investigator, dabbling in the field of occult sciences. On a cold afternoon in December 1934, she receives a telegram from a lawyer in Spain. He offers her the opportunity to investigate an alleged haunting at a mansion in Austria. Although she hesitates, the salary sucks her in. Carolina is a seer. If the family knew of her gift, she'd be the last person considered for the job. Navigating through fact and fiction, while dodging bullets from the residents at the mansion, requires superhuman strength. Greed, jealousy, and control can be a force more powerful than any human can withstand. This heroine will spend a year chasing shadows in every corner of the mansion. Will she succeed in solving the mystery? Or die, trying
In this interactive chapter book, YOU are a reporter for a high-profile magazine, and you're about to discover the greatest scoop yet: Do aliens exist? To find out, you'll need to investigate some of history's most infamous alien encounters, from Area 51 in Nevada to Fairbanks, Alaska. Will you discover a real-life alien being, or will your investigative probe be nothing more than a close encounter? It's up to YOU With dozens of choices, you can follow the clues to the end. Which path will YOU CHOOSE to discover the truth?
In this interactive chapter book, YOU are a reporter for a high-profile magazine, and you're about to discover the greatest scoop yet: Do aliens exist? To find out, you'll need to investigate some of history's most infamous alien encounters, from Area 51 in Nevada to Fairbanks, Alaska. Will you discover a real-life alien being, or will your investigative probe be nothing more than a close encounter? It's up to YOU With dozens of choices, you can follow the clues to the end. Which path will YOU CHOOSE to discover the truth?
American Higher Education in a Global Context: Historical Perspectives describes the current state of universities on each continent, providing a comprehensive analysis of the numerous factors that have affected higher education systems around the world. This book studies higher education from its emergence in antiquity to the establishment of the American research university model and its adoption around the globe, through the current Covid-19 pandemic and concomitant economic and political crisis. The author pays special attention to the shortcomings of the neoliberal trend of the last four decades, which increased social stratification at institutions of higher learning. Calling for an expansion of access to tertiary education, and in particular, to research universities, this book examines the competition between China and the United States in the field of higher education, stressing the importance of academic freedom, without which there can be no true academic excellence.
American Higher Education in a Global Context: Historical Perspectives describes the current state of universities on each continent, providing a comprehensive analysis of the numerous factors that have affected higher education systems around the world. This book studies higher education from its emergence in antiquity to the establishment of the American research university model and its adoption around the globe, through the current Covid-19 pandemic and concomitant economic and political crisis. The author pays special attention to the shortcomings of the neoliberal trend of the last four decades, which increased social stratification at institutions of higher learning. Calling for an expansion of access to tertiary education, and in particular, to research universities, this book examines the competition between China and the United States in the field of higher education, stressing the importance of academic freedom, without which there can be no true academic excellence.
Best buds DJ and Parker cannot wait to tell spooky stories during their sleepover until - BOOM Bangs from the basement and missing socks make them shudder. Could a REAL monster be right beneath them? The Sockness Monster uses suspense and humor to convey themes about friendship and learning. You'll chuckle out loud with these charmingly confused dudes
Best buds DJ and Parker cannot wait to read their original spooky story - until - one of their props seems all too real Could the clown curse be more than a fictitious tale? You'll shudder in suspense, laugh out loud, and even learn about irony along with your two favorite confused dudes Supplemental activities with a focus on art, creativity, vocabulary and more also included at the end of this story The story is great for ages 7-10 Teachers can utilize this story in upper elementary grades to reinforce irony in a way that is exciting and engaging. Laugh and learn along with DJ and Parker - IF YOU DARE
You may have read about Cesar Chavez's leadership in organizing the well-known Delano Grape Strike and Boycott of the 1960s. But did you know it began as a strike led by Larry Itliong? He was a Filipino labor organizer who had also been working with grape pickers in California at the time. With key biographical information and related historical events, this Capstone Captivate book will uncover Itliong's story and show how it connects to Chavez's story.
You may have read about Cesar Chavez's leadership in organizing the well-known Delano Grape Strike and Boycott of the 1960s. But did you know it began as a strike led by Larry Itliong? He was a Filipino labor organizer who had also been working with grape pickers in California at the time. With key biographical information and related historical events, this Capstone Captivate book will uncover Itliong's story and show how it connects to Chavez's story.
When the Teen Titans enter a rift in the Multiverse, they arrive in the creepy halls of Hallowell Academy. And who is there to greet them? None other than the Creature Titans--their very own monstrous mirror images. But all is not well at this school of ghouls. Something is turning the academy's spooky students into Normies Can the ten Titans team up to stop the Normie Terror? Or will they fall victim to the vile villain responsible for this creature calamity? Find out in this hilariously mixed-up Multiverse chapter book for fans of Teen Titans Go
When the Teen Titans enter a rift in the Multiverse, they arrive in the creepy halls of Hallowell Academy. And who is there to greet them? None other than the Creature Titans--their very own monstrous mirror images. But all is not well at this school of ghouls. Something is turning the academy's spooky students into Normies Can the ten Titans team up to stop the Normie Terror? Or will they fall victim to the vile villain responsible for this creature calamity? Find out in this hilariously mixed-up Multiverse chapter book for fans of Teen Titans Go
We are intelligent beings. This is why we are preoccupied with these questions: Who are we? Where are we coming from? Where are we going? But besides intelligence we are endowed with yet another quality of the mind and this is why we are troubled by even more enigmatic problems: Does God exist? Do we, humans, have a soul or are we just the superior product of evolution of matter, simply emerged from the Big Bang?This book is a provocation: set aside your intelligence for a while, at least for the duration of the journey we invite you on. We will travel as far as possible and surprisingly, we are not going to navigate with our intelligence but with the other quality of our mind. It will guide us to the last frontier of matter, to the last frontier of time and to the last frontier of knowledge. We will set out on this trip armed on one hand with what scientists tell us they discovered digging deep inside our universe, deep inside matter and deep inside time and on the other hand also with what religion reveals for us. Who is telling the truth: science or religion?In the end we will be surprised to find out that atheists and believers contradict each other absolutely in vain. In fact, they all say the exact same thing. Do you think this is a paradox? You are right. This is what your intelligence thinks But this paradox is an impediment only for your intelligence. Our skillful guide will help us overcome this apparent set-back. Do you want to know how? Open the book.
Oltre le nuvole racconta la storia di Dominique, giovane giornalista francese che, per mestiere, scrive di montagna. Sembra che nulla possa fermare la carriera del giovane, fino a quando un evento inaspettato durante un reportage in Patagonia manda in frantumi la sua visione del mondo. Soltanto un viaggio in una terra lontana gli permetter di prendere le distanze dalla sua vita e cominciare a rimettere insieme i pezzi. Ma manca ancora qualcosa, il suo rapporto con la montagna, teme, non sar pi lo stesso. Un'email inattesa, tuttavia, lo metter di fronte ad un bivio: rinunciare per sempre ai suoi sogni o affrontare un Ottomila per scrivere un reportage sulla denuncia dei danni ambientali dell'alpinismo commerciale. Raccoglier la sfida?
For years author/ex-New York editor/filmmaker/tropical artist sanctuary founder Cristina Salat had been planning to write a definitive tome about living (some might say surviving) the creative life. It was envisioned as part in-the-trenches memoir, and part ins-&-outs of how the business sides of media industries like the worlds of NYC book & magazine publishing along with Hollywood movie-making could be navigated, as she'd been experiencing them. The problem with undertaking a project of such scope was, in some years our heroine was just too busy with the starving-artist part of the equation. And then, in other years when she was somewhat successful, she was just too busy, period. (And not always all that blissful either ) So decades went by...until all of a sudden one day, from beneath waving palm fronds on an island where she now lived, the author of this personal narrative took a soulfully long look back at all the unique experiences & heartfelt work she'd managed to create over many years and -- despite Life's unexpected twists & turns -- she found it to be very very good. As in: she'd arrived at the blissful-self-employment part of this story, at last.
Thrilling, stylish essays about everything from flying carpets and Doctor Zhivago to God and Shakespeare, by a rediscovered Italian writer. Cristina Campo was one of the most distinctive European essayists of the twentieth century. Although well known to readers in Italy and abroad--including Alejandra Pizarnik, with whom she had a long correspondence--Campo was a devout perfectionist, disdainful of the literary limelight, and published only two short books of prose in her lifetime: Fairy Tale and Mystery (1962) and The Flute and the Carpet (1971). The Unforgivable collects both of these books, along with several of her essays on writers (Simone Weil, John Donne, Katherine Mansfield, Shakespeare) and an autobiographical short story--offering readers of English the first full-length portrait of an unforgettable stylist whose interests encompass both the familiar and the outlandish. Her fondness for William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and T. S. Eliot makes her a modernist, but like these American counterparts, she was a modernist preoccupied by the deep past. Her subjects range from the canonical to the esoteric--from Doctor Zhivago to flying carpets, from the intricacies of sprezzatura to the theophagic history of the Latin liturgy. No matter what her subject, she is as stylish as she is self-effacing--as one might expect of a writer who once said of herself, "I have written little and would like to have written less."
