Travel across Canada with your children and learn about the provinces and territories that make up this great country. From Newfoundland and Labrador to the Yukon you and your children will see some of the wonders of Canada.
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Explore the planets with your children and learn a little about each on of them as you follow Dennis on his space adventure. From Mercury to Neptune your children will learn interesting facts about each planet and find out how amazing our solar system truly is to us.
Explore the ocean with your children and learn a little about the amazing life and sights you will find as you follow Dennis on his ocean adventure. From coral reefs to the deep trenches your children will learn interesting facts about our ocean and find out how amazing the creatures are that call the ocean home.
Explore the African plain on an epic safari with your children and learn about all the amazing animals like lions, leopards, and elephants God has created as you follow Dennis on his safari adventures.
Explore the world we call home with your children and visit places like the Great Barrier Reef, the Serengeti, the Taj Mahal and many other incredible places as you join Dennis on his adventures around the World.
Join Dennis with your children as he travels across the United States on a great adventure. Learn about some of the historic landmarks and great history of this amazing country that many call home and one of the greatest countries in the world.
Thomas Manner Oberinspektor der Wiener Mordkommission sucht zusammen mit seinem Team einen oder mehrere unheimliche Serient ter. In der ganzen Stadt werden an den Eing ngen zur Kanalisation verst mmelte Leichen gefunden von denen immer andere K rperteile fehlen, das ist die einzige Gemeinsamkeit die diese Toten haben, weitere Hinweise oder Spuren gibt es nicht. In der Kanalisation sto en er und sein Partner Herbert Bossinger auf einen Zugang zu einem Raumschiff der Braahmen, einer Insektenrasse deren frisch geschl pfte K niginnen zu schw rmen beginnen. Die jungen K niginnen und ihre Untergebenen suchen daher nach Planeten die sich zur Besiedlung eignen und nehmen keine R cksicht darauf, ob diese Welt bewohnt ist oder nicht. Die Erhaltung der Art beherrscht die Insekten. Bei der Untersuchung des Schiffs werden sie von der Besatzung angegriffen und von Vertretern der Vereinten Planeten gerettet, die die Erde seit fast zwanzigtausend Jahren bewachen, denn in der Galaxie herrscht Krieg zwischen den drei Hauptspezies, den Insekten, den Echsen und der Gruppierung der S uger. Sie schlie en sich dem Kampf gegen die Invasoren an und ihre K rper werden durch ein jahrtausendealtes Verfahren verst rkt. Besonders Thomas Manners K rper reagiert auf dieses Verfahren sehr heftig, sein K rper und auch sein Geist ver ndern sich unbemerkt. Sie befreien die Erde vom Zugriff der Insekten, dabei wird auch der gro e Bau der Braahmen auf dem Mars und weitere Stationen im Sonnensystem zerst rt. Manners K rper beginnt nach einer schweren Verletzung zu mutieren. Die geteilte Erde schlie t sich nach dem Angriff der Insekten, mit der Unterst tzung der Vereinten Planeten zu einem zentral regierten Planeten zusammen und wird in die Vereinigung der Planeten aufgenommen. Nachdem Thomas Manner in sp terer Folge, genannt THOM, von einem am Mond verborgenen Schiff der Insekten entf hrt wird, kann ihm gerade noch ein getarntes Spezialschiff, die GHOST, folgen. Sie erreichen nach einem langen Flug das riesige Hauptsystem des Insektenvolks wo Thom inhaftiert und verh rt wird. Dort erst erkennt er die Zusammenh nge warum die Insekten seit geraumer Zeit so intensiv schw rmen und rettet zusammen mit einer jungen Braahmenk nigin, den Flotten und Truppen der Vereinten Planeten das Volk der Braahmen.
Thom Heven and the Wings of Tar Valon In this piece of speculative fiction, Thom, Zahaedra and their friends battle against the dark Logoth and the Shadorhunters. Thom has became very protective of Zahaedra, so when Logoth takes her, Thom Heven will stop at nothing to get her back... Fights are fought and relationships are forged, and destroyed in this shocking story featuring Vampires, Angels, Daemons and Werewolves. By the author who brought you Logan Crane and the Dust of the Vampire, and selection of novelettes Craven Grayv
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Hartmann is perhaps best known for his fierce commitment to Jeffersonian democracy and his steadfast opposition to the corporatization of America. But in these pages you'll also discover his Older and Younger Cultures hypothesis, which identifies the root cause of so many of our social and environmental ills. You'll hear from Hartmann on how to keep our schools from treating children like assembly line products, why attention deficit disorder is not an affliction, what cloudy Germany can teach us about solar energy, and much more. Fascinating as these essays are, they're ultimately meant to inspire you to action. As Hartmann says at the end of every radio program, ''Get out there, get active Tag, you're it ''
A no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could "give the dead a voice, make them sing" (Hilton Als, The New Yorker). Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city's queerness, the hippie mentality (and drug use) of the sixties, and the tragedy and catastrophic impact of the AIDS crisis in the eighties and beyond. As Jeremy Lybarger wrote in The New Republic, the author of Moly and The Man with Night Sweats was "an agile poet who renovated tradition to accommodate the rude litter of modernity." Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life chronicles, for the first time, the largely undocumented life of this revolutionary poet. Michael Nott, a coeditor of The Letters of Thom Gunn, draws on letters, diaries, notebooks, interviews, and Gunn's poetry to create a portrait as vital as the man himself. Nott writes with insight and intimacy about the great sweep of Gunn's life: his traditional childhood in England; his mother's suicide; the mind-opening education he received at Cambridge, reading Shakespeare and John Donne; his decades in San Francisco and with his life partner, Mike Kitay; and his visceral experience of sex, drugs, and loss. Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a long-awaited, landmark study of one of England and America's most innovative poets.
The Letters of Thom Gunn presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry. "I write about love, I write about friendship," remarked Thom Gunn. "I find that they are absolutely intertwined." These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and they shed new light on "one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century" (Hugh Haughton, The Times Literary Supplement). The Letters of Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler, Michael Nott, and Clive Wilmer, reveals the evolution of Gunn's work and illuminates the fascinating life that informed his poems: his struggle to come to terms with his mother's suicide; settling in San Francisco and his complex relationship with England; his changing relationship with his life partner, Mike Kitay; the LSD trips that led to his celebrated collection Moly (1971); and the deaths of friends from AIDS that inspired the powerful, unsparing elegies of The Man with Night Sweats (1992).
A special edition containing all 26 classic books from the famous Railway Series written by the Rev. W. Awdry. Lavishly produced as a beautiful present for Christmas or other special occasions, this edition is illustrated throughout with all of the original colour illustrations by Reginald Dalby, John Kenney and Peter Edwards. With additional biographical material and a foreword by the Rev. W. Awdry himself, this complete collection is a must for every serious fan of Thomas.
Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was educated at Cambridge University, and had his first collection of poems, Fighting Terms, published while still an undergraduate. He moved to northern California in 1954 and taught in American universities until his death. His last collection was Boss Cupid (2000).In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets of our literature.
Winner of the Hatchards & Biographers' Club First Biography Prize'With this meticulously researched biography, we don't so much move closer as move in with Gunn and shadow him through his life . . . Gunn's life is chronicled beautifully here.' Andrew McMillan, Literary Review'A consummately researched, intelligent and sympathetic biography - and, which matters most, he's a very good reader of the poems.' Sam Leith, Guardian'A fine, frank biography.' Peter Conrad, Observer'Admirably unsentimental . . . allowing all Gunn's complexities and contradictions to emerge unvarnished . . . the greatness of his poetry endures.' Daily Telegraph'The first biography of Thom Gunn, and likely the definitive one . . . Nott's book is one of the best versions of a gay relationship conducted over this half century.' Colm Toibin'Nott has set out here to produce a work sturdy enough to support decades of future commentary on Gunn. He's succeeded - this book is everything you ever wanted to know about Thom Gunn but had not even thought about asking.' New York Times Book ReviewThe eagerly awaited, no-holds-barred biography of the great poet: an intellectual maverick, sexual rebel and icon of queer literature.Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a landmark study of one of England's - and America's - most innovative and revolutionary poets. Michael Nott chronicles, for the first time, Gunn's largely undocumented life: his childhood in Kent and London, his mother's suicide, and his mind-opening education at Cambridge, where he read Shakespeare and John Donne, wrote his first book, Fighting Terms, and met the man who was to become his life partner - Mike Kitay.In his mid-twenties, Gunn followed Kitay to America and became one of the great poet-documenters of San Francisco's queer culture, capturing both the hippie mentality of the time and his own visceral experience of sex, drugs, and loss. Through the eighties and beyond, Gunn found himself in the midst of the AIDS crisis, recording its catastrophic impact in The Man with Night Sweats, poems that provide, too, its most poignant epitaph.Gunn was not a confessional poet, but inseparable from his rigorous formal poetry was a ravenous embracing of life and an acute awareness of death. Michael Nott, co-editor of The Letters of Thom Gunn, draws on letters, diaries, notebooks, interviews, and Gunn's poetry to bring us a vivid portrait of a great literary mind, sexual rebel and queer icon.
'I write about love, I write about friendship,' remarked Thom Gunn: 'I find that they are absolutely intertwined.' These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and shed new light on 'one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century' (Times Literary Supplement).These letters reveal the evolution of Gunn's work and illuminate the fascinating life that informed his poems: his struggle to come to terms with his mother's suicide; his changing relationship with his life partner, Mike Kitay; the LSD trips that led to his celebrated collection Moly (1971); and the deaths of friends from AIDS that inspired the powerful, unsparing elegies of The Man with Night Sweats (1992).
Winner of the Hatchards & Biographers' Club First Biography Prize'With this meticulously researched biography, we don't so much move closer as move in with Gunn and shadow him through his life . . . Gunn's life is chronicled beautifully here.' Andrew McMillan, Literary Review'A consummately researched, intelligent and sympathetic biography - and, which matters most, he's a very good reader of the poems.' Sam Leith, Guardian'A fine, frank biography.' Peter Conrad, Observer'Admirably unsentimental . . . allowing all Gunn's complexities and contradictions to emerge unvarnished . . . the greatness of his poetry endures.' Daily Telegraph'The first biography of Thom Gunn, and likely the definitive one . . . Nott's book is one of the best versions of a gay relationship conducted over this half century.' Colm Toibin'Nott has set out here to produce a work sturdy enough to support decades of future commentary on Gunn. He's succeeded - this book is everything you ever wanted to know about Thom Gunn but had not even thought about asking.' New York Times Book ReviewThe eagerly awaited, no-holds-barred biography of the great poet: an intellectual maverick, sexual rebel and icon of queer literature.Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a landmark study of one of England's - and America's - most innovative and revolutionary poets. Michael Nott chronicles, for the first time, Gunn's largely undocumented life: his childhood in Kent and London, his mother's suicide, and his mind-opening education at Cambridge, where he read Shakespeare and John Donne, wrote his first book, Fighting Terms, and met the man who was to become his life partner - Mike Kitay.In his mid-twenties, Gunn followed Kitay to America and became one of the great poet-documenters of San Francisco's queer culture, capturing both the hippie mentality of the time and his own visceral experience of sex, drugs, and loss. Through the eighties and beyond, Gunn found himself in the midst of the AIDS crisis, recording its catastrophic impact in The Man with Night Sweats, poems that provide, too, its most poignant epitaph.Gunn was not a confessional poet, but inseparable from his rigorous formal poetry was a ravenous embracing of life and an acute awareness of death. Michael Nott, co-editor of The Letters of Thom Gunn, draws on letters, diaries, notebooks, interviews, and Gunn's poetry to bring us a vivid portrait of a great literary mind, sexual rebel and queer icon.
Thom Gunn has been described as 'one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century' (TLS). This Selected Poems, compiled by his friend Clive Wilmer and accompanied by insightful notes, is the first edition to represent the full arc of Gunn's inimitable career. 'The poetry of Thom Gunn was much admired in his lifetime, and at the same time often misunderstood and underestimated. The scale of his achievement, and its uniqueness - a masterful Elizabethan lyric poet writing in the second half of the twentieth century - is just now becoming properly appreciated. Anonymous in voice, even in the service of the most intimate subject matter, acute in observation, particularly the urban experience, with San Francisco the principal site, Gunn is not merely the poet of the druggy '60s in California or the plague of the AIDS epidemic, but of the deeper-running themes, shared by Shakespeare, Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams and all his greatest exemplars, of the artist's moral and imaginative engagement with the world as it actually is, in the broadest possible sense, not as contemporary fashion might have it be. Which strikes me, who knew and loved the man and poet, as a kind of heroism.' August Kleinzahler'Thom Gunn smuggled the lyric tradition out of post-war Britain, and gave it cool, gracious renaissance in California. His poetry evokes the wild life of the body with madrigal-like elegance.' Fiona Sampson'Gunn's work illustrates with unusual clarity some of the debates poetry in English has pursued in [the twentieth] century - form versus improvisation, diction versus talk, the American way versus the English tradition, even, at times, authenticity versus art. To contain these contradictory impulses and . . . to have generated a body of work which anybody wanting to understand the period and identify some of its best poems will find essential reading - this is quite an achievement.' Sean O'Brien
