How a Sunflower Grows Wooden Layered Puzzle: School Specialty Publishing: 9780768207835: Amazon.com:
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Publication Date: September 11, 2001 | Age Level: 3 and up
Use these challenging puzzles to help develop children's sequencingskills, logical thinking skills, eye-hand coordination, and motorskills. Each puzzle has 4-5 layers and includes 20 brightly coloredpieces. Durable wood is washable.
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Word and Image in Arthurian Literature: The Arthurian Yearbook (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) Publication Date: October 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0815320507 | ISBN-13: 978-0815320500| Edition: annotated edition With one exception, the articles in this book are revised and expanded papers from the "Word and Image" sessions at the XVIIth International Congress of the Arthurian Society, held in Bonn, Germany, 23-30 July, 1993. Together, they represent a number of directions Arthurian studies is presently taking. There is renewed attention to the Old French "Lancelot-Graal "cycle and the prose "Tristan"(Blackman, Dover, Thibault Schaefer, Stones, Walters), analysis of the survival of medieva...
Sophocles: Antigone (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) Publication Date: September 28, 1999| ISBN-10: 0521337011 | ISBN-13: 978-0521337014In this new edition of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, Mark Griffith combines sophisticated literary and cultural interpretation with close attention to language, meter, and issues of performance, and thus makes the play more fully available to readers of Greek than ever before. The introduction requires no knowledge of Greek and will interest all students of drama and literature. ...
Expectations of Romance: The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England (Studies in Medieval Romance) Publication Date: November 19, 2009| ISBN-10: 1843842076 | ISBN-13: 978-1843842071Medieval readers, like modern ones, differed in whether they saw `noble storie, and worthie for to drawen to memorie' in romance, or `drasty rymyng, nat worth a toord'. This book tackles the task of discerning what were the medieval expectations of the genre in England: the evidence, and the implications. Safe for monastic, trained readers, romances provided moral examples. But not all readers saw that role as valid, desirable, or to the point, and not all readers were monks. Working from what was central t...
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Cathedral Publication Date: December 1, 1990St. Patrick's Day, New York City. Everyone is celebrating, but everyone is in for the shock of his life. Born into the heat and hatred of the Northern Ireland conflict, IRA man Brian Flynn has masterminded a brilliant terrorist act -- the seizure of Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Among his hostages: the woman Brian Flynn once loved, a former terrorist turned peace activist. Among his enemies: an Irish-American police lieutenant fighting against a traitor inside his own ranks and a shadowy British intelligence officer pursuing his own cynical, bloody plan. The co...
Murder Imperfect (Libby Sarjeant Murder Mysteries) Publication Date: January 3, 2011| Series: Libby Sarjeant Murder Mysteries The seventh title in the Libby Sarjeant series finds her distracted from involvement with her local pantomime by her friend Harry, who asks her to help a friend of his who has been receiving threatening letters.At first she believes it to be a simple case of prejudice, but soon Libby uncovers links to particularly nasty crimes in the past, revelations that have catastrophic results. ...
Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy) Release Date: November 1, 2005| Series: Marseilles Trilogy "Jean-Claude Izzo's . . . growing literary renown and huge sales are leading to a recognizable new trend in continental fiction: the rise of the sophisticated Mediterranean thriller. . . . Caught between pride and crime, racism and fraternity, tragedy and light, messy urbanization and generous beauty, the city for [detective Fabio Montale] is a Utopia, an ultimate port of call for exiles. There, he is torn between fatalism and revolt, despair and sensualism."-The EconomistThis first installment in the legendary Marseilles Trilogy see...
The Story of the Dancing Frog Release Date: February 12, 1985Relates the adventures of Great Aunt Gertrude and her dancing frog as they travel the world and gain fame and fortune. ...