Vanessa Smith
Author
Language
English
Description
Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of children's violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, these scenes of aggression and anxiety cannot be squared with the standard picture of domestic childhood across that period. Instead, they seem to attest to the kinds...
2) F**k Should
Author
Language
English
Description
F**k Should is part self help, part social commentary, and part opinion. It's about times when you'll find naysayers coming out of the woodwork like a vegemite and butter worm through the cracker holes, all because you chose to ignore a should.
Author
Language
English
Description
Contentum Creation is a workshop style book designed to turn you into a wizard at creating content for your blog. The book covers: 1. Content Strategy 2. Creating Content 3. Sharing Content 4. Taking Content Further. You'll only get out of this book what you put in, so be prepared to do activities and learn.
4) Kahli
Author
Language
English
Description
Khali is a young, naïve free spirit who lost her mother and lives alone with her father.
She loves to dance and play on the beach.
Her deepest desire is to travel the world and she wishes to journey to Lake Wairarapa for her birthday.
Her father agrees and whilst traveling, they are separated by a landslide.
Lost and alone, she is greeted by a Troll who at first appears friendly, but is deceptive in nature.
From there, Khali embarks on a journey...
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
This anthology places the works of such well-known figures as Captain James Cook and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside the writings of lesser-known explorers, missionaries, beachcombers, and literary travellers who roamed the South Seas from the late 17th through the late 19th centuries.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The story of a family and town's effort to save a beloved and heroic dog named Semper Fi. Their lives tumble along, as most families do, until they must face the grave diagnosis of their golden retriever, Semper Fi. The family cannot afford the expensive surgery the dog needs. The children jump into action with a plan, spear headed by the fifteen-year-old daughter. They plan a community yard sale, donating all of their most-prized possessions. Before...
