Unicorns, dragons, sprites, will-o’-the-wisps: the inhabitants of an enchanted world.
For use in schools and libraries only. Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill.
In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the mysteries of literary creativity: the drive to write, what sparks it, and what extinguishes it.
From the author of The Neverending Story, a book that reminds us that “magic—be it good or bad—is no simple matter.” It's New Year’s Eve at the Villa Nightmare but Beelzebub Preposteror is in no mood for celebration.
From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ...
In Keywords for Environmental Studies, edited by Joni Adamson, William A. Geason, and David N. Pellow. New York: New York University Press, 2016. Available at https:// keywords.nyupress.org/environmental-studies/essay/queer-ecology.
Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
As a princess trapped in a tale, twelve-year-old Sylvie makes her escape one day by going inside a young reader's head where she rescues other characters and saves kingdoms for years and years.
During this process, life transmits itself to the next generation simply by splitting into two and “passing” from one cell into the two new ones. Thus, the book explains how life is passed on during every cell division. It never “jumps” ...
The book becomes a mirror in which the reader is reflected. But in the same way, the reader is also a mirror in which the book is reflected: The mirror in the mirror refers the reader back to himself.