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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families, Reně, the concierge, and Paloma, a twelve-year-old genius, hide both their true talents and their finest qualities from a world they suspect cannot or will not appreciate them. They discover their kindred souls when a wealthy Japanese man named Kakuro Ozu arrives in the building. Only he is able to gain Paloma's trust and to see through Reně's timeworn disguise to the secret that...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the arts, life styles, politics, and fashions while tracing the story of bohemians, radicals, hipsters, and hippies from Paris in the nineteenth century to contemporary America.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks.
Language
English
Description
Professor Kenneth Bartlett helps you appreciate the Italian Renaissance as the moment in history when culture reached a point that is still very much with us, in the way we live our modern lives and in the extant Renaissance cities of contemporary Italy. You will gain an understanding of the underlying social, political, and economic forces that made such exceptional art and culture possible. In this course, you will learn from two masters: Professor...
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 132 p. ; 19 cm.).
Language
English
Description
Great writing begins--and ends--with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your appreciation of great writing and potentially improving...
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