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Each year four books are published in Welsh, and four in English, by Welsh authors or celebrities. The campaign in Wales uses the same branding as the campaign in England, but it is bilingual. Funding for this comes from the Welsh National Assembly via Basic Skills Cymru , part of the National Basic Skills Strategy .
Kraken is a 2010 fantasy novel by British author China Miéville.It is published in the UK by Macmillan, and in the US by Del Rey Books.Handed in at the same time as The City & the City, it was chosen to be published at a later date to give the former breathing room.
A popular phenomenon on the site is the so-called reading challenge, where users commit to reading a certain number of books per year and track their progress through the platform. Recent research in literacy studies shows that such challenges encourage participants to read more in their free time. [39]
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) [1] is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database. [2]
The novel describes the course of an attack on humanity by creatures from the ocean depths, as told through the eyes of two characters: Mike Watson, a journalist for the English Broadcasting Company (EBC) with his wife and colleague Phyllis; and Professor Alastair Bocker, who is more clear-minded and far-sighted about the developing crisis than everybody else but who often alienates people by ...
In the children's book Monster Mission (also known as Island of the Aunts) by Eva Ibbotson, the Kraken is a force for good who has the ability to clean and heal the oceans. [ 27 ] Kraken appear in Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox as enormous, peaceful creatures that stay in the same spot for centuries feeding on algae , doubling as islands.
The English word "kraken" (in the sense of sea monster) derives from Norwegian kraken or krakjen, which are the definite forms of krake ("the krake"). [6] [7]According to a Norwegian dictionary, the root meaning of krake is "malformed or overgrown, crooked tree". [8]
Kraken II was produced taking into account a wider rock audience. Its composition took a record time [clarification needed] for the group members since they had to comply with live shows and the production of all the material that they had to select and create.