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The Professor reads a passage from a historical book, which activates the "time machine", a literary device. For example, the Professor reads a book about dinosaurs to introduce Volume 1 about prehistory, and Volume 4 draws from "part of the Old Testament". He reads from Hans Zinsser's Rats, Lice and History before Volume 19 about the Black ...
The World, also called Treatise on the Light (French title: Traité du monde et de la lumière), is a book by René Descartes (1596–1650). Written between 1629 and 1633, it contains a nearly complete version of his philosophy , from method, to metaphysics , to physics and biology .
A condensed, illustrated version of the first chapter was printed by World Book in the third volume of Childcraft in 1989. [101] Multiple audio versions of the book have been released. BBC Radio produced a radioplay version in 1996 narrated by Judi Dench, [102] and a six-part series adapting the Earthsea novels in 2015, broadcast on Radio 4 ...
Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-hour Workweek (alternatively subtitled And How We Can Get There and How We Can Build the Ideal World) is a book by Dutch popular historian Rutger Bregman. [1]
Each chapter covers a specific geological time period and part of the world. Such time and place most often represent key turning points in the paleontological history of life on Earth. The table below provides more detailed information about the specific locations and periods covered.
Ghost World is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. It was serialized in issues #11–18 (June 1993 – March 1997) of Clowes's comic book series Eightball, [1] and was published in book form in 1997 by Fantagraphics Books. It was a commercial and critical success and developed into a cult classic.
Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
Sophie's World became a best-seller in Norway and won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1994. The English translation was published in 1995, and the book was reported to be the best-selling book in the world that year. By 2011, the novel had been translated into fifty-nine languages, with over forty million print copies sold. [3]