In our new history books section, we keep track of some of the books coming out by Five Books interviewees and frequently recommended authors. We're also scanning catalogues and highlighting interesting new history books being published that come to our attention. It's impossible to cover all ...
The genesis of the project is lost in the files of Paramount Studios, but apparently Polan Banks, one of Paramount’s screenwriters with a few novels to his credit, concocted the idea of having a team of popular novelists of the time collaborating on a novel that would both be serialized ...
Japanese culture comes through a veil of humor, making this similar to the Alvin Ho series by Lenore Look. In this first book, Jasmine is too young to participate in the New Year’s mochi celebration, but she somehow manages to turn traditions upside down, much to the surprise and admirati...
First serialised in The Saturday Evening Post in 1920, The Young Immigrunts abandons the plot of Ashford’s book and its musings on social advancement and the aristocracy and replaces them with something completely American: the story of the Lardner family’s move from Goshen, Indiana, to their...
根据最后一段中的It proved not hard for this Canadian historian of the world to find Canada in world history--or the world in Canadian history.可推知,蒂莫西•布鲁克是一名有着全球视野的历史学家。因此,D选项“一位具有全球视野的加拿大历史学家”适合做本文最佳标题。故D选项正确。 [分析] 本文是...
E-books have many advantages. First, they save time. We don’t need to go to a bookstore to buy books. 30 , we can find the topic we want to know about on the Internet, and then we can quickly get many e-books on similar topics. Second, e-books save money. Some e-books cost...
the imposition of type and the ghostly images of the X play with one another. The two texts delight in the crossover between similarity and difference, knowingly in the white space at the exact center of the X in the double-page spread below. How better to use the notion that, for all...
each representing a different aspect of human nature, debate who should be king of all the birds. Led by the Hoopoe, they agree to seek the advice of the mythological being – the Simorgh. After an arduous and winnowing journey, thirty of them arrive at the home of the Simorgh to find ...
Rebecca Bingham,Defining the Rainbow(2018) Sonia Delaunay,Alphabet(1972) Carol DuBosch,Rainbow Alphabet Snowflake(2013) Ursula Hochuli-Gamma,26 farbige Buchstaben(1986) Karen Hanmer,The Spectrum(2003) Amy Lapidow,Spiralbet(1998) Lisa McGarry,Be Amazed (and other words to live by)(2013) ...
Equally incredulous must we be when we read of half a million volumes being burnt at Carthage some centuries later, and other similar accounts. Among the earliest records of the wholesale destruction of Books is that narrated by St. Luke, when, after the preaching of Paul, many of the ...