Link letters to form words and rebuild the Great Wall of China in this epic word game. For more than 1,000 years the Great Wall has protected China from its enemies. But now a new threat has emerged. Embark on an epic journey of word building to repair the wall section by section and save China. Featuring three game modes, an epic storyline, and addictive fun, Great Wall of Words is a true word wonder.
this book, unlike the other mentioned, gives a holistic view of our world's transportation security processes and operations, in air, sea, roadway, rail and public transport modes, and all issues that relate to security in transportation.
Inspired by the example of his predecessors Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated in his poetry, prose and translations many of the most serious political questions of his day. In the fifteenth century Lydgate was the most famous poet in England, filling commissions for the court, the aristocracy, and the guilds. He wrote for an elite London readership that was historically very small, but that saw itself as dominating the cultural life of the nation. Thus the new literary forms and modes developed by Lydgate and his contemporaries helped shape the development of English public culture in the fifteenth century.
The Garden of the Sphinx: 150 Challenging and Instructive Puzzles
These mathematical puzzles have appeared in the newspaper Le Monde during the past few years. A number of readers have responded to the challenge by offering not only original solutions and modes of attack but also by stating new problems related to those proposed.
Romantic poetry is conventionally seen as inward-turning, sentimental, sublime, and transcendent, whereas satire, with its public, profane, and topical rhetoric, is commonly cast in the role of generic other -- as the un-Romantic mode. This book argues instead that the two modes mutually defined each other and were subtly interwoven during the Romantic period. By rearranging reputations, changing aesthetic assumptions, and re-distributing cultural capital, the interaction of satiric and Romantic modes helped make possible the Victorian and modern construction of "English Romanticism."
