Miyamoto Usagi is no Bugs Bunny. He's a rabbit bodyguard, a samurai who wanders the mountains, plains, and villages of a 17th-century Japan populated almost exclusively by anthropomorphic animals. Cats, snakes, rhinos, and ninja moles plot and fight their way across a land ravaged by civil war. The 10 stories in the first volume introduce Usagi, the evil Lord Hikiji, and a host of other characters. The stories themselves can stand alone, but taken together they begin to form an ongoing saga of treachery and revenge. Sometimes violent, sometimes funny, Usagi's adventures are filled with fascinating historical detail. The costumes, landscapes, and buildings are beautifully drawn, creating such a sense of realism it's easy to forget the hero is a rabbit. If you buy the first book in this series, you'll want the rest.
Usagi Yojimbo is the kind of quality work that transcends time, genres, demographics, and even age groups. It crafts a delicate and beautiful balance between honor and savagery, cute innocence and dark brutality, simple heart-warming stories and multi-part epics that shape a dense continuity. Whether or not you've ever been a fan of feudal Japanese culture, furry anthro characters, or independent, non-superhero comics, Usagi Yojimbo is a comic that can't help but impress even the harshest critic.
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Not only suitable, but much recommended for young learners, Reading level: Ages 9-12, can serve as well as a coloring book to enliven lessons - stovokor, Usagi addict :)
Added by: Lyudmila A | Karma: 103.16 | Coursebooks, Kids, Audio | 28 January 2009
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Вторая книга из курса английского языка Brilliant для детей младшего школьного возраста. Красочный учебник, содержащий простые тексты для чтения, объяснения грамматических структур, новые лексические единицы, упражнения для развития навыков письма, упражнения для аудирования, легко запоминающиеся пеceнки и проверка уровня усвоения материала в конце каждого раздела. Brilliant is a four-level primary course which follows the adventures of the same characters throughout each level. Absorbing and colourful story with stimulating practice, simple explanations of grammatical structures, clear presentation of new vocabulary, controlled writing practice, listening exercises with stickers in every unit and much more.
Revising is complicated enough; however, if one is unable to identify the problem, revising becomes impossible. Many writing problems have to do with structural errors. Madden's book elegantly and clearly defines a myriad of structural elements that might be at the root of such errors and poses each element as a question, such as: "Does the protagonist fail to affect the other characters?" or, "Have you in some way diffused the impact of the climax?" or, "Do passages that reflect your own biases or judgments intrude?"
Hobbits, Elves, And Wizards. Exploring the Wonders and Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
Added by: Romadzha | Karma: 827.99 | Non-Fiction, Other | 19 January 2009
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Michael Stanton, a noted expert on science fiction and fantasy literature, has written an indispensible new guide to Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings for readers and viewers alike. Stanton, who has been teaching Tolkien's epic for over 25 years at the University of Vermont, guides the reader through the thickets of characters and places Tolkien creates eschewing academic jargon and an overload of literary criticism to provide an understandable look at Tolkien's fantasyscape. He looks at characters, places, the various books of the epic, dreams, the notions of time and history, providing a rich and wonderful guide to Tolkien's world that no one will want to be without this year.
Новый путеводитель по эпопее Дж.Р.Р. Толкиена «Властелин Колец» - как для читателей, так и для зрителей. Автор - Майкл Стэнтон, признанный эксперт в области научной фантастики и фэнтези.
This is the first full-length study of the work of gothic novelist V.C. Andrews. Andrews's ability to create adolescent characters who are caught uncomfortably between childhood and adulthood has won her millions of teenage readers. She focuses on the female adolescent experience and connects with her readers by creating characters who reflect adolescent struggles, confusion, and pain. Huntley shows that the power of Andrews's novels lies in her creation of an enthralling nightmare world, like a fairy tale gone berserk, in which the young heroine struggles with adolescent fears and frustrations in suddenly dangerous and bizarre domestic settings.
Вторая книга из курса английского языка Brilliant для детей младшего школьного возраста. Красочный учебник, содержащий простые тексты для чтения, объяснения грамматических структур, новые лексические единицы, упражнения для развития навыков письма, упражнения для аудирования, легко запоминающиеся пеceнки и проверка уровня усвоения материала в конце каждого раздела.
