The historical love of graphic art in Japan continues today with animation and comics that are endlessly imaginative and have achieved worldwide popularity. This book examines the twin art forms of anime and manga, including the pioneers, the innovators, the creative techniques, and the most popular genres.
Published in 1823, this was the first novel in Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales". The Pioneers is a colorful look at early frontier life filled with action, adventure, romance and history. The reader will be introduced to Natty Bumppo- a frontiersman who embodies the character of the pioneer caught up in the wild wilderness of early America.
This is a great little book that teaches all about the Pioneers. Your child will find this a fun read and allow the imagination to go about what it would be like to be a Pioneer.
With portraits and other illustrations. A collection of 28 lectures on the history and progress of astronomy. Some selections of these lectures are entitled: Copernicus and the motion of the Earth; Tycho Brahe and the earliest observatory; Kepler and the laws of planetary motion; Galileo and the invention of the telescope; Sir Isaac Newton; Roemer and Bradley and the velocity of light; Herschel and the motion of the fixed stars; Bessel, the distances of the stars and the discovery of the stellar planets; discovery of Neptune; tides and planetary evolution.