Delve into the whimsical world of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman," a groundbreaking novel that revolutionized the literary landscape. Sterne's work, inspired by the likes of Cervantes and John Locke, challenges traditional narrative forms through its playful digressions, innovative typography, and satirical tone. The novel humorously narrates the life of Tristram Shandy, making it a pioneering precursor to stream of consciousness...

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Gymnast Simone Biles won four Olympic gold medals in 2016, and she plans to compete at the Olympics again in 2021. This carefully leveled text with engaging photos and critical thinking questions will be a hit with young gymnastics fans.

After serving over fifteen years (1870-1886) with General George Crook, Bourke sat down to write this memoir of his hero. He brings to life the frontier, the plains, and the Southwest, as well as Native American heroes Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo. Combining strength and compassion, Bourke concludes, Crook carved out a space for himself in American history.

Farrago, from the Latin farragin, is a word that means a confused mixture. This memoir, sharing the story of the relationship between author Diana B. Roberts and her mother, Markie, is just that - a farrago containing neither positive nor negative judgment. Markie Byron Roberts was eighty-five years old when she passed away - a long life for anyone, but particularly for a woman who had been institutionalized for mental illness six times, beginning...

About the Book When one entity attempts to gain sovereignty toward something, it results to turmoil. As the general population suffers from the chaos and devastation, the combatants in the field experience a different kind of horror. This is the kind of feat that Mingin Irn conveys in his biography, The Sea of Feed. While serving in the military, Mingin saw lives taken away by bullets and explosives as people navigate the tricky fields of war. He...

A Simple Seller of Noodles is the story of SamSan, born a Vietnamese peasant, who rose from near-infanticide in a garbage can to be a highly sought-after interpreter for the United States and Cambodian military. This is the account of his fall from favor and ensuing imprisonment, his dramatic rescue (only to be, caught up in Pol Pot's death march), his family fracture and sadistic serfdom under Khmer Rouge rule, and his near impossible journey to...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was born in Japan between two worlds. I was Korean on my father's side and Japanese on my mother's side. I was raised in a poor Korean family in Mizonokuchi, a neighborhood south of Tokyo. I dreamed of becoming the prime minister of Japan. #2 My mother, Miyoko, was a woman of strong character. She had an oval face that was beautiful in its way. My father, on the...

Qué es BioAjustament Para empezar, es bueno que nos interesemos por el nombre de este método que os presento en este manual. Pues bien, si partimos de la definición de cada una de las partes de las que se compone, fácilmente podremos deducir su significado. Así: - Bio: vida. - Ajuste: Reacción gracias a la cual un sujeto hace desaparecer el estímulo orgánico que ha motivado la situación de desequilibrio entre él y el ambiente. BioAjustament...

Collected in this edition is the early autobiographical fragment written by Charles Darwin in 1838 along with his official autobiography which was first published in 1887, five years after his death. His controversial theory of evolution, which asserted that all of life on earth descended from common ancestors through a process of natural selection, subjected him to much criticism in his lifetime but would ultimately place him amongst the most important...

Our world has changed drastically in the more than 70 years that I have been alive. People born in the last 30 years will have a very limited knowledge of what the world was like in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. I have attempted to provide a little enlightenment about those decades.