Up-helly-aa

Up-helly-aa
Author: Callum G. Brown
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781901341072

Up-Helly-Aa is Europe's largest and most spectacular winter fire festival. In the biting Arctic wind on the last Tuesday of every January, a Guizer Jarl leads one thousand men in guising costumes with flaming torches through the streets of Lerwick, the capital of the Shetland Isles, accompanying a Viking galley to its ceremonial burning.

Convexity

Convexity
Author: Victor Klee
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 534
Release: 1963
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821814079

Expeditions in Mathematics

Expeditions in Mathematics
Author: Tatiana Shubin
Publisher: MAA
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2011
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0883855712

This book is the second volume based on lectures for pre-college students given by prominent mathematicians in the Bay Area Mathematical Adventures (BAMA). This book reflects the flavor of the BAMA lectures and the excitement they have generated among the high school and middle school students in the Silicon Valley. The topics cover a wide range of mathematical subjects each treated by a leading proponent of the subject at levels designed to challenge and attract students whose mathematical interests are just beginning. In addition, the treatments given here will intrigue and enchant a more mature mathematician. It is hoped that the publication of these lectures will expose students outside of the San Francisco Bay Area to interesting mathematical topics and treatments outside of their normal experience in the classroom. Mathematical educators are encouraged to offer the students in their own localities similar opportunities to come into contact with exciting adventures in mathematics.

The Shelf

The Shelf
Author: Helly Acton
Publisher: Zaffre
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 9781838773137

Ever feel like you're losing a race you never signed up for? Everyone in Amy's life seems to be getting married, having children and settling down (or so Instagram tells her), and she feels like she's falling behind. So, when her long-term boyfriend surprises her with a dream holiday, she thinks he's going to finally pop the Big Question. But the dream turns into a nightmare when, instead, she finds herself on the set of a Big Brother - style reality television show, The Shelf.

Her Last Wish

Her Last Wish
Author: Ajay K Pandey
Publisher: Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9382665870

His father's over expectations only ruined his self-confidence further with each failure. A ray of hope walked into his life as his wife, a charismatic personality spreading joy wherever she went. Everything is going per plan, but darkness comes knocking soon. He finds out that she does not have much time to live and takes it upon himself to fight all odds – even his family, if need be – to help her fight her medical condition. His father sees his own redemption in helping them; he knows his son will be a winner only if he will fight for her, with her. Will a defeated son prove himself to be a good husband? Will the father-son duo together be able to change the course of fate? Her Last Wish is an inspiring story of love, relationships and sacrifice, which proves once again how a good wife makes the best husband.

Christmas Wishes

Christmas Wishes
Author: Tim Hollis
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2010
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0811705072

A nostalgic look at Christmas in the mid-twentieth century.

Letters from the Lost

Letters from the Lost
Author: Helen Waldstein Wilkes
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1897425538

On March 15, 1939, as Hitler's army rolled into Prague, Helen Waldstein's father snatched the last exit visa from a distracted clerk and fled with wife and child. Only letters from the rest of their family could follow as the Nazis closed in. Through the war years, letters kept coming to the southern Ontario farm where Helen's small family learned to speak English, to be Canadian farmers, and to forget they were Jewish. Helen did not notice when the letters stopped coming, but they surfaced intermittently until she couldn't ignore them anymore. Reading the letters changed everything. As her past refused to keep silent, Helen followed the trail of letters back to Europe to find living witnesses of what the letters related. She has here interwoven their stories and her own in an engrossing narrative of suffering and rescue, survivor guilt and overcoming obstacles to intergenerational dialogue about a traumatic past.

The Seventh Wish

The Seventh Wish
Author: Kate Messner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1619633779

With the same warmth and fun that readers loved in All the Answers, award-winning author Kate Messner weaves fantasy into the ordinary, giving every reader the opportunity to experience a little magic. Charlie feels like she's always coming in last. From her Mom's new job to her sister's life away at college, everything else always seems to be more important than Charlie's upcoming dance competition or science project. Unsure of how to get her family's attention, Charlie comes across the surprise of her life one day while ice-fishing . . . in the form of a floppy, scaly fish offering to grant her a wish in exchange for its freedom. Charlie can't believe her luck until she realizes that this fish has a funny way of granting wishes, despite her best intentions. But when her family faces a challenge bigger than any they've ever experienced, Charlie wonders if some things might be too important to risk on a wish.

Jung

Jung
Author: Deirdre Bair
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Total Pages: 932
Release: 2004-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780316159388

Chronicles the life of Carl Gustav Jung, discussing his childhood, teaching, contributions to the field of psychology, work with Sigmund Freud, personal beliefs, personal relationships, and other related topics.