The place of publication was New York City in the United States and published in the year of 1997. There are 498 pages in the book including Index‚ Credits‚ Acknowledgments‚ and Further Readings. There are 446 pages without them. This nonfiction book tries to explain why history advanced differently from people of different regions of the world. Diamond summarizes the book within this sentence‚ "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples’ environments
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Venice find your destiny‚ find Scorpia" Scorpia‚ the 5th installment of the swift-paced and best-selling ’Alex rider’ series by Anthony Horowitz‚ does not disappoint in any manner. In some aspects I personally would consider it the best book of the series so far. The book‚ similar to the others in the series‚ is focused on Alex Rider and his life as a teenage spy‚ and how he deals with the issues sharing a double life. Scorpia begins on a school excursion to Venice‚ whereby Alex Rider‚ former teenage
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Book Report Book Report By Monica Dobslaw The book I decided to read for my book report was; Twilight. 1. Who is the author? What information do you know about the author? The author of this novel is named Stephenie Meyer. She is the author of the whole twilight series and two other books called; Hell on Earth and The Host. Stephenie is 38 years old and has sold more than 50 million books in less than 5 years. 2. What is the story about? Briefly describe what happens. The story
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In Ruth L. Ozeki’s novel titled My Year of Meats‚ she utilizes protagonist Jane’s experiences filming a propagandistic television show for an American meat lobbying organization to explore social and political problems in both American and Japanese cultures and how each illuminates the other. In particular‚ halfway through her journey filming and discovering the structured ignorance fueling the meat industry‚ Jane attends a Baptist church in Harmony‚ Mississippi while interviewing the poor‚ black
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party throughout the remaining part of the journey. One of those type of characters‚ is named Beorn. Beorn is a character that appears in the novel named The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. There is a remake of the book in a movie version called The Hobbit and it is directed by Peter Jackson. The book was originally published during the year 1937. The movie of The Hobbit was released in the year 2012. In the movie‚ Gandalf‚ Bilbo‚ and the dwarves meet Beorn in a dramatic way in which Beorn chases them to
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Although in both movies and the book "Frankenstein" is portrayed as a monster there are many different perceptions about of him. In movies the monster will not stop at anything he was only out to hurt or destroy others as appose to the book where he tried to make friends and find someone to cherish and love. The book and movie both show different characteristics which the monster possesses and how they directly or indirectly relate to one another. In the movie‚ "Frankenstein" has a green complexion
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Fahrenheit 451‚ written by Ray Bradbury‚ fabricates a futuristic fellowship where it is illegal to be in possession of a book or books. If our civilization permits a guild of individuals to regulate what is appropriate to read‚ the world Bradbury had envisioned may become true. A book that has been challenged with censorship is Tiger Eyes written by Judy Blume. Davey Wexler‚ along with her mother‚ Gwen‚ and her little brother‚ Jason‚ has just attended the funeral of her father‚ Adam‚ who was
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Ref. No.: 4D: HO:JS:DCS/057 Rev 0 To‚ Somaiya Organics Kind Attn Sub : : Date: 26/11/2012 Mr. Umesh Bennali Budgetary Offer for Process Control System for 40 KLPD ENA Plant Automation. Your email enquiry dated Nov 22‚ 2012. Ref. : Dear Sir‚ With ref. to the above mentioned subject and email‚ please find enclosed our budgetary offer for the Process Control System. We are offering you the FORBES MARSHALL Microcon+ DCS system‚ which we feel is best suited for your requirement. The
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express his curiosity‚ and instead is equivocal. The movie shows his curiosity‚ and him wanting everyone to “feel”. Reasons that Jonas is better in the movie than the book‚ are that he is more relatable‚ he takes bigger risks‚ and has a more audacious‚ and wild personality. Nevertheless‚ Jonas is still an amazing character in the book. Even when he does things that make it less realistic to what someone would really do in the given
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~Why I chose this book~ I chose this book because it is a scary but fiction book.I also like this book because it was made into a movie and since ie watched the movie it has been my all time favorite movie and book. ~Characters~ The characters in this story is Coraline‚Coraline’s mom and dad from the other world.Miss Spink and Miss Forcible. Each of these characters have different thinking and different traits The characters in the book are very unique from one another with different
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