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Media type. Print (hardback & paperback) " Waldo " (1942) is a short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally published in Astounding Magazine in August 1942 under the pseudonym Anson MacDonald. [1] It is available in the 1950 book Waldo & Magic, Inc. (as well as other collections). Both stories in that collection involve magic ...
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Dutch: De Meeste Mensen Deugen: Een Nieuwe Geschiedenis van de Mens) is a 2019 non-fiction book by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman. It was published by Bloomsbury in May 2021. [4] It argues that people are decent at heart and proposes a new worldview based on the corollaries of this optimistic view of human beings.
ISBN. 978-1-345-00437-3. Followed by. Citizen in Space. Untouched by Human Hands is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Robert Sheckley. It was first published in 1954 simultaneously by Ballantine Books (catalogue number 73), both in hardback and paperback.
Cekada was a well-known and convinced sedevacantist, [6] believing the popes of the Second Vatican Council to have been invalid pontiffs. Once a month during the academic year, Cekada traveled to Brooksville, Florida where he taught Canon Law, Liturgy, and Scripture. [4][7] He died on September 11, 2020, in West Chester, Ohio.
A 1945 book reviewer wrote, "Mr. White has a tendency to write amusing scenes instead of telling a story. To say that Stuart Little is one of the best children’s books published this year is very modest praise for a writer of his talent." [6] The book has become a children's classic, and is widely read by children and used by teachers. [7]
A Pocket Full of Kisses. The Kissing Hand is an American children's picture book written by Audrey Penn and illustrated by Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak. It features a mother raccoon comforting a child raccoon by kissing its paw. First published by the Child Welfare League of America in 1993, it has been used "to reassure children upset by ...
Synopsis. The Magic Finger is narrated by an unnamed 8-year-old girl who is growing up on a remote rural farm in the English countryside, next door to the Gregg family who have a passion for hunting animals and birds. The titular "Magic Finger" is an ability she has that activates inadvertently whenever she gets angry: the finger itself shoots ...
John Hands is a British author who has been published in 12 countries. Trained as a scientist, he has written three novels, plus non-fiction books, most recently The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic, the sequel to Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe, which spans scientific disciplines from cosmology to neuroscience, and Housing Co-operatives.