Cardboard Castle

Author : Vojtech Mastny
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155053693
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cardboard Castle? written by Vojtech Mastny and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-10 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to document, analyze, and interpret the history of the Warsaw Pact based on the archives of the alliance itself. As suggested by the title, the Soviet bloc military machine that held the West in awe for most of the Cold War does not appear from the inside as formidable as outsiders often believed, nor were its strengths and weaknesses the same at different times in its surprisingly long history, extending for almost half a century. The introductory study by Mastny assesses the controversial origins of the "superfluous" alliance, its subsequent search for a purpose, its crisis and consolidation despite congenital weaknesses, as well as its unexpected demise. Most of the 193 documents included in the book were top secret and have only recently been obtained from Eastern European archives by the PHP project. The majority of the documents were translated specifically for this volume and have never appeared in English before. The introductory remarks to individual documents by co-editor Byrne explain the particular significance of each item. A chronology of the main events in the history of the Warsaw Pact, a list of its leading officials, a selective multilingual bibliography, and an analytical index add to the importance of a publication that sets the new standard as a reference work on the subject and facilitate its use by both students and general readers.

Author : Vojtech Mastny
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789637326080
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cardboard Castle? written by Vojtech Mastny and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to document, analyze, and interpret the history of the Warsaw Pact based on the archives of the alliance itself. As suggested by the title, the Soviet bloc military machine that held the West in awe for most of the Cold War does not appear from the inside as formidable as outsiders often believed, nor were its strengths and weaknesses the same at different times in its surprisingly long history, extending for almost half a century.

Author : Martín Adán
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219593
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cardboard House written by Martín Adán and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate novel that presents a stunning series of flashes — scenes, moods, dreams, and weather— as the narrator wanders through Lima. Published in 1928 to great acclaim when its author was just twenty years old, The Cardboard House is sweeping, kaleidoscopic, and passionate. The novel presents a stunning series of flashes — scenes, moods, dreams, and weather— as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he skips from reveries of first loves, South Pole explorations, and ocean tides, to precise and unashamed notations of class and of race: an Indian woman “with her hard,shiny, damp head of hair—a mud carving,” to a gringo gobbling “synthetic milk,canned meat, hard liquor.” Adán’s own aristocratic family was in financial freefall at the time, and, as the translator notes, The Cardboard House is as “subversive now as when it was written: Adán’s uncompromising poetic vision and the trueness and poetry of his voice constitute a heroic act against cultural colonialism.”

Author : Carin Oliver
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594749426
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cat Castles written by Carin Oliver and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your cat “paw-some” homemade habitats with easy instructions and common materials. Shoeboxes and paper bags are fine for other cats. But your favorite felines deserve luxurious living spaces! This DIY construction guide includes fun and easy instructions for making cardboard trains, ships, food trucks, rockets, and other hideouts. Also included are tips for climbing towers and scratching pads that they can use to stay sharp. All twenty projects are quick to assemble and require inexpensive and easy-to-find materials. You can customize them to match your cat’s wildest desires! From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Roger Priddy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312517386
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cardboard Box Book written by Roger Priddy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers craft projects children can create with cardboard boxes, including making a playhouse, giant dice, and a princess castle.

Author : Chad Sell
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1524719390
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cardboard Kingdom written by Chad Sell and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier, Awkward, and All's Faire in Middle School, this graphic novel follows a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary cardboard into fantastical homemade costumes as they explore conflicts with friends, family, and their own identity. "A breath of fresh air, this tender and dynamic collection is a must-have." --Kirkus, Starred Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters--and their own inner demons--on one last quest before school starts again. In the Cardboard Kingdom, you can be anything you want to be--imagine that! The Cardboard Kingdom was created, organized, and drawn by Chad Sell with writing from ten other authors: Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Kris Moore, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, Cloud Jacobs, and Barbara Perez Marquez. The Cardboard Kingdom affirms the power of imagination and play during the most important years of adolescent identity-searching and emotional growth. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS * THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY * SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL * A TEXAS BLUEBONNET 2019-20 MASTER LIST SELECTION "There's room for everyone inside The Cardboard Kingdom, where friendship and imagination reign supreme." --Ingrid Law, New York Times bestselling author of Savvy "A timely and colorful graphic novel debut that, like its many offbeat but on-point characters, marches to the beat of its own cardboard drum." --Tim Federle, award-winning author of Better Nate Than Ever

Author : Percival Christopher Wren
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cardboard Castle written by Percival Christopher Wren and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Cardboard Castle" by Percival Christopher Wren. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Sue Gagliardi
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1532169019
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cardboard Castle Challenge! written by Sue Gagliardi and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how a castle's design helps it fulfill its purpose, and challenges readers to build their own cardboard castles. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, a supply list, Think About It critical thinking questions, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. DiscoverRoo is an imprint of Pop!, a division of ABDO.

Author : Noel Macneal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493004808
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Box! written by Noel Macneal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many times have you spent money on some fancy new toy for your child, only to have her ignore the toy and instead crawl into the large box it came in? Whether you’re on a budget or just refuse to pay high prices for noisy, plastic toys, Box! offers parents do-it-yourself, environmentally friendly crafts that can be made with cereal boxes, packing boxes, toilet paper rolls, and egg cartons. Filled with easy to make cardboard box craft ideas complete with supply lists, four-color photos, tips, and templates, Box! supplies parents with projects that will keep their children entertained for hours, such as: making “little people” with toilet paper rolls; creating a pirate ship out of a milk carton; fashioning a telescope using a paper towel tube; assembling planes, trains, and automobiles from cracker boxes, pasta boxes, or toothpaste boxes; and even constructing a child-sized desk out of three large boxes. This book is the perfect way to make fun, inexpensive, sustainable toys for your little one.

Author : Elisabeth Beresford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780416847703
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knights of the Cardboard Castle written by Elisabeth Beresford and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: