Nicole Shea – författare

Many say that the American Revolution started long before the first shots of the war were fired. Readers will learn about the events leading up to the war and the many historic moments during this important period of United States history. From Lexington and Concord to Yorktown, readers will explore the battlefields where the United States earned its independence. Historical photographs show everything from the Boston Tea Party to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Readers will learn all about the weird things amphibians do, including how some mother frogs birth their babies from under the skin on their back and that a salamander can re-grow its tail. In-depth descriptions of amphibious life and freaky fact boxes will engage young readers as detailed, colorful photographs creep around each page turn. A fun fact chart and helpful glossary will add to each reader’s experience.

Crows have the ability to recognize human faces. With this knowledge, standing under a “murder” of crows can be an unsettling experience—especially if they start cawing. Readers will learn even more freaky facts about birds, including some species’ gross eating habits and the weird nests others build. Full-color photographs will highlight the creepiest features of nature’s oddest animals and interesting fact boxes will engage young readers.

Household pests and huge, exotic insects, bugs are some of nature’s creepiest creatures—especially when seen up close in the detailed photographs of this book. Readers will see a mother spider wasp make dinner for her children and a praying mantis ready to strike. Interesting information about the way these bizarre bugs live will only amplify the freaky photographs. Fun fact boxes and a chart of insect record holders will help readers learn even more about the fascinating world of creepy bugs.

Tarsier. Vampire bat. Babirusa. Readers will meet these bizarre mammals and many more in this book filled with full-color photographs. Interesting content highlights the weirdest behaviors and features of these odd mammals. Fascinating fact boxes add even more eerie information for young readers.

The depths of the ocean are home to some creepy creatures that rarely see daylight. Packed with eerie information, this book will shed light on deep-sea life miles below the ocean’s surface. Detailed photographs of fish with dangling eyes and razor-sharp teeth will enhance the freaky fact boxes and accessible content.

Frederick Douglass''s life was so incredible that it took him three autobiographies to tell the whole story. His life as a slave and his daring escape are just two chapters. He was also a famous abolitionist and women''s rights supporter. This biography uses Douglass''s own writings in describing the key events in his life. Primary source materials shed light on key issues of the Civil War era and beyond. Historical photographs, sidebars, and fact boxes add even more relevant information about the era.

For over 50 years, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most influential leaders of the women''s rights movement of the 1800s. In this book, abundant with interesting photographs and images, readers are given a glimpse of Stanton''s public and personal life through her own writings. Her friendship with Susan B. Anthony, work for the women''s rights convention of 1848, and connection with the antislavery movement are especially highlighted. Sidebars and fact boxes offer more about this period in US and world history.

Stargazing may not just be a hobby. For some, it''s a clue they should pursue a career in astronomy. In this intriguing book, readers will learn what it takes to become an astronomer and about several puzzles of the universe past astronomers have unlocked. Some topics include how we know a black hole is there if we can''t see it, the way a star works and what happens when it dies, and the discovery that most stars we see are actually pairs of stars. Enthralling photographs serve as reminders of the beauty and vastness of the universe.

Written during the vibrant crisis years of the Weimar Republic, Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz is a fascinating examination of the gradual disintegration of Germany in the aftermath of the Great War and in the shadow of a nascent National Socialism. This study engages the seminal image of the prostitute, the commodified woman, as a central and dominant motif in Döblin’s work. Through this intersection of sex, gender and economics, the author scrutinizes the larger perspective of German culture through the lens of its suppressed underclasses and considers how the politics of language both construct and constrain woman’s identity in this society. The true history of the Weimar Republic, therefore, is read through Döblin’s portraits of prostitutes and petty criminals, homosexuality and Lustmord.

This volume explores the rich, evolving body of contemporary cultural practices that reflect on a European project of diversity, new dynamics between and across cultures in Europe, and its interactions with the world. There have been calls across Europe for both traditional national identities and new forms of identity and community, assertions of regionalized identity and declarations of multiculturalism and multilingualism. These essays respond to this critical moment by analyzing the literature of migration as a (re)writing of European subjects. They ask fundamental questions from a variety of theoretical and critical standpoints: How do migrants write new identities into and against old national (meta)narratives? How do they interrogate constructions of identity? What kinds of literary experiments are emerging in this unstable context, e.g. in the graphic novel and avant-garde film?This collection makes a unique contribution to contemporary European literary studies by taking an interdisciplinary, transnational and comparative perspective, thereby addressing readers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and stimulating new research on the ambitious writing and thinking taking place across the borders of Europe today.

This volume explores the rich, evolving body of contemporary cultural practices that reflect on a European project of diversity, new dynamics between and across cultures in Europe, and its interactions with the world. There have been calls across Europe for both traditional national identities and new forms of identity and community, assertions of regionalized identity and declarations of multiculturalism and multilingualism. These essays respond to this critical moment by analyzing the literature of migration as a (re)writing of European subjects. They ask fundamental questions from a variety of theoretical and critical standpoints: How do migrants write new identities into and against old national (meta)narratives? How do they interrogate constructions of identity? What kinds of literary experiments are emerging in this unstable context, e.g. in the graphic novel and avant-garde film?This collection makes a unique contribution to contemporary European literary studies by taking an interdisciplinary, transnational and comparative perspective, thereby addressing readers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and stimulating new research on the ambitious writing and thinking taking place across the borders of Europe today.

This volume explores the rich, evolving body of contemporary cultural practices that reflect on a European project of diversity, new dynamics between and across cultures in Europe, and its interactions with the world. There have been calls across Europe for both traditional national identities and new forms of identity and community, assertions of regionalized identity and declarations of multiculturalism and multilingualism. These essays respond to this critical moment by analyzing the literature of migration as a (re)writing of European subjects. They ask fundamental questions from a variety of theoretical and critical standpoints: How do migrants write new identities into and against old national (meta)narratives? How do they interrogate constructions of identity? What kinds of literary experiments are emerging in this unstable context, e.g. in the graphic novel and avant-garde film?This collection makes a unique contribution to contemporary European literary studies by taking an interdisciplinary, transnational and comparative perspective, thereby addressing readers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and stimulating new research on the ambitious writing and thinking taking place across the borders of Europe today.