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In the United Kingdom and Ireland, World Book Day is a charity event in March, held annually on the first Thursday and coinciding with the release of special editions. The annual celebration on 23 April is World Book Night, an event organized by independent charity The Reading Agency.
Supertato: Books Are Rubbish! written by Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet (Simon & Schuster) Amelia Fang and the Bookworm Gang written by Laura Ellen Anderson (Egmont) Dog Man written by Dav Pilkey ( Scholastic) Evie in the Jungle written by Matt Haig, illustrated by Emily Gravett (Canongate)
Both Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same day, month, and year; it is the reason why the World Book Day is April 23rd because the two greatest writers of the English and the Spanish language died on the same day...)" and adding this: "Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616. To honor this, UNESCO established 23 April as the International Day of ...
Johann Plenge (1874–1963) was a German sociologist who wrote about the First World War as an antipode to the French Revolution (the ideas of 1914 vs. the ideas of 1789) and is considered to be influential to many Nazis. Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German historian and philosopher.
21. "Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found." 22. "The way to do is to be." 23.
In philosophy and specifically metaphysics, the theory of Forms, theory of Ideas, [1] [2] [3] Platonic idealism, or Platonic realism is a theory widely credited to the Classical Greek philosopher Plato. The theory suggests that the physical world is not as real or true as "Forms". According to this theory, Forms—conventionally capitalized and ...
On National Read a Book Day, Kasey Meehan of PEN America’s Freedom to Read initiative continues to be alarmed at the number of books being taken off of America’s school library shelves. "We ...
Author. Mortimer J. Adler. Publication date. 1940. How to Read a Book is a book by the American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler. Originally published in 1940, it was heavily revised for a 1972 edition, co-authored by Adler with editor Charles Van Doren. The 1972 revision gives guidelines for critically reading good and great books of any tradition.