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Author : Minette Walters
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0330373250
A terrific example of innovative crime fiction with a new cover treatment
Author : Minette Walters
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307497840
A psychological thriller about race, family, and the brutal power of raw emotion.Mrs. Ranelagh has never stopped thinking about the dead body she found in the gutter twenty years ago, during Britain’s Winter of Discontent. “Mad Annie,” as she was known, was the only black resident of her West London neighborhood and openly despised by the community. The police called her death an accident, but Mrs. Ranelagh has always suspected it was murder. However, her pleas for an investigation were met with a vicious hate campaign that drove her and her husband from the country. Now, determined to uncover the truth, Mrs. Ranelagh has returned to England, where she quickly discovers a sordid trail of domestic violence, racism and adultery that shockingly could lead back to her own family.
Author : Minette Walters
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330528849
Exposing the horrifying consequences when communities ignore the people who need them the most, The Shape of Snakes is the psychological mystery from crime queen Minette Walters. November 1978. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles in the streets – and somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. Her passing would have gone unmourned but for the young woman who finds her and who believes - apparently against reason – that Annie was murdered. But whatever the truth about Annie – whether she was as mad as her neighbours claimed, whether she lived in squalor as the police said – something passed between her and Mrs Ranelagh in the moment of death which binds this one woman to her cause for the next twenty years. But why is Mrs Ranelagh so convinced it was murder when by her own account Annie died without speaking? And why would any woman spend twenty painstaking years uncovering the truth – unless her reasons are personal . . . ?
Author : David A. Steen
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781623497972
Winner, 2020 National Outdoor Book Award, Nature and the Environment Snakes inspire extreme reactions. Love or hate these limbless reptiles, almost everyone is fascinated by them. Although snakes are widespread and frequently encountered, they may be more misunderstood than any other group of animals. From giant rattlesnakes to mating dances, there are dozens of myths and misconceptions about snakes. In Secrets of Snakes: The Science beyond the Myths, wildlife biologist David Steen tackles the most frequently asked questions and clears up prevailing myths. In a conversational style with a bit of humor, Steen presents the relevant biology and natural history of snakes, making the latest scientific research accessible to a general audience. When addressing myths about snakes, he explains how researchers use the scientific method to explain which parts of the myth are biologically plausible and which are not. Steen also takes a close look at conventional wisdom and common advice about snakes. For example, people are told they can distinguish coralsnakes from non-venomous mimics by remembering the rhyme, “red on black, friend of Jack, red on yellow, kill a fellow,” but this tip is only relevant to coralsnakes and two mimics living in the southeastern United States, and it does not always work with other species or in other countries. Enhanced by more than 100 stunning color photographs and three original drawings, Secrets of Snakes: The Science beyond the Myths encourages readers to learn about the snakes around them and introduces them to how scientists use the scientific method and critical thinking to learn about the natural world. Number Sixty-one: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series
Author : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375891892
DANICA SHARDAE IS an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk’s form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the human one that graces her on land. The only thing more familiar to her is war: It has raged between her people and the serpiente for so long, no one can remember how the fighting began. As heir to the avian throne, she’ll do anything in her power to stop this war—even accept Zane Cobriana, the terrifying leader of her kind’s greatest enemy, as her pair bond and make the two royal families one. Trust. It is all Zane asks of Danica—and all they ask of their people—but it may be more than she can give. A School Library Journal Best Books of the Year A VOYA Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror List selection
Author : Neecy Twinem
Publisher : Cooper Square Pub
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0873588509
Learn five shapes with Baby Snake
Author : Melissa Stewart
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426309915
They’re SSSSLITHERY! SLIPPERY! They creep us out! But get to know them and you’ll find snakes private, quiet types who just want a cool, shady place to call home. From the tip of their forked tongues, to skin that sheds, to the rattles on certain tails, these creatures have secrets all kids will love. Cool photos and fun facts slip us inside their surprising world. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.
Author : Mary Hadley,Sarah D. Fogle
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786451227
Edgar Award-winning crime novelist Minette Walters is known for revitalizing the tradition of the stand-alone psychological thriller in books such as The Ice House, The Dark Room, Acid Row and Fox Evil. This book offers an in-depth analysis of Walters' narrative technique and examines the major themes found throughout her work, including truth and justice, the treatment of children, patterns of victimization, British social issues, body image and body politics, the fashioning of identity, and heroism and evil in society. In addition, it includes a valuable interview with Walters.
Author : Keith Faulkner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 184357022X
Author : J. Whitfield Gibbons,Michael E. Dorcas
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0820326526
Featuring more than three hundred color photographs and nearly fifty distribution maps, Snakes of the Southeast is stuffed with both entertaining and detailed, in-depth information. Includes and explores size charts, key identifiers (scales, body shape, patterns, and color), descriptions of habitat, behavior and activity, food and feeding, reproduction, predators and defense, and conservation.
Author : Tracey Steffora
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781406269376
It's time to improve your maths ssssskills! Books in this fun series use cute or high-interest animals to teach key maths concepts while retaining reluctant mathematicians' interest. Illustrated with cut-out photos on striking, colourful backgrounds, this book looks at shapes with snakes!
Author : Mark O'Shea
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226832869
Updated to reflect the most recent species classifications, a second edition of the beautifully illustrated and beloved guide to 600 members of the suborder Serpentes. For millennia, humans have regarded snakes with an exceptional combination of fascination and revulsion. Some people recoil in fear at the very suggestion of these creatures, while others happily keep them as pets. Snakes can convey both beauty and menace in a single tongue flick, and so these creatures have held a special place in our cultures. Yet, for as many meanings as we attribute to snakes—from fertility and birth to sin and death—the real-life species represent an even wider array of wonders. Now in a new edition, reflecting the most recent species classifications, The Book of Snakes presents 600 species of snakes from around the world, covering roughly one in seven of all snake species. It will bring greater understanding of a group of reptiles that have existed for more than 160 million years and that now inhabit every continent except Antarctica, as well as two of the great oceans. This volume pairs spectacular photos with easy-to-digest text. It is the first book on these creatures that combines a broad, worldwide sample with full-color, life-size accounts. Entries include close-ups of the snake’s head and a section of the snake at actual size. The detailed images allow readers to examine the intricate scale patterns and rainbow of colors as well as special features like a cobra’s hood or a rattlesnake’s rattle. The text is written for laypeople and includes a glossary of frequently used terms. Herpetologists and herpetoculturists alike will delight in this collection, and even those with a more cautious stance on snakes will find themselves drawn in by the wild diversity of the suborder Serpentes.
Author : Greve
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612366883
Rich Content And Beautiful Photos Examines The Habitat, Diet, And Characteristics Of Various Types Of Snakes.
Author : David Kilcullen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190265700
Just a few years ago, people spoke of the US as a hyperpower-a titan stalking the world stage with more relative power than any empire in history. Yet as early as 1993, newly-appointed CIA director James Woolsey pointed out that although Western powers had "slain a large dragon" by defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, they now faced a "bewildering variety of poisonous snakes." In The Dragons and the Snakes, the eminent soldier-scholar David Kilcullen asks how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict. Applying a combination of evolutionary theory and detailed field observation, he explains what happened to the "snakes"-non-state threats including terrorists and guerrillas-and the "dragons"-state-based competitors such as Russia and China. He explores how enemies learn under conditions of conflict, and examines how Western dominance over a very particular, narrowly-defined form of warfare since the Cold War has created a fitness landscape that forces adversaries to adapt in ways that present serious new challenges to America and its allies. Within the world's contemporary conflict zones, Kilcullen argues, state and non-state threats have increasingly come to resemble each other, with states adopting non-state techniques and non-state actors now able to access levels of precision and lethal weapon systems once only available to governments. A counterintuitive look at this new, vastly more complex environment, The Dragons and the Snakes will not only reshape our understanding of the West's enemies' capabilities, but will also show how we can respond given the increasing limits on US power.
Author : Emma Huddleston
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781098210878
A snake slithers in an S shape along the forest floor. Science explains how snakes move without limbs. How Snakes Slither explains how a snake's body lets it move smoothly across many surfaces as well as the forces at work that help them glide across the ground. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Kids Core is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
