Author : Dan Devoe
Publisher : Dan Devoe
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Stories in rhyme
ISBN : 0981172105
The Whale Who Ate Everything
Dan Devoe
The Whale Who Ate Everything
The Whale Who Ate Everything Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Whale Who Ate Everything book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Fish That Ate the Whale
Rich Cohen
Author : Rich Cohen
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429946292
The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen Pdf
Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and The Times-Picayune The fascinating untold tale of Samuel Zemurray, the self-made banana mogul who went from penniless roadside banana peddler to kingmaker and capitalist revolutionary When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. Working his way up from a roadside fruit peddler to conquering the United Fruit Company, Zemurray became a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures. Zemurray lived one of the great untold stories of the last hundred years. Starting with nothing but a cart of freckled bananas, he built a sprawling empire of banana cowboys, mercenary soldiers, Honduran peasants, CIA agents, and American statesmen. From hustling on the docks of New Orleans to overthrowing Central American governments and precipitating the bloody thirty-six-year Guatemalan civil war, the Banana Man lived a monumental and sometimes dastardly life. Rich Cohen's brilliant historical profile The Fish That Ate the Whale unveils Zemurray as a hidden power broker, driven by an indomitable will to succeed.
The Whale Child
Keith Egawa,Chenoa Egawa
Author : Keith Egawa,Chenoa Egawa
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781623174873
The Whale Child by Keith Egawa,Chenoa Egawa Pdf
An inspiring middle-grade chapter book that introduces young readers to the environmental challenges facing the planet through the eyes of Coast Salish characters and authors. "You have family on land as you do in the sea. . . being a caretaker of the earth begins with taking care of the water that all life depends on." Shiny is a whale child. One day his mother teaches him about the harm facing the world's oceans because of human carelessness. Shiny agrees to be turned into a boy by the ocean's water spirit so he can visit the land and alert people to these dangers. He meets Alex, a young Coast Salish girl who learns from Shiny that the living spirit of water exists in everything--glaciers, rivers, oceans, rain, plants, and all living creatures. Together the two travel the earth, confronting the realities of a planet threatened by an uncertain future. Inspired by Shiny's hope, humor, and wisdom, Alex makes the promise to become a teacher for future generations. She realizes that the timeless Indigenous value of environmental stewardship is needed now more than ever and that we must all stand up on behalf of Mother Earth. Written and illustrated by Indigenous authors Keith Egawa and Chenoa Egawa, The Whale Child introduces children ages 7 to 12 to existing environmental issues with a message of hope, education, sharing, and action. Ideal for middle-grade readers who are beginning to read chapter books on their own, this book also includes resources for students and teachers to facilitate learning about Pacific Northwest Indigenous cultures and the environment.
How Long Is God's Nose?
John Timmer
Author : John Timmer
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310201861
How Long Is God's Nose? by John Timmer Pdf
Just how long is God's nose anyway? And why would that have anything to do with controlling your temper? Why are you better off owning a dog or a cat than a pet walrus? Is the Big Dipper just a constellation -- or a story of compassion written in starlight? You'll find the answers in this delightful collection of children's sermons by storyteller John Timmer. Bible story and fairy tale, true life and myth -- Timmer shares each in turn in ninety jewel-like messages that children ages 5- 9 will take to heart . . . and whose freshness and imagination youth workers, teachers, and parents will love.
Logic Primer, second edition
Colin Allen,Michael Hand
Author : Colin Allen,Michael Hand
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262303965
Logic Primer, second edition by Colin Allen,Michael Hand Pdf
Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. Logic Primer presents a rigorous introduction to natural deduction systems of sentential and first-order logic. The text is designed to foster the student-instructor relationship. The key concepts are laid out in concise definitions and comments, with the expectation that the instructor will elaborate upon them. New to the second edition is the addition of material on the logic of identity in chapters 3 and 4. An innovative interactive Web site, consisting of a "Logic Daemon" and a "Quizmaster," encourages students to formulate their own proofs and links them to appropriate explanations in the book.
Logic Primer, third edition
Colin Allen,Michael Hand
Author : Colin Allen,Michael Hand
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262369480
Logic Primer, third edition by Colin Allen,Michael Hand Pdf
The new edition of a comprehensive and rigorous but concise introduction to symbolic logic. Logic Primer offers a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to symbolic logic, providing concise definitions of key concepts, illustrative examples, and exercises. After presenting the definitions of validity and soundness, the book goes on to introduce a formal language, proof theory, and formal semantics for sentential logic (chapters 1–3) and for first-order predicate logic (chapters 4–6) with identity (chapter 7). For this third edition, the material has been reorganized from four chapters into seven, increasing the modularity of the text and enabling teachers to choose alternative paths through the book. New exercises have been added, and all exercises are now arranged to support students moving from easier to harder problems. Its spare and elegant treatment makes Logic Primer unique among textbooks. It presents the material with minimal chattiness, allowing students to proceed more directly from topic to topic and leaving instructors free to cover the subject matter in the way that best suits their students. The book includes more than thirty exercise sets, with answers to many of them provided in an appendix. The book’s website allows students to enter and check proofs, truth tables, and other exercises interactively.
Research on Young Children’s Humor
Eleni Loizou,Susan L. Recchia
Author : Eleni Loizou,Susan L. Recchia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030152024
Research on Young Children’s Humor by Eleni Loizou,Susan L. Recchia Pdf
This book provides a wide spectrum of research on young children’s humor and illuminates the depth and complexity of humor development in children from birth through age 8 and beyond. It highlights the work of pioneers in young children’s humor research including Paul McGhee, Doris Bergen, and Vasu Reddy. Presenting a variety of new perspectives, the book examines such issues as play, humor, laughing and pleasure within the context of learning and development. It looks at humor, wordplay and cartoons that can be used as educational tools in the classroom. Finally, it provides explorations of humor within a cultural and spiritual context. The book presents diverse and creative methods to study humor and provides practical implications for adults working with children. The book offers a powerful springboard for moving research and practice toward a deeper understanding of young children’s humor as an integral and meaningful component of early development and learning.
Tracker
Alexis Wright
Author : Alexis Wright
Publisher : Giramondo Publishing
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781925336603
Tracker by Alexis Wright Pdf
Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia’s most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country, reminiscent in its scale and intimacy of the work of Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Svetlana Alexievich. Miles Franklin Award-winning novelist Alexis Wright returns to non-fiction in her new book, Tracker, a collective memoir of the charismatic Aboriginal leader, political thinker, and entrepreneur who died in Darwin in 2015. Taken from his family as a child and brought up in a mission on Croker Island, Tracker Tilmouth returned home to transform the world of Aboriginal politics. He worked tirelessly for Aboriginal self-determination, creating opportunities for land use and economic development in his many roles, including Director of the Central Land Council. He was a visionary and a projector of ideas, renowned for his irreverent humour and his anecdotes. His memoir has been composed by Wright from interviews with Tilmouth himself, as well as with his family, friends, and colleagues, weaving his and their stories together into a book that is as much a tribute to the role played by storytelling in contemporary Aboriginal life as it is to the legacy of a remarkable man. ‘A magnificent work of collaborative storytelling…It paints a vision of action and possibility for this continent that makes it required reading for all Australians and all those interested in this land.’ — Sydney Morning Herald ‘Wright builds, as much as anyone is able to in writing, a detailed portrait of a complex man, whose vision “to sculpt land, country and people into a brilliant future on a grand scale” is inevitably accompanied by an irrepressible humour and suspicion of authority.’ — The Guardian ‘Tilmouth was a man who worked through conversation and yarn more than with paper and pen, and this is a book about the place of the story in Indigenous culture and politics as much as it is about Tracker himself.’ — The Monthly ‘[Wright] enacts the complex relationship between self and community that a Western biography could not…There is a cumulative power in the repetitions, backtrackings and digressions the formula necessitates: a sinuous, elegant accommodation of selves. It is a book as epical in form and ambition as the life it describes.’ — The Australian ‘Wright’s brace of ineffable, awkward, uncanny novels will be unravelled and enjoyed by readers when other contemporary fiction is forgotten. Tracker, a book performed by a folk ensemble rather than a solo virtuoso, adds to her enduring non-fiction oeuvre that captures the unique ground-level realpolitik of Aboriginal Australia.’ — Australian Book Review ‘Alexis Wright is one of the most important voices in our literary landscape…This is a landmark work – epic in its scope and empathy.’ — Readings
Trickster Makes This World
Lewis Hyde
Author : Lewis Hyde
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781429930833
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde Pdf
In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.
Beastly Menagerie
Sir Pilkington-Smythe
Author : Sir Pilkington-Smythe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781461749462
Beastly Menagerie by Sir Pilkington-Smythe Pdf
A modern-day bestiary of the most incredible animals the world has ever seen—with 200 full-color illustrations Our planet is a writhing mass of wondrous life, positively popping at the seams with peculiar creatures. Life has wriggled its way into every conceivable nook and cranny, and nature has belched out organisms into even the most inhospitable environments. A Beastly Menagerie is a compendium of 100 of these most curious of creatures, from beasts that can fit on a pinhead and survive a saunter into space, to sea creatures just waiting for an excuse to smash a ship to smithereens. And let's not forget to mention the remarkable Jesus Christ lizard, the bone-eating snot flower, the pink fairy armadillo, and the zombie fly. This beautifully illustrated collection will delight and bedazzle fans of the amazing animal kingdom in equal measure. Narrated by the affable eccentric Sir Pilkington-Smythe and assisted by his cronies at The Proceedings of the Ever So Strange, each entry is an enlightening and marvelous foray into our world and all its wonders . . . topped off with a soupçon of silliness. An excerpt Sharks are pretty pleased with themselves, and so they should be. You see, they are basically rippling slabs of muscle in gunmetal grey, with row upon row of huge razor-sharp teeth—awesome eating machines that have remained unchanged for millennia. . . . Of course, some sharks don't look so tough. Think of the bizarre hammerhead, goblin, and frilled sharks. Not that they're to be trifled with. And then there's the cookie cutter shark, a sniveling little guttersnipe who looks more like a fat lady's arm holding a kitchen utensil than the pinnacle of predatory evolution.
The Other Side of the Whale Road
K. A Hayton
Author : K. A Hayton
Publisher : Eye & Lightning Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781785632822
The Other Side of the Whale Road by K. A Hayton Pdf
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS HOW DARK WERE THE DARK AGES? JOSS IS ABOUT TO FIND OUT... 'The Vikings are better armed than we are. They have long, heavy axes that can take a man's head from his shoulder. 'I know this because I see it happen.' When his mum burns down their house on the Whitehorse estate, sixteen-year-old Joss is sent to live in a sleepy Suffolk village. The place is steeped in history, as Joss learns when a bike accident pitches him back more than 1,000 years to an Anglo-Saxon village. That history also tells him his new friends are in mortal peril from bloodthirsty invaders. Can he warn their ruler, King Edmund, in time? And will he ever get home?
The Bryce Walton Boys’ Adventure MEGAPACK ®
Bryce Walton
Author : Bryce Walton
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781479407538
The Bryce Walton Boys’ Adventure MEGAPACK ® by Bryce Walton Pdf
Bryce Walton was a prolific short story writer as well as a popular novelist. He began his career writing for the science fiction pulp magazines, and later moved into the more respectable (and higher paying) mystery short story and Young Adult book fields. Wildside Press has been working to reissue many of his classic works. Here, then, are four of his action-adventure novels aimed at the Young Adult market (they are quite readable for adults, too): Cave of Danger Harpoon Gunner Hurricane Reef The Fire Trail If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 260+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Wildlife of the World
DK
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781465449597
Wildlife of the World by DK Pdf
Experience the full force of nature with this stunning visual encyclopedia celebrating the world's most wonderful wildlife. With an inspiring foreword by leading naturalist and wildlife photographer Chris Packham, this epic adventure takes you across the continents to meet all creatures big and small. You'll visit the deserts of Australia, the grasslands of Africa, the rainforests of South America, the mountains of Asia, and the coral reefs of Australia on this mind-blowing tour to meet the incredibly diverse range of life on Earth. Breathtaking photography, animal profiles, accessible maps, and facts and stats combine to create this standout reference title. Revealing a wealth of species across hundreds of spectacular pages, Wildlife of the World introduces you to animals that roam, swim, and fly in each and every part of our planet. Calling all globe-trotters, nature enthusiasts, and biology students, this is your chance to experience the animal kingdom as never before and gain an absolutely essential addition to your home library. Produced in association with the Smithsonian Institution. Reviews: "[G]orgeous coffee table book of animal life across the planet...This book is a perfect reference guide, a delight to page through..." - Publishers Weekly "If there's a must-have coffee-table book, this is it." - The Sacramento Bee "Beautifully illustrated with handsome photographs." - Booklist (Starred Review) "[A] big book filled with great photography." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Like a classic children's treasury book, this lavish work is an ideal option for researchers and browsers alike." - School Library Journal (Starred Review)
Northwest Anthropological Research Notes
Roderick Sprague,Deward E. Walker, Jr.
Author : Roderick Sprague,Deward E. Walker, Jr.
Publisher : Northwest Anthropology
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Northwest Anthropological Research Notes by Roderick Sprague,Deward E. Walker, Jr. Pdf
Eskimo Recollections of Their Life Experiences - Collected by A. H. and D. C. Leighton Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, 1940
From Dogfight to Diplomacy
Donald MacDonell
Author : Donald MacDonell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783033720
From Dogfight to Diplomacy by Donald MacDonell Pdf
MacDonell's service career began in the 1920s. Shortly before the war he became a Squadron Leader and worked at the Air Ministry during the Phoney War. When hostilities commenced he became CO of No 64 Squadron, carrying out convoy support operations and eventually fighting in the Battle of Britain. Awarded a DFC, he was given command of a squadron at Leconfield to train urgently required pilots. Eventually he was shot down over the English Channel and rescued by a U-boat, this resulted in a lengthy period as a PoW in camps throughout enemy occupied Europe and Germany. During this period he was involved with the famous 'Wooden Horse' escape and was eventually freed by advancing Russian troops.Upon his return to the UK he was promoted Wing Commander and worked on the Cabinet Office staff before moving to Headquarters Flying Training Command. He was then appointed Chief Flying Instructor at Cranwell before successfully applying for the post of British Air Attach in Moscow.