Download or read book A Toad That Explodes and Other Cool Animal Facts written by Melissa Abramovitz and published by Mind-Blowing Science Facts. This book was released on 2019 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that horned lizards can shoot blood from their eyes? Discover other mind-blowing facts about animals!
Download or read book Prince Abbey s Quest written by Levis Adjetey and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Prince Abbey. A man who is on a quest to defend his land, Restore his family name as rightful king of Gha. Many years ago Prince Abbey’s treacherous uncle Oga had murdered his own brother, the king. And taken control of the land. This is the story of prince Abbey, a boy who identifies his true identity at the age of twenty when he is sent on a dangerous quest by a mysterious man who holds the secret to Prince Abbey’s destiny. Prince Abbey Journeys through vibrant markets places, dirty swamps, trencherous caves, his Final battle will take place in the mandara mountains were the gruesome serpants await him. Prince Abbey must meet up with the gigantic Luitenant Yemoh and his army of frog soldiers in the region of South Africa at Toad foot pond, from there they will journey to Egypt and meet up with luitenant Kotey and his croc soldiers. Prince Abbey will be shown that he has a common friend, and enemy. Who is this mystrious figure? The truth will only be revealed to him in the dangerous secret vaults of the mandara mountains. Throughtout his journey prince Abbey faces a personal tragedy when he witnesses someone close to him die tragically. Will prince Abbey be able to gather himself together in time and overcome this tragedy and conquer his enemies and fulfill his destiny?Let as watch and see....
Download or read book A Plant That Eats Spiders and Other Cool Green and Growing Facts written by Kaitlyn Duling and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that a flower in the rain forest smells like a dead body? Discover other mind-blowing facts about plants!
Download or read book The Universe Began with a Bang and Other Cool Space Facts written by Kimberly Marie Hutmacher and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know the planet Uranus smells like farts? Discover other mind-blowing facts about space!
Download or read book Surprising Animal Weapons and Defenses written by Teresa Klepinger and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2024 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether an animal is fighting to survive or trying to catch a meal, sometimes their best bet is a surprise attack. From hidden claws and tentacles to sideways fangs, other animals don't see these startling weapons and defenses coming.
Download or read book It s Raining Fish and Other Cool Weather Facts written by Kaitlyn Duling and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that lightning strikes Earth one hundred times each second? Discover other mind-blowing facts about the weather!
Download or read book Animals in Traditional Folk Medicine written by Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have relied on medicinal products derived from natural sources for millennia, and animals have long been an important part of that repertoire; nearly all cultures, from ancient times to the present, have used animals as a source of medicine. Ingredients derived from wild animals are not only widely used in traditional remedies, but are also increasingly valued as raw materials in the preparation of modern medicines. Regrettably, the unsustainable use of plants and animals in traditional medicine is recognized as a threat to wildlife conservation, as a result of which discussions concerning the links between traditional medicine and biodiversity are becoming increasingly imperative, particularly in view of the fact that folk medicine is the primary source of health care for 80% of the world’s population. This book discusses the role of animals in traditional folk medicine and its meaning for wildlife conservation. We hope to further stimulate further discussions about the use of biodiversity and its implications for wildlife conservation strategies.
Download or read book Record of Strange News in Northeast written by Sun PangZi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the vast northeast, there are countless strange legends. The protagonist of this book was originally a young man with no ambition, but he was destined for ghosts all his life. After difficulties and obstacles, he gradually grew into a strong and righteous man. His life is not only the life of killing demons and removing demons, but also the life of saving the declining human nature.
Download or read book Fallout 76 written by David Hodgson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerge from Vault 76 ready to thrive- solo or with friends-with the official guide to Fallout 76. It's the ultimate reference for creating your character, teaming up with allies, defeating enemies, building, crafting, and exploring the wastes of West Virginia! Surviving Aboveground: Detailed training, character creation guidance, and combat strategies help prepare you to embark on your adventure. Quest Walkthroughs: Quest breakdowns and helpful guidance through your journey, from your first steps outside the vault to collecting the last nuclear code! Post-Apocalyptic Atlas: Enhance your exploration with fully labeled maps and detailed information on every wasteland location. Building and Crafting: Learn how create shelter and necessary supplies with the new Construction and Assembly Mobile Platform. Multiplayer: Journey together with fellow Vault Dwellers for the first time! Make teamwork work for you with effective strategies for assembling your crew.
Download or read book The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place written by Wendy Harding and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment the first English-speaking explorers and settlers arrived on the North American continent, many have described its various locations and environments as empty. Indeed, much of American national history and culture is bound up with the idea that parts of the landscape are empty and thus open for colonization, settlement, economic improvement, claim staking, taming, civilizing, cultivating, and the exploitation of resources. In turn, most Euro-American nonfiction written about the landscape has treated it either as an object to be acted upon by the author or an empty space, unspoiled by human contamination, to which the solitary individual goes to be refreshed and rejuvenated. In The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place, Wendy Harding identifies an important recent development in the literature of place that corrects the misperceptions resulting from these tropes. Works by Rick Bass, Charles Bowden, Ellen Meloy, Jonathan Raban, Rebecca Solnit, and Robert Sullivan move away from the tradition of nature writing, with its emphasis on the solitary individual communing with nature in uninhabited places, to recognize the interactions of human and other-than-human presences in the land. In different ways, all six writers reveal a more historically complex relationship between Americans and their environments. In this new literature of place, writers revisit abandoned, threatened, or damaged sites that were once represented as devoid of human presence and dig deeper to reveal that they are in fact full of the signs of human activity. These writers are interested in the role of social, political, and cultural relationships and the traces they leave on the landscape. Throughout her exploration, Harding adopts a transdisciplinary perspective that draws on the theories of geographers, historians, sociologists, and philosophers to understand the reasons for the enduring perception of emptiness in the American landscape and how this new literature of place works with and against these ideas. She reminds us that by understanding and integrating human impacts into accounts of the landscape, we are better equipped to fully reckon with the natural and cultural crisis that engulfs all landscapes today.
Download or read book Surprise written by Christopher R. Miller and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, in the era of the spoiler alert, "surprise" in fiction is primarily associated with an unexpected plot twist, but in earlier usage, the word had darker and more complex meanings. Originally denoting a military ambush or physical assault, surprise went through a major semantic shift in the eighteenth century: from violent attack to pleasurable experience, and from external event to internal feeling. In Surprise, Christopher R. Miller studies that change as it took shape in literature ranging from Paradise Lost through the novels of Jane Austen. Miller argues that writers of the period exploited and arbitrated the dual nature of surprise in its sinister and benign forms. Even as surprise came to be associated with pleasure, it continued to be perceived as a problem: a sign of ignorance or naïveté, an uncontrollable reflex, a paralysis of rationality, and an experience of mere novelty or diversion for its own sake. In close readings of exemplary scenes—particularly those involving astonished or petrified characters—Miller shows how novelists sought to harness the energies of surprise toward edifying or comic ends, while registering its underpinnings in violence and mortal danger. In the Roman poet Horace’s famous axiom, poetry should instruct and delight, but in the early eighteenth century, Joseph Addison signally amended that formula to suggest that the imaginative arts should surprise and delight. Investigating the significance of that substitution, Miller traces an intellectual history of surprise, involving Aristotelian poetics, Cartesian philosophy, Enlightenment concepts of the passions, eighteenth-century literary criticism and aesthetics, and modern emotion theory. Miller goes on to offer a fresh reading of what it means to be "surprised by sin" in Paradise Lost, showing how Milton’s epic both harks back to the symbolic functions of violence in allegory and looks ahead to the moral contours of the novel. Subsequent chapters study the Miltonic ramifications of surprise in the novels of Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne, as well as in the poems of Wordsworth and Keats. By focusing on surprise in its inflections as emotion, cognition, and event, Miller’s book illuminates connections between allegory and formal realism, between aesthetic discourse and prose fiction, and between novel and lyric; and it offers new ways of thinking about the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of the novel as the genre emerged in the eighteenth century.
Download or read book The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern Maya written by Thomas Hart and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth and ceremony of Maya beliefs have been sustained for over five hundred years in spite of massacres, persecution, and discrimination.
Download or read book The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster written by Sally Rippin and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Australia’s best-selling female author, Sally Rippin, comes Polly and Buster – a brand new junior fiction series about the magic of friendship. Who ever heard of a witch and a monster being friends? Everyone knows that witches don’t mix with monsters. Witches are educated, clever, sophisticated. But monsters? Monsters are just uncouth. Some are even dangerous. But Polly the witch and Buster the feelings monster have been best friends forever. It’s the sort of friendship that makes your heart squeeze with happiness. Somehow, they've managed to keep their friendship a secret. Until one day, when everything changes ... Sally Rippin is the author of over 50 books for young readers, including the best-selling Billie B Brown early reader series, and its recent spin-offs, A Billie B Mystery, Billie's Adventures and the Hey Jack! series. Her new series Polly and Buster is accompanied by her own enchanting illustrations. Shortlisted for the 2020 YABBA Awards, 2018 ABIA Book of the Year for Younger Children, 2018 Indie Book Awards: Children's, 2018 Reading and Enjoying Australian Literature Awards: Fiction for Younger Readers, 2018 ABA Nielsen Booksellers Choice Award, 2018 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year A 2018 CBCA Notable Book of the Year for Younger Readers
Download or read book Kinesic Humor written by Guillemette Bolens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The triggers of laughter in spoken language or conversation can often be very simple, such as a change in gesture, or in vocal tone or tempo. Speakers and listeners understand these dynamics of gesture through motor cognition and use them to great effect. The causes of laughter and the experience of humor in written texts, however, are less well understood. In Kinesic Humor, Guillemette Bolens offers a cognitive poetics-based study of triggers of laughter in texts, focusing in particular on tonic shifts and gesture in plot and narrative. Bolens shows how literary texts from a variety of periods provide remarkably precise information concerning kinesthesia, the role of tonicity in communication, and the impact of momentum, timing, and tempo on the way in which gestures are processed in human exchanges. She investigates the narrative use of such parameters and how they prompt laughter in a wide-ranging corpus of major authors that includes Chr?tien de Troyes, Cervantes, Milton, Saint-Simon, Rousseau, Sterne, and Stendhal. Using the theory of embodied cognition, Bolens shows how thwarted perceptions and expectations of movements and sensations produce the cognitive shifts typical of humor. Bringing together narratology, cognitive studies, gesture studies, humor studies, and historical context, this book offers original perspectives on important artworks and represents a major contribution to cognitive poetics. Originally published in French as L'Humour et le savoir des corps in 2016, this volume not only brings the work to an English-speaking audience for the first time but expands significantly on the original by analyzing a new corpus of texts and engaging with recent advances in the field to develop a cutting-edge theory of kinesic humor.
Download or read book Creatures in the Mist written by Gary R. Varner and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varner brings together a medley of stories, myths, and folklore, sharing a fascination and respect for humankind''s early and contemporary cultures and wondering at similarities across the board. Here, he focuses on Little People and giants, animals and were-creatures, and the odd, helpful or threatening ways imputed to our earthly companions including dogs and cats, bats and spiders, and the stories people have told each other about them since time immemorial.
Download or read book Konosuba God s Blessing on This Wonderful World Memorial Fan Book written by Natsume Akatsuki and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not for the faint of heart. This Explooosive compendium of Konosuba content is a must-have for isekai hopefuls, collectors, and diehard fans of Natsume Akatsuki’s isekai adventure comedy masterpiece. Every character, every joke, every spinoff has been faithfully represented and acknowledged in this full-color love letter to Konosuba enjoyers worldwide! And the fun doesn’t end there! Exclusive art, interviews, and a special short story are just a few of the extra goodies featured within. If you consider yourself the ultimate Konosuba enthusiast, or if you’re just getting into the series and feel like having a handy reference tool, this gorgeous art book will be right at home on your shelf!
Download or read book A Toad That Explodes and Other Cool Animal Facts written by Melissa Abramovitz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that horned lizards can shoot blood from their eyes? Discover other mind-blowing facts about animals!
