Download or read book Adventures of Riley Outback Odyssey written by and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tigers in Terai written by Amanda Lumry and published by Scholastic Reference. This book was released on 2009 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riley travels with his Cousin Alice, Aunt Martha, and Uncle Max to the Terai region of Nepal and India to research the dwindling tiger population.
Download or read book Safari in South Africa written by Amanda Lumry and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Riley travels to South Africa to help his Uncle Max, a conservation biologist, track and count wild animals.
Download or read book Dolphins in Danger written by Amanda Lumry and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riley helps save a pod of dolphins that become trapped in a lagoon in Tahiti.
Download or read book South Pole Penguins written by Amanda Lumry and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is climate change affecting the Antarctic food web, leaving penguins without enough food to eat? That is what Riley and family intend to find out on their research voyage to the bottom of the world! Cutting-edge science, numerous close-encounters with native wildlife, authentic animal facts supplied by the world's leading scientists, a compelling narrative and next-generation picture book visuals combine to create another Adventures of Riley classic!
Download or read book Riddle of the Reef written by Amanda Lumry and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to Australia's Great Barrier Reef with Riley and his family as they see what's up down under! Large areas of the coral reef are dying, and they need to find out why. Joined by world-renowned marine artist and conservationist Wyland, the explorers face giant starfish, great white sharks, and even poachers in their search for answers. To ensure scientifically accurate and authentic content, thepublishers of Adventures of Riley have collaborated with leading field scientists from the Smithsonian Institution, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Wildlife Fund, and The Wyland Foundation.
Download or read book Outback Odyssey written by Amanda Lumry and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riley, Cousin Alice, Aunt Martha, and Uncle Max visit the Australian outback to research the local koala population, which has scattered and shrunk due to increased drought, brush fires, and farming. While staying at a working sheep station, they see kangaroos, a platypus, Ayers Rock, and much more. Riley becomes an official jackaroo (Australian cowboy) and helps save the sheep from a wilddingo, but can he find a way to save the koalas and the outback?
Download or read book Operation Orangutan written by Amanda Lumry and published by . This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riley and family visit the rain forests of Borneo to learn how figs, fig wasps and orangutans all rely on each other for survival. Riley spots sun bears, proboscis monkeys, flying snakes and more while coming to the rescue of an orphaned orangutan!
Download or read book Project Panda written by Amanda Lumry and published by Scholastic Press. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To ensure scientifically accurate and authentic content, the publishers of Adventures of Riley have collaborated with leading field scientists from the Smithsonian Institution, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Wildlife Fund, and The Wyland Foundation.
Download or read book Amazon River Rescue written by Amanda Lumry and published by Eaglemont PressBooks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Riley visits a rainforest in Brazil near the Amazon River while his scientist uncle is on assignment there.
Download or read book Stranger Country written by Monica Tan and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Will I ever really belong to this country? As a Chinese Australian? As a non-Indigenous Australian? . . . I was 32 years old and barely knew the country of my birth. It was time to change that.' What happens when a 32-year-old first-generation Australian woman decides to chuck in a dream job, pack a sleeping bag and tent, and hit the long, dusty road for six months? Thirty-thousand kilometres later, Monica Tan has the answer, and it completely surprises her. In mid-2016, Monica left Sydney, unsure of her place in Australia. As a Chinese Australian city slicker, she couldn't have felt more distant from powerful mythologies like the Digger, the Drover's Wife and Clancy of the Overflow. And more importantly, Monica wondered, how could she ever feel she truly belonged to a land that has been the spiritual domain of Indigenous Australians for over 60,000 years? Stranger Country is the riveting account of the six months Monica drove and camped her way through some of Australia's most beautiful and remote landscapes. She shared meals, beers and conversations with miners, greynomads, artists, farmers, community workers and small business owners from across the nation: some Aboriginal, some white, some Asian, and even a few who managed to be all three. The result is an enthralling and entertaining celebration of the spirit of adventure, a thoughtful quest for understanding and a unique portrait of Australia and all it means to those who live here.
Download or read book Meltdown written by Ben Elton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenaline charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab. But Jimmy was as lucky in love as he was at betting on dodgy derivatives, so instead of burning out, his star just burned brighter than ever. Rich, pampered and successful, Jimmy, Monica and their friends lived the dream, bringing up their children with an army of domestic helps. But then it all came crashing down. And when the global financial crisis hit, Jimmy discovers that anyone can handle success. It's how you handle failure that really matters.
Download or read book The Dickens Boy written by Thomas Keneally and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of modern classics such as Schindler’s List and Napoleon’s Last Island is at his triumphant best with this “engrossing and transporting” (Financial Times) novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens’s son in the Australian Outback during the 1860s. Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England’s most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let his parents down. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself—or at least fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various livestock, bushrangers, shifty stock agents, and frontier battles. By reimagining the tale of a fascinating yet little-known figure in history, this “roguishly tender coming-of-age story” (Booklist) offers penetrating insights into Colonialism and the fate of Australia’s indigenous people, and a wonderfully intimate portrait of Charles Dickens, as seen through the eyes of his son.
Download or read book Screen Media written by Jane Stadler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Screen Media offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and television. The authors emphasise the importance of 'thinking on both sides of the screen'. They show how to develop the skills to understand and analyse how and why a screen text was shot, scored, and edited in a particular way, and then to consider what impact those production choices might have on the audience. Stadler and McWilliam set production techniques and approaches to screen analysis in historical context. They demystify technological developments and explain the implications of increasing convergence of film and television technologies. They also discuss aesthetics, narrative, realism, genre, celebrity, cult media and global screen culture. Throughout they highlight the links between screen theory and creative practice. With extensive international examples, Screen Media is an ideal introduction to critical engagement with film and television. 'Screen Media offers a systematic approach to film and television analysis. The examples chosen by the authors are both appropriate and timely, and are presented in a very lively and readable form that will appeal to an international readership.' - Rebecca L. Abbott, Professor of Film, Video + Interactive Media, Quinnipiac University, USA
Download or read book Cultural Techniques written by Bernhard Siegert and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a crucial shift within posthumanistic media studies, Bernhard Siegert dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations that reproduce, displace, process, and reflect the distinctions fundamental for a given culture. Cultural Techniques aims to forget our traditional understanding of media so as to redefine the concept through something more fundamental than the empiricist study of a medium’s individual or collective uses or of its cultural semantics or aesthetics. Rather, Siegert seeks to relocate media and culture on a level where the distinctions between object and performance, matter and form, human and nonhuman, sign and channel, the symbolic and the real are still in the process of becoming. The result is to turn ontology into a domain of all that is meant in German by the word Kultur. Cultural techniques comprise not only self-referential symbolic practices like reading, writing, counting, or image-making. The analysis of artifacts as cultural techniques emphasizes their ontological status as “in-betweens,” shifting from firstorder to second-order techniques, from the technical to the artistic, from object to sign, from the natural to the cultural, from the operational to the representational. Cultural Techniques ranges from seafaring, drafting, and eating to the production of the sign-signaldistinction in old and new media, to the reproduction of anthropological difference, to the study of trompe-l’oeils, grids, registers, and doors. Throughout, Siegert addresses fundamental questions of how ontological distinctions can be replaced by chains of operations that process those alleged ontological distinctions within the ontic. Grounding posthumanist theory both historically and technically, this book opens up a crucial dialogue between new German media theory and American postcybernetic discourses.
Download or read book Improvising Theory written by Allaine Cerwonka and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long recognized that ethnographic method is bound up with the construction of theory in ways that are difficult to teach. The reason, Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa H. Malkki argue, is that ethnographic theorization is essentially improvisatory in nature, conducted in real time and in necessarily unpredictable social situations. In a unique account of, and critical reflection on, the process of theoretical improvisation in ethnographic research, they demonstrate how both objects of analysis, and our ways of knowing and explaining them, are created and discovered in the give and take of real life, in all its unpredictability and immediacy. Improvising Theory centers on the year-long correspondence between Cerwonka, then a graduate student in political science conducting research in Australia, and her anthropologist mentor, Malkki. Through regular e-mail exchanges, Malkki attempted to teach Cerwonka, then new to the discipline, the basic tools and subtle intuition needed for anthropological fieldwork. The result is a strikingly original dissection of the processual ethics and politics of method in ethnography.
Download or read book The Pearl Sister written by Lucinda Riley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the fourth “brilliantly written” (Historical Novel Society) novel in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley’s epic Seven Sisters series. “Fans of Kristin Hannah, Kate Morton, and Riley’s previous novels will adore” (Booklist) this adventurous and moving story about two women searching for a place to call home. CeCe D’Aplièse has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father—the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe—she finds herself more alone than ever. With nothing left to lose, CeCe delves into the mystery of her origins. The only clues she holds are a black and white photograph and the name of a female pioneer who once lived in Australia. One hundred years earlier, Kitty McBride, a Scottish clergyman’s daughter, abandons her conservative upbringing to serve as the companion to a wealthy woman traveling from Edinburgh to Adelaide. Her ticket to a new land brings the adventure she dreamed of and a love that she had never imagined. When CeCe herself finally reaches the searing heat and dusty plains of the Red Centre of Australia, something deep within her responds to the energy of the area and the ancient culture of the Aboriginal people. As she comes closer to finding the truth of her ancestry, CeCe begins to believe that this untamed, vast continent could offer her what she never thought possible: a sense of belonging, and a home. With Lucinda Riley’s signature “meticulous research and attention to detail” (Booklist), The Pearl Sister is an immersive saga that “will keep readers glued to the page” (RT Book Reviews).
