Download or read book Helix Rolls Into a Sleepover written by Randal Betz and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Edward invites Helix to his house for a sleepover, Helix is very excited. But when Helixarrives at Edward's house, he realizes his home is not wheelchair accessible. Helix isdisappointed until his mom suggests inviting Edward over instead. Once back at Helix's house,the two boys have a great time together. Edward learns a lot about how Helix navigates hisworld. The second book in a series about Helix, a tortoise without the use of his back legs whouses wheels to move around, "Helix Rolls into a Sleepover" is not just a fun story about friendshaving a sleepover. It is a story of overcoming roadblocks, finding solutions, and introducesreaders to what living life with a physical challenge actually looks like! From his accessible van,to the lift in his bedroom, Helix shows his friend Edward exactly what his day-to-day life is. AndHelix does all of this while demonstrating how their similarities outshine their differences."Helix Rolls into a Sleepover" showcases life with an actual disability while teaching empathy,understanding, and encouraging friendship. It is not only educational, but delightfully fun! EveryHelix book includes educational information about the real-life Helix and his other tortoisefriends! "Helix Gets His Wheels" readers will be thrilled that the hidden stork carrying a tortoiseis back on every page and this time, there is a new hide-and-seek character for them to find!
Download or read book Helix written by Randal Betz and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helix is a tortoise who was born with a physical challenge, he can't use his back legs, leaving him unable to walk. He was at a new school and his teacher, Mr. Torty, introduced him to his new classmates. Helix was very brave and explained to the class what his physical challenge was. Helix's new friends asked him to play games, but due to his physical challenge, he wasn't able to play them. Helix wasn't upset about not being able to play the games, in fact, he showed lots of perseverance by using words like "not yet". Then Herman came up with a creative idea to save the day. With lots of kindness, Herman gave Helix his skateboard wheels and helped attach them. Now that Helix has wheels, he can play all the games with his new friends. The story ends with Helix sitting at the dinner table with his parents, telling them all about his wonderful day of school. The last few pages of the book are character pages. Each student in Helix's class is a different species of tortoise, so the character pages include common name, scientific name, habitat, climate, and a fun fact. When Children read this book they will learn about being brave, acceptance, kindness, problem solving, physical challenges, perseverance and they will even get a little education on tortoises. Helix gets his wheels will be part a series of books dicussing Social emotional learning standards, taught in a fun way, through a cute tortoise, that really exists.
Download or read book Helix written by Randal Betz and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-11-14 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Check-ups can be fun! In Helix Goes to the Hospital, Helix teaches his classmates that trips to the doctor or hospital don't have to be scary at all. With an upcoming hospital check-up, Mr. Torty asks Helix to tell his friends about what it's like for him when he visits the hospital. Bravely, Helix goes on to amaze and excite as he shares about all of the fun things at the hospital-- video games, foosball tables, and even a playground. He also explains that there are things like exams, blood samples, and x-rays but that the doctors make it super fun, fast, and easy. Helix assures his friends there is nothing at all they should fear. Helix inspires us yet again with his bravery, honesty, and courage! Now you don't have to worry at all about your next trip to the doctor! Parents, teachers, kids--young and old--everyone loves Helix and the teachable moments he inspires. From compassion and empathy to selflessness and courage, Helix stirs our spirits and fills us with joy! Beloved by all, Helix teaches, inspires, and excites kids as they search for and discover the special hidden character in each book! Helix keeps all of us on our toes!
Download or read book Helix Breaks His Wheels written by Randal Betz, Jr. and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helix, who has got wheels in place of his back legs, is ready to do the monkey bars. "Just swing towards the next bar, grab it with your hand, and don't forget to let go of the bar behind you so you can swing forward again," explains his friend because Helix is trying it for the first time. Helix starts swinging but falls and breaks his wheels. He gets upset but Mr. Torty's idea of getting suggestions from the class to fix Helix's wheels cheers him up. All his friends suggest interesting ideas but again Herman's idea saves the day. This is the third book in the Helix series of books. This book teaches children to be kind and helping towards others and to be self-confident, brave and determined. There are character pages at the end of the story about each student of Helix's class. Each one of them is a different species of tortoise that is described in a creative and fun way. There is even a page that documents the true story of Helix. This series discusses social-emotional learning standards, through an enjoyable story of an adorable tortoise.
Download or read book Helix s Hidden Characters written by Randal Betz and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helix fans we heard your cries . . . introducing the Helix's Hidden Characters Series! Join Helix once again as you search for new and exciting hidden characters! A fan favorite activity from The Helix Series, the hidden character books promise fun and excitement as you meet new friends and discover their unique personalities and gifts. This new series will continue to teach kids the importance of compassion, empathy, acceptance, and the power of friendship. The Helix's Hidden Characters Series is sure to be a crowd pleaser for young and old alike! Bonus: When you're done reading, color the character pages for more fun and excitement!
Download or read book Ben s Adventures written by Elizabeth Gerlach and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gregor the Overlander written by Suzanne Collins and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When eleven-year-old Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats and giant cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor's arrival is no accident. Gregor has a vital role to play in the Underland's uncertain future.
Download or read book Common Errors in English Usage written by Paul Brians and published by Franklin, Beedle & Associates, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online version of Common Errors in English Usage written by Paul Brians.
Download or read book Everyone in Silico written by Jim Munroe and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vancouver in 2036, people are tired of the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine, a life with no wasted hours. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when you want it to, not when some faceless entity decides it's your time. Those who don't buy in - the poor, the old, the paranoid - have to watch as their loved ones, their friends, and their jobs leave the city. They have to watch as the latest prestige technology, Self, changes everything - not just the world but humanity itself. On the bright side, the rents have dropped. And in several unexpected ways, resistance is growing. This fascinating work of fiction tells what can happen when the cyberworld becomes more important than the real world.Munroe is a Canadian science fiction author, who publishes his works independently under the imprint No Media Kings. He was managing editor at the magazine Adbusters in the 1990s, before publishing his debut novel Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask in 1999. The following he release Angry Young Spaceman through his No Media Kings imrpint and, in the U.S., Four Walls Eight Windows. A couple of years later he published Everyone in Silico, which was promoted partly by Munroe's attempt to invoice corporations mentioned in the novel for product placement. Munroe's most recent books are graphic novels set in post-Rapture Chicago and Detroit.Munroe was the founder of Perpetual Motion Roadshow, a North American indie touring circuit that sent 100 writers, performers and musicians on the road between 2003-2007. A former video games columnist for Eye Weekly, he is a founding board member of the Hand Eye Society and has produced projects such as the Torontron.
Download or read book Genius at Play written by Siobhan Roberts and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted biography of a brilliant mathematician and iconoclast A mathematician unlike any other, John Horton Conway (1937–2020) possessed a rock star’s charisma, a polymath’s promiscuous curiosity, and a sly sense of humor. Conway found fame as a barefoot professor at Cambridge, where he discovered the Conway groups in mathematical symmetry and the aptly named surreal numbers. He also invented the cult classic Game of Life, a cellular automaton that demonstrates how simplicity generates complexity—and provides an analogy for mathematics and the entire universe. Moving to Princeton in 1987, Conway used ropes, dice, pennies, coat hangers, and the occasional Slinky to illustrate his winning imagination and share his nerdish delights. Genius at Play tells the story of this ambassador-at-large for the beauties and joys of mathematics, lays bare Conway’s personal and professional idiosyncrasies, and offers an intimate look into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s most endearing and original intellectuals.
Download or read book Civilized to Death written by Christopher Ryan and published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist) book. Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Well, maybe we are and maybe we aren’t. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the “progress” defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease. Prehistoric life, of course, was not without serious dangers and disadvantages. Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected wound, snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But ultimately, Christopher Ryan questions, were these pre-civilized dangers more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents, cancers, cardiovascular disease, and a technologically prolonged dying process? Civilized to Death “will make you see our so-called progress in a whole new light” (Book Riot) and adds to the timely conversation that “the way we have been living is no longer sustainable, at least as long as we want to the earth to outlive us” (Psychology Today). Ryan makes the claim that we should start looking backwards to find our way into a better future.
Download or read book Thousands of Lies written by Manuel Marrero and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Agent Rx, chronic criminal and fugitive, goes off on a dust binge, he hits rock bottom and hits the road, leaving a trail of tears, violence and infamy in his wake. Meanwhile, Jordan Strong uncovers a highly classified method of time travel under the fixed scrutiny of various government agencies and chapters of the occult all coveting his guinea pig tits 'n appeal. Enlisting Rx's blue-collar bred double helix for tedium and accumulation of detail, they exploit parallel realities and paradoxical time lines to mine a collaborative novel transcribed from the voices of the dead. They stage the Phenotypical Exploitation, a kidnapping of Jane Bale and subsequent sale to NYC's dance music circuit, purveyor of drugs, sex and art. But their interests unravel when Agent Rx tries to reverse engineer the domestic trial of the century, bringing the novel, its author and the Exploitation's fatally erotic subject into notoriety for dollars on retrograde dimes. Together, they embark on a literary crusade of self-sabotage that threatens to fall off the cutting edge of a techno thriller, picaresque odyssey and log of skeletons. An upscale Polish call girl develops a posthumous reputation as the poster child for the right to die movement. The simultaneous advances in medical science and life expectancy coincide with the human colonization of Mars. A transgendered stick-up thug pulls off a career robbery, befriends a US President, gets used by the CIA, and becomes a father. A media star attempts to change her image. Paranormal visitations threaten the sanity of hard drug addicts, all the while a support group for movement disorders braces as a roundtable therapeutic free-for-all. Is a telephonic method of time travel the real deal, or an exploitation in itself, a device for dredging up juice from a cold vein? This is the story of two men among hundreds of ghosts and trees, from Cuba in the 1930s to New York in 2046. I know folks from the rust belt to the dust bowl who've never seen these trees. Go see them. You owe it to yourself.
Download or read book Monologues for Teens written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Down to Earth Sociology written by James M. Henslin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth edition's new readings include selections on the unspoken rules of social interaction, the shocking disparities between upper- and lower-class life, America's changing attitudes toward work and family and the roles they fulfill, and the "McDonaldization" of American society. Together with these essential new articles, the selections by Peter Berger, Herbert Gans, Erving Goffman, Donna Eder, Zella Luria, C. Wright Mills, Deborah Tannen, Barrie Thorne, Sidney Katz, Philip Zimbardo, and many others provide firsthand reporting that gives students a sense of "being there." Henslin also explains basic methods of social research, providing insight into how sociologists explore the social world. The selections in Down to Earth Sociology highlight the most significant themes of contemporary sociology, ranging from the sociology of gender, power, politics, sports, and religion, to the contemporary crises of racial tension, crime, rape, poverty, and homelessness.
Download or read book Planting the Seeds of Science written by Christine Howitt and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planting the seeds of science contains a range of teaching and learning resources relating to the themes of the environment, day and night, forensic science, cleanliness and solar energy. Presented in five modules, each module contains an overview, a range of ideas and play-based activities, focus questions, follow up sub-themes and suggestions for assessment, curriculum integration and a list of resources that support the themes. The flexible program is designed to respond to young children's needs and interests while guiding them to explore scientific ideas and develop a better understanding of their world.
Download or read book Criminal Investigation written by Steven G. Brandl and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal Investigation, Fourth Edition, offers a comprehensive and engaging examination of criminal investigation and the vital role criminal evidence plays in the process. The text focuses on the five critical areas essential to understanding criminal investigations: background and contextual issues, criminal evidence, legal procedures, evidence collection procedures, and forensic science. In this new edition, esteemed author Steven G. Brandl goes beyond a simple how-to on investigative procedures and analyzes modern research and actual investigative cases to demonstrate their importance in the real world of criminal justice. New to the Fourth Edition: New and updated statistical information, research findings, investigative procedures, and legal cases ensure students are learning about the most current research in the field. Several new "From the Case File" chapter introductions and 25 new in-chapter "Case-in-Point" investigative case examples make it easier for students to connect the content to the real world. More than 75 new photos, most of which are case photos from actual investigations, illustrate key concepts to help keep students engaged with the content. New material on documenting evidence via reports provides examples of well-written police reports to help students build better writing skills. New material on social media and evidence from electronic digital devices discusses how to use new technology as a source of information. A stronger focus on terrorism and the use of technology in investigations encourages students to discuss and critically analyze the future of criminal investigations. New sections titled "Mental Mistakes in Criminal Investigations," "Perspectives on the Criminal Investigation Process," and "Qualities and Characteristics of Investigators" offer students tips and advice for conducting successful investigations. New material on touch DNA helps students see the benefits and limitations of scientific evidence gathered from a crime scene. Give your students the SAGE edge! SAGE edge offers a robust online environment featuring an impressive array of free tools and resources for review, study, and further exploration, keeping both instructors and students on the cutting edge of teaching and learning. Learn more at edge.sagepub.com/brandl4e.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits written by Rosemary Guiley and published by Checkmark Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the realm of ghost folklore and mythology with over five hundred entries on historical sightings, paranormal research, and supernatural hauntings.
