Download or read book Jungle Shorts written by Irene Rawnsley and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an Oxford Reading Tree series of fiction for pupils aged 7 to 11. Specially written for children who need the support of carefully monitored language levels, the stories are accessible, motivating and humorous. The series is organized into five stages, with each stage introducing more complex narrative forms, including flashbacks and changes in viewpoint; descriptive writing; and extended reading vocabulary. Each stage is supported by a Teacher's Guide, which offers guidance on using Treetops to assess children's reading ability. A variety of activities are included.
Download or read book Jungle Shorts written by Irene Rawnsley and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shorts written by Robert Alan Jamieson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a mix of Scottish short story writing, this work includes such writers as Gordon Legge, Kathryn Heyman, Brian McCabe, Frank Kuppner, Ron Butlin and Jackie Kay, alongside a number of new voices.
Download or read book U S Army Uniforms of World War II written by Shelby L. Stanton and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates and documents the clothing and individual equipment used by American soldiers during the First World War.
Download or read book Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Fiction Level 10 Jungle Shorts written by Irene Rawnsley and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jungle Shorts Lenny loves football. He can't wait to start football lessons at school. Everyone else is getting a new kit and Lenny wants a pair of proper football shorts, but his mum has other ideas... TreeTops Fiction contains engaging novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading!
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1940-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book Travelers Shorts written by Robert George Reoch and published by Travelers' Shorts. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instead of a heavy novel that you may not finish on a plane, train, boat, or bus, Travelers Shorts by Robert George Reoch offers entertaining short stories in delicious smaller bites to fit any itinerary. These original shorts deliver drama, adventure, and laugh-out-loud humor in manageable portions the perfect diversion while in transit. Travelers Shorts, from the mind of a Southern California Baby Boomer, are filled with drama, surprises, and laugh-out-loud humor. These sometimes astonishing tales from the 60s, 70s, and 80s have everything from sexy sports cars to attacking crows, Batman to Schwarzenegger, Robert Frost to Bobby Kennedy, and more! There's even a snake! Robert George Reoch's left-of-center bent will leave you laughing as well as pondering the state of our existence. A unique journey in itself, this collection is the ideal companion for your next vacation or business trip, or for just relaxing by the fire or on the beach. Escape at your own pace, anytime with Travelers' Shorts.
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1940-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book The Frackers written by Gregory Zuckerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters - who risked their careers to prove the world wrong. Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep decline and natural gas was hard to find. The Iraq War threatened the nation’s already tenuous relations with the Middle East. China was rapidly industrializing and competing for resources. Major oil companies had just about given up on new discoveries on U.S. soil, and a new energy crisis seemed likely. But a handful of men believed everything was about to change. Far from the limelight, Aubrey McClendon, Harold Hamm, Mark Papa, and other wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that Exxon, Chevron, and other giants had dismissed as a waste of time. By experimenting with hydraulic fracturing through extremely dense shale—a process now known as fracking—the wildcatters started a revolution. In just a few years, they solved America’s dependence on imported energy, triggered a global environmental controversy—and made and lost astonishing fortunes. No one understands these men—their ambitions, personalities, methods, and foibles—better than the award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman. His exclusive access enabled him to get close to the frackers and chronicle the untold story of how they transformed the nation and the world. The result is a dramatic narrative tracking a brutal competition among headstrong drillers. It stretches from the barren fields of North Dakota and the rolling hills of northeastern Pennsylvania to cluttered pickup trucks in Texas and tense Wall Street boardrooms. Activists argue that the same methods that are creating so much new energy are also harming our water supply and threatening environmental chaos. The Frackers tells the story of the angry opposition unleashed by this revolution and explores just how dangerous fracking really is. The frackers have already transformed the economic, environmental, and geopolitical course of history. Now, like the Rockefellers and the Gettys before them, they’re using their wealth and power to influence politics, education, entertainment, sports, and many other fields. Their story is one of the most important of our time. MEET THE FRACKERS GEORGE MITCHELL, the son of a Greek goatherd, who tried to tap rock that experts deemed worthless but faced an unexpected obstacle in his quest to change history. AUBREY McCLENDON, the charismatic scion of an Oklahoma energy family, who scored billions leading a historic land grab. He wasn’t prepared for the shocking fallout of his discoveries. TOM WARD, who overcame a troubled childhood to become one of the nation’s wealthiest men. He could handle natural-gas fields but had more trouble with a Wall Street power broker. HAROLD HAMM, the son of poor sharecroppers, who believed America had more oil than anyone imagined. Hamm was determined to find the crude before others caught on. CHARIF SOUKI, the dashing Lebanese immigrant who saw his career crumble and his fortune disintegrate, leaving one last, unlikely chance for success. MARK PAPA, the Enron castoff who panicked when he realized a resurgence of American natural gas was at hand, one that his company wasn’t prepared for.
Download or read book African American Slang written by Maciej Widawski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering exploration of African American slang - a highly informal vocabulary and a significant aspect of African American English - Maciej Widawski explores patterns of form, meaning, theme and function, showing it to be a rule-governed, innovative and culturally revealing vernacular. Widawski's comprehensive description is based on a large database of contextual citations from thousands of contemporary sources, including literature and the press, music, film and television. It also includes an alphabetical glossary of 1,500 representative slang expressions, defined and illustrated by 4,500 usage examples. Due to its vast size, the glossary can stand alone as a dictionary providing readers with a reliable reference of terms. Combining scholarship with user-friendliness, this book is an insightful and practical resource for students and researchers in linguistics, as well as general readers interested in exploring lexical variation in contemporary English.
Download or read book Royal Navy Uniforms 1930 1945 written by Martin J Brayley and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Navy Uniforms 1930-1945 uses over 400 illustrations - both period images and new colour photographs of original items - to show the clothing of both Officers and Ratings in World War II and during the years leading up to it, when Naval uniforms underwent significant modernization. The illustrations are supported by detailed text describing the development and use of Naval clothing of the time. Its contents include Officers' clothing and effects; Class 1 and III Ratings' clothing and effects; seamens' clothing and effects; battledress and tropical clothing; miscellaneous clothing, personal effects and substantive and non-substantive insignia. This is the first book to offer a detailed study of Royal Navy clothing in the 1930s and World War II and will be a vital resource for collectors, historians and enthusiasts. All of the major uniform types are superbly illustrated with 470 colour and black & white studio images and period photographs.
Download or read book Delivery written by Milton Golin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are there in these real-life stories: A necessary inflight armed mutiny...Evasion of enemy planes near Mount Everest storms...A jailhouse talk with the dynamiter of an airliner...Participation in a White House reception, activity in an Oval Office session. Here is a must-read, notably for the World War II buff andthe serious news junkie. Giovanna Breu, former national editor People Magazine High drama of investigative reports involving disaster heroism, air crashes, serial murder, hidden American history, childhood and other health disorders, and wartime crises.
Download or read book America Their America written by J. P. Clark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America, Their America is the personal journal and travelogue from acclaimed poet and playwright, J. P. Clark – exploring 1960s America as he saw it. Controversial at the time of its publication for its negative depiction of American society and values, America, Their America captures the raw experiences of Nigerian writer, J. P. Clark during his time in the U.S.A.
Download or read book Bloodship written by Gregory Lane and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the life of Andy Saige from his days in college, his service in Vietnam and the CIA, to his eventual return from Vietnam. Upon his return from Vietnam, he does not come back alone.
Download or read book Semper Fi in the Sky written by Gerald Astor and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, one of America’s most popular military historians re-creates, using their own moving and powerful voices, the true stories of the U.S. Marine pilots who flew the Allies to victory in World War II. These riveting accounts recreate conflicts ranging from the Marines’ gallant defense of Wake Island, where Captain Henry “Baron” Elrod destroyed two enemy planes before joining the fight on the ground, earning a posthumous Medal of Honor in the last-ditch attempt to stave off the Japanese, to the Battle of Midway and Guadalcanal. Running the gamut from Second Lieutenant Alvin Jensen’s single-handed destruction of twenty-four grounded Japanese aircraft on Kahili to Lieutenant John W. Leaper’s sawing off a Kamikaze’s tail with his propeller over Okinawa, these thrilling oral histories of the Pacific war’s air battles bring them to life in all their terror and triumph.
Download or read book Tales from Margaritaville written by Jimmy Buffett and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The singer/songwriter displays his gift for creating witty, laid-back Southern stories in a collection of bizarre tales and thoughtful essays.
Download or read book Rumble in the Jungle written by Giles Andreae and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come into the jungle for a noisy, rhyming animal adventure in this colourful read-aloud board book! There's a rumble in the jungle, There's a whisper in the trees, The animals are waking up, And rustling the leaves ... Little ones will love looking at the colourful pictures and joining in with all the rhymes, as they discover lots of exciting jungle animals - including lions, elephants, chimpanzees, zebras, hippos and more! From the author of international bestseller Giraffes Can't Dance.
