Download or read book Kangaroo written by John Simons and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kanga and her son Roo in Winnie the Pooh to the boxing champ Hippety Hopper who punches Sylvester in Looney Tunes, kangaroos appear frequently in children’s books, cartoons, and songs. They are a favorite animal at zoos, charming yet peculiar-looking with their powerful hind legs, long tails, and pouches. Though kangaroos are beloved in the imagination, but reality of their relationship with humans is darker and more troubled. In this book, John Simon tackles the story of these marsupials—and their use and abuse—in global history. In addition to describing the kangaroo’s physiology and lifecycle, Simons describes their role in indigenous Australian culture, their ill-fated first contact with Europeans, and their subsequent capture for zoos and relocation to establish wild populations in Japan and the United States. Simons also explores the connections between visual and cultural representations and the current controversy in Australia surrounding kangaroo hunting and eating. Demonstrating how the true diversity of the kangaroo population has frequently been reduced to a single stereotype, this book reveals how such misrepresentations now threaten the future of the species. A book for anyone concerned with animal welfare and conservation, Kangaroo is a pouch-sized and fascinating look at these unusual creatures.

Download or read book That s Not My Hedgehog written by Fiona Watt and published by THAT'S NOT MY (R). This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet five adorable hedgehogs in this exciting addition to the much-loved That's not my... series. Babies love the best-selling That's not my... books with their bold illustrations, patches to stroke, and a mouse to spot on every page, all designed to develop sensory and language awareness.

Download or read book Sue Kangaroo Level 5 written by Julia Donaldson and published by Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds Phonics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songbirds Phonics is a systematic, synthetic phonics programme for developing your pupils' early reading skills.

Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Songbirds written by Julia Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Donaldson enchante les enfants grâce à ses histoires envoûtantes et à ses personnages attachants, comme son célèbre Gruffalo. Les trois comptines de cet album ont pour vocation d'aider les enfants à mémoriser les sonorités les plus récurrentes de la langue anglaises afin de faciliter leur apprentissage. Ces comptines sont progressives et s'appuient sur une certaine récurrence des sons étudiés.

Download or read book American English File 3E Level 2 Student Book written by Christina Latham-Koenig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American English File Second Edition retains the popular methodology developed by world-renowned authors Christina Latham-Koenig and Clive Oxenden: language + motivation = opportunity. With grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation practice in every lesson, students are equipped with a solid foundation for successful speaking. Plus - an array of digital resources provides even more choice and flexibility. Students can learn in the classroom or on the move with Online Practice. language assessment. The first goal is to explore the difference between fairness and justice in language assessment. The authors distinguish internal and external dimensions of the equitable and just treatment of individuals taking language tests which are used as gatekeeping devices to determine access to education and employment, immigrant status, citizenship, and other rights. The second goal is to show how the extent of test fairness can be demonstrated and improved using the tools of psychometrics, in particular the models collectively known as Rasch measurement. “This book will have an enormous impact on the field of language assessment. Using Rasch analysis models to explore and identify sources of unfairness, the authors make a compelling case for fairness in the design and implementation of language assessment instruments and for justice in the interpretation and use of test results. A real strength of the book is that it guides readers through analytical techniques in an accessible way.” Dan Douglas, Professor Emeritus, Applied Linguistics Program, Iowa State University.

Download or read book Eats Shoots Leaves written by Lynne Truss and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.

Download or read book Animal Liberation written by Peter Singer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we treat non-human animals? In this immensely powerful and influential book (now with a new introduction by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari), the renowned moral philosopher Peter Singer addresses this simple question with trenchant, dispassionate reasoning. Accompanied by the disturbing evidence of factory farms and laboratories, his answers triggered the birth of the animal rights movement. 'An extraordinary book which has had extraordinary effects... Widely known as the bible of the animal liberation movement' Independent on Sunday In the decades since this landmark classic first appeared, some public attitudes to animals may have changed but our continued abuse of animals in factory farms and as tools for research shows that the underlying ideas Singer exposes as ethically indefensible are still dominating the way we treat animals. As Yuval Harari’s brilliantly argued introduction makes clear, this book is as relevant now as the day it was written.

Download or read book Inspector Hopper s Mystery Year written by and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-05-25 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Hopper and his partner McBugg solve a mystery in each season of the year.

Download or read book Principles of Animal Locomotion written by R. McNeill Alexander and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled swimming and fishes' tail-powered swimming? Why do horses change gait as they increase speed? What determines our own vertical leap? Recent technical advances have greatly increased researchers' ability to answer these questions with certainty and in detail. This text provides an up-to-date overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. Excluding only the tiny creatures that use cilia, it covers all animals that power their movements with muscle--from roundworms to whales, clams to elephants, and gnats to albatrosses. The introduction sets out the general rules governing all modes of animal locomotion and considers the performance criteria--such as speed, endurance, and economy--that have shaped their selection. It introduces energetics and optimality as basic principles. The text then tackles each of the major modes by which animals move on land, in water, and through air. It explains the mechanisms involved and the physical and biological forces shaping those mechanisms, paying particular attention to energy costs. Focusing on general principles but extensively discussing a wide variety of individual cases, this is a superb synthesis of current knowledge about animal locomotion. It will be enormously useful to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and a range of professional biologists, physicists, and engineers.

Download or read book Norma Jean Jumping Bean written by Joanna Cole and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1987-04-12 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illus. in full color. "Kangaroo child Norma Jean loves to jump. The problem is that her jumping gets out of hand, causing accidents and some ruffled feelings among her friends, and Norma stops her jumping entirely. But when the school's field-day games come up, Norma Jean is coaxed back into action long enough to win ribbons. Light, popular fare for beginning readers."--Booklist.

Download or read book Mouse and Me 1 Classbook written by Jennifer Dobson and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who do you want to be? Enter a world of imaginative play! Meet Daisy, Robin and their toy Mouse who feature throughout the course. They love to dress up, and their different costumes in every unit lead to new adventures, capturing children's imaginations. With Mouse and Me!, children learn by doing. Exciting interactive routines and songs with actions make new language more memorable. There are lots of opportunities to act out the stories, and children will love the adorablepuppet. Fun craft activities embrace multiple intelligences. Pop-outs make fun 3-D objects to use in games or to review language. Mouse and Me! educates the whole child. Through the stories, children learn important values, for example being respectful, tolerant, and friendly towards others. Rich, captivating video content engages children, develops their understanding of the language, and encourages them to make cultural comparisons. Live-action songs enable children to learn from other real-life children, andanimations of thestories bring the characters and stories to life. Live-action footage from a British nursery school enables children to relate to children just like them. Cross-curricular Smart topics develop children's multiple intelligences, meeting the different learning strengths of each child. Mouseand Me! is designed to help you establish a home-school link. Review worksheets enable you to compile evidence of learning, and through My Book activities, parents can see what their child has learnt. Parents can play songs and watch the stories with their childat home, and an end-of-year performance gives children the opportunity to show what they've learnt to friends and family. Mouse and Me!'s easy-to-teach methodology helps you teach with confidence. Clear learning objectives in every lesson mean you instantly see the lesson aims, and the 'Hello' routine at the start of each lessonhelps you establish routine and consistency in the classroom. The wealth of teacher materials - including story books, posters, flashcards, a Mouse puppet, Smart topic photographic flashcards, worksheets, and videos - together with clear teaching notes and ideas, give you all the supportyou need. Mouse and Me! also provides a flexible and fun phonics programme. Resources include teachers notes, flashcards, lettercards, and audio, all developed by experts in phonics teaching.

Download or read book Floppy s Phonics Sounds and Letters written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Recording for the Blind Dyslexic Catalog of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Has Stripes written by Margaret Ballinger and published by Reading Discovery. This book was released on 1996 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Have you ever noticed that there are stripes everywhere?"--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book Why Evolution is True written by Jerry A. Coyne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology, geology, molecular biology, anatomy, and development to demonstrate the 'indelible stamp' of the processes first proposed by Darwin. It is a crisp, lucid, and accessible statement that will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth of evolution.

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