Download or read book World Stompers written by Brad Olsen and published by CCC Publishing. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to motivate and inspire young people in their quests to travel the world, this book introduces a new way of traveling—freestyle traveling—where all that's required is an adventurous spirit and an insatiable curiosity about the workings of the world. This global travel manifesto clears up misconceptions about traveling, candidly portrays travelers interacting in different cultures around the world, and encourages young people to get on world travel circuits to become aware of the immense changes happening around the planet. In addition to providing all the practical information such as saving money on travel expenses, staying safe and healthy on the road, and finding a job overseas, this guide will also take travelers on a philosophical journey with the best travel advice from sages throughout the ages.
Download or read book Little Stompers written by Roger Emerson and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Express Books). Learning music concepts through movement is fun! This Little Stompers collection includes: movement songs for grades K-2, year-round ideas for teaching music concepts through movement, music class openers, songs to activate creative minds, activities to exercise healthy bodies, movements to promote physical coordination. The printed song collection features step-by-step lesson plans with engaging ideas for presentation, plus reproducible lyric and singer pages. Each book comes with a unique code for online access to audio recordings and choreography videos.
Download or read book Rhythm Man written by Stephanie Stein Crease and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America presents the first full-length biography of the Swing Era icon, restoring this pioneering virtuoso drummer and bandleader's primacy alongside other 20th century jazz giants.
Download or read book Tracer written by Rob Boffard and published by Redhook. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine The Bourne Identity meets Gravity and you'll get Tracer, the most exciting thriller set in space you'll ever read. A huge space station orbits the Earth, holding the last of humanity. It's broken, rusted, falling apart. We've wrecked our planet, and now we have to live with the consequences: a new home that's dirty, overcrowded and inescapable. What's more, there's a madman hiding on the station. He's about to unleash chaos. And when he does, there'll be nowhere left to run. In space, every second counts. Who said nobody could hear you scream? "Fast, exhilarating and unforgettable, and once you start it you can't stop." -- Sarah Lotz, author of The Three "A stunning debut that never lets up, from the nerve-jangling beginning to the explosive end." -- James Douglas, author of The Doomsday Machine "Tracer sets a new standard for all-action SF." -- Ken MacLeod
Download or read book Outer Earth written by Rob Boffard and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Outer Earth: a vivid, dangerous world where every day is a desperate struggle for survival. Who said in space no one can hear you scream? Outer Earth is a huge space station orbiting the ruins of our planet. Dirty, overcrowded and inescapable, it's humanity's last refuge . . . and possibly its final resting place. For there are dark forces at work on the station: forces that seek to unleash chaos. If they succeed, there will be nowhere left to run.
Download or read book The Finishing School Complete Collection written by Gail Carriger and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All four books in New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger's young adult steampunk Finishing School series are now available in one e-book bundle! Travel back to the beginning of Sophronia's story in Etiquette & Espionage, then follow her many adventures through Curtsies & Conspiracies, Waistcoats & Weaponry, and Manners & Mutiny to the smashing series finale that will make you want to start all over again.
Download or read book Etiquette Espionage written by Gail Carriger and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This young adult steampunk series debut set in the same world as the New York Times bestselling Parasol Protectorate is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail Carriger's legions of fans have come to adore. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners--and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage--in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.
Download or read book Dyke Girl Language and Identities in a Lesbian Group written by L. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the construction of identities within a lesbian group, outlining interactive tactics used in the production of mutually-negotiated norms of authenticity. Using ethnography and discourse analysis, a range of group-specific personae are revealed to be continually reworked and reproduced within the women's interaction.
Download or read book Keith County Journal written by John Janovy and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To learn from nature, not about nature, was the imperative that took John Janovy Jr. and his students into the sandhills, marshes, grasslands, canyons, lakes, and streams of Keith County in western Nebraska. The biologist explores the web of interrelationships among land, animals, and human beings. Even termites, snails, and barn swallows earn respect and assume significance in the overall scheme of things. Janovy, reminiscent of Henry David Thoreau in his acute powers of observation and search for wisdom, has written a new foreword for this Bison Books edition.John Janovy Jr. is Varner Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and director of the Cedar Point Biological Station. He is the author of Back in Keith County and On Becoming a Biologist, also available as Bison Books.
Download or read book The Littlest Grape Stomper written by Alan Madison and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixto Poblano really sticks out in a crowd. That's because he has six toes on each foot. And evil Boss Nova Boombatz, the head of all things grape, thinks Sixto has real potential. A boy with extra footage could really help him make grape juice! And so Sixto is whisked off to stomp . . . even though he'd rather play. Then one day, stomping inside a giant container, Sixto sees his chance to escape. He kicks out the barrel's cork, sending purply juice out in a flood, and freeing himself in the process. And that's how the Grape Lakes are formed! From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book Ooey Gooey Tooey written by Lisa Murphy and published by Redleaf Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ooey Gooey® Tooey is the highly anticipated sequel to The Ooey Gooey® Handbook. No matter what age group you work with, this book will be a valuable addition to your resource shelf. With 140 activities for you to do with children, Ooey Gooey® Tooey is chock full of art ideas and sensory tub concoctions, and sure to become an early childhood classic!
Download or read book Squeak Saves the Day and Other Tooley Tales written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder and published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tooley family uses magic to keep themselves hidden from people (whom they call the STOMPERS), but live happily in Tiddletown with Squeak, their pet mouse, a quark that lays golden eggs, a fairy who refuses to leave because she enjoys Mrs. Tooley's tea cakes.
Download or read book Impact written by Rob Boffard and published by Redhook. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Tracer and Zero-G comes Impact, the explosive conclusion to the Outer Earth trilogy -- a heart-pounding thriller set in space where the hero moves like lightning and the consequences for failure are deadly. A signal has been picked up from Earth. The planet was supposed to be uninhabitable. But it seems there are survivors down there -- with supplies, shelter and running water. Perhaps there could be a future for humanity on Earth after all. Riley Hale will find out soon enough. She's stuck on a spaceship with the group of terrorists that is planning to brave the planet's atmosphere and crash-land on the surface. But when the re-entry goes wrong, Riley ends up hundreds of miles from her companions Prakesh and Carver, alone in a barren wilderness. She'll have to use everything she knows to survive. And all of them are about to find out that nothing on Earth is what it seems . . .
Download or read book The Only Rule Is It Has to Work written by Ben Lindbergh and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller about what would happen if two statistics-minded outsiders were allowed to run a professional baseball team It’s the ultimate in fantasy baseball: You get to pick the roster, set the lineup, and decide on strategies -- with real players, in a real ballpark, in a real playoff race. That’s what baseball analysts Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller got to do when an independent minor-league team in California, the Sonoma Stompers, offered them the chance to run its baseball operations according to the most advanced statistics. Their story in The Only Rule is it Has to Work is unlike any other baseball tale you've ever read. We tag along as Lindbergh and Miller apply their number-crunching insights to all aspects of assembling and running a team, following one cardinal rule for judging each innovation they try: it has to work. We meet colorful figures like general manager Theo Fightmaster and boundary-breakers like the first openly gay player in professional baseball. Even José Canseco makes a cameo appearance. Will their knowledge of numbers help Lindbergh and Miller bring the Stompers a championship, or will they fall on their faces? Will the team have a competitive advantage or is the sport’s folk wisdom true after all? Will the players attract the attention of big-league scouts, or are they on a fast track to oblivion? It’s a wild ride, by turns provocative and absurd, as Lindbergh and Miller tell a story that will speak to numbers geeks and traditionalists alike. And they prove that you don’t need a bat or a glove to make a genuine contribution to the game.
Download or read book The 50s The Story of a Decade written by The New Yorker Magazine and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold War paranoia—featuring contributions from Philip Roth, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and Adrienne Rich, along with fresh analysis of the 1950s by some of today’s finest writers. The New Yorker was there in real time, chronicling the tensions and innovations that lay beneath the era’s placid surface. In this thrilling volume, classic works of reportage, criticism, and fiction are complemented by new contributions from the magazine’s present all-star lineup of writers. The magazine’s commitment to overseas reporting flourished in the 1950s, leading to important dispatches from East Berlin, the Gaza Strip, and Cuba during the rise of Castro. Closer to home, the fight to break barriers and establish a new American identity led to both illuminating coverage, as in a portrait of Thurgood Marshall at an NAACP meeting in Atlanta, and trenchant commentary, as in E. B. White’s blistering critique of Senator Joe McCarthy. The arts scene is recalled in critical writing rarely reprinted, including Wolcott Gibbs on My Fair Lady, Anthony West on Invisible Man, and Philip Hamburger on Candid Camera. Also featured are great early works from Philip Roth and Nadine Gordimer, as well as startling poems by Theodore Roethke and Anne Sexton, among others. Completing the panoply are insightful and entertaining new pieces by present-day New Yorker contributors examining the 1950s through contemporary eyes. The result is a vital portrait of American culture as only one magazine in the world could do it. Including contributions by Elizabeth Bishop • Truman Capote • John Cheever • Roald Dahl • Janet Flanner • Nadine Gordimer • A. J. Liebling • Dwight Macdonald • Joseph Mitchell • Marianne Moore • Vladimir Nabokov • Sylvia Plath • V. S. Pritchett • Adrienne Rich • Lillian Ross • Philip Roth • Anne Sexton • James Thurber • John Updike • Eudora Welty • E. B. White • Edmund Wilson And featuring new perspectives by Jonathan Franzen • Malcolm Gladwell • Adam Gopnik • Elizabeth Kolbert • Jill Lepore • Rebecca Mead • Paul Muldoon • Evan Osnos • David Remnick Praise for The 50s “Superb: a gift that keeps on giving.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[A] magnificent anthology.”—Literary Review
Download or read book The Illustrated Compendium of Essential Modern Slang written by Tyler Vendetti and published by Whalen Book Works. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Illustrated Compendium of Essential Modern Slang is an illustrated dictionary of the zaniest jargon, including everything from ankle-biter to zazzy! Complete with definitions, roots, and absurd usage quotes, these 300+ words are sure to make you go, “What does that mean?” What do your grandmother, your math teacher, your soccer coach, and your booger of a brother all have in common? They all have used slang at some point in their lives! Whether they were getting “jiggy” with it in the ’90s or raving about the “cat’s pajamas” in the ’ 20s, everyone has experienced the joy that comes with these coded exchanges. In this illustrated volume, we’ll take a walk down memory lane, exploring the best, worst, and most lit terms that have ever graced the pages of the English dictionary. Need an example? We’ve got plenty—300+ to be exact!—including: Canary (noun): a female singer, the likes of which you might find “chirping” along at the front of the jazzy musical group that your mom hired for your bat mitzvah. Greaser (noun): a tough guy who is as slick as the hair products that he soaks his fro’ in. Tubular (adjective): breathtaking, like the wave the dad who said it is probably cruising on. Bounce (verb): to leave quickly and suddenly before anyone can hear you use the word bounce. Tea (noun): The hot goss that your friend’s been holding onto, like a literal cup of burning tea she’s waiting to toss in your face when the time is right. The Illustrated Compendium of Essential Modern Slang is jam-packed with “dope” slang words, their origin stories, hilarious usage quotes, and a pronunciation guide so you can properly enunciate that funny word that no one understands. From millennial jargon to Gen Z lingo, this comprehensive collection of modern slang is sure to make you go cray (in a good way).
Download or read book World Stompers written by Brad Olsen and published by CCC Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly updated and revised edition of this world travel classic with more illustrations and resources. "This brightly colored post-psychedelic cover conceals what may be more than you ever knew existed about travel." --"Chicago Tribune."
