Download or read book Nae N e written by Stephanie C. Fox and published by QueenBeeBooks. This book was released on 2014-01-18 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nae-Née is a dystopian science fiction story. It is a cautionary tale of a loss of liberty along with our ecosystem. It takes place in the present. Nae-Née posits a world not unlike our own, as it confronts the major taboo of our time: the conflict between human overpopulation and the human desire to pass on one’s DNA and culture, and to rest assured that the next generation will care for the previous one and continue all that matters to it. Our planet’s ecosystem is being stressed past capacity to the brink of collapse due to biodiversity loss, rising sea levels, floods, droughts, overdependence on fossil fuels, and the climate changes that drive all that. In short, the human species is in dire trouble due to overpopulation – its own. No one seems remotely inclined to sacrifice any comfort or control over their habits in order to save the environment and ultimately their own future existence, happiness or sense of purpose. But there is a significant difference: nanite technology has advanced sufficiently to be of actual, practical use to physicians and scientists. Nae-Née is a safe, reliable, user-friendly form of birth control. It is a microscopic device made of nanites – little robots. It contains a life-time supply of super-concentrated RU486, which the device releases whenever it detects a rise in hormones that indicates a fertilized embryo is about to implant itself. All that the inventors – a husband-and-wife team – wanted was a convenient device that would prevent pregnancy every time without constantly pumping a woman’s body full of artificial hormones. Its name literally translates as “not born” and was chosen by Avril, the wife, to reflect her husband’s Scottish background and her own French ancestry. The story is told from Avril's point of view, a woman with Asperger's and a professor of women's medical history. The world’s leaders have decided to make it the duty of every human being to participate in a bold new world policy, and they have drafted a treaty at the United Nations, and every nation has agreed to sign onto it. This is done on a date that doom-sayers have anticipated with predictions of various – and often unrelated – dire consequences: December 21, 2012. Under the terms of the treaty, all women must have a government-registered Nae-Née device. Henceforth, every birth of any new human being must be licensed, and not everyone who wants a license to reproduce shall be granted one.

Download or read book The Lantern House written by Erin Napier and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the nationally beloved co-host of the #1 hit show Home Town comes the quintessential celebration of home. Imagine a house's early days as a home: A young family builds a picket fence and plants flowers in its yard, children climb the magnolia tree and play the piano in the living room, and there is music inside the house for many happy years. But what will happen when its windows grow dark, its paint starts to crumble, and its boards creak in the winter wind? The house dreams of a family who will love it again...and one day, a new story will emerge from within its walls. In this modern classic, Erin Napier’s lyrical prose and Adam Trest’s warm and comforting paintings deeply evoke the soul of a house cherishing the seasons of life and discovering the joy of rebirth.

Download or read book How Airports Work written by Clive Gifford and published by Lonely Planet Kids. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does luggage go after check in? What happens in the control tower? How do planes actually fly? This interactive, lift-the-flap book takes you behind-the-scenes to uncover the hidden secrets of the airport - from a peek inside the cockpit to the hustle and bustle of departures. In this follow-up to How Cities Work, we explore the earliest airports through to today's giant transport hubs and what airports could look like in the future. Packed with amazing facts and illustrations from James Gulliver Hancock, it'll surprise and delight readers young and old, ensuring they never look at air travel in the same way again. Created in consultation with Tom Cornell, VP Airspace / Airfields, Americas at Landrum & Brown. Contents include: Airports Through the Ages The Great Get-to-the-Airport Race Find Your Way Round the Airport The Maintenance Hangar In the Terminal Inside an Aircraft The Control Tower Sees All Preparing Planes Ship That Cargo The Incredible Luggage Journey Airports of the Future About Lonely Planet Kids: Come explore! Let's start an adventure. Lonely Planet Kids excites and educates children about the amazing world around them. Combining astonishing facts, quirky humour and eye-catching imagery, we ignite their curiosity and encourage them to discover more about our planet. Every book draws on our huge team of global experts to help share our continual fascination with what makes the world such a diverse and magnificent place - inspiring children at home and in school.

Download or read book The Ladies Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Awakening of a Foot Soldier written by John Healey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of journal entries by a former soldier in Somalia and Bosnia, who seeks entry into Iraq in 2004 to work as a contractor in order to search for death, but who ultimately finds inner peace.

Download or read book Question a Day Journal for Kids written by Tammy Hulin and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Question a Day for Kids is a guided journal with fun and thoughtful questions for each day of the year to help kids ages 8 to 12 explore who they are. By answering the questions every day for 365 days, children will be able to see how their thoughts, creativity, and even handwriting changes over time . Prompts are short and sweet, allowing kids to answer as concisely (or elaborately) as they want. Questions include: ✓ Who is your best friend and Why? ✓ What are three things that make you smile? ✓ What do you like most about your school and Why? Discover a question a day journal that offers: 365 Prompts―Find out how much fun journaling can be by answering a brand new prompt every day. Kid-friendly questions―Explore questions perfect for young writers like you. A positive approach―Feel great when you write about your hopes, share what you're good at, and more. Get interested in journaling and self-exploration with a question a day journal that's perfect for kids.

Download or read book The Night Counter written by Alia Yunis and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An immigrant-ethnic cocktail laced with political oppression, but before shaking, [Alia Yunis] adds Scheherazade, the fabled storyteller who kept herself alive by distracting her tyrannical husband for a thousand and one nights." --Carolyn See, Washington Post After 85 years, Fatima knows that she is dying because for the last 991 days she has been visited by the immortal storyteller from The Arabian Nights, Scheherazade. Just as Scheherazade spun magical stories for 1,001 nights to save her own life, Fatima has spent each night telling Scheherazade her life stories. But with only nine days left before her death, Fatima has a few loose ends to tie up. She must find a wife for her openly gay grandson, teach Arabic (and birth control) to her 17-year-old great-granddaughter, make amends with her estranged husband, and decide which of her troublesome children should inherit her family's home in Lebanon--a house she herself has not seen in nearly 70 years. Fatima’s children are spread far apart and are wrapped up in their own chaotic lives seemingly disinterested in their mother and their inheritances. But as she weaves stories of her husband, children, and grandchildren, Fatima brings together a family that is both capricious and steadfast, affectionate and also smothering, connected yet terribly alone. Taken all together, they present a striking and surprising tapestry of modern Arab American life. Shifting between America and Lebanon over the last hundred years, Alia Yunis crafts a bewitching debut novel imbued with great humanity, imagination, family drama and a touch of magic realism. Be prepared to feel utterly charmed.

Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.

Download or read book Around the World with Max and Lemon written by Twinkl Originals and published by Twinkl. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max is on a mission to find out if she is unique. As she travels to a mountain, a desert, a jungle, the Arctic, an ocean and a faraway island, Max makes lots of friends. Can she find anyone exactly the same as her? Come on an amazing journey around the world with Max and Lemon! Max is determined to find out if she is unique. She sets off on a journey to find someone just like her. She travels around the world, meeting lots of new friends. Her journey covers a mountain, a desert, the jungle, the Arctic, the ocean and an island. Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).

Download or read book The Joy Journal written by Laura Brand and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Fearne Cotton. The Joy Journal for Magical Everyday Play by Laura Brand showcases fifty engaging activities for creative, everyday playtime to encourage a connection to nature, sense of joy and bonding with your kids, while nurturing your own inner child too. The activities are mindful, creative and, crucially, very easy things to make and do with children that you will enjoy as much as they will. From moon sand to flower soup and nature wands there are short, long, loud and quiet activities to take you from morning to evening – each with a focus on the risk factors: volume of effort vs child engagement and mess. Laura Brand has been testing these while writing and raising her two-under-two, and shares the happy accidents and road blocks she’s hit along the way in honest, open and often funny introductions to each of the exercises. This beautiful handbook will help you to inject fun, mindfulness and craft into bath-times, rainy afternoons, long journeys and play dates and to resist (as much as possible!) the temptation to succumb to screen time. Chapters take you through the seasons, with indoor, outdoor and on-the-go activities that are easy and fun every day. The Joy Journal will arm you with a variety of fun, focussed activities made with store cupboard and easily foraged supplies that you can turn to time and again.

Download or read book The Ghanaian Goldilocks written by Tamara Pizzoli and published by Love228. This book was released on 2014 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Accra, Ghana, The Ghanaian Goldilocks is a modern twist on the classic Goldilocks fairytale. Like traditional kente cloth, West African culture and themes are woven seamlessly into the story of a boy with sun lightened hair named Kofi, better known to his friends and family as Goldilocks. Like the Goldilocks in the traditional tale, Kofi has been known to get into some trouble here and there, but it's an unexpected visit to a neighbor's house that teaches him a valuable lesson of a lifetime.

Download or read book The Wall Street Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My First Book of Patterns written by Bobby George and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you learned your colors and shapes? Now it's time to learn patterns! Stripes, polka dots, plaid, chevron, and more are featured in this first-ever patterns concept book that provides readers with the vocabulary to name what they see in the world around them. The ten most prevalent patterns are presented first as a single element (This is a circle ...), then as a pattern (... a lot of circles make polka dots!). Conceived by educators and illustrated in vivid candy-colored hues, this pitch-perfect introduction to patterns will engage the artistic, mathematical, and linguistic parts of every young child's mind.

Download or read book Bug Atlas written by Lonely Planet Kids and published by Lonely Planet Kids. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in Lonely Planet Kids' award-winning Atlas series, this book takes a tour of the magical miniature world of creepy crawlies. We travel around the globe to uncover all sorts of fascinating bugs: from zombie ants and giant millipedes to beautiful butterflies. Full-page gatefolds and small flaps reveal extra wonders and fascinating facts.

Download or read book I Live in Laurel written by Karen Rasberry and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne is a bright and imaginative girl who lives in downtown Laurel, Mississippi. Mr. George is a famous writer who spends his days at the local coffee shop working at his computer. Join along with Anne and Mr. George as they take a walk up Fifth Avenue to Gardiner Park. Along the way she learns about the history of Laurel and even more about all the wonderful things she can become when she grows up.

Download or read book Afghanistan Journal written by Joshua Foust and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coldest I have ever been in my life was in the mountains of Afghanistan. I was in a helicopter with the windows and doors open. It was dark, the middle of winter, and I wasn't wearing a jacket. But up there, something became clear to me: America is fighting its wars all wrong.... Thus starts Joshua Foust's riveting and thoughtful account of the U.S. military's engagement in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010. In early 2009, Foust, a long-time analyst of Central Asian affairs and a respected blogger, got his first chance to go to the country he had been fascinated with for so long. He brought to the trip-- and to this book-- not just a wealth of knowledge about the country, but also an intelligence and sensitivity that informed all his writings during and after the trip.

Download or read book Friends Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: