Download or read book The Short Giraffe written by Neil Flory and published by Av2 Fiction Readalong 2016. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When baboon comes to take a photo of the tallest animals in the world, there is just one small problem-- Geri is the shortest giraffe in the world!.

Download or read book Jerome the Short Necked Giraffe written by Urbano Salvati and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grassland savannas of Africa where wild animals roam is the setting for this thoroughly delightful children’s story. Jerome, the Short-Necked Giraffe is the main character, but whoever heard of a short-necked giraffe? What’s more important to a giraffe than to have a beautiful long neck, which allows him/her to eat leaves and fruit from tall trees? One can only imagine what happens when the young giraffe Jerome refuses to do his neck-stretching exercises and ends up with a short neck. Jerome, the Short-Necked Giraffe is the result!

Download or read book Anthology of a Childhood Dream written by Urbano Salvati and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wanted to write and speak with the voice of a child, dream like a child dreams, and fantasize like only a child can.I wanted to search the world over and look for differences in the children's stories. I wanted transient time and spaces and to traverse a world that only children understand.I wanted to speak the language of children in many different languages.And so I did it, with my stories.But in so doing, I too became a child; and like a child have learned. The lesson? Ho! Ever so simple: I learned that it is in the fantastic world of a child's dream that we find our soul, the true and pristine meaning of the word love.Such is the beauty and simplicity to be found in Anthology of a Childhood Dream. Stories for adults to read with children, stories for children to read on their own. Born in Italy, Urbano Salvati now resides in Las Vegas and works as an executive chef in Portland, Oregon. He believes true happiness comes from love and from good food. "There is a certain magic about children's stories that I have I always loved. I have always dreamed of beautifully written proses that will elicit in readers all of the best that our heart can produce. I believe that there is beauty in simplicity: That inspiration is all around us. I also believe that the greatest teacher is history."Publisher's Website: http: //sbpra.com/UrbanoSalvati

Download or read book The Giraffe s Neck written by Judith Schalansky and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 Adaption is everything, something Frau Lohmark is well aware of as the biology teacher at the Charles Darwin High School in a country backwater of the former East Germany. A strict devotee of Darwin's evolution principle, Lohmark views education as survival of the fittest: classifying her pupils as biological specimens and scorning her colleagues for indulging in 'favourites'. However, as people move West in search of work and opportunities, the school's future is in jeopardy and the Lohmark is forced to face her most fundamental lesson: she must adapt or she cannot survive.

Download or read book Jim Giraffe written by Daren King and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Spectrum is being haunted by a ghost giraffe named Jim. Scott thinks he’s a man how has everything — a high-speed internet connection, alien-shaped slippers, and a beautiful wife called Continence. But Scott hasn’t touched her in years and she’s been left furiously polishing the sideboard, dreaming of black stallions. According to Jim, Scott’s days are numbered, and to save himself from certain death from sexual repression he must quickly perform every act in the lovermaker’s lexicon. Jim Giraffe knows a lot about sex, luckily. He also loves pizza and beer and has breath that smells of tree-tops. The prudish Scott is at first shocked by this profane, perverted ghost giraffe, but he accepts his help. Little does Scott realize that Jim has his own agenda and that his suburban idyll is about to be well and truly buggered up. Following on from the cult classic Boxy an Star, Daren King has written another extraordinary novel: highly original and linguistically ingenious, naïve and knowing, utterly charming, filthy, and very, very funny.

Download or read book Tales from Tambolia vol 4 written by Yasha and published by Petsis. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a world where every creature has a story and every story holds a meaningful truth. Join the animals of Tambolia as they learn, grow, and explore the profound lessons that connect us all.

Download or read book Giraffe written by J. M. Ledgard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astounding novel based on the true story of the life and mysterious death of the largest herd of giraffes ever held in captivity, in a Czechoslovakian town sleepwalking through communism in the early 1970s. In 1975, on the eve of May Day, secret police dressed in chemical warfare suits sealed off a zoo in a small Czechoslovakian town and ordered the destruction of the largest captive herd of giraffes in the world. This apparently senseless massacre lies at the heart of J. M. Ledgard's haunting first novel, which recounts the story of the giraffes from their capture in Africa to their deaths far away behind the Iron Curtain. At once vivid and unearthly, Giraffe is an unforgettable story about strangeness, about creatures that are alien and silent, about captivity, and finally about Czechoslovakia, a middling totalitarian state and its population of sleepwalkers. It is also a story that might never have been told. Ledgard, a foreign correspondent for the Economist since 1995, unearthed the long-buried truth behind the deaths of these giraffes while researching his book, spending years following leads throughout the Czech Republic. In prose reminiscent of Italo Calvino and W. G. Sebald, he imbues the story with both a gripping sense of specificity and a profound resonance, limning the ways the giraffes enter the lives of the people around them, the secrecy and fear that permeate 1970s Czechoslovakia, and the quiet ways in which ordinary people become complicit in the crimes committed in their midst.

Download or read book Giraffes written by Sarah Albee and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of giraffes.

Download or read book Insensitive Semantics written by Herman Cappelen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well

Download or read book Liberating Content written by Herman Cappelen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together two series of papers: one began with Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore's 1997 paper 'On an Alleged Connection Between the Theory of Meaning and Indirect Speech'. The other series started with their 1997 paper 'Varieties of Quotation'. The central theme throughout is that only when communicative content is liberated from semantic content will we make progress in understanding language, communication, contexts, and their interconnection. These are the papers in which Cappelen and Lepore introduced speech act pluralism and semantic minimalism, and they provide the foundation for one of the most powerful attacks on contextualism in contemporary philosophy.

Download or read book Stretch written by Doreen Cronin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you stretch to the ceiling? Can you stretch to the floor? You can stretch with a whisper, you can stretch with a roar! Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin give new meaning to the yoga pose downward facing dog as publishing’s most energetic pooch explores the many, many ways a kid can get limber. More than simple toe touching, this pup stretches to ride a breeze, grab a snack from a tree, catch a wave. His bubble gum even gets in on the stretching action. POP! And he reminds us not to forget that we also need to stretch our imaginations (recognize that statue, anyone?). This interactive, energetic rhyming text will also help parents stretch out reading time with their youngsters.

Download or read book Take Off 4 written by Vijaya Subramaniam, Charu Rekha and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Channelled Meditations written by Linda M. Blackshaw and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Soul is Strong. My Soul is Love. I Am Strong. I Am Love. I am comfortable in my skin. I AM HAPPY AND LOVE BEING ME. These are some of the affi rmations that were channelled to Linda along with the meditations in this book. Meditation is a useful tool in improving your relationship with yourself and the world around you. Dive into this book and begin to change. Have a hand in creating the Life, Health and Love you want. Be the architect of your own life. Meditation is a beginning.

Download or read book The Evolution of the Long necked Giraffe Giraffa Camelopardalis L written by Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig and published by MV-Verlag. This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Darwin (1871) and many African folk legends before him [...] proposed a simple but powerful explanation for the large and elongated shape. Long necks allowed giraffe to outreach presumed competitors, particularly during dry-season bottlenecks when leaves become scarce; (Simmons and Scheepers). However, this old African folk legend which is still commonly taught in high schools, fails to explain, among other things, the size differences between males and females. Giraffe cows are up to 1.5 meters shorter than the giraffe bulls, not to mention the offspring. The wide migration range of the giraffe and the low heights of the most common plants in their diet likewise argue against the dominant selection hypothesis. Also: 1) The fossil "links," which according to the theory should appear successively and replace each other, usually exist simultaneously for long periods of time. 2) Evolutionary derivations based on similarities rely on circular reasoning. 3) The giraffe has eigh t cervical vertebrae. Although the 8th vertebra displays almost all the characteristics of a neck vertebra, as an exception to the rule the first rib pair is attached there. 4) The origin of the long-necked giraffe by a macromutation is, due to the many synorganized structures, extremely improbable. 5) Sexual selection also lacks a mutational basis and, what is more, is frequently in conflict with natural selection ("head clubbing" is probably "a consequence of a long neck and not a cause"; see also Mitchell et al. 2009). 6) In contrast to the thus-far proposed naturalistic hypotheses, the intelligent design theory is basically testable. 7) The long-necked giraffes possibly all belong to the same basic type inasmuch as 8) a gradual evolution from the short-necked to the long-necked giraffe is ruled out by the duplication of a neck vertebra and the loss of a thoracic vertebra. 9) Chance mutations are principally not sufficient to explain the origin of the long-necked giraffe. 10) The intelligent design theory offers an adequate and satisfying solution to the problems and points to numerous "old" and new research projects. 11) Mitchell and Skinner present a good analysis of the selectionist problem; however, their phylogenetic hypotheses presuppose the correctness of the synthetic evolutionary theory, and their claims of "intermediate forms" are unproven (similarly summary Part 2). Part 1 shows why Dawkins and Kutschera are wrong. The scientific facts speak for design."

Download or read book Unleash Your Primal Power written by Leanna Manuel Psy.D. and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleash Your Primal Power provides a technology for making lasting personal change by combining ancient wisdom and modern psychology. The technique is simple and easily mastered within the first chapters of the book. The remaining chapters offer fun and effective exercises that you can implement immediately to increase your health and happiness.

Download or read book Stretch s Treasure Hunt written by Richard Hays and published by Chariot Victor Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Stretch discovers the long-hidden area called Nosey Rock, he remembers talk about a treasure. As the animals are all cleaning up after a big storm, Stretch starts looking for the lost treasure. Eventually, the other animals catch on and start searching too. They get into a fight over what the treasure is and finally come to understand that they are forgetting what God wants them to be...treasures to each other.

Download or read book Yoga Animals written by Paige Towler and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2020 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roar like a lion! Arch like a kitten! Stretch like a cobra! Did you know that many yoga poses were inspired by animals? Let these creatures inspire your young ones to get moving, practice mindfulness, or calm down after a long day. Simple step-by-step instructions explain the kid-friendly moves. Kids will get a kick out of the accompanying photos of animals that mimic each pose, and the sweet poem is sure to delight"--