Download or read book The Puzzling Pluto Plot written by Blake A. Hoena and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny graphic novels for young readers.
Download or read book The Puzzling Pluto Plot written by B. A. Hoena and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eek and Ack don't give up! The Terrible Twins from the Great Goo Galaxy are out to conquer Earth once again. Maybe they should have studied up on the solar system first. Let's just say that the planet Pluto will never be the same.
Download or read book Beyond the Black Hole written by B. A. Hoena and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2009 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eek and Ack, the Terrible Twosome from the Great Goo Galaxy, discover a new universe and a new planet Earth that they want to conquer.
Download or read book The Common Core in Action written by Deborah J. Jesseman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses Common Core State Standard curriculum resources to assist the school librarian in collaborating with classroom teachers. Librarians are being asked to understand the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and their implications to programming and instruction, as well as to collection development planning. Using lesson plans originally published in School Library Monthly, this title builds upon them, adding many additional plans that address CCSS issues. The plans will help you implement the standards and can also be used as stepping stones to facilitate planning conversations and collaboration with teachers to co-teach lessons correlated with the standards. The book begins with an overview of the CCSSwhat they are, how are they different from the content standards, and what the implications are for schools where the state has adopted them, including what the CCSS mean for collection development. It then goes on to explore the opportunities the CCSS present for the school librarian, looking at how you can become a leader in employing the process. The majority of the book is devoted to reproducible lesson plans, organized by curricular area or topic and grade level for ease of use.
Download or read book Eek and Ack Vs the Wolfman written by B. A. Hoena and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2009 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aliens Eek and Ack visit Earth during Halloween and meet Wolfy the Wolfman.
Download or read book The Seven Basic Plots written by Christopher Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-11 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.
Download or read book Planet Pluto written by B. C. CHASE and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE 2019 WINNER OF THE SCI-FI PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BOOKLIFE PRIZE. "COMPULSIVELY READABLE...PACKED WITH MYSTERIES AND SURPRISES...ENOUGH DETAIL TO THRILL FANS OF THE MARTIAN." -HUGO AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR TIM PRATT On August 25th, 2012, the Voyager 1 probe crossed into interstellar space. It contained a "golden record" with sounds, pictures, and greetings from earth. On March 15th, 2013, NASA received a transmission from the spacecraft that said: "Hello. We received your golden record. Let's meet." Now, internationally bestselling author B.C.CHASE invites you on a daring first contact mission into deep space with five intrepid astronauts, one spunky cosmonaut, and a seventy-five-year-old truck driver. *Previously published as Pluto's Ghost. This edition, dedicated to the team that launched the New Horizons probe, contains an interview with the author from Publishers Weekly Booklife. "IRREVERENT HUMOR...VIVID...MEMORABLE...AS ORIGINAL AS IT CAN GET." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY CRITIC "Planet Pluto is a compulsively readable, twisty first-contact tale about a voyage from Earth to the edge of the solar system to meet mysterious aliens. The protagonist is an engagingly irascible elderly truck driver the aliens wanted along for reasons of their own, and his cranky-but-charming voice provides an excellent grounding for a tale full of physical, mechanical, and moral disasters. Planet Pluto is packed with mysteries and surprises, and filled with enough interesting engineering detail to thrill fans of The Martian." -Tim Pratt, Bestselling Author "A FAST-PACED, EXCITING, AND SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER THAT WILL KEEP READERS ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS. FOUR OF FOUR STARS." -ONLINEBOOKCLUB.ORG "SOMETIMES DIFFERENT IS BETTER. THAT'S THE CASE HERE. ...FAST AND FUN." -THE OKLAHOMAN "CHASE HAS THE RAW TALENT FOR WRITING, AND THE WAY HE'S ABLE TO PUT YOU RIGHT INSIDE THE MAIN CHARACTER'S HEAD IS FANTASTIC." -SCIFIANDSCARY.COM B.C.CHASE is the internationally bestselling author of the Paradeisia Trilogy, which critics have hailed as one of the greatest franchises of our time.* His electrifying talent for combining the latest in scientific breakthroughs with edge-of-your-seat thrills has earned him a reputation as a master of suspense. Amazon has named him among its top 10 Sci-fi authors. Visit the official website at bcchase.com for a chance to win free books. "CHASE'S CLEAN, FLOWING PROSE AND BRIGHT SENSE OF HUMOR LIVEN UP A TALE." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY CRITIC "INCREDIBLY WELL-WRITTEN." -EBOOKS ADDICT "CHASE KEEPS US GUESSING UNTIL THE END." -ONLINEBOOKCLUB.ORG "B.C.CHASE IS RAPIDLY BECOMING AN AUTHOR OF AUTHORITY." -GRADY HARP, VINE VOICE "CHASE HAS THE RAW TALENT FOR WRITING, AND THE WAY HE'S ABLE TO PUT YOU RIGHT INSIDE THE MAIN CHARACTER'S HEAD IS FANTASTIC." -SCIFIANDSCARY.COM "ONE HELL OF A RIDE." -THRILLERKAT REVIEWS "IN TRUE CRICHTON STYLE, CHASE TAKES ELEMENTS OF KNOWN SCIENCE, EXPLORES THEIR EXTREME POTENTIAL, AND BUILDS A MYSTERY AROUND SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES." -AMAZON.COM *epub.us
Download or read book Blindsight written by Peter Watts and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch written by Philip K. Dick and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palmer Eldritch returns from the edge of the universe with a drug called Chew-D for the colonists of Mars who are under threat of god-like or satanic psychics that threaten to wage war against the human soul.
Download or read book The Sea the Sea written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book Tales of Known Space written by Larry Niven and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1975 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sedna written by Richard L Smith and published by Richard L. Smith. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2017 a group of geologists are sent on a long journey to the minor planet Sedna to explore and answer some geological anomalies. They discover something truly astounding which upends the scientific thinking of the day. They are met with many challenges as they return home with their discovery and a surprising "gift" for all mankind.
Download or read book Mostly Manga written by Elizabeth F.S. Kalen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appropriate for any public library collection, this book provides a comprehensive readers' advisory guide for Japanese manga and anime, Korean manhwa, and Chinese manhua. Japanese manga and anime, Korean manhwa, and Chinese manhua are Asian graphic novels and animated films that have gained great popularity in the last ten years and now are found in most public library collections. Mostly Manga: A Genre Guide to Popular Manga, Manhwa, Manhua, and Anime is the first readers' advisory guide to focus on this important body of literature. This guide provides information on all of the major manga and anime formats and genres, covering publications from the early 1990s to the present. It identifies important titles historically and provides a broad representation of what is available in each format. Selected major titles are described in detail, covering the general plot as well as grade level and pertinent awards. The author also discusses common issues related to manga and anime, such as terminology, content and ratings, and censorship.
Download or read book 81 Fresh Fun Critical thinking Activities written by Laurie Rozakis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.
Download or read book Uranus written by Ben Bova and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus, the first of his Outer Planets trilogy. On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet Uranus, political idealism conflicts with pragmatic, and illegal, methods of financing. Add a scientist who has funding to launch a probe deep into Uranus‘s ocean depths to search for signs of life, and you have a three-way struggle for control. Humans can’t live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a sanctuary above the distant planet Uranus. He invites ”the tired, the sick, the poor“ of Earth to his orbital retreat where men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from the world. The billionaire who financed Haven, however, has his own designs: beyond the reach of the laws of the inner planets Haven could become the center for an interplanetary web of narcotics, prostitution, even hunting human prey. Meanwhile a scientist has gotten funding from the Inner Planets to drop remote probes into the “oceans” of Uranus, in search of life. He brings money and prestige, but he also brings journalists and government oversight to Haven. And they can’t have that. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book In Search of Wonder written by Damon Knight and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Solar System written by Lucy-Ann McFadden and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-12-18 with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Galileo published his discoveries about Jupiter, lunar craters, and the Milky Way in the Starry Messenger in 1610, people were fascinated with the planets and stars around them. That interest continues today, and scientists are making new discoveries at an astounding rate. Ancient lake beds on Mars, robotic spacecraft missions, and new definitions of planets now dominate the news. How can you take it all in? Start with the new Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Second Edition.This self-contained reference follows the trail blazed by the bestselling first edition. It provides a framework for understanding the origin and evolution of the solar system, historical discoveries, and details about planetary bodies and how they interact—and has jumped light years ahead in terms of new information and visual impact. Offering more than 50% new material, the Encyclopedia includes the latest explorations and observations, hundreds of new color digital images and illustrations, and more than 1,000 pages. It stands alone as the definitive work in this field, and will serve as a modern messenger of scientific discovery and provide a look into the future of our solar system.· Forty-seven chapters from 75+ eminent authors review fundamental topics as well as new models, theories, and discussions· Each entry is detailed and scientifically rigorous, yet accessible to undergraduate students and amateur astronomers· More than 700 full-color digital images and diagrams from current space missions and observatories amplify the chapters· Thematic chapters provide up-to-date coverage, including a discussion on the new International Astronomical Union (IAU) vote on the definition of a planet· Information is easily accessible with numerous cross-references and a full glossary and index
