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Book Tiger Without Teeth

Download or read book Tiger Without Teeth written by Bernard Ashley and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Stew always gets what he wants, but he's not the only thing chasing Davey. There's also a secret - the sort that jumps up on you and is more frightening than a hundred Hard Stews. The sort you've got to stare in the face. If you've got the guts... Shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Angus Award.

Book Tigers without Teeth

Download or read book Tigers without Teeth written by Scott Wilson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book analyzes the rise of civil society and legal contentiousness in contemporary China. Scott Wilson examines how Chinese AIDS carriers and pollution victims, relying on weak laws and judicial institutions, pursue justice and protection of their rights in Chinese courts and civil society. In exploring the “politics of justice” in China, the author contends that civil society and legal rights advance when their organizers have support from pockets of the Chinese Communist Party, resources from international groups, and the backing of protesters. Even lawsuits that fail in the courts can raise societal consciousness of social issues and can lead to revised state policies to address the substantive claims of disadvantaged citizens. Underlying the politics of justice is the regime’s attempt to balance commitments to legal development and its interest in regime stability. Wilson argues that the Chinese state has looked more favorably upon pollution victims’ civil-society organizations and lawsuits than those of AIDS carriers. Going beyond the standard overviews of China’s legal system, Tigers without Teeth is unique in its close comparison of legal activism on two sensitive and politically relevant social issues. It provides important insights into the development of civil society, as well as highlighting limitations to the pursuit of justice as the system balances between the development of rule of law and regime stability.

Book Tiger Without Teeth

Download or read book Tiger Without Teeth written by Bernard Ashley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Stew always gets what he wants, but he's not the only thing chasing Davey. There's also a secret - the sort that jumps up on you and is more frightening than a hundred Hard Stews. The sort you've got to stare in the face. If you've got the guts... Shortlisted for the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Angus Award.

Book The Teeth of the Tiger

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Clancy
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2004-07-27
  • ISBN : 9780425197400
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book The Teeth of the Tiger written by Tom Clancy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Clancy brings Jack Ryan's son—Jack Ryan, Jr.—to the forefront in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller. A man named Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. What if they combined his network of Middle East agents and sympathizers with the Colombian’s drug network in America? The potential for profits would be enormous—and the potential for destruction unimaginable. A young man in suburban Maryland who has grown up around intrigue is about to put his skills to the test. Taught the ways of the world firsthand by agents, statesmen, analysts, Secret Servicemen, and black-op specialists, he crosses the radar of “The Campus”—a secret organization set up to identify local terrorist threats and deal with them by any means necessary. His name: Jack Ryan, Jr.

Book Counting the Tiger s Teeth

Download or read book Counting the Tiger s Teeth written by Toyin Falola and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preeminent historian’s memoir of the first peasant rebellion in postcolonial Nigeria

Book Let s Brush Our Teeth

Download or read book Let s Brush Our Teeth written by Alexandra Cassel Schwartz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An interactive tooth-brushing book"--Cover.

Book A Tiger Tail

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Boldt
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-07-05
  • ISBN : 1481448862
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book A Tiger Tail written by Mike Boldt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creative mind of rising star Mike Boldt comes a hilarious and original tale about overcoming back-to-school jitters, making new friends, and taking things in stride. Anya wakes up to discover that she has grown a tiger tail. Yes, a striped tiger tail. It also happens to be the first day of school. What will the other kids think? Are girls with tiger tails even allowed to go to school?! Anya is about to find out.

Book Year of the Tiger

Download or read book Year of the Tiger written by Alice Wong and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF USA TODAY'S MUST-READ BOOKS • This groundbreaking memoir offers a glimpse into an activist's journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice, from the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project “Alice Wong provides deep truths in this fun and deceptively easy read about her survival in this hectic and ableist society.” —Selma Blair, bestselling author of Mean Baby In Chinese culture, the tiger is deeply revered for its confidence, passion, ambition, and ferocity. That same fighting spirit resides in Alice Wong. Drawing on a collection of original essays, previously published work, conversations, graphics, photos, commissioned art by disabled and Asian American artists, and more, Alice uses her unique talent to share an impressionistic scrapbook of her life as an Asian American disabled activist, community organizer, media maker, and dreamer. From her love of food and pop culture to her unwavering commitment to dismantling systemic ableism, Alice shares her thoughts on creativity, access, power, care, the pandemic, mortality, and the future. As a self-described disabled oracle, Alice traces her origins, tells her story, and creates a space for disabled people to be in conversation with one another and the world. Filled with incisive wit, joy, and rage, Wong’s Year of the Tiger will galvanize readers with big cat energy.

Book The Final Confession of Mabel Stark

Download or read book The Final Confession of Mabel Stark written by Robert Hough and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1910s and 1920s, when circus was the most popular form of entertainment in North America, Mabel Stark made her name in a man’s world as the greatest female tiger trainer in history, the centre-ring finale act for the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus. Brazen, courageous, obsessed with tigers and sexually eccentric, Stark survived a dozen severe maulings — and five husbands. Now, at age 80 and about to lose her job, she decides that there is one last thing she needs to do: Mabel Stark wants to confess.

Book Sabre Tooth Tiger

Download or read book Sabre Tooth Tiger written by Gerry Bailey and published by Smithsonian Prehistoric Zone. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amazing fact-filled story tells how prehistoric animals survived and thrived!"--Cover.

Book Tiger Shark

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robin Twiddy
  • Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
  • Release : 2019-12-15
  • ISBN : 1534533087
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Tiger Shark written by Robin Twiddy and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many different types of sharks that live in the ocean, one of which is the tiger shark. These sharks get their name from their tiger-like, dark stripes on their bodies. Young readers will learn about the habitats and adaptations of these sea creatures through exploring an accessible and fact-filled narrative. Fact boxes are included to help them gain a better understanding of how tiger sharks live and how their lives connect to beginner biology concepts. Eye-catching, full-color photographs of these amazing animals fill the pages, creating a unique learning experience animal lovers won't soon forget.

Book Into the Teeth of the Tiger

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald S. Lopez, Sr.
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
  • Release : 2012-01-11
  • ISBN : 158834374X
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Into the Teeth of the Tiger written by Donald S. Lopez, Sr. and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Teeth of the Tiger provides a vivid, pilot’s-eye view of one of the most extended projections of American air power in World War II Asia. Lopez chronicles every aspect of fighter combat in that theater: harrowing aerial battles, interludes of boredom and inactivity, instances of courage and cowardice. Describing different pilots’ roles in each type of mission, the operation of the P-40, and the use of various weapons, he tells how he and his fellow pilots faced not only constant danger but also the munitions shortages, poor food, and rat-infested barracks of a remote sector of the war. The author also offers keen observations of wartime China, from the brutalities of the Japanese occupation to the conflict between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and the Communist movement. This edition of Lopez's acclaimed account features new photographs, most of which have never before been published. Relating how the 23rd Fighter Group continued to win battles even as the Japanese gained ground, Into the Teeth of the Tiger is the humorous and insightful memoir of an ace pilot caught in the paradox of victory in retreat.

Book Hide  The Tiger   s Mouth is Open Wide

Download or read book Hide The Tiger s Mouth is Open Wide written by Adam Frost and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom and Sophie Nightingale live on a barge with their zookeeper dad and vet mum, and as many animals as you can get on a small boat. Surely there's no room for any MORE animals in their life? When a tiger at the zoo has a dental dilemma, Tom and Sophie can't help but get involved. But there is a carnivorous culprit closer to home that they must also diagnose - and quickly! An animal-mad adventure written with the help of the brilliant team at ZSL London Zoo.

Book A Tiger in the Kitchen

Download or read book A Tiger in the Kitchen written by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Starting with charred fried rice and ending with flaky pineapple tarts, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan takes us along on a personal journey that most can only fantasize about--an exploration of family history and culture through a mastery of home-cooked dishes. Tan's delectable education through the landscape of Singaporean cuisine teaches us that food is the tie that binds." --Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles After growing up in the most food-obsessed city in the world, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan left home and family at eighteen for America--proof of the rebelliousness of daughters born in the Year of the Tiger. But as a thirtysomething fashion writer in New York, she felt the Singaporean dishes that defined her childhood beginning to call her back. Was it too late to learn the secrets of her grandmothers' and aunties' kitchens, as well as the tumultuous family history that had kept them hidden before In her quest to recreate the dishes of her native Singapore by cooking with her family, Tan learned not only cherished recipes but long-buried stories of past generations. A Tiger in the Kitchen, which includes ten authentic recipes for Singaporean classics such as pineapple tarts and Teochew braised duck, is the charming, beautifully written story of a Chinese-Singaporean ex-pat who learns to infuse her New York lifestyle with the rich lessons of the Singaporean kitchen, ultimately reconnecting with her family and herself. Reading Group Guide available online and included in the eBook.

Book Does a Tiger Go to the Dentist

Download or read book Does a Tiger Go to the Dentist written by Harriet Ziefert and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does a crocodile go to the dentist? Do giraffes get cavities? Do you? Let's think about it!

Book Pulling A Dragon s Teeth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shao Wei
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2020-02-24
  • ISBN : 0822980134
  • Pages : 81 pages

Download or read book Pulling A Dragon s Teeth written by Shao Wei and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a proverb in China, hu kou ba ya, literally "pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth," used to describe any extremely difficult task. When Shao Wei first arrived in the United States at age thirty-one, her desire to write poems in English seemed almost impossible. Pulling a Dragon's Teeth, a first stop on the successful journey toward that goal, is filled with the rhythms and visions of this exciting young poet.Shuttling between her childhood in a small mountain city on the shores of the Yangtze River (soon to be flooded by the Three Gorges Dam Project) and adulthood in Manhattan, Shao Weicaptures the pains and joys of tradition and displacement familiar to any immigrant. Blending fairy tales, New York images, family stories, and the universal rites of passage associated with growing up, she paints a vibrant canvas of passion and imagination.

Book Don t Tell Me

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Schwieso
  • Publisher : WestBow Press
  • Release : 2022-08-19
  • ISBN : 1664267867
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Don t Tell Me written by Mark Schwieso and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, we live in a complacent country where only certain answers are acceptable. In this book, the author dares to go against accepted wisdom, considering questions such as: • Is the divorce rate really 50%—and if it isn’t, what is it and why should we care? • Why is the media telling us COVID-19 is so bad? • Do we really know Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to be true? • Has the Bible been disproven and debunked? Other topics include the Big Bang Theory, biological differences between men and women, politics and religion, random mutations, UFOs, and global myths. The author also explains that the best lies are 99% true—liars practice their craft using the truth to mislead others. Moreover, he notes that no matter what you believe, truth is still true. For instance, even if a person believes they can fly, if they jump off a ten-story building, they will still die upon hitting the ground. Join the author as he asks questions that the establishment would prefer you keep to yourself by reading Don’t Tell Me.