Download or read book Bob the Builder Annual 2013 written by and published by Egmont Childrens Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Bob and the Machines in this fun-filled annual. Follow the team as they travel around their hometown of Fixham Harbour, meeting new friends, building and fixing as they go! There’s lots to do, with six new stories based on the popular TV episodes to read, as well as games, puzzles and activities to complete. Children can discover more about their favourite machines and join in to help Bob get the job done.

Download or read book Bob the Builder Annual 2012 written by and published by Egmont Childrens Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob and the team have been given the exciting job of building a new amusement park. The only problem is trying to think of a good theme for it. But when work on the roller coasters begins and some mysterious-looking bones are unearthed, the team find themselves with a theme of prehistoric proportions! Packed full with exciting stories, all your favourite characters, dino facts and figures, games, puzzles, mazes and lots to make and do, this annual is the perfect gift for all budding builders and dinosaur lovers! ROOAARR!

Download or read book Bob the Builder Annual written by and published by Egmont Childrens Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob is building Sunflower Valley's very first radio station, while the crew set to work, each machine thinks of ideas for their own radio shows! But Roley can't think of anything new – luckily Bob is on hand to help! Packed full with exciting stories, REAL machine pictures and information, games, puzzles, mazes and colouring pages, this annual is the perfect gift for all budding builders! Ready, steady, build!

Download or read book Bob the Builder Annual 2007 written by Egmont Books, Limited and published by . This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Annual packed full of pre-school fun! Young children will love the construction-related puzzles and stories. There are new characters meet including Scrambler and Bob's mum and dad, as well as the story of how Bob became a builder!

Download or read book Bob the Builder Annual 2003 written by Brenda Apsley and published by . This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book LEGO Friends Lights Camera Girl Power Chapter Book 2 written by Cathy Hapka and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-color chapter book based on LEGO(R) Friends--a buildable play world for girls!Best friends Mia, Olivia, Emma, Andrea, and Stephanie can't want to enter the contest to be a guest on their favorite TV show,"Girl Power"! In order to win, each girl must capture the "heart" of their hometown, Heartlake City. May the best girl win!

Download or read book Thomas and Friends Annual 2012 written by Thomas the Tank Engine and published by Egmont Childrens Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lets you join Thomas and his friends as they puff around the Island of Sodor meeting new engines, having adventures and, of course, being Really Useful. Packed with puzzles, quizzes, games and stories from a TV series, this title is suitable for Thomas fans.

Download or read book Cole written by Greg Farshtey and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cole takes over as leader of the Masters of Spinjitzu, and uses his strength and skills to save the world.

Download or read book Seeing Red written by Kathryn Erskine and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine delivers a powerful story of family, friendship, and race relations in the South.Life will never be the same for Red Porter. He's a kid growing up around black car grease, white fence paint, and the backward attitudes of the folks who live in his hometown, Rocky Gap, Virginia. Red's daddy, his idol, has just died, leaving Red and Mama with some hard decisions and a whole lot of doubt. Should they sell the Porter family business, a gas station, repair shop, and convenience store rolled into one, where the slogan -- "Porter's: We Fix it Right!" -- has been shouting the family's pride for as long as anyone can remember? With Daddy gone, everything's different. Through his friendship with Thomas, Beau, and Miss Georgia, Red starts to see there's a lot more than car motors and rusty fenders that need fixing in his world. When Red discovers the injustices that have been happening in Rocky Gap since before he was born, he's faced with unsettling questions about his family's legacy.

Download or read book Permanent Present Tense written by Suzanne Corkin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, 27-year-old Henry Gustave Molaison underwent an experimental "psychosurgical" procedure -- a targeted lobotomy -- in an effort to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. The outcome was unexpected -- when Henry awoke, he could no longer form new memories, and for the rest of his life would be trapped in the moment. But Henry's tragedy would prove a gift to humanity. As renowned neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin explains in Permanent Present Tense, she and her colleagues brought to light the sharp contrast between Henry's crippling memory impairment and his preserved intellect. This new insight that the capacity for remembering is housed in a specific brain area revolutionized the science of memory. The case of Henry -- known only by his initials H. M. until his death in 2008 -- stands as one of the most consequential and widely referenced in the spiraling field of neuroscience. Corkin and her collaborators worked closely with Henry for nearly fifty years, and in Permanent Present Tense she tells the incredible story of the life and legacy of this intelligent, quiet, and remarkably good-humored man. Henry never remembered Corkin from one meeting to the next and had only a dim conception of the importance of the work they were doing together, yet he was consistently happy to see her and always willing to participate in her research. His case afforded untold advances in the study of memory, including the discovery that even profound amnesia spares some kinds of learning, and that different memory processes are localized to separate circuits in the human brain. Henry taught us that learning can occur without conscious awareness, that short-term and long-term memory are distinct capacities, and that the effects of aging-related disease are detectable in an already damaged brain. Undergirded by rich details about the functions of the human brain, Permanent Present Tense pulls back the curtain on the man whose misfortune propelled a half-century of exciting research. With great clarity, sensitivity, and grace, Corkin brings readers to the cutting edge of neuroscience in this deeply felt elegy for her patient and friend.

Download or read book Insectoid Invasion written by Anna Nilsen and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1998 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginary insects follow a continuous maze through the core of Planet Holox.

Download or read book The Most Powerful Idea in the World written by William Rosen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Most Powerful Idea in the World argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam engine but also the entire Industrial Revolution." -- Back cover.

Download or read book Robert Moses and the Modern City written by Hilary Ballon and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the greatest builder in the history of New York City and one of its most controversial figures. “We are rebuilding New York, not dispersing and abandoning it”: Robert Moses saw himself on a rescue mission to save the city from obsolescence, decentralization, and decline. His vast building program aimed to modernize urban infrastructure, expand the public realm with extensive recreational facilities, remove blight, and make the city more livable for the middle class. This book offers a fresh look at the physical transformation of New York during Moses’s nearly forty-year reign over city building from 1934 to 1968.It is hard to imagine that anyone will ever have the same impact on New York as did Robert Moses. In his various roles in city and state government, he reshaped the fabric of the city, and his legacy continues to touch the lives of all New Yorkers. Revered for most of his life, he is now one of the most controversial figures in the city’s history. Robert Moses and the Modern City is the first major publication devoted to him since Robert Caro’s damning 1974 biography, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York.In these pages eight short essays by leading scholars of urban history provide a revised perspective; stunning new photographs offer the first visual record of Moses’s far-reaching building program as it stands today; and a comprehensive catalog of his works is illustrated with a wealth of archival records: photographs of buildings, neighborhoods, and landscapes, of parks, pools, and playgrounds, of demolished neighborhoods and replacement housing and urban renewal projects, of bridges and highways; renderings of rejected designs and controversial projects that were defeated; and views of spectacular models that have not been seen since Moses made them for promotional purposes.Robert Moses and the Modern City captures research undertaken in the last three decades and will stimulate a new round of debate.

Download or read book Escape from Lego City written by Wade Wallace and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a busy day in Lego City! Young LEGO fans can create their own city adventures in this play-along sticker storybook. Full color. Consumable.

Download or read book The Success of Open Source written by Steve WEBER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the innovative programming that powers the Internet, creates operating systems, and produces software is the result of "open source" code, that is, code that is freely distributed--as opposed to being kept secret--by those who write it. Leaving source code open has generated some of the most sophisticated developments in computer technology, including, most notably, Linux and Apache, which pose a significant challenge to Microsoft in the marketplace. As Steven Weber discusses, open source's success in a highly competitive industry has subverted many assumptions about how businesses are run, and how intellectual products are created and protected. Traditionally, intellectual property law has allowed companies to control knowledge and has guarded the rights of the innovator, at the expense of industry-wide cooperation. In turn, engineers of new software code are richly rewarded; but, as Weber shows, in spite of the conventional wisdom that innovation is driven by the promise of individual and corporate wealth, ensuring the free distribution of code among computer programmers can empower a more effective process for building intellectual products. In the case of Open Source, independent programmers--sometimes hundreds or thousands of them--make unpaid contributions to software that develops organically, through trial and error. Weber argues that the success of open source is not a freakish exception to economic principles. The open source community is guided by standards, rules, decisionmaking procedures, and sanctioning mechanisms. Weber explains the political and economic dynamics of this mysterious but important market development. Table of Contents: Preface 1. Property and the Problem of Software 2. The Early History of Open Source 3. What Is Open Source and How Does It Work? 4. A Maturing Model of Production 5. Explaining Open Source: Microfoundations 6. Explaining Open Source: Macro-Organization 7. Business Models and the Law 8. The Code That Changed the World? Notes Index Reviews of this book: In the world of open-source software, true believers can be a fervent bunch. Linux, for example, may act as a credo as well as an operating system. But there is much substance beyond zealotry, says Steven Weber, the author of The Success of Open Source...An open-source operating system offers its source code up to be played with, extended, debugged, and otherwise tweaked in an orgy of user collaboration. The author traces the roots of that ethos and process in the early years of computers...He also analyzes the interface between open source and the worlds of business and law, as well as wider issues in the clash between hierarchical structures and networks, a subject with relevance beyond the software industry to the war on terrorism. --Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education Reviews of this book: A valuable new account of the [open-source software] movement. --Edward Rothstein, New York Times We can blindly continue to develop, reward, protect, and organize around knowledge assets on the comfortable assumption that their traditional property rights remain inviolate. Or we can listen to Steven Weber and begin to make our peace with the uncomfortable fact that the very foundations of our familiar "knowledge as property" world have irrevocably shifted. --Alan Kantrow, Chief Knowledge Officer, Monitor Group Ever since the invention of agriculture, human beings have had only three social-engineering tools for organizing any large-scale division of labor: markets (and the carrots of material benefits they offer), hierarchies (and the sticks of punishment they impose), and charisma (and the promises of rapture they offer). Now there is the possibility of a fourth mode of effective social organization--one that we perhaps see in embryo in the creation and maintenance of open-source software. My Berkeley colleague Steven Weber's book is a brilliant exploration of this fascinating topic. --J. Bradford DeLong, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley Steven Weber has produced a significant, insightful book that is both smart and important. The most impressive achievement of this volume is that Weber has spent the time to learn and think about the technological, sociological, business, and legal perspectives related to open source. The Success of Open Source is timely and more thought provoking than almost anything I've come across in the past several years. It deserves careful reading by a wide audience. --Jonathan Aronson, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California

Download or read book A Country of Cities written by Vishaan Chakrabarti and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Country of Cities, author Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that well-designed cities are the key to solving America's great national challenges: environmental degradation, unsustainable consumption, economic stagnation, rising public health costs and decreased social mobility. If we develop them wisely in the future, our cities can be the force leading us into a new era of progressive and prosperous stewardship of our nation. In compelling chapters, Chakrabarti brings us a wealth of information about cities, suburbs and exurbs, looking at how they developed across the 50 states and their roles in prosperity and globalization, sustainability and resilience, and heath and joy. Counter to what you might think, American cities today are growing faster than their suburban counterparts for the first time since the 1920s. If we can intelligently increase the density of our cities as they grow and build the transit systems, schools, parks and other infrastructure to support them, Chakrabarti shows us how both job opportunities and an improved, sustainable environment are truly within our means. In this call for an urban America, he illustrates his argument with numerous infographics illustrating provocative statistics on issues as disparate as rising childhood obesity rates, ever-lengthening automobile commutes and government subsidies that favor highways over mass transit. The book closes with an eloquent manifesto that rallies us to build "a Country of Cities," to turn a country of highways, houses and hedges into a country of trains, towers and trees. Vishaan Chakrabarti is an architect, scholar and founder of PAU. PAU designs architecture that builds the physical, cultural, and economic networks of cities, with an emphasis on beauty, function and user experience. PAU simultaneously advances strategic urbanism projects in the form of master planning, tactical project advice and advocacy.

Download or read book A Treat for Goldie written by Ladybird and published by Ladybird Books. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the LEGO® Friends - LEGO's gorgeous new range aimed exclusively at girls! Meet the characters - Andrea, Emma, Mia, Stephanie and Olivia - read the stories about life in Heartlake City and play along with your brand new minifigure!