Download or read book Dead As A Dodo written by Venita Coelho and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-05-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MISSION DEAD AS A DODO Mission Brief: Somebody is on an extinction operation, stealing all the last specimens of highly endangered species. This mysterious crook has somehow managed to discover the impossible – a living specimen of Raphus cucullatus, aka, the dodo. Yes, the same flightless bird that was hunted to oblivion in Mauritius more than 300 years ago! This dodo has become the single most priceless creature on the planet and it must be rescued immediately. Without delay, Animal Intelligence Agency agents are assigned to this urgent mission. NOTE: The Animal Intelligence Agency is a multi-species nongovernmental agency. Specially trained Animal and Human agents work undercover to save animals and save the world. Some of them have a licence to kill. Agent no. 002 Species: Panthera tigris tigris Name: Bagcha Currently the only agent with a licence to kill. He is the most dangerous and experienced operative, with the scars to prove it. Agent no. 015 Species: Semnopithecus entellus Name: Kela This operative was formerly a disgraced agent, stripped of his number. However, after his sterling performance in Mission Tiger by the Tail, his number and privileges have been restored. Agent no. 11.5 Species: Homo sapiens sapiens Name: Rana One of only two people in the world who use JungleSpeak to communicate across species. Extremely good with computers and all things tech. Far from dangerous or lethal. However, his intelligence is a real contribution to a mission. His allergies are a real problem. Indications are that the mission will take the agents to Mauritius, America, and as far off as the Arctic Circle and the North Pole. They must not fail, come what may. This dodo must not die.
Download or read book English Idioms written by Matthew Evanoff and published by Matthew Evanoff. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning English idioms can be difficult for ESL speakers. This book will help simplify some of the common words and expressions native English speakers use. Use it as a reference, or read it as a learning exercise, and you will improve your English in no time at all!
Download or read book Oh Great Now I can see Dead People written by Deborah Durbin and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam's back and now she can see dead people! Following on from, Oh Great, Now I Can Hear Dead People, this fun tale follows Sam's journey as she develops on her eventful journey as a psychic. Sam is busy planning her wedding to her budding pop-star boyfriend Jack, so when she's asked to perform a seance for her mother's WI group on Halloween, she reluctantly agrees. Being preoccupied with seating plans, Sam forgets to close the circle and sets free a whole host of spirits in to our world, who refuse to go back unless they get an invite to the wedding. As Sam struggles with life as a modern psychic, planning her wedding, and trying to help her spirit guide Ange - a good-time Essex girl, who's only interest is what Cheryl Cole is wearing and Heat magazine, she is shocked to hear that Amy, her ex-best friend desperately needs her help and even more shocked when Amy decides her own fate. Oh Great, Now I Can See Dead People is a funny glimpse into the ever crazy world of Sam and her hilarious dead entourage!
Download or read book ch 16 The spectacles of Islam written by Leo Frobenius and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All My Friends Are Still Dead written by Jory John and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of the breakout best seller All my friends are dead comes a brand-new illustrated compendium of the humorous existential ruminations of people, animals, legendary monsters, and inanimate objects.
Download or read book The Voice of Africa written by Leo Frobenius and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms written by John Ayto and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers entries for over six thousand idioms, including seven hundred new to this edition, and provides background information, additional cross-references, and national variants.
Download or read book The Dodo and the Solitaire written by Jolyon C. Parish and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive book to date about these two famously extinct birds.
Download or read book English Idioms and Phrases Dictionary written by Daniel B. Smith and published by Daniel B. Smith. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idioms are expressions that cannot be understood from their individual words alone, and the English language is full of them—and so is this dictionary: 4,800+ English idioms and phrases with example sentences included for you so as to understand them all. This is the essential idioms dictionary if you want to talk like a native speaker—or just find out more about the colorful phrases you hear and say every day.
Download or read book Caroline Hartley and the Great Adventure written by D.J. Robinson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline Hartley has a magic key. It has allowed she and her brother Martin to secretly step through an attic door and time-travel back to 1912, at a castle where they are staying with their father in Central Europe. One evening, whilst in 1912, the children discover Caroline’s magic key has gone missing. A frantic search with their friends fails to find it. Only the servants might know where it is, but some of them have taken time off. Caroline and Martin are stuck in 1912, unaware of the great adventure that now awaits them...
Download or read book The Cromwell Skinner written by James F. Park and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The damp dark long abandoned house which was situated at the very end of the overgrown track on the outskirts of Cromwell was the ideal place for him to take his revenge especially when he remembered how big the cellar was and he was overjoyed to find that his instruments of torture were still more or less in good condition and waiting for their masters instructions and all it would take to get things up and running again was one 'phone call.
Download or read book As Dead as a Dodo written by Paul Rice and published by David R Godine Pub. This book was released on 1981 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes sixteen extinct animals and explores the reasons for their extinction. Also discusses presently endangered species in the context of the indifferent attitude people often have toward their environment.
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms written by Judith Siefring and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that 'flavour of the month' originated in a marketing campaign in American ice-cream parlours in the 1940s, when a particular flavour would be specially promoted for a month at a time? And did you know that 'off the cuff' refers to the rather messy practice of writing impromptu notes on one's shirt cuff before speaking in public? These and many more idioms are explained and put into context in this second edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms. This vastly entertaining dictionary takes a fresh look at the idiomatic phrases and sayings that make English such a rich and intriguing language. A major new edition, it contains entries for over 5000 idioms, including 350 new entries and over 500 new quotations. The text has been updated to include many new idioms using the findings of the Oxford English Reading Programme, the biggest language research programme in the world. The entries are supported by a wealth of illustrative quotations from a wide range of sources and periods. For example: 'Rowling has not been asleep at the wheel in the three years since the last Potter novel, and I am pleased to report that she has not confused sheer length with inspiration.' - Guardian, 2003. 'I made the speech of a lifetime. I had them tearing up the seats and rolling in the aisles.' - P.G. Woodhouse, 1940. Many entries include boxed features which give more detailed background on the idiom in question. For example, did you know that 'taken aback' was adopted from nautical terminology, and described a ship unable to move forward because of a strong headwind pressing its sails back against the mast? The text has been entirely redesigned so that it is both elegant and easy to use. Anyone interested in the quirky side of the English language will have hours of fun browsing through this fascinating and informative volume.
Download or read book Hausa Superstitions and Customs written by Major A.J.N. Tremearne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1970. This an important addition to the understanding of African Islamic studies. Hausa folklore is rich i the world-wide motifs found in one form or another in such widely differing cultures as India, Scandinavia, American, Ireland and so on. There are familiar characters that can be identified from European folklore, but more often than not a number of motifs are clearly Indian. The publication of this second impression of Tremeane's work, is particularly welcome at a time when there is a growing interest among students in the background of ideas that inform African cultures as well as in the phenomena of African languages and the structures of African societies. But this material should not be seen as exclusively African. It is also part of the general Islamic heritage and contains a wealth of evidence to enable us to explain and understand the nature of the Islamic presence in Africa. Includes forty-one illustrations, over two hundred figures in the text, and a map.
Download or read book The Great Enterprise Volume 2 written by Frederic Wakeman Jr. and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. (This book was originally published as a boxed two-volume set. It is now available as separate volumes with plain hardcover. The page numbering continues from the first volume to the second.)
Download or read book Wake Not the Dead written by Johann Ludwig Tieck and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wake Not the Dead" by Johann Ludwig Tieck is a chilling and atmospheric tale that delves into themes of obsession, ambition, and the boundaries between life and death. Set against the backdrop of a crumbling castle in the German countryside, Tieck's novella follows the ill-fated experiments of the alchemist Victor Fritz, who becomes consumed by the desire to defy the natural order and bring the dead back to life. At its core, "Wake Not the Dead" is a cautionary tale of hubris and moral decay, as Victor's reckless pursuit of forbidden knowledge leads to tragic consequences for himself and those around him. Through Tieck's vivid prose and eerie imagery, readers are drawn into a world of Gothic horror and macabre fascination, where the boundaries between the living and the dead blur and the darkest impulses of the human psyche are laid bare. As Victor delves deeper into the mysteries of life and death, he becomes increasingly isolated from society and consumed by his own hubris, ultimately leading to his downfall. Through his tragic journey, Tieck explores timeless themes of guilt, redemption, and the consequences of playing God, offering readers a haunting meditation on the dangers of unchecked ambition and the fragility of the human soul. More than just a Gothic thriller, "Wake Not the Dead" is a thought-provoking exploration of the darker aspects of human nature and the consequences of tampering with forces beyond our control. As readers immerse themselves in Tieck's atmospheric narrative, they are reminded of the timeless allure of the supernatural and the enduring power of literature to provoke fear, fascination, and reflection.
Download or read book Folens Success in Foundation Science written by Jackie Clegg and published by Folens Limited. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success in Foundation Science is a major new course to support the teaching and learning of Foundation Tier GCSE Science. Success in Foundation Science Book 1 Teachers' Guide offers comprehensive teacher support for Success in Foundation Science Book 1 for Foundation Tier GCSE Science. The Teachers' Guide provides: a photocopiable 'Check-up test' for every double page spread of the student book, with a mark scheme additional photocopiable modular tests with mark schemes, in the style of Edexcel and AQA all the answers to questions in the student book; key word activity sheets to develop the use of science vocabulary; grids matching the specifications of all three major Awarding Bodies to the contents of the student book; suggested practical activities with Teacher and Technician notes; teacher guidance on the best use of the course. The student book itself has a stimulating approach that will suit students and will enhance the performance of students working towards the lower grades of GCSE. The science content is treated in a lively, relevant, and straightforward way.
