Author: Karren Boehr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780570036388
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Seventh-grader Trish struggles with her trust in God and when her father accepts an assignment as a missionary dentist on a tropical island, subjecting her to a new way of life filled with discomfort and danger.
Ants in the Sugar Bowl
Author: Karren Boehr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780570036388
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Seventh-grader Trish struggles with her trust in God and when her father accepts an assignment as a missionary dentist on a tropical island, subjecting her to a new way of life filled with discomfort and danger.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780570036388
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Seventh-grader Trish struggles with her trust in God and when her father accepts an assignment as a missionary dentist on a tropical island, subjecting her to a new way of life filled with discomfort and danger.
Ants in the Sugar Bowl
Author: Michael C. Buchanan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781320227780
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Seeking an escape from the restrictions and boredom of his life in California, college student Ben Sullivan moves to Rome for a semester abroad, where he and his flawed roommates abuse their newfound freedoms while pursuing reckless behavior in an effort to feel alive. While ostensibly studying history and architecture, Ben carouses across Europe, judging everything in his path and learning first hand what happens when young Americans get out from under their country's skirt to have some fun, and how the land which provides it is left to clean up the mess.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781320227780
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Seeking an escape from the restrictions and boredom of his life in California, college student Ben Sullivan moves to Rome for a semester abroad, where he and his flawed roommates abuse their newfound freedoms while pursuing reckless behavior in an effort to feel alive. While ostensibly studying history and architecture, Ben carouses across Europe, judging everything in his path and learning first hand what happens when young Americans get out from under their country's skirt to have some fun, and how the land which provides it is left to clean up the mess.
There are Ants in My Sugar
Author: Annica Foxcroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Two Bad Ants
Author: Chris Van Allsburg
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395486689
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
When two bad ants desert from their colony, they experience a dangerous adventure that convinces them to return to their former safety.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395486689
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
When two bad ants desert from their colony, they experience a dangerous adventure that convinces them to return to their former safety.
Twilight Zone
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Business ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Business ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Mathematical Thinking and Problem Solving
Author: Alan H. Schoenfeld
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113544093X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
In the early 1980s there was virtually no serious communication among the various groups that contribute to mathematics education -- mathematicians, mathematics educators, classroom teachers, and cognitive scientists. Members of these groups came from different traditions, had different perspectives, and rarely gathered in the same place to discuss issues of common interest. Part of the problem was that there was no common ground for the discussions -- given the disparate traditions and perspectives. As one way of addressing this problem, the Sloan Foundation funded two conferences in the mid-1980s, bringing together members of the different communities in a ground clearing effort, designed to establish a base for communication. In those conferences, interdisciplinary teams reviewed major topic areas and put together distillations of what was known about them.* A more recent conference -- upon which this volume is based -- offered a forum in which various people involved in education reform would present their work, and members of the broad communities gathered would comment on it. The focus was primarily on college mathematics, informed by developments in K-12 mathematics. The main issues of the conference were mathematical thinking and problem solving.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113544093X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
In the early 1980s there was virtually no serious communication among the various groups that contribute to mathematics education -- mathematicians, mathematics educators, classroom teachers, and cognitive scientists. Members of these groups came from different traditions, had different perspectives, and rarely gathered in the same place to discuss issues of common interest. Part of the problem was that there was no common ground for the discussions -- given the disparate traditions and perspectives. As one way of addressing this problem, the Sloan Foundation funded two conferences in the mid-1980s, bringing together members of the different communities in a ground clearing effort, designed to establish a base for communication. In those conferences, interdisciplinary teams reviewed major topic areas and put together distillations of what was known about them.* A more recent conference -- upon which this volume is based -- offered a forum in which various people involved in education reform would present their work, and members of the broad communities gathered would comment on it. The focus was primarily on college mathematics, informed by developments in K-12 mathematics. The main issues of the conference were mathematical thinking and problem solving.
Ants and the Children of the Garden
Author: Joshua Dean Simkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ants
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ants
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Army Ants
Author: Daniel J. C. Kronauer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067424155X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A richly illustrated, captivating study of army ants, nature’s preeminent social hunters. A swarm raid is one of nature’s great spectacles. In tropical rainforests around the world, army ants march in groups by the thousands to overwhelm large solitary invertebrates, along with nests of termites, wasps, and other ants. They kill and dismember their prey and carry it back to their nest, where their hungry brood devours it. They are the ultimate social hunters, demonstrating the most fascinating collective behavior. In Army Ants we see how these insects play a crucial role in promoting and sustaining the biodiversity of tropical ecosystems. The ants help keep prey communities in check while also providing nutrition for other animals. Many species depend on army ants for survival, including a multitude of social parasites, swarm-following birds, and flies. And while their hunting behavior, and the rules that govern it, are clearly impressive, army ants display collective behavior in other ways that are no less dazzling. They build living nests, called bivouacs, using their bodies to protect the queen and larvae. The ants can even construct bridges over open space or obstacles by linking to one another using their feet. These incredible feats happen without central coordination. They are the result of local interactions—self-organization that benefits the society at large. Through observations, stories, and stunning images, Daniel Kronauer brings these fascinating creatures to life. Army ants may be small, but their collective intelligence and impact on their environment are anything but.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067424155X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A richly illustrated, captivating study of army ants, nature’s preeminent social hunters. A swarm raid is one of nature’s great spectacles. In tropical rainforests around the world, army ants march in groups by the thousands to overwhelm large solitary invertebrates, along with nests of termites, wasps, and other ants. They kill and dismember their prey and carry it back to their nest, where their hungry brood devours it. They are the ultimate social hunters, demonstrating the most fascinating collective behavior. In Army Ants we see how these insects play a crucial role in promoting and sustaining the biodiversity of tropical ecosystems. The ants help keep prey communities in check while also providing nutrition for other animals. Many species depend on army ants for survival, including a multitude of social parasites, swarm-following birds, and flies. And while their hunting behavior, and the rules that govern it, are clearly impressive, army ants display collective behavior in other ways that are no less dazzling. They build living nests, called bivouacs, using their bodies to protect the queen and larvae. The ants can even construct bridges over open space or obstacles by linking to one another using their feet. These incredible feats happen without central coordination. They are the result of local interactions—self-organization that benefits the society at large. Through observations, stories, and stunning images, Daniel Kronauer brings these fascinating creatures to life. Army ants may be small, but their collective intelligence and impact on their environment are anything but.
A Journey of Words
Author: Brian Paone
Publisher: Scout Media
ISBN: 0997948590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
From Scout Media comes A Journey of Words—the second volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world. In this installation, the authors will lead the reader to destinations unknown; from the heartbreak of driving to visit a loved one for the last time, to the far-reaches of outer space, to mysterious islands inhabited by long-forgotten spirits. You will learn how deadly a trip to a greenhouse can be, the perils involved in delivering the mail, and a hard lesson about how shiny new Volkswagon Beetles should not be trusted. These stories of traveling and journeys will touch your heart, send shivers down your spine, and make you root for the underdog. Whether to be enlightened, entertained, or momentarily caught up in another world, these selections convey the true spirit of the short story.
Publisher: Scout Media
ISBN: 0997948590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
From Scout Media comes A Journey of Words—the second volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world. In this installation, the authors will lead the reader to destinations unknown; from the heartbreak of driving to visit a loved one for the last time, to the far-reaches of outer space, to mysterious islands inhabited by long-forgotten spirits. You will learn how deadly a trip to a greenhouse can be, the perils involved in delivering the mail, and a hard lesson about how shiny new Volkswagon Beetles should not be trusted. These stories of traveling and journeys will touch your heart, send shivers down your spine, and make you root for the underdog. Whether to be enlightened, entertained, or momentarily caught up in another world, these selections convey the true spirit of the short story.
Talk Poetry
Author: David Baker
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610754972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610754972
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
What is more direct and intimate than one-to-one conversation? Here two forces in American poetry, the Kenyon Review and the University of Arkansas Press, bring together discussions between one of America's leading poets and editors, David Baker, and nine of the most exciting poets of our day. The poets, who represent a wide array of vocations and aesthetic positions, open up about their writing processes, their reading and education, their hopes for and discontents with the contemporary scene, and much more, treating readers to a view of the range and capacity of contemporary American poetry.