Beware of the Crocodile

Beware of the Crocodile PDF Author: Martin Jenkins
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 0763675385
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Explore an informative, playfully illustrated story about one of the world’s most dangerous animals: the crocodile. You probably know a little about crocodiles already. They’re reptiles, they have an awful lot of teeth, and they’re pretty scary — at least, the big ones are! They’re not very fussy about what they eat, and when it comes to hunting down dinner, crocodiles are very determined . . . and very cunning. But there’s more to crocodiles than just their appetites. They love to nap on warm sandbanks and cool off in calm waters, and crocodile mothers are very gentle with their babies. This fascinating look at one of Earth’s most infamous creatures is full of information for amateur scientists, with back matter that includes an index, notes on species, and suggestions for further reading.

The Enormous Crocodile

The Enormous Crocodile PDF Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780141346472
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Enormous Crocodile is very greedy and loves eating children! But the other animals plan to ruin his wicked schemes and teach him a lesson.

Beware of the Crocodile

Beware of the Crocodile PDF Author: Martin Jenkins
Publisher: Candlewick
ISBN: 0763675385
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
Explore an informative, playfully illustrated story about one of the world’s most dangerous animals: the crocodile. You probably know a little about crocodiles already. They’re reptiles, they have an awful lot of teeth, and they’re pretty scary — at least, the big ones are! They’re not very fussy about what they eat, and when it comes to hunting down dinner, crocodiles are very determined . . . and very cunning. But there’s more to crocodiles than just their appetites. They love to nap on warm sandbanks and cool off in calm waters, and crocodile mothers are very gentle with their babies. This fascinating look at one of Earth’s most infamous creatures is full of information for amateur scientists, with back matter that includes an index, notes on species, and suggestions for further reading.

Beware of the Frog

Beware of the Frog PDF Author: William Bee
Publisher: Walker
ISBN: 9781406319316
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Sweet old Mrs. Collywobbles lives on the edge of a big, dark, scary wood, but has a pet frog to protect her from greedy goblins, smelly trolls, and hungry ogres.

Crocodile Or Alligator

Crocodile Or Alligator PDF Author: Tamra Orr
Publisher: 21st Century Junior Library: W
ISBN: 9781534150171
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Some animals look so alike, it's difficult to tell which is which! The Crocodile or Alligator book in the Which Is Which? series helps readers discover the similarities and differences between crocodiles and alligators. Focused on 21st Century content, the Which Is Which? series encourages readers to ask questions, think more critically and creatively, and use their problem-solving skills. Book includes table of contents, sidebars, glossary, index, and author biography.

Crocodile!

Crocodile! PDF Author: Willow Clark
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1615331352
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Snap! Beware of the crocodile’s menacing jaws. This book introduces readers to crocs all around the world and includes information on their habitat, and diet. Photographs point out the animal’s unique features, such as its rows of teeth and long, heavy tail.

The Careful Crocodile

The Careful Crocodile PDF Author: Beverley Randell
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9781869610777
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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In the days of the dinosaurs lived a mother crocodile that had laid 40 eggs in a nest. She always tried to protect the eggs from danger so they would hatch.

Nile Crocodiles Bite!

Nile Crocodiles Bite! PDF Author: Janey Levy
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1538257815
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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American crocodiles and American alligators are formidable, but neither holds a candle to the fearsome Nile crocodile. Nile crocodiles have the strongest bite in the world at 5,000 pounds per square inch. With this fascinating volume, young readers discover intriguing facts about these animals and their lives. Special attention is given to their bite, how it works, and why and when they bite. Accessible text addresses important science concepts while colorful photographs display remarkable images. Fact boxes and a graphic organizer enrich this learning experience.

Burmese Days

Burmese Days PDF Author: George Orwell
Publisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN: 6257120802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of Empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, it is "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." At the centre of the novel is John Flory, "the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature." The novel describes "both indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry" in a society where, "after all, natives were natives-interesting, no doubt, but finally...an inferior people". Burmese Days was first published "further afield," in the United States, because of concerns that it might be potentially libelous; that the real provincial town of Katha had been described too realistically; and that some of its fictional characters were based too closely on identifiable people. A British edition, with altered names, appeared a year later. Nonetheless, Orwell's harsh portrayal of colonial society was felt by "some old Burma hands" to have "rather let the side down". In a letter from 1946, Orwell wrote, "I dare say it's unfair in some ways and inaccurate in some details, but much of it is simply reporting what I have seen". Book Summary: Burmese Days is set in 1920s imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada, based on Kathar (formerly spelled Katha), a town where Orwell served. Like the fictional town, it is the head of a branch railway line above Mandalay on the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River. As the story opens, U Po Kyin, a corrupt Burmese magistrate, is planning to destroy the reputation of the Indian, Dr Veraswami. The doctor hopes for help from his friend John Flory who, as a pukka sahib (European white man), has higher prestige. Dr Veraswami also desires election to the town's European Club, of which Flory is a member, expecting that good standing among the Europeans will protect him from U Po Kyin's intrigues. U Po Kyin begins a campaign to persuade the Europeans that the doctor holds anti-British opinions in the belief that anonymous letters with false stories about the doctor "will work wonders". He even sends a threatening letter to Flory. John Flory, a jaded 35-year-old teak merchant with a birthmark on his face in the shape of a ragged crescent, spends three weeks of every month acquiring jungle timber. Friendless among his fellow Europeans and unmarried, but with a Burmese mistress, he has become disillusioned with life in an expatriate community centred round the local European Club in a remote provincial town. At the same time, he has become so embedded in Burma that it is impossible for him to leave and return to England. Flory has one good friend, the Indian, Dr Veraswami, whom he often visits for what the Doctor delightedly calls "cultured conversation". But when Flory dismisses the British as mere moneymakers, living a lie, "the lie that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead of to rob them," he provokes consternation in the doctor, who defends the British as the efficient administrators of an unrivalled empire. Toward his mistress, Flory is emotionally ambivalent: "On the one hand, Flory loves Burma and craves a partner who will share his passion, which the other local Europeans find incomprehensible; on the other hand, for essentially racist reasons, Flory feels that only a European woman is acceptable as a partner".

America's Shadow

America's Shadow PDF Author: William V. Spanos
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816633371
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the post-Cold War World, this provocative work boldly revises our assumptions about the genealogy of the West. Rather than locating its source in classical Greece, William V. Spanos argues, we should look to ancient Rome, which first articulated the ideas that would become fundamental to the West's imperial project. These founding ideas, he claims, have informed the American national identity and its foreign policy from its origins. The Vietnam War is at the center of this book. In the contradiction between the "free world" logic employed to justify U.S. intervention in Vietnam and the genocidal practices used to realize that logic, Spanos finds the culmination of an imperialistic discourse reaching back to the colonizing rationale of the Roman Empire. Spanos identifies the language of expansion in the "white" metaphors in Western philosophical discourse since the colonization of Greek thought by the Romans. He shows how these metaphors, and their role in metaphysical discourse, have long been complicit in the violence of imperialism.

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Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
ISBN: 1302506919
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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