Author: Twinkl Originals
Publisher: Twinkl
ISBN: 9781999783549
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Get Book Here
Book Description
Morris the Magpie feels so lucky when the humans drop some shiny gifts in the forest! "The more of these gifts that his human friends threw, The more his collection expanded and grew." But are they the generous gifts that Morris first thought? Discover the importance of looking after our environment with this uplifting story. Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781915263247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Youzar Sif
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Get Book Here
Book Description
A story addressing problems of litter in the environment, especially the impact on birds and wildlife and the need for us to recycle our waste.
Author: Gerald Hausman
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1628159499
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author of Evil Chasing Way and Hand Trembler “Love it! Hausman is a master. No question there.” —Trent Zelazny Sungazer, is the continuing adventure of journalist Jack Andrews as he uncovers more mysteries in his ongoing search for enlightenment. In this latest inquiry into the unknown, Jack’s investigative reporting takes him on an assignment from New Mexico to the Baja to Jamaica where he is pursued by agents of darkness, who seek to put a stop to his investigations. Memorable characters, lunacy, magic and malevolence haunt the pages of the novel. Al-lan the space agent also returns to keep Jack in fighting form and to warn him of the forces of evil. “Carlos Castaneda would’ve loved this book.” Dr Michael Gleeson, Anthropologist
Author: Kit Hughes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190855789
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Get Book Here
Book Description
"This book explores how work, television, and waged labor come to have meaning in our everyday lives. However, it is not an analysis of workplace sitcoms or quality dramas. Instead, it explores the forgotten history of how American private sector workplaces used television in the twentieth century. In traces how, at the hands of employers, television physically and psychically managed workers and attempted to make work meaningful under the sign of capitalism. It also shows how the so-called domestic medium helped businesses shape labor relations and information architectures foundational to the twinned rise of the technologically mediated corporation and a globalizing information economy. Among other things, business and industry built extensive private television networks to distribute live and taped programming, leased satellite time for global 'meetings' and program distribution, created complex CCTV data search and retrieval systems, encouraged the use of videotape for worker self-evaluation, used video cassettes for training distributed workforces, and wired cantinas for employee entertainment. Television at work describes the myriad ways the medium served business' attempts to shape employees' relationships to their labor and the workplace in order to secure industrial efficiency, support corporate expansion, and inculcate preferred ideological orientations. narrowcasting, immediacy, time-shifting, flow, Post-Fordism, labor, audience labor, video, satellite, CCTV"--
Author: Kristin Ann Hass
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807006718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Get Book Here
Book Description
A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future Cultural infrastructure has been designed to maintain structures of inequality, and while it doesn’t seem to be explicitly about race, it often is. Blunt Instruments helps readers identify, contextualize, and name elements of our everyday landscapes and cultural practices that are designed to seem benign or natural but which, in fact, work tirelessly to tell us vital stories about who we are, how we came to be, and who belongs. Examining landmark moments such as the erection of the first American museum and Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling pledge of allegiance, historian Kristin Hass explores the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure, such as: · the American Museum of Natural History · the Bridge to Freedom in Selma · the Washington Monument · Mount Auburn Cemetery · Kehinde Wiley’s 2019 sculpture Rumors of War · the Victory Highway · the Alamo Cenotaph With sharp analysis and a broad lens, Hass makes the undeniable case that understanding what cultural infrastructure is, and the deep and broad impact that it has, is essential to understanding how structures of inequity are maintained and how they might be dismantled.
Author: Elizabeth Day
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198218762X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Get Book Here
Book Description
For fans of The Last Mrs. Parrish comes a twisty psychological suspense novel about motherhood, obsession, and just how far some will go for the perfect family. “Great, plain and simple” (Stanley Tucci). Marisa and Jake are a perfect couple. And Kate, their new lodger, is the perfect roommate—and not just because her rent payments will give them the income they need to start trying for the baby of their dreams. Except—no one is truly perfect. Sure, Kate doesn’t seem to care much about personal boundaries and can occasionally seem overly familiar with Jake. But Marisa doesn’t let it concern her, knowing that soon Kate will be gone, and it will just be her, Jake, and their future baby. Conceiving a baby is easier said than done, though, and Jake and Marisa’s perfect relationship is put to the test through months of fertility treatments and false starts. To make matters worse, Kate’s boundary-pushing turns into an all-out obsession—with Jake, with Marisa, and with their future child. Who is this woman? Why does she seem to know everything about Marisa and Jake? In her quest to find out who Kate really is, Marisa might destroy everything she’s worked so hard to create—her perfect romance, her perfect family, and her perfect self. Jake doesn’t know the half of what Marisa has created—and what she stands to lose. For fans of Gone Girl and The Perfect Nanny, Magpie is a “tense” (The Guardian), “gorgeous” (Lisa Taddeo, bestselling author of Three Women), “completely, terrifyingly brilliant” (Marian Keyes, author of Grown Ups) novel about mothers and children, envy and possession, and the dangers of getting everything you’ve ever dreamed of.
Author: Louise Mayberry
Publisher: Louise Mayberry
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Get Book Here
Book Description
A tale of resilience and redemption. Caitlin Blackwell’s life has been shaped by the whims of men—the cruel landlord who evicted her family when she was a child; the dirty grinders who bought her favors in the alleyways of Cork; and the uncaring husband who was forced upon her when she arrived as a convict in Australia twenty years ago. But at last, she’s a widow. She’s inherited a farm of her own, and she’s determined to seize control of her destiny. There’s only one thing stopping her from becoming the prosperous, independent woman she’s always dreamed she could be: she’s illiterate. Enter Michael Dunn, a man haunted with guilt. After six months of hell and hard labor at Moreton Bay penal colony—for a crime he should have known better than to commit—he’s more than haunted. He’s broken. Empty. A shell of a man. But somehow, he’s given another chance. A glimmer of hope in an unexpected assignment to teach an Irish widow to read. As Caitlin and Michael’s new life blooms amidst the vast Australian landscape, they uncover a secret that threatens to snatch away everything they hold dear. Can they face the demons of their pasts and embrace an uncertain future? The final novel in the Darnalay Castle Series, ‘The Song of the Magpie’ is a sweeping tale of resilience and redemption that will capture your heart and leave you breathless until the very last page.
Author: Taffy Thomas
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750991801
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Get Book Here
Book Description
From crowded train stations to quiet woods, and from city centres to our own back gardens, birds remind us that nature is everywhere. As children we are fascinated by these magical flying creatures that live amongst us, and as adults we have a fondness for our feathered friends. Numerous books about different habitats and markings exists to help us find and identify birds, but for the first time one of Britain's finest storytellers has gathered together the best folk tales about birds. Suitable for all ages and charmingly illustrated by Lakeland artist Becca Hall, this is an essential collection of stories for all who love the natural world.
Author: K. Bannerman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0986470155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Get Book Here
Book Description
When Lizzie Saunders and Chen Shaozhu arrive in the port city of Victoria, BC in September 1898, she dares to imagine a place where they can enjoy a happy future together. With the help of the cantankerous Mr. Fish, Lizzie is soon enjoying a comfortable life of social engagements and high tea. But when a gruesome murder stirs up ghosts from her past, someone - or something - begins to haunt her through the city's dark alleys, seedy taverns, wharves and opium dens. Is it her imagination, her guilty conscience, or a killer who knows her secret? 'Mark of the Magpie', the sequel to 'Bucket of Blood', is a gothic mystery of corruption, bitter artistic rivalries, betrayal and clandestine affairs. Here, in a shining seaside city of flowers and fine china, everyone has something to hide and nothing is quite what it seems.
