Author: Blake A. Hoena
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1434205029
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Funny graphic novels for young readers.
The Puzzling Pluto Plot
Author: Blake A. Hoena
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1434205029
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Funny graphic novels for young readers.
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1434205029
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Funny graphic novels for young readers.
Beyond the Black Hole
Author: B. A. Hoena
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434207595
Category : Black holes (Astronomy)
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Eek and Ack, the Terrible Twosome from the Great Goo Galaxy, discover a new universe and a new planet Earth that they want to conquer.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434207595
Category : Black holes (Astronomy)
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Eek and Ack, the Terrible Twosome from the Great Goo Galaxy, discover a new universe and a new planet Earth that they want to conquer.
The Common Core in Action
Author: Deborah J. Jesseman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book addresses Common Core State Standard curriculum resources to assist the school librarian in collaborating with classroom teachers. Librarians are being asked to understand the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and their implications to programming and instruction, as well as to collection development planning. Using lesson plans originally published in School Library Monthly, this title builds upon them, adding many additional plans that address CCSS issues. The plans will help you implement the standards and can also be used as stepping stones to facilitate planning conversations and collaboration with teachers to co-teach lessons correlated with the standards. The book begins with an overview of the CCSSwhat they are, how are they different from the content standards, and what the implications are for schools where the state has adopted them, including what the CCSS mean for collection development. It then goes on to explore the opportunities the CCSS present for the school librarian, looking at how you can become a leader in employing the process. The majority of the book is devoted to reproducible lesson plans, organized by curricular area or topic and grade level for ease of use.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book addresses Common Core State Standard curriculum resources to assist the school librarian in collaborating with classroom teachers. Librarians are being asked to understand the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and their implications to programming and instruction, as well as to collection development planning. Using lesson plans originally published in School Library Monthly, this title builds upon them, adding many additional plans that address CCSS issues. The plans will help you implement the standards and can also be used as stepping stones to facilitate planning conversations and collaboration with teachers to co-teach lessons correlated with the standards. The book begins with an overview of the CCSSwhat they are, how are they different from the content standards, and what the implications are for schools where the state has adopted them, including what the CCSS mean for collection development. It then goes on to explore the opportunities the CCSS present for the school librarian, looking at how you can become a leader in employing the process. The majority of the book is devoted to reproducible lesson plans, organized by curricular area or topic and grade level for ease of use.
Eek and Ack Vs the Wolfman
Author: B. A. Hoena
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434211894
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Aliens Eek and Ack visit Earth during Halloween and meet Wolfy the Wolfman.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1434211894
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Aliens Eek and Ack visit Earth during Halloween and meet Wolfy the Wolfman.
The Seven Basic Plots
Author: Christopher Booker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441116516
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441116516
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, it shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling. But this is only the prelude to an investigation into how and why we are 'programmed' to imagine stories in these ways, and how they relate to the inmost patterns of human psychology. Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years, and why so many stories have 'lost the plot' by losing touch with their underlying archetypal purpose. Booker analyses why evolution has given us the need to tell stories and illustrates how storytelling has provided a uniquely revealing mirror to mankind's psychological development over the past 5000 years. This seminal book opens up in an entirely new way our understanding of the real purpose storytelling plays in our lives, and will be a talking point for years to come.
Planet Pluto
Author: B. C. CHASE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
THE 2019 WINNER OF THE SCI-FI PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BOOKLIFE PRIZE. "COMPULSIVELY READABLE...PACKED WITH MYSTERIES AND SURPRISES...ENOUGH DETAIL TO THRILL FANS OF THE MARTIAN." -HUGO AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR TIM PRATT On August 25th, 2012, the Voyager 1 probe crossed into interstellar space. It contained a "golden record" with sounds, pictures, and greetings from earth. On March 15th, 2013, NASA received a transmission from the spacecraft that said: "Hello. We received your golden record. Let's meet." Now, internationally bestselling author B.C.CHASE invites you on a daring first contact mission into deep space with five intrepid astronauts, one spunky cosmonaut, and a seventy-five-year-old truck driver. *Previously published as Pluto's Ghost. This edition, dedicated to the team that launched the New Horizons probe, contains an interview with the author from Publishers Weekly Booklife. "IRREVERENT HUMOR...VIVID...MEMORABLE...AS ORIGINAL AS IT CAN GET." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY CRITIC "Planet Pluto is a compulsively readable, twisty first-contact tale about a voyage from Earth to the edge of the solar system to meet mysterious aliens. The protagonist is an engagingly irascible elderly truck driver the aliens wanted along for reasons of their own, and his cranky-but-charming voice provides an excellent grounding for a tale full of physical, mechanical, and moral disasters. Planet Pluto is packed with mysteries and surprises, and filled with enough interesting engineering detail to thrill fans of The Martian." -Tim Pratt, Bestselling Author "A FAST-PACED, EXCITING, AND SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER THAT WILL KEEP READERS ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS. FOUR OF FOUR STARS." -ONLINEBOOKCLUB.ORG "SOMETIMES DIFFERENT IS BETTER. THAT'S THE CASE HERE. ...FAST AND FUN." -THE OKLAHOMAN "CHASE HAS THE RAW TALENT FOR WRITING, AND THE WAY HE'S ABLE TO PUT YOU RIGHT INSIDE THE MAIN CHARACTER'S HEAD IS FANTASTIC." -SCIFIANDSCARY.COM B.C.CHASE is the internationally bestselling author of the Paradeisia Trilogy, which critics have hailed as one of the greatest franchises of our time.* His electrifying talent for combining the latest in scientific breakthroughs with edge-of-your-seat thrills has earned him a reputation as a master of suspense. Amazon has named him among its top 10 Sci-fi authors. Visit the official website at bcchase.com for a chance to win free books. "CHASE'S CLEAN, FLOWING PROSE AND BRIGHT SENSE OF HUMOR LIVEN UP A TALE." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY CRITIC "INCREDIBLY WELL-WRITTEN." -EBOOKS ADDICT "CHASE KEEPS US GUESSING UNTIL THE END." -ONLINEBOOKCLUB.ORG "B.C.CHASE IS RAPIDLY BECOMING AN AUTHOR OF AUTHORITY." -GRADY HARP, VINE VOICE "CHASE HAS THE RAW TALENT FOR WRITING, AND THE WAY HE'S ABLE TO PUT YOU RIGHT INSIDE THE MAIN CHARACTER'S HEAD IS FANTASTIC." -SCIFIANDSCARY.COM "ONE HELL OF A RIDE." -THRILLERKAT REVIEWS "IN TRUE CRICHTON STYLE, CHASE TAKES ELEMENTS OF KNOWN SCIENCE, EXPLORES THEIR EXTREME POTENTIAL, AND BUILDS A MYSTERY AROUND SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES." -AMAZON.COM *epub.us
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
THE 2019 WINNER OF THE SCI-FI PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BOOKLIFE PRIZE. "COMPULSIVELY READABLE...PACKED WITH MYSTERIES AND SURPRISES...ENOUGH DETAIL TO THRILL FANS OF THE MARTIAN." -HUGO AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR TIM PRATT On August 25th, 2012, the Voyager 1 probe crossed into interstellar space. It contained a "golden record" with sounds, pictures, and greetings from earth. On March 15th, 2013, NASA received a transmission from the spacecraft that said: "Hello. We received your golden record. Let's meet." Now, internationally bestselling author B.C.CHASE invites you on a daring first contact mission into deep space with five intrepid astronauts, one spunky cosmonaut, and a seventy-five-year-old truck driver. *Previously published as Pluto's Ghost. This edition, dedicated to the team that launched the New Horizons probe, contains an interview with the author from Publishers Weekly Booklife. "IRREVERENT HUMOR...VIVID...MEMORABLE...AS ORIGINAL AS IT CAN GET." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY CRITIC "Planet Pluto is a compulsively readable, twisty first-contact tale about a voyage from Earth to the edge of the solar system to meet mysterious aliens. The protagonist is an engagingly irascible elderly truck driver the aliens wanted along for reasons of their own, and his cranky-but-charming voice provides an excellent grounding for a tale full of physical, mechanical, and moral disasters. Planet Pluto is packed with mysteries and surprises, and filled with enough interesting engineering detail to thrill fans of The Martian." -Tim Pratt, Bestselling Author "A FAST-PACED, EXCITING, AND SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER THAT WILL KEEP READERS ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEATS. FOUR OF FOUR STARS." -ONLINEBOOKCLUB.ORG "SOMETIMES DIFFERENT IS BETTER. THAT'S THE CASE HERE. ...FAST AND FUN." -THE OKLAHOMAN "CHASE HAS THE RAW TALENT FOR WRITING, AND THE WAY HE'S ABLE TO PUT YOU RIGHT INSIDE THE MAIN CHARACTER'S HEAD IS FANTASTIC." -SCIFIANDSCARY.COM B.C.CHASE is the internationally bestselling author of the Paradeisia Trilogy, which critics have hailed as one of the greatest franchises of our time.* His electrifying talent for combining the latest in scientific breakthroughs with edge-of-your-seat thrills has earned him a reputation as a master of suspense. Amazon has named him among its top 10 Sci-fi authors. Visit the official website at bcchase.com for a chance to win free books. "CHASE'S CLEAN, FLOWING PROSE AND BRIGHT SENSE OF HUMOR LIVEN UP A TALE." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY CRITIC "INCREDIBLY WELL-WRITTEN." -EBOOKS ADDICT "CHASE KEEPS US GUESSING UNTIL THE END." -ONLINEBOOKCLUB.ORG "B.C.CHASE IS RAPIDLY BECOMING AN AUTHOR OF AUTHORITY." -GRADY HARP, VINE VOICE "CHASE HAS THE RAW TALENT FOR WRITING, AND THE WAY HE'S ABLE TO PUT YOU RIGHT INSIDE THE MAIN CHARACTER'S HEAD IS FANTASTIC." -SCIFIANDSCARY.COM "ONE HELL OF A RIDE." -THRILLERKAT REVIEWS "IN TRUE CRICHTON STYLE, CHASE TAKES ELEMENTS OF KNOWN SCIENCE, EXPLORES THEIR EXTREME POTENTIAL, AND BUILDS A MYSTERY AROUND SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES." -AMAZON.COM *epub.us
The Sea, the Sea
Author: Iris Murdoch
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101495650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Winner of the Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101495650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Winner of the Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Sedna
Author: Richard L Smith
Publisher: Richard L. Smith
ISBN: 9781943767885
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
In 2017 a group of geologists are sent on a long journey to the minor planet Sedna to explore and answer some geological anomalies. They discover something truly astounding which upends the scientific thinking of the day. They are met with many challenges as they return home with their discovery and a surprising "gift" for all mankind.
Publisher: Richard L. Smith
ISBN: 9781943767885
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
In 2017 a group of geologists are sent on a long journey to the minor planet Sedna to explore and answer some geological anomalies. They discover something truly astounding which upends the scientific thinking of the day. They are met with many challenges as they return home with their discovery and a surprising "gift" for all mankind.
Blindsight
Author: Peter Watts
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429955198
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
White Mars
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312254735
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A 21st-Century Utopia Two of England's most distinguished thinkers have created a bold and startling vision of a new society escaping the ashes of the old. In the not-so-distant future, Man will have begun to colonize our planetary neighbor, Mars. Entrenched corporate and national interests have footed the bill, but a few visionary people attempt to keep Mars free of the hidebound ideologies that have plagued the Earth and turned it into a polluted wasteland of war and hunger. The colony has barely begun to take root in the Martian soil when all communication with EUPACUS--as the industrialized nations of Earth are known--is cut off completely. Environmental and economic stresses have finally spun out of control, and civilization as we know it has collapsed. With no hope of escape or support from Earth, the Martians must overcome the dire obstacles that face them and forge a new alliance for survival. Led by the brave Tom Jefferies, the colonists struggle to build a new way of living based on the search for knowledge, the improvement of human conditions, and the elimination of the hatreds and delusions that lead to misery in the past. Included in an appendix is the complete text of the Charter for an Independent Mars, written by Dr. Laurence Lustgarten, a renowned expert on international law.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312254735
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
A 21st-Century Utopia Two of England's most distinguished thinkers have created a bold and startling vision of a new society escaping the ashes of the old. In the not-so-distant future, Man will have begun to colonize our planetary neighbor, Mars. Entrenched corporate and national interests have footed the bill, but a few visionary people attempt to keep Mars free of the hidebound ideologies that have plagued the Earth and turned it into a polluted wasteland of war and hunger. The colony has barely begun to take root in the Martian soil when all communication with EUPACUS--as the industrialized nations of Earth are known--is cut off completely. Environmental and economic stresses have finally spun out of control, and civilization as we know it has collapsed. With no hope of escape or support from Earth, the Martians must overcome the dire obstacles that face them and forge a new alliance for survival. Led by the brave Tom Jefferies, the colonists struggle to build a new way of living based on the search for knowledge, the improvement of human conditions, and the elimination of the hatreds and delusions that lead to misery in the past. Included in an appendix is the complete text of the Charter for an Independent Mars, written by Dr. Laurence Lustgarten, a renowned expert on international law.