Author: Tom Turpin
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557535094
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
"The author of Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other Bugdacious Tales is back with more ditties on the insect kingdom. Insects may not rule the world, but what other species has been able to run with the dinosaurs, witness the emergence of the first human beings, and still be around to talk about it? These six-legged species have roamed the Earth for 400 million years and are still going strong as the most common type of living organism. Discover the beehive of activity insects encounter daily with Tom Turpin's new book What's Buggin' You Now? Bee's Knees, Bug Lites, and Beetles."--BOOK JACKET.
What's Buggin' You Now?
Author: Tom Turpin
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557535094
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
"The author of Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other Bugdacious Tales is back with more ditties on the insect kingdom. Insects may not rule the world, but what other species has been able to run with the dinosaurs, witness the emergence of the first human beings, and still be around to talk about it? These six-legged species have roamed the Earth for 400 million years and are still going strong as the most common type of living organism. Discover the beehive of activity insects encounter daily with Tom Turpin's new book What's Buggin' You Now? Bee's Knees, Bug Lites, and Beetles."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557535094
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
"The author of Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and Other Bugdacious Tales is back with more ditties on the insect kingdom. Insects may not rule the world, but what other species has been able to run with the dinosaurs, witness the emergence of the first human beings, and still be around to talk about it? These six-legged species have roamed the Earth for 400 million years and are still going strong as the most common type of living organism. Discover the beehive of activity insects encounter daily with Tom Turpin's new book What's Buggin' You Now? Bee's Knees, Bug Lites, and Beetles."--BOOK JACKET.
The Broken Harmonica
Author: Samuel K. Leonard
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514488108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Broken Harmonica is the compelling saga of Cornelius Wright as told in his own words; from his earliest years to his coming of age on a plantation in the old South; to his journey to freedom. Through nearly 100 years of his life Cornelius tells the dramatic tale of his time spent as a soldier in the Civil War, forging a path toward the freedom that he holds so deeply in his heart. Corneliuss personal struggles transform him even after the freedom comes and he must continue the fight to find a way for himself and his family in the complex and divided world of the late eighteenth, early twentieth century America. In the midst of it all is a harmonica that becomes symbolic of his life, his trials and his legacy.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514488108
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Broken Harmonica is the compelling saga of Cornelius Wright as told in his own words; from his earliest years to his coming of age on a plantation in the old South; to his journey to freedom. Through nearly 100 years of his life Cornelius tells the dramatic tale of his time spent as a soldier in the Civil War, forging a path toward the freedom that he holds so deeply in his heart. Corneliuss personal struggles transform him even after the freedom comes and he must continue the fight to find a way for himself and his family in the complex and divided world of the late eighteenth, early twentieth century America. In the midst of it all is a harmonica that becomes symbolic of his life, his trials and his legacy.
Scamalot
Author: Ray Barnds
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1609762649
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
As the title Scamalot implies, the scams come fast and furious in this fun novel set in Hollywood. Upscale escort/call girl Kellie Householder has just initiated a million dollar scam against a TV star, when her big brother, Jerry, and his pal, George, appear on the scene. Both are fresh out of prison and are flat broke. The parolees stumble on to Kellie's scam and decide to hustle her for some money. She rebuffs them, and then in an act of compassion, hires Jerry and George to help carry out her scheme against squeaky clean TV personality Alice Ridgeway, who doesn't want the truth of her indiscretion to become public. But Alice has a scam of her own: keeping $800,000 of the million she promises to pay to keep her secret in the closet. There's also a photography shop owner who printed pornographic photos of Kellie, and decides to blackmail her over the shots. All the plots come together, as Jerry and George go to the drop-off spot dressed as orthodox rabbis. Since everyone wants their share of the million, who ends up with the cash?
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1609762649
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
As the title Scamalot implies, the scams come fast and furious in this fun novel set in Hollywood. Upscale escort/call girl Kellie Householder has just initiated a million dollar scam against a TV star, when her big brother, Jerry, and his pal, George, appear on the scene. Both are fresh out of prison and are flat broke. The parolees stumble on to Kellie's scam and decide to hustle her for some money. She rebuffs them, and then in an act of compassion, hires Jerry and George to help carry out her scheme against squeaky clean TV personality Alice Ridgeway, who doesn't want the truth of her indiscretion to become public. But Alice has a scam of her own: keeping $800,000 of the million she promises to pay to keep her secret in the closet. There's also a photography shop owner who printed pornographic photos of Kellie, and decides to blackmail her over the shots. All the plots come together, as Jerry and George go to the drop-off spot dressed as orthodox rabbis. Since everyone wants their share of the million, who ends up with the cash?
My Paperback Book
Author: Gabrielle Selmon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329532287
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
this is the story of Darius summers who has to learn to live without his loved ones after the loss of both his brother and father
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329532287
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
this is the story of Darius summers who has to learn to live without his loved ones after the loss of both his brother and father
What's Bugging You?
Author: Arthur V. Evans
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926988
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
We are told from the time we are children that insects and spiders are pests, when the truth is that most have little or no effect on us--although the few that do are often essential to our existence. Arthur Evans suggests we take a closer look at our slapped-at, stepped-on, and otherwise ignored cohabitants, who vastly outnumber us and whose worlds often occupy spaces that we didn't even know existed. What's Bugging You? brings together fifty unforgettable stories from the celebrated nature writer and entomologist's popular Richmond Times-Dispatch column. Evans has scoured Virginia's wild places and returned with wondrous stories about the seventeen-year sleep of the periodical cicadas, moths that evade hungry bats by sensing echolocation signals, and the luminous language of light employed by fireflies. He also visits some not-so-wild places: the little mounds of upturned soil scattered along the margins of soccer fields are the dung beetle's calling card. What does the world look like to a bug? Evans explores insect vision, which is both better, and worse, than that of humans (they are capable of detecting ultraviolet light, but many cannot see the color red), pausing to observe that it is its wide-set forward-looking eyes that imbue the praying mantis with "personality." He is willing to defend such oft-maligned creatures as the earwig, the tent caterpillar, and the cockroach--revealed here as a valuable scavenger, food source for other animals, and even a pollinator, that spends more time grooming itself than it does invading human space. Evans's search for multilegged life takes him to an enchanting assortment of locations, ranging from gleaming sandy beaches preferred by a threatened tiger beetle to the shady, leaf-strewn forest floors where a centipede digs its brood chamber--to a busy country road where Evans must dodge constant foot and vehicular traffic to photograph a spider wasp as its claims its paralyzed prey. His forays also provide the reader with a unique window on the cycles of nature. What Evans refers to as the FBI--fungus, bacteria, insects--are the chief agents in decomposition and a vital part of regeneration. Evans also takes on many issues concerning humans' almost always destructive interaction with insect life, such as excessive mowing and clearing of wood that robs wildlife of its food and habitat, as well as harmful bug zappers that kill everything but mosquitoes. The reader emerges from this book realizing that even seemingly mundane forms of insect and spider life present us with unexpected beauty and fascinating lifestyles.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926988
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
We are told from the time we are children that insects and spiders are pests, when the truth is that most have little or no effect on us--although the few that do are often essential to our existence. Arthur Evans suggests we take a closer look at our slapped-at, stepped-on, and otherwise ignored cohabitants, who vastly outnumber us and whose worlds often occupy spaces that we didn't even know existed. What's Bugging You? brings together fifty unforgettable stories from the celebrated nature writer and entomologist's popular Richmond Times-Dispatch column. Evans has scoured Virginia's wild places and returned with wondrous stories about the seventeen-year sleep of the periodical cicadas, moths that evade hungry bats by sensing echolocation signals, and the luminous language of light employed by fireflies. He also visits some not-so-wild places: the little mounds of upturned soil scattered along the margins of soccer fields are the dung beetle's calling card. What does the world look like to a bug? Evans explores insect vision, which is both better, and worse, than that of humans (they are capable of detecting ultraviolet light, but many cannot see the color red), pausing to observe that it is its wide-set forward-looking eyes that imbue the praying mantis with "personality." He is willing to defend such oft-maligned creatures as the earwig, the tent caterpillar, and the cockroach--revealed here as a valuable scavenger, food source for other animals, and even a pollinator, that spends more time grooming itself than it does invading human space. Evans's search for multilegged life takes him to an enchanting assortment of locations, ranging from gleaming sandy beaches preferred by a threatened tiger beetle to the shady, leaf-strewn forest floors where a centipede digs its brood chamber--to a busy country road where Evans must dodge constant foot and vehicular traffic to photograph a spider wasp as its claims its paralyzed prey. His forays also provide the reader with a unique window on the cycles of nature. What Evans refers to as the FBI--fungus, bacteria, insects--are the chief agents in decomposition and a vital part of regeneration. Evans also takes on many issues concerning humans' almost always destructive interaction with insect life, such as excessive mowing and clearing of wood that robs wildlife of its food and habitat, as well as harmful bug zappers that kill everything but mosquitoes. The reader emerges from this book realizing that even seemingly mundane forms of insect and spider life present us with unexpected beauty and fascinating lifestyles.
What's Buggin' You?
Author: Michael Bohdan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In What's Buggin' You?, author Michael Bohdan (aka "Cockroach Dundee")--pest control operator and world famous curator of the Cockroach Hall of Fame--shows you how to identify and control the pests that are driving you crazy. This humorous and helpful guide combines amazing trivia about pests with explanations on the latest treatments and techniques for getting rid of everything from ants to gophers to whiteflies. Annoying squirrels in your trees? Cockroaches in your kitchen? Rats in your attic? Bohdan will show you how to get rid of what's buggin' you!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In What's Buggin' You?, author Michael Bohdan (aka "Cockroach Dundee")--pest control operator and world famous curator of the Cockroach Hall of Fame--shows you how to identify and control the pests that are driving you crazy. This humorous and helpful guide combines amazing trivia about pests with explanations on the latest treatments and techniques for getting rid of everything from ants to gophers to whiteflies. Annoying squirrels in your trees? Cockroaches in your kitchen? Rats in your attic? Bohdan will show you how to get rid of what's buggin' you!
The Gingerbread Jamboree
Author: Karen Ganger
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 164298731X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Gingerbread Jamboree is the second book of the Welcome Home, Arkansas series. Returning to the small Ozark Mountains community after two years, we find Charley Simson still struggling with his recovery from a nearaEUR"death experience. He determines that making bread could be the best therapy and opens Pandemonium. To boost economy and tourism, the city council decides on a new community project, the Gingerbread Jamboree. Just as preparations begins, a turkey vulture arrives and perches on top of a blue cedar tree in the town square. Seen as a bad omen, havoc ensues. Strange occurrences without explanation happen plus Charley gets threatened, an illustrious judge survives a boat explosion, a stampede runs through town, and the entire community is up in arms. Meet more of the local residents as Charley and his best friend, Lou, try to salvage the Gingerbread Jamboree from disaster. Only the appearance of a famous food personality can save the day, but does that buzzard leave town? The Gingerbread Jamboree provides eighteen different recipes for gingerbread for you to bake and enjoy.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 164298731X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Gingerbread Jamboree is the second book of the Welcome Home, Arkansas series. Returning to the small Ozark Mountains community after two years, we find Charley Simson still struggling with his recovery from a nearaEUR"death experience. He determines that making bread could be the best therapy and opens Pandemonium. To boost economy and tourism, the city council decides on a new community project, the Gingerbread Jamboree. Just as preparations begins, a turkey vulture arrives and perches on top of a blue cedar tree in the town square. Seen as a bad omen, havoc ensues. Strange occurrences without explanation happen plus Charley gets threatened, an illustrious judge survives a boat explosion, a stampede runs through town, and the entire community is up in arms. Meet more of the local residents as Charley and his best friend, Lou, try to salvage the Gingerbread Jamboree from disaster. Only the appearance of a famous food personality can save the day, but does that buzzard leave town? The Gingerbread Jamboree provides eighteen different recipes for gingerbread for you to bake and enjoy.
Cognitive Therapy Techniques for Children and Adolescents
Author: Robert D. Friedberg
Publisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462520073
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Providing a wealth of practical interventions and activities - all organized within a state-of-the-art modular framework - this invaluable book helps child clinicians expand their intervention toolkits. Building on the bestselling Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents, which addresses the basics of treatment, Friedberg et. al., in their latest volume, provide additional effective ways for engaging hard-to-reach clients, addressing challenging problems, and targeting particular cognitive and behavioral skills. Fun and productive games, crafts, and other activities are described in step-by-step detail. Special features include over 30 reproducible forms and handouts, which bookbuyers can also download and print from Guilford's website in a convenient full-page size."--Pub. desc.
Publisher: Guilford Publications
ISBN: 1462520073
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
"Providing a wealth of practical interventions and activities - all organized within a state-of-the-art modular framework - this invaluable book helps child clinicians expand their intervention toolkits. Building on the bestselling Clinical Practice of Cognitive Therapy with Children and Adolescents, which addresses the basics of treatment, Friedberg et. al., in their latest volume, provide additional effective ways for engaging hard-to-reach clients, addressing challenging problems, and targeting particular cognitive and behavioral skills. Fun and productive games, crafts, and other activities are described in step-by-step detail. Special features include over 30 reproducible forms and handouts, which bookbuyers can also download and print from Guilford's website in a convenient full-page size."--Pub. desc.
The Aran Islands’ Terrifying Secret
Author: Roddy O’Sullivan
Publisher: Europa Edizioni
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The Aran Islands' Terrifying Secret is the third book in Roddy O'Sullivan's Fomorian Series, a trilogy for 10-14 year-olds, set in the West of Ireland. Shane Donnegan gains work experience off the Aran Islands aboard the St Fergus, an Irish naval ship. With his friends Zara and Tubs, he digs up a chunk of a colossal, long-extinct shellfish and persuades the ship’s Captain to explore nearby subterranean sea-caves. Here they discover a wrecked 18th-century whaler and a treasure chest. But what happens next defies belief − the crew are set upon in circumstances that call into question our very understanding of nature itself. The Minister of the Environment steals the gold from the treasure chest and sells the film & TV rights to a consortium of rich foreign gangsters. Battling against these ruthless thugs, Shane and his friends face certain death when a typhoon propels themselves and the rudderless St Fergus towards the cliffs of Inishmore. Their survival rests with Shane seeking help from the formidable beings that had earlier attacked the crew… Roddy O’Sullivan is a keen children’s writer. After a long career in medicine, he now devotes himself to lecturing and campaigning for the protection of the lakes, rivers and wildlife of his native Ireland. Roddy enjoys playing the guitar, fishing and birdwatching. His lifelong interest in past civilisations was the inspiration behind his adventure stories for younger readers which involve the unexpected meetings of today’s world with that of the ancients.
Publisher: Europa Edizioni
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The Aran Islands' Terrifying Secret is the third book in Roddy O'Sullivan's Fomorian Series, a trilogy for 10-14 year-olds, set in the West of Ireland. Shane Donnegan gains work experience off the Aran Islands aboard the St Fergus, an Irish naval ship. With his friends Zara and Tubs, he digs up a chunk of a colossal, long-extinct shellfish and persuades the ship’s Captain to explore nearby subterranean sea-caves. Here they discover a wrecked 18th-century whaler and a treasure chest. But what happens next defies belief − the crew are set upon in circumstances that call into question our very understanding of nature itself. The Minister of the Environment steals the gold from the treasure chest and sells the film & TV rights to a consortium of rich foreign gangsters. Battling against these ruthless thugs, Shane and his friends face certain death when a typhoon propels themselves and the rudderless St Fergus towards the cliffs of Inishmore. Their survival rests with Shane seeking help from the formidable beings that had earlier attacked the crew… Roddy O’Sullivan is a keen children’s writer. After a long career in medicine, he now devotes himself to lecturing and campaigning for the protection of the lakes, rivers and wildlife of his native Ireland. Roddy enjoys playing the guitar, fishing and birdwatching. His lifelong interest in past civilisations was the inspiration behind his adventure stories for younger readers which involve the unexpected meetings of today’s world with that of the ancients.
The Light in The Forest
Author: Gabriel Sinclair
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Cathy Simms was sold to a pornographer as a child. As a teenager she lived enslaved by a brutal pusher-pimp named Daddy Jones. One day a young Christian man tried to lead her away from a seedy hotel to a safe house, but was beaten to death by the pimp's brother, who then turned his wrath upon her. She was rescued by a kickboxer named John Starr, but a gun battle ensues drawing the attention of the police. Cathy and several girls were rescued that day, but Daddy Jones escapes. Cathy and John marry but she gradually discovers she has married a cold man, who can show little affection other than a flicker of a smile. They have a beautiful daughter named Rachel. Her dad takes a job as a Forest Ranger in a sparsely populated visual paradise called Brightwater Bay. They want to escape the possibility of a vengeful Daddy Jones and Starr's fears that he might become a loose cannon living in the city. Rachel has but a few friends, all living on the west side of Brightwater except Quentin, a boy her age next door. Quentin is enchanted by her beauty, but that's as far as it goes, because he's not into the mushy stuff-yet. The children and a monk, standing on a nearby turret, see a vision of a glittering light and a black circle floating in the tree tops their first day together. This is an omen that they are to become part of the supernatural warfare between good and evil. Quentin does befriend Rachel and eventually falls in love. But he encounters enemies such as a stuck-up rich girl, a joker, a bully, unusual circumstances, and the devil himself.
Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Cathy Simms was sold to a pornographer as a child. As a teenager she lived enslaved by a brutal pusher-pimp named Daddy Jones. One day a young Christian man tried to lead her away from a seedy hotel to a safe house, but was beaten to death by the pimp's brother, who then turned his wrath upon her. She was rescued by a kickboxer named John Starr, but a gun battle ensues drawing the attention of the police. Cathy and several girls were rescued that day, but Daddy Jones escapes. Cathy and John marry but she gradually discovers she has married a cold man, who can show little affection other than a flicker of a smile. They have a beautiful daughter named Rachel. Her dad takes a job as a Forest Ranger in a sparsely populated visual paradise called Brightwater Bay. They want to escape the possibility of a vengeful Daddy Jones and Starr's fears that he might become a loose cannon living in the city. Rachel has but a few friends, all living on the west side of Brightwater except Quentin, a boy her age next door. Quentin is enchanted by her beauty, but that's as far as it goes, because he's not into the mushy stuff-yet. The children and a monk, standing on a nearby turret, see a vision of a glittering light and a black circle floating in the tree tops their first day together. This is an omen that they are to become part of the supernatural warfare between good and evil. Quentin does befriend Rachel and eventually falls in love. But he encounters enemies such as a stuck-up rich girl, a joker, a bully, unusual circumstances, and the devil himself.