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Download or read book Elephant Quest written by Ted Lewin and published by Adventures Around the World. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lewins are on a quest through Botswana to see the majestic African elephants in this picture book travelogue.
Book Synopsis The Elephant in the Room by : Tommy Tomlinson
Download or read book The Elephant in the Room written by Tommy Tomlinson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).
Book Synopsis To Catch an Elephant by : Vanessa Westgate
Download or read book To Catch an Elephant written by Vanessa Westgate and published by Clavis. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laugh out loud - and learn! "If you want to catch an elephant, first you must find out where elephants live . . ." So begins this tale of a boy and his quest for a pet elephant. But maybe catching an elephant isn't as simple as it sounds . . . A delightful and compassionate story for elephant lovers ages 4 years and up.
Book Synopsis The Executive and the Elephant by : Richard L. Daft
Download or read book The Executive and the Elephant written by Richard L. Daft and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons for leaders on resolving the ongoing struggle between instinct and the creative mind Kings, heads of government, and corporate executives lead thousands of people and manage endless resources, but may not have mastery over themselves. Often leaders know that right action is important, but have little (if any) understanding of what prevents them from acting in accordance with their intentions. In this important book, leadership expert Richard Daft portrays this dilemma as a struggle between instinct (elephant) and intention (the executive) using the most current research on the intentional vs. the habitual mind to explain how this phenomenon occurs. Based on current research and real-life examples Offers leaders a method for directing themselves more productively Written by an expert in leadership, organizational performance, and change management Through real-life examples and recent studies in psychology, management and Eastern spirituality Daft provides guidance to all of us who struggle finding our own balance and cultivating the behavior of others.
Book Synopsis ELEPHANT-THE LADY BOSS by : Dr. C.H. Basappanavar
Download or read book ELEPHANT-THE LADY BOSS written by Dr. C.H. Basappanavar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why elephant is known as, “The Lady Boss”? The Indian elephant Elephas maximus, the matriarchal society is led by the wisest and eldest female of the family/herd. Here, the matriarch is the boss. Being hub of the family, she not only performs the usual maternal tasks, but also protects the family with extreme efficiency from poten¬tial enemies, apart from guiding the family to safety in times of crises. The matriarch keeps male suitors at a trunk’s distance, only allowing them to join the herd when their presence is felt necessary to service the females in oestrus. Her long memory over fifty years experiences, among others, help in leading the family to introduce potential feeding grounds, waterholes, natural springs and salt licks within her domain ranging over 50 or more km2. The matriarchal family remains united and truly stable to enable to wage war against adversaries and enemies. With prowess and devotion to her kin, the ‘gentle giant’ remains the unques-tionable authority. She acts like a lady and thinks like a boss! Hence the book, “ELEPHANT-THE LADY BOSS”.
Book Synopsis Elijah the Lost Elephant by : Jeric Ilagan
Download or read book Elijah the Lost Elephant written by Jeric Ilagan and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elijah the elephant is lost all alone. Will he be able to find his way home? Maybe some friends can help on his quest? Open this book to find out the rest! Join Elijah as he ventures to find his parents in the thick jungle. Just what sort of interesting characters will he meet along the way? A heart-warming story about friendship and teamwork.
Download or read book The Elephant written by Jenni Desmond and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Africa to Asia, the elephant makes its home. Light on their feet, despite their great weight, these magnificent creatures appear light and graceful because they're always walking on their tip-toes. They have excellent hearing and can detect the rumblings of other elephants from six miles away. And, just like humans being right handed or left handed, elephants can be right tusked or left tusked!
Book Synopsis Integrating Instruction by : Judy McKee
Download or read book Integrating Instruction written by Judy McKee and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current research suggests that active study of science reinforces thinking, language and reading skills. Presenting the necessary tools to integrate literacy with science, this hands-on book contains valuable instructional ideas and activities that make science less daunting - especially for teachers.
Book Synopsis Games User Research by : Anders Drachen
Download or read book Games User Research written by Anders Drachen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Games live and die commercially on the player experience. Games User Research is collectively the way we optimise the quality of the user experience (UX) in games, working with all aspects of a game from the mechanics and interface, visuals and art, interaction and progression, making sure every element works in concert and supports the game UX. This means that Games User Research is essential and integral to the production of games and to shape the experience of players. Today, Games User Research stands as the primary pathway to understanding players and how to design, build, and launch games that provide the right game UX. Until now, the knowledge in Games User Research and Game UX has been fragmented and there were no comprehensive, authoritative resources available. This book bridges the current gap of knowledge in Games User Research, building the go-to resource for everyone working with players and games or other interactive entertainment products. It is accessible to those new to Games User Research, while being deeply comprehensive and insightful for even hardened veterans of the game industry. In this book, dozens of veterans share their wisdom and best practices on how to plan user research, obtain the actionable insights from users, conduct user-centred testing, which methods to use when, how platforms influence user research practices, and much, much more.
Book Synopsis When an Elephant Falls in Love by : Davide Cali
Download or read book When an Elephant Falls in Love written by Davide Cali and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of I Didn't Do My Homework Because... comes an irresistible meditation on the quest for connection. When an elephant falls in love, he does many foolish things. He hides when the elephant-object of his affection is around. He writes dozens of letters that he will never send. And he tries to be healthy, but ends up finishing the cheesecake. This soulful book is at once relatable and revealing, a reminder that love is worth striving for, and that the very best things in life will come to those who wait. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which looks almost identical to the print edition.
Book Synopsis The Elephant Keepers' Children by : Peter Hoeg
Download or read book The Elephant Keepers' Children written by Peter Hoeg and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delightful novel” and international bestseller from the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow (Guardian) Danish siblings search for their missing parents—eccentric ‘miracle-makers’—in this whimsical tale about faith and the magic of everyday life. Told from the precocious perspective of 14-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers’ Children is about 3 siblings and how they deal with their eccentric parents. Peter’s father is a vicar, his mother is an artisan. Both are equally and profoundly devout, known for fabricating cheap miracles for the congregation of the only church on Finø. People of all religious faiths coexist peacefully on the island—yet nothing is at it seems. When Peter’s parents suddenly go missing, Peter and his siblings fear the worst—has their parents’ relentless quest to boost church attendance finally put them in danger? Told with poignancy and humor, The Elephant Keepers’ Children is a fascinating exploration of fundamentalism versus spiritual freedom, the vicissitudes of romantic and familial love, and the triumph of the human spirit.
Book Synopsis When Elephants Paint by : Komar & Melamid
Download or read book When Elephants Paint written by Komar & Melamid and published by Harper. This book was released on 2000-11-21 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries elephants in Thailand have been revered as a national symbol, worshiped as living gods and employed as beasts of burden in the nation's thriving timber industry. But when logging was banned in Thailand in 1990, these noble animals fell on hard times. Reduced to performing tricks for tourists by day and illegal heavy labor by night, Thailand's elephants were exhausted, malnourished, and dying in alarming numbers. Hearing of their plight, a pair of unlikely heroes came to the rescue, Wildly eccentric Russian emigre artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid devised a brilliant scheme: to create the world's first quadruped occupational retraining program-a network of art schools for unemployed elephants. Taking a cue from elephant trainers in a number of American zoos, Komar and Melamid taught the animals to hold brushes in their trunks and apply paint to canvas. And the results were astonishing: Not only did the elephants' paintings closely resemble the expansive gestural work of such Abstract Expressionist artists as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline, but the pachyderm painters also began to develop clearly distinct regional styles-lyrical and expressive in the northern Thai school, subtle and atmospheric in the east, dynamic and angst ridden in the central school. Sanctioned by the World Wildlife Fund, the Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project has been a remarkable success; paintings by some of the most talented elephant artists have been auctioned at Christie's for thousands of dollars, generating funds to provide proper care for the elephants and support for their trainers. When Elephants Paint follows Komar and Melamid and their eclectic entourage through Thailand's lush jungles and steaming cities, describing the odd encounters and creative cajoling that helped turn this seemingly whimsical idea into a concrete, beneficial reality. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs, including actual elephant paintings, this riotously funny and provocative book offers a valuable lesson in wildlife conservation and startling revelations about the nature of art itself.
Book Synopsis Windows on the World by : Rosanne Blass
Download or read book Windows on the World written by Rosanne Blass and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource book for librarians and teachers of elementary and middle grade readers introduces over 400 titles of books (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) written and illustrated by international authors and illustrators. Windows on the World: International Books for Elementary and Middle Grade Readers helps librarians and teachers open the eyes of elementary and middle grade readers to what life is like for children like themselves around the globe. In this extraordinary resource, you will find introductions to over 400 fiction, nonfiction, and poetry titles for age levels 4-8 and 8-12, written and illustrated by international authors and illustrators, and matched with related curriculum activities correlated with national curriculum standards. Windows on the World consists of over 100 lead books and over 350 related books published in the last ten years, organized by countries and cultures. It includes work from non-American authors working in the United States and abroad, as well as reissues of classics, and a few American titles noted for their authentic representations of other cultures. Each entry includes bibliographic data, information about the author and illustrator, identification of genre, recommended age level, a synopsis, suggested curriculum responses correlated with national curriculum standards, and related books.
Book Synopsis Mammoth Hunt by : John Blashford-Snell
Download or read book Mammoth Hunt written by John Blashford-Snell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Elephant in the Universe by : Govert Schilling
Download or read book The Elephant in the Universe written by Govert Schilling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning science journalist details the quest to isolate and understand dark matter--and shows how that search has helped us to understand the universe we inhabit. When you train a telescope on outer space, you can see luminous galaxies, nebulae, stars, and planets. But if you add all that together, it constitutes only 15 percent of the matter in the universe. Despite decades of research, the nature of the remaining 85 percent is unknown. We call it dark matter. In The Elephant in the Universe, Govert Schilling explores the fascinating history of the search for dark matter. Evidence for its existence comes from a wealth of astronomical observations. Theories and computer simulations of the evolution of the universe are also suggestive: they can be reconciled with astronomical measurements only if dark matter is a dominant component of nature. Physicists have devised huge, sensitive instruments to search for dark matter, which may be unlike anything else in the cosmos--some unknown elementary particle. Yet so far dark matter has escaped every experiment. Indeed, dark matter is so elusive that some scientists are beginning to suspect there might be something wrong with our theories about gravity or with the current paradigms of cosmology. Schilling interviews both believers and heretics and paints a colorful picture of the history and current status of dark matter research, with astronomers and physicists alike trying to make sense of theory and observation. Taking a holistic view of dark matter as a problem, an opportunity, and an example of science in action, The Elephant in the Universe is a vivid tale of scientists puzzling their way toward the true nature of the universe.
Download or read book Mind Over Tennis written by Jörgen Jensen and published by Accomplishing Innovative Press. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Roger Federer challenge his coach Peter Lundgren to a wrestling match? And how did Lundgren manage to help transform him from an ill-tempered youth to the consummate professional we have come to know? Mind over Tennis answers this and many other questions. The book thoroughly covers all aspects how to master the mental game of tennis including such topics as: •Managing nervousness •Reaching the zone •Achieving consistency •Effective training and drills •Controlling emotions Along with this we get real-life examples and stories from Peter Lundgren’s unique experience of coaching three players who all reached world number one rankings. How did they do it? What was special about them? How did Peter coach them?
Book Synopsis The Treasure Island by : Hengameh Fazeli
Download or read book The Treasure Island written by Hengameh Fazeli and published by Prana World. This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasure Island is the story of two animals who leave their country, travelling to a far island in the heart of an ocean in search of solutions to save their kingdom from famine and drought. This search symbolizes the journey of the soul and its evolution. They meet five new friends on the island, becoming a group of seven souls representing the seven rays. Their task is to conquer five mountains symbolizing the five virtues. They must collect gems to unlock a final relic and bring it to their kingdom. The story deals with challenges and learning gained from practicing each virtue. It emphasizes that to be successful in life, we do not need a magical relic but spiritual practice and the empowerment we gain through practicing the virtues.
