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The Whatsit

Author : Roderick Hunt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198465263
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book The Whatsit written by Roderick Hunt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The teaching notes for the Oxford Reading Tree Biff, Chip and Kipper books are full of practical suggestions for using the storybooks, saving you hours of preparation time. They have been updated in line with the simple view of reading and the renewed Primary Framework for Literacy. They now include guidance for group/guided reading, comprehension and word recognition, and assessment. These replace the existing Teaching Notes and Guided Reading Cards. The storybooks are unchanged, but notes for parents/carers and teaching assistants have been added to the inside covers. These notes replace the existing Take-Home Cards.

Raising Consumers

Author : Lisa Jacobson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231113897
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Raising Consumers written by Lisa Jacobson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the present electronic torrent of MTV and teen flicks, Nintendo and Air Jordan advertisements, consumer culture is an unmistakably important--and controversial--dimension of modern childhood. Historians and social commentators have typically assumed that the child consumer became significant during the postwar television age. But the child consumer was already an important phenomenon in the early twentieth century. The family, traditionally the primary institution of child socialization, began to face an array of new competitors who sought to put their own imprint on children's acculturation to consumer capitalism. Advertisers, children's magazine publishers, public schools, child experts, and children's peer groups alternately collaborated with, and competed against, the family in their quest to define children's identities. At stake in these conflicts and collaborations was no less than the direction of American consumer society--would children's consumer training rein in hedonistic excesses or contribute to the spread of hollow, commercial values? Not simply a new player in the economy, the child consumer became a lightning rod for broader concerns about the sanctity of the family and the authority of the market in modern capitalist culture. Lisa Jacobson reveals how changing conceptions of masculinity and femininity shaped the ways Americans understood the virtues and vices of boy and girl consumers--and why boys in particular emerged as the heroes of the new consumer age. She also analyzes how children's own behavior, peer culture, and emotional investment in goods influenced the dynamics of the new consumer culture. Raising Consumers is a provocative examination of the social, economic, and cultural forces that produced and ultimately legitimized a distinctive children's consumer culture in the early twentieth century.

Harry and the Terrible Whatzit

Author : Dick Gackenbach
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780899192239
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Harry and the Terrible Whatzit written by Dick Gackenbach and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1977 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his mother goes to the cellar and fails to return right away, Harry searches for her and confronts the terrible two-headed Whatzit.

The Chuckling Whatsit

Author : Richard Sala
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1560972815
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Chuckling Whatsit written by Richard Sala and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 1998-10-28 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Chuckling Whatsit, Sala weaves the gothic cartooning traditions of Edward Gorey and Charles Addams with a densely constructed, melodramatic murder mystery involving astrology, ghouls, academia and outsider art. Part noir, part horror and part comedy, this labyrinthian tale of intrigue follows an unemployed writer named Broom who becomes unwittingly ensnared in a complex plot involving mysterious outsider artist Emile Jarnac, the shadowy machinations of the Ghoul Appreciation Society Headquarters (GASH), and the enigmatic Mr. Ixnay. Sala's deadpan delivery makes this ingeniously layered narrative a roller-coaster ride of darkly pure comic suspense.

A Wrinkle in Time

Author : Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429915641
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Wrinkle in Time written by Madeleine L'Engle and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic that has delighted children for over 60 years! "A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart." —Meg Cabot Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murray, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract--a wrinkle that transports one across space and time--to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murray is being held captive. There they discover a dark force that threatens not only Mr. Murray but the safety of the whole universe. A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet.

American Lumberman

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Lumberman written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Christmas with Rita and Whatsit

Author : Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod
Publisher : Zero to Ten
ISBN 13 : 9781840895179
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Christmas with Rita and Whatsit written by Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod and published by Zero to Ten. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rita and Whatsit have a lot to do to get ready for Christmas, including writing to Santa, decorating the tree, and making a snack for Santa and his reindeer. Together, Rita and Whatsit are more than a match for all these challenges. Full color.

It's All Perfect

Author : M W Valbert
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1452596115
Total Pages : 1128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book It's All Perfect written by M W Valbert and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When HRH Prince John, the fourth son of the Queen of England, goes AWOL in Seattle, he meets Catori Moriarty, an unusual girl from New Mexico. John hails from a thousand years of British royalty. Tori doesnt know who her biological parents were. He was raised in a glass box call Buckingham Palace and taught to repress his emotions. She was taught how to heal her wounds and live in joy. He suffers from debilitating migraines that threaten his career as a pilot in the Royal Navy. She can use her extraordinary higher sense perception to heal. Both are older than their years and love physics. Obviously they were made for each other, and their accidental meeting was divinely orchestrated. Too bad Johns married and off-limits, and Tori prefers the simple life. Did the universe get it wrong? Unwilling for the magic to end, they set out on a road trip to Toris home in Albuquerque. Its a slice-of-life journey that ultimately spans three continents and includes two-headed snake stops and many perfect moments. Along the way they discover that theyve been in each others consciousness since Tori was born and that they can communicate empathically. Johns career is saved, but each return to his ship proves wrenching. Tori learns that leaving her comfort zone is good for her souland his. Its a love affair that rocks the British monarchy, but the ripples it sends out glisten.

The Core Language Engine

Author : Hiyan Alshawi
Publisher : Bradford Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Core Language Engine written by Hiyan Alshawi and published by Bradford Book. This book was released on 1992 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Core Language Engine presents the theoretical and engineering advances embodied in one of the most comprehensive natural language processing systems designed to date. Recent research results from different areas of computational linguistics are integrated into a single elegant design with potential for application to tasks ranging from machine translation to information system interfaces. Bridging the gap between theoretical and implementation oriented literature, The Core Language Engine describes novel analyses and techniques developed by the contributors at SRI International's Cambridge Computer Science Research Centre. It spans topics that include a wide-coverage unification grammar for English syntax and semantics, context-dependent and contextually disambiguated logical form representations, interactive translation, efficient algorithms for parsing and generation, and mechanisms for quantifier scoping, reference resolution, and lexical acquisition. Contents Introduction to the CLE - Logical Forms - Categories and Rules - Unification Based Syntactic Analysis - Semantic Rules for English - Lexical Analysis - Syntactic and Semantic Processing - Quantifier Scopin - Sortal Restrictions - Resolving Quasi Logical Forms - Lexical Acquisition - The CLE in Application Development - Ellipsis, Comparatives, and Generation - Swedish-English QLF Translation

The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0345802993
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete collection of Yuletide whodunits ever assembled • The Edgar Award-winning editor collects sixty of his all-time favorite holiday crime stories—from Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy to Sara Paretsky and Ed McBain. “Anyone who cares about the best mystery writing of the past century and beyond would be lucky to receive this thick volume during the holidays." —The Washington Post This collection touches on all aspects of the holiday season, and all types of mysteries. They are suspenseful, funny, frightening, and poignant. Included are puzzles by Mary Higgins Clark, Isaac Asimov, and Ngaio Marsh; uncanny tales in the tradition of A Christmas Carol by Peter Lovesey and Max Allan Collins; O. Henry-like stories by Stanley Ellin and Joseph Shearing, stories by pulp icons John D. MacDonald and Damon Runyon; comic gems from Donald E. Westlake and John Mortimer; and many, many more. Almost any kind of mystery you’re in the mood for--suspense, pure detection, humor, cozy, private eye, or police procedural—can be found in these pages. FEATURING: • Unscrupulous Santas • Crimes of Christmases Past and Present • Festive felonies • Deadly puddings • Misdemeanors under the mistletoe • Christmas cases for classic characters including Sherlock Holmes, Brother Cadfael, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Rumpole of the Bailey, Inspector Morse, Inspector Ghote, A.J. Raffles, and Nero Wolfe.

A Fish Come True

Author : Paul Schullery
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811768635
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book A Fish Come True written by Paul Schullery and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fish Come True celebrates the enduring joys, mysteries, and miseries of fishing through a series of “what-if” stories: What if someone discovered a fly that worked on every cast? What if we could fish anywhere, any time in the distant past? What if we could explore the fishing on a different planet? What if our sport’s leading thinkers suddenly decided that an infamous trash fish was really cool and a great sporting trophy after all? A Fish Come True answers these and other engaging questions in stories full of sympathy, surprises, good humor, and—most important of all—hope. In this remarkable array of stories, a tour de force of literary styles ranging from unadorned tale to historical mystery to faux press release to science-fiction adventure, Schullery honors the angler’s innate and precious need to hope. And in the midst of this lively storytelling he illuminates the rich rewards and deeply satisfying misadventures that arise from the fulfillment of our angling dreams.

GOING SOLO

Author : James Voigt
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1636307744
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book GOING SOLO written by James Voigt and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 That nagging voice in your head is probably right. I am not on a crusade to convince everyone to go solo. My crusade is to reach those who want to go solo but are afraid to try to pull it off. Jim Voigt had had the spirit of a solo professional from a young age, starting his first business “Corporate Start-Ups” at the age of 14. After a successful career in sales, Jim turned to law and put his sales skills to work building a strong book of business. But traditional employment never “clicked” and Jim longed for more freedom both financially and personally. His transition to solo practice went well, but he saw other solo professionals struggle. He wanted to help. Going Solo is the result of his research into the struggles and successes of his own career and those professionals he met along his journey. Jim now brings his practical message of the attainability of solo freedom to others who feel trapped in traditional firms or underperforming solo practices.

The Dragon's Apprentice

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416958983
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon's Apprentice written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John, Jack, and Charles return to the Archipelago of Dreams, they encounter an apparent splintering of Time itself and set off on a new quest in which success and failure each carry a high cost.

TeX Reference Manual

Author : David Bausum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792376736
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book TeX Reference Manual written by David Bausum and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-03-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TeX is a software program for computerized typesetting of professional publications, such as reports and directories. This reference alphabetically lists 325 primitive control sequences, accompanied by descriptions, examples, and modes. The descriptions are annotated discussions gleaned from Knuth's Texbook. The opening chapter organizes the primitives into families and types that perform specific tasks. Closing chapters discuss macros for typesetting verbatim and two-column material, and for working with PostScript fonts. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Advanced TEXbook

Author : David Salomon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461242568
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book The Advanced TEXbook written by David Salomon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why is 'lEX so hard to use?" is the most frequent comment/complaint made by (frustrated) 'lEX users. The answer: Because it is programmable (has many features commonly found in programming languages), because it pays attention to detail, and because its creator has developed it for his own use (perhaps also his administrative assistant's) and not for general use. The material presented here is a direct result of this complaint and is an attempt to make it easier for inexperienced users to get the kind of high-quality typesetting that is possible with 'lEX. The material is based on classes taught since 1985, and on the author's personal experience with 'lEX, which includes writing three books and numerous articles, handouts, and letters. Both introductory and advanced material is included here. There are many examples as well as a detailed discussion of topics, such as \ valign and \emergencystretch, that are only briefly touched upon in The TpJXbook. Chapter 20 describes the macros used to typeset this book; it also lists the METAFONT programs for the special characters used.

The Apparitionists

Author : Peter Manseau
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544745981
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book The Apparitionists written by Peter Manseau and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of faith and fraud in post–Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead. In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America’s imagination. A “spirit photographer,” William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation: The affluent and influential came calling, including Mary Todd Lincoln, who arrived at his studio in disguise amidst rumors of séances in the White House. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons. It took a circus-like trial of Mumler on fraud charges, starring P. T. Barnum for the prosecution, to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation. And even then, the judge sided with the defense, suggesting no one would ever solve the mystery of his spirit photography. This forgotten puzzle offers a vivid snapshot of America at a crossroads in its history, a nation in thrall to new technology while clinging desperately to belief. An NPR Best Book of 2017 “A rare work of historical nonfiction that is both studious and just plain entertaining.”—Publishers Weekly, Top Ten Books of 2017 “An exceptional story.”—Errol Morris, New York Times Book Review “Manseau has become the foremost chronicler of the deep American desire to believe in the weird, the strange, and the oddly wonderful.”—Jeff Sharlet, New York Times–bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

The Year of Our Love

Author : Caterina Bonvicini
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635420628
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book The Year of Our Love written by Caterina Bonvicini and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Sally Rooney’s Normal People An extraordinary story of friendship and love across class lines, this rich, evocative novel traces the history of modern Italy, from 1975 to 2013, through the fate of one couple. Valerio and Olivia grow up together in the Morganti family’s opulent villa in Bologna, inseparable friends even though they come from vastly different worlds: Olivia, the Morgantis’ daughter, is the heir to a large industrial fortune, while Valerio is the son of their gardener and maid. Largely sheltered from the dangers rampant in the unstable Italy of the 1970s, the two share their first innocent kiss at five years old, which heralds the start of a decades-long relationship. From Valerio having to move to a poor neighborhood in Rome and Olivia making her entrance in high society, life tries to separate them at every turn, but without success, so strong is the bond between them. Year after year they meet only for a few moments, which feel like they’re eternal, and their friendship turns into something more intense, and scary. They take different paths: Olivia travels the world looking for herself, while Valerio devotes himself to a prestigious career that doesn’t satisfy him, in a country that is quickly losing its identity in the political crises of the Berlusconi era. Still, they keep meeting again and again at crossroads in life.