Readers take a trip to the farm through this high-interest title, which covers cows, chickens, sheep, horses, and more! Beginning readers will delight in the text, which features simple, age-appropriate language and big, striking photos. Educational topics, combined with informational text features such as a word bank, captions, index, and comprehensive quiz, function as an ideal introduction to nonfiction. The volume’s simple yet effective layout encourages reading together and sharing. By the end of the text, readers gain the skills needed to identify their favorite farm animals.
In this book, readers take a journey to the sunny seaside! The text introduces readers to all the activity that takes place beside the sea. Big, colorful photographs of seaside creatures, boats, rock pools, sand, and seashells are combined with clear, age-appropriate text that makes learning both easy and fun. This volume’s simple layout encourages readers to share what they’ve learned with a companion, while a word bank, picture quiz, and index introduce them to important nonfiction text features. By the end of this volume, readers will definitely want to plan a trip to the shore!
Each of the four seasons has something special to offer. Readers find out how the different seasons change the world around us, from the snowy winter to the sunny summer. They learn about the four seasons of the year, which are explained through topics such as weather, what clothes to wear, seasonal activities, and more. This volume presents a fun, high-interest topic through clear, simple language that’s designed to be accessible to young readers. Readers are introduced nonfiction through important text features, such as a table of contents, word bank, index, and picture quiz.
This engaging book introduces readers to the fascinating world of big cats, presenting a high-interest topic through accessible language that makes learning fun for young readers. Clear, age-appropriate text teaches readers the most important facts about big cats, helping to spark a lifelong interest in animals. Detailed color photographs and simple yet effective layout encourage reading together and sharing. Readers are introduced to nonfiction text features, such as a table of contents, captions, and word bank, while a simple picture quiz provides a fun extension activity.
What were dinosaurs? Readers learn the answer to this question and more through this title, which combines a high-interest topic with nonfiction text features to make learning fun. The text covers meat-eating dinosaurs, plant-eating dinosaurs, dinosaurs that flew, and ones that swam. Engaging visuals accompany the text, which features simple, age-appropriate language designed specifically for young readers. Other high-interest topics such as fossils and how the dinosaurs met their end will pique readers’ interest. A word bank, index, and picture quiz help reinforce the concepts presented in this captivating volume.
There are thousands of bug species in the world; beginning readers are introduced to some of them in this high-interest title, which covers big bugs, small bugs, flying bugs, water bugs, and more! Simple, clear language and a manageable word are ideal for young readers. They will learn what bugs are, their important body features, how they eat, and how they hatch from eggs. Colorful photographs support the engaging text, which encourages to read and share with a companion. Nonfiction text features, such as a table of contents, captions, and word bank, support the text. A simple picture quiz completes a comprehensive learning experience.
Illustrates by example the typical steps necessary in computer science to build a mathematical model of any programming paradigm . Presents results of a large and integrated body of research in the area of 'quantitative' program logics.
Written by three experienced LIS professionals, Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives demonstrates the meaning of cultural competence in the everyday work in libraries, archives, museums, and special collections with Latino populations. The authors focus on their areas of expertise including academic, school, public libraries, health sciences, archives, and special collections to show the importance of understanding how cultural competence effects the day-to-day communication, relationship building, and information provision with Latinos. They acknowledge the role of both tacit and explicit knowledge in their work, and discuss ways in which cultural competence is integral to successful delivery of services to, communication with, and relationship building with Latino communities.
Baton Rouge is known for its rich history, food, politics, music and universities. Perhaps overlooked are the stories of how this large port city's close-knit neighborhoods have adapted to changes over the years. Annabelle Armstrong deftly navigates the evolution of these historic communities, showcasing southern charm and romanticism through firsthand accounts of people who call these places home. Journey back to the beginnings of Hundred Oaks, Capital Heights, University Acres, Wimbledon, Tara, Inniswold, Glenwood, Walnut Hills, Stratford, Steele Place, Broussard, Southdowns and many more popular places to settle down.
A hilarious new collection of essays from New York Times bestselling author Annabelle Gurwitch When Annabelle Gurwitch was a child, surrounded by a cast of epically dysfunctional relatives, she secretly prayed that it was all a terrible mistake. Suffering from a colossal case of “family envy,” Gurwitch began seeking out other forms of community. If she’s learned anything, it’s that no matter how hard you try to escape a crazy family, you just end up in another crazy family. Using her own clan of hucksters and scam artists as inspiration, Wherever You Go, There They Are unpacks and redefines our ideas of community and belonging. In her essays, Gurwitch explores family mythologies, the fragility of sisterhood, the rituals and rites of passage into urban tribes, the seductive charm of a cult, and the spectacularly daunting search for the community where her aging parents will spend the last chapter of their lives. With a wry wit and healthy dose of irresistible self-deprecation, Gurwitch asks: Who and what makes a family in our modern society? Is it our blood relations, the people we work with, pray with, our pets? By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Wherever You Go, There They Are is an irreverent, laugh-out-loud examination of family—both those that we join unwittingly and those we join on purpose.
Littoz-Monnet provides a fresh analysis of the enmeshment of expert knowledge with politics in global governance, through a unique investigation of bioethical expertise, an intriguing form of 'expert knowledge' which claims authority in the ethical analysis of issues that arise in relation to biomedicine, the life sciences and new fields of technological innovation. She makes the case that the mobilisation of ethics experts does not always arise from a motivation to rationalise governance. Instead, mobilising ethics experts - who are endowed with a unique double-edged authority, both 'democratic' and 'epistemic' - can help policy-makers manoeuvre policy conflicts on scientific and technological innovations and make their pro-science and innovation agendas possible. Bioethical expertise is indeed shaped in a political and iterative space between experts and those who do policy. The book reveals the mechanisms through which certain global governance narratives, as well as the types of expertise they rely on, remain stable even when they are contested.
Find out lots of fun facts about pirates, from their ships and weapons to their food and drink, in this new series of non-fiction readers. Leapfrog Learners offer fun facts in accessible text, perfect for building reading confidence.
Marriage is harder than uncooked grits. Annabelle offers advice for newlyweds on how to handle those times when they wonder what in tarnation they got themselves into. In this down-home, hilarious handbook, Annabelle Robertson dishes up creative solutions for those annoying male habits that drive wives stark-raving mad. In true Southern Girl style, she deciphers the nuances of male-speak and addresses marital challenges-from disguising their designer shampoos and conditioners, to videotaping embarrassing habits for the family reunion-not to mention the no-fail method for motivating a man to do housework. Armed with these charm-infused tactics-and some delicious recipes-newly married gals everywhere will be on their way to matrimonial bliss!
Find out about all the oddest pets that people keep in this new series of non-fiction readers. Leapfrog Learners offer fun facts in accessible text, perfect for building reading confidence.
Animals & Babies: Owls and Owlets explores how owl chicks grow from tiny, helpless balls of fluff into strong, fearsome hunters - with a little help from their parents! An early years photographic series that looks at the unique relationship between a parent and its baby, tracing their journey together from birth to adulthood. The idea of every animal having a lifecycle is brought to life by big, beautiful images and explained in very simple text of no more than one or two sentences per spread.
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