Join the elves as they help Santa get ready for Christmas in this clever, interactive board book with die-cut pages and lift-the-flaps. It's Christmastime, the busiest time of year for Santa and his elves. His workshop is buzzing with elves completing all kinds of jobs to prepare for the big night. The cheerful elves are making toys, sorting through all of the letters that children around the world have sent to Santa, and taking care of the reindeer. And as the night wears on and they get tired, the elves head off to bed one by one until they're all sound asleep. This engaging Christmas board book features sturdy flaps and a clever transformation with each turn of the page!
Each book in this series contains advice on where to buy your pet; health and diet; and safe handling and care. The fact-packed guides are essential reads for young pet keepers who want an animal that is more fierce than fluffy
Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses “obvious” historical milestones--the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Genome Project--with unexpected and intriguing topics like “truth serum,” the use of cocaine in eye surgery, and face transplants.
In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an ecological form with rhizomatic roots and blossoming branches. Within these pages, the reader will encounter a wild garden of genres, including poetry, chant, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, visual texts, and even a dramatic play—all written in multilingual offerings of English, Pacific languages, pidgin, and translation. Seven main themes emerge: “Creation Stories and Genealogies,” “Ocean and Waterscapes,” “Land and Islands,” “Flowers, Plants, and Trees,” “Animals and More-than-Human Species,” “Climate Change,” and “Environmental Justice.” This aesthetic diversity embodies the beautiful bio-diversity of the Pacific itself. The urgent voices in this book call us to attention—to action!—at a time of great need. Pacific ecologies and the lives of Pacific Islanders are currently under existential threat due to the legacy of environmental imperialism and the ongoing impacts of climate change. While Pacific writers celebrate the beauty and cultural symbolism of the ocean, islands, trees, and flowers, they also bravely address the frightening realities of rising sea levels, animal extinction, nuclear radiation, military contamination, and pandemics. Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures reminds us that we are not alone; we are always in relation and always ecological. Humans, other species, and nature are interrelated; land and water are central concepts of identity and genealogy; and Earth is the sacred source of all life, and thus should be treated with love and care. With this book as a trusted companion, we are inspired and empowered to reconnect with the world as we navigate towards a precarious yet hopeful future.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Where our real home might be is tricky to say. In a way that is the point. Some people say that it is the body, but I think the body is more of a channel that leads us home. Ultimate reality is our home. It is here and now.In 2016, two artists embarked a cargo ship and retraced a route of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle - Europe, Africa, the Caribbean - all the while contemplating the notion of home. Both real and imagined, it was a journey to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, propelled by questions and grief; a journey backwards in order to go forwards, a diaspora. This show is what they brought back. Selina Thompson's Salt premiered at Southbank Centre in July 2017, and went on to tour in the UK, Australia, Canada and Brazil.Winner of The Stage Edinburgh Award, The Total Theatre Award for Experimentation, Innovation and Playing with Form, and The Filipa Bragança Award. Shortlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award.
A dangerous mission into dark fae lands will destroy everything. Memory thinks she is finding herself, finding her home, and finding love, but she is being manipulated at every turn. Memory will break all the rules of her magical kingdom to save what is important to her. She will commit the ultimate crime. War will be declared. Worlds will be broken. How can just one girl save three whole dimensions from a fate worse than death? In the epic conclusion to the Memory’s Wake young adult fantasy trilogy, the truth will be unveiled. If you love high stakes adventure, heroic sacrifices, and enchanting worlds, you will love Selina Fenech's illustrated novel. Discover the unique magical world of Providence Unveiled by picking up your copy today.
Where were her shoes? It was strange to even think about it. There were certainly more frightening things to consider. The guns, the men, the crash; plus there were all the things left behind which included her passport. These were all too much. So she thought, instead, about her bare feet. Rebecca Dawson had worked hard to afford this trip to France. She wanted to see everything, and experience all Europe had to offer. And she longed for adventure. Canada was home but it was safe. What was life without a little adventure? What she hadn’t wanted was what she and her two best friends had found. Now they faced imprisonment, torture, and slavery. But the most frightening was the one thing they didn’t know about; the reason Fredrick Brouillette and his group were here. And in the midst of it all, Rebecca would have the answer to the one question she had never seriously asked herself, how would she handle a crisis?
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