After their break-up-and different ways of dealing with it-Julene and Samson eventually find their way back to each other, but when she finds out what he did to keep himself busy while they were apart, she wonders: Can she trust him again?
A stick is just a stick until . . . an elephant turns it into a flyswatter, an alligator uses it to catch prey, or a child uses a stick as a toy.
Constance Anderson (Smelling Sunshine) shows readers how a simple stick can become a tool or a toy in this enjoyable look at the many uses animals and people can find for sticks. Creative uses of sticks range from chimpanzees catching tasty treats to birds attracting mates. A fun book to read to an ...
Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays collected offer young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of material to perform, read or study.
Each play has been specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department with t...
This clinically focused book aims to cover for the first time all of the neurological aspects relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of spinal cord disease. Furthermore, innovative neurorestorative therapeutic strategies - aiming for repair of the damaged spinal cord and/or reorganization of the remaining nervous system - with significant potential for translation into clinical routine are presented. The book covers a comprehensive list of to...
Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, Fifth Edition provides tools to understand how music sounds and behaves in different spaces, and how sounds are perceived by performers and listeners. This new edition reflects new psychoacoustic information related to timbre and temporal perception, including an updated discussion of vocal fold vibration principles, samples of recent acoustic treatments, and a description of variable acoustics in spaces, as well...
As the People's Republic of China has grown in economic power, so too have concerns about what its sustained growth and expanding global influence might mean for the established global order. Explorations of this changing dynamic in daily reporting as well as most recent scholarship ignore the part played by forces emanating from the global capitalist system in the PRC's failures as well as its successes. China scholar Arif Dirlik reflects in ...
Poaesie et photographie' was originally delivered as the Lezione Sapegno for 2009 at the University of Val d'Aoste, The text of that lecture was subsequently published by Nino Aragno of Turin, Italy. The present version is a greatly amended and developed version of the original lecture, which it supersedes."--Page [vi].
* Quirky facsimile first published in 1980 * Advises the public on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack * Essential information includes: - Planning your survival kit - What to do on hearing an attack warning - What to do after the attack - How to deal with casualties and deaths
This Way, That Way is an endlessly inventive and interactive flip-and fold book, sure to entertain and intrigue. Simple smiling circles, rectangles and triangles explode into a riot of colour and shape as each page is folded or flipped. As you fold, unfold, flip, twist and layer the pages, colour and shape come together in striking and unexpected ways, creating cheeky, cheerful characters. Young hands will delight in transforming flat pages an...
In the second instalment in "The Uncommoners" trilogy, the adventures of Ivy Sparrow continue. The first title, "The Crooked Sixpence", was an instant bestseller with 20, 000 copies sold within the first six weeks of publication. Ages: 9-11yrs *Also appeared in April Buyer's Notes*