Project X Origins: Purple Book Band, Oxford Level 8: Buildings: Sandcastle

Author: Jan Burchett
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198301707
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Sandcastle follows Max and Tiger during a trip to the beach, as they shrink to explore their sandcastle at micro-level. However Max's little sister Molly does not see them, and is approaching the sandcastle with a big bucket of water! This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school.

Project X Origins: Purple Book Band, Oxford Level 8: Buildings: Class Pack of 30

Author: Jan Burchett
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198301691
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 30 reading books, 6 of each of: Sandcastle, The Snow Den, Cool Buildings, Mr Grim's Tower, Building Wembley.

Project X Origins: Purple Book Band, Oxford Level 8: Buildings: Mixed Pack of 5

Author: Jan Burchett
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198301684
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 5 reading books, 1 of each of: Sandcastle, The Snow Den, Cool Buildings, Mr Grim's Tower, Building Wembley.

The Disappearing Spoon

Author: Sam Kean
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316089087
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, and more, as told by the Periodic Table. Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputation? And why is gallium (Ga, 31) the go-to element for laboratory pranksters? The Periodic Table is a crowning scientific achievement, but it's also a treasure trove of adventure, betrayal, and obsession. These fascinating tales follow every element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, and in the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them. The Disappearing Spoon masterfully fuses science with the classic lore of invention, investigation, and discovery -- from the Big Bang through the end of time. Though solid at room temperature, gallium is a moldable metal that melts at 84 degrees Fahrenheit. A classic science prank is to mold gallium spoons, serve them with tea, and watch guests recoil as their utensils disappear.

Mr Grim's Tower

Author: Damian Harvey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198471400
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In this cluster, Max and Tiger take a trip to the beach and explore a sandcastle at micro-level in Sandcastle. The children try to keep warm in the snow by building an igloo in The Snow Den. And we meet a grumpy old man who lives in a lighthouse in Mr Grim's Tower. We also take a look at someamazing buildings around the world and find out all about the new Wembley Stadium in the two non fiction books, Cool Buildings and Building Wembley.Each book comes with notes for parents that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities. The Buildings Guided Reading Notes provide step-by-step guided reading support for each book in the Buildings cluster, together with guidanceabout comprehension, assessment for learning and vocabulary enrichment. Hands-on follow-up activities and cross-curricular links are also provided for each book.

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Life After Life

Author: Kate Atkinson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552779687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 628

Book Description
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifeâe(tm)s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

Beach Management Tools - Concepts, Methodologies and Case Studies

Author: Camilo M. Botero
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319583042
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 957

Book Description
This book provides an overview of beach management tools, including carrying capacity, beach nourishment, environmental and tourism awards (like Blue Flag or others), bathing water quality, zoning, beach typologies, quality index, user's perception, interdisciplinary beach monitoring, coastal legislation, shore protection, social and economic indicators, ecosystem services, and coastal governance (applied in beach case studies). Beaches are one of the most intensely used coastal ecosystems and are responsible for more than half of all global tourism revenues, and as such the book introduces a wide range of state-of-the-art tools that can be used to deal with a variety of beach challenges. Each chapter features specific types of tools that can be applied to advantage in beach management practices. With examples of local and regional case studies from around the globe, this is a valuable resource for anyone involved in beach management.

Losing Earth

Author: Nathaniel Rich
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781529015843
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed.Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalizingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism - is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of the New York Times Magazine that has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and John Hersey's Hiroshima. Rich has become an instant, in-demand expert and speaker. A major movie deal is already in place. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation.In the book Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did - and didn't - happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us in 2019. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.

No Sense of Obligation

Author: Matt Young
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 0759610886
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
Some of the Praise for No Sense of Obligation . . . fascinating analysis of religious belief -- Steve Allen, author, composer, entertainer [A] tour de force of science and religion, reason and faith, denoting in clear and unmistakable language and rhetoric what science really reveals about the cosmos, the world, and ourselves. Michael Shermer, Publisher, Skeptic Magazine; Author, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science About the Book Rejecting belief without evidence, a scientist searches the scientific, theological, and philosophical literature for a sign from God--and finds him to be an allegory. This remarkable book, written in the laypersons language, leaves no room for unproven ideas and instead seeks hard evidence for the existence of God. The author, a sympathetic critic and observer of religion, finds instead a physical universe that exists reasonlessly. He attributes good and evil to biology, not to God. In place of theism, the author gives us the knowledge that the universe is intelligible and that we are grownups, responsible for ourselves. He finds salvation in the here and now, and no ultimate purpose in life, except as we define it.