Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Fiction: Level 10: The Spooks

Author: Michaela Morgan
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198447115
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Would you like to meet the Spooks? The Spooks tells the story of the Spook family and the Normal family who both live in Tottering Towers. The Spooks want to frighten the Normals, but the Normals know better! TreeTops Fiction contains engaging novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading!

The Spooks

Author: Michaela Morgan
Publisher: 케이론교육
ISBN: 9781596468542
Category : Ghost stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Meet Mom and Dad Spook, Luke the Spook, Moaning Lisa and little Baby Boo. They want to give the Normal family a scare . . . but the Normals know what to do with Spooks! Includes full-color illustrations and author profile. Chapter Book: 4 chapters.

Accelerando

Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101208473
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 596

Book Description
The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day. Struggling to survive and thrive in this accelerated world are three generations of the Macx clan: Manfred, an entrepreneur dealing in intelligence amplification technology whose mind is divided between his physical environment and the Internet; his daughter, Amber, on the run from her domineering mother, seeking her fortune in the outer system as an indentured astronaut; and Sirhan, Amber’s son, who finds his destiny linked to the fate of all of humanity. For something is systematically dismantling the nine planets of the solar system. Something beyond human comprehension. Something that has no use for biological life in any form...

Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Fiction: Level 10: The Masked Cleaning Ladies Save the Day

Author: John Coldwell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198447146
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Everyone in the castle has got football fever in The Masked Cleaning Ladies Save the Day. Will their team win? Or will the Castle Carrot team win using dirty tricks? TreeTops Fiction contains engaging novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading!

The Phantom Image

Author: Patrick R. Crowley
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022664829X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fresh and wide-ranging study, he uses the figure of the ghost to offer a new understanding of the status of the image in Roman art and visual culture. Tracing the shifting practices and debates in antiquity about the nature of vision and representation, Crowley shows how images of ghosts make visible structures of beholding and strategies of depiction. Yet the figure of the ghost simultaneously contributes to a broader conceptual history that accounts for how modalities of belief emerged and developed in antiquity. Neither illustrations of ancient beliefs in ghosts nor depictions of afterlife, these images show us something about the visual event of seeing itself. The Phantom Image offers essential insight into ancient art, visual culture, and the history of the image.

The Masked Cleaning Ladies Save the Day

Author: John Coldwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199168613
Category : Readers (Elementary)
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description
This is an Oxford Reading Tree series of fiction for pupils aged 7 to 11. Specially written for children who need the support of carefully monitored language levels, the stories are accessible, motivating and humorous. The series is organized into five stages, with each stage introducing more complex narrative forms, including flashbacks and changes in viewpoint; descriptive writing; and extended reading vocabulary. Each stage is supported by a Teacher's Guide, which offers guidance on using Treetops to assess children's reading ability. A variety of activities are included.

Satanstoe, or the Littlepage Manuscripts

Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887069031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Book Description
Though Satanstoe has been too much neglected by readers of Cooper's time and ours, it is one of his most interesting books, combining nostalgic autobiographical recollections, pictures of manners, action and adventure, and social philosophy in one of the author's happiest experiments in fiction. Ostensibly, it gives a comprehensive view of colonial life and society in New York State in the middle of the eighteenth century, blending all these elements with the narrative skill for which the author has always been famous.

The Great War for Civilisation

Author: Robert Fisk
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307428710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1415

Book Description
A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from the 1991 Gulf War to the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. A book of searing drama as well as lucid, incisive analysis, The Great War for Civilisation is a work of major importance for today's world.

Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish

Author: Supervert 32C Inc
Publisher: Supervert 32C Inc.
ISBN: 0970497105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
Fiction. Through its profile of Mercury de Sade, a computer programmer obsessed with the erotic potential of alien life, EXTRATERRESTRIAL SEX FETISH introduces a new perversion into the lexicon of sexual pathologies: exophilia, an abnormal attraction for aliens. "What Kubrick did to the science fiction film, EXTRATERRESTRIAL does to the science fiction novel...a kind of 2001: A Space Sodomy"--Dr. H. Floyd. "If the Marquis de Sade invented an astonishing new branch of mathematics, in which series and sets of bodies were subject to formal operations of pain and degradation, EXTRATERRESTRIAL is the first to apply this new math to cosmology.a kind of 120 Days of Saturn"--P. de Curval. Supervert 32C is a media company that utilizes the techniques of vanguard aesthetics to research the pathology of novel perversions.

Buyology

Author: Martin Lindstrom
Publisher: Currency
ISBN: 0385523890
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands, and products.”—Time How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? In Buyology, Martin Lindstrom presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study—a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what captures our interest—and drives us to buy. Among the questions he explores: • Does sex actually sell? • Does subliminal advertising still surround us? • Can “cool” brands trigger our mating instincts? • Can our other senses—smell, touch, and sound—be aroused when we see a product? Buyology is a fascinating and shocking journey into the mind of today's consumer that will captivate anyone who's been seduced—or turned off—by marketers' relentless attempts to win our loyalty, our money, and our minds.