Учебная литература
44108 кн.
Troubled sixteen-year-old Beth Sorenson spends the summer in Mexico with her godmother, Dr. Lucia Delgado, an archeologist. She saves a baby armadillo she names Chema. Through a Mexican veterinarian she begins to understand the complexities of treating wild animals.<br><br>After a rocky beginning with student interns, she adjusts to her new surroundings, makes friends, and learns the value of another culture. She and a fellow student, get lost in the jungle and discover an important...
| Автор | Carol W. Hazelwood |
This e-book is designed to be used as a companion to the Universal Studios film, A BEAUTIFUL MIND. It presents a unique and entertaining learning opportunity for both mental health professionals and those who are not trained in mental health. It brings the diagnosis of schizophrenia to life with its scene-by-scene information about the movie. For mental health professionals it serves as an entertaining up-to-date refresher course with a chance to earn continuing education credits. For non-mental...
| Автор | Francine R Goldberg PhD |
Lemon Trees and Bumblebees presents the magic of pollination, the dance of bees and flowers, to a young audience. With engaging wit and charm, using just the right combination of creative descriptions and fanciful illustrations, this book will entrance readers of all ages.<br><br>Children can discover an early interest in science and nature as they follow these busy bees all the way to the fun on the last page. Child-friendly recipes, a glossary of new terms, and fact pages for...
| Автор | Diane Sherrouse |
For years, Pee Wee has lived in the shadow of the bigger trees on the Christmas farm. Without enough sunlight to grow tall and strong, he has been forced to watch helplessly as the other bigger and more attractive trees are picked every year, going home with a happy family. Just as Pee Wee is about to give up hope that he will ever get the chance to bring joy to a family during the holiday season, he is finally cut down to be sold! At the Christmas tree lot, he was again overlooked. No one...
| Автор | George Wells |
This little children's book walks Cory and Haley through each step of their experience when the fire department responds to a fire at a neighbor's house.<br><br>The book provides knowledge of the events and issues when they participate, directly or indirectly, in a fire or medical emergency.<br>Children often experience a great deal of anxiety and hold fears that bad things will happen to them after they have experienced or witnessed a crisis...
| Автор | Pete Adams |
"My Diploma doesn't seem to work" was written by a recent high school grad who is passionate about helping others see through an established system and find their greater potential. What you will get out of reading this book is a shifted perspective and an abundance of self-awareness of the systematic structure that every student is obligated to go through. Whether the student becomes successful outside of school, comes down to how well they are self-aware of their...
| Автор | Moisés Castillo |
Up for another extremely funny, totally gross & weird adventure? Then read on…<br /> <br />Yep, just when Sam didn't think things could get any worse, his best mate, Jared, becomes sooo sick he has to stay home from school for the entire week, leaving Sam on his own to face the suckiest week of his whole sucktacular life.<br /> <br />With Toffee tugging at his nauseating nostril taffy, Abbey being crabby, Booga's gigantic butt bugle and the rest of the...
| Автор | Susan Berran |
Another extremely gross Agnath adventure … you just have to read about this!<br /> <br />Sam and Jared's lives are in chaos once again. Why would the cute, cuddly, spoilt pets that get to lay around all day and have their food slopped out right in front of them purposely want to get their masters into trouble? Were they evil, stupid … were they even from this world?<br /> <br />"Oooh Crap!! Fluff Butt just pooped right in the middle of the lounge room rug! …...
| Автор | Susan Berran |
Ready for another hilariously gross adventure? Then read on…<br /> <br />For ages now, Sam and Jared had just thought of Agnath as being the 'slimey green booga of the country', the 'butt-crack of the world'… that all changed when they found out about the 'Lost Treasure.'<br /> <br />But for Sam and Jared to find the lost treasure, first they will have to do the unthinkable; suck-up to Toffee Thomas… face unspeakable horrors, like the sight...
| Автор | Susan Berran |
In 1954, Melbourne is still reeling from WWII; the Cold War sees suspicions running high and the threat of communism and spies hide in every shadow.<br /> <br />Jewish schoolgirl, Ruth, is trying to navigate her own path, despite her strict upbringing and the past that haunts her family.<br /> <br />It's a path that she wishes could include her first love, Patrick, but the rich Catholic boy is strictly off limits.<br /> <br />When a mysterious woman moves...
| Автор | Goldie Alexander |
In a time and place where the gulf between the haves and the have-nots has grown painfully wide, Olivia lives a life cushioned with abundance.<br /> <br />Until the day she is kidnapped and held for ransom by Hannah, a girl from a very different kind of life.<br /> <br />Olivia discovers a taste for things not commonly condoned in her world: black-market books, daring friends, wild creativity.<br /> <br />From the depths of factory oppression to the dizzying...
| Автор | Mary Borsellino |
It's grosser, weirder, funnier and even smellier than before!<br /> <br />Take another brilliantly twisted adventure with Sam, Jared and little Miss 'dung daks' smelly Melly poop pants as they head off on holidays … to the most dangerous place on the planet.<br /> <br />But is it really a holiday … or a final resting place to get rid of annoying kids?<br /> <br />With the poisonous puke plants, ferocious farting animals, tree swinging hippies...
| Автор | Susan Berran |
If it's fun and adventure you're looking for, then this … is the book for you!<br /> <br />Sam's life seemed to be heading down the toilet since his little sister, Miss 'I'm sooo good' Smelly Melly Prissy Pants was born.<br /> <br />But in the 'sticks' of Agnath he found a best friend, Jared, a tall skinny red-head with a gazillion freckles.<br /> <br />And when underground tunnels are discovered right below them,...
| Автор | Susan Berran |
Up for another hilariously gross adventure? Then read on…<br /> <br />Sam and his best mate, Jared, are off on another Freaky adventure. Sam's been hard at work all summer trying to build up the world's largest, smelliest, grossest ball of toe jam from all of the cow poop, slug slime and sweat that's living between his toes. But when he uses Smelly Melly's toothbrush to try and dig out the huge dob of mouldy, smelly muck, well, let's just say … it's not...
| Автор | Susan Berran |
The Curly Cow is a heart-warming story about a family of cows and the girl who looked after them on a small farm in the Hunter Valley of NSW. It spans 37 years of farm life, showing us all the ups and downs of living on the land. It is the close bond and friendship between the author and the animals that make her long and unpredictable hours and climatic hardships worth the effort. ' Joanne Le Maitre has told a lovely story in The Curly Cow. Suitable for country and city kids alike....
| Автор | Joanne Le Maitre |
arth, the fantasy: the green, storied world where mankind originated. Earth, the reality: the junk planet, a dirty, dangerous place filled with detention camps, gangs and gangsters, flop houses, body parts factories, and a lawless immigrant community of aliens and humans. Ned believes the refugees from outer space have been interbreeding with cockroaches the size of dinosaurs. Em, pretty and slim, is seeking asylum; she thinks that Earth is unbelievably primitive. Space Junk is a coming-of-age...
| Автор | Rory Barnes |
A violent rebellion is taking place in an abandoned parliament house. Having been boarded up to make way for a new parliament, the building now harbours a new breed of decision-makers – those with feathers and fur. Inside, an uprising is taking place led by the unscrupulous canines, Mr Hughes and Contessa Cavalier. It threatens to harm both animal and human civilisations. Two worlds collide when 11-year-old Lucy clambers through an open window. Inside, she discovers a fantastical...
| Автор | M.D. Milton-Smith |
Rodney Congruent (son of Watson Congruent of «The Return of Captain Conquer» fame) fears he will never have the sort of adventures his parents had. Then he receives an envelope full of transporting glitter, and ends up on an alien spaceship. The aliens, Grubber and Drum, say that they're searching for new exhibits for The Planetoid of Amazement, although Rodney is skeptical of their motives. Then he's kidnapped by Mara and Grits, two more creatures who are willing to do just about...
| Автор | Mel Gilden |
The 2015 NaNoWriMo Tablo.io Novel Writing Contest winner. <br /> A virus decimated the entire planet’s human population. No treatment or vaccine could be found, so contraction—meant death.<br /> Humanity was forced to seek refuge in hermetically sealed self-sustaining bunkers, commonly referred to as ‘biospheres’. After the world’s power grid failed, survivors managed to establish a global satellite communications network, which allowed them to weave together a digital facsimile of...
| Автор | Matt Brennan |
Can Delilah capture the heart of the partner of her dreams and teach Sampson how to trust again? She does her duckish best – although Sampson’s life experiences so far have proven the opposite. Will this brave little duck be able to overcome Sampson’s fear of humans? Her persuasive weapons are as strong as those of the biblical Delilah and Sampson’s resistance matches his namesake, also. Delilah follows her animal instincts to woo and win her heart’s desire – although even she could not foresee...
| Автор | Christine Larsen |
Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor Of Aquitaine (1122-1204) was a major figure in the middle ages and a prominent figure in women’s history. Born the Duchess of Aquitaine, she would eventually become Queen of England and France. The eldest daughter of William X, Duke of Aquitaine. She inherited her father’s lands in 1137, and married Louis VII of France that same year. The marriage was annulled in 1152. She then married Henry II of England, bearing him eight children including sons Richard (the...
| Автор | Welby Thomas Cox, Jr. |
Danny, Irene, Joe, and Professor Bullfinch launch themselves on an amazing journey – through time! They land in the year 1763 and one of the first people they meet is Benjamin Franklin. The Professor plans to return soon to the future, but when he throws the switch, the time machine won't start. While he and Mr. Franklin try to repair it, Danny and his friends explore the colonial era – and Joe is kidnapped by an angry innkeeper who mistakes them for a runaway. Can the Professor get them...
| Автор | Jay Williams |
Danny and his friend Joe Pearson discover the entrance to a cave in the woods near their home. Professor Bulfinch has just invented a portable x-ray machine, and the Professor, along with his geologist friend Dr. Tresselt, sees an opportunity to use the device inside the cave. The two adults, along with Danny, Joe, and Irene, enter the cave on an expedition. They make an astonishing discovery, but they encounter a significant problem which prevents them from leaving the cave…<P> Danny...
| Автор | Jay Williams |
During the Vietnam War, a Vietnamese boy must free the «Man in the Box,» a captured American soldier, and bring him to safety. A powerful tale of friends in the midst of battle, «The Man in the Box» won the prestigious Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award in 1968. It remains as memorable today – and its message of compassion and friendship as fresh – as the day it was first published. Includes a Foreword by Ardath Mayhar from the 2006 edition, plus a new Publisher's Foreword by John...
| Автор | Marylois Dunn |