Учебная литература
44108 кн.
In her search for Hans Barskova, a Teaching Assistant at MIT, Eliza Boria learns that the neural code was deciphered by the United States government and the technology to create computer-controlled humans ("Cybernatons") was tested in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Eliza discovers her grandmother, Bernice Figueroa, traveled to Russia with Norbert Weiner during his lectures on cybernetics and planted the idea of utilizing cybernetics for the advancement of eugenics to...
| Автор | Bernard Amador |
Pure origami is an ancient and elegant art, whereas making paper airplanes is often considered a relatively modern recreation. Origami focuses on beauty, while the performance of a paper airplane is usually its most important attribute. This clearly written, carefully illustrated how-to book combines the two activities to produce an up-to-date innovation: artfully constructed origami airplanes that actually fly.The author first shows you how to construct the Jet Tail, an important basic feature...
| Автор | Gery Hsu |
This simply written introduction to scientific research and experimentation takes youngsters into an exciting world where they'll not only learn to discover their own answers to specific problems but will be encouraged to develop sound scientific attitudes and techniques as well.For this volume, noted science educator George Barr has compiled a carefully selected array of intriguing experiments dealing with chemistry, astronomy, magnetism and electricity, weather, water, the human body,...
| Автор | George Barr |
Charming light verse and fourteen graceful illustrations tell the story of an «everyday boy» named Teddy Malleen who travels to the North Pole in a flying machine, where he meets Santa and explores the legendary toy shop.Originally published in 1916, this holiday treasure has been reproduced in a large, sturdy format that's perfect for little hands and will last for many seasons. A lovely gift book and a fun adventure for kids, it's a must-have edition for collectors of antique...
| Автор | Margaret Evans Price |
With this easy-to-read book, children will discover the facts behind the seemingly magical conversions that transform a wooly caterpillar into a graceful butterfly and a swimming tadpole into a leaping frog. Far from being supernatural, these changes involve a fascinating natural process, and this book presents a well-illustrated look at how some baby animals develop from a larval stage into adults that bear little resemblance to their former selves.The authors, seasoned writers of popular...
| Автор | Alvin Silverstein |
"A Visit from St. Nicholas" first appeared as an anonymous holiday poem in a New York newspaper in 1823. Since then, it has become better known by its first line — and it has defined the image of Santa Claus and his most familiar traits, from his snowy beard and chubby cheeks to the names of his reindeer.Ready to delight a whole new generation, this luminous facsimile of a sought-after 1917 edition abounds in nostalgic charm. Its fourteen enchanting illustrations by a beloved...
| Автор | Clement C. Moore |
Whether forming a pirate gang to search for buried treasure or spending a quiet time at home, sharing his medicine with Aunt Polly’s cat, the irrepressible Tom Sawyer evokes the world of boyhood in nineteenth-century rural America. In this classic story, Mark Twain re-created a long-ago world of freshly whitewashed fences and Sunday school picnics into which sordid characters and violent incidents sometimes intruded. The tale powerfully appeals to both adult nostalgia and young...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: and God saw that it was good. -Gen. 1:14-18 The universe was created with purpose and reason; and modern science with all of its experiments, exploration, and sophistication has never proven otherwise. In fact, as author Dr. Danny Faulkner makes plain, advanced science argues more for a created cosmology than a big bang. Written...
| Автор | Danny Faulkner |
Series Description: This new BIG LITTLE CRITTER BOOK series provides a wonderful library for kids, parents, and even teachers to use, enjoy, discuss, laugh about, lean from, and be Entertained by for countless hours in all situations and circumstances. The five-book series will cover areas of behavior, character building andlife lessons in the humorous, entertaining and comforting ways only the world-famous, best-selling and beloved Little Critter could share and emulate. Heart-warming and...
| Автор | FastPencil Premiere |
Becka & the Big Bubble is a Children’s Rhyming Picture Book Series about an adventurous girl named BECKA who explores a new city/country in each book. At the beginning, Becka blows a big bubble that magically whisks her away. Her best friend Ben cheers her on and often climbs aboard. Together they journey to a new land where the bubble POPS! They explore, meet people, see sights, try new things, and find a bubble ride home to her loving family. “Becka goes to New York...
| Автор | Gretchen Schomer Wendel |
Becka & the Big Bubble is a Children’s Rhyming Picture Book Series about an adventurous girl named BECKA who explores a new city/country in each book. At the beginning, Becka blows a big bubble that magically whisks her away. Her best friend Ben cheers her on and often climbs aboard. Together they journey to a new land where the bubble POPS! They explore, meet people, see sights, try new things, and find a bubble ride home to her loving family. “Becka goes to...
| Автор | Gretchen Schomer Wendel |
2021. The Advanced Covert Engagements Section (A.C.E.S.) is officially created to be a clandestine N.A.T.O. strike-force tasked with the elimination of potential and confirmed terrorist threats world-wide. Un-officially, the A.C.E.S. taskforce is the result of and latest successor to the USAF's Project Blue-Book. Old conspiracies are slowly replaced by unsettling truths and the body-count rises as a new A.C.E.S. recruit becomes one of the few human beings on the planet to uncover...
| Автор | SEAN KOPING |
Fifteen-year-old Johnny Orson can't wait to play in this weekend's elite hockey tournament. Not only is this a chance for his team, the Missouri Eagles, to prove they can compete with some of the best teams in North America. There are scouts in the bleachers, looking for players to tryout for the National team. Johnny's dreams are threatened when his skates mysteriously disappear. But it's not just him. Several goalies in the tournament have also reported missing gear . Why...
| Автор | Kristin Tuttle |
A legend—once thought of as nothing but an old fairy tale—is about to come true. On the 500th anniversary of King Taizkehwa’s fall, the tyrant shall break out of his stony prison to take back his kingdom, and his queen, once and for all. Desperate to escape the clutches of her former husband, Queen Genevieve seeks out the kingdom’s only hope: six young people who hold the power of the purest magic in their hands. Kristen, the first one of the six to be found, suddenly finds herself thrown into a...
| Автор | Giselle Rocha |
In order to earn money to bring Fritz's momma and sisters from Sweden to America, the determined Fritz sets out to master a new skill, working as the youngest stonemason on the crew building the Stone Arch Bridge across the Mississippi River. Along the way, Fritz, always eager to learn, unlocks secrets of his new homeland from details of the river's geology and the area's animals to stories of brave stands against slavery and the dangers of flour milling.<br...
| Автор | Carolyn Ruff |
First published in Swiss German in 1881, Johanna Spyri’s “Heidi” is the classic children’s story which has delighted readers both young and old ever since its original publication. It is the story of its titular character, Heidi, a girl orphaned at the age of five, who is sent to live with her Grandfather in the Swiss Alps by her Aunt Detie. Her Grandfather has the reputation of having a nasty disposition but Heidi quickly warms up to him. Heidi soon befriends her neighbors and residents of the...
| Автор | Johanna Spyri |
First published in 1877, “Black Beauty” is Anna Sewell’s classic tale of a horse living in 19th century England. Having been injured in early childhood, Anna Sewell would have difficulty walking for most of her life. As such she had to rely on horse-drawn carriages to get around. It was this experience that inspired her love of horses. “Black Beauty” is a fictional autobiography told from the perspective of the horse. This use of an anthropomorphic protagonist was ground-breaking for its time....
| Автор | Анна Сьюэлл |
The history of the fable likely does not originate with Aesop; however it is with him that we associate the fable’s most ancient of known origins. Little is actually known of the life of Aesop. According to the historical accounts of Herodotus, Aristotle, and Plutarch, he was a slave from the Greek island of Samos who lived between 620 and 564 BC. Described as a strikingly ugly man he is said to have secured his freedom through his cleverness. Known for his wit, Aesop would become employed as an...
| Автор | Aesop |
Saartjie en haar vriende het tien dae skoolvakansie en hulle benut dit ten volle. Die Drie Muskiete gaan “dêps” sappige ingevoerde turksvye by ’n kwaai oom wat openlik sê hy sal enigiemand wat hom besteel lewendig afslag – en ons heldin kry meer as waarvoor sy haar reggemaak het. Hierna stel die rabbedoe vir haar boetie ’n valstrik in hul sitkamer, maar dan kom mevrou Dominee kuier en dinge loop lelik skeef. Saartjie begin ernstig wonder of sy nie maar liewer ’n non moet word nie. Gelukkig daag...
| Автор | Bettie Naudé |
Die Boksombende se Grootkaptein kom voor ’n krisis te staan. Die rugbyseisoen is om die draai en Gerrit Moerdyk, ’n seun met wie hy nog nooit klaargekom het nie, sê vir almal hulle moenie weer vir Trompie as hul spankaptein kies nie. Volgens Gerrit is Trompie ’n selfsugtige speler en is dit sy skuld dat hulle nie verlede jaar die beker gewen het nie. Dit lei tot ’n grootskaalse verkiesingsveldtog waarin ons held en sy vriende alles moet uithaal om sy naam in ere te herstel en almal te oortuig...
| Автор | Topsy Smith |
Piekfyn Afrikaans Graad 6 is gemik op leerders wat Afrikaans as Huistaal neem. Dit bevat interessante leerstof en volkleur illustrasies om visuele geletterdheid te bevorder. Al die taalinhoud, aktiwiteite, speletjies en ander oefeninge word met dié van ander vakke geïntegreer sodat die kennis wat die leerders opdoen, hulle ervaringswêreld verryk en hul sodoende deeglik voorberei vir Graad 7. Die aktiwiteite is gerig op die verwerwing van al die taalvaardighede en lewensvaardighede. Kort tekste,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Trompie en Rooie kom weg met ’n waarskuwing wanneer hulle resies jaag deur by die skool se traprelings af te gly. Dan daag hulle die noodlot verder uit deur met die interkomstelsel te peuter. Hulle bak die leerders in hul klas ’n lekker poets, maar dit boemerang ongelukkig op hulle! Trompie leen ’n waterpistool om sy klasmaats mee te skiet. Wanneer die pistool spoorloos verdwyn, moet hy uitvind wie dit gegaps het. Die sproetgesig kry ’n briljante idee om die skuldiges te vang met die hulp van sy...
| Автор | Topsy Smith |
’n Leesboek soos min! Piekfyn Afrikaans Leesboek vir Huistaal is volgens die vereistes vir leesonderrig in die Intermediêre Fase ontwikkel. Die boek is ingedeel volgens verskillende genres met tekste en temas gepas vir ’n Graad 4-leerder soos jy. Wanneer jy hierdie leesboek lees, gaan jy jouself inleef in die wonderlike gebeure en karakters in elke storie en teks. Maar die Piekfyn Afrikaans Leesboek bestaan nie net uit kort stories nie. Daar is langer stories (uittreksels uit romans) en...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Dis die begin van die lang Desembervakansie. Trompie en Blikkies pas die haarkapper se winkel op en die Boksombende se Grootkaptein waag sy hand aan ’n laerskoolseun se mooi lokke – met rampspoedige gevolge! ’n Identiese drieling kom vir ’n week by Dawie-hulle kuier en hierdie meisies gee die Kwaggabergers behoorlik opdraand. Hulle skeer gedurig gek met die seuns en stof hulle uit in al wat ’n kompetisie is. Trompie en sy vriende ontmoet ’n bedlêende seun en maak geld bymekaar om vir hom ’n...
| Автор | Topsy Smith |