Whether you're curious about tiny bugs or terrifying beasts, this book is jam-packed with incredible, weird and wonderful facts about animals! Our mischievous narrator and his cartoon friends will reveal amazing facts about all kinds of animals, including prehistoric predators, creepy crawlies, feathered friends and everyday pets. There's even a whole section on the grossest facts, which may turn the stomachs of even the most dedicated animal lover!

In this stylishly packaged, full-color book you'll find everything you need to know about drawing manga characters - from cute chibi fairies and mini-monsters to goliath samurais and action heroines. Whatever your ability, I Can Draw Manga will teach you to create dynamic and unique figures by following its step-by-step drawing projects.By following broken-down examples and using the practice grids inside, you will learn:• How to use basic tools and materials...

From cute chibi characters to fearsome mecha, this book will teach readers of all abilities how to create authentic manga figures.As popular as when it first appeared in the 1950s, manga offers adults and children endless opportunities to create dynamic characters, imaginative stories and fantastical locations. Using step-by-step drawing projects, readers will learn an array of techniques, including:• The basics of different manga drawing styles• Creating perspective...

How heavy is a blue whale's tongue? How lazy is a blobfish? Which fish wrestle with their mouths?Young readers can find out the answers to these questions and more in this fun fact book. With clear, engaging text and vibrant illustrations, kids can get the low-down on the incredible world beneath our oceans in an accessible and entertaining way.Includes:• Deep-sea creatures• Sharks and dolphins• Octopus and squid...

What is bat poop used for? How do dogs sweat? Which reptile has three eyes?Young readers can discover amazing, shocking and totally gross facts about animals in this entertaining book. Featuring laugh-out-loud illustrations, this awesome and accessible fact book gives the low-down on some of the weirdest, most remarkable creatures in the world, as well as your pets at home!Includes:• Crazy creatures: komodo dragons, king cobras, duckbilled platypus.....

Do you grow taller in space? Can you hammer in a nail with a banana? Which animal has attractive farts?Packed with 513 questions and answers, young readers can discover amazing, shocking and totally gross facts all about animals science, space, and the human body in this entertaining book.Featuring laugh-out-loud illustrations, this awesome and accessible fact book will amaze and delight readers young and old. Perfect for curious kids aged 7+

Blasphemy and Other Ancestors is comprised of four novellas, in which authors Padgett Powell, Darius James, Lee Henderson, and Jean Marc Ah-Sen explore the tag end of existence and the abasements that memory holds in store for characters living "outside of their time."In Blasphemy and Other Ancestors, a Southern man of letters tries to instruct his assistant on the matters of the heart, a self-centered telephile recounts how his aunt taught him about the world bey...

Prepare for your dive professional exam, be an informed recreational scuba diver! Many of you will be preparing for an exam to become a dive professional. This book tells you all you need to know, no more, no less. We will start off easy with a short introduction to the dive environment. Next, we go on with the physics of diving. We have a look at equipment. In the physiology of diving, we will have a look at blood, hearts, lungs, ears, and all the things that can go wrong. Finally, we can...

Revised and expanded, A Performer's Guide to Seventeenth Century Music is a comprehensive reference guide for students and professional musicians. The book contains useful material on vocal and choral music and style; instrumentation; performance practice; ornamentation, tuning, temperament; meter and tempo; basso continuo; dance; theatrical production; and much more. The volume includes new chapters on the violin, the violoncello and violone, and the trombone—as well as updated and expand...

Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after the election of Barack Obama to the presidency.Ivery and Bassett combine their...

This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world. Each of the chapters-organized under six headings-tells an authentic, compelling story of a pioneering and successful initiative that breaks the traditional mold of instructional delivery and time-honored school organization. Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization guides readers thr...

Renowned for making films that are at once sly domestic satires and heartbreaking 'social realist' dramas, British writer-director Mike Leigh confronts his viewers with an un-romanticized dramatization of modern-day society in the hopes of inspiring them to strive for greater self-awareness and compassion for others. This collection features new, interdisciplinary essays that cover all phases of the BAFTA-award-winner's film career, from his early made-for-television film work to his theat...