When Solar City—the magical station that brings light and warmth to the whole solar system—is threatened by a team of wild space villains, only three heroes can save the day.Winslow, a genius boy scientist, his quick-witted robot Spark, and Nova, a brave alien, must race across planets and outsmart icy queens, fiery comets, shadow masters, and more!With teamwork, kindness, and clever inventions, they turn enemies into friends and save Solar City from darkness.

Join Jake on an unforgettable Christmas Eve adventure in The Christmas Cruise Ship Adventure! When Jake boards the magical S.S. Snowflake, a cruise ship that sails only once a year to the North Pole, he’s in for a holiday unlike any other.Along the way, he’ll stop at holiday islands—Candy Cane Cove, Reindeer Ridge, Gingerbread Glacier, and Tinsel Tree Tropics—each with a unique challenge to solve.With the help of friendly elves, talking snowmen, and even a surfing ...

This is not a book by Barbara Kingsolver nor is it affiliated with her it is an independent publication by Andrew Wright that summaries her book in detailsAbout The Original BookSet in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voi...

Growing up in 18th Century England, Elizabeth's privileged life left her in need of nothing but wanting for more. As a plague sweeps across the country taking those closest to her, she realizes her world is not as safe as she once thought. No longer under the protection of her family, she discovers the Striga, a race of supernatural humans and their enforcers. Their hidden agenda forces Elizabeth to flee from the only home she's ever known in search of answers.Along with her protec...

Do rising tides always lift all boats?Third Flatiron's all-original science fiction/fantasy/horror/humor short story anthology has the theme, "After the Gold Rush." Twenty-two authors explore themes related to complications of booms and bubbles, including effects of accelerated culture; ecological consequences caused by human over-expansion, such as climate disasters; and economics (for example, monopolies on resources and commodities). Includes a flash humor section, "Grins & Gurg...

Exploits children's natural love of stories by using them to develop an awareness of the sound and feel of English, and an understanding of language points. Presents a wide variety of ideas for using stories to teach English to children. Includes a selection of ready-to-tell stories, although the activities can be used with any story. Provides photocopiable worksheets.

Advancing the New Jazz Studies by focusing on questions of intermediality and cultural catalysis, this book demonstrates the role jazz played in the re-making of West German culture in the post-war era.The shadow of National Socialism, a history of German polarisation by jazz, and the influences of occupation and division, meant that jazz catalysed influential young creative artists. These included writers such as Nobel Laureate Günter Grass, Young German Cinema filmmakers like Han...

Remembering German- Australian Colonial Entanglements emphatically promotes a critical and nuanced understanding of the complex entanglement of German colonial actors and activities within Australian colonial institutions and different imperial ideologies.Case studies ranging from the German reception of James Cook’s voyages through to the legacies of 19th- and 20th- century settler colonialism foreground the highly ambiguous roles played by explorers, missionaries, intellectuals a...

The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty-first-century travel writing in German has until now been missing.The fourteen essays in

Critical Religious Education in Practice serves as an accessible handbook to help teachers put Critical Religious Education (CRE) into practice. The book offers straightforward guidance, unpicking some of the key difficulties that teachers encounter when implementing this high-profile pedagogical approach.In-depth explanations of CRE pedagogy, accompanied by detailed lesson plans and activities, will give teachers the confidence they need to inspire debate in the classroom...

Projects are inherently risky, since they involve some level of uncertainty, doing something new in the target environment, but the percentage of projects seen as a success is still disappointingly low, especially for IT projects. The ‘Iron Triangle’ of time/cost/quality suggests that all three aspects are equal, but with quantitative methods for monitoring project performance, the focus is primarily on managing cost and time.This book seeks to redress the balance, explaining the r...

One of the key achievements of critical realism has been to expose the modernist myth of universal reason, which holds that authentic knowledge claims must be objectively ‘pure’, uncontaminated by the subjectivity of local place, specific time and particular culture.Wright aims to address the lack of any substantial and sustained engagement between critical realism and theological critical realism with particular regard to: (a) the distinctive ontological claims of Christianity; (b...