An indispensable guide for learners and teachers alike, The Theory of Flight Study Guide will enhance the experience of exploring Siphiwe Ndlovu’s richly layered novel, a setwork for Grade 11 and 12 learners. A powerful testament to the human spirit, the novel won the Sunday Times Fiction Prize in 2019.This study guide is clear and informative, and offers fascinating insight and in-depth analysis of themes, motifs and other symbolism found in the novel. Most importantly, study guid...

Each of us has a place to return to in our minds, a place of clarity and peace, a place to think, to create, to dream. For Bryce Courtenay this place was a waterhole in Africa where he used to escape to as a boy, in search of solitude. One evening, while lingering there, he witnessed the tallest of the great beasts drinking from the waterhole in the moonlight, and was spellbound. Ever since, he drew inspiration from this moment.The Silver Moon gathers together some of the ...

'A book to take readers into another world.' - Caroline Jones AO, presenter, Australian Story'A raw, honest story that needs to be heard.' - Tony Park, bestselling author of An Empty Coast'This mesmerizing book is not just about a love of elephants, it is also about the indomitable spirit of someone who followed her passion.' - Cynthia Moss, world-renowned elephant specialist, celebrated in the BBC's Echo of the ElephantsIn 2001, Sharon Pi...

London's Overthrow is a potent polemic describing the capital in a time of austerity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Award-winning author and essayist China Miéville cuts through the hyperbole of our politicians to present a view from ordinary London - of the inequality, oppression and indignity and the hidden, subversive sentiment pervading throughout our streets. 'China Miéville does more than reveal the skull beneath the London's scabby, piebald skin; he offers effervescen...

This reference book outlines the horse's anatomy and physiology and how it works, for horse owners and students. The illustrations are added to by key facts and snippets of information from a leading equine veterinary surgeon.

**"**Gwyneth Jones is the finest British science fiction writer of her generation" - Bruce Sterling"One of Britain's most brilliant sci-fi writers" - GUARDIAN**"**A tour de force of faith, politics, technology, magic, humanity and England as it's never before been seen" - Amazon ReviewerIt's Dissolution Summer. The anti-globalisation movement threatens stability throughout Europe, supported by rioting youth, bitterl...

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Harry Gilbert. Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He would like to have a motor-car and drive it . . . very fast. But Richard lives in a future world where there are no cars, only bicycles and small villages and green forests. And now he is twelve years old, and like the other children, he must do his Year of Sharing. He must live alone in the forest with the wild animals. He must learn ...

The idea of writing this book was born out of the need to finance the Tekeshe Foundation (www.tekeshe.org) which she formed to continue her parents' vision of empowering the young people in the rural areas of Chipinge to grow up to be successful, self-reliant citizens.

When a down-on-his-luck educational administrator arrives into the makeshift bus shelter of Cow Eye Junction, he finds a drought-stricken town and its community college on the precipice of institutional ruin. Struggling to navigate this strange world of bloated calf scrota, orgiastic math instruction, and onrushing regional accreditors, Charlie must devise a plan to lead Cow Eye Community College through the perils of continuous improvement to the triumphant culmination of world history. D...

The Frandon Agricultural School Pig stands out as a unique masterpiece of Japanese fiction taking up the treatment of animals by humans. This deeply moving story of the pig who is literally forced to sign his own death warrant was written in the early 1920s by Kenji Miyazawa, considered one of Japan's greatest writers of the 20th century. It was not published until well after Kenji's death in 1933. Even today vegetarians are few and far between in Japan; in Kenji's day they were a true rar...

You know they are one of the stinkiest animals on the planet, but what else do you know about skunks? Here are some more things you might not know.Can a skunk aim its spray?How well do skunks see?What happens to a skunk when the weather turns cold?How far away can you smell a skunk spray?Learn the answer to these questions and many more in this 15-Minute Book. Skunks are insect eating mammals with a spray that can send you running, but some things about...

A Ugandan author's "unsettling and richly atmospheric" novel of a young African woman confronting the brutal end of Idi Amin's dictatorship ( Publishers Weekly).Safe for years in their remote Ugandan village, thirteen-year-old Alinda and her family are suddenly faced with the terror of the self-proclaimed "Last King of Scotland" when troops of his use the local highway to escape anti-Amin Ugandan and Tanzanian allied forces.With her pregnant mother...