- How can a long metal needle pass through a balloon without popping it? - How can water flow at very different rates through two identical funnels? - How can a stick, placed on a table under several sheets of newspaper and extended over the edge of a table, snap when quickly struck-- without lifting or tearing the paper? Author Thomas O' Brien takes these and 30 more science inquiry activities to a higher level in this book for educators who ...
This is a book with twists and turns with a character who is juggling friends, a boyfriend, an internship, and school. You'll never guess the ending with all of the drama going on.
Mary Paetzel describes her intimate encounters with solitary wasps and bees, over a 30 year odyssey in the Siskiyou Mountains of SW Oregon. Mary describes the behaviors and lives of these tiny non-aggressive insects.
Contre marri conte,
un drôle de Dronte
pour un petit conte
Il était une fois, un joli bois à la faune fabuleuse propice au merveilleux. Loin, si loin dans l'imaginaire, était une île peuplée d'êtres farfelus. Quelques fois, je constate que l'île est le miroir d'un temps passé. J'ai bien connu Balthazar et son monde pittoresque, ses travers et sa moralité adaptable. Combien de fois le petit bonhomme Trois-pieds-de-haut Trois-pieds-de-barbe...
This is the second of the landmark Lloyd's House Flags and Funnel books. This facsimile edition provides a snapshop of all major and minor steamship company flags at the turn of the twentieth century.
Data integration is a critical problem in our increasingly interconnected but inevitably heterogeneous world. There are numerous data sources available in organizational databases and on public information systems like the World Wide Web. Not surprisingly, the sources often use different vocabularies and different data structures, being created, as they are, by different people, at different times, for different purposes.
The goal of data int...
Account of the awakening of the kundalini process by Philip St. Romain, with reflection on the meaning of this process from the perspective of Christian spirituality. Foreword by Thomas Keating. Appendices by James Arraj. 2nd edition. Original work by Crossroads, NY, 1991.
At Odds with God" is a groundbreaking short story about the adversities of a young woman struggling in her spiritual relationship which directly influences her ability to cope with the situations she encounters. This book brings to light the necessity of love as a foundation and the role of fathers in the continuity of the family unit. At Odds with God is full of unexpected twists and turns that provokes the readers to think and feel beyond th...
Stefan Nemitz schrieb die in diesem Band veröffentlichten Gedichte zwischen 1988 und 1994 - in einer Zeit, als die Wegmarken in Deutschland die unterschiedlichsten Richtungen wiesen. Subjektive Erlebnisse und Reflexionen werden zu persönlichen Orientierungspunkten im Chaos des Alltagsgeschehens verdichtet.Der Autor, 1970 in Lutherstadt Wittenberg geboren, studierte Germanistik, Russistik sowie Anglistik in Leipzig und arbeitet seit 1998 als Le...
As the distance between farm and table grew, we went from knowing particular places and specific stories behind our foods' origins to instead relying on advertisers' claims. The woman who raised, plucked, and cooked her own chicken knew its entire life history while today most of us have no idea whether hormones were fed to our poultry. Industrialized eating is undeniably convenient, but it has also created health and environmental problems, i...
In a conversational style, Doreen Pendgracs shares valuable information from her 25 years of experience sitting on various boards. Pendgracs leads the reader through the intricacies of management style, board etiquette, and financial obligations, creating a full picture of what you need to know before agreeing to serve on any kind of board.