Author : Damian Harvey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2014-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780198301448
Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 5 reading books, 1 of each of: Buzz Off!, Go Away, Molly!, When Animals Invade, Alien Invasion!, Body Invaders.
Author : Mike Brownlow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2014-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780198301493
In Alien Invasion Billy is unaware that aliens are heading towards Earth ready to attack. When the aliens land on Earth, Billy defeats the aliens without even realising! This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school.
Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0547527543
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category :
ISBN : 9780198416524
Project X Hero Academy is a fully decodable and finely levelled reading series set in a school for superheroes, designed to captivate and motivate all young readers and turn them into reading superheroes.This class pack contains the books in Gold Book Band, Oxford Level 9, and supports Letters and Sounds Phase 6. It contains six copies of each of the following six books:The Champion's Cup, Super Coldo's Revenge, Night Rescue, The Pea-souper, False Alarms, Silver Shadow Strikes Again.Each book can be used for independent reading, but also contains inside cover notes that include help on developing vocabulary and prompt questions that can be used for guided reading and one-to-one sessions. Full guided reading notes are provided in the corresponding handbook. There are also arange of follow-up activities to support reading for pleasure.
Author : Oxford
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780198413677
The Oxford Accelerated Reader Pack 1: AR levels 0.3-2.5 contains 77 individual titles from Oxford's most popular series. The books have been chosen to deliver a careful spread of AR level coverage from 0.3 to 2.5.The pack is accompanied by a chart which shows all the titles with their specific AR level for easy reference. This pack will ideally suit readers of around 5 years of age to around 7 years.The books are largely drawn from the ever popular and reliable Oxford Reading Tree Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories. Plus it contains titles from Oxford Reading Tree Snapdragons - a high quallity variety fiction series - and Julia Donaldson's Songbirds. Finally, Oxford's second 'character' series,Project X Origins, a highly motivational series for the digital generation, is also featured in this pack.
Author : Peter Watts
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429955198
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Charles Bazerman
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1643170015
Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.
Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.
Author : James Barrat
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1250032261
Elon Musk named Our Final Invention one of five books everyone should read about the future—a Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013. Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It puts the “smart” in your smartphone and soon it will drive your car. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls vital energy, water, and transportation infrastructure. But Artificial Intelligence can also threaten our existence. In as little as a decade, AI could match and then surpass human intelligence. Corporations and government agencies are pouring billions into achieving AI’s Holy Grail—human-level intelligence. Once AI has attained it, scientists argue, it will have survival drives much like our own. We may be forced to compete with a rival more cunning, more powerful, and more alien than we can imagine. Through profiles of tech visionaries, industry watchdogs, and groundbreaking AI systems, Our Final Invention explores the perils of the heedless pursuit of advanced AI. Until now, human intelligence has had no rival. Can we coexist with beings whose intelligence dwarfs our own? And will they allow us to? “If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we’ll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one.” —The Washington Post “Science fiction has long explored the implications of humanlike machines (think of Asimov’s I, Robot), but Barrat’s thoughtful treatment adds a dose of reality.” —Science News “A dark new book . . . lays out a strong case for why we should be at least a little worried.” —The New Yorker
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0671792253
This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.
