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"Big up, Big up! It's the Big Blind Bat!"
Author : James Trainer
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781922337719
"Big up, Big up! It's the Big Blind Bat!"
Author : Ray Banks
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 193099737X
Author : Brian Lies
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0547740751
The Caldecott Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author of Bats at the Beach “pays homage to the pleasures to be found within libraries and books” (School Library Journal). Another inky evening’s here—the air is cool and calm and clear. Can it be true? Oh, can it be? Yes!—Bat Night at the library! Join the free-for-all fun at the public library with these book-loving bats! Shape shadows on walls, frolic in the water fountain, and roam the book-filled halls until it’s time for everyone, young and old, to settle down into the enchantment of story time. Brian Lies’s joyful critters and their nocturnal celebration cast library visits in a new light. Even the youngest of readers will want to join the batty book-fest! “As with its predecessor, this book’s richly detailed chiaroscuro paintings find considerable humor at the intersection where bat and human behavior meet. But the author/artist outdoes himself: the library-after-dark setting works a magic all its own, taking Lies and his audience to a an intensely personal place.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The rhymed narrative serves primarily as the vehicle for the appealing acrylic illustrations that teem with bats so charming they will even win over chiroptophobes.”—Booklist “There is enough merriness here to keep the story bubbling . . . Pictures light-handedly capture the Cheshire Bat, Winnie the Bat and Little Red Riding Bat.”—Kirkus Reviews
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Publisher :
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Geoffrey Beattie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1000300250
Selfless is a memoir, reflecting on identity, social class, mobility, education, and on psychology itself; how psychology as a discipline is conducted, how it prioritises objects of study, how it uncovers psychological truths about the world. Geoffrey Beattie takes the reader on a journey through his early life in working-class Belfast, his Ph.D. at Trinity College Cambridge and subsequent academic and professional career, to explore fundamental issues within psychology about social class and social identity. Beattie discusses the difficulties inherent in this process of education and change, and how social background affects how you view academic work and the subject matter of one’s discipline. This book movingly details a life and how it is changed by the processes of education, the psychological pressures when abandoning those close to you, the dissonance within and how it feels and operates. The book takes a critical look at psychology from the other side, and examines the process of becoming ‘selfless’, meaning having little sense of self rather than being overly concerned with the wishes and needs of others. Showing how our early experiences and their influence continues throughout life, Beattie’s emotionally engaging, entertaining, and witty text offers general readers, students, and academics fresh insights into psychology, adaptation and personal change.
Author : Vince Van Patten
Publisher : Mysterious Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2007-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 075951707X
Just out of prison after ten years, professional poker player Jimmy Spain visits his wealthy former cell mate and listens to an offer he can't refuse. The rich man wants the ex-con to mentor his only child in the game of poker. In return, he'll set Jimmy up and pay all of his buy-ins on the poker tour. This deal looks like easy money, especially after Jimmy meets the kid--a cocky and abrasive young girl named Kat who has some good, yet raw, poker skills. Soon Jimmy and Kat enter a World Poker Tour tournament at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Things are coming up aces...until a player is found brutally slain with a Picasso flop--three picture cards--on his body. When suspicion points to Kat as the killer, it's up to Jimmy to find the real culprit--while fighting to remain in the tournament. As one ghastly murder after another knocks out other players, this hard-bitten veteran of the felt knows that in this cutthroat world of card sharks, someone could eliminate him--or Kat--for good. On the clock, with the blinds escalating, and down to his last hand, Jimmy fears he may be drawing dead. Featuring the appearances of such poker luminaries as Mike Sexton, Doyle Brunson, and James Woods, and cowritten by a true impresario of the game, THE PICASSO FLOP mixes money, mystery, and the adrenaline-pumping excitement of Texas hold'em poker action, Vegas-style. Shuffle up and read.
Author : Old Farmer's Almanac
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1571986391
Presents a compilation of practical advice and folklore, featuring weather forecasts for the United States, planting tables, health remedies, horoscopes, recipes, games and puzzles, and other entertaining and useful information.
Author : David F. Baker
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1490868658
From I Kings, we learn that Solomons wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all of the sons of the east and that [h]e spoke of trees of animals and birds and creeping things and fish. In parables, Jesus used natural objects to teach spiritual lessons. You can too! Whether you minister in an outdoor setting like a Christian camp, teach a Sunday school class indoors, or homeschool your kids, you can use your love of nature to teach Christian principles. Natural Conclusions contains over fifty natural illustrations from the Big Thicket region of Texas for you to use for your personal edification or with your ministry to children or youth. Over fifty amazing natural facts Corresponding character building with natural conclusions Scientific terms Natural history Personal illustrations for children/youth Reinforcing nature projects for children/youth Adult study sections Adult application sections
Author : LAVIE. TIDHAR
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9781786365989
Author : Geoffrey Beattie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136232877
Few people today would admit to being a racist, or to making assumptions about individuals based on their skin colour, or on their gender or social class. In this book, leading psychologist Geoffrey Beattie asks if prejudice, more subtle than before, is still a major part of our everyday lives. Beattie suggests that implicit biases based around race are not just found in small sections of our society, but that they also exist in the psyches of even the most liberal, educated and fair-minded of us. More importantly, the book outlines how these ‘hidden’ attitudes and prejudices can be revealed and measured, and how they in turn predict behaviours in a number of important social situations. Our Racist Heart? takes a fresh look at our racial attitudes, using new technology and experimental approaches to show how unconscious biases influence our everyday actions and thinking. These groundbreaking results are brought to life using the author’s own experiences of class and religious prejudice in Northern Ireland, and are also discussed in relation to the history of race, racism and social psychological theory.