Shapes Around the World


Book Description

Describes and illustrates shapes of objects and buildings.




Shapes in Our World


Book Description

Three-dimensional (3-D) shapes have three dimensions--length, width, and height. These shapes are solids that are found in buildings and structures as well as in nature. Some 3-D shapes are prisms, cylinders, cones, pyramids, and spheres.




Shapes All Around


Book Description

In this illustrated board book, shapes stand in for the names of natural forms, creating connections between mathematical concepts and the world around us.




Round Is a Tortilla


Book Description

In this lively picture book, children discover a world of shapes all around them: rectangles are ice-cream carts and stone metates, triangles are slices of watermelon and quesadillas. Many of the featured objects are Latino in origin, and all are universal in appeal. With rich, boisterous illustrations, a fun-to-read rhyming text, and an informative glossary, this playful concept book will reinforce the shapes found in every child's day! Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for devices that support audio, this ebook includes a read-along setting.




The Shapes of Our Singing


Book Description

A guide to verse forms and metres from around the world by Robin Skelton.




Shapes in the World Around Us


Book Description

Focusing on shapes, this is one of a series exploring issues of interest to children in Africa, and designed to introduce students to reading non-fiction for pleasure and information.




Shapeless Shapes


Book Description

A fairy tale, a history book, a call to action to shape our future! Shapeless Shapes is a graphic novel about identity, belonging, history, xenophobia, freedom, racism, discrimination, injustice, activism, citizenship & statelessness. In a world full of shapes, some shapes are erased and made shapeless. Why? How? And will they fight back?




Search and Find Shapes


Book Description

With Search & Find Shapes, toddlers will delight in learning about shapes and the world around them. The bright and colorful pages feature objects to find and simple prompts that encourage children to engage with the page. For example, on the Circles spread, they are encouraged to first find all the red circles. Then, they are asked which circles can be eaten. Finally, they are prompted to point to items that aren't circles. Colorful and fun, with delights on every page, this book combines format and content in a way that will keep little ones entertained and engaged, whether sitting with an adult or turning the pages on their own! The colorful spreads introduce young readers to early concepts in a fun search-and-find format. The padded cover and durable, laminated pages with rounded corners stand up to the most active toddlers. Other books in this series include Search & Find Colors, Search & Find Animals, and Search & Find Numbers. Collect them all.




The World's Most Mysterious Objects


Book Description

Objects can carry romantic myths, embody dangerous curses, or provide links to our past. Some mysterious items, like the Hope Diamond, can still be found today, while others, like the Philosophers’ Stone, have vanished into the mists of time. Gifted and sensitive psychometrists can apparently pick up an object and learn many things about its past and its previous owners. The World’s Most Mysterious Objects provides a glimpse into these enigmas, exploring everything from psychic weapons and spiritual icons to alchemical experiments and strange devices. With this intriguing book, find out what secrets the world could be hiding.




Between Worlds


Book Description

The recent resurgence of academic interest in caves has demonstrated the central roles they played as arenas for ritual, ceremony and performance, and their importance within later prehistoric cosmologies. Caves represent very particular types of archaeological site and require novel approaches to their recording, interpretation and presentation. This is especially true in understanding the ritual use of caves, when the less tangible aspects of these environments would have been fundamental to the practices taking place within them. Between Worlds explores new theoretical frameworks that examine the agency of these enduring 'natural' places and the complex interplay between environment, taphonomy and human activity. It also showcases the application of innovative technologies, such as 3D laser-scanning and acoustic modelling, which provide new and exciting ways of capturing the experiential qualities of these enigmatic sites. Together, these developments offer more nuanced understandings of the role of caves in prehistoric ritual, and allow for more effective communication, management and presentation of cave archaeology to a wide range of audiences.