![]() ![]() ![]() Your Inner Fish is science writing at its finest-enlightening, accessible, and told with irresistible enthusiasm.From the Hardcover edition. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria.Shubin makes us see ourselves and our world in a completely new light. Using fossils, embryos and genes, he reveals how our bodies are the legacy of. Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish.Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik-the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006-tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. Anatomist Neil Shubin uncovers the answers in this new look at human evolution. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Diddakoi is the powerful story of an orphan of Romany heritage called Kizzy, who faces persecution, grief and loss of lifestyle in a hostile, close-knit village community. This year we are exploring Rumer Godden’s The Diddakoi on its 50th anniversary of publication in 1972. Previous years have focused on heritage works including Edward Lear’s poetry and H G Well’s The Time Machine. The festival is not so much a literary event as a complete community arts festival covering 18 days in the school spring holiday and celebrating a wide variety of creative responses to various themes in the chosen writing. Festival director, Gail Borrow outlines what’s in store.Ī Town Explores A Book originated in 2017 when ExploreTheArch Theatre Company joined creative businesses and community organisations in St Leonards-on-Sea to develop a festival led by readers which provided a platform for voices not usually heard in similar events. The 2022 A Town Explores A Book festival centres around Rumer Godden’s The Diddakoi on the 50th anniversary of its publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (June) Copyright 2011 Reed Business Information. Everson's work is neatly done and her fans will find value in her presentation of life's lack of tidiness, which reads both realistically and convincingly. With revelations galore to contend with, Kim finds herself doing plenty of soul-searching while attempting to regain her emotional balance in the unsettling circumstance. This Fine Life Eva Marie Everson Young Women Spouses Of Clergy Marriage Info/Buy Add To List The Potluck Club Linda Evans Shepherd, Eva Marie Everson Cooking Colorado Women Cooks. When Kim befriends an elderly neighbor, both women share their heartbreaking stories and healing begins in earnest. ![]() Kim, at the behest of her widower father, goes back to her childhood vacation home at Cedar Key and finds herself facing heartache and dredging up family secrets that are affecting her sisters even today. Kimberly Tucker, recently divorced mom of two boys, suddenly finds herself facing five long summer weeks alone while her sons visit their father. When she travels to beautiful Cedar Key on Floridas Gulf Coast in search of healing, she never dreams her past will be waiting for her there. For some its the daily pressures, for others its the shadows of the past. Radio personality and speaker Everson (Things Left Unspoken) begins a new series situated in Cedar Key, Fla., where this author mixes childhood naiveté with grown-up pain. Synopsis: Life sometimes gets the best of us. ![]() ![]() ![]() This list was constructed during World War II and consisted of the most frequently used words in early readers of the time. Better yet, let's look back even further to the 1950s when early readers really did consist of simplistic, humorless and contrived stories with sentences like, "Look, Jane, look! See Spot run." That's because of something called The Dolch List that became a sort of bible for publishers of reading textbooks for children. Let's take a look this month at the work of Arnold Lobel and let's start with his accomplishments in his books for early and emergent readers, the "I Can Read" series.Īlthough the books stand well on their own, to fully appreciate Lobel's contribution, we should look back at the time when his first early reader: Frog and Toad Are Friends was published in 1970. Featured Author and Illustrator: Arnold Lobel ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first session is a ‘hook’ for learning. ![]() Essential resources included for the activities.Focus vocabulary and links to common exception words and NC word lists.Examples of grammar skills pupils are expected to use.This builds towards a final extended writing task in which pupils can apply the skills with confidence and independence. Throughout the unit of work, pupils are given the opportunity to repeatedly practise these skills through meaningful short pieces of writing linked to the text. Each plan comprises 15 sessions to teach a small number of key writing skills from the National Curriculum. What are Stepping Stones? Stepping Stones by The Literacy Company are our short term literacy plans for teachers which introduce our text-based mastery approach to writing. ![]() ![]() When a unexpected blizzard traps Anna, her schoolmates, and their young teacher in the one-room schoolhouse, Anna knows they must escape before it is too late. Arithmetic is too hard, her penmanship is abysmal, and stuck-up Eloise Baxter always laughs at her mistakes. ![]() On the open prairie, Anna feels at home.īut at school she feels hopelessly out of place. ![]() She doesn't mind helping out with chores, especially when she is herding sheep with her beloved pony, Top Hat. Twelve-year-old Anna loves life on the Nebraska prairie where she lives with her parents and four-year-old brother in a simple sod house. When a fierce blizzard suddenly kicks up on a mild winter day, a young Nebraska girl must find the courage and strength to lead others to safety in this novel inspired by the true story of the 1888 School Children's Blizzard. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away Max, a wealthy playboy and Clara’s lover and Alma, Max’s aloof and mysterious half-sister, to whom Henry is irresistibly drawn. But before they leave, they meet a glamorous set of people who sweep them up into their drama. Feeling shy of each other and isolated, they decide to cut the trip short. ![]() Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon only to find the town is deserted. ![]() Brilliantly unsettling-one of those books that stays with you." -Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the WaterĪ mesmerizing debut novel by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites. Glamorous and nostalgic and very sexy, Cape May is a novel about marriage, lust, shabby seaside towns and lots of gin. ![]() ![]() ![]() They were by no means all nice people there was always the leavening ofĪlice Adams' bootlegging brother, the nastiness of Mostly, though, he knew the Indiana middle class and he put them down, in his notablyĬareful and beautiful script, for future generations and for the world at large to Which fed the ebony glitter of the colored folks' main-stem, Indiana Progressively less impressive, and he knew what went on in the residential streets He did well, too, on the streets neighboring to Meridian and Thoroughfare, or, as in the case of the family of Alice Adams, He was at his best on North Meridian Street (his "NationalĪvenue") in Indianapolis, or with the people who had prospered to a chill eminence above that Tarkington's interest lay in the people whom he and most other Americans knew well. Of all writers Booth Tarkington most nearly interpreted theĪmerican scene from the beginning of this century through the Twenties as the ![]() ![]() ![]() She was looking for the key to how people successfully regain their footing after struggles and losses. Researcher Brené Brown spoke with people from all kinds of backgrounds and careers-including military leaders, CEOs, couples, teachers, and parents-to learn their stories of falling and getting up again. Your mind will play tricks, but the way you feel in your heart, in your guts, is the truth.”īuy the Four Agreements here. “Go inside and listen to your body, because your body will never lie to you. Though they are rooted in ancient philosophy, many of the ideas in this book are very similar to concepts used in contemporary psychology. ![]() The four agreements sound simple, but they have incredibly profound effects when we learn to practice them. ![]() A New York Times best-seller for more than a decade, this book explains the four principles that can help us change our self-limiting beliefs and create more joy and happiness in our lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jonathan Ridge (Introduction), Valkyrie, She-Hulk (Origin) (Introduction), Lou Monkton (Villain) (Introduction), Brunnhilde, Taurus (Flashback Cameo), Mr. Carpenter, Valkyrie (Flashback) (Cameo), Hulk (Flashback) (Origin Retold), Jill Ridge (Flashback Cameo), Thomas Leclerc, Lambert, Jack Wordman (Also Flashback), Daniel 'zapper' Ridge (Introduction), Libra (Flashback Cameo), Ted Sallis (Flashback) (Cameo), Jimmy Carter (Cameo), Ultima, Purple Ogres of Louisiana Hacienda (Villains), Dr. Michael Morbius (Origin) (Also Flashback), Nick Trask's Gang, Hulk (Flashback) (Cameo), Gemini (Villain) (Also Flashback), Nick Fury (Flashback) (Cameo), John Jameson, Michael Morbius (Origin) (Also Flashback), The Word, Sheriff Morris Walters (She Hulk's Father, Introduction), Mr. Jonathan Ridge, Hank (Nick Trask's Henchman), Man-Thing, Lou Monkton, Hulk (Bruce Banner), Professor Slaughter (Todd Wickham), Jill Ridge (Introduction, Death), Ralph Owens, Iron Man (Tony Stark), Arnold Harrison, Dr. Schist (Flashback), Igor Starsky (Flashback), Dr. ![]() Ridge (Introduction), Sagittarius (Flashback Cameo), Sheriff Morris Walters, Weasel (Villain, Intro, Death), Jack Wordman, Sheriff Morris Walters (DREAM), F.A. 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