The Squashed edition of Voyages of Discovery by Captain James Cook. Abridged from the original text to read in an hour or so. Squashed editions are precise abridgements - the original ideas, in their own words, the full beam of the book, the quotable quotes and all the famous lines, but neatly honed down to the length of a readable short story. ""Like reading the bible without all the begats"" - Prof. Jim Curtis
Meet Charlie Thatcher.Often a 'glass half empty' type of guy.Alone in the World. Disillusioned with Society.He has decided the time has come to catch himself his very own cloud to hide under.Be prepared to meet many colourful characters as you accompany Charlie on this magical dreamlike quest.Expect heartbreak, humour, a dash of romance & heaps of adventure as Charlie takes you on a journey - through a dream within a dream within a dream.Sit back, take a breath & let yourself fall.Lord Gangles is waiting
We all like to think that we are special.Ella Songg actually is.The time has come for her to find that out.You are invited to join Ella on an adventure of self-discovery.Be introduced to several new characters.Reacquaint with some old friends.Pour yourself a drink, sit back & relax.The Distance is waiting
"The Quite is Talking, A Collection of Thoughts in Rhyme" takes a poetic perspective on life, and its events. From the heart wrenching "Memory Lane," to the optimistic "Analogy of a Poet," this book guides the reader on a journey of uplifting human spirit through the loss of human life. With the dramatic passages of "Little Angel," all realms of time and place are discovered in sweeping stanzas that shape all of our lives.
When his mother dies, Casey Baldwin finds himself thrust back into a world of frustration and anger that he had tried so hard to forget and leave in his past, but the past often has a determined way of reasserting itself. Once back home in Saint Petersburg for his mother's funeral, Casey soon finds himself following a trail of clues that slowly unravels the years of secrets his mother had given up so much to protect. Can Casey discover the truth of his childhood? Had he been kidnapped? Why exactly had his father died? And can he handle the unwanted responsibilities of fatherhood he has only just been told he will soon be given. In this story we learn just how far a parent is willing to go to protect their child and just how much they are willing to sacrifice. Secrets can protect but they can also shatter those we wish so desperately to protect. Follow Casey as he travels through his families past in this striking tale of love and loss.
Michael Cook has been an ordinand of the Church of England and a full-time youth leader, and taught Religious and Social Education in secondary modern, comprehensive and grammar schools for almost thirty years. His many interests include sport, theology, geology, philately and preserved steam railways. He is a published author, photographer and songwriter. This is a collection of his best-liked 100 poems, selected by family, friends, acquaintances, former colleagues and pupils past and present, as well as members of the public. Some of the poems are new, while others have been published previously in magazines, newspapers and anthologies.
Captain James Cook's epic second voyage around the world in the 1770s. Sails from Tahiti through the South Pacific islands. This Naval Classics edition features RKHS (Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space) analytical enrichments including surprisal analysis, narrative complexity metrics, and computational literary analysis that illuminate the text from a modern data-science perspective.
Being able to read and write with ease does not just open up imagination and learning, it also helps us to thrive and cope in a world increasingly based on complex information from coding to utility bills. Everyone wants children to make the best start with literacy, but despite the existence of evidence-based programmes of instruction, some do not respond as hoped at first, or show a fade in learning in later school years. This book is about why that happens, and what we can do about it.Drawing on research and the wide expertise of its authors, it sets out how lifelong literacy is based on crucial aspects of early child development and how these can be assessed and improved in classrooms. The book focuses on five core emerging literacy skills that underpin successful learning for children: concepts of print; phonological awareness; oral language; working memory and executive function; and pencil control. Chapters:Guide the reader on how to build the foundations of lifelong literacy, as well as easy-to-do, unintrusive means to assess the different strengths and gaps that learners have.Explore how teaching and learning can be adjusted so that all can learn and make progress.Contain inexpensive and playful, but effective and practical, ways to develop the skills in an ordinary classroom or home.Are accompanied by a downloadable practical toolkit of resources to use with children.Educators who use this book and reflect on and adapt its ideas, will be more confident in what they are doing, with an enriched understanding of why it fits the children they are educating. It will be crucial reading for early years educators, primary classroom practitioners, educational psychologists, and speech and language therapists.
Being able to read and write with ease does not just open up imagination and learning, it also helps us to thrive and cope in a world increasingly based on complex information from coding to utility bills. Everyone wants children to make the best start with literacy, but despite the existence of evidence-based programmes of instruction, some do not respond as hoped at first, or show a fade in learning in later school years. This book is about why that happens, and what we can do about it.Drawing on research and the wide expertise of its authors, it sets out how lifelong literacy is based on crucial aspects of early child development and how these can be assessed and improved in classrooms. The book focuses on five core emerging literacy skills that underpin successful learning for children: concepts of print; phonological awareness; oral language; working memory and executive function; and pencil control. Chapters:Guide the reader on how to build the foundations of lifelong literacy, as well as easy-to-do, unintrusive means to assess the different strengths and gaps that learners have.Explore how teaching and learning can be adjusted so that all can learn and make progress.Contain inexpensive and playful, but effective and practical, ways to develop the skills in an ordinary classroom or home.Are accompanied by a downloadable practical toolkit of resources to use with children.Educators who use this book and reflect on and adapt its ideas, will be more confident in what they are doing, with an enriched understanding of why it fits the children they are educating. It will be crucial reading for early years educators, primary classroom practitioners, educational psychologists, and speech and language therapists.
Land Ho The Original Diary Of A Forty-Niner is a historical book that chronicles the life of a gold miner during the California Gold Rush of 1849. The book is based on the original diary of Elliott Wilkinson Cook, a young man who left his home in Ohio to seek his fortune in the gold fields of California. The diary provides a firsthand account of the challenges and adventures that Cook experienced during his journey westward, including his encounters with Native Americans, his struggles to find food and shelter, and his eventual arrival in California. Once there, Cook describes his experiences mining for gold, including the backbreaking work and the dangers of mining in a lawless and unpredictable environment. The book also provides a detailed look at the social and economic conditions of the time, including the racial tensions between white settlers and Native Americans, the impact of the gold rush on the environment, and the rise of a new class of wealthy entrepreneurs. Overall, Land Ho The Original Diary Of A Forty-Niner is a fascinating and informative account of one man's journey during one of the most significant periods in American history.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
An historical account of the Thermidorian Reaction following the fall of Robespierre in July of 1794. The book provides an examination of the 36,000 files of the revolutionary police to reconstruct events on the streets as they parallelled those in the Assembly, and provides a picture of social and political life in Paris at the time. He describes how the sans-culottes, the lower-class radicals who had been the mainspring and vanguard of the French Revolution, were crushed, and analyzes the role played by the jeunesse doree in their defeat. The jeunesse doree, or "gilded youth", were a parallel militia recruited from the ranks of minor officials and small shopkeepers. They formed a distinctive subculture, defined by age and social origin, with their own forms of extravagant dress, their own anthem ("Le Reveil du Peuple"), their own affectations of speech, their own regular meeting-places in the cafes of the Palais-Royal, and even their own passwords, which were usually indirect references to Louis XVII. Gendron sees them as the shock-troops of the Thermidorian Convention, encouraged and sometimes employed by its Committee of General Security to force the pace of the reaction against the "terrorists", the sans-culottes. This provocation led to the uprisings of Germinal and Prairial and the consequent eviction of the sans-culottes from the political arena. Social historians such as Albert Soboul have written mainly about the sans-culottes at the peak of the Revolution. In focusing on the jeunesse doree, Gendron highlights the ways in which, although initially used as a means to counteract the revolts of the sans-culottes, they were to become one of the driving forces of the reaction, carrying the Convention well beyond its political aims. This work, available in French since 1979, won the Medaille d'Argent du Prix Biguet (Academie Francaise). This translation should be welcomed by English-speaking historians and students of the French Revolution.
Famed for his exploration of the Pacific and Australasia, James Cook (1728–79) was also an excellent surveyor and a meticulous keeper of records. The journal entries presented here cover Cook's first voyage around the world aboard the Endeavour, during which he mapped New Zealand and claimed the eastern coastline of Australia for George III, having made landfall at Botany Bay. Cook's journal is an invaluable first-hand account containing nautical details of his voyage around the Pacific as well as geographical observations, descriptions of flora and fauna, and notes on the peoples, cultures and languages encountered. Critical of the 1773 Hawkesworth edition (also reissued in this series), the naval officer William James Lloyd Wharton (1843–1905) published this annotated transcription of Cook's journal in 1893. A number of illustrations, maps and facsimiles of some entries are spread throughout the text. The work also contains a sketch of Cook's life.
