Little ones can join in the fun with Freddy the Frog by pulling out the sliders, pushing up the tabs and making lots of noise down at the pond. Follow Freddy as he squelches in slime, races his friends and croaks all the day long!Young children will love playing with this bright and colourful board book with gentle rhyming text, from the award-winning illustrator of The Gruffalo, Axel Scheffler. Freddy the Frog has been endorsed and recommended by Dr Amanda Gummer's Good Toy Guide.Discover more animal adventures from Axel Scheffler: Pip the Puppy, On the Farm, and In the Jungle.
Little ones can join in the fun with mischievous Pip the Puppy by pulling out the sliders and pushing up the tabs. Follow Pip out and about as he chases the cat, frightens the postman, and woofs all afternoon at the park!Young children will love playing with this bright and colourful board book with a gentle rhyming story, from the award-winning illustrator of The Gruffalo Axel Scheffler. Pip the Puppy has been endorsed and recommended by Dr Amanda Gummer's Good Toy Guide.Discover more animal adventures from Axel Scheffler: Freddy the Frog, On the Farm and In the Jungle.
Join Mother Goose and her three little goslings as they enjoy over fifty classic nursery rhymes, traditional lullabies and favourite action songs, beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout by the award-winning Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo. The deluxe hardback has a ribbon marker and foiled jacket, making it a very special gift.The rhymes are linked together by enchanting original stories about Mother Goose and her goslings as they learn to waddle, swim and more, giving a unique and fresh twist to these traditional favourites.From Humpty Dumpty to Jack and Jill, and from Baa Baa Black Sheep to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, there's something for everyone in this beautiful gift treasury – a must for every family bookshelf.
An animal fairy tale by Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo, with a heartwarming message about learning from your mistakes.When Mr Peacock hires a shy little chicken as a new apprentice in his jewellery shop, he has no idea what awaits him: a royal visit from the Lion Prince, a mysterious robbery, and a miraculous discovery!Richly illustrated in full colour throughout, The Jeweller's Apprentice is an enchanting modern fable for young children, written and illustrated by Axel Scheffler.
Dr. Gibson was a well-known free thinking physician of the early 20th century. Here are a few short quotes that shed light on his methods. "The ruling stimulant of the world today is not the coffee, tea, beer nor even whisky-but the innocent-looking, pleasant-tasting, alluring white powder known as sugar. Its stimulating power is greater than that of the alcohol, because it is the parent and generator of the alcohol. Candy, says Dr. Woods-Hutchinson, is good for children because it generates energy, and energy is needed at that age. Yet the energy which candy brings to the body is very much like the energy which the whip brings to a horse. In either case the system, in its response to the irritation, has received nothing from without, but spends its own constitutional energy, derived from its own cellular storage batteries. As a fuel in the human furnace, sugar explodes rather than burns. Like a wild fire it leaps through the organism along the different nerve conduits, up and down the pneumo-gastric connections to the head, lungs and heart, while the vital detonations send ganglionic shocks to every general or specific center of sensation-from the hair follicles of the scalp, tympanum of the ear, optic nerve of the eye, to the sciatic of the leg-lashing the involved functions into a convulsive activity, which is interpreted as strength and virility, but in reality is a deep-wrought vital loss to the system. For, like money, energy manifests only in its spending-not in its making." And another... "Digestion being an electric process, hunger stands for the phenomenon of unsatisfied affinity, arising in the gastric and somatic cells for elements needed by the system. In other words, hunger is the electric tension arising from the affinity which an exhausted cell experiences towards a replenishment of its constitutional needs. And this hunger, of course, takes the character of specialized appetite for those very elements of foods, from which the system suffers exhaustion."
There are hundreds of stories about enduring hardships and triumphs in the inner city. I have spent more than twenty years in silence identifying my patterns and behaviors in hopes of forebearing my true nature. In this nonfiction narrative confessional - Axel Desarden a Bronx born Puerto Rican details his struggles from the innocence of childhood freedoms, through a distorted figment, engulfed in confusion and contradiction. My thirst for identity formation grew beyond my conscious control with an attraction to a falsehood of pride and prejudice. Though emotionally stunted and underdeveloped, his search for what once was, never seized. This book will stretch your emotional measures, SO STRAP IN
It's your road and yours alone. Others may walk with you, but no one can walk it for you. RumiTurning off the world around him, Axel embarked on travelling down his path of thought and poetry. We are left with words brought forth by spiritual connection and consciousness.
For fans of Timmy Failure and My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish comes the wacky adventures of two best friends and the time-traveling T-Rex who forever changes their lives. Tim and Tito are best friends whose world gets upended when a time-traveling T-Rex named Oskar suddenly appears in Tim's backyard. That's right, a time-traveling T-Rex, who knows too much for his or Tim and Tito's good. Sure, Oskar's prehistoric spaceship is awesome. But when Tim mistakenly gulps down something called Impossible Juice, the boys find themselves not only battling a loony, robotic lunch lady but also Oskar's evil AI assistant. Is humanity as they know it on the brink of doom? Or can Tim, Tito, and Oskar save the day?
For fans of Timmy Failure and Dog Man comes the second wacky adventure in the Tim Possible chapter book series about two best friends and a time-traveling T-Rex--this time facing off against evil bugs Tim and Tito and the time-traveling T-Rex named Oskar find themselves in the middle of an insect invasion, with bugs wanting to finally turn the tables--and use super-size fly swatters on humans With their hometown in total chaos, it is up to Tim and Tito to stand up to the brainiac insects and tell them to bug off
For fans of Timmy Failure and Dog Man comes the third wacky adventure in the Tim Possible chapter book series about two best friends and a time-traveling T-Rex--this time taking on Weremoles Tim and his best friends Tito and Oskar, the time-traveling T-Rex, battle the evil Weremoles--an army of hungry, sharp-toothed rock-munchers who are out to destroy their fair city of Metrosalis Will Tim's worrying superpower help them defeat the underground monsters, or is doomsday just a worry away?
Unders kningar i svensk spr khistoria by Axel Kock. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1887 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
En una gran metr polis gobernada por m quinas, ha sido neutralizado el Sr. Kindred, uno de los c borgs m s antiguos y reconocidos. El detective Orwell, androide de clase S, es contratado por su mujer para descubrir si se trata de un caso de roboticidio. Sin embargo es imposible, pues las Leyes de la Rob tica impiden expresamente que se lleven a cabo estas pr cticas. Acaso alguien ha conseguido trascender por encima de su programaci n para realizar un acto tan il gico? O tal vez, como proclaman las fuerzas del orden, se trata de un simple accidente? A trav s de su investigaci n se descubrir que hay mucho m s de lo que parece: corrupci n, desprogramaci n, clasismo, noir... Un mundo tecnol gico que hereda los vicios de una vieja humanidad despu s de su ocaso, para tratar de hallar lo inalcanzable.
From intimate portrayals of ordinary Germans and Nazi leaders to immersive spectacles of war and defeat, this study argues that, since 1990, German film has focused on portraying the Nazi past from within. How has the German image of the Nazi past changed since the reunification of East and West Germany? And what role have cinema and television played in this process? This intriguing study argues that since 1990, the two media haveturned toward inner German experiences of the Third Reich. From intimate portrayals of ordinary Germans and Nazi leaders to immersive spectacles of war and defeat, German film has focused on portraying the Nazi past from within. Stimulating and accessible, combining close readings with broad contextualization, this monograph shows how profoundly cinema and television have transformed collective remembrance of the Third Reich. The first publication on the topic to embrace the two decades since 1990, it provides a comprehensive account of cinema and television productions, presenting case studies of national film events such as Stalingrad (1993) and Downfall (2004), andassessing the influence of international blockbusters from Schindler's List (1993) to The Reader (2008). Targeted at a wide readership, the book will be a central reference point for university teachers offering courses on German film or cultural memory, will give guidance to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and will make a lasting impact on research in the field of German screen cultures. Axel Bangert holds a doctorate from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge. Previously a Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge, he is an Adjunct Professor at New York University Berlin where he teaches German Cinema Studies.
Applies new approaches to the study of a small, densely populated region of West Africa, integrating them into a regional history that analyzes interactions between localities and the modern state. Constructions of Belonging provides a history of local communities living in Southeastern Nigeria since the late nineteenth century, examining the processes that have defined, changed, and re-produced these communities. Harneit-Sievers explores both the meanings and the uses that the community members have given to their particular areas, while also looking at the processes that have shaped local communities, and have made them work and continue tobe relevant, in a world dominated by the modern territorial state and by worldwide flows of people, goods, and ideas. Axel Harneit-Sievers is a Research Fellow at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies, and Director ofthe Nigeria Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Lagos.
Nuclear chemistry is a subfield of chemistry dealing with radioactivity, nuclear processes and nuclear properties. It is the chemistry of radioactive elements such as the actinides, radium and radon together with the chemistry associated with equipment (such as nuclear reactors) which are designed to perform nuclear processes. This includes the corrosion of surfaces and the behaviour under conditions of both normal and abnormal operation (such as during an accident). An important area is the behaviour of objects and materials after being placed into a waste store or otherwise composed of the study of the chemical effects resulting from the absorption of radiation within living animals, plants, and other materials. The radiation chemistry controls much of radiation biology as radiation has an effect on living things at the molecular scale, to explain it another way the radiation alters the biochemicals within an organism, the alteration of the biomolecules then changes the chemistry which occurs within the organism, this change in biochemistry then can lead to a biological outcome. As a result nuclear chemistry greatly assists the understanding of medical treatments (such as cancer radiotherapy) and has enabled these treatments to improve.the study of the production and use of radioactive sources for a range of processes. These include radiotherapy in medical applications; the use of radioactive tracers within industry, science and the environment; and the use of radiation to modify materials such as polymers, the study and use of nuclear processes in non-radioactive areas of human activity. For instance, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is commonly used in synthetic organic chemistry and physical chemistry and for structural analysis in macromolecular chemistry.
This book presents the first survey of the Localized Orthogonal Decomposition (LOD) method, a pioneering approach for the numerical homogenization of partial differential equations with multiscale data beyond periodicity and scale separation. The authors provide a careful error analysis, including previously unpublished results, and a complete implementation of the method in MATLAB. They also reveal how the LOD method relates to classical homogenization and domain decomposition. Illustrated with numerical experiments that demonstrate the significance of the method, the book is enhanced by a survey of applications including eigenvalue problems and evolution problems.Numerical Homogenization by Localized Orthogonal Decomposition is appropriate for graduate students in applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and scientific computing. Researchers in the field of computational partial differential equations will find this self-contained book of interest, as will applied scientists and engineers interested in multiscale simulation.
