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Blood - Band 11/Lime (Paperback)
Martin Bolod, Alan Baker, Sholto Walker; Contributions by Collins Big Cat
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R249
Discovery Miles 2 490
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the
right level What is blood? How does it help us? How does it travel
around the body? Find answers to all these questions, learn what
the heart and lungs do and see what the difference is between
veins, arteries and capillaries in this fun non-fiction information
book. Useful diagrams and fun cartoons make these difficult
concepts accessible and interesting. Lime/Band 11 books have longer
sentence structures and a greater use of literary language. Text
type: An information book. A diagram of what blood is and how it
travels around the body on pages 30 and 31 help children to recap
what they've read. Additional retrieval devices such as a glossary
and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop
critical reading skills. Curriculum links: Science: Ourselves;
Keeping healthy. This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
An up-close introduction to the most admired warriors in
history
They mounted their horses, grasped the lances made of fine Bordeaux
Steel, closed the visors of their helmets, and made their way to
their stations for the first course. Spurring their horses on, they
advanced toward each other at full gallop, lowering their lances as
they approached. The tip of Clifford's lance caught Boucmel high on
his breastplate and was deflected off . . . directly into the young
squire's mail hood, piercing his neck clean through.
This tragic account of an ambitious young Frenchman's senseless
death during a friendly joust with an English knight underscores
the ever-present danger that stalked the flower of European youth
in the Middle Ages. In The Knight, you'll meet John Boucmel,
Nicholas Clifford, and scores of other warriors who risked their
lives to fill the medieval lists and battlefields in a relentless
quest for fame, glory, and victory.
This vivid, fast-paced narrative whisks you from the blood-soaked
fields of Normandy in the Hundred Years' War to the battered walls
of Jerusalem in the first Crusade, from a sumptuous feast in an
English castle to the pomp and pageantry of a spectacular
thirty-day jousting tournament. You'll discover how knights were
trained; how they paid for their expensive weapons, armor, and
horses; and how the solemn vows they took influenced their behavior
both on and off the battlefield. Discover the truth behind the
countless legends of the Age of Chivalry in The Knight.
Learn and master the fascinating game of Japanese Chess or "Shogi"
with this expert guide and chess set. Japanese Chess: The Game of
Shogi is the ultimate strategy guidebook for players of any skill
level to improve their game and winning strategies. Played by
millions around the world, Shogi is the uniquely Japanese variant
of chess. It is the only version in which an opponent's captured
piece can be dropped back onto the board as one's own. This makes
for extremely exciting, dynamic gameplay in which momentum can
quickly shift back and forth between players. Trevor Legett, expert
player and longtime resident of Japan, gives you all the
information you need to play the game, form its basic rules to
winning tactics. Also included in this book are: Sample game and
commentary Discussion of various opening strategies and game
positions Explanation of how to read a Japanese score Fold-out
Shogi board Sturdy paper playing pieces Japanese Chess features
everything you need to get started playing this challenging and fun
game!
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Blood - Level 13 (Paperback)
Martin Bolod, Alan Baker, Sholto Walker; Contributions by Collins Big Cat
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R181
Discovery Miles 1 810
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11.
The series is structured with reference to the learning progression
of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for
Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up
their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step. Level 13 books
feature longer and more complex sentence structures. Sentences make
use of a wide range of stylistic features which reflect progression
in the teaching of Arabic grammar. Stories may also contain more
literary, metaphorical language, including similes and other
figurative language to help the reader create mental images, plus
exaggeration for dramatic or humorous effect. Non-fiction titles
contain longer, more formal sentences and a broader range of
unfamiliar terms. What is blood? How does it help us? How does it
travel around the body? Find answers to all these questions, learn
what the heart and lungs do and see what the difference is between
veins, arteries and capillaries in this fun non-fiction information
book. Useful diagrams and fun cartoons make these difficult
concepts accessible and interesting. A diagram of what blood is and
how it travels around the body on pages 30 and 31 helps children to
recap what they've read.
As we grow up, our bodies grow and change with us. This information
book by Teresa Heapy looks at the changes that happen - from our
eyes and teeth to our height and strength. Blue/Band 4 books offer
longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated
literary and natural language. Children can chart the changes our
bodies go through from baby to six years old in the timeline on
pages 14-15. Text type: An information book Curriculum links:
Science: Moving and growing
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Indispensability
A. C. Paseau, Alan Baker
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R566
Discovery Miles 5 660
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Our best scientific theories explain a wide range of empirical
phenomena, make accurate predictions, and are widely believed.
Since many of these theories make ample use of mathematics, it is
natural to see them as confirming its truth. Perhaps the use of
mathematics in science even gives us reason to believe in the
existence of abstract mathematical objects such as numbers and
sets. These issues lie at the heart of the Indispensability
Argument, to which this Element is devoted. The Element's first
half traces the evolution of the Indispensability Argument from its
origins in Quine and Putnam's works, taking in naturalism,
confirmational holism, Field's program, and the use of
idealisations in science along the way. Its second half examines
the explanatory version of the Indispensability Argument, and
focuses on several more recent versions of easy-road and hard-road
fictionalism respectively.
A broad collection of Mr. Baker's poetic works, this book includes
a little of everything; humor, thought-provoking stories or ideas,
and inspirational works as well. If you like to laugh, are looking
for some inspiration, enjoy stories that make you think, or just
appreciate an impeccable sense of rhyme, then this is the book for
you. Independently written and produced, it also contains some
general commentary as to life in modern society, and the way to
having a mind full of peace and happiness - or at the very least,
rhyme.
First published in 1975, this classic book gives a systematic
account of transcendental number theory, that is, the theory of
those numbers that cannot be expressed as the roots of algebraic
equations having rational coefficients. Their study has developed
into a fertile and extensive theory, which continues to see rapid
progress today. Expositions are presented of theories relating to
linear forms in the logarithms of algebraic numbers, of Schmidt's
generalization of the Thue-Siegel-Roth theorem, of Shidlovsky's
work on Siegel's E-functions and of Sprindzuk's solution to the
Mahler conjecture. This edition includes an introduction written by
David Masser describing Baker's achievement, surveying the content
of each chapter and explaining the main argument of Baker's method
in broad strokes. A new afterword lists recent developments related
to Baker's work.
**Winner of a Koestler Trust Silver Award*** and the only book of
its kind by a serving lifer. Contains a Foreword by Tim Newell,
former Prison Governor life-sentence expert. A snapshot of the most
severe sentence available in the UK which treats key topics in 40
easy to read sections. Alan Baker's personal selection and
treatment of topics of concern to life-sentenced prisoners looks at
subjects across the life-sentence regime. Ranging from the
realisation which 'kicks in' after being sentenced in the dock -
shock, numbness, hopelessness - to the intrinsic nature of
long-term imprisonment, it is an explanatory handbook and
survivor's guide. Life Imprisonment looks at aspects of long-term
imprisonment from inside the head of a lifer: daily preoccupations,
the uncertainty about when he or she will be released, the long
years ahead, time for reflection, work towards release, setbacks
and coping mechanisms and staying out of trouble. It tells about
how a life sentence leads to risk assessments, courses, reports,
psychological tests and possibly a period in a therapeutic
community and/or a resettlement prison. To this first-hand
knowledge, Alan Baker adds his thoughts on the state of the
prisons, having experienced first-hand the impact that the justice
system has on have on someone serving a sentence with no fixed end
date. The result is a book packed with useful information as well
as an insider's perspective on the major concerns of life-sentenced
prisoners, whether about their sentence, future, their victims or
the (often greatly magnified) minutiae of prison life.
Developed from the author's popular text, A Concise Introduction to
the Theory of Numbers, this book provides a comprehensive
initiation to all the major branches of number theory. Beginning
with the rudiments of the subject, the author proceeds to more
advanced topics, including elements of cryptography and primality
testing, an account of number fields in the classical vein
including properties of their units, ideals and ideal classes,
aspects of analytic number theory including studies of the Riemann
zeta-function, the prime-number theorem and primes in arithmetical
progressions, a description of the Hardy-Littlewood and sieve
methods from respectively additive and multiplicative number theory
and an exposition of the arithmetic of elliptic curves. The book
includes many worked examples, exercises and further reading. Its
wider coverage and versatility make this book suitable for courses
extending from the elementary to beginning graduate studies.
This is an account of the proceedings of a very successful
symposium of Transcendental Number Theory held in Durham in 1986.
Most of the leading international specialists were present and the
lectures reflected the great advances that have taken place in this
area. Indeed, the evolution of transcendence into a fertile theory
with numerous and widespread applications has been one of the most
exciting developments of modern mathematics. The papers cover all
the main branches of the subject, and include not only definitive
research but valuable survey articles. The work as a whole is an
important contribution to mathematics and will be of considerable
influence in the further direction of transcendence theory as well
as an authoritative account of its current state.
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