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Can you imagine a world with whales that could walk and giant earth
moles? They both lived on Earth long ago and their relatives still
live here today. Explore the terrifying, giant, strange ancestors
of everyday creatures, in this captivating information text,
illustrated with realistic imagery by Jon Stuart. This is a Band
09/Gold book in the Collins Big Cat reading programme which offers
developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive
characters. Ideas for guided reading comprehension in the back of
the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. This
book has been levelled for Reading Recovery and quizzed for
Accelerated Reader. For another story in this Collins Big Cat book
band for guided reading, try The Woman who Fooled the Fairies
(9780007186129) written by Rose Impey and illustrated by Nick
Schon.
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Top Dinosaurs - Band 04/Blue (Paperback)
Ali Teo; Maoliosa Kelly; Photographs by Jon Hughes; Series edited by Cliff Moon; Contributions by Collins Big Cat
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R189
Discovery Miles 1 890
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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What were the dinosaurs really like? There were many different
types; scary, tall, small, fast and strong. This book contains many
fascinating facts about all sorts of dinosaurs with a pronunciation
guide to their names and details on their size and abilities. Blue/
Band 4 books offer longer repeated patterns with sequential events
and integrated literary and natural language. Text type - An
information book. A final spread gives mini fact files on each
dinosaur, summarising the information in the text, accompanied by
an illustration to aid reinforcement and comprehension. Curriculum
links - Numeracy: Shapes, space and measure. This book has been
levelled for Reading Recovery. This book has been quizzed for
Accelerated Reader.
Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the
right level 'What Happened to the Dinosaurs' investigates why these
huge creatures disappeared. The important question, 'How do we know
they existed?' is answered with a clear timeline of images. Various
theories are suggested, which support knowledge and understanding
of climate change, volcanoes, asteroids and evolution of the
animals which did survive. Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and
more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate. Text
type - An information book. The response page summarises the main
theories and could support a presented talk. Curriculum links -
Science: Living things in their environment. This book has been
quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
This book presents the first in-depth study of the German boxer Max
Schmeling (1905-2005) as a national hero and representative figure
in Germany between the 1920s and the present day. It explores the
complex relationship between sport, culture, politics and national
identity and draws on a century of journalism, film, visual art,
life writing and fiction. Detailed chapters analyse Schmeling's
emergence as an icon in the Weimar Republic, his association with
America, his celebrity status in the Third Reich, and his rivalry
with Joe Louis as a focus for an extraordinary propaganda and
ideological contest. The book also examines how Schmeling's
post-war success in business associated him with the culture of the
'zero hour' nation in the era of 'economic miracle', and how he was
later claimed as 'good German' and moral example for a post-war
generation of Germans determined to 'come to terms' with the past.
This book will appeal to readers with an interest in the history
and representation of sport and boxing, in sports discourse and
political culture, and in questions of national identity in modern
German history.
Essays analyzing postwar literary, cultural, and historical
representations of "good Germans" during the Second World War and
the Nazi period. In the aftermath of the Second World War, both the
allied occupying powers and the nascent German authorities sought
Germans whose record during the war and the Nazi period could serve
as a counterpoint to the notion of Germans asevil. That search has
never really stopped. In the past few years, we have witnessed a
burgeoning of cultural representations of this "other" kind of
Third Reich citizen - the "good German" - as opposed to the
committed Nazi or genocidal maniac. Such representations have
highlighted individuals' choices in favor of dissenting behavior,
moral truth, or at the very least civil disobedience. The "good
German's" counterhegemonic practice cannot negate or contradict the
barbaric reality of Hitler's Germany, but reflects a value system
based on humanity and an "other" ideal community. This volume of
new essays explores postwar and recent representations of "good
Germans" during the Third Reich, analyzing the logic of moral
behavior, cultural and moral relativism, and social conformity
found in them. It thus draws together discussions of the function
and reception of "Good Germans" in Germany and abroad.
Contributors: Eoin Bourke, Manuel Braganca, Maeve Cooke, Kevin De
Ornellas, Sabine Egger, Joachim Fischer, Coman Hamilton, Jon
Hughes, Karina von Lindeiner-Strasky, Alexandra Ludewig, Pol O
Dochartaigh, Christiane Schoenfeld, Matthias Uecker. Pol O
Dochartaigh is Professor of German and Dean of the Faculty of Arts
at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Christiane
Schoenfeld is Senior Lecturer in German and Head of the Department
of German Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of
Limerick.
Our international primary reading series will help your learners
become confident, independent readers. Find out more about the
animals that lived during this very cold time and what happened to
them. Gold Band books are for children approaching independence in
reading. Longer texts give the opportunity for more sustained
reading while more complex language structures are used.
Illustrations now offer only general support to the story. Contains
full teaching support including learning outcomes, curriculum links
and follow-up activities.
Dieses Buch ist die erste umfassende Studie uber den deutschen
Boxer Max Schmeling (1905-2005) als Nationalheld und
Reprasentationsfigur in Deutschland zwischen den 1920er Jahren und
der Gegenwart. Es untersucht die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen
Sport, Kultur, Politik und nationaler Identitat und stutzt sich
dabei auf ein Jahrhundert von Journalismus, Film, bildender Kunst,
Lebensberichten und Belletristik. Detaillierte Kapitel analysieren
Schmelings Aufstieg zur Ikone in der Weimarer Republik, seine
Verbindung zu Amerika, seinen Prominentenstatus im Dritten Reich
und seine Rivalitat mit Joe Louis als Mittelpunkt eines
aussergewoehnlichen propagandistischen und ideologischen
Wettstreits. Das Buch untersucht auch, wie Schmelings
geschaftlicher Erfolg in der Nachkriegszeit ihn mit der Kultur der
"Stunde Null" in der AEra des "Wirtschaftswunders" in Verbindung
brachte und wie er spater als "guter Deutscher" und moralisches
Beispiel fur eine Nachkriegsgeneration von Deutschen, die
entschlossen waren, die Vergangenheit zu "bewaltigen", in Anspruch
genommen wurde. Das Buch richtet sich an Leser, die sich fur die
Geschichte des Sports und des Boxens, fur Sportdiskurse und
politische Kultur sowie fur Fragen der nationalen Identitat in der
modernen deutschen Geschichte interessieren.
Although beset by social, political, and economic instabilities,
interwar Vienna was an exhilarating place, with pioneering
developments in the arts and innovations in the social sphere.
Research on the period long saw the city as a mere shadow of its
former imperial self; more recently it has concentrated on
high-profile individual figures or party politics. This volume of
new essays widens the view, stretching disciplinary boundaries to
consider the cultural and social movements that shaped the city.
The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire resulted not in an
abandonment of the arts, but rather led to new forms of expression
that were nevertheless conditioned by the legacies of earlier
periods. The city's culture was caught between extremes, from
neopositivism to cultural pessimism, Catholic mysticism to
Austro-Marxism, late Enlightenment liberalism to rabid
antisemitism. Concentrating on the paradoxes and often productive
tensions that these created, the volume's twelve essays explore
achievements and anxieties in fields ranging from modern dance,
theater, music, film, and literature to economic, cultural, and
racial policy. The volume will appeal to social, cultural, and
political historians as well as to specialists in modern European
literary and visual culture. Contributors: Andrea Amort, Andrew
Barker, Alys X. George, Deborah Holmes, Jon Hughes, Birgit Lang,
Wolfgang Maderthaner, Therese Muxeneder, Birgit Peter, Lisa
Silverman, Edward Timms, Robert Vilain, John Warren, Paul
Weindling. Deborah Holmes is Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann
Institute for the History and Theory of Biography in Vienna. Lisa
Silverman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Tyrannosaurus rex and its relatives were fearsome meat eaters and
deadly predators. Their strong teeth and jaws could crush bone.
Bold images, colourful maps, and interesting facts take readers
back to a time when these mighty carnivores walked the earth.
It is far too early to determine whether the noughties constitute a
distinct period of literary or cultural history with specific
characteristics all of their own. It is, nevertheless, timely and
illuminating to take a look at individual phenomena that
characterize this decade. The articles in this volume discuss
certain topical debates (for example surrounding the infamous
Austrokoffer literary project, or the debates about pension
provision and about religion), they identify emerging trends in
Austrian film (the hybridization of genres and the use of the
mock-documentary as political intervention), and they highlight new
departures in literary expression (recent Romani writing and the
rise of the multi-generational family novel). Other contributors to
Austrian Studies 19 identify literary engagement with features of
contemporary culture (the author as celebrity or the textual
exploration of sound and image in the digital age). Finally, The
Austrian Noughties volume does not neglect to probe new
publications of established authors such as Arno Geiger, Doron
Rabinovici, Robert Menasse, Christoph Ransmayr and Josef Winkler.
Austria is, topographically, an Alpine country. Yet the mountains
that cover two thirds of modern Austria's territory are often still
viewed as a provincial location in contrast to cosmopolitan Vienna,
the nation's cultural centre. The essays in this volume survey the
complex relationship between Austria and the Alps, spanning a
period from the final decades of Habsburg rule to the present.
Among the topics addressed by the authors are the work of both
lesser-known and established writers and commentators; Heimat and
place in relation to musical and film genres; the social, political
and cultural impact of Alpinism; and the representation of the Alps
in recent exhibitions.
The influence of foreign cultures on German literature and other
cultural productions since the 18th century. The Edinburgh German
Yearbook is devoted to German Studies in an international context.
It publishes original English- and German-language contributions on
a wide range of topics from scholars around the world. Each
volumeis based on a single broad theme: the first includes papers
from the highly successful conference Kennst du das Land: Cultural
Exchange in German Literature, held in Edinburgh in December 2006,
supplemented by additional essays. The conviction that German
culture and the German spirit are triumphantly unique has played a
notorious role in Germany's history. It is nonetheless acknowledged
that German literature has been significantly influenced by
non-German sources, and the search for what is unique about Germany
and German literature must incorporate an awareness of these. This
volume provides a wide-ranging investigation into how German
literature from the 18th century tothe present day reflects
interactions between German and non-German cultures. Alongside
theoretical and historical reflections on the nature of cultural
exchange, contributions explore literary reception, the boundaries
of and movement between cultures, and Germany's literary,
political, cultural, and religious relations with both near
neighbors and far-flung cultural interlocutors. Contributoers:
Christian Moser, Birgit Tautz, Silvia Horsch, Eleoma Joshua, Gauti
Kristmannsson, Sabine Wilke, Daniela Kramer, Jon Hughes, Thomas
Martinec, Margaret Litter, Lyn Marven, Dirk Goettsche, Susanne Kord
Eleoma Joshua is Lecturer in German at Edinburgh University.
RobertVilain is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at
Royal Holloway, University of London. The journal's General Editor
is Sarah Colvin, Professor of German at Edinburgh University.
Transform Your Supply Chain comprehensively covers the field of
strategic supply chain management. It takes a direct but
challenging approach to the subject and uses international case
studies to bring it to life. It enables the reader to: understand
the different types of supply chain and trading relationships; plan
a business development strategy for boosting profitability across
the supply chain; clarify the roles and responsibilities of board
directors and senior management; draw up a business-wide
transformation programme capable of successful delivery and measure
the contribution of all parties involved in both strategic change
and operational improvement.
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