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Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones! Aveline is determined
to discover the truth behind her uncle's mysterious disappearance
when she travels to his home with Mum and Aunt Lilian. After years
of hoping Aveline's uncle would return, they have finally decided
to sell his house - but Aveline and Harold have other plans.
Sneaking into her uncle's study, Aveline discovers he had been
researching possible supernatural activity around an ancient burial
mound - and linked this with the unexplained disappearances of
other local villagers. Dark, magical forces are at work, and
they'll do anything to remain hidden, as Aveline and Harold soon
learn... Join the world of Aveline Jones, where mysteries are
solved, spirits are laid to rest, and everybody gets to bed on
time. Perfect for adventurers aged 9+ and fans of Michelle Harrison
and Jennifer Killick.
Turn on your torches and join Aveline Jones! Aveline is thrilled
when she discovers that the holiday cottage her mum has rented for
the summer is beside a stone circle. Thousands of years old, the
local villagers refer to the ancient structure as the Witch Stones,
and Aveline cannot wait to learn more about them. Then Aveline
meets Hazel. Impossibly cool, mysterious yet friendly, Aveline soon
falls under Hazel's spell. In fact, Hazel is quite unlike anyone
Aveline has ever met before, but she can't work out why. Will
Aveline discover the truth about Hazel, before it's too late? Join
the world of Aveline Jones, where mysteries are solved, spirits are
laid to rest, and everybody gets to bed on time. Perfect for
adventurers aged 9+ and fans of Michelle Harrison, Piers Torday and
Jamie Littler.
Aveline Jones loves reading ghost stories, so a dreary half-term becomes much more exciting when she discovers a spooky old book. Not only are the stories spine-tingling, but it once belonged to Primrose Penberthy, who vanished mysteriously, never to be seen again. Intrigued, Aveline decides to investigate Primrose's disappearance.
Now someone... or something, is stirring. And it is looking for Aveline.
Turn on your torches, and join Aveline Jones in her first charmingly spooky mystery, from debut author Phil Hickes.
Learn how to create, produce, and perform your music at the next
level by unlocking the power of Ableton Live 9. This book and web
combination shows, if you get it right, exactly what Live can
deliver. Engineered to follow Live's non-linear music environment,
the book looks and feels like the program. Its unique format
utilizes the terms and creative features of Live - tabs, keys,
pointers, and labels-to help you learn the littlest things that
make the biggest difference. Packed with professional insight,
concepts, definitions, and hundreds of tips, tricks, and hidden
features, author Keith Robinson covers the software's nuts and
bolts, while never neglecting creative techniques for creating,
producing, performing, - all the tools for making music on the fly.
The accompanying website contains bonus chapters, Live Sets and
clips to sync and download. Ableton Live 9... * Features
step-by-step tutorials, useful web-based media (Sets, Clips, Loops,
and Samples) designed to perfect your techniques * Identifies key
concepts and definitions, and uncovers hidden features of Live 9 *
Its unique graphic format, mirrors Live's structure, terms, and
creative features, so you can get into a "Live frame of mind" as
you read
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Jodie (Paperback)
Hilary McKay; Illustrated by Keith Robinson
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Trapped and alone on the salt marshes, Jodie is troubled by a
haunting presence in this eerily atmospheric ghost story from
multi-award-winning author Hilary McKay. Jodie never wanted to come
on the residential trip to the field centre. A loner at school,
she's forced into a dormitory with other girls from her class who
don't understand her and talk about her behind her back. Even
though they're not trying to be mean, Jodie feels excluded and
miserable, and eventually escapes out onto the salt marshes in
search of a little dog she can hear barking in the distance. But
the salt marshes are dangerous and Jodie gets trapped by the
incoming tide. Stuck in the sucking mud, will anyone even notice
that she's gone? And where is the little dog that keeps barking so
mournfully ...?
This is a book about the physics of stars and starlight. The
story of starlight is truly fascinating. Astronomers analyze and
interpret the light from stars using photometry and spectroscopy,
then inspirational detective work combines with the laws of physics
to reveal the temperatures, masses, luminosities and outer
structure of these far away points of light. The laws of physics
themselves enable us to journey to the very center of a star and to
understand its inner structure and source of energy!
Starlight provides an in-depth study of stellar astrophysics
that requires only basic high school mathematics and physics,
making it accessible to all amateur astronomers. Starlight teaches
amateur astronomers about the physics of stars and starlight in a
friendly, easy-to-read way. The reader will take away a profoundly
deeper understanding of this truly fascinating subject and find his
practical observations more rewarding and fulfilling as a
result.
Learn how to create, produce and perform a whole new way;
prepare to unlock the power of Live
In this brand new title for Ableton Live 8 and Suite 8 users,
author Keith Robinson details exactly what Abelton Live can
deliver. The book is engineered to follow Live's non-linear music
environment - the book look and feels like the program Its unique
format utilizes the terms and creative features of Live - tabs,
keys, pointers, and labels.
Packed with professional testimonials, concepts, definitions,
hundreds of tips, tricks and hidden features, Ableton Live 8 and
Suite 8 covers the software's nuts and bolts and creative technique
to create, produce, perform and make music on the fly.
The accompanying website contains "Live sets" and web pointer
information to sync and download as well as interviews, additional
hints, tips and video
While most amateur astronomers know about the red shift, have a
general idea of the way that the emission and absorption lines in
stellar spectra provide an insight into the atomic processes of the
star; it is unusual to find someone who has any kind of detailed
knowledge. The reason isn't lack on interest - far from it - but is
because all the books currently available are pitched at
professional astronomers and degree students, and are to say the
least, difficult to read. This is the first non-technical book on
this subject, written specifically for practical amateur
astronomers. It includes all the science necessary for a
qualitative understanding of stellar spectra, but avoids a
mathematical treatment which would alienate many of its intended
readers. Any amateur astronomer who carries out (or who is
interested in) observational spectroscopy and who wants a
non-technical account of the physical processes which determine the
intensity and profile morphology of lines in stellar spectra will
find this is the only book written specially for him.And of course,
armchair astronomers who simply want to understand the physical
processes which shape lines in stellar spectra will find this book
equally fascinating.
It seems like common sense that children do better when parents are
actively involved in their schooling. But how well does the
evidence stack up? The Broken Compass puts this question to the
test in the most thorough scientific investigation to date of how
parents across socioeconomic and ethnic groups contribute to the
academic performance of K-12 children. The study's surprising
discovery is that no clear connection exists between parental
involvement and improved student performance. Keith Robinson and
Angel Harris assessed over sixty measures of parental
participation, at home and in school. Some of the associations they
found between socioeconomic status and educational involvement were
consistent with past studies. Yet other results ran contrary to
previous research and popular perceptions. It is not the case that
Hispanic and African American parents are less concerned with
education than other ethnic groups--or that "tiger parenting" among
Asian Americans gets the desired results. In fact, many low-income
parents across a wide spectrum want to be involved in their
children's school lives, but they often receive little support from
the school system. And for immigrant families, language barriers
only worsen the problem. While Robinson and Harris do not wish to
discourage parents' interest, they believe that the time has come
to seriously reconsider whether greater parental involvement can
make much of a dent in the basic problems facing their children's
education today. This provocative study challenges some of our most
cherished beliefs about the role of family in educational success.
Learn how to create, produce, and perform your music at the next
level by unlocking the power of Ableton Live 9. This book and web
combination shows, if you get it right, exactly what Live can
deliver. Engineered to follow Live's non-linear music environment,
the book looks and feels like the program. Its unique format
utilizes the terms and creative features of Live - tabs, keys,
pointers, and labels-to help you learn the littlest things that
make the biggest difference. Packed with professional insight,
concepts, definitions, and hundreds of tips, tricks, and hidden
features, author Keith Robinson covers the software's nuts and
bolts, while never neglecting creative techniques for creating,
producing, performing, - all the tools for making music on the fly.
The accompanying website contains bonus chapters, Live Sets and
clips to sync and download. Ableton Live 9... * Features
step-by-step tutorials, useful web-based media (Sets, Clips, Loops,
and Samples) designed to perfect your techniques * Identifies key
concepts and definitions, and uncovers hidden features of Live 9 *
Its unique graphic format, mirrors Live's structure, terms, and
creative features, so you can get into a "Live frame of mind" as
you read
2016 is the 150th Anniversary of the first Chinese Government
approved visit to England, by the learned Manchu BinChun. The book
draws on the diaries of those involved, the Government papers and
also newspaper reports from the time to follow his route and bring
into sharper focus some of the famous people that he met. The
British Government's aims were broadly to try and support the Qing
Government as it tried to modernise and thus help it preserve its
independence and also to create a future market for British trade.
Politically it was a failure, but perhaps BinChun's importance is
that he was a pioneer of public diplomacy, and it is these lessons
that are most relevant to us today as we once again seek to engage
with China.
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