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SOON TO BE A MAJOR DREAMWORKS ANIMATION!
Includes an insert of full-colour images from the film!
The heartwarming and action-packed illustrated novel exploring what
happens when nature and technology collide.
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that
she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got
there or what her purpose is - but she knows she needs to survive.
After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she
realises that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her
surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.
As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like
home - until, one day, her mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect: wild, natural, harmonious. Her son Brightbill has even found a mate! But then, one day an injured seal washes ashore and warns of dangerous, cloudy waters that are flowing toward the island—and soon the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources.
Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the poison tide takes a terrible toll on the island. And when the robot discovers that her new body is waterproof, she marches into the waves and sets out across the ocean, determined to stop the poison tide.
During her undersea journey, Roz encounters amazing geological formations and incredible creatures, and she sees the devastation caused by the toxic waters. Creatures she meets along the way direct her to a mysterious character known as the Ancient Shark, who explains that the poison tide is caused by a huge station that floats on the waves; a station operated by humans and by robots. To stop them, the Ancient Shark is prepared to attack with an army of sea creatures. However, Roz hopes to find a peaceful solution, instead.
Can the wild robot save the ocean and her island and everything she loves?
The most global text for world history is also unmatched in drawing
connections and comparisons across time and place. With a new
compact format, engaging design and built-in reader, this edition
improves accessibility while strengthening history skill
development. Expanded coverage of environmental history, new
interactive History Skills Tutorials, a new Interactive
Instructor's Guide and InQuizitive, Norton's award-winning adaptive
learning tool, support a state of the art learning experience.
Dirty Enlightenment is a stripped-down, radical presentation of the
Nature of Reality and your spiritual place in it. In actuality, you
are a miraculously present infinite field of transcendental being
presenting itself to itself as subtle radiant energy of pure
intelligence. This truth is consonant with the view of Dzogchen,
Kashmir Shaivism, Kundalini Yoga, primal Buddhism, and with all
radical spiritual traditions. Since this is already and eternally
the sole condition, the spiritual challenge is merely to recognize
that this is the case. With the simple recognition of the nature of
your actual condition, you are freed from the confused implications
of any misinterpretations of what your condition is, that you may
have been laboring under. The apparent "imperfection" that you may
believe your life to be, is in fact already and inherently an
entirely transcendental, miraculous eternal perfection, and it can
be easy to discover this fact with self-verifying certainty.
Can a robot survive in the wilderness?
When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a fierce storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants.
As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her.
From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.
The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together,
Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw connections and
comparisons across time and place. Streamlined chapters, innovative
pedagogy, and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of
environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible
and relevant yet. NEW interactive learning resources develop
history skills and assess comprehension of major themes and
concepts.
The most globally integrated book in the field, Worlds Together,
Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw clear
comparisons and connections across time and place. A new AP (R)
part structure and strong chapter pedagogy supports student
comprehension and close reading skills. The Second AP (R) Edition
offers even more opportunities for students to practice the
historical thinking skills and reasoning processes with an AP (R)
World History Skills Handbook and AP (R)-style questions and
writing prompts throughout the book. Additional practice is
provided online with our interactive History Skills Tutorials and
Norton InQuizitive for History-the popular, award-winning, adaptive
quizzing tool.
From the team behind the New York Times bestselling Creepy Carrots!
and Creepy Pair of Underwear! comes the third in this hilariously
spooky series about a young rabbit and his peculiar
encounters—featuring a sinister crayon! Jasper Rabbit has a
problem: he is NOT doing well in school. His spelling tests?
Disasters. His math quizzes? Frightening to behold. But one day, he
finds a crayon lying in the gutter. Purple. Pointy. Perfect.
Somehow…it looked happy to see him. And it wants to help. At
first, Jasper is excited. Everything is going great. His spelling
is fantastic. His math is stupendous. And best of all, he doesn’t
have to do ANY work! But then the crayon starts acting weird.
It’s everywhere, and it wants to do everything. And Jasper must
find a way to get rid of it before it takes over his life. The only
problem? The creepy crayon will not leave.
A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late
antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and
distinguished historians The end of the ancient world was long
regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall.
In his career-long engagement with this era, the widely acclaimed
and pathbreaking historian Peter Brown has shown, however, that the
“neglected half-millennium” now known as late antiquity was in
fact crucial to the development of modern Europe and the Middle
East. In Journeys of the Mind, Brown recounts his life and work,
describing his efforts to recapture the spirit of an age. As he and
other scholars opened up the history of the classical world in its
last centuries to the wider world of Eurasia and northern Africa,
they discovered previously overlooked areas of religious and
cultural creativity as well as foundational institution-building. A
respect for diversity and outreach to the non-European world,
relatively recent concerns in other fields, have been a matter of
course for decades among the leading scholars of late antiquity.
Documenting both his own intellectual development and the emergence
of a new and influential field of study, Brown describes his
childhood and education in Ireland, his university and academic
training in England, and his extensive travels, particularly in the
eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. He discusses fruitful
interactions with the work of scholars and colleagues that include
the British anthropologist Mary Douglas and the French theorist
Michel Foucault, and offers fascinating snapshots of such far-flung
places as colonial Sudan, midcentury Oxford, and prerevolutionary
Iran. With Journeys of the Mind, Brown offers an essential account
of the “grand endeavor” to reimagine a decisive historical
moment.
New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for
understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but
Bohemia came to him when, in 1382, King Richard II of England
married Anne, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.
Charles's splendid court in Prague was renowned across Europe for
its patronage of literature, art and architecture, and Anne and her
entourage brought with them some of its glamour and allure - their
fashions, extravagance and behaviour provoking comment from English
chroniclers. For Chaucer, a poet and diplomat affiliated to
Richard's court, Anne was more muse than patron, her influence
embedded in a range of his works, including the Parliament of
Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women and
Canterbury Tales. This volume shows Bohemia to be a key European
context, alongside France and Italy, for understanding Chaucer's
poetry, providing a wide perspective on the nature of cultural
exchange between England and Bohemia in the later fourteenth
century. The contributors consider such matters as court culture
and politics, the writings of Richard Rolle, artistic style, Troy
stories, historiographic writing and travel narrative; they
highlight the debt Chaucer owed to Bohemian culture, and the
affinities between English and Bohemian literary production,
whether in the use of Petrarch's tale of Griselde, the iconography
of the tapster figure, or satires on the Passion of Christ.
In this Caldecott Honor-winning picture book, "The Twilight Zone
"comes to the carrot patch as a rabbit fears his favorite treats
are out to get him.
Jasper Rabbit loves carrots--especially Crackenhopper Field
carrots.
He eats them on the way to school.
He eats them going to Little League.
He eats them walking home.
Until the day the carrots start following him...or are they?
Celebrated artist Peter Brown's stylish illustrations pair
perfectly with Aaron Reynold's text in this hilarious picture book
that shows it's all fun and games...until you get too greedy.
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