This is a collection of notes, memoirs and poetry representing a life of contemplation and struggle to cope with life in a mad, mad world. During the second half of the 20th Century, I found happiness and bliss walking the trails of our national parks and forests and learning to live in harmony with the natural world.
A collection of notes, memoirs and musings representing a life of contemplation and struggle to cope with life in a mad, mad world. It is an authentic account of my belief system as it developed during the decade of the 80's and into the beginning of the 21st Century
Providing a solution for teaching junior science, "New Star Science 5" books are aimed at the fifth primary school year. This "Pupil's Book" provides practical tasks and activities, with work throughout the topic and support for group activities. The topic covered is "life cycles".
At bedtime, Julian spots two large eyes studying him through his bedroom window. The boy looks just like him, but of a different colour, a different race, of a different world. The boy is Neptun. With his mum’s permission, Neptun takes Julian on an adventure through our solar system, introducing to him worlds beyond our imagination, where although of different species, colour and planet, all are the same in love, friendship, and struggles. A wonderful children’s perspective on the world, humanity and aliens, infused with otherworldly colourful depictions of what other planets and creatures may look like. It is a story about friendship, unity, and unconditional love and acceptance of anyone who is different.
Mother Nature is pissed. Few will survive. Jackie is loving her last year of summer camp, despite new-guy Xander, jerk extraordinaire. That is, until disaster strikes on the senior backpacking trip. At first, it seems like a nightmare, but Jackie quickly realizes that the huge fire and resulting carnage around her are as real as real gets. Miraculously (and infuriatingly, in Jackie’s opinion), Xander survives the burning, too, but that’s the least of her worries. Mother Nature has wiped out millions and burned cities to the ground, plants are growing at a crazy-rapid rate, and fairytale creatures are very real—and very dangerous. Jackie and Xander must learn to survive sans food, shelter, and soap, and battle their way across the wild American landscape in search of their families—all without killing each other. Along the way, the duo learns that maybe the other isn’t so terrible after all, but going months with no toothpaste isn’t exactly a recipe for romance. Will the journey be too much for their growing relationship? Will it even be worth it at all? Or will their homes and families be burned to a crisp?
Make thunder in a can and lightning in a pan, watch the wind at work, learn snow facts and folklore and much, much more! In 10 easy-to-follow chapters, children in grades 1-4 are introduced to the many faces of weather, investigating their environment and making exciting discoveries along the way! Each chapter features indoor and outdoor learning opportunities from experiments and sky watching to discovery centers and extension activities. The hands-on learning tasks are accompanied by lively scientific facts, trivia and lore, and the unique format enables educators to connect weather themes to all areas of the curriculum. Here's a complete approach to learning that opens the doors to discovery and is guaranteed to make children "weather wise."
An illustrated tour of the structures and patterns we call "math" The only numbers in this book are the page numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be surprisingly easy to grasp. This book upends the conventional approach to math, inviting you to think creatively about shape and dimension, the infinite and infinitesimal, symmetries, proofs, and how these concepts all fit together. What awaits readers is a freewheeling tour of the inimitable joys and unsolved mysteries of this curiously powerful subject. Like the classic math allegory Flatland, first published over a century ago, or Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach forty years ago, there has never been a math book quite like Math Without Numbers. So many popularizations of math have dwelt on numbers like pi or zero or infinity. This book goes well beyond to questions such as: How many shapes are there? Is anything bigger than infinity? And is math even true? Milo Beckman shows why math is mostly just pattern recognition and how it keeps on surprising us with unexpected, useful connections to the real world. The ambitions of this book take a special kind of author. An inventive, original thinker pursuing his calling with jubilant passion. A prodigy. Milo Beckman completed the graduate-level course sequence in mathematics at age sixteen, when he was a sophomore at Harvard; while writing this book, he was studying the philosophical foundations of physics at Columbia under Brian Greene, among others.
A complete description of a toddler day care center developed over more than 6 years of operation and empirical research into management, teaching techniques, care routines, environmental design, and materials selection.