The bestselling Bravelands adventures continue! In this thrilling three-book arc, a water buffalo, hyena, and cheetah take center stage.The time for rain is approaching fast, but before the Great Spirit will let it fall, the animals of Bravelands must grapple with a dangerous new threat.Cast out of his coalition, Stride the cheetah embarks on a perilous mission for the Great Parent, accompanied by a honey badger burdened with a dark and mysterious past.Whisper the water buffalo has been searching desperately for her brother Echo, presumed dead after a terrible fall. Meanwhile, without his guidance, the herd wanders in circles as another headstrong male tries to seize control of the migration.And the hyena now known as Breathstealer finds herself pulled in two directions—courted by the Great Spirit at one moment and other times tempted by the Great Devourer, who sends her compelling visions of power and plenty.The balance of power in Bravelands rests on a knife’s edge, and the Great Dev
Featuring charmingly simple illustrations and plenty of puns, The Squares is a humorous trade picture book from up-and-coming author/illustrator Kevin Jenner. Introducing squares, triangles, and circles alongside light-hearted humor, this is a truly fun introduction to shapes.This funny, bold and characterful picture storybook introduces young readers to the shapes, as they meet the Squares and the Triangles, who are always arguing!Meet the squares. They are straightforward, supportive, and reliable. Squares like things to be even. But they don't get on very well with the Triangles... The Triangles are edgy, sharp, and creative, but they really don't like the Squares.Circle comes across these two groups but just can't take a side! When a fight breaks out between the two shapes, will circle be able to help? Whose side are you on?Featuring charmingly simple illustrations and plenty of puns, The Squares is a truly fun introduction to shapes that children will love to read time and time ag
Economic integration between Hong Kong and Mainland China is a topic of great interest among both policy circles and the academia. This book is a collection of relevant research papers of the Hong Kon
Nibbles the book monster is back in a brand new board book full of first shapes!There are circles, squares and stars to spot. And maybe one final, extra-special shape from him to you . . . A fun, rhyming, first introduction to SHAPES with Nibbles’ book-munching twist. Babies and toddlers will love peeping through die-cuts and lifting flaps as they follow Nibbles on his exciting, shape-filled journey. Nibbles Shapes is perfect for fans of Shapes by Xavier Deneux, Shapes with Little Fish by Lucy Cousins and Circles by Yusuke Yonezu.
Scholars have sometimes maintained that the study of the history of African religions is an impossible endeavor. Some have contended that African religions do not have a history unto themselves, apart from their interaction with the newer religious traditions of Islam and Christianity. Others concede that such a history exists, but believe the source materials are insufficient to reconstruct such a history. This book speaks directly to these critics. The history of African religions becomes in many ways like a pentathlon, expecting the scholar who conducts such research to work with written texts, to learn African languages, to live within a community where these religious traditions are practiced, to study material culture, both sacred and mundane, and a variety of archaeological sources from tree rings to stone circles and gravesites. By relying on the existing corpus of written texts, oral traditions, linguistic analyses, descriptions based on participant observation, and various ty
First observed hundreds of years ago in the English countryside, crop circles develop when sections of grain fields become matted into distinctive patterns. Are they man-made? Or are they the result o
This coloring book is the prelude to a series of coloring books for all. Ability is more of a factor than age. If you can color with markers or colored pencils, you can enjoy this book and the series
In this follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, Manuel Lima takes us on a lively tour through millennia of circular information design. Three hundred detailed and colo
The publication of Sanyika Shakur's Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circles--New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani dee
Illuminating, widely praised book on analytic geometry of circles, the Moebius transformation, and 2-dimensional non-Euclidean geometries. "This book should be in every library, and every expert in cl
Encouraging playing circle games and singing simple songs with young children, this collection includes 58 songs and rhymes, such as "Hot Cross Buns" and "It's Raining, It's Pouring," as well as comm
Bryher ? adventurer, novelist, publisher ? flees Victorian Britain for the raucous streets of Cairo and the sultry Parisian cafes. Amidst the intellectual circles of the twenties and thirties, she dev
In Knitting from the Center Out, Daniel Yuhas teaches knitters the fascinating technique of starting a project with just a few stitches and knitting outward, in revolutions (or circles). The book feat
This delightful interactive board book will delight baby for hours of shape-learning fun, as she completes the picture of circles by moving the book around.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Hugh Newman takes us on a fascinating journey around the world, examining mysterious stone circles of the megalithic culture.Stone circles conjure up a lost world
Our world’s cultural circles are permeated by the philosophical influences of existentialism and phenomenology. Two contemporary quests to elucidate rationality – took their inspirations from Kierkega
"This harrowing murder mystery, winner of the Philippine National Book Award, follows two Catholic priests on the hunt for a serial killer in the notorious Payatas dump city of northern Manila. In no
