Bricks Reading with Reading Skills is a three-leveled reading course that enables learners to build their critical reading and comprehension skills. It is designed for pre-intermediate to intermediate learners who want to be successful readers. It is written by native English speaker teachers who teach in primary schools in the U.S.A., Canada, and the U.K. The themes vary from familiar subject matters to culturally unique ones. In addition, the themes are based on cross-curricular approaches to expose learners to various subject areas: science, history, math, art, and more.
The twentieth-century architect Mies van der Rohe once declared that 'Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together'. In Travels in the History of Architecture, renowned architectural writer Robert Harbison looks closely at these bricks, taking us on a journey through the great themes and movements of architecture, from antiquity to the present day.
From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots
From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots. Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains places a renewed emphasis on sensing and acting, the importance of embodiment, the exploration of distributed notions of control, and the development of theories by synthesizing simple systems and exploring their behaviour. Numerous examples are used to illustrate a key theme: the importance of an agent’s environment
