Jennifer Laings newest book showcases 12 different animal patterns starting with Mortimer the Teddy Bear. In addition, it covers animals and fantasy characters from around the world including Philbert the Golly; Erik the Elf; Nils the Gnome... All animals can be made from a range of different fabrics and styles with ideas for variations. The author provides techniques to give the animals open mouths and realistic tongues, whiskers and tufted eyebrows, waxed noses, extra joints for increased pose-ability, wired ears, toes and tails.
55 projects in electricity, magnetism, electronics; making a compass, wiring a simple electromagnet, obtaining electricity from a lemon, reactivating a dry cell, making a flashlight, constructing a Geiger counter.
Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the New Historical Fiction
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Fiction literature | 2 September 2010
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Examines recent developments in historical fiction, with particular attention to the way contemporary writers have portrayed Shakespearean England.
Taking its title from Umberto Eco's postscript to The Name of the Rose, the novel that inaugurated the New Historical Fiction in the early 1980s, Constructing the World provides a guide to the genre's defining characteristics. It also serves as a lively account of the way Shakespeare, Marlowe, Raleigh, Queen Elizabeth I, and their contemporaries have been depicted by such writers as Anthony Burgess, George Garrett, Patricia Finney, Barry Unsworth.
Young Mathematicians at Work, Vol. 3: Constructing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
In our efforts to reform mathematics education, we've learned a tremendous amount about young students' strategies and the ways they construct knowledge, without fully understanding how to support such development over time. The Dutch do. So, funded by the National Science Foundation and ExxonMobil, Mathematics in the City was begun, a collaborative inservice project that pooled the best thinking from both countries.
