Frommer's Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks is packed with all the facts, tips and descriptions you need to have perfect park vacation, in a pocket size guide: The most memorable park experiences, from Old Faithful and Mammoth Hot Springs, to Snake River raft trips. Great places to stay in and near the parks, ranging from historic lodges to family-friendly motels plus a complete campground guide for each park. A fully illustrated nature guide to help you spot and identify bald eagles, bison, wildflowers, and more. The best hikes, from ranger-led interpretive walks to challenging backcountry overnights. What to see and do outside of the parks: rodeos, chuckwagon feeds, IMAX nature films, an elk preserve, Jackson Hole's bars and boutiques, and more. Detailed, accurate park and trail maps
From an historical perspective, this text presents an entirely non- mathematical introduction to astronomy from the first endeavours of the ancients to the current developments in research enabled by cutting edge technological advances. Free of mathematics and complex graphs, the book nevertheless explains deep concepts of space and time, of relativity and quantum mechanics, and of origin and nature of the universe. It conveys not only the intrinsic fascination of the subject, but also the human side and the scientific method as practised by Kepler, defined and elucidated by Galileo, and then demonstrated by Newton.
From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Blackwell Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book.
* Makes use of illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts * Written by a group of expert contributors * Covers topical debates, such as the nature of censorship and the future of the book
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It’s all in one place! A guide to nature journaling and a template for
creating your own journal.
This 90-page book follows Charlotte Mason’s
guidelines, has a 36-week nature journal template, includes tips,
suggestions, a bird, tree and mammal observation list and food for
thought on the many ways nature study enriches your child’s life.
Contains:
Introduction to Nature Study
Finding Delight in Nature Study
Charlotte Mason on Nature Study and “Nature-Diaries”
Better Nature Journaling
Dry Brush Technique for Nature Journals
Instructions for Nature Journal
36-week Nature Journal Template
Bird List
Tree list
Mammal List
The book testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists
towards internal variety within itself and towards external interaction
with major linguistic subdisciplines. Internally, it opens up the broad
variety of CL strands and the cognitive unity between convergent
linguistic disciplines. Externally, it provides a wide overview of the
connections between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and
discourse-oriented dimensions of language, which will make this book
attractive to scholars from different persuasions. The book is thus
expected to raise productive debate inside and outside the CL
community. Furthermore, the book examines interdisciplinary connections
from the point of view of the internal dynamics of CL research itself.
CL is rapidly developing into different compatible frameworks with
extensions into levels of linguistics description like discourse,
pragmatics, and sociolinguistics among others that have only recently
been taken into account in this orientation.
The book covers two general topics: (i) the relationship between the
embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action; (ii)
the role of metaphor and metonymy in inferential activity and as
generators of discourse ties. More specific topics are the nature and
scope of constructional meaning, language variation and cultural
models; discourse acts; the relationship between communication and
cognition, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse, the role of
mental spaces in linguistic processing, and the role of empirical work
in CL research. These features endow the book with internal unity and
consistency while preserving the identity of each of the contributions
therein.