Just Mommy and Me "If I were a monkey who swung on a tree and you were my mommy, who swung after me . . . imagine how happy and fun it would be." Hand in hand a mother and child monkey spend the entire day together doing the special things that create warm memories: playing hide-and-seek, picking flowers in the breeze, swimming with the fishes and frogs, walking in cool, shady places until finally falling asleep under a glowing Mr. Moon. There's no better way to share the day with Mommy than with Tara Jaye Morrow's cozy rhyme and Katy Bratun's bright illustrations.
Lola is a fussy eater. A very fussy eater. She won’t eat her carrots (until her brother Charlie reveals that they’re orange twiglets from Jupiter). She won’t eat her mashed potatoes (until Charlie explains that they’re cloud fluff from the pointiest peak of Mount Fuji). There are many things Lola won’t eat, including - and especially - tomatoes. Or will she? Two endearing siblings star in a witty story about the triumph of imagination over proclivity.
Language is one of our most precious and uniquely human capacities, so it is not surprising that research on its neural substrates has been advancing quite rapidly in recent years. Until now, however, there has not been a single introductory textbook that focuses specifically on this topic.
'You are only afraid of the dark,' Mrs Barn Owl said, 'because you don't know about it,' and she sent Plop down to talk with all sorts of people on the ground below. 'Dark is exciting,' said a little boy on Bonfire Day, 'Dark is fun,' said a boy scout guarding a camp-fire, and 'Dark is wonderful,' said an astronomer. In fact there wasn't one single person who didn't like the dark, but it made no difference to poor Plop; he was still scared of it - until he talked it over with another animal, a black, night-walking cat.
The scope and volume of evidence and range of methods used to analyze the fossil record have increased exponentially in the last fifty years. Comprised of approximately 1,500 entries produced without jargon for those new to the subject, the book includes timelines, maps, and over 100 illustrations, making it an indispensable tool for those studying human evolution. Paleoanthropologists, be they students or practitioners, need to be familiar with the record, but until now there has been no resource that covers topics as disparate as ameloblast daily secretion rates and exact randomization.
