When Stacy Wyatt is broken out of prison and brought to Sicily, his only choice is to enter the mob. He is assigned to rescue a wealthy businessman's daughter from a bandit kidnapper. It's only when he's in too deep that he realizes the tables have turned, the job was a setup, and the only person left to trust is himself. Jack Higgins is a 'nom de plume' of Harry Patterson who has also written under the names of Martin Fallon, James Graham, Hugh Marlowe and his own name. Because Jack Higgins is the most recognizable name of this lot, I have listed all of his books under this name.
Learn the concept and the names of some 3 dimensional shapes with these free printable shapes flash cards. The shapes include the cube, cone, sphere, cylinder, pyramid, dome, disc and ring. Find examples of these shapes around the house and classrooms and use these cards to introduce the names. Children will also learn the idea of 2D representations of 3 dimensional forms.
Learn the names of classic animals with our first set of free printable animal flash cards. This set includes 12 animals: dog, cat, rabbit, pig, sheep, chicken, goose, mouse, frog, whale, snake and lion. These animal flash cards are a great way to introduce animal names but also they are a powerful development tool in connecting recognisable images with words.
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's also in the language we use and everywhere in the world around us. In this elegant, witty, and ultimately profound meditation on what is beautiful, Crispin Sartwell begins with six words from six different cultures - ancient Greek's "to kalon," the Japanese idea of "wabi-sabi," Hebrew's "yapha," the Navajo concept "hozho," Sanskrit "sundara," and our own English-language "beauty."
Over 100,000 names of about 10,000 species and varieties of flowering plants and fern-like plants in Latin, Russian, English ... (hieroglyphic and Latin transliteration)
