Describes how tornadoes form and what effects they have on people and their surroundings.
DK Readers will help your child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading whilst finding out about twisters. Encourage your child to read. They will learn all about twisters and how stormy winds twist at incredible speeds to create some wild, wild weather! DK Readers are part of a five-level highly pictorial reading scheme, which uses lively illustrations and engaging stories to encourage reading.
Vocabulary readers can be used to pre-teach or reinforce key vocabulary. These leveled Vocabulary Readers provide high-interest nonfiction texts for the vocabulary development of third grade students.
In conducting a mathematical column in the Graham Dial over the past twenty-five years, the author found that the most stimulating experience and the greatest reward for his effort came from the "surprise attack" initiated by readers in solving many of the problems.
Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's Tenth-century Baghdadi Cookbook
This English translation of al-Warraqs tenth-century cookbook offers a unique glimpse into the culinary culture of medieval Islam. Hundreds of recipes, anecdotes, and poems, with an extensive Introduction, a Glossary, an Appendix and color illustration. Informative and entertaining to scholars and general readers. On Oct. 14th 2008, Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens was selected as one of the Top 100 winners of The Best of the Best Gourmand Awards of the Past 12 Years.
Eruption! The Story of Volcanoes (DK Readers Level 2)
In Eruption! The Story of Volcanoes, children learn all about volcanoes, as the mechanics of an eruption are described and illustrated with simple, step-by-step pictures.