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  The Caledonian Canal

  A.D. Cameron

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  Telford's plan, to connect Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy with each other and the sea, was a huge undertaking which brought civil engineering to the Highlands on a heroic scale. Deep in the Highlands, far from the canal network of England, engineers forged their way through the Great Glen to construct the biggest canal of its day: twenty-two miles of artificial cutting and no fewer than twenty-eight locks.
  A.D. (Sandy) Cameron's book has long been recognised as the authoritative work on the canal as well as a reliable and useful guide to the surrounding area. There are intriguing old plans, not discovered until 1992, and a survey of the dramatic rise in pleasure-craft traffic during the last two decades. But the highlight of the recent past was undoubtedly the Tall Ships passing through the canal in stately procession in 1991. Impossible, then, not to feel the fascination of this beautiful waterway: a working piece of industrial history and a remarkable engineering achievement. This book is a fitting celebration of this remarkable feat of engineering.

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  Environmental Ethics - A Very...

  Robin Attfield

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  Robin Attfield introduces environmental ethics, exploring the values involved in issues such as pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. Considering the different groups involved in environmental ethics, and the attitudes of the world's religions to environmental stewardship, he calls for action from us all to manage our environment ethically.

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  TouchCode Class 3

  Team Orange

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  An Activity Book to Develop Coding Skills 
  
  KEY FEATURES 
  - National Education Policy 2020 
  - Crack the Code: It includes fun-based adventurous activities. 
  - Time Taken: It lets the child analyse how much time he has taken for the activity. 
  - Active Learning: It is a section that contains hands-on activity for fun. 
  - Coding Fact: It gives an insight to the important and interesting fact of the concept. 
  - Gamification: Scan the QR code to enter the world of games on Computational Thinking. 
  
  DESCRIPTION 
  TouchCode, a series for grades 1–8, is a specially designed book to develop Computational Thinking skills and move towards making codes. 
  
  TouchCode books for Grades 1–5 have activities based on various skills that amplifies the CT skills and build a strong foundation for middle school. TouchCode books for Grades 6–8 take a step ahead and let the child enter the world of codes using blockbased coding. 
  
  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN 
  You will learn about: 
  - Reasoning 
  - Critical Thinking & Analysis 
  - Data Processing 
  - Algorithmic Intelligence 
  - Computational Thinking 
  
  WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR 
  Grade - 3 
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  LEVEL 1 REASONING 
  1.1 Shapes 
  1.2 Patterns 
  1.3 Counting Combinations 
  1.4 Word Hunt 
  1.5 Number Pyramid 
  CHALLENGE 1 Anagram 
  LEVEL 2 CRITICAL THINKING & ANALYSIS 
  2.1 Rhyme Time 
  2.2 Mirror Magic 
  2.3 Maps 
  2.4 Correlation 
  2.5 Wonder Maze 
  CHALLENGE 2 Sneaky Numbers 
  ACTIVE LEARNING: Abacus 
  LEVEL 3 DATA PROCESSING 
  3.1 Representing Information 
  3.2 Decoding 
  3.3 Decomposition 
  CHALLENGE 3 Ms. Lady Bug 
  LEVEL 4 ALGORITHMIC INTELLIGENCE 
  4.1 Stepwise Thinking 
  4.2 Algorithm 
  4.3 Understanding Programs 
  4.4 Programs : Decision Making 
  4.5 Programs : Loops 
  CHALLENGE 4 Linking Loops 
  Coding Corner 
  Scoreboard 
  Gamification 
  Answers

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  Deviced! - Balancing Life and...

  Doreen Dodgen-Magee

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  With current statistics suggesting that the average American over the age of 14 engages with screens upwards of 10 hours a day, the topic of our growing dependence upon technology applies to nearly everyone. While the effects differ at each point of development, real changes to the brain, relationships, and personal lives are well documented. Deviced! explores these alterations and offers a realistic look at how we can better use technology and break away from the bad habits we’ve formed.Using personal stories, cutting edge research, and anecdotes from youth, parents, and professionals, Dodgen-Magee highlights the brain changes that result from excessive technology use and offers an approach to the digital world that enables more informed and lasting change and a healthier long-term perspective. Given that the reader is living within a culture of ever-changing and advancing technologies, Deviced! is written in such a way that its contents can weather the constantly changing digital landscape by focusing on the concepts of honest assessment and healthy boundary setting rather than on specific technologies or platforms.Deviced! offers a mindful approach to assessing current technology use, breaking bad habits, setting new norms, and re-engaging with life with renewed richness and awareness.

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  Another Fine Mess - Life on...

  Pope Brock

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  The author of Charlatan is “the perfect armchair cosmonaut” for “a very funny and provocative rumination on the big move to off-planet real estate” (Mark Haskell Smith, author of Blown).   We’ve gotten into another fine mess, destroying the planet and all. So where will we go next? Is it time to colonize outer space? Acclaimed essayist Pope Brock takes us on a vivid satirical journal to learn just what life might look like living on tomorrow’s moon.   “Though the reader finds herself in happy contemplation of crisping ex-lovers with lasers from a future lunar workplace, or perhaps having imperfect sex in perfect spheres of water, or simply socializing on the moon with well-adapted sociopaths, nevertheless we also get to know the fiercely earthbound heart of Pope Brock. His vision is both funny and horrifying, a Seussian galaxy of rumpus absurdity and straight-talking hard truths. By the end of it one thinks, ‘Ah, Humanity’ but right upon that one thinks, ‘Thank goodness for Pope Brock.’” —Leigh Allison Wilson, author of From the Bottom Up   “Deft, funny, profound in its implications—and also a grave prediction about the mess that may soon be transferred from the Earth to the moon. A beguiling and original story by a writer whose wisdom is only matched by his wicked comic timing.” —Sarah Braunstein, author of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children   “An inspired observer with a poet’s heart, his investigation into our lunar future is informed, wry and sublimely readable.”—Cathy Galvin, founder of the Word Factory, London

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  A Universe of Inspiration - Star...

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

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  Attempts by scientists and artists to reveal deep truths about the universe may take different forms, but they often end up agreeing with the poet John Keats that “truth is beauty.” 
  Geometry, physics and the other sciences describe the world we live in, and artists often play with these properties in their own imaginative investigations. From the drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci to high tech computer graphics, Neil and Lynne paint a picture of how science has inspired art through the ages. 
  Guests: Peter Max: pop artist best known for his psychedelic Cosmic 60s graphic design

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