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  Rediscovering the Great Plains -...

  Norman Scott Henderson

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  An “engrossing” memoir of traveling Canada's Qu’Appelle River Valley via horse, canoe, and Native American dogsled (Calgary Herald).   The North American Plains are one of the world’s great landscapes—but today, the most intimate experience most of us are likely to have of the great grasslands is from behind the window of a car or train. It was not always so. In the earliest days, Plains Indians traveled on foot across the vastness, with only the fierce, wolflike Plains dogs as companions. Later, with the arrival of Europeans, horses and canoes appeared on the Plains. In this book, Norman Henderson, a leading scholar of the world’s great temperate grasslands, revives these traditional modes of travel, journeying along 200 miles of Canada’s Qu’Appelle River valley by dog and travois (the wooden rack pulled by dogs and horses used by Native Americans to transport goods), then by canoe, and finally by horse and travois.   Henderson interweaves his own adventures with the exploits of earlier Plains travelers, like Lewis and Clark, Francisco Coronado, La Vérendrye, and Alexander Henry. Lesser-known experiences of the fur traders and others who struggled to cross this strange and forbidding landscape also illuminate the story, while Henderson’s often humorous description of his attempts to find and train old Plains breeds of dogs and horses highlight the difficulties involved in recreating archaic travel methods. He also draws on the history of the world’s other great temperate grasslands: the South American pampas and the Eurasian steppes. Recalling the work of Ian Frazier and Jonathan Raban, Henderson’s account offers a deeper understanding of the natural and human history of the North American Plains.   “A captivating ‘biography of a landscape,’ its good humor blended with impressive scholarship, including snappy thumbnail histories of canoes, horses, dogs, barbed wire and those pesky blood-sucking mosquitoes.” —Publishers Weekly

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  Code-It Workbook 1: First Steps...

  Phil Bagge

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  Code IT Primary Programming Series 
  Basic computer coding is now among the most important skills a child can have for their future. There are many programming languages designed specifically for children to begin their studies, but the Scratch programming language, already recognised in schools around the world, is widely considered as the ideal place to begin programming in early education.  
   The highly successful Code-It series is a comprehensive guide to teaching Scratch to children in a classroom setting. It is designed for the UK-based KS2 curriculum but can easily be used to supplement other programming courses for children between the ages of 7 and 11.   
   There are four pupil workbooks designed to work in conjunction with the Code-It teacher handbook. They provide structure and resources for the children, including optional homework activities to extend to learning outside the classroom.  
  Workbook 1 provides all the pupil resources to accompany Year 3, Chapter 2 of the teacher resource book How to Teach Primary Programming Using Scratch, including optional homework activities to extend learning outside the classroom. It explains how to think, program and debug exciting programming projects such as Smoking Car Game, Music Machine, Conversation, Interactive Display and Dressing up Game. It also outlines how to use analytical computational thinking skills for algorithm design, algorithm evaluation, decomposition and generalisation.

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  Mercury: A Planet in our Solar...

  Jason Hill

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  Do you love learning about space?  Do you know how important the solar system is?  This is the audio book for you.   All your questions will be answered.On the surface of  Mercury, the Sun would look more than three times as large as it does when viewed from our planet Earth, and the sunlight would be as much as seven times brighter. Despite its proximity to the Sun, Mercury is not the hottest planet in our vast solar system.

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  The Adventures of Chatterer the...

  Thornton W. Burgess

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  Chatterer the Red Squirrel finds himself in trouble again and is forced to abandon his old home. As the search for a new home begins, Chatterer's curiosity gets the better of him and a moment of carelessness causes him to stumble into a far different home than he ever imagined. This book is Thornton W. Burgess at his best as he captures the personalities and behaviors of the animals in the Green Forest delightfully well and tells a story of mischievousness and unexpected friendship. (Summary by Jill Engle)

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  Making a Stock and Other...

  R. L. Gemeinhardt

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  Making A Stock And Other Activities For A Healthy Life And Save The Planet At The Same Time presents you some great activities you can do to eat healthy by growing your own vegetables, making a great stock from leftover vegetables and much more. Activities include little and big things you can do yourself or with your family to help save the planet.      Environmental issues affect us all, regardless of our location, age, class, or lifestyle. More importantly, they serve as a call to action that doesn’t just save money, but also gets kids involved and can even help inspire family and friends to find their own path to sustainable living that reduces the damage of modern life on the planet.     This book has just some of all the countless opportunities to conserve, recycle, and expand our positive impact exponentially by sharing methods that work.     So if you want to know what you can do to save the world, in baby steps or big strides, read on for ways to change your life and, through that, the planet’s. Even if you’re not yet ready for a deep dive into recycling and conservation, a realistic approach that eases change into your routine is an excellent start.The first step is getting informed. Then, whatever you do, JUST DO SOMETHING!!!

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  The Mind Is Flat - The...

  Nick Chater

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  In a radical reinterpretation of how the mind works, an eminent behavioral scientist reveals the illusion of mental depthPsychologists and neuroscientists struggle with how best to interpret human motivation and decision making. The assumption is that below a mental "surface" of conscious awareness lies a deep and complex set of inner beliefs, values, and desires that govern our thoughts, ideas, and actions, and that to know this depth is to know ourselves. In this profoundly original book, behavioral scientist Nick Chater contends just the opposite: rather than being the plaything of unconscious currents, the brain generates behaviors in the moment based entirely on our past experiences. Engaging the listener with eye-opening experiments, the author first demolishes our intuitive sense of how our mind works, then argues for a positive interpretation of the brain as a ceaseless and creative improviser.

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