David Stewart was een Schotse soldaat en later auteur en antiquaar. Zijn boek was grotendeels verantwoordelijk voor het creëren van het moderne beeld van de Highlander, de clans en de Schotse regimenten. Stewarts werk wordt beschouwd als de basis voor al het daaropvolgende werk over Highlanders, clans en Schotse regimenten. Zijn verkenning van het karakter, de gebruiken en de huidige staat van de Schotse Hooglanden heeft de perceptie van deze iconische cultuur diepgaand gevormd en beïnvloedt deze nog steeds.
Barron’s American Sign Language is a brand-new title on ASL that can be used in the classroom, as a supplemental text to high school and college courses, or for anyone who wants to learn proper ASL.
In this remarkable new portrait, David O. Stewart unveils the political education that made Washington a master politician--and America's most essential leader. From Virginia's House of Burgesses, where Washington learned the craft and timing of a practicing politician, to his management of local government as a justice of the Fairfax County Court to his eventual role in the Second Continental Congress and his grueling generalship in the American Revolution, Washington perfected the art of governing and service, earned trust, and built bridges. The lessons in leadership he absorbed along the way would be invaluable during the early years of the republic as he fought to unify the new nation
"As a killer whale, also known as an orca, you are a very social animal, living together with other killer whales in family groups that exhibit complex behaviors. Being a killer whale can be difficult and challenging: You have to hunt for food, raise your young, and keep track of your family"--Back cover.
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A light-hearted approach to the process of mummification in ancient Egypt.
Roussillon and France, 1659-1715
The study delves into the historical context of Roussillon after its acquisition by France in 1659, highlighting the clash between French political ambitions and the resilient Catalan cultural identity. It explores the strategies employed by Louis XIV and his ministers to impose French supremacy and eliminate local traditions, alongside the resistance tactics of the Roussillonnais. Ultimately, it reveals the complexities of cultural assimilation, illustrating why the French failed to fully acculturate the region despite establishing political control.
Get ready... as a young man living in the Roman Empire, you’ve heard many stories about far-away lands and people. It sounds exciting but you’re about to discover how tough life really is for a Roman soldier! This title in the best-selling children’s history series, You Wouldn't Want To…, features full-colour illustrations which combine humour and accurate technical detail and a narrative approach placing readers at the centre of the history, encouraging them to become emotionally-involved with the characters and aiding their understanding of what life would have been like as a Roman soldier. Informative captions, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal introduction to the conventions of information books for young readers. It is an ideal text for Key Stage 2 shared and guided reading and helps achieve the goals of the Scottish Standard Curriculum 5-14.
The 1820s and 1830s, the gap between Romanticism and Victorianism, continues to prove a difficulty for scholars. This book explores and recovers a neglected culture of poetry in those years, and it demonstrates that culture was a crucial turning point in literary history. It explores a uniquely wide range of poets, including the poetry of the literary annuals, Letitia Landon, Felicia Hemans, Robert Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Hood and John Clare, placing their work in the light of new research into the conditions of the literary market. In turn, it uses that culture to open up wider theoretical issues relating to literary form, book history, print culture, gender and periodisation. The period’s doubt about poetry’s place in culture and its capacity to last prompted a dazzling range of creative experiments that reimagined the metrical, material and commercial forms of poetry.
It is 1577 and Francis Drake, the Queen of England's favourite adventurer, has been ordered to command a new expedition leaving from Plymouth. Drake has appointed you, Francis Fletcher, as Chaplain on the expedition. You believe you are off on a trading trip to Alexandria in Egypt, but Drake's expedition has another purpose. Where will this voyage take you? The humorous cartoon-style illustrations and the narrative approach placing readers at the centre of the narrative history encourage readers to get emotionally involved with the characters, aiding their understanding of what life would have been like sailing with Francis Drake. Informative captions, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal introduction to the conventions of non-fiction texts for young readers. Sample fact: ̀Drake comes from a family of seafarers. Long ago, William Hawkins, Drake's uncle, showed King Henry VIII exotic fruit he had brought back from his travels.'
As a honeybee, you live together in a colony with other bees like yourself, and you harvest pollen and nectar from flowers in order to make your food. The life of a bee can be difficult: It's a lot of work taking care of your nest and raising new bees, and there are many dangers, like birds and predatory wasps
Burnum Burnum's Aboriginal Australia is the first book ever to offer a personal, Aboriginal vision of this, the world's greatest island.Through over 300 stunning colour pictures and 150 black and white archival photographs, many of which have never been published before, and through the words of one of this country's best known and most respected Aboriginal people, this unique book takes the read on a journey around the continent, an unforgettable journey that reveals an Australia rarely experienced by white inhabitants.Following Highway One, from Sydney north to Cairns, west to Darwin and south to Perth, then heading back to Sydney via the centre and Tasmania, Burnum Burnum guides us through lands that were once the traditional territory of many nations, clans and groups and opens our eyes to the lifestyles, history, art and lore of the original Australians.
