| Author | : Susan Stoltz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2016-08-21 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780998092003 |
Collective nouns for animals
Animal Groups
| Author | : Jill Esbaum |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1426320604 |
"What do you call that group of animals? Learn the sometimes familiar and sometimes surprising names for animal groups from around the globe."--
Steve the Dung Beetle
| Author | : Susan Stoltz |
| Publisher | : Lyric & Stone Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2022-03-15 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781733759885 |
Fun book about a dung beetle named Steve who has to explain to all the animals why he likes poo so much and how important his job is to the environment.
An Ambush of Tigers
| Author | : Betsy R. Rosenthal |
| Publisher | : Millbrook Press TM |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2022-08-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1728466539 |
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Have you ever heard of a prickle of porcupines? Or a tower of giraffes? What about a parcel of penguins? This fun-filled romp through the animal kingdom introduces collective nouns for animals through wordplay. Clever rhymes and humorous illustrations bring these collective nouns to life in funny ways, making it easy to remember which terms and animals go together. A glossary in the back matter offers further explanation of words used as collective nouns, such as sleuth meaning "detective." "This crash course in juxtaposition and imagination should be celebrated with a peal of bells. An inspiring addition to any poetry collection."—starred, School Library Journal "Cleverness abounds in Rosenthal's latest. . . .The tongue-in-cheek text never falters in its rhythm and rhyme. . . .The illustrations are a perfect match for the text's wit. . . .Collective nouns have never been this much fun."—starred, Kirkus Reviews
A Mess of Iguanas, A Whoop of Gorillas ...
| Author | : Alon Shulman |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2009-10-01 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 0141959312 |
There are many wonderful creatures on earth - and even more incredible ways to describe them. With more collective nouns for animal groups than anyone else in the world, from a Business of Ferrets to a Wobble of Ostriches (not forgetting, of course, an Implausibility of Gnus) Alon Shulman's A Mess of Iguanas, A Whoop of Gorillas will tell you what to call a group of zebras, chickens, parrots, spiders, tigers or penguins the next time you encounter one - and will even let you know the difference between a school and a shoal of fish. Not to mention why groups of swans are known as a lamentation, a bank and a wedge. It will also tell you the most outlandish, strange yet completely accurate animal facts you can imagine. For example, did you know that polar bears are invisible to infra-red because they have transparent fur? Or that hippopotamus can't swim? Or that ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand? Filled with everything you could ever want to know about the creatures that inhabit our world, this brilliant compendium of animal curiosities is perfect for pub quizzers, language buffs, wannabe know-it-alls and any readers aged, well ... 8 to 80.
Flappers
| Author | : Judith Mackrell |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 576 |
| Release | : 2013-05-23 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0230771688 |
For many young women, the 1920s felt like a promise of liberty. It was a period when they dared to shorten their skirts and shingle their hair, to smoke, drink, take drugs and to claim sexual freedoms. In an era of soaring stock markets, consumer expansion, urbanization and fast travel, women were reimagining both the small detail and the large ambitions of their lives. In Flappers, acclaimed biographer Judith Mackrell follows a group of six women - Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka - who, between them, exemplified the range and daring of that generation's spirit. For them, the pursuit of experience was not just about dancing the Charleston and wearing fashionable clothes. They made themselves prominent among the artists, icons, and heroines of their age, pursuing experience in ways that their mothers could never have imagined, seeking to define what it was to be young and a woman in an age where the smashing of old certainties had thrown the world wide open. Talented, reckless and wilful, with personalities that transcended their class and background, they re-wrote their destinies in remarkable, entertaining and sometimes tragic ways. And between them they blazed the trail of the New Woman around the world.
A Barrel of Monkeys
| Author | : Samuel Fanous |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781851244454 |
We're all familiar with 'a flock of sheep' but what are the collective nouns for racehorses, pigs, zebras or giraffes? Drawing on a range of sources, from fifteenth-century hunting terms to more recent inventions that have now entered the language, this book collects over 100 examples of the most interesting collective nouns for animals, each illustrated with charming woodcuts by the renowned naturalist engraver of the eighteenth century, Thomas Bewick.Some describe a key characteristic of the animal in question: 'a shrewdness of apes', 'a busyness of ferrets'. Others are delightfully humorous: 'a piddle of puppies', 'a crash of rhinoceroses'.Featuring pets, farmyard animals, big cats and wild beasts, this beautifully presented book is the perfect gift for animal lovers and all those with an interest in this quirky linguistic tradition.
Seymour the Naughty Goat
| Author | : Susan Stoltz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 50 |
| Release | : 2015-04-10 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780692427040 |
Seymour lives in a zoo and gets into lots of trouble each and every day. He does naughty things that make his goat friends and zoo visitors angry. But even though Seymour is naughty the goats and people still love him very much.
The Threat on the Horizon
| Author | : Loch K. Johnson |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 550 |
| Release | : 2011-02-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0199792437 |
The Aspin-Brown Commission of 1995-1996, led by former U.S. Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and Harold Brown, was a landmark inquiry into the activities of America's secret agencies. The purpose of the commission was to help the Central Intelligence Agency and other organizations in the U.S. intelligence community adapt to the quite different world that had emerged after the end of the Cold War in 1991. In The Threat on the Horizon, eminent national security scholar Loch K. Johnson, who served as Aspin's assistant, offers a comprehensive insider's account of this inquiry. Based on a close sifting of government documents and media reports, interviews with participants, and, above all, his own eyewitness impressions, Johnson's thorough history offers a unique window onto why the terrorist attacks of 2001 caught the United States by surprise and why the intelligence community failed again in 2002 when it predicted that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. It will be the first published account by an insider of a presidential commission on intelligence--a companion volume to Johnson's acclaimed study of the Church Committee investigation into intelligence in 1975 (A Season of Inquiry). This examination of the Aspin-Brown Commission is an invaluable source for anyone interested in the how the intelligence agencies of the world's most powerful nation struggled to confront new global threats that followed the collapse of the Soviet empire, and why Washington, D.C. was unprepared for the calamities that would soon arise.
