The amount of information that is online & potentially relevant to learners is enormous. Finding, selecting & judging relevant online content are important competencies in a world where lifelong learning is becoming a must. This book highlights the economic, cultural & language filtering of online content. ...

In the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by love, greed & revenge. They will see prosperity & famine, plague & war. & they will live under the shadow of the unexplained killing they had witnessed. ...

On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius & a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest, they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed & revenge. ...

Issues a call to action to kids ages 10 & up, by outlining what will happen within the next fifty years if the ill effects of over-fishing, pollution, & climate change aren't addressed soon. The author gives a step-by-step account of what would happen if fish became extinct
- & then outlines a plan for remedying the situation.
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Action heist movie, set on a train, in which two sets of thieves do battle over the life savings of a passenger. Fresh from their latest scam, con artist couple Wang Bo (Andy Lau) & Wang Li (Rene Liu) catch a train to make good their escape. Befriending naive village boy Sha Gen (Baoqiang Wang), Wang Bo decides to steal the life savings he's carrying, much to the disgust of his pregnant partner who decides to protect the boy instead. But when a group of thieves led by Hu Li (Ge You) boards the train, a contest quickly develops between the two rival camps for Sha Gen's cash, all the while watched over by local undercover police biding their time. ...

In every domain of reasoning humans deploy an wide range of intuitive 'theories' about how the world works. So are we alone in trying to make sense of the world by postulating theoretical entities to explain how the world works, or do we share this ability with other species. This is the focus of this new book from Daniel Povinelli ...