Roald Dahl's Beastly Brutes and Heroic Human Beans

Roald Dahl's Beastly Brutes and Heroic Human Beans
Author: Stella Caldwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781783124817

The fantastic characters from Roald Dahl's books are presented in an entirely new way. Die-cut pages allow you to flip through the colourful book, pressing out the shapes and peeking through to the treats that lie ahead, to create a parade of heroes and villains, from tyrannical monsters to big friendly giants!

The BFG (Colour Edition)

The BFG (Colour Edition)
Author: Roald Dahl
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0141378573

'Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.' On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and glugs frobscottle. But there are other giants in Giant Country. Fifty foot brutes who gallop far and wide every night to find human beans to eat. Can Sophie and her friend the BFG stop them?

Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders

Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders
Author: John Marshall
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2008
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0615213553

In 2006 Fast-uk and folly partnered to present the exhibition, 'Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders'. This exhibition explored the possibilities afforded to artists, architects, designers, and others for the creation of new types of objects and spaces through the use of digital technologies for conception, design and fabrication.

Language and Control in Children's Literature

Language and Control in Children's Literature
Author: Murray Knowles
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1134884346

This study examines the work of children's writers from the 19th and 20th centuries in order to expose the persuasive power of language. Looking at the work of 19th century English writers of juvenile fiction, Knowles and Malmkjaer expose the colonial and class assumptions on which the books were predicated. In the modern teen novel and the work of Roald Dahl the authors find contemporary attempts to control children within socially established frameworks. Other authors discussed include, Oscar Wilde, E. Nesbit, Lewis Carroll and C.S. Lewis.

Rethinking Eros

Rethinking Eros
Author: Brian Carmany
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452092885

Rethinking Eros uses modern popular culture to examine sex, bodies, and gender in the ancient world in all their complexities.

The Human Use Of Human Beings

The Human Use Of Human Beings
Author: Norbert Wiener
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1988-03-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0306803208

Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system—Wiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting. He hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery in order to achieve more creative pursuits. At the same time he realized the danger of dehumanizing and displacement. His book examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as he anticipates the enormous impact—in effect, a third industrial revolution—that the computer has had on our lives.

Open Minds to Equality

Open Minds to Equality
Author: Nancy Schniedewind
Publisher: Rethinking Schools
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0942961323

An educator's sourcebook of activities to help students understand and change inequalities based on race, gender, class, age, language, sexual orientation, physical/mental ability, and religion. The activities also promote respect for diversity and interpersonal equality among students, fostering a classroom that is participatory, cooperative, and democratic. Learning activities are sequencedto build awareness and understanding. First, students develop skills for building trust, communication, and collaboration. Second, they learn to recognize stereotypes and discrimination and explore their presence in people's lives and in institutions. Finally, students create changes, gaining self-confidence and experiencing collective responsibility. This book is an essential resource for teachers, leaders in professional development, and curriculum specialists.

The Way of the Human Being

The Way of the Human Being
Author: Calvin Martin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300085525

In this volume, Calvin Luther Martin proposes that the Europeans learned what they wished to learn from the native Americans, not what the Americans actually meant. Drawing on his own experience with native people and on their stories, he offers the reader a different conceptual landscape.