Tomo Takes Flight

Tomo Takes Flight
Author: Trevor Lai
Publisher: Imprint
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250194628

In this sequel to Tomo Explores the World, the friends learn that sometimes it takes a perseverance and observation to truly soar. Best friends Tomo and Maya discover a drawing of a magnificent Flying Machine in their adventure journal. With engineering know-how and determination, Tomo decides to build it himself and explore the skies! But no matter how many times he tries, the machine just won’t work...until they spot a rare bird whose nest has fallen. By studying the bird’s wings, Tomo and Maya know just what they need to take flight! Once aloft, Tomo is able to help the bird find a new perch for its nest. Perfect for young makers and animal lovers, Tomo Takes Flight is a fun and inspiring story that emphasizes creativity and imagination to achieve your goals. An Imprint Book Praise for Tomo Takes Flight: "Homing in on the delight of discovery, Lai's second Tomo book encourages readers to get creative when solving problems." —Kirkus Reviews Praise for Tomo Explores the World: “Sure to spark wonder and imagination in young readers...will likely be a hit with young innovators and explorers.” —School Library Journal

Metal Biology Takes Flight: The Study of Metal Homeostasis and Detoxification in Insects

Metal Biology Takes Flight: The Study of Metal Homeostasis and Detoxification in Insects
Author: Stephanie E. Mohr
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2018-08-22
Genre:
ISBN: 2889455564

Metals such as copper, iron, manganese, and zinc are clearly required for proper metabolism and development, while imbalances can lead to systemic dysfunction and disease. As a result, organisms have evolved complex genetic systems for the regulation of metal levels, including import, export, and sequestration of metals within cells and sub-cellular compartments. The study of metal biology in insects has the potential to greatly expand our understanding of metal biology. The results of such studies might point to new possible therapeutic interventions for neurological and other human diseases, as well as new strategies for insect disease vector control. The articles collected in this Research Topic comprise review and original research on metal biology in insects.

Tales From The Wild Blue Yonder *TAKING MEXICO FLYING*

Tales From The Wild Blue Yonder *TAKING MEXICO FLYING*
Author: John Quinn Olson
Publisher: Dust Devil Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2009-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0982070349

Welcome to the adventures and misadventures from a quarter century of hang gliding and travel. Huck yourself off cliffs, soar into the Wild Blue, and land where no human has landed before, all from the comfort and safety of your easy chair. Visit exotic lands and foreign skies, experience the thrill of foot-launched human flight and never even risk your neck. Come along with a wild cast of characters, who fly like their lives depend upon it. Realize mankind's most ancient dream, FLY WITH THE BIRDS!

Year of the Demon

Year of the Demon
Author: Steve Bein
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101626453

Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro has been promoted to Japan’s elite Narcotics unit—and with this promotion comes a new partner, a new case, and new danger. The underboss of a powerful yakuza crime syndicate has put a price on her head, and he’ll lift the bounty only if she retrieves an ancient iron demon mask that was stolen from him in a daring raid. However, Mariko has no idea of the tumultuous past carried within the mask—or of its deadly link with the famed Inazuma blade she wields. The secret of this mask originated hundreds of years before Mariko was born, and over time the mask’s power has evolved to bend its owner toward destruction, stopping at nothing to obtain Inazuma steel. Mariko’s fallen sensei knew much of the mask’s hypnotic power and of its mysterious link to a murderous cult. Now Mariko must use his notes to find the mask before the cult can bring Tokyo to its knees—and before the underboss decides her time is up....

Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes

Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes
Author: Donald G. Frantz
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1487514514

The Blackfoot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken by thousands in Alberta and Montana. This third edition of the critically acclaimed dictionary adds more than 1,100 new entries, major additions to verb stems, and the inclusion of vai, vii, vta, and viti syntactic categories. It contains more than 5,500 Blackfoot-English entries and an English index of more than 6,000 entries, and provides thorough coverage of cultural terms. The transcription uses an official, technically accurate alphabet and the authors have classified entries and selected examples based on more than 46 years of research.

Japan

Japan
Author: Johannes Justus Rein
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1884
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN:

Japan

Japan
Author: J. J. Rein
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1998
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: 9780700710164

First published in 1884, this remains a compelling and authoritative overview of Japan at the turn of the century. Encompassing physical geography, flora and fauna, history, social conditions, ethnography, and topography, many of the observations in this classic study hold true in modern Japan.

Flight

Flight
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 928
Release: 1937
Genre: Aeronautics
ISBN:

A Laboratory of Her Own

A Laboratory of Her Own
Author: Victoria L. Ketz
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2021-01-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0826501303

A Laboratory of Her Own gathers diverse voices to address women's interaction with STEM fields in the context of Spanish cultural production. This volume focuses on the many ways the arts and humanities provide avenues for deepening the conversation about how women have been involved in, excluded from, and represented within the scientific realm. While women's historic exclusion from STEM fields has been receiving increased scrutiny worldwide, women within the Spanish context have been perhaps even more peripheral given the complex sociocultural structures emanating from gender norms and political ideologies dominant in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain. Nonetheless, Spanish female cultural producers have long been engaged with science and technology, as expressed in literature, art, film, and other genres. Spanish arts and letters offer diverse representations of the relationships between women, gender, sexuality, race, and STEM fields. A Laboratory of Her Own studies representations of a diverse range of Spanish women and scientific cultural products from the late nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. STEM topics include the environment, biodiversity, temporal and spatial theories, medicine and reproductive rights, neuroscience, robotics, artificial intelligence, and quantum physics. These scientific themes and other issues are analyzed in narratives, paintings, poetry, photographs, science fiction, medical literature, translation, newswriting, film, and other forms.