<h2>Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level</h2> During the First World War, the British War Dog School was set up. Find out how it trained dogs to carry messages along the trenches, helping the war effort and saving lives. <ul> <li>Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.</li> <li>Text type - An information book.</li> <li>The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.</li> <li>The glossary and index can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.</li> <li>Curriculum links - History</li> </ul>

Collins Big Cat – War School for Dogs: Band 16/Sapphire

Children's Books

Long, David

History

Collins

The PDSA Dickin Medal—regarded as the animals’ Victoria Cross—has been awarded to just 64 animals, from the Blitz to present day, for their courage in times of crisis. Among these incredible true-life stories you will meet G.I. Joe the plucky pigeon, who rescued over 100 lives by flying twenty miles in twenty minutes to deliver a message in World War II; Theo the steadfast springer spaniel, who served as a bomb-detection dog in Afghanistan; Rip the trusty mongrel, who saved many victims of the Blitz air-raids; and Olga the courageous police horse, who bolted from the path of a flying bomb in World War II, only to return to the scene and remain on duty. These heartwarming tales of gallantry and devotion will stay with you long after you turn the pages.

Animal Heroes: Inspiring True Stories of Courageous Animals

Reference

Arrow

Now in its third edition, this outstanding collection from leading scholars offers a rich, in-depth study of contemporary issues facing Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Exploring the sources of oppression, this text offers a critical examination of the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and other Canadians throughout the nation's history and up to the present day. Maintaining the same optimistic, forward-looking approach from previous editions, this proven text invites students to reflect on the ways in which Aboriginal people can continue to realize their spiritual and material aspirations. Thoroughly revised and updated, Visions of the Heart, third edition, is essential reading for understanding Aboriginal issues in Canada.

Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Dickason, Olive Patricia

Psychology & Counseling

Oxford University Press

Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Aboriginal Peoples in Canada is a contributed volume that offers a rich, in-depth study of contemporary issues facing Aboriginal peoples in Canada. This collection brings together leading Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars from across the country and explores the relationship between First Nations, Metis, and Inuit and other Canadians throughout the country's history to present day. The fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect the current state of Canadian Aboriginal peoples today. It includes five new essays covering the environment, art, identity, gender, and criminal justice, making it an indispensable text for understanding Aboriginal issues in Canada.

Visions of the Heart: Issues Involving Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

Americas

Specatcular, clean and bright like new 1982 hardcover in illustrated jacket which also rates fine condition.

Home Fires: Stories (ISF)

Literature & Fiction

United States

University of Illinois Press

HOME FIRES: Stories (ISF)

Short Stories & Anthologies

A respected writer of naval history, Long is most qualified to write this first biography of Mad Jack, an unusual and controversial figure in the early days of the U.S. Navy. Using family accounts and primary materials, Long recounts the 40-year naval career of this maverick naval officer and in doing so gives the low-down on how the Navy worked in its nascent years. Anyone interested in eighteenth and nineteenth century military history will find this engrossing reading.This popularly written but scholarly study covers the unusual Navy captain, whose career spanned the globe. Long provides a chronological account of Captain Percival's early years; his command during the War of 1812; his administrative duties at the Boston Navy Yard; his trips to the Pacific; mutinies; an incident with missionaries in Hawaii and the subsequent trial; cruises to the Caribbean; South America; and the Mediterranean; a trek around the world in the mid-1840s; his retirement; and his final years. Extensive notes and a bibliographical essay guide the reader to other important sources for those studying the period. Numerous maps are also provided.

"Mad Jack": The Biography of Captain John Percival, USN, 1779-1862 (Contributions in Military Studies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Praeger

An alternative journey around England, visiting the sights that are definitely not on the average tourist trail. In this charming book, David Long introduces the reader to some of the oddest and most interesting sights in England, such as: â [ Devon's Gnome Reserve â [ Britain's smallest pub â [ A church for dragon slayers â [ A subterranean ballroom â [ The Phone Box Museum, and much more From weird buildings to eccentric museums and from mystical superstitions to remnants of magical rites, this is a guide to England like no other.

Bizarre England: Discover the Country's Secrets and Surprises (16pt Large Print Edition)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

ReadHowYouWant

Set in a small town in Montana, a novel charts the inner life of construction worker Mark Singer as he weds serious Olivia, one of the four Satavros sisters, and then falls in love with one of her sisters

The Falling Boy: A Novel

Plume

J. A. Hobson was an important liberal writer on international relations, most famous for his theory of imperialism. In the first comprehensive analysis of Hobson's writings on international relations David Long examines the philosophical outlook and political economy that inform Hobson's thinking. Setting out the sources of and contradictions within Hobson's proposals for international government, this book is a contribution not only to the study of international relations, but also to the history of political thought and British liberalism.

Towards a New Liberal Internationalism: The International Theory of J. A. Hobson (LSE Monographs in International Studies)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Cambridge University Press

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