This series shows pupils the importance of weather to everyone's lives, how they can measure weather conditions themselves and how to read the weather data in newspapers and on television. It covers measuring equipment, wider weather patterns, how professionals use data and ICT, and project ideas.

Measuring the Weather: Temperature (Measuring the Weather)

Science & Math

Rodgers, Alan

Streluk, Angella

Earth Sciences

Heinemann Educational Books - Library Division

Measuring the Weather: Wind and Air Pressure (Measuring the Weather)

Measuring the Weather: Rain and Snow (Measuring the Weather)

Environment

Measuring the Weather: Forecasting the Weather (Measuring the Weather)

Rain and Snow (Measuring the Weather)

HEINEMANN LIBRARY+

This book shows readers the importance of weather in everybody's lives, how they can measure conditions for themselves, and how to read weather data in newspapers and on the television.It introduces measuring equipment, how it is used and who uses the data. It covers the relationships between particular weather conditions and wider weather patterns, using examples from around the world. It looks at how professionals use weather data to predict local and national weather and climate change, as well as the use of ICT in measuring the weather.

Temperature (Measuring the Weather)

Considered by many scholars the finest extant Mexican codex and one of the most important original sources for the study of pre-Columbian religion, the Codex Borgia is a work of profound beauty, filled with strange and evocative images related to calendrical, cosmological, ritual, and divinatory matters. Generally similar to such Mixtec manuscripts as the Codex Nuttall, the Codex Borgia is thought to have its origin (ca. A.D. 1400) in the southern central highlands of Mexico, perhaps in Puebla or Oaxaca. It is most probably a religious document that once belonged to a temple or sacred shrine. One use of the Codex many have been to divine the future, for it includes ritual 260 day calendars, material on aspects of the planet Venus, and a sort of numerological prognostic of the lives of wedded couples. Another section concerns various regions of the world and the supernatural characters and attributes of those regions. Also described are the characteristics of a number of deities, while still other passages relate to installation ceremonies of rulers in pre-Columbian kingdoms. Until the publication of this Dover edition, the Codex Borgia has been largely inaccessible to the general public. The priceless original is in the Vatican Library and previous photographic facsimiles are very rare or very expensive or both. Moreover, the original Codex has been damaged over the centuries, resulting in the obscuration and loss of many images. In order to recapture the beauty and grandeur of the original, Gisele Diaz and Alan Rodgers have painstakingly restored the Codex by hand— a seven-year project — employing the most scrupulous research and restoration techniques. The result is 76 large full-color plates of vibrant, striking depictions of gods, kings, warriors, mythical creatures, and mysterious abstract designs — a vivid panorama that offers profound insights into pre-Columbian Mexican myth and ritual. Now students, anthropologists, lovers of fine art and rare books — anyone interested in the art and culture of ancient Mexico — can study the Codex Borgia in this inexpensive, accurate, well-made edition. An informative introduction by noted anthropologist Bruce E. Byland places the Codex in its historical context and helps elucidate its meaning and significance.

The Codex Borgia: A Full-Color Restoration of the Ancient Mexican Manuscript (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)

Arts & Photography

Díaz, Gisele

History & Criticism

Dover Publications

Blood of the Children

When Ben Tompkins moves to Green Hill with Jimmy, his son, he unknowningly enters a web of evil, as a local cult of children practice their secret magical rites

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Bantam]

In the wake of a devastating nuclear conflagration, a small group of men and women journeys to the heartland of America and becomes caught up in the ultimate confrontation between the powers of good and evil

Fire

When his grandfather dies, Tim Fischer inherits a bizarre item--the True Cross upon which Christ was crucified--and finds himself haunted by the Bleeding Man, the first steward of the Cross two thousand years before

Night

Spectra

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