Patrick Ryan

Readers are introduced to the basic geography, topography, history, people, culture, climate, and industries of the Republic of Kenya. Children hear the names of distant lands on the evening news, but what are those places really like? How do their people live? What languages do they speak? What do they do for fun? Our Welcome to the World series gives young readers a simple, informative look at countries they hear about every day. With vivid photos,...

One of the strangest (and funniest) love triangles ever to hit YA fiction, when a pair of twins (one boy, one girl) both fall for the boy who moves in with them... who may or may not be a vampire. Judy and Kyle Renneker are sixteen-year-old fraternal twins in a rambling family of nine. They have a prickly history with each other and are, at least from Judy's perspective, constantly in fierce competition. Kyle has recently come out of the closet to...

Readers are introduced to the basic geography, topography, history, people, culture, climate, and industries of the Republic of Korea. Children hear the names of distant lands on the evening news, but what are those places really like? How do their people live? What languages do they speak? What do they do for fun? Our Welcome to the World series gives young readers a simple, informative look at countries they hear about every day. With vivid photos,...

Readers are introduced to the basic geography, topography, history, people, culture, climate, and industries of the People's Republic of China. Children hear the names of distant lands on the evening news, but what are those places really like? How do their people live? What languages do they speak? What do they do for fun? Our Welcome to the World series gives young readers a simple, informative look at countries they hear about every day. With vivid...

Brief and simple overview of the country of Greece, it's flora, fauna, landscape, history, and people. Offer a child a ticket to explore a new world! Each title covers one fascinating nation and vividly portrays its key features--from rugged mountains to tropical beaches, from ancient ruins to bustling streets. Students take a private journey with full-color photo essays, plentiful maps, a native-language word list, and fascinating details about each...

Readers are introduced to the basic geography, topography, history, people, culture, climate, and industries of the Republic of Indonesia. Children hear the names of distant lands on the evening news, but what are those places really like? How do their people live? What languages do they speak? What do they do for fun? Our Welcome to the World series gives young readers a simple, informative look at countries they hear about every day. With vivid...

Preservation and Protest proposes a novel taxonomy of four paradigms of nonhuman theological ethics by exploring the intersection of tensions between value terms and teleological terms. These tensions arise out of the theological loci of cosmology, anthropology, and eschatology. The individual paradigms of the taxonomy are critically, elucidated through the work of Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Berry, Dumitru Stăniloae, and Jürgen Moltmann and Andrew Linzey....

"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Arizona"--Provided by publisher.

A fairly unique work incorporating thousands of trips to known hotspots and the experience gathered by a seasoned, well respected researcher. Shapeshifter territory will surely be in a class all it's own.