Peter Riley

Strandings

The Real Scientist: Investigates Space - Us Distribution

Sea-To-Sea

A Photographic Collection Showing How Warrington, Lymm, Stockton Heath, Latchford, Culcheth, Winwick and Lowton Have Changed Over the Years

Warrington Then and Now

Dawn Songs consists of three essays on music. A short one on Derek Bailey as heard in 1970; a moderate-size one on surviving west gallery choral pieces performed in pubs of the Sheffield Moorlands area at Christmas, called 'Mass Lyric'; and 'Dawn Songs' itself, which concerns a lamentational genre of Transylvanian village music and forms the bulk of the book. So if ever there was a book discussing musical practices which very few people outside the area know about or want to, this is it.

Dawn Songs

Poetry. Chapbook. British poet Peter Riley produces long, intense lyrics fuming with flavor and insight. His penchant for remote rhyme aligns him with the Russian masters, but his deft wordplay aligns him with the postmoderns. American audiences beware.

(a Cul-de-sac Off Excavations)

Aria with Small Lights

Forces and How They Move Things

Heave!

Kid Soldiers is about a boy called Clive Flynn, aged 10. He spends most of his childhood in an army environment, where he lives with his twin sister, Cassey Flynn, his mum (housewife) and his dad, who is serving in the British Army. Clive, often in the book, forgets some simple rules and has to learn when to keep his mouth shut or pay the price! He has an obsession with army stuff, from playing with toy soldiers, to actually playing real-life armies with his friends using toy guns and imaginary hand grenades in the form of pinecones that are found in the woods. This book has its funny side, plenty of family dramas and everyday life stuff. So get ready for adventures and real dramas, sit back and let the fun begin!

Kid Soldiers: Toy Guns and Victory

'Wild and wonderful ... I doubt anyone will ever match Strandings for its sheer bravura, its wry insight, and its absolute, engulfing, and brilliantly enlivening whaleheadedness' PHILIP HOARE, ALBERT AND THE WHALE 'Addictive and scandalously fascinating' Caught by the River When Peter Riley was thirteen, a woman with blue hair and a comet tattoo asked him to help load the jaw of a sperm whale into the back of a Volvo 245. The encounter set Riley on a decades-long quest to make sense of what had happened. Enter the secretive world of whale scavengers. When a whale washes up on one of Britain's coasts, a fugitive community descends to claim trophies from the carcass. Some are driven by magical beliefs. Some are motivated by profit: there is a black market for everything from ambergris to whaletooth sex toys. But for others, the need goes much deeper. Join Riley on a tour of a stranded kingdom's weird outer reaches, where nothing is as it seems. Meet witches, pedlars, fetishists, conspiracy theorists and fallen aristocrats. And prepare for a final revelation, as the mystery of the comet woman tangles with the enigmatic symbol of Leviathan itself, beached on Britain's fatal shore.

Confessions of a Whale Scavenger

Due North

This volume is about the type of work that poets perform and why it matters. Challenging the divide between inspired poetic production and other apparently lesser and contingent forms of labor, this book considers the poetry of Walt Whitman the real estate dealer, Herman Melville the customs inspector, and Hart Crane the copywriter.

Against Vocation

Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry

100 Facts Planet Earth book for kids is bursting with awesome images, great activities and exactly 100 mind-blowing facts. Children will learn everything they need to know about our wonderful planet. 100 Facts Planet Earth book for kids covers key topics about our world in easily-digestible, numbered facts. Every page features detailed illustrations and colourful photographs that bring the text to life for kids. Essential topics covered in 100 Facts Planet Earth: Where Earth came from and where it is in space The layers of Earth, precious materials and preserving the planet Natural events, spectacular scenery and what we can learn about the evolution of Earth Examples of 'I don't believe it' fascinating facts: Some fossils of bacteria are 3.5 billion years old. The longest stalactite is 59 metres long. The tallest stalagmite is 32 metres tall. By the middle of the 21th century, 3050 percent of all living species may be extinct. Activities to make learning accessible and interactive include: Make salt crystals using table salt, a magnifying glass and a dark-coloured bowl! Recreate a geyser eruption using a bucket, plastic funnel and plastic tubing Quiz question: What shape is a barchan sand dune? Author: Peter Riley Consultant: Clive Carpenter Pages: 48 Age: 7+ Dimensions: 9 X 12 Format: Paperback with holographic foil ISBN: 9781782091950

Planet Earth

A brand new series for primary teachers that provides a full guide to teaching a primary curriculum area, especially for non-specialists. This book is closely tied to the new curriculum, with extracts from the curriculum itself and lesson plans and teaching ideas for every area. This book will equip non-specialists to confidently deliver engaging and well-informed lessons, that account for the changes in the National Curriculum. This is a very practical and easy to apply programme for teaching Science either in your own classroom, or to implement across the school in the role of a co-ordinator.

Bloomsbury Curriculum Basics: Teaching Primary Science

Helen Lewis

"Cover"--"Book title"--"Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Being a scientist" -- "What does a scientist do?" -- "How to do a fair test" -- "Biology" -- "Unit 1 Humans and animals" -- "Unit 2 Food chains" -- "Unit 3 Caring for the environment" -- "Practice test 1: Biology" -- "Chemistry" -- "Unit 4 Material changes" -- "Practice test 2: Chemistry" -- "Physics" -- "Unit 5 Forces and motion" -- "Unit 6 Electricity" -- "Practice test 3: Physics" -- "Glossary" -- "Scientific dictionary" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V

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