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A heart-warming story about a little koala bear that was afraid to go to sleep on his own for fear of waking up alone. This book, by first time author Lee Phethean, was written as a way to characterise why his own little boy wouldn't go to sleep without being comforted by his parents during those first few months. The first in a beautiful series of books, exploring everyday baby and toddler issues and bringing them to life in rhyming children's picture books that both adults and children will enjoy reading. Colourful, contrasting illustrations bring The Koala That Couldn't Sleep to life, offering perfect bedtime reading material and a fun way to talk about sleeping habits with your own special, little koala.
A beautiful rhyming story about a little kangaroo that became too dependant on being carried around in his mum's pouch.The second book in this series, by Australian based author Lee Phethean, is yet another story of everyday events that his own children have experienced as they grow up from babies to toddlers.A follow up to his first book, "The Koala That Couldn't Sleep", Lee explores common baby and toddler milestone and issues and brings them to life in rhyming children's picture books that both adults and children will enjoy reading.Colourful, contrasting illustrations bring The Kangaroo That Couldn't Jump to life, offering perfect bedtime reading material and a fun way to talk about crawling, walking or jumping with your own special, little kangaroo.
A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the soundtrack to the American Century They stand at the apex of the great age of songwriting, the creators of the classic Broadway musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music, whose songs have never lost their popularity or emotional power. Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play. Their songs and dance numbers served to advance the drama and reveal character, a sharp break from the past and the template on which all fut...
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Everyone knows that what koalas do best is sleep, but young Clive can’t help feeling different. He hardly ever wants to sleep! He’s itchy and twitchy, and sleeping on branches is a dangerous game when you just can’t stop moving! Maybe he was mixed up at birth and is really a monkey! Maybe he's an elephant? Or something much, much bigger . . . One day, somewhere between sleep and wild imagination, Clive wonders what adventures he might have if only he were a different kind of animal . . . and soon discovers that being himself is not so bad after all!
Social machines are a type of network connected by interactive digital devices made possible by the ubiquitous adoption of technologies such as the Internet, the smartphone, social media and the read/write World Wide Web, connecting people at scale to document situations, cooperate on tasks, exchange information, or even simply to play. Existing social processes may be scaled up, and new social processes enabled, to solve problems, augment reality, create new sources of value, and disrupt existing practice. This book considers what talents one would need to understand or build a social machine, describes the state of the art, and speculates on the future, from the perspective of the EPSRC pr...