The Day the animals talked scripts and poems for reading aloud

Animals of the Past by Lucas, Frederic A.

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A field guide to venomous animals and poisonous plants of North America by Foster, Steven

The Nine Lives of A Cat: A Tale of Wonder by Bennett, Charles H., 1829-1867 (Charles Henry)

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The Fox and the Geese; and The Wonderful History of Henny-Penny

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Vice in its Proper Shape Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition.

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Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. by Holberg, Ludvig, 1684-1754

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Political order and political decay from the Industrial Revolution to the globalization of democracy by Fukuyama, Francis

Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902

Subjects: “…Curiosities and wonders -- Juvenile literature…”
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Neoliberalism and the law in post communist transition the evolving role of law in Russia's transition to capitalism by Glinavos, Ioannis

ActionScript 3.0 bible by Braunstein, Roger, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Part 5: Working With Error Handling -- 19: Understanding errors -- Comparing ways to fail -- Understanding exceptions -- Catching errors generated by Flash -- Custom exceptions -- Handling asynchronous errors -- Summary -- 20: Using the AVM2 debugger -- Introducing debugging -- Launching the debugger -- Taking control of execution -- Pulling back the curtain -- Navigating through code -- Debugging a simple example -- Using the debugger effectively -- Summary -- 21: Making your application fault-tolerant -- Developing a strategy -- Determining what errors to handle -- Categorizing failures -- Logging errors -- Messaging the user -- Degrading styles: an example -- Summary -- Part 6: Working With External Data -- 22: Understanding networking basics -- URL request -- Using the loader -- Summary -- 23: Communicating with server-side technologies -- Communicating via URLLoader -- Flash remoting -- Summary -- 24: Saving data to a local machine using SharedObject -- Comparing approaches to persistent storage -- Identifying useful situations for shared objects -- Using SharedObjects -- Sharing information between SWFs -- Working with size constraints -- Storing custom classes -- Using serialization concepts for remoting -- Summary -- 25: Managing file uploads and downloads -- Introducing FileReference -- Uploading files -- Downloading a file -- Summary -- Part 7: Enriching Your Program With Sound And Video -- 26: Working with sound -- Creating a sound object -- Controlling playback of a sound -- Applying sound transformations -- Working with a sound's metadata -- Calculating spectrum data -- Detecting audio capabilities -- Summary -- 27: Adding video -- Working with Flash video files -- Loading FLV files into a Flash movie -- Building an FLV application -- Summary -- 28: Accessing microphones and cameras -- Introducing the camera -- Introducing the microphone -- Summary -- Part 8: Programming Graphics And Motion -- 29: Applying filters to your graphics -- Introducing filters -- Applying filters -- Adding more than one filter -- Rotating objects with filters -- Summary -- 30: Drawing vector graphics programmatically -- Lines and LineStyles -- Creating shapes -- Making a drawing application -- Summary -- 31: Scripting animation -- Animating with pure ActionScript -- Animating using Flash -- Animating using Flex -- Choosing a third-party animation toolkit -- Summary -- 32: Applying transformations to graphics -- Working with matrix transforms -- Working with color transforms -- Summary -- 33: Drawing bitmap graphics programmatically -- Creating a BitmapData object -- Applying color transformations -- Applying fills -- Detecting areas by color -- Applying effects -- Making noise -- Applying filters -- Summary -- Part 9: Working With Binary Data -- 34: Working with binary data -- Creating a byte array -- Writing to a byte array -- Reading from a byte array -- Common uses of byte arrays -- Summary -- Part 10: Deploying Your Program -- 35: Deploying Flash on the Web -- Embedding Flash in a page -- Embedding Flash using SWFObject -- Enabling Flash player options -- Passing variables to a SWF -- Automatically upgrading Flash Player -- Summary -- 36: Interfacing with JavaScript -- Communicating between JavaScript and Flash -- Summary -- 37: Using local connections to communicate between Flash applications -- Creating a sending application -- Creating a receiving application -- Sending and receiving across domains -- Summary -- Index.…”

Reader's Digest book of amazing facts a children's guide to the world

Improbable libraries a visual journey to the world's most unusual libraries by Johnson, Alex 1969-

Fantastic beasts. the original screenplay

Discourses: Biological and Geological Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895

“…"Challenger" (1875) -- Yeast (1871) -- On the formation of coal (1870) -- On the border territory between the animal and the…”
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Healing drugs the history of pharmacology by Facklam, Margery

Table of Contents: “…Simples and leeches: Drugs from plants -- Drugs from the animal kingdom -- Plants of joy and sorrow: Morphine -- Codeine -- Heroin -- Cocaine -- Bilious pills and humbub oil: Patent medicines -- Move toward science -- First laws to regulate drugs -- Magic bullet: Cure for syphilis -- Sulfa drugs: First sulfa drug -- Deadly sulfa drug -- Penicillin, the wonder drug: Discovery -- Wonder drug -- First tests on sick people -- American team -- Mail-in mold: Chloromycetin -- Aureomycin -- Streptomycin -- Terramycin -- Cyclosporine -- Banting's summer project -- Success with extract X -- More insulin -- Recombinant DNA for new drugs -- Human growth hormone -- Vaccines and viruses: First vaccinations -- Rabies vaccine -- Viruses -- Polio -- Salk's vaccine -- Sabin's vaccine -- Starting from scratch: Screening for drugs -- Animal testing -- Transgenic mice -- Computer-designed drugs -- Who says it's safe: FDA standards -- Human trials -- No-name drugs -- Orphan drugs -- Back to the future: Cancer drug in the forest -- Ancient medicine made new -- Return of diseases -- Glossary -- Further reading -- Index.…”

Practical PC by Parsons, June Jamrich, Oja, Dan

Table of Contents: “…Organizing Files and Folders. 6. Protecting Files -- PART III: THE INTERNET, THE WEB, AND E-MAIL. 7. …”

THE SURVIVAL HANDBOOK ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR OUTDOOR ADVENTURE by Towell, Colin

Computational and cognitive approaches to narratology

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 5: Applying Digital Storytelling to Business PlanningChapter 6: Can Computers Create Comics and Animations?; Section 3: Language and Narrative; Chapter 7: Thesaurus with Predicate-Argument Structure to Provide Base Framework to Determine States, Actions, and Change-of-States; Chapter 8: The Word Order Flexibility in Japanese Novels; Chapter 9: The Employment Status and Support Needs of Persons with Disabilities in Japan; Chapter 10: Quantitative Research into Narrative; Section 4: Cognition, Culture, and Narrative. …”

Casarett & Doull's essentials of toxicology

Table of Contents: “…Mauro ; Toxic responses of the reproductive system / Paul M.D. Foster and L. Earl Gray, Jr. ; Toxic responses of the endocrine system / Charles C. …”