Most Popular Books by Peter STEVENSON

Stori afaelgar am ferch fach sy''n byw yng nghanol tylwyth teg a chreaduriaid rhyfeddol ond sydd ddim yn gallu eu gweld. Aiff i chwilio amdanynt ar hyd ac ar led y wlad gan ddod o hyd iddynt o''r diwedd. Mae''r llyfr yn llawn golygfeydd dramatig a deniadol ac mae''r awdur/arlunydd, Peter Stevenson, wedi darlunio cyfoeth o fanylion gogleisiol ar bob tudalen. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Scholastic Teacher Bookshop provides a wonderful range of titles reflecting current issues in education as well as the most popular primary curriculum areas. Teachers can browse through ''The Bookshop'' and choose those titles that meet their particular needs and/or take their fancy! The varied format of titles in this series enables subjects to be covered in a way that is most appropriate to the content PRIMARY PLAYGROUND GAMES provides a wealth of ideas for promoting positive play at playtime. The selection of games included, ca all be taught easily and quickly by teachers or playtime supervisors. There are games for every age group across the primary age range and suitable for every type of playground as well as indoor games for wet playtimes. The games themselves require little or no special equipment - just the occasional piece of chalk or an old blanket. All they require is imagination and a few friends. All the games in this book have been vigorously tested by the author in schools and over the years she has played hundreds of games with thousands of children. She has worked with teachers and lunchtime supervisors, listening to their ideas as well as hearing their frustrations. She has researched into old games and fashioned new ones to suit today''s children. As well as ideas for games the book also includes sections on working with special needs, ideas for transforming your playground and practical solutions to common playground problems.

Presents the classic tale of a little girl''s encounter with a wolf on the way to her grandmother''s house, with accompanying finger puppets for children to act out the story.

Diagrams and instructions for making a downhill coaster.

Rhymes and verses introduce children to the story of Christmas. Suggestions at the bottom of the pages provide for special parent-child activities.

Presents synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms for over 6000 English words arranged in alphabetical order.

Quelques conseils bien élémentaires, mais pertinents, sur l''acquisition d''un animal familier et sur son entretien.

Tess comes to visit and makes friends with the dog, Paddy.

Quelques conseils bien élémentaires, mais pertinents sur l''acquisition d''un animal familier et sur son entretien.

Memory is a large component of computer system cost and current trends indicate this cost is increasing as a fraction of the total. Emerging applications such as in-memory databases, virtual machines, and big-data key-value stores demand more memory relative to compute. Some of these high-memory applications incidentally store many duplicate values in memory: in some cases, duplicates account for over 75% of the total. Recent work on the HICAMP architecture provided a sophisticated hardware mechanism for memory deduplication to implement memory versioning, but without support for current software stacks. This thesis extends work on HICAMP by evaluating a deduplicated memory that is compatible with existing hardware and software. Memory content from actual workloads indicates that deduplicated memory effectively doubles capacity. After understanding the baseline cost-benefit tradeoff in terms of capacity, performance, and energy, this work proposes novel optimizations for machines with deduplicated memory. These optimizations reduce memory traffic and improve performance relative to both the baseline deduplicated memory and, in many cases, relative to the original machine. Energy consumption is reduced because memory devices are reduced with no penalty to performance. Further, deduplication reduces data transfer and improves performance for certain scientific applications. This thesis argues that in-memory deduplication is warranted by its own benefits, which are likely to grow in the future, and that it enables low-cost memory snapshots, as in the HICAMP architecture.

Neither Rachel nor Tri is happy about having to work together on a project about King Arthur, but once they step into the virtual reality machine they are fascinated by what their guide Merlin shows them.

A collection of common counting rhymes.

Historic buildings are irreplaceable, embodying shared public experiences and exhibiting qualities no longer achieved in new constructions such as iconic ornamentation or singular construction methods. It is these unique attributes and idiosyncrasies that contribute to the rich texture of successful, vibrant cities. The distinctive character and public significance of Auckland''s built heritage is frequently disregarded along with its potential for urban rejuvenation. Successful conservation and adaptation of historic buildings requires an approach that acknowledges the heritage guidelines, while producing a design which respects the old and allows the legibility of new adaptations and future uses. Marking the intersection of Hobson Street and Cook Street, the Thomas Doo Building stands alone, one of the few remaining examples of the Victorian period retail-and-residential building typology. Saved from demolition by the Auckland Council''s Built Heritage Acquisition Fund, the current owners of the building propose to partially refurbish the existing building and erect a new fourteen-storey apartment tower above. This thesis provides an alternative solution for the Thomas Doo Building that explores the adaptive re-use approach of heritage conservation theory through the combination of heritage fabric and music performance. From its prime location immediately adjacent to Auckland''s performance hub, the site is ideally suited to re-use as a recital hall. The design adapts the existing building into a mixed-use foyer space and café-bar-restaurant with the addition of a 578 seat recital hall along Cook Street. The alterations and additions retain the integrity and significance of the historic building, addressing the need to keep the building relevant without overwhelming the prominent two-storey city placeholder. Without directly copying, the contemporary form makes reference to qualities in the original Thomas Doo Building design such as scale, materiality and architectural details, engendering a sense of continuity throughout. This thesis presents the new addition as a subtle counterpoint to the existing, allowing the design integrity of both architectural languages to remain discernable and relevant.