The story of Elvin the elephant who has a brain injury. The story follows Elvin to school where he has learning difficulties. Shows the social and behavioural changes common among children with head injury.

Today most students with disabilities are either educated in special education classes located on general education campuses or mainstreamed individually into general education classes. Often, however, a lack of understanding of the disability exists in the minds of students and teachers, causing them to make generalizations concerning the person or persons with disabilities. To facilitate understanding and foster friendships, integration should begin in the elementary schools. For when an individual takes the time to get to know someone, he or she can appreciate the fact that each person has unique strengths and qualities to offer. Elvins Friends demonstrates, not only how someone with a disability can excel and teach others, but also how friendships can form when two people stop to take the time to get to know each other.

The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture’s relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history. Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape. China scholar and historian Mark Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated elephant habitats; the destruction of most of the forests; the impacts of war on the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through gigantic water-control systems. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time. Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China’s present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past.

Easter bunny is not feeling too well this year and so he has a special host for you,Elvin.Elvin is a teddy bear and he has done a beautiful and a dutiful job of coloring different eggs for you.But seems like he picked the wrong eggs.What looked like Easter eggs turn out to be bird eggs or animal eggs.You'll see the incredible eggs that Elvin has in his jar.

From award-winning Lisa Kumar comes a fantasy romance of an elf king who has to woo his reluctant new human queen before one or both loses their life. InD'tale's 2015 RONE (Reward of Novel Excellence) Award Winner for Fantasy/Sci-fi "Curl up with this book, a glass of wine, and no interruptions!" (InD'tale Magazine) After countless millennia as the King of Eria, Talion thought he’d experienced all life had to offer. That is, until Maggie entered his land. The beautiful human whirlwind refreshes his spirit, while all too often trying his patience. Though he desires nothing more than to claim her as his bond mate and queen, his secrets could drive them apart or even end their lives. Stranded in the elvin land of Eria, Maggie D’Anglio spends her days trying to figure out a way home while attempting to avoid the sexy and provoking Talion. Unfortunately, she’s living in his palace. His world. His rules. The mysterious king intrigues and infuriates her as no one ever has, a lethal combination to her commitment-phobic heart. But when she parties too hard and wakes up magically bound to him, there’s no escaping the irresistible irritant—or her new role in a land on the brink of war with the darkindred. This is the second book in the Mists of Eria series and contains adult content. This story was previously published under the same title but now has a new cover and fresh edits. Keywords: elf romance, fae romance, elf king, fae king, alpha hero, human heroine, portal romance, strange realm, otherworld, underworld, forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers, quick burn, spicy fantasy romance, wicked fae, wicked elves, royal hero, king hero, faeries, dangerous alliance, Sarah J. Maas, Grace Draven, Elise Kova, dad hero, age-gap romance, elf-human romance

The unfortunate deaths of her mother and cousin had Elainne being sent to her aunt and uncle's kingdom to be trained up as the future heir to the throne. Before she can cement her place as crown princess of the realm the daughter of the ocean, a mermaid princess, comes along intent to steal the throne from her. Now she must rely on her Elvin aunt, a lady in waiting and two of her guards to help her save the kingdom from a threat that no one else seems to even realize walks among them. She will rely on them all, but mostly Viktor one of her new guards. They have a bond no one can describe or break and they will all lay their lives on the line to save the kingdom from falling into a seemingly willing slavery. Even if it means Elainne must return to the one place she vowed never to enter again after her mother's murder, her Elvin home.To make matters worse the only thing her father will accept for his help is a lost Elvin artifact said to be guarded by a great dragon, one that has held it for centuries and refuses to give it up. An artifact powerful and impossible to get, or so the stories say. No one knows for sure what it does for no one has ever returned from their search for it and many Elves have tried.As Elainne and Viktor take on this quest their bond is tested, tried and forged anew. Can they keep their bond or will something so new and fragile break under the stress of the quest? Can they find the artifact and come back alive or is a sacrifice what is needed to get it back? What are they willing to do to save a kingdom that doesn't want to be saved?

Meet an irrepressible kid doodler-turned-sketch artist, in this breakout illustrated diary fiction mystery from Drew Dernavich, Elvin Link, Please Report to the Principal's Office. Meet Elvin Link—slacker, notorious doodler, and the only kid in fifth grade who hasn't (yet) received a wedgie from the school bully Peter Zorber. Can Elvin navigate the last few weeks of school without getting into trouble for his incessant doodling? How will he steer clear of the class wedgie-master? And is it possible to turn a hobby into a crime fighting skill and solve a school mystery? Elvin Link is about to find out all the answers, and he'll do it with a flip disc in one hand and a bottle of hot sauce in the other! Christy Ottaviano Books

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The United States has had not one, but two Foundings. The Constitution produced by the Second Founding came to be only after a vociferous battle between Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The Federalists favored a relatively powerful central government, while the Anti-Federalists distrusted the concentration of power in one place and advocated the preservation of sovereignty in the states as crucibles of post-revolutionary republicanism -- the legacy of the First Founding. This philosophical cleavage has been at the heart of practically every major political conflict in U.S. history, and lives on today in debates between modern liberals and conservatives. In The Lovers' Quarrel, Elvin T. Lim presents a systematic and innovative analysis of this perennial struggle. The framers of the second Constitution, the Federalists, were not operating in an ideational or institutional vacuum; rather, the document they drafted and ratified was designed to remedy the perceived flaws of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. To decouple the Two Foundings is to appreciate that there is no such thing as "original meaning," only original dissent. Because the Anti-Federalists insisted that prior and democratically sanctioned understandings of federalism and union had to be negotiated and partially grafted onto the new Constitution, the Constitution's Articles and the Bill of Rights do not cohere as well together as has conventionally been thought. Rather, they represent two antithetical orientations toward power, liberty, and republicanism. The altercation over the necessity of the Second Founding generated coherent and self-contained philosophies that would become the core of American political thought, reproduced and transmitted across two centuries, whether the victors were the neo-Federalists (such as during the Civil War and the New Deal) or the neo-Anti-Federalists (such as during the Jacksonian era and the Reagan Revolution). The Second Founding -- the sole "founding" that we generally speak of -- would become a template for the unique, prototypically American species of politics and political debate. Because of it, American political development occurs only after the political entrepreneurs of each generation lock horns in a Lovers' Quarrel about the principles of one of the Two Foundings, and succeed in justifying and forging a durable expansion or contraction of federal authority.

A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of relevance to our understanding of China today. In particular, this volume studies three questions. Why did the Chinese Empire stay together when the Roman Empire, and every other empire of antiquity of the middle ages, ultimately collapsed? What were the causes of the medieval revolution which made the Chinese economy after about 1100 the most advanced in the world? And why did China after about 1350 fail to maintain her earlier pace of technological advance while still, in many respects, advancing economically? The three sections of the book deal with these problems in turn but the division of a subject matter is to some extent only one of convenience. These topics are so interrelated that, in the last analysis, none of them can be considered in isolation from the others.