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This book explores reading and interpretation practices related to visual materials - here referred to as inscriptions - that accompany texts. Guiding questions include: ‘What practices are required for reading inscriptions?’ and ‘Do textbooks allow students to develop graphicacy skill required to critically read scientific texts?’ The book reveals what it takes to interpret, read, and understand visual materials, and what it takes to engage inscriptions in a critical way.

Die, die the hand is mine, to be human, is to live your life in the blind. There was mud in my mouth, my knees dripped blood onto the uneven pavement-little spatters of crimson rain. I bit down on my fist. I wouldn't cry, it would only distract me from running. Ahead of me, a little girl is sleeping in the alley, her hand clenched around a bundle of forget-me-nots. The moonlight spilling on her pale skin turns her from innocent to wraith. Two days ago, I was her, a forgotten face in a sea of the living dead-yet I was different. At night I would shed my human skin and go back to my own kind. Go back to my world with wings of light to carry me through the sky, where no element, flame or weapon forged could claim my life. That was two nights ago, I am a fairy no longer. Tonight, I am human...and if they catch me, I will die. On the day the god Cronus was born, it is said, the earth quaked and screamed at its core. The cliffs bordering the sea crashed together, flames shot into the open sky. Each flame carried a Seelie fairy. In their blood flowed the magic of the old worlds and the fire of immorality. The Unseelie were formed in the ashes that fell to the ground, they carried no flame and could die. The ruling gods struck an accord with the Unseelie who protested their fate: Every hundred years, a Seelie fairy must be human for three days, in that time, the Unseelie could hunt their immortal flame, and gods would close their eyes. A princess of firelight and next in line for the Seelie throne, Selyara is a girl who wants only freedom. Given no protection, she must face three days as a human, alone. Lavara sits on the Seelie throne as queen regent until Selyara has completed and survived her human trial. If Selyara dies, Lavara will take the throne. On the first eve of her humanity, Selyara stands under the moon, trying to accept the fact that, like so many ancestors before her, she may not survive the hunt. Brought up in the ways of the Unseelie and trained as a blood hunter, Lore captures the fairy named Selyara. Mystified and drawn to the girl with the fire-red hair, he watches her trade her throne for the promise of a friend's life. Faced with loyalty to his own queen and betraying everything he knows, Lore must give his sword to a kingdom he has always opposed, and a strange, magical girl-fast becoming more precious to him than any immortal fire. Side by side, Selyara, and Lore unlock dark secrets to break a blood promise that will change their stars forever. Together, they fall into a world of fairytales and all the Theories of Magic. JP Roth & Sabine Rich's Theory of Magic graphic novel holds seven chapters of full color art, drawn and colored by Sabine Rich, a cover gallery as well as sketch and layout pages

Whitesnake are a hard rock band formed during 1978, in Middlesbrough, Cleveland, north-east England, UK, by David Coverdale, following his departure from the blues rock group Deep Purple, to which Whitesnake's early material has been compared, before they began moving toward a better selling rock style. By the turn of the decade, the band had become more successful, releasing a string of UK top 10 albums, Ready an' Willing (1980), Come an' Get It (1981), Saints & Sinners (1982) then Slide It In (1984), which was their first to make the US charts, being certified 2x platinum. The group's eponymous L.P. of 1987 was their biggest worldwide seller, producing 2 big US hit singles, "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love", reaching # 1 & # 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album went 8 x platinum in the US, the band's success leading to them being nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group in 1988. Slip of the Tongue (1989) was also a hit, entering the top 10 in the UK and the US, being certified platinum in the US. The band split up shortly after its issue, but had a reunion during 1994 then released a one-off studio L.P., Restless Heart (1997). Whitesnake officially reformed in 2002, touring together since that year, while issuing 4 albums, Good to Be Bad (2008), Forevermore (2011), The Purple Album (2015) and Flesh & Blood (2019). They were named the 85th greatest hard rock band of all time by VH1 during 2005.

Schnecktor geht es wie vielen Kindern. Er will in die weite Welt hinaus und kann die Ängste seiner Eltern nicht verstehen. Besonders doof findet er die Helmpflicht für alle Schneckenkinder in Los Schneckoles. Die Menschenwelt fasziniert ihn, auch weil seine Mutter ihm sehr viel davon erzählt. Und weil es dort keine Helmpflicht für Kinder gibt, macht die junge Schnecke sich schließlich auf in die Menschenwelt. Schnecktors Reise führt ihn durch Kuhweid, über die Wurmarer Republik und Drachau hin zu einem Jungen, den wir schon aus anderen HC Roth-Geschichten kennen. Unterwegs schließt er Freundschaften mit Würmern und Drachen, fährt Zug und lernt fliegen, was für eine Schnecke schon sehr, sehr ungewöhnlich ist, egal ob mit Helm oder ohne. Ein Vorlesebuch für Kids ab viereinhalb und für deren Eltern.

Mord im ostfriesischen Hammrich Tödliches Wiedersehen Rolands psychopathisches Verhalten findet in Swantjes naiver Gutgläubigkeit einen verhängnisvollen Nährboden. Roland nutzt ihre Unfähigkeit sich trennen zu können gnadenlos aus. Er treibt Swantje mit Lügen und Intrigen immer tiefer in Ängste und Depression. Unerschütterlich hält sie jedoch an ihrer Beziehung fest. Das Blatt wendet sich als ... Swantje erwacht aus ihrem Traum von der großen Liebe und erkennt die Sinnlosigkeit ihres Ringens um ein Familienleben. Ihre Liebe schlägt um in mörderischen Hass ...

Auf der Erdenplatte wütet eine unbekannte Krankheit. Menschen sterben grausame Tode. Genaues weiß man nicht. Aber der, der sich Das Böse nennt, soll dahinterstecken. Und dieser ominöse Zauberer verbreitet Angst und Schrecken, denn er will die Herrschaft über die ganze Welt. Dabei ist gar nicht so sicher, wer die Macht im Moment nun wirklich innehat. Wer die Fäden zieht und schlussendlich über Leben und Tod, über Sieg oder Niederlage entscheidet. Da ist der Reisende aus dem Osten, ein blutrünstiger Zwerg, der ein Ungeheuer bewacht, eine ambitionierte Kaiserin, ein schlechter König, ein paar finstere Halunken, ein paar fiese Beamte, die Armee der Toten – und mittendrin, seit kurz nach Anbeginn der Zeit, die beiden wei(s)sen Frauen. HC Roth nimmt uns mit in eine intrigante, zwar magische, aber zutiefst feudale Welt, in der man schnell seinen Kopf verliert und nichts so ist, wie es scheint.