The Army is the largest and most recognizable branch of the US Armed Forces. This book uses origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding, to take a closer look at the features of the Army's iconic vehicles and gear. Illustrated step-by-step instructions will introduce students to the basic techniques of origami before providing directions for folding fighters, bombers, and cargo. This book offers a unique perspective on a high-interest topic.

Use origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding, to recreate weapons used by the United States military! This book offers a creative approach to the high-interest topic of military weaponry and encourages students to identify the features of the weapons used by the US Armed Forces as they fold their own projects. Illustrated directions take origami enthusiasts through the steps needed to make recognizable paper models of real military weapons

The United States has the world's largest air force, with over 6,000 aircraft in service. This dynamic book uses origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, to take a look at some of the better known planes and cargo used by the men and women who serve in the United States Air Force. Clearly illustrated, step-by-step instructions take students through the process of folding their own origami aircraft, drawing special attention to the specific features that define these iconic planes. Students will use their newfound origami skills to fold bombers, jet fighters, cargo containers, and other airplanes and gear.

Readers learn how to use origami to create their own miniature navy including barges, ships, aircraft carriers, and more.

"Provides instructions and photo-illustrated step diagrams for folding a variety of traditional and original origami models"--

"Provides instructions and photo-illustrated step diagrams for folding a variety of traditional and original origami models"--

Provides instructions for folding paper to make twelve realistic origami dinosaurs, including the stegosaurus, tyrannosaurus, and triceratops.

What kinds of discourses on a foreign country do young people in the United States bring to global studies classrooms? What does it mean for them to engage in a series of discourses in terms of their identity formations, when these discourses represent a particular kind of worldview? How should teachers deal with the tendency of the students to see foreign nations as the other? How can educational researchers study such discourses and the operation of othering at the level of everyday lives in schools?

In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped, left behind their three surviving siblings, and her book is alternately heart-wrenching and heart-warming, as it follows the parallel lives of Loung and her closest sister, Chou, during the 15 years it took for them to be reunited. Their two worlds were very different, and Loung's depiction of the contrast between her life in the affluent West and that of her sister, who navigated her way through landmine-strewn fields and survived raids by the Khmer Rouge, is laced with the guilt she feels about being the lucky one. This powerful story helps us to understand what happens when a family is torn apart by politics, adversity and war. It is also the compelling and inspirational tale of a remarkable woman.

Adam Roberts' new novel is a terrifying vision of a near future war - a civil war that tears the UK apart as new technologies allow the world's first truly democratic army to take on the British army and wrest control from the powers that be. Taking advances in modern communication and the new eagerness for power from the bottom upwards, Adam Roberts has produced a novel that is at once an exciting war novel and a philosophical examination of war and democracy. It shows one of the UK's most exciting and innovative literary voices working at the height of his powers and investing SF with literary significance that is its due.