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The most comprehensive micro:bit and MakeCode book to date! Get ready to ignite your creativity and explore the world of physical computing withThe Invent to Learn Guide to the micro:bit! This comprehensive full-color book teaches learners of all ages how to code and build interactive gadgets using the popular BBC micro:bit microcontroller. The Invent to Learn Guide to the micro:bit invites learners to create dozens of simple-to-complex, open-...

The most comprehensive micro:bit and MakeCode book to date! Get ready to ignite your creativity and explore the world of physical computing with The Invent to Learn Guide to the micro:bit! This comprehensive full-color book teaches learners of all ages how to code and build interactive gadgets using the popular BBC micro:bit microcontroller. The Invent to Learn Guide to the micro:bit invites learners to create dozens of simple-to-complex, op...

It is the late sixties, a time of intense social and generational upheaval. Into this maelstrom came a man who broke the mold. A working class, Brooklyn-born, Italian cop with long hair, a beard, and a taste for operaand ballet. Most of all, Frank Serpico was a man who couldn't be silenced -- or bought.For years a culture of corruption had pervaded the New York City Police Department. Police payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rack...

In March of 1992, the highest–ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to break his oath of silence testified against his boss, John Gotti. He is Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano, second–in–command of the Gambino crime family, the most powerful in the nation. Because of Gotti‘s uncanny ability to escape conviction in state and federal trials despite charges that he was the Mafia‘s top chieftain, the media had dubbed him the "Teflon Don....

Mit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer und der politischen Neuordnung Europas gerät Katrines Leben in Norwegen aus dem Ruder. Plötzlich ist alles anders, ihre Familie, ihre Liebe, ihr Glück sind bedroht. Um zu verhindern, dass ihr Geheimnis ans Licht kommt, muss sie gegen ihren Willen in ihr früheres Leben zurückkehren. Wer ist sie wirklich?Geschickt und professionell verwischt Katrine die Spuren ihrer Vergangenheit, verfängt sich aber zusehends in e...

The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority.Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brookl...

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Over the last decade the transformation in the field of education that is occurring under the twin banners of "standards" and "accountability" has materially affected every aspect of schooling, teaching, and teacher education in the United States. Teaching By Numbers, offers interdisciplinary ways to understand the educational reforms underway in urban education, teaching, and teacher education, and their impact on what it means to teach. Pete...

This is the first and only book to detail the history of the century-long relationship between education and psychoanalysis. It provides not only a historical context but also a psychoanalytically informed analysis.

The 1960s was a time of social and generational upheaval felt with particular intensity in the melting pot of New York City. A culture of corruption pervaded the New York Police Department, where payoffs, protection, and shakedowns of gambling rackets and drug dealers were common practice. The so-called blue code of silence protected the minority of crooked cops from the sanction of the majority.Into this maelstrom came a working class, Brookl...

In a tragic and shocking story of true crime, Peter Maas gives insight into how the brutal murder of a young wife by her husband sparked a nasty and threatening custody battle between the couple's families. In 1984, the infant son of Kenneth and Teresa Taylor was left orphaned after Kenneth brutally murdered Teresa using a dumbbell to crack her skull. In the months that followed, an intoxicatingly traumatic battle for the infant's custody betw...

Y.K. Deng, Chinese mastermind of a global heroin ring, risks his life in order to eliminate his competition by transferring all of the assets his crime syndicate to the United States in one shipment of pure heroin in this international thriller from the bestselling author of Serpico.Under the guise of moving his business in anticipation of China's takeover of Hong Kong, Y.K. Deng prepares to move a mass shipment of potent heroine to the United...

The First Inside Account of the MafiaIn the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crime from the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers—and w...

On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged into the North Atlantic. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend upon one man, U.S. Navy officer Charles "Swede" Momsen -- an extraordinary combination of visionary, scientist, and man of action. In this thrilling true narrative, prize-winning author Peter Ma...

Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In telling Gravano's story, Peter Maas brings us as never before into the innermost sanctums of the Cosa Nostra as if we were there ourselves--a secret underworld of power, lust, greed, betrayal, and deception, with the specter of violent death always waiting in the wings.

Mit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer und der politischen Neuordnung Europas gerät Katrines Leben in Norwegen aus dem Ruder. Plötzlich ist alles anders, ihre Familie, ihre Liebe, ihr Glück sind bedroht. Um zu verhindern, dass ihr Geheimnis ans Licht kommt, muss sie gegen ihren Willen in ihr früheres Leben zurückkehren. Wer ist sie wirklich?Geschickt und professionell verwischt Katrine die Spuren ihrer Vergangenheit, verfängt sich aber zusehends in e...

Entgegen der lange gültigen These vom allmählichen Verschwinden kultureller Vielfalt zugunsten einer uniformen 'Globalkultur' ist heute weltweit ein Trend zur Rückbesinnung auf traditionelle kulturelle Werte feststellbar. Am Beispiel des seit 1975 unabhängigen Staates Papua-Neuguinea zeigt der Autor, welchen Herausforderungen sich die dortige einheimische Elite bei der Schaffung einer Nation in einem multi-ethnischen Staatsgebilde gegenüberges...

Der BGH hat mit dem Macrotron-Urteil die Börsennotierung unter den Schutz des Art. 14 GG gestellt und auf Grundlage dieser Erkenntnis die gesellschafts- und kapitalmarktrechtlichen Voraussetzungen für ein freiwilliges Delisting konkretisiert. Die Arbeit folgt der Ansicht des BGH und wirft die Frage auf, inwieweit das Urteil Ausstrahlungswirkung auf den Anlegerschutz bei einem Zwangsdelisting haben kann. Die Vorschriften zum Zwangsdelisting wer...

Ausgehend von einer aktuellen Bestandsaufnahme der Franchising- Literatur und -Praxis werden Defizite der gegenwärtigen Diskussion um Franchise-Systeme herusgearbeitet, die vor allem in der Beschränkung auf juristische und betriebswirtschaftlich-normative Gesichtspunkte zu sehen sind. Unter einer erweiterten Perspektive wird auf der Basis psychologischer Erkenntnisse die Bedeutung struktureller Bedingungen und individueller Handlungsspielräume...

Drawn by the anger and loyalties learned at a grandfather's knee, second generation Irish-American Jamie McGuire has vanished into a world of explosive secrets and brutal betrayals.Jamie's father, Michael -- an advertising executive with no allegiance to any cause -- must rescue his lost son from a violent place where revolution is the faith and freedom means death. But it may already be too late, for Jamie has been chosen to play two indispen...