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Exceptional nonfiction for children from two of the most trusted names in science education: Seymour Simon and the Smithsonian Institution.

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Gesamtdarstellungen der neueren deutschen Geschichte sind sehr selten geschrieben worden, noch nie aber wurde der Versuch unternommen, eine zusammenfassende Geschichte der Gesellschaft in Deutschland vorzulegen. Genau das will Hans-Ulrich Wehlers - man darf wohl sagen: epochemachendes - Werk leisten. Er geht von der gut begründeten Annahme aus, dass Gesellschaft durch Wirtschaft, soziale Ungleichheit, politische Herrschaft und Kultur konstitui...

Canadian Social Studies Grades 1-3: Everything you need to teach key Canadian Social Studies concepts. Based on the Canadian curriculum, students will learn through information rich reading projects and other activities. The workbook covers a wide range of topics, including:Urban and rural communities Our community Communities from around the world Traditions and celebrations Early settlers Packed with thought-provoking questions and int...

Canadian Social Studies Grades 4-6: Everything you need to teach key Canadian Social Studies concepts. Based on the Canadian curriculum, students will learn through information rich reading projects and other activities. The workbook covers a wide range of topics, including:Medieval times Canadian government Canada's links to the world First Nations and explorers Early societies This compact yet in-depth workbook effectively instils a de...

Abandoned in a cabbage patch as a baby, Misty-Rain is saved from certain death by a witch who brings her up as her own. She is raised as one of the Dokebi, a magical race from Korean myth. Among them she is happy, until one day she loses the trust of her protector, causing the enchantment that had kept the secret of her true identity to be broken.

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After Sam Garrison and his pregnant wife buy a bargain home, they find the reason it's such a bargain -- the home is in a crime-ridden neighborhood, plagued by gangs and drugs. Sam and his neighbor, Mark Buchanan, decide to take the law into their own hands to clean up the mean streets as the masked vigilantes called the Watchdogs. But well-meaning Sam is drawn into Mark's web, and Mark's darker agenda. Can Sam make it out alive, and as the ma...

This volume studies the production process, where resources must be committed to specific technological purposes long in advance of the ultimate sale of goods to the consumer.

In Baghdad, my memories were sketched in a shadow of pain. Who is going to play the guitar? Who is going to sing? Where am I? Like a migrating bird, will return home. My voice is worn out from calling out for Iraq. Oh, Iraq! Once, you were Sumerian or from Uruk, in an era that knew no history. You were Babylonian in a period that knew no love! Ishtar, your soothing eyes are my harbor, my passport to the haven is the window of my prison. Ishtar...

In Baghdad, my memories were sketched in a shadow of pain. Who is going to play the guitar? Who is going to sing? Where am I? Like a migrating bird, will return home. My voice is worn out from calling out for Iraq. Oh, Iraq! Once, you were Sumerian or from Uruk, in an era that knew no history. You were Babylonian in a period that knew no love! Ishtar, your soothing eyes are my harbor, my passport to the haven is the window of my prison. Ishtar...

In this eagerly awaited new novel, Lionel Shriver, the Orange Prize-winning author of the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, delivers an imaginative and entertaining look at the implications, large and small, of whom we choose to love. Using a playful parallel-universe structure, The Post-Birthday World follows one woman's future as it unfolds under the influence of two drastically different men.Children's book illustrator I...

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Springer Handbook of Enzymes provides data on enzymes sufficiently well characterized. It offers concise and complete descriptions of some 5, 000 enzymes and their application areas. Data sheets are arranged in their EC-Number sequence and the volumes themselves are arranged according to enzyme classes. This new, second edition reflects considerable progress in enzymology: many enzymes are newly classified or reclassified. Each entry is correl...

Hier in kühler Walderde unauffällig begraben zu liegen, müßte süß sein. [...] Ein Grab im Wald zu haben, wäre schön. [...]. Ich wünschte mir solches." , schrieb Robert Walser bereits vor 90 Jahren in seiner Erzählung Der Spaziergang.Seit einigen Jahren sorgt ein neues Bestattungskonzept immer wieder für Aufmerksamkeit - die Beisetzung im Wald. In ausgewählten Waldgebieten kann unter Bäumen bereits zu Lebzeiten ein Grabplatz reserviert werden. ...

Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections in November 2005 became an arena where domestic and international actors jostled for influence and control. This book highlights the role of international observers in the election process, and presents in-depth assessments of the pre- and post-election situation in Azerbaijan. The 2005 parliamentary elections are of special interest for several reasons. First, oil-rich Azerbaijan offers interesting insight...

The Crimea was the only region of Ukraine in the 1990s where separatism arose and inter-ethnic conflict potentially could have taken place between the Ukrainian central government, ethnic Russians in the Crimea, and Crimean Tatars. Such a conflict would have inevitably drawn in Russia and Turkey. Russia had large numbers of troops in the Crimea within the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine also was a nuclear military power until 1996.This ...

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Exploring the similarities and differences between the spatial planning in UK and France, this book draws on the outcomes of the Franco-British Planning Study Group. It offers a comparative investigation of the contexts for planning in both countries, including its administrative, economic and legal implications. It also features case studies.