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A typical tweenTwelve-year-old Simon Rosen has a plan: make videos to ace his class project, earn a trip to Vancouver, participate in the Video Game Championships, get his parents to fall back in love.His parent's marriage is falling apartBut when he tries to record himself, he soon learns that plans can go embarrassingly awry.He has one chance to keep his family togetherA hilarious, relevant fast-paced middle grade novel about friendship, bul...

To find a place in her family, Maddy must travel through time to get there.Maddy Rose lives in two worlds. A hundred years apart. In the same strange house built in the shape of an octagon. When a mysterious black cat leads her into an unknown attic, she meets Clare and his very sick sister Eva. Together Maddy and Clare jump into a money-making scheme in his uncle's dangerous soap factory to buy a cure for Eva. But an unexpected tragedy befall...

¡Este galardonado libro sobre los animales ahora está disponible en español! Explora lo que significa ser grande.This award-winning animal book is now available in Spanish! Explore what it means to be all grown up.

¡Este popular libro ahora está disponible en español! ¡Explora el misterioso mundo de los seres vivos! Aprende junto con las biólogas inspiradoras cuyas innovaciones cambiaron el mundo.Descubre el poder de la curiosidad y capacidad para adaptarse por medio de una conversación entre una protagonista joven y valiente que hace preguntas sobre el mundo a su alrededor, y un narrador científicamente astuto cuyas respuestas son exactas y comprensible...

This book is a one-stop guide to everything from the latest research on the effects of school choice on civic engagement to Supreme Court precedent. It is a must-have for any combatant in the school choice wars, or anyone who just wants the best education for their children.

Explore the human longing for connection in these fourteen deceptively simple stories that stay hooked in the imagination long after the final page. In these fourteen breathtaking stories, award-winning author Kent Nelson explores how very different people from disparate cultures (a rancher involved in a fight for water rights, a musician hired to play for a catatonic woman, a Native young man and woman coming of age on an Arizona reservation,...

Can one girl's questions change the world? Women in Biology follows a conversation between an inquisitive young girl, who wonders what living things are made of, and a scientifically astute narrator, whose answers are both accurate and approachable to a young mind. In this way, learning the basics of biology becomes a natural outcome of enjoying the story.Designed to motivate girls to learn more about living things and see how one person can c...

Backed by its technological achievements, modern science appears as the de facto source of truth to the majority of our contemporaries. Its sole reliance on reason and empirical data gives it an air of objectivity that has conferred upon it an almost unquestioning authority. Against the backdrop of this pervasive scientism, Philosophy of Science in the Light of the Perennial Wisdom is a daring attempt to offer an intellectual critique of moder...

This Guide is an authoritative guide to all types of cables used in electrical work and good cable management practice. It provides clear information on the classes, sizes and types of cable, detailing appropriate and common applications and information on fire performance, accreditation and cable marking and IP ratings.

. Clear, step-by-step tutorials at the beginning of each section. Includes the story behind knitting and fun knitting-related activities. For children aged 8-10. A comprehensive, kid-friendly introduction to knitting with 20 fun projects

Orphaned and made bionic by a mysterious accident, Wren Derecho becomes enmeshed with an enigmatic power source. During her journey to navigate the pain of grief and loss, she crosses paths with three individuals with talents and traumas of their own. Their futures entwined, they must time travel so Wren can defeat her greatest enemy: herself.

A guide to finding the right human companion put together by rescued ex-breeding dog Leia.

Insurance is a sophisticated financial vehicle that can be best understood through the lens of risk management. Experiencing dramatic growth, captive insurance is owned and controlled by its insureds, pooling the risks of its owners. Captive insurance provides businesses with unmatched flexibility regarding coverage, claims, premium, and control, while also offering advantages such as lucrative dividends and innovative financing techniques.Thi...

Addresses two essential elements of art ownership: planning for the ultimate disposition of the art, including how to address the wealth represented by the art into any estate and financial planning, and also the practical considerations for collectors as they actively collect and plan for the art¿s eventual disposition.The book introduces and explains a client-focused process I use when advising art collectors. The book also discusses the rol...

For the family lawyer handling a case involving executive compensation, there can be a dizzying array of arrangements, plans, bonuses, and agreements that can seem overwhelming. Providing an invaluable roadmap to a complicated aspect of financial issues occurring in divorce, The Executive Compensation Handbook offers a practical guide to understanding, negotiating, and dividing assets that fall into the broad category of executive compensation...

With great interest I read Transaction Risk. I have been practicing law in the area of transactions for more than 30 years, and was surprised with the comprehensive compilation of risks identified in the book, and that most of the time can be passed unnoticed. In addition to author R.J. Spjut's great work in identifying most of the risk that needs to be considered by a lawyer when drafting an agreement or negotiating a deal, but he also explai...

Die neue Schule für alle, die schon Blockflöte spielen können und die Bassblockflöte erkunden möchten. Anhand von zahlreichen Solostücken, Duetten und Werken mit Klavier- oder Cembalobegleitung führt die Schule in das Bassblockflötenspiel und den Bassschlüssel ein. Quartette sind zum Download erhältlich. Spieltipps und Wissenswertes sowie Etüden zur Förderung der Fingergeläufigkeit ergänzen den Lehrteil. Der Schwerpunkt liegt in der Musik des ...

Das Bassblockflöten-Spielbuch ist der Progression der Schule angepasst. Es enthält zahlreiche Bearbeitungen verschiedenster Werke, u.a. von Frescobaldi, Brahms, Bach, Händel, Telemann, Merci und Mozart. Neue Kompositionen (Linde, Dieterich, Tarasov) sowie eine virtuose Bearbeitung zweier Sätze des Fagottkonzertes in C-Dur von Antonio Vivaldi ergänzen den Band.Die Klavierstimme wurde der tiefen Basslage angepasst.Schwierigkeitsgrad: 2-4

Katie Mason has come all the way to Alaska to make art and heal from a broken relationship. But she hasn't been able to do either. At least not until a dark-eyed stranger transforms her life. This mythic holiday gift will awaken the wonder of the season in you ¿ and make you think of winter in entirely new ways.

Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Joseph Epstein would surely be at the top of anybody's list. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, that hard to define but immediately recognizable quality called style. Above all, he is impossible to put down.Joseph Epstein's Gallimaufry: A Collection of Essays, Reviews, Bits is the fifth such volume from Axios Press and contains 58 essays. Subjects range ...