36 entertaining labyrinths invite puzzlers to find their way through unusual—and mouthwatering—obstacles in Chips and Dip, Strawberries and Cream, Pepperoni Pizza and 33 other baffling mazes. Solutions.
Former MLB umpire Dave Phillips was at the center of some of baseball's most unforgettable moments—Comiskey's infamous Disco Demolition Night, Gaylord Perry's spitball ejection, Albert Belle's confiscated corked bat and George Brett's pine tar bat debacle—and he shares with baseball fans the untold stories behind those incidents and many others, giving baseball fans a complete perspective on the life of an umpire.
Josh Hanes commits an inexcusable transgression against his dad's generation and society in general. An apology cannot wholly undo it. Jail time or a citation would have been an easier debt to repay. One small blunder sends nineteen year old Josh to the edge of isolation, rejection, heart ache, and loss. Stuck in a vacuum between being a high school football hero, painful career choices, and whether it's too late for college sends Josh on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery. Wounded relationships with parents, friends, and his high school sweetheart are sutured into healing bonds by an amazing spirit of grace, compassion, and truth through an unlikely messenger. Devotional Notes for Reflection and Group Discussion are included at the end of the book. Definition of the title word, granitude, is included at the end of the book.
Play a hand of poker, serve a troop ofmonkeys two bananas each, and stringtogether a set of charms! This uniquecollection by maze master Dave Phillipsentices gamers into organizing eachpuzzle into sets. Eighteen challenges ofvarying difficulty, each with individualrules and clues, will captivate olderpuzzlists as well as younger enthusiasts.Dover Original
Find the bridges between islands, follow a trail with no left turns, guide a pinball against a series of bumpers — and don't break any of the rules! This colorful compilation features over 100 original puzzle mazes of 18 different types, each more challenging than any ordinary maze. Geared toward ages 12 and up. Includes clues and solutions.
Celebrate all things American with these unique picture puzzles. Suitable for ages 8 and up, these 36 challenging mazes depict American icons ranging from Paul Revere and Elvis Presley to a buffalo, a cowboy, the Statue of Liberty, an astronaut, and Martin Luther King. Captions include fun facts. Solutions provided.
A maze book that features path-finding puzzles that have rules to follow - for example, you're not only allowed, you're actually encouraged to retrace your route.
Forty brain-teasers — with objectives, restrictions and routes testing mental dexterity — ask players to collect coins for vending machines, "build" bridges to islands, collect rings for a peg, pass through a series of ghostly forms and much more. Directions and solutions included in this special treat for older children and adults.
Little buccaneers will discover a treasure trove of spooky fun with this collection of easy-to-follow mazes. Better than gold bullion, these 36 full-page puzzles will have children coming back for more! Solutions are included.
Help creatures of the deep search for food, look for places to hide, and hunt each other in 46 different mazes. Instructions accompanied by fascinating facts about each subject.
Get ready for 34 intricate mazes accompanied by breathtaking tales of heroic adventure. As you journey through the mazes you'll encounter evil dragons, people-eating plants, bloodthirsty giants, fierce desert nomads, marauding pirates, sharks, ghosts, dinosaurs, and many more dangerous adversaries at every twist and turn. Solutions.
Sharpen puzzle-solving skills on 33 brain teasers from the master of mazes, each with its own objectives and restrictions. Battle wizards, monsters, missiles, more. The fun and excitement of an electronic game in book form. Solutions included.
Entertaining, educational collection offers youngsters hours of challenging diversions while alerting them to precarious situations confronting many members of the animal kingdom. Captions provide instructions for helping the South African bontebok, the Australian broad-headed snake, an American alligator, and 33 other imperiled animals. Solutions.
Includes challenging routes to Niagara Falls, Antarctica, Death Valley, Old Faithful, the Sahara Desert, the Galapagos Islands, a huge meteor crater in Arizona and 29 other phenomena.
Featuring Tips by Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers, find out how to lower your handicap and improve your putting game. In this easy-to-implement lesson book, lean how to improve the way you put -- with or without practicing. By following the tips outlined in this book, readers won't need to spend hours on the range re-grooving their movements to shave strokes off their handicaps. These are tips that readers can truly use to play better -- immediately.
Are you interested in creating, recording and mixing your own music with Linux? If so, then you've found the right book. Linux Music & Sound is an in-depth introduction to recording, storing, playing and editing music and sound on a Linux system. Musician/programmer Dave Phillips has reviewed dozens of Linux music and sound applications and presented his top picks in this one-of-a-kind volume. In concise, easy-to-understand English, this book demystifies the Linux audio system set-up, describes basic and advanced use of the system, and profiles the broad range of sound and music applications and development software available for Linux. You'll learn how to: Record, mix, and add effects to your own tracks or others' Work with Mod, Midi, and Mp3 files Perform hard disk multi-track recording Explore software sound synthesis programs like Csound Set up your network to share sound resources Use realtime synthesizers Produce high quality scores with music notation programs Broadcast live over the Internet The CD-ROM includes all of the software mentioned in the book, including MIDI applications, digital audio and music notation software, games and utilities. You'll also find out about digital audio basics, the hardware you need to get started, and configuring Linux for sound. Don't spend hundreds of dollars on applications that you can get for free--let Linux Music & Sound be your guide to the world of computer and electronic music under Linux.
With his signature matter-of-fact humor, comedian and musician Dave Hill explores his increasingly close relationship with his recently widowed father in a series of painfully funny essays you will want to read again and again by the fire, at the beach, in a truck stop men’s room, or just about anywhere. It’s your call, really. These days, Dave has just the right amount of spare time to write books at home, preferably in his underwear, but things weren’t always perfect. When he found himself pushing thirty while still living with his parents in Cleveland, unsuited for anything but what an “employment expert” vaguely called a career in “art, music, writing, or entertainment,” he decided to visit some friends in New York for the weekend and never left. However, getting his life together wasn’t as easy as he’d hoped, and even an illegally subletted, rent controlled fifth-floor walk-up studio apartment with a (for the most part) working toilet wasn’t glamorous enough to erase the fact that his four siblings were all married with steady jobs and actual human offspring. And in recent years, Dave’s father had grown tired of loaning him cash and living alone in the empty family home, neither of which made much sense to Dave, but whatever. Through the process of his father’s eventual move to a retirement community, Dave and his dad bonded over the things in life that really matter: scorching-hot rock jams, the gluten allergy craze, eighteen-wheelers, Italian food (pizza and spaghetti), and whatever else could possibly be left after that. Meanwhile, Dave discovered his late-blooming manhood via experiences as disparate and dangerous as a visit to a remote Mexican prison, where he learned that people everywhere love the Eagles, and a martial arts class that pushed his resolve and his groin to their limit. In Dave Hill Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Hill’s voice is sharp, carefree, laced with just the right amount of profanity, and he is—seemingly despite himself—deeply empathetic as he portrays a difficult time in his family’s life and grows up just enough to realize that maybe he and his dad aren’t so different after all.
The ultimate goal of every emergency management professional is to help citizens and communities prepare for natural, technological, or terrorist threats in order to mitigate damage and save lives. Providing an insider’s glimpse into this rewarding career, Introduction to Emergency Management engages readers in real-life case studies, integrating scientific findings with practitioner viewpoints to reveal the challenge of a field in service of communities and people at risk from disasters. An overview of the field Beginning with a history of emergency management, the book defines core concepts to help readers understand the field, explore the relevance and types of disaster research, and examine trends behind disasters and new and emerging hazards. From there, it goes on to outline various career tracks within emergency management with a focus on core competencies, ethical practice standards, certification issues, and the responsibilities of the emergency manager. Boxed features written by graduates of emergency management programs and expert practitioners from around the world provide real world insights. All stages of emergency management The book discusses in detail the various phases of the disaster cycle—including preparedness and planning, the response phase, short- and long-term recovery, and structural and non-structural mitigation. Core chapters conclude with guidance on working and volunteering in each of these phases. Final chapters explore the role of public and private sector partnerships and non-governmental organizations in emergency management. A concluding chapter offers guidance to students seeking careers and further study in the field. Case studies and learning tools Throughout the book, contributors from around the world offer their insight and experience on a host of disasters. Each chapter begins with learning objectives and includes discussion questions, references, and additional resources at the end of each chapter. Expert authors The writing team combines its collective experience of teaching and research in the field to offer classroom-tested content. Brenda D. Phillips has conducted research on disasters, specializing in social vulnerability, since 1982. David M. Neal, who has organized classes on the subject since 1979, brings the most extensive teaching experience on the topic to any existing text. Gary R. Webb, a well known disaster sociologist specializing in organizational response, has been involved in the field since 1994. Their collective years of experience bring authoritative expertise to this volume.
These awesome puzzles are inspired by video games and popular apps that have tons of real-deal kid-appeal. Help a knight defeat dragons, find buried treasure, shuttle aliens from one planet to another, and more.
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