Water is essential to survival. Its important to always have water on hand, especially when people venture into the wild. However, there may come a time when water isnt easily available, and a persons survival skills must kick in. This text prepares readers for this kind of situation. Readers learn the basics for finding water in different environments. Through age-appropriate text with accompanying images, they learn how to locate sources of water, how to collect rainwater, and how to make contaminated water drinkable. All tips are given with safety and preparedness in mind. This high interest text is sure to delight readers of all ages!
Tessa Thompson is an actress, outspoken feminist, activist, and singer-songwriter. She's best known for her role as Valkyrie in the Thor movies and Agent M in Men in Black: International. In her younger years, Thompson didn't see people who looked like her in favorite film genres. Now, Thompson has more roles available to her and refuses to be relegated to roles typically given to actresses of color. This cool biography follows Thompson's journey from acting in high school plays to breaking barriers in Hollywood. A timeline highlights key moments in Thompson's life.
There's a lot more to being a good leader than standing in front of a group and telling them what to do. Effective leadership includes communication skills, confidence, compassion, discipline, and the ability to connect with your audience. This guide discusses the characteristics a leader needs and suggests ways for readers to reach their goals. Readers will also understand why it's important to treat group members with respect and compassion, and conflict resolution is addressed. Sidebars break down important topics and help make this a well-rounded guide to becoming an effective leader.
Remember the Alamo! is one of the most memorable and meaningful quotes from U.S. history, so memorable that we still study the battle to understand its significance to our lives today. Numerous primary sources about the Alamo transport readers into the past to learn about this momentous development in U.S. history. Documents written by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Davy Crockett, and William Barret Travis help readers grasp the lasting significance of the Battle of the Alamo, as well as the events leading up to and following the battle. Other primary sources include paintings, drawings, portraits, and more. Sidebars encourage readers to ask and answer questions to improve their ability to analyze primary sources.
Earth is experiencing an energy crisis. While human behavior is mostly to blame, it’s people who can step in to solve it. Readers will learn about Earth’s energy crisis through this title, which uses age-appropriate text, fact boxes, and detailed photographs to make this complex topic accessible for young readers. The text is designed to help students understand why there’s an energy crisis, and what they can do to help. This title’s inspiring message will motivate readers to get involved in solving the world’s energy crisis!
Many young readers have heard of canyons. Maybe they've even seen one on a family vacation or school trip. However, they may not understand what makes something a canyon or exactly how canyons are formed. Readers will learn to identify canyons and find out how, over many years, rushing rivers can cut through rock to create these breathtaking landforms. Manageable sections of text are paired with attention-grabbing photographs, ensuring that readers of many ages and levels can enjoy this educational guide.
Even though plants may look innocent, some species contain deadly toxins that can kill tiny insects, large animals, and even unsuspecting people. This volume explores the deadly plants among us, and equips readers with the tools they need to identify them. Through an examination of several poisonous plant species, this text explores important science concepts such as plant survival and adaptations, life cycles, and ecosystems. By the end of this text, readers will learn why poison is a successful and essential plant defense.
Hills may seem like a fairly simple landform, but when you delve into the different types of hills that exist, how they're formed, and how they impact the world around them, there's much to be learned. This engaging guide offers a detailed summary of these fascinating features. Colorful photographs show a variety of different kinds of hills and help readers learn to identify the landforms when they see them. This volume's content reinforces science and social studies curricula.
In some areas, tall mountains make for quite striking landforms. With the help of this informative guide, readers won't have to scale the tallest peaks to learn all about these fascinating landforms. Age-appropriate text correlates closely with vibrant photographs, making it easy for readers to learn to identify mountains and differentiate them from similar landforms, such as hills. This engaging volume reinforces key science and social studies curricula and teaches readers about some of the most magnificent mountains around the world.
Plateaus are sometimes called tablelands, which is a nickname that makes sense since plateaus have flat tops that often resemble the smooth surface of a table. Your readers will learn about these unique landforms, from how they form their signature flat tops to where they are found around the world. Accessible text is paired with eye-catching photographs, helping readers learn to identify these remarkable landforms, which is an important part of the elementary social studies curriculum. Key science concepts are discussed, offering a cross-curricular guide to plateaus.
It may seem like there isn't much to be learned about vast, flat areas with no trees, but taking up more than one-third of Earth's land, plains are important parts of the planet. From size, locations, and relationship to other parts of the environment, this engaging guide helps readers learn all about plains. Colorful photographs show examples of plains and help readers learn to recognize them. Age-appropriate text offers a variety of information supporting both science and social studies curricula.
Many people know that valleys are areas of low land, but they may be unaware of all the different kinds of valleys that exist and how they're formed. Readers will learn about valleys from an accessible narrative that introduces key earth science concepts. Vivid photographs show examples of valleys, helping readers learn to identify these landforms, which is an important part of the elementary social studies curriculum.
On the surface...Marcus Evans is on the brink of his thirty-sixth birthday, surrounded by great family, seemingly loyal friends, a successful career and all the "big boy" toys a man could want! Ask anyone around him, they'd say he has it all...What a man wants...There's one piece to the puzzle that continues to allude him as he yearns for that special woman to share it all with. With every passing year, the void becomes more pronounced, although his pride won't let it show. Against his better judgment he explores a relationship that sends him reeling to the concern of his close friends, who decide to pay him a surprise visit for a long festive weekend.Isn't always what he gets...Marcus' celebration turns into a series of shocking events, laughs, introspection, and much revelation for all involved, as the reality of Seasons manifest. Their reunion brings both pain and pleasure as secrets unfold! The question is... will they be able to recover from the truth?
Chaos and frivolity abound in the New Albion theatre as a theatre troupe (all of whom have their own issues) bands together in the face of every obstacle... and there are many.
The Dude abides . . . and you can too, with the Seven Spiritual Laws of Taking it Easy and other Lebowski-level wisdom. When you seek salvation from this stressed out, uptight world, there’s only one man to go to for guidance—the Dude. At once helpful, funny and profound (like The Big Lebowski itself), this survival guide from the founders of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude and their top disciples shows how to be as Dude-like as the Dude (well, almost): •Secrets of sacred Dudeist practices •The Seven Spiritual Laws of Taking it Easy •Great Dudes who changed the world (without really trying) •New feminist philosophy for special ladies •The Way of the Dude applied to politics, ethics, and finances •A twelve-step program for personal dudevolution •The science of really tying your room together All this and a lot more what-have-you. So the next time life throws you a gutterball, just pick up this book and ask, “What Would the Dude Do?” It’s your answer for everything.
Dwayne Cox and William Morison trace the twists and turns of the University of Louisville's two hundred year journey from provincial academy to national powerhouse. From the 1798 charter that established Jefferson Seminary to the 1998 opening of Papa John Stadium, Cox and Morison reveal the unique and fascinating history of the university's evolution. They discuss the early failures to establish a liberal arts college; tell the extraordinary story of the Louisville Municipal College, U of L's separate division for African Americans during the era of segregation; detail the political wrangling and budgetary struggles of the university's move from quasi-private to state-supported institution; and confront head-on the question of the university's founding date. The history of the University of Louisville defies the stereotype of orderly and planned growth. For many years, the university was essentially a consortium of two professional schools -- medicine and law. Not until the first decade of the twentieth century did the liberal arts gain a firm and permanent foothold. Because of its early emphasis on practical, professional education and the virtual autonomy of its separate units for many years, the University of Louisville is unusual in the annals of higher education.
Many young readers have heard of canyons. Maybe they've even seen one on a family vacation or school trip. However, they may not understand what makes something a canyon or exactly how canyons are formed. Readers will learn to identify canyons and find out how, over many years, rushing rivers can cut through rock to create these breathtaking landforms. Manageable sections of text are paired with attention-grabbing photographs, ensuring that readers of many ages and levels can enjoy this educational guide.
In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase’s win failed to capture the attention of historians—as had the century-long evolution of the black community in Spokane. In Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest, Dwayne A. Mack corrects this oversight—and recovers a crucial chapter in the history of race relations and civil rights in America. As early as the 1880s, Spokane was a destination for black settlers escaping the racial oppression in the South—settlers who over the following decades built an infrastructure of churches, businesses, and social organizations to serve the black community. Drawing on oral histories, interviews, newspapers, and a rich array of other primary sources, Mack sets the stage for the years following World War II in the Inland Northwest, when an influx of black veterans would bring about a new era of racial issues. His book traces the earliest challenges faced by the NAACP and a small but sympathetic white population as Spokane became a significant part of the national civil rights struggle. International superstars such as Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong and Hazel Scott figure in this story, along with charismatic local preachers, entrepreneurs, and lawyers who stepped forward as civic leaders. These individuals’ contributions, and the black community’s encounters with racism, offer a view of the complexity of race relations in a city and a region not recognized historically as centers of racial strife. But in matters of race—from the first migration of black settlers to Spokane, through the politics of the Cold War and the civil rights movement, to the successes of the 1970s and ’80s—Mack shows that Spokane has a story to tell, one that this book at long last incorporates into the larger history of twentieth-century America.
Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies and the content they provided. Conventional histories suggest that the growth of global communications correlated with imperial expansion: an increasing number of cables were laid as colonial powers competed for control of resources. Winseck and Pike argue that the role of the imperial contest, while significant, has been exaggerated. They emphasize how much of the global media system was in place before the high tide of imperialism in the early twentieth century, and they point to other factors that drove the proliferation of global media links, including economic booms and busts, initial steps toward multilateralism and international law, and the formation of corporate cartels. Drawing on extensive research in corporate and government archives, Winseck and Pike illuminate the actions of companies and cartels during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, in many different parts of the globe, including Africa, Asia, and Central and South America as well as Europe and North America. The complex history they relate shows how cable companies exploited or transcended national policies in the creation of the global cable network, how private corporations and government agencies interacted, and how individual reformers fought to eliminate cartels and harmonize the regulation of world communications. In Communication and Empire, the multinational conglomerates, regulations, and the politics of imperialism and anti-imperialism as well as the cries for reform of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth emerge as the obvious forerunners of today’s global media.
Some of the most raucous evenings in the history of theater are chronicled in this lively discussion of occasions when theater-makers changed the course of theatrical, and sometimes world, history. Covering a wide range of events from the inauspicious opening of Oedipus Rexin Athens, to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., to the violence-riddled performance of Halla Bol in New Delhi, this book offers detailed and studied observations of specific minutes, hours, and days on the stage. For each staging covered, the author examines the reactions of critics and the public and tells the inside story, identifies the key players, and examines why these events still resound today.
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