In this title, examine the life of courageous environmentalist and author of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson. Readers will enjoy digging into Carson's personal story, beginning with her childhood writing stories and exploring the Allegheny River near her home in Pennsylvania. Students can trace Carson's success, from her education at PCW and Woods Hole to her roles with the Bureau of Fisheries and the FWS, before her writing career took hold. Engaging text and photos offer insight on topics such as marine biology, pesticide use, and the birth of the EPA. While a timeline, glossary, and index supplement the text, an entertaining science activity allows readers their own hands-on experience based on the science that inspired this woman's groundbreaking career. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
On his television show "The Colbert Report," which aired on Comedy Central from 2005 to 2014, Colbert played the nation's fool. By good-naturedly mocking the mainstream media, politicians, and others, he made pointed commentary on how those in power attempt to both manipulate and win the trust of the American public. In 2015, Colbert began hosting his own late night show, "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," where he interviews guests and continues to cover important political and cultural events. His accolades have been serious and prestigious: Colbert has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People twice. He has also received Emmy awards, Peabody awards, and an honorary doctorate degree from Knox College. Special attention is paid to explaining the philosophy behind Colbert's comedic personas, reasons for his popularity, and examples of his cultural influence.
Angelina Jolie is no stranger to the spotlight. This child actress made her silver screen debut in the film Lookin' to Get Out in 1982, alongside her Academy Award-winning father, Jon Voight. Since then, Jolie has starred in over forty movies and has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. This compelling edition covers the fascinating life of this actress, director, and philanthropist. The book delves into Jolie's childhood, her difficulty with her parents' divorce, and her evolution as an actress. Chapters also explore her work as a humanitarian, her family, and her work as a director.
On his television show "The Colbert Report," which aired on Comedy Central from 2005 to 2014, Colbert played the nation's fool. By good-naturedly mocking the mainstream media, politicians, and others, he made pointed commentary on how those in power attempt to both manipulate and win the trust of the American public. In 2015, Colbert began hosting his own late night show, "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," where he interviews guests and continues to cover important political and cultural events. His accolades have been serious and prestigious: Colbert has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People twice. He has also received Emmy awards, Peabody awards, and an honorary doctorate degree from Knox College. Special attention is paid to explaining the philosophy behind Colbert's comedic personas, reasons for his popularity, and examples of his cultural influence.
Angelina Jolie is no stranger to the spotlight. This child actress made her silver screen debut in the film Lookin' to Get Out in 1982, alongside her Academy Award-winning father, Jon Voight. Since then, Jolie has starred in over forty movies and has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. This compelling edition covers the fascinating life of this actress, director, and philanthropist. The book delves into Jolie's childhood, her difficulty with her parents' divorce, and her evolution as an actress. Chapters also explore her work as a humanitarian, her family, and her work as a director.
This book takes a largely nonjudgmental tone describing the reasons teens and adults permanently alter their bodies. It covers information that teens will want to repeat and share, crammed with facts, anecdotes, and research studies.
The history of Fresh Pond Reservation—onetime summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians, center of the nineteenth-century ice industry, and stomping grounds for Harvard students—told through photographs, maps and plans, and stories. Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been described as a “landscape loved to death.” Certainly it is a landscape that has been changed by its various uses over the years and one to which Cantabridgeans and Bostonians have felt an intense attachment. Henry James returned to it in his sixties, looking for “some echo of the dreams of youth,” feeling keenly “the pleasure of memory”; a Harvard student of the 1850s fondly remembered skating parties and the chance of “flirtation with some fair-ankled beauty of breezy Boston”; modern residents argue fiercely over dogs being allowed to run free at the reservation and whether soccer or nature is a more valuable experience for Cambridge schoolchildren. In Fresh Pond, Jill Sinclair tells the story of the pond and its surrounding land through photographs, drawings, maps, plans, and an engaging narrative of the pond's geological, historical, and political ecology. Fresh Pond has been a Native American hunting and fishing ground; the site of an eighteenth-century hotel offering bowling, food and wine, and impromptu performances by Harvard men; a summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians; a training ground for trench warfare; a location for picnics and festivals for workers and sporting activities for all. The parkland features an Olmsted design, albeit an imperfectly realized one. The pond itself—a natural lake carved out by the retreating Ice Age about 15,000 years ago—was a center of the nineteenth-century ice industry (disparaged by Thoreau, writing about another pond), and still supplies the city of Cambridge with fresh drinking water. Sinclair's celebration of a local landscape also alerts us to broader issues—shifts in public attitudes toward nature (is it brutal wilderness or in need of protection?) and water (precious commodity or limitless flow?)—that resonate as we remake our relationship to the landscape.
Financial and Managerial Accounting, 4th Edition, provides students with a clear introduction to the fundamental financial and managerial concepts needed for anyone pursuing a career in accounting or business. Through a focus on accounting transactions, real-world industry examples, and robust assessment, students develop a solid understanding of how to apply accounting principles and techniques in practice. By connecting the classroom to the business world with an emphasis on decision making and key data analysis skills appropriate at the introductory level, Financial and Managerial Accounting ensures students are more engaged and better prepared for careers as professionals in the modern business world.
A collection of forty-three primary sources, ranging from contributions to scholarly journals to newspaper articles and first person accounts. An indispensable supplement to any course in abnormal or clinical psychology. Articles represent current research findings in psychopathology and indicate the direction of new research. The editors provide introductory material for each article.
Maximize understanding and prepare students for future learning and careers in accounting and business. Financial Accounting, Twelfth Edition enhances its focus on real-world decision-making processes with data analytics and insights while retaining the pedagogy on which users have come to rely. Thorough coverage of procedures, early introduction of the Accounting Cycle from a corporate perspective, and robust assignment content provide a solid foundation for learning the essential concepts, techniques, and methods of financial accounting.
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