Oliver is a happy little boy, until one day he wakes up with Grumbles in his head... and Grumbles IN HIS BED! The Grumbles dance on Oliver's chest, tug at his ears and cause all sorts of trouble for him, but when they run away with his snuggle blanket it's the last straw! Will Oliver work out a way to tame those terrible Grumbles?
Millions of years ago, a small dinosaur slips and scrambles, before sinking into the earth. Her bones lie under the soil, slowly transforming into something wonderful. Then, one day, a miner spies a shimmer of blue and green. The Opal Dinosaur explores the amazing discovery of rare opalised bones. Follow the journey as the bones are found, forgotten and then finally identified as an exciting new dinosaur species. Reading level varies from child to child, but we recommend this book for ages 5 to 9.
With stories to enchant readers of all ages, these fairy tales pull you into their own magical worlds. From twists on the classic fairy tales of old to completely new fairy tales, let these charming fairy tales sweep you away into the realm of fantasy. With 35 stories, including 2 poems, written by 21 different authors, Teapot Tales is a wonderful collection of short stories, each story just long enough to enjoy with a cup of tea.
Near mountain, scrub and oceanfront, we tiptoe on our Easter hunt. We look over. We look under. And then ... a group of lambs are on an Easter egg hunt. They find all kinds of eggs, kiwi, tui, keruru, little blue penguin (korora) and kakapo, before the little lambs finally find what they've been looking for: Easter eggs to share with all their whanau. Highlights the beauty of New Zealand's flora and fauna"--Publisher information.
Near bush and scrub and oceanfront, they tiptoe on their Easter hunt . . . A group of baby bilbies are on an Easter egg hunt. They find all kinds of eggs - a kookaburra's egg, a turtle's egg, a cassowary's egg - before the little bilbies finally find what they've been looking for: Easter eggs to share with all their friends. This colourfully illustrated picture book showcases the diversity of Australia's egg-laying animals. Each spread reveals an egg in its natural environment and asks the question 'Whose egg could this be?'. After turning the page, the egg is matched with the animal it belongs to.
This innovative dictionary allows the user to find given names which relate to a specific meaning. Arranged alphabetically by definition, the names are followed by the language of origin, variations (derivatives, diminutives, and nicknames) of the name itself, and the name as interpreted in different languages. Separate sections are included for male and female names. Using the dictionary you could discover that there are over 160 names listed for "flower," from Anthea (Greek) to Zahara (African).
Systemic Risk: History, Measurement and Regulation presents an overview of this emerging form of risk from a global perspective. Systemic risks endanger entire financial systems, not just individual financial institutions. In this volume, the authors review how systemic risk has evolved over the last 40 years across continents to come to the forefront of regulatory attention. They then discuss transmissions channels, provide a review of systemic risk measures, and describe new regulations that have been introduced, as well as the theory and practice of financial stability committees that have been set up internationally. Overall, the book provides a practical guide to understand, identify, assess and control systemic risk.While the financial research on systemic risk has strongly increased since the events of 2008, this book is a first in providing a detailed yet concise overview of the topic, covering the history of systemic risk, its measurement, and its regulation. The authors provide both academic and practitioner-oriented insights, and draw on their different regions of expertise to provide a global perspective on systemic risk.
Don’t just read about Mac OS X Lion: See it and hear it with step-by-step video tutorials and valuable audio sidebars delivered through the free Web Edition that comes with every USING book. For the price of the book, you get online access anywhere with a web connection—no books to carry, content is updated as Mac OS X Lion changes, and the benefit of video and audio learning. Way more than just a book, this is all the help you’ll ever need where you want, when you want! INCLUDES MORE THAN 3 HOURS OF FREE VIDEO & AUDIO Show Me video walks through tasks you’ve just got to see Tell Me More audio delivers insights straight from the experts 2 CONVENIENT WAYS TO ACCESS THE VIDEO TUTORIALS AND AUDIO SIDEBARS The 69 media files are available on the included DVD. The Web Edition of USING Mac OS X Lion, which includes the media files, is available online anytime and anywhere once you’ve registered your book at quepublishing.com/using.
This fascinating study examines the customs, legal codes, and socioeconomic mechanisms that evolved from the initial Christian-Muslim encounter on Crusader battlefields. It pinpoints changes in European mentality, and conduct of war, tracing acculturation processes in Frankish society in the Levant. These changes emerged from the need to redeem captives, making payment of ransom to the infidel conceivable and acceptable. The book pays special attention to the story of the vanquished, to the situation of women, to the behavior of the Military Orders toward captives, and to the image of the captive in Crusader literature, in the context of making war and peace.
Kayla gave birth as a surrogate to her dead sister’s child and is raising her alone. When Kayla’s nanny makes off with all her money, she’s left alone and broke. She decides to pay a visit to her childhood friend Van to ask for help. He’s the man she once had a passionate one-night affair with. When she finds out he has a fiancée, she leaves in a hurry without saying why she came, so Van follows her home to see what she wants. Van walks in on a burglar threatening hers and the baby’s lives. Once they are safe, he has a proposal: “You and the baby come live with me for six months…”
A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of one of the most significant and intriguing quilters of the 21st century, featuring 109 color plates of Wells's narrative quilts with intimate commentaries by Wells herself
Every reader will find this classic book of sermons extremely valuable because of the simply brilliant way some of the greatest biblical themes have been communicated to our generation by this anointed servant of God. These easy-to-read sermons are fast paced, down-to-earth, practical, and inspired of God. It is essential reading for the believer, the backslider, the unsaved, and the agnostic. Readers of all ages will surely be: Stirred emotionally and spiritually, and strengthened by the ultimate message of eternal life. Motivated by the power of these messages to change hearts, transform lives from the inside out, and save lost souls. Reminded of the awesome power of Almighty God to make the impossible possible. Blessed by the anointed work of this servant of God who has been led by the Holy Spirit to deliver these profound prophetic messages.
A guide to the features of Mac OS X Lion covers such topics as creating a user account, using the system profiler, managing applications, browsing the Web, using TextEdit, using widgets, importing music, using iChat and FaceTime, and encrypting data.
The economic, social, political, military, and intellectual aspects of the Muslims' concern for history reveal the general structure of their perception of reality.
The Treeponsis is the story of a princess from Dontave Castle in the ancient Elderwood who becomes trapped by an ancient curse that turns her into a tree. In fact, she becomes the last tree in all the realms. For many years, the princess had suffered her ill-timed fate due to the handiwork of the villain Monkaitrain. In the devious plan, Monkaitrain has left the world a place of devastation. Now a dry vast wasteland, only a few survived. Out of the survivors, Dote, a plotter, and Zero, a catcher, are given clues to the little things that are needed to save the Treeponsis. Zero enlists the help of Dote to go with him on the journey. Monkaitrain had stashed the little things far away in his castle that is protected by Hitler birds, scavengers, and peckers. As the journey progresses, Zero happens to come across others and asks them to help on his mission, the flock consists of Flappers, Pointa, Brass, Grease, Gill, Mackin, and other animals. At the climax of the story, it will take deception, ingenuity, unknown teamwork, and cunningness to save the world and the Treeponsis.
This book critically examines the complex interactions between media and crime. Written with an engaging and authoritative voice, it guides you through all the key issues, ranging from news reporting of crime, media constructions of children and women, moral panics, and media and the police to ′reality′ crime shows, surveillance and social control. This third edition: Explores innovations in technology and forms of reporting, including citizen journalism. Examines the impact of new media including mobile, Internet and digital technologies, and social networking sites. Features chapters dedicated to the issues around cybercrime and crime film, along with new content on terrorism and the media. Shows you how to research media and crime. Includes discussion questions, further reading and a glossary. Now features a companion website, complete with links to journal articles, relevant websites and blogs. This is essential reading for your studies in criminology, media studies, cultural studies and sociology. The Key Approaches to Criminology series celebrates the removal of traditional barriers between disciplines and, specifically, reflects criminology’s interdisciplinary nature and focus. It brings together some of the leading scholars working at the intersections of criminology and related subjects. Each book in the series helps readers to make intellectual connections between criminology and other discourses, and to understand the importance of studying crime and criminal justice within the context of broader debates. The series is intended to have appeal across the entire range of undergraduate and postgraduate studies and beyond, comprising books which offer introductions to the fields as well as advancing ideas and knowledge in their subject areas.
A new edition of the #1 text in the Human Computer Interaction field! Hugely popular with students and professionals alike, Interaction Design is an ideal resource for learning the interdisciplinary skills needed for interaction design, human–computer interaction, information design, web design and ubiquitous computing. This text offers a cross-disciplinary, practical and process-oriented introduction to the field, showing not just what principles ought to apply to interaction design, but crucially how they can be applied. An accompanying website contains extensive additional teaching and learning material including slides for each chapter, comments on chapter activities and a number of in-depth case studies written by researchers and designers.
Surprise--it's a baby! After their steamy vacation fling, Alison Carter knows Ronin Marshall is a skilled lover and a billionaire businessman. But a father...who hires her New Zealand baby-planning service? This divorcée has already been deceived once; Ronin's now the last man she wants to see. But he must have Ali. Only she can rescue Ronin from the upheaval of caring for his orphaned nephew...and give Ronin more of what he shared with her during the best night of his life. But something is holding her back. And Ronin will stop at nothing to find out what secrets she's keeping!
In 1939, 21-year-old Kenjiro Takeda is on his way to the United States from Japan. His parents preceded him years earlier and are finally able to send for him. After his arrival, the progressive young man sees 18-year-old Patricia Middleton, a young black woman, and one look is enough. The two develop a very unlikely friendship that leads to an even more unlikely romance. This interracial romance novel follows their relationship as it is affected by racism in both families and society as a whole. The Second World War plays a major part in their lives, with Kenjiro being sent to Manzanar War Relocation Center, an interment camp for Japanese Americans, leaving Patricia behind to deal with an unplanned pregnancy. Book one of this historic series ends with the horrific bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Authors Sharon Snow and Yvonne Reed present fashion as a way to offer a fun and interesting program for teens in the library—and not just for girls. Today's fashion-savvy teenaged guys are just as likely to be eager participants. Teens Have Style!: Fashion Programs for Young Adults at the Library provides an easy-to-follow template for creating popular programs within the public or school library setting that will capture the attention of most teenaged girls. In Teens Have Style!, librarians will find programs they can adapt to their individual style or specific age range of their younger patrons, such as getting ready for the prom, making jewelry, decorating sneakers, creating a "green" outfit from recycled materials, and many more. All of the ideas are flexible and can be matched to other educational programs or to fit the library's needs, regardless of its size. For example, school librarians can partner with art teachers to orchestrate a "Fashion as Art" program, which challenges students to identify a painting that they like and then to create an outfit that reflects the style and feel of that work of art.
When millionaire Benedict del Castillo alighted from the yacht and Mia’s eyes fell on him, she thought her heart was going to stop. She had once made love with him, despite not knowing his name! More recently, she had been happy when a customer wanted to rent out the entirety of her failing hotel for a month, but she’d had no idea it was him. Things are about to get complicated because Benedict doesn’t yet know that Mia gave birth to his son, and she’s about to find out how much Benedict still desires her!
To Brent’s indignation, his ex-fiancée, Amira, is proposing a fake marriage. Eight years ago on their wedding day, Amira left him at the altar, and he recalls his humiliation with perfect clarity. Since then, Brent has turned his back on love and become a workaholic. As for Amira, she’s fallen into financial hardship, and her only way to escape it is by marrying someone before she turns thirty. Brent decides to agree to the marriage—he’ll lure her in, then reject her. It’s just the beginning of his revenge.
The first woman elected superintendent of schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, Cora Wilson Stewart (1875–1958) realized that a major key to overcoming the illiteracy that plagued her community was to educate adult illiterates. To combat this problem, Stewart opened up her schools to adults during moonlit evenings in the winter of 1911. The result was the creation of the Moonlight Schools, a grassroots movement dedicated to eliminating illiteracy in one generation. Following Stewart’s lead, educators across the nation began to develop similar literacy programs; within a few years, Moonlight Schools had emerged in Minnesota, South Carolina, and other states. Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky’s Moonlight Schools examines these institutions and analyzes Stewart’s role in shaping education at the state and national levels. To improve their literacy, Moonlight students learned first to write their names and then advanced to practical lessons about everyday life. Stewart wrote reading primers for classroom use, designing them for rural people, soldiers, Native Americans, prisoners, and mothers. Each set of readers focused on the knowledge that individuals in the target group needed to acquire to be better citizens within their community. The reading lessons also emphasized the importance of patriotism, civic responsibility, Christian morality, heath, and social progress. Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin explores the “elusive line between myth and reality” that existed in the rhetoric Stewart employed in order to accomplish her crusade. As did many educators engaged in benevolent work during the Progressive Era, Stewart sometimes romanticized the plight of her pupils and overstated her successes. As she traveled to lecture about the program in other states interested in addressing the problem of illiteracy, she often reported that the Moonlight Schools took one mountain community in Kentucky “from moonshine and bullets to lemonade and Bibles.” All rhetoric aside, the inclusive Moonlight Schools ultimately taught thousands of Americans in many under-served communities across the nation how to read and write. Despite the many successes of her programs, when Stewart retired in 1932, the crusade against adult illiteracy had yet to be won. Cora Wilson Stewart presents the story of a true pioneer in adult literacy and an outspoken advocate of women’s political and professional participation and leadership. Her methods continue to influence literacy programs and adult education policy and practice.
This book offers an interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy, Yvonne Sherratt traces systematically a utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of Adorno's thought. She places Adorno's work in the context of German Idealist and later Marxist and Freudian traditions, and then analyses his key works to show how the aesthetic, epistemological, psychological, historical and sociological thought interconnect to form a utopian image. The book will be eagerly sought out by students and specialists in philosophy, social and political theory, intellectual history, literary theory and cultural studies.
Lisa wasnt prepared for her husbands reaction when she told him. Guilt had built up over the years to the point where she couldnt bear it anymore.Grace had been trying to keep up a brave front, but the news spilled out with her tears. There was nothing more she could do.Yolanda was struggling with emotions that threatened to cripple a new relationshipand fighting back anger toward God over the loss of her beloved husband.Marissa was a newlywed with a promising career and an inconvenient dilemmaone she thought best taken care of on her own.Catherine had dealt with her sorrow long ago, but hers was a tale that needed to be told.This is a story of women overwhelmed with inconsolable grief and soul-consuming guiltand their journey to redemption and healing. Theres only one way, you know. Only one.
Declan Knight, a popular socialite, has shown up unexpectedly at Gwen’s engagement party. His obsidian eyes burn with intensity, thinking back to when they last held each other eight years ago. Gwen comforted him after his lover’s death, but in the afterglow of their passion, he cast Gwen off as if she were nothing. Gwen has no idea why he’s suddenly appeared, so she’s as surprised as anyone when Declan takes Gwen’s hand and declares to the room that he’s her groom!
The writings of six choreographers are assembled in this book and the leap they have taken to go from the medium of choreography into written text constitutes a form of translation. Some of the texts investigate the possibilities of written language as invention, others use it as a means to illustrate specific tenets or describe choreographic projects. All yield insight into the process of coaxing language from the body.
This practical and informative text lays out the product of a number of years of clinical research into suicide behaviour and its prevention. While the focus is on non-affective psychosis and the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, the mechanisms underlying suicide behaviour in this group may well underlie or at least influence suicide behaviour in other disorders. The authors describe methods of assessment through individual formulation, and a cognitive behavioural intervention through case studies, to reduce the risk of suicide. This book argues that: · Suicide behaviour lies on a cognitive-behavioural continuum from ideation, through intention to action. · Mechanisms based on biased information processing systems, the development of suicide schema, and appraisal styles are likely to be fruitful in explaining suicidal thoughts and behaviours. · A psychological theory of suicide behaviour is needed in order to develop a mechanism of suicide and to understand the components of suicidal thoughts and behaviours. · Suicide risk can be reduced through the use of the intervention methods described within the text Cognitive Behavioural Prevention of Suicide in Psychosis evaluates practical applications of contemporary research on this topic, and will therefore be of interest to practitioners, post-graduates in training, and researchers studying suicide and/or psychosis.
Going Up the Country is part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part clear-eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont. This is the story of how young migrants, largely from the cities and suburbs of New York and Massachusetts, turned their backs on the establishment of the 1950s and moved to the backwoods of rural Vermont, spawning a revolution in lifestyle, politics, sexuality, and business practices that would have a profound impact on both the state and the nation. The movement brought hippies, back-to-the-landers, political radicals, sexual libertines, and utopians to a previously conservative state and led us to today's farm to table way of life, environmental consciousness, and progressive politics as championed by Bernie Sanders.
As a child, Holly was abandoned one Christmas Eve, and she had a tough time of it growing up. But she’s older now and has her life together. She’s her gorgeous boss’s assistant and gets to dress to the nines and attend high-class events with him. And though she holds a torch for her boss, she knows her heart is safe—Connor Knight has written off any kind of romance since his divorce. But then on another Christmas Eve, Connor compliments Holly on her crimson dress at the company party…and it turns out that’s only the beginning for these two lonely coworkers!
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