BookMath that students can relate to!This full-color, photo-illustrated math reader seamlessly integrates Math with the curriculum areas of Science and Social Studies. Grab your students' attention and inspire a love of Math and of learning.
Drawing upon his own powerful personal story, Zachary R. Wood shares his perspective on free speech, race, and dissenting opinions—in a world that sorely needs to learn to listen. As the former president of the student group Uncomfortable Learning at his alma mater, Williams College, Zachary Wood knows from experience about intellectual controversy. At school and beyond, there's no one Zach refuses to engage with simply because he disagrees with their beliefs—sometimes vehemently so—and this view has given him a unique platform in the media. But Zach has never shared the details of his own personal story. In Uncensored, he reveals for the first time how he grew up poor and black in Washington, DC, where the only way to survive was by resisting the urge to write people off because of their backgrounds and perspectives. By sharing his troubled upbringing—from a difficult early childhood to the struggles of code switching between his home and his elite private school—Zach makes a compelling argument for a new way of interacting with others and presents a new outlook on society's most difficult conversations.
The 2015-16 season marked a significant moment in Clemson football history. Not only did the team play in its first national championship in thirty-four years, but the nation also finally took note of the burgeoning renaissance. When Dabo Swinney told a national television audience about his team's willingness to "bring your own guts" after an emotional win over Notre Dame, it was a spontaneous line to a television reporter in the delirious, rain-soaked aftermath of a landmark victory. But Swinney's comment also underscored the identity and drive that would fuel a truly special season. Larry Williams relays the intimate details of Swinney's life, his impact on Tiger Town and his mission to create an elite program on and off the field.
This book is a comprehensive identification guide to the 222 species of fishes in Florida’s fresh waters. Each species is presented with color photographs, key characteristics for identification, comparisons to similar species, habitat descriptions, and dot distribution maps. Florida's unique mix of species includes some of the world's favorite sport fishes, the Tarpon and Largemouth Bass. This guide also features three species native only to Florida—the Seminole Killifish, Flagfish, and Okaloosa Darter—and the smallest freshwater fish in North America, the Least Killifish. Ranging from the panhandle to the Everglades, their habitats include springs, creeks, rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps, marshes, and man-made canals. As Florida's human population grows, the state's freshwater environments are being changed in ways that threaten its native fishes. This book provides important information on the diversity, distribution, and environmental needs of both native and nonindigenous species, helping us monitor and take care of Florida's water and its aquatic inhabitants.
It was powerful, it was dexterous, it was beautiful, and it was mine. It's more than an appendage it seems... It's one hell of a tale. The Tail of a Dragon follows Zurion, whose decision to join a war he knows nothing of results in the loss of something very close to him, in fact, it was attached to him. His unsightly new appearance results in exile, and this is his story. Full of twists and turns, dreams of revenge, and care for the masses of unique friends he makes along the way, the last thing he worries about is his tail.
In the last issue, Hex Spencer spent her first night gatecrashing with Rothman, Ganesa Dispatch's least popular team member. Just down the street, but a million miles away, Hex ex-partner Natas had a fateful meeting with Estefan Hawk and earned a promotion to running a rack.
After the events in Book Two, Hex Spencer's Gatecrashing career continues to be an uphill struggle with a revolving door of less than awesome partners. Meanwhile, across town in the City District, super industrialist Dane Brennan is bored without his illicit wetware business. He wants his silent partner, District Leader Hawk, to find new wetwork sources to exploit. With the election of super-conservative mayor Girlie Warren, the entire city is on a collision course with chaos and Hex continues to be drawn into the middle of it all.
Technology and air superiority equals success in modern warfare. But even during the War in Afghanistan, satellite recon and smart bombs cannot replace soldiers on the ground. When a SEAL team SeaHawk helicopter goes down in the icy mountains of Kandahar, Lieutenant Lester Donovan must make a difficult decision: follow orders or go "off mission" and save his fellow soldiers. With Taliban terrorists at every turn, neither decision will be easy. He'll need his instincts and some high-tech weaponry to get off of the hillside and back to base alive!
Welcome to Palomar City, a tightly-packed, overpopulated American mega-city. Over the last sixty years, a series of traffic control devices known as Gates have transformed this thriving metropolis into a pressure cooker of political and socio-ethnic tension that is on the verge of exploding. One of the only groups with unrestricted passage through the Gates are the emergency medical teams, nicknamed ?The Gatecrashers,? who find themselves in the middle of a building conflict that threatens to tear Palomar City apart once and for all. In the last issue we learned that Splitfin head of security, Kippie Moeketsi, was involved with the wetware-heist-gone-wrong that sent Hex Spencer and Natas Balthus out the window of the 44th floor of Splitfin Tower. Later Hex takes Dr. Stahl's advice and interview's for a job Gatecrashing with Ganesa Dispatch under the watchful eye of Rada Raja and Kippie demands that Dr. Dorazio return to work, or their plan is in danger of being discovered.
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