Making Waves

Layla and the Bots' newest invention is going to make a big SPLASH Pick a book. Grow a Reader This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow Layla and the Bots are so excited to meet the animals at the Surfside Rescue Center They meet a sea turtle, a sea lion, and a dolphin named Splash, who needs their help. Splash won't eat unless there is music playing... but he likes to pick his own music Can Layla and the Bots build a music machine that will do the job? With full-color artwork on every page, speech bubbles throughout, and a fun DIY activity that's perfect for at-home learning, this early chapter book series brings kid-friendly STEAM topics to young readers

Ah, salty breezes, beach hair, the feeling of bare feet in warm sandand the fun of imagining life under ocean waves. Mermaid life is thelife, and it is a lifestyle, or an aspiration, that's right on t

Radio is a medium of seemingly endless contradictions. Now in its third century of existence, the technology still seems startlingly modern; despite frequent predictions of its demise, radio continues

Radio produced and broadcast behind prison walls is redefining traditional meanings of ‘public service broadcasting’ and disrupting traditional power structures within the prison system. Focusing on

A woman who runs an elite concierge service in the sun-drenched Hamptons finds her life changing unexpectedly when she hooks up with one of her clients—a magnetic business tycoon—in the debut of a ser

A vital history of the groups and individuals who put Duluth and Superior at the forefront of pioneering and innovative feminist organizing.

When Malin Burnham gifted fundstoward the construction of the new SanDiego Yacht Club Junior Sailing Center,he stipulated that a list of “Virtues ofExcellence” be permanently attachedto the building a

Making Waves: The History of Variationist Sociolinguistics tells the human story of an academic field based on one-on-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationists Sociolinguisti

Making Waves tells the human story of an academic field based on one-to-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Sociolinguistics. Explanations of concepts, ideas, g

Michigan will always be known as the automobile capital of the world, but the Great Lakes State boasts a similarly rich heritage in the development of boat building in America. By the late nineteenth

The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of eco

Getting there was all the fun...Miranda just has to see the Pacific Ocean. Then she'll know she's finally made it -- all the way across the country. And when they get to San Francisco, she'll be reuni

From early modern history to contemporary global influences, this resource captures the legacy of Portugal and its people. From adventurous sailors in search of spices more than 600 years ago and the

"Translations of 46 short articles comprising a collection of Vargas Llosa's writings from early 1960s-93, chosen for their diversity of topics. Presented in chronological order with some grouped them

Making Waves offers a mosaic of fresh approaches toward shaping a new "literacy of place"---a more coherent understanding of BC and Pacific Northwest literature in the 21st century.Providing new insi

When spunky Marguerite Westing discovers that her family will summer at Lake Manawa in 1895, she couldn't be more thrilled. It is the perfect way to escape her agonizingly boring suitor, Roger Gordon

"This is the first of three inter-related books (in a project directed by Immanuel Wallerstein) whose overall objective is to provide an alternative account of contemporary developments of globalizati

Lately rebel angel Brice seems to be behaving, so when Michael asks him and Mel to join on a mission to the 17th-century Caribbean, she happily zooms off to pack her bikini. But the lush paradise of t

"This is the first of three inter-related books (in a project directed by Immanuel Wallerstein) whose overall objective is to provide an alternative account of contemporary developments of globalizati

The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of eco

With life in Zion County, Alabama, finally looking up for twenty-year-old Donnette Sullivan, who has recently inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, her husband, Tim, crippled in an accident,

In a small Alabama town, life is finally looking up for twenty-year-old Donnette Sullivan. She's just inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, and her recently crippled husband is beginning to

A scientist whose team was the first to successfully isolate a gene discusses major biological discoveries of the past fifty years, his own career, and his decision to become a political activist to r

In order to promote truly sustainable development in the management of the world's coastal zones, it is necessary that decision making have horizontal integration between concerned economic sectors an