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In this “creepy-crawly…easy to get lost in” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) second book in the Whispering Pines middle grade series, Rae and Caden take on flesh-eating centipedes that may be alien in nature―perfect for fans of Stranger Things!Caden’s brother Aiden is many things: clever, powerful, vindictive. Unforgiving. And now, he’s also mysteriously free from the hellish dimensional prison that Caden had trapped him in. Caden is sure that Aiden is out for revenge, but since his parents refuse to see the danger when it comes to his brother, he’ll have to find a way to survive on his own.Meanwhile, Rae, freed from the threat of the eye-snatching, monstrous Unseeing, has once again turned all her focus toward finding her missing father. She believes the town’s shady alternative energy company, Green On!, might have the information she seeks, so she joins their internship program to get answers. Unfortunately, this means sacrificing her friendship with Caden, who wants nothing to do w

Everyone loves sports . . . except Marisol! The stand-alone companion to Newbery Medalist and New York Times–bestselling Erin Entrada Kelly’s Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey is an irresistible and humorous story about friendship, family, and fitting in. Fans of Clementine, Billy Miller Makes a Wish, and Ramona the Pest will find a friend in Marisol. Features black-and-white art throughout by Erin Entrada Kelly.Marisol Rainey’s two least-favorite things are radishes and gym class. She avoids radishes with very little trouble, but gym is another story―especially when Coach Decker announces their next unit: kickball.There are so many things that can go wrong in kickball. What if Marisol tries to kick the ball . . . but falls? What if she tries to catch the ball and gets smacked in the nose? What if she’s the worst kickballer in the history of kickball? Marisol and her best friend Jada decide to get help from the most unlikely―and most annoying―athlete in the world: Marisol’s big brother, Oz.Su

A brand-new first sticker book for toddlers and preschoolers!This festive sticker book has over 40 BIG stickers and features charming artwork from Benji Davies, the illustrator of The Storm Whale. Join Bizzy Bear as he has lots of adventures this Christmas, playing in the snow, visiting Santa and delivery presents to children all around the world. Every page includes a panel with objects to spot in the picture and stickers to complete the Christmas scene.There are three other Bizzy Bear sticker books to collect: Things That Go and Animals.

A brand-new novelty series all about things that go!All aboard the baby car. Buckle up and off we go! All aboard the baby car. Driving fast or driving slow.Climb aboard the car in this brand-new novelty series, perfect for babies and pre-schoolers. With tabs to slide and wheels to spin, little ones will love to make the car move on every page. Seb Braun (illustrator of Spinderella by Julia Donaldson, the Daddy Grizzle books by Mark Sperring and author-illustrator of Raj and the Best Day) creates friendly, action-packed scenes, full of detail and warmth.Bursting with adorable animal characters on a special day trip, this bright and busy book will provide hours of entertainment. Also in the series: Baby on Board: Train (2023), Tractor (2024), Aeroplane (2024)

The author of the “brazenly hilarious, tell-it-like-it-is first novel” (Oprah Daily) Queenie returns with another witty and insightful novel about the power of family―even when they seem like strangers.If you could choose your family...you wouldn’t choose the Penningtons.Dimple Pennington knows of her half siblings, but she doesn’t really know them. Five people who don’t have anything in common except for faint memories of being driven through Brixton in their dad’s gold jeep, and some pretty complex abandonment issues. Dimple has bigger things to think about.She’s thirty, and her life isn’t really going anywhere. An aspiring lifestyle influencer with a terrible and wayward boyfriend, Dimple’s life has shrunk to the size of a phone screen. And despite a small but loyal following, she’s never felt more alone in her life. That is, until a dramatic event brings her half siblings Nikisha, Danny, Lizzie, and Prynce crashing back into her life. And when they’re all forced to reconnect with C

Discover the magic to be found in your very own backyard with the help of this fun and creative green witchcraft guidebook for kids! The Little Witchs Guide to Backyard Magicis a joyful guide that focuses on the basic principles of positive, nature-based ';green' witchcraft, which celebrates and fosters a deep respect for the natural world. Kids will discover the true wonder that the earth has to offer through the fun activities, simple spells, and cute crafts in this book, including: Easy divination, like tea leaf reading Crystal magic Weather magic Celebrating the seasons Ideas for magical gardening and working with plants Inviting and working respectfully with the friendlier fae Exploring the five elements Learning about the influence of the sun, moon, and stars And so much more! Through play and the exploration of the natural world, kids will experience the interconnectedness of all things and will learn that as much as magic can be found in the world around us, so too does it

With nods to The Phantom Tollbooth and Coraline, this darkly funny fantasy is a classic-in-the-making―the story of a boy who wants the world to disappear…and what happens when it does.Mickey is angry all the time: at his divorced parents, at his sister, and at his two new stepmoms, both named Charlie. And so he can’t resist the ad inside his pack of gum: “Do you ever wish everyone would go away? Buy The Anti-Book!” He orders the book, but when it arrives, it’s blank―except for one line of instruction: To erase it, write it. He fills the pages with all the things and people he dislikes…and the next thing he knows, he’s wandering an anti-world, one in which everything and everyone familiar is gone. Or are they?Full of humor and surprise, and slyly meaningful, this is a Wizard of Oz for today’s generation―a fantastical quest for comfort and belonging that will resonate with many, many readers.

Crochet your way into a cuteness coma with these 30 over-the-top-adorable amigurumi projects!Grab your hooks and get ready for some seriously cute crochet as you stitch your way through this wonderful, whimsical collection of amigurumi patterns. From Jennifer Santos, founder of the aptly-named Super Cute Design Shop, comes an array of projects that will bring color and joy to all of your crochet creations. With chapters like Anything Is Popsicle!―featuring frozen treats to melt your heart―and Cactus Makes Perfect―filled with a cast of smiling succulents and other perky plants―you’ll be feeling downright giddy as you bring every adorable crocheted creature to life.With 30 projects that are simple enough for crochet beginners but intricate enough in appearance to appeal to a more experienced crowd, there’s something here for every crafter. Featuring Jennifer’s best tips and tricks for things like changing colors, stuffing your creations and achieving the perfect invisible decrease, you’l

A magical picture book for Christmas, now available with an audio CD complete with story, brand-new song and three much-loved Christmas carols. "Magical . .. as well as paying tribute to tradition, the gentle rhythmic verse and stunning pictures illuminate the two other things close to Julia's heart: the power of children and song"Good Housekeeping Deep in a snowy wood stands a little pine tree with a special destiny: when it grows up, it's going to be the famous Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square! This is the perfect picture book to snuggle up with and share at Christmas. Gorgeous, atmospheric illustrations whisk you from frozen forests to the sparkling city square in a beautiful, moving story of festivity and hope.This gorgeous paperback book comes with an audio CD, making it the perfect Christmas gift for young children Julia Donaldson's perfect rhyme is a joy to listen to Introducing Amelie Young, a bright new singing talent and Julia Donaldson's great-niece, singing The Chri

"A poignant, necessary entry into the children's literary canon, Root Magic brings to life the history and culture of Gullah people while highlighting the timeless plight of Black Americans. Add in a fun, magical adventure and you get everything I want in a book!"--Justina Ireland, New York Times bestselling author of Dread NationDebut author Eden Royce arrives with a wondrous story of love, bravery, friendship, and family, filled to the brim with magic great and small.It's 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won't stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven-- and their uncle, Doc, tells them he's going to train them in rootwork.Jez and Jay have always been fascinated by the African American folk magic that has been the l

The New York Times bestselling series returns when Orphan X faces his most challenging mission ever.Evan Smoak is a man with many identities and a challenging past. As Orphan X, he was a government assassin for the off-the-books Orphan Program. After he broke with the Program, he adopted a new name and a new mission-The Nowhere Man, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. Having just survived an attack on his life, and the complete devastation of his base of operations, as well as his complicated (and deepening) relationship with his neighbor Mia Hall, Evan isn't interested in taking on a new mission. But one finds him anyway.Aragon Urrea is a kingpin of a major drug-dealing operation in South Texas. He's also the patron of the local area-suppling employment in legitimate operations, providing help to the helpless, a rough justice to the downtrodden, and a future to a people normally with little hope. He's complicated-a not completely good man, who does bad things for oft

The eighth edition of this seminal guide is designed to support public health practitioners in keeping up-to-date amid the rapidly changing, complex challenges and contexts facing population health in the twenty-first century. Suitable for both undergraduates and postgraduates across a range of professions, the Practical Guide provides theories, principles and competencies for effective health promotion in multiple settings. The book is organised into three parts, covering an overview of the public health landscape, the essentials of planning and management, and how to develop capabilities across a range of activities. The text has been fully updated to examine new issues facing public health, including restructuring of the UK sector post-European Union; COVID-19 and its public health impact and legacy; economic and cost of living influences on population health; and the role of the internet and social media misinformation.Includes promotion of healthier living, working with communitie

A meticulously created facsimile edition of a classic work on design by the progenitor of today’s information design.Long before the internet and its vast stores of information in digital form, information in analog form needed to be organized so that it was legible and accessible. One designer who revolutionized the presentation of printed information was modernist pioneer Ladislav Sutnar (1897–1976). In 1950, Sutnar and architect K. Lonberg-Holm published Catalog Design Progress, a guide to modernizing the design of printed materials through typographic simplicity, compositional ingenuity, and navigational devices that signal the logical flow of information. This meticulously created facsimile of the original book illustrates and enacts Sutnar’s ideas, making clear their continuing influence on graphic design. In the book, Sutnar contrasts his design style with the conglomeration of text and pictures that characterized earlier printed material. He identifies and illustrates visual fe

A comprehensive and up to date guide to mental health law in Scotland, including developments since the implementation of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003.Mental health and incapacity law affect not just those subject to compulsory orders, but everyone with a mental health problem, dementia or a learning disability.This highly practical guide covers every aspect of mental health law, including tribunal procedure, procedures for adults with incapacity, community care, patients’ rights and legal remedies for when things go wrong.The third edition includes:- Changes recommended by the Independent Review on Learning Disability and Autism to mental health legislation (plus any legislative, policy or guidance reflecting this) in its December 2019 final report.- Changes recommended by the Independent Review of Scottish Mental Health Law covering mental health, adults with incapacity and adult support and protection law. This is an ongoing review expected to be comple

From the critically acclaimed author of When You Look Like Us comes a page-turning YA contemporary novel about what happens when the latest "Becky" on the internet is your best friend. A lot is up in the air in Naomi Henry's life: her spot as a varsity cheer flier, her classmates' reaction to the debut of her natural hair, and her crush on the guy who's always been like a brother to her. With so much uncertainty, she feels lucky to have a best friend like Kylie to keep her grounded. After all, they're practically sisters--Naomi's mom took care of Kylie and her twin brother for years.But then a video of Kylie calling the cops on two Black teens in a shopping store parking lot goes viral. Naomi is shaken, and her town is reeling from the publicity. While Naomi tries to reckon with Kylie, the other Black students in their high school are questioning their friendship, and her former friends are wondering where this new "woke" Naomi came from. Although Naomi wants to stand by her best frien

*A Time Most Anticipated Book of 2022* CJ Hauser expands on her viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with ​seventeen further essays in this intimate, frank, and funny book about love in the twenty-first centuryTen days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realized she'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. In this intimate, frank, and funny memoir-in-essays, Hauser releases herself from traditional narratives of happiness and goes looking for ways of living that leave room for the unexpected, making plenty of mistakes along the way. She kisses Internet strangers and officiates at a wedding. She rereads Rebecca in the house her boyfriend once shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. She thinks about Florence Nightingale at a robot convention and grief at John Belushi’s rock and roll g

When our smartphones distract us, much more is at stake than a momentary lapse of attention. Our use of smartphones can interfere with the building-blocks of meaningfulness and the actions that shape our self-identity. By analyzing social interactions and evolving experiences, Roholt reveals the mechanisms of smartphone-distraction that impact our meaningful projects and activities. Roholt’s conception of meaning in life draws from a disparate group of philosophers―Susan Wolf, John Dewey, Hubert Dreyfus, Martin Heidegger, and Albert Borgmann. Central to Roholt’s argument are what Borgmann calls focal practices: dinners with friends, running, a college seminar, attending sporting events. As a recurring example, Roholt develops the classification of musical instruments as focal things, contending that musical performance can be fruitfully understood as a focal practice.Through this exploration of what generates meaning in life, Roholt makes us rethink the place we allow smartphones to o

When our smartphones distract us, much more is at stake than a momentary lapse of attention. Our use of smartphones can interfere with the building-blocks of meaningfulness and the actions that shape our self-identity. By analyzing social interactions and evolving experiences, Roholt reveals the mechanisms of smartphone-distraction that impact our meaningful projects and activities. Roholt’s conception of meaning in life draws from a disparate group of philosophers ― Susan Wolf, John Dewey, Hubert Dreyfus, Martin Heidegger, and Albert Borgmann. Central to Roholt’s argument are what Borgmann calls focal practices: dinners with friends, running, a college seminar, attending sporting events. As a recurring example, Roholt develops the classification of musical instruments as focal things, contending that musical performance can be fruitfully understood as a focal practice.Through this exploration of what generates meaning in life, Roholt makes us rethink the place we allow smartphones to

Start environmental conservation early with the newest title from the Baby's Big World series Energy makes things GO But where does energy come from?It's never too soon to share the potential of clean energy with your little one. Peek underground where most fuel comes from and then look at nature to discover new ways to produce energy With bright illustrations and basic language written for younger readers, this book prompts important discussions about energy: "Where can we get more?"This sturdy, little book identifies alternate energy sources all around us--the light from the sun, the strength of the wind, and more--and introduces key terms in simple ways. Sensory words describe the sound and feel of natural resources, and bright art illustrates the excitement of clean energy for new learners. Perfect for little scientists and nature-lovers, Green Energy shows that there is energy everywhere--all we have to do is work together and look From Starry Forest Books, Baby's Big World introd

The world can be a scary place for a small rabbit, especially when it's filled with strange-looking creatures who don't eat carrots. But does "giant, clawed, and hairy" have to mean "scary"? Rabbit is about to find out!Rabbit loves staying close to home where it is warm and safe and cozy. After all, the outside has things with feathers and scales and horns and hooves! It's certainly better--and safer--for a rabbit to stick to what she knows best: home sweet home. But when rabbit spots a particularly juicy carrot just outside of her comfort zone, she tumbles into a whole new world she wasn't expecting!Author-illustrator Jennifer Meserve offers an adventurous, yet reassuring tale of exploration that will inspire boldness and curiosity. Paired with soft, colorful illustrations, this beautiful picture book also features a community of endearing animals and important social emotional learning themes of friendship, kindness, and bravery. Just right for toddlers and preschoolers who might nee

你知道怎麼數數對吧？那麼快翻開這本書接受挑戰。規則很簡單：你只能數到一！怎麼數都只有一個…然而真的是這樣嗎？有沒有辦法同時遵守規則，又能一路數到100呢？附音檔QRCodeA hilariously bossy picture book about counting that children will love to outsmart!You know how to count, right? GREAT! There are LOADS of fun things to count in this book. Whales, baboons, rainbows, pyramids . .. There's just rule. You must ONLY ever count to ONE.So don't even about THINK bigger numbers. OK?! Get ready to show off your skills in this fun new counting book! But all is not as it seems . .. is this book really only about counting to 'ONE'? Because there are SO MANY fun things that you could count. But - wait - maybe there's a way to outsmart the book .. . and count all the way up to 100!A fun and interactive read-aloud experience, perfect for fans of B J Novak's international bestseller The Book With No Pictures.Every Nosy Crow paperback picture book comes with a free 'Stories Aloud' audio recording - just scan the QR code and listen along!

From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine.Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp―and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot Internet―and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Mattress Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson―Frantic Freddy outed them all. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he’s here to confess. “I’m consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I’m revitalized and resurgent. My meshugenah march down memory lane begins NOW.” In Freddy’s viciously entertaining

Easy-to-use peekaboo sliders, funny rhyming text, and a surprise mirror ending combine in this stylish and interactive board book for babies and toddlers. Babies and the very youngest of children are fascinated by things that go, and they'll love this vehicle-themed book--and want to read it again and again. Ingela P. Arrhenius's unmistakable, enchanting artwork, combined with a smooth mechanism to push, pull, or turn on every page, makes this a totally irresistible board book for toddlers.

Mermazing action-packed underwater adventures for young readers. Beautifully illustrated throughout and with a glittery cover! From the authors and illustrator of the bestselling Unicorn Academy series.Hidden deep beneath the waves is Mermaid Academy, a magical school where mermaids are paired with their very own dolphin and must discover their unique mermaid magic, with plenty of adventure along the way!Maya loves studying at Mermaid Academy. She just wishes her playful dolphin, Rainbow, would take school seriously too. But when they get lost on a school trip and Maya can’t magic a Bubble Tunnel home, things get very serious indeed! Can their friends find them before a sea monster does?Mermaid Academy is the perfect series for 7+ readers who love magic and adventure.Look out for more titles! Isla and Bubble, Cora and Sparkle and Amber and Flash.

Join a hot dog named Dog and a chicken nugget named Nugget as they go to summer camp in this hilarious third book in the Level 2 Ready-to-Read Graphics series by Jason Tharp! Nugget and Dog are going to summer camp with their friends. Everyone is excited for ghost stories, hiking, andbest of alls'mores! Especially Dijon. He's going to see his cousin, Honey Mustard, and he has an evil plan like no other! Will it go his way, or will things get a little bit sticky? Ready-to-Read Graphics books give readers the perfect introduction to the graphic novel format with easy-to-follow panels, speech bubbles with accessible vocabulary, and sequential storytelling that is spot-on for beginning readers. There's even a how-to guide for reading graphic novels at the beginning of each book.

The 2023 National Geographic Kids Almanac is the biggest edition yet!Get ready for 2023 with all the latest and greatest information on animals, science, nature, technology, conservation, and more in this worldwide best-selling almanac. Packed with incredible photos and fascinating stories, this new edition features:BONUS SECTION: 20 Things to Make You HappyNEW trends and news for the year aheadNEW photo feature showcasing wonders from around the worldNEW Almanac Challenge, plus the results of the 2022 Almanac ChallengeNEW incredible animal storiesNEW weird-but-true factsNEW amazing inventionsNEW interviews with National Geographic ExplorersNEW games, activities, jokes, and comicsUPDATED reference material, including fast facts and maps of every countryWhether you’re looking for homework help, want to learn more about another country, or just need a cute animal fix, the National Geographic Kids Almanac 2023 has you covered!

Join a hot dog named Dog and a chicken nugget named Nugget as they go to summer camp in this hilarious third book in the Level 2 Ready-to-Read Graphics series by Jason Tharp!Nugget and Dog are going to summer camp with their friends. Everyone is excited for ghost stories, hiking, and―best of all―s’mores! Especially Dijon. He’s going to see his cousin, Honey Mustard, and he has an evil plan like no other! Will it go his way, or will things get a little bit sticky?Ready-to-Read Graphics books give readers the perfect introduction to the graphic novel format with easy-to-follow panels, speech bubbles with accessible vocabulary, and sequential storytelling that is spot-on for beginning readers. There’s even a how-to guide for reading graphic novels at the beginning of each book.

Young children just love things that go, and here is a book they will spend hours pushing along the floor as well as reading!In My First London Bus, follow the red bus around the streets of London visiting the sights, with an extra detail to spot on every page. Then close the book and push it along on its four moving wheels and go on your own journey!With bold, bright illustrations by the wonderful Marion Billet, it's the perfect way for young visitors to London to remember their trip. Whizz around the capital city in other Whizzy Wheels titles, like My First London Taxi.

Britta visits her two favorite trees, Apple and Magnolia, every day. Though she can't explain it, she's sure they are best friends! Then one day, Magnolia's branches start to droop. Is there anything Britta--or Apple--can do to help? After all, unusual friendships can be the most powerful of all.With a lyrical story and vibrant art, Apple and Magnolia unveils the extraordinary connections between trees and the wondrous bonds between all living things. The book includes an author's note offering facts about how trees communicate with one another. A downloadable discussion guide with more information will be available February 2022 at flyawaybooks.com/resources.

Nowadays, you and I are in the midst of AI, big data, multimedia, gossip, rumors, materialistic desires, and the great trend of the times.In the midst of the confusion and material satisfaction caused by complicated and novel things, have you ever thought about examining life with a reflective attitude and taking a careful and quiet look at life, the apparent convenience and innovation of technological civilization, but deepening the hidden nature of life that is hard to erase and sad and miserable at the bottom of our habitual thinking?If human life is like a special, unusual, significant and far-reaching key, every morning when you wake up to take it, you have to fill out the application form carefully and seriously, without being meticulous.Before going to sleep at night, thank God for today's gift and return the key to life with gratitude.If we have used the key of life thousands of times, over and over again, then why do we have to do as Sisyphus did, with great effort, to push a

Nowadays, you and I are in the midst of AI, big data, multimedia, gossip, rumors, materialistic desires, and the great trend of the times.In the midst of the confusion and material satisfaction caused by complicated and novel things, have you ever thought about examining life with a reflective attitude and taking a careful and quiet look at life, the apparent convenience and innovation of technological civilization, but deepening the hidden nature of life that is hard to erase and sad and miserable at the bottom of our habitual thinking?If human life is like a special, unusual, significant and far-reaching key, every morning when you wake up to take it, you have to fill out the application form carefully and seriously, without being meticulous.Before going to sleep at night, thank God for today's gift and return the key to life with gratitude.If we have used the key of life thousands of times, over and over again, then why do we have to do as Sisyphus did, with great effort, to push a

Nowadays, you and I are in the midst of AI, big data, multimedia, gossip, rumors, materialistic desires, and the great trend of the times.In the midst of the confusion and material satisfaction caused by complicated and novel things, have you ever thought about examining life with a reflective attitude and taking a careful and quiet look at life, the apparent convenience and innovation of technological civilization, but deepening the hidden nature of life that is hard to erase and sad and miserable at the bottom of our habitual thinking?If human life is like a special, unusual, significant and far-reaching key, every morning when you wake up to take it, you have to fill out the application form carefully and seriously, without being meticulous.Before going to sleep at night, thank God for today's gift and return the key to life with gratitude.If we have used the key of life thousands of times, over and over again, then why do we have to do as Sisyphus did, with great effort, to push a

Nowadays, you and I are in the midst of AI, big data, multimedia, gossip, rumors, materialistic desires, and the great trend of the times.In the midst of the confusion and material satisfaction caused by complicated and novel things, have you ever thought about examining life with a reflective attitude and taking a careful and quiet look at life, the apparent convenience and innovation of technological civilization, but deepening the hidden nature of life that is hard to erase and sad and miserable at the bottom of our habitual thinking?If human life is like a special, unusual, significant and far-reaching key, every morning when you wake up to take it, you have to fill out the application form carefully and seriously, without being meticulous.Before going to sleep at night, thank God for today's gift and return the key to life with gratitude.If we have used the key of life thousands of times, over and over again, then why do we have to do as Sisyphus did, with great effort, to push a

Nowadays, you and I are in the midst of AI, big data, multimedia, gossip, rumors, materialistic desires, and the great trend of the times.In the midst of the confusion and material satisfaction caused by complicated and novel things, have you ever thought about examining life with a reflective attitude and taking a careful and quiet look at life, the apparent convenience and innovation of technological civilization, but deepening the hidden nature of life that is hard to erase and sad and miserable at the bottom of our habitual thinking?If human life is like a special, unusual, significant and far-reaching key, every morning when you wake up to take it, you have to fill out the application form carefully and seriously, without being meticulous.Before going to sleep at night, thank God for today's gift and return the key to life with gratitude.If we have used the key of life thousands of times, over and over again, then why do we have to do as Sisyphus did, with great effort, to push a

A YA graphic novel about unlikely friends―a tin man seeking a heart and a high schooler trying to come to terms with the death of her grandmotherIn Justin Madson’s debut graphic novel, Tin Man, a girl and her brother befriend the titular Tin Man with unexpected results. Solar is in her last year of high school and is reeling from the recent death of her grandmother. She has abandoned her plans for the future and fallen in with a bad crowd. Her little brother, Fenn, doesn't understand why she's changed―she doesn't even want to help him build their rocket in the garage anymore. Campbell is a tin woodsman―a clunky metal man whose sole purpose in life is to chop down trees. He longs for more, however, and decides to seek out a heart, believing that, with one, he will be able to feel things he has never felt before and, therefore, change his life.Equal parts The Iron Giant, The Wizard of Oz, Edward Scissorhands, and Freaks and Geeks, Tin Man is a story about finding friendship in the unlike

A YA graphic novel about unlikely friends―a tin man seeking a heart and a high schooler trying to come to terms with the death of her grandmotherIn Justin Madson’s debut graphic novel, Tin Man, a girl and her brother befriend the titular Tin Man with unexpected results. Solar is in her last year of high school and is reeling from the recent death of her grandmother. She has abandoned her plans for the future and fallen in with a bad crowd. Her little brother, Fenn, doesn't understand why she's changed―she doesn't even want to help him build their rocket in the garage anymore. Campbell is a tin woodsman―a clunky metal man whose sole purpose in life is to chop down trees. He longs for more, however, and decides to seek out a heart, believing that, with one, he will be able to feel things he has never felt before and, therefore, change his life.Equal parts The Iron Giant, The Wizard of Oz, Edward Scissorhands, and Freaks and Geeks, Tin Man is a story about finding friendship in the unlike

The term 'tinnitus' is searched over 110,000+ times every month. Unfortunately, much of the information readily available through internet searches is inaccurate, whereas most evidence-based information is only available through peer-reviewed journal articles often containing dense scientific jargon. Tinnitus: Advances in Prevention, Assessment, and Management aims to bridge this gap by providing up-to-date and evidence-based information on tinnitus prevention, assessment, and management.Presented in a quick, easy-to-read format, this text offers a practical and handy resource for busy practitioners and health profession students, as well as individuals with bothersome tinnitus. Each section contains short chapters providing accessible overviews of research related to tinnitus and hyperacusis. Section I delves into various approaches for prevention of hearing loss and tinnitus.Section II covers tinnitus assessment, while Section III introduces readers to a range of tinnitus management

Powered by Plants explores the world of plants and how their properties are increasingly helping to shape the cutting edge of human technology and design.Following on from the incredible Invented by Animals and Built by Animals, Powered by Plants introduces us to the wondrous plants whose ingenious features have inspired innovations in human technology.Plants exhibit an incredible range of diversity in their shape, structures and how they interact with other living things and their environment. Some of this great diversity is being increasingly studied and copied, inspiring innovation in science, design, engineering, and technology.This book guides readers through a startling collection of fascinating vegetation, from towering cottonwood trees with wind power potential to slippery, meat-eating assassins of the plant world and the fast-growing aquatic plant which helps propel ships farther using less energy. Learn surprising applications and spin-offs of both exotic species including th

Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today. Jill Gutowitz's life-for better and worse-has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game of Thrones. The pop songs that have been the soundtrack to the worst moments of her life. And of course, the pivotal day when Orange Is the New Black hit the airwaves and broke down the door to Jill's own sexuality. In these honest examinations of identity, desire, and self-worth, Jill explores perhaps the most monumental cultural shift of our lifetimes: the mainstreaming of lesbian culture. Dusting off her own personal traumas and artifacts of her not-so-distant youth she examines how pop culture acts as a fun house mirror reflecting and

A middle grade graphic novel about Marlene, a young girl who stops straightening her hair and embraces her natural curls.Marlene loves three things: books, her cool Tía Ruby, and hanging out with her best friend Camila. But according to her mother, Paola, the only thing she needs to focus on is school and "growing up." That means straightening her hair every weekend so she can have "presentable," "good hair."But Marlene hates being in the salon and doesn't understand why her curls are not considered pretty by those around her. With a few hiccups, a dash of embarrassment, and the much-needed help of Camila and Tia Ruby, she slowly starts a journey to learn to appreciate and proudly wear her curly hair.