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• The #1 New York Times best-selling series with over 15.1 million copies in print worldwide — now in full color• Soon to be a major motion picture from DreamWorks• Aaron’s Pig the Pug series and Thelma the Unicorn series have been published by Scholastic Asia• Other titles that have been published by Scholastic Asia include Don’t Call Me Bear, Busting, Piranhas Don’t Eat Bananas, and I Need a Hug!Mr. Wolf. Mr. Shark. Mr. Snake. Mr. Piranha. They're Bad Guys, everybody knows that.They're scary and dangerous and well … just BAD.But these guys want to be HEROES.And they're going to prove it by doing good deeds … whether you want them to or not.Buckle up for the funniest, naughtiest and coolest book you'll ever read — now in full color!

Build a solid foundation in the knowledge and skills you need to succeed as a nurse! Designed specifically for today's students, Fundamentals of Nursing, 3rd Edition takes a fresh, conversational approach that is friendlier than typical books on nursing fundamentals. To make understanding easier, the book introduces basic information first and then follows with progressively more nuanced and complex nursing concepts. Practical exercises provide a unique kind of active learning, allowing you to apply concepts to actual patient care. Even care planning is different, as authors Barbara L. Yoost and Lynne R. Crawford are pioneers of conceptual care mapping - a visual, holistic way of making clinical judgments and planning patient care. Essentially, this text offers an easier, fundamentally different way to learn the nursing profession!

Liquid Crystal Polymer Nanocomposites summarizes in a comprehensive manner, numerous modern technical research accomplishments on the development of nanocomposites from liquid crystalline polymers. As the title indicates, the book emphasizes various studies at the nano-scale. Topics covered include: liquid crystalline block copolymers, liquid crystalline epoxy nanocomposites, barrier property studies of liquid crystalline epoxy and their nanocomposites, liquid crystalline polymer-based microfibrillar and nanofibrillar composites, liquid crystalline polymer/nanoplatelet nanocomposites, liquid-crystalline elastomer/graphene oxide nanocomposites, and thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers. Liquid Crystal Polymer Nanocomposites provides detailed information on methods of preparation, the properties of these materials and discussion on the structure-properties relationship. With its emphasis on data and experimental results the authors illustrate how the liquid crystal structure can have

Use this keepsake scrapbook and journal to chronicle your favorite memories of each school yearfrom kindergarten through 12th grade.Record your favorite school memories, from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Each section of this guided journal and scrapbook has prompts for chronicling key moments of each school year, what you learned in your classes, and the things you are looking forward to doing with your friends. This keepsake also includes a removable ';First Day of School' milestone card, a dry-erase pen, and a die-cut cover into which you can insert photos from each school year.

Explore the wildlife of the world in 100 wordsearches with bright, cartoon-style illustrations. The puzzles feature creatures in their natural habitats, from tigers in the jungle to desert scorpions, and from red pandas in the Himalayas to deep-ocean vampire squid. And with over 1,200 animals to find, kids will be word-hunting for weeks.The wordsearches grow gradually more challenging throughout the book and are perfect for quiet times alone or playing with friends and family. All the answers can be found at the back of the book.

I AM BRAVE is a children's book where bi-racial twins discover they are different from other children in their school. Their mother gives them valuable advice and encouragement about their uniqueness, and also how they have similarities with their schoolmates. This book helps instill the value of self-confidence into children. It inspires children to live bold and beautiful lives!

Nanomaterials possess special mechanical, electrical, and electronic properties. As a result, nanomaterials play a significant role in various nanoelectromechanical systems. Some of these materials include nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, nanotube resonators, and nanoactuators. These structures are broadly utilized in civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering. The dynamic analysis of nanostructures is important, because one must have knowledge about the mechanical behaviours to get an accurate prediction of dynamic characteristics. Conducting experiments at the nanoscale size is both complicated and expensive. Therefore, the development of appropriate mathematical models for the study of the dynamic behaviour of nanostructures is important. These models/problems are governed by linear/nonlinear differential equations which are not always possible to solve analytically. This deficiency compels us to search for numerical and computational methods. This book provides a detailed exp

A previously unpublished gem from one of the finest voices in British Golden Age crime fiction.Last year, Rosemary Reeve disappeared on the eve of the Hollydown Hunt Ball at Fordings. This year, bachelors Nicholas and Ian are driving to the ball where the charming Dilys Maine and a party buzzing with rumours about Rosemary Reeve's disappearance awaits them. With thoughts of the mysterious case ringing in their ears, Dilys and Nicholas hit a body lying on the road on the drive home, launching a new investigation and unwittingly reviving the search for what really became of Rosemary Reeve.Written in the last years of the author's life, this previously unpublished novel is a tribute to Lorac's enduring skill for constructing an ingenious puzzle, replete with memorable characters and gripping detective work.

A pitch perfect picture book with breathtakingly beautiful, textured illustrations and a heartwarming story from author-illustrator, Jonny Lambert. When Bear moves into a new home in the woods, his home feels empty, and Bear is a little bit lonely. With a RAT-A-TAT-TAT! on his neighbour's door, Bear quickly finds a warm smile and friendship with Hare.When a storm CRASHES through the wood, destroying Bear's home, the two friends discover that home is more than just a house . . .it's where the heart is. Exploring the true meaning of belonging, this is the perfect introduction into the joys and complexities of friendship. Another story to treasure for fans of Jonny Lambert's other books, Little Why, The Great Aaa-Ooo, The Only Lonely Panda and The Big Angry Roar.

Swords! Sorcery! Superheroes! A brand-new DC Universe is born from writer Tom Taylor (DCeased, Nightwing) and artist Yasmine Putri. An entire medieval world will be forever changed when a spaceship crash-lands from a doomed planet. Years later the El Kingdom reins and Jefferson Pierce, the head of the Kingdom of Storms sees their family as a threat and gathers allies to challenge them. Monarchs will die, kingdoms will rise, and what seemed like the end of the world for many...was only the beginning! An epic high-fantasy story set in a DC Universe where nothing is what it seems...

SOON A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES – from director Shawn Levy, starring Louis Hofmann, Lars Eidinger and Marion Bailey, with Hugh Laurie and Mark Ruffalo, and introducing Aria Mia Loberti. WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six.Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father’s life, until he discovers a knack for engineering.His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At

Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others? The musical theatre repertory is not composed of titles popular in the theatre but by those with successful cast recordings, movie versions, or even illegal bootlegs on YouTube. The shows audiences know, and the texts and music they expect to hear when they attend a production, are defined by media consumed at home more than by memories of performances witnessed in the theatre. For example, author Doug Reside shows that it is no accident that the serious book musical with a fixed score developed in the 1940s - when commercially pressed and marketed record albums made it possible to record most of the score of a new musical in a fixed medium. And Hamilton, a musical with dense lyrics and revolutionary musical style, would not have been as easily accessible to world audiences if most hadn't already had the opportunity to learn the score by listening to free digital streams of the original cast recording.

The present volume of The Deshima Diaries consists of the journals that were kept by the chiefs of the Dutch trading post in Japan during the first two decades of the so called seclusion period (1640-1868). The employees of the Dutch East India Company - since 1640 the only Europeans in Japan - had to give up their relatively free life in the port of Hirado and were forced to move to the tiny island of Deshima in the Bay of Nagasaki. Continually surrounded by Japanese guards, spies, cooks, concubines and interpreters they sought to continue their trading activities with their Japanese hosts. Once a year the chief of the factory and two or three staff members made a court voyage to Edo to pay obeisance to the Shogun. The diaries in this volume describe in detail how the Dutch merchants grappled with the severe restrictions that were imposed on them, but their writings also shed surprising light on social and economic life in Nagasaki and beyond.Contributors are: Willem Remmelink and Wou

How Can We Be Kind? teaches children how we can learn kindness from the world around us, drawing on examples from the animal world from koalas to capybaras to teach compassion and respect.This special book asks children a simple question: How Can We Be Kind? The answer is: by learning from the animal kingdom!Animals demonstrate kindness and empathy towards each other, and care and compassion can be seen all throughout the natural world.This book shows children the ways they can be kind just like animalsare to each other, while at the same time teaching them about the magic and the beauty of the natural world.They can learn to be welcoming like capybaras, who let other animals sit on top of them while they wallow in mud.Or perhaps they might want to be like dolphins, who guide other species to their destinations. Or maybe they would like to work together like ants and bees, share what they have like bats or stick up for their friends like zebras.With beautiful illustrations from Darla O

Never Brush a Bear is a delightfully amusing story about a determined young pet stylist called Herschel, who makes it his mission to brush a bearThis is a delightfully amusing story about a determined young pet stylist called Herschel, who makes it his mission to brush a bear…He’s a head stylist, pet pamperer, extraordinaire!He dreams of awards, and longs to win prizes,For coiffuring creatures in all shapes and sizes!But a bear’s not a pet!!And brushinga bear is something he should forget!This charming story introduces us to Herschel, an adventurous and ambituous pet stylist who wants to style an animal he has never worked with before... a bear!He ventures deep into the woods in order to accomplish his aim. He follows a trail of leaves into a dark cave, discovering a GIANT and TERRIFYING BEAR... who turns out to be quite polite!Bright and lively illustrations accompany rhyming text to create a fun story that will have children laughing out loud as they read along.The latest title from

A sparkling K-drama inspired debut teen novel by Grace Shim, THE NOH FAMILY introduces irrepressibly charming teen Chloe Kang, who is reunited with her deceased father’s estranged family via a DNA test, and is soon whisked off to Seoul to join them… When her friends gift her a 23-and-Me test as a gag, high school senior Chloe Kang doesn’t think much of trying it out. She doesn’t believe anything will come of it―she’s an only child, her mother is an orphan, and her father died in Seoul before she was even born, and before her mother moved to Oklahoma. It’s been just Chloe and her mom her whole life. But the DNA test reveals something Chloe never expected―she’s got a whole extended family from her father’s side half a world away in Korea. Her father’s family are owners of a famous high-end department store, and are among the richest families in Seoul. When they learn she exists, they are excited to meet her. Her mother has huge reservations, she hasn’t had a great relationship with her h

The Batman: The Long Halloween duo of writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale return to Gotham for a high-stakes Catwoman adventure now back in print as a Deluxe Edition hardcover! In 1996, writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale teamed up for an instant Dark Knight classic with Batman: The Long Halloween. Then in 1999, they followed up that murder mystery epic with Batman: Dark Victory. For the third part of their trilogy, Loeb and Sale focused on Batman's most compelling sometimes-enemy, sometimes-ally in the six-part Catwoman: When in Rome. Catwoman: When in Rome takes place within the events of Dark Victory, detailing Selina Kyle's mysterious trip to Italy, her dealings with the deadly Falcone crime family, and her attempt to uncover information about her long-lost parents. As Selina's Roman Holiday unfolds over the span of a week, she encounters the Riddler, Scarecrow, and even Wonder Woman's nemesis, the Cheetah! The third chapter of Loeb and Sale's signature trilogy returns in a new D

The questions in this book were curated by the staff at London's Royal Observatory, to address all the most common - and a few uncommon - things that children want to know about space. Planets, moons, exploration and even some really BIG questions such as 'How do Black Holes work', 'Is it worth going to space?' and 'What's going to happen at the end of time?'.

This book is a combination of our long-term research on Chinese Elateroidea, through checking zoological record, and Titan database (ttp://itan.gbif.fr/), and related scientific literatures. We refer to various published works (including catalogues, papers and monographs) to record all Chinese species of the superfamily Elateroidea. 9 families, 295 genera and 2,770 species/subspecies are included in this book, in which Artematopodidae have 1 genus, 3 species; Eucnemidae 15 genera, 24 species; Throscidae 1 genus, 2 species; Elateridae 173 genera, 1515 species/subspecies; Lycidae 40 genera, 273 species/ subspecies; Rhagophthalmidae 1 genus, 21 species/subspecies; Lampyridae 23 genera, 134 species/ subspecies; Omethidae 1 genus, 2 species; Cantharidae 40 genera, 796 species/ subspecies. All the tribes under subfamilies, the genera under tribes and the species/subspecies under genera arepresented alphabetically. The whole volume shares a combination of literatures, instead of separated one

From the alarm clock to the toilet, discover the incredible history all around you in this hilarious and fascinating book from popular historian and podcaster Greg Jenner. Thought history was only in museums? Think again! Join Greg Jenner as he takes you on a trip through the amazing history hidden in the things you use every day. Did you know that the first TV was made out of biscuit tins and knitting needles? Or that the humble paperclip helped lead an anti-war movement? Or that a few hundred years ago it was fashionable to style your hair with cat poo?! Find out the delightful, daft and downright deadly history of your everyday life that your teachers won’t tell you about.Bursting with humorous illustrations and entertaining true stories, this is history – but not as you know it!

With a cast of everyone''s favourite farm animals, What the Ladybird Heard is a brilliant rhyming adventure from the stellar picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks.Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len are two crafty robbers with a cunning plan to steal the farmer’s fine prize cow. But little do they know that the tiniest, quietest creature of all has overhead their plot, and she has a plan of her own . . . Now available as a board book, this much-loved classic is perfect for young readers, with brilliant rhyming verse from Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, and bright, distinctive illustrations from award-winning illustrator, Lydia Monks.Enjoy more adventures with the clever little ladybird in What the Ladybird Heard Next, What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday and What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside.

In this expressively illustrated picture book about acknowledging differences and strengths, an overeager dinosaur school bus causes problems for the city’s transportation system—so the children find a place where oversize is perfect.Every morning, Leilong the school bus shuttles through the city, picking up children as he goes. But a brontosaurus longer than a tennis court and heavier than five buses causes big problems in the busy streets. The school decides he can’t be the bus anymore. The children must find a way to help their long friend fit in.Bei Lynn’s loose and vibrant illustrations bring to life the charming world of Leilong, where brontosauruses share the city with ordinary vehicles, and sliding out the bedroom window down the neck of the dinosaur school bus is an everyday activity.Written by Julia Liu, illustrated by Bei Lynn and translated by Helen Wang.

As Evenfall nears, the stakes grow ever higher for those in Faery... Banished from the Winter Court for daring to fall in love, Prince Ash achieved the impossible and journeyed to the End of the World to earn a soul and keep his vow to always stand beside Queen Meghan of the Iron Fey. Now he faces even more incomprehensible odds. Their son, King Keirran of the Forgotten, is missing. Something more ancient than the courts of Faery and more evil than anything Ash has faced in a millennium is rising as Evenfall approaches. And if Ash and his allies cannot stop it, the chaos that has begun to divide the world will shatter it for eternity. Books in The Iron Fey: Evenfall series: Book 1: The Iron RavenBook 2: The Iron Sword Novellas: Shadow's Legacy (Evenfall #0.5)

One of Agatha Christie's most famous novels, featuring her beloved detective Hercule Poirot--and her most surprising twist.The story that made Agatha Christie famous ends with one of her most dramatic twists. The villagers of King's Abbot are shocked when a wealthy local widow commits suicide and the very next day her fianc? Roger Ackroyd, is stabbed to death. Dr. James Sheppard, the local physician, discovers the body of his friend and narrates the ensuing hunt for the killer. All the guests and staff at Ackroyd's country house seem to have solid alibis--except for his missing stepson. But as the authorities home in on their most obvious suspect, the recently retired detective Hercule Poirot unexpectedly turns up and joins the fray. Dr. Sheppard gamely assists the legendary Poirot as he untangles one of the most fiendish mysteries in Christie's extensive oeuvre.

Conjugate Addition Reactions in Organic Synthesis, Second Edition, Volume Nine provides an introduction to the chemistry of conjugate reactions, a group of reactions that constitute one of the most important classes of chemical reactions in organic synthesis. The book is organized according to class of acceptor rather than the class of nucleophile, which makes for easier synthetic problem-solving. All aspects of conjugate addition reactions are covered, including theory, mechanism, catalysis and total synthesis. Asymmetric processes are heavily featured, and there is emphasis on catalysis, given its importance in all aspects of organic synthesis today. Extensive examples in total synthesis illustrate how particular synthetic challenges are addressed and resolved with conjugate addition chemistry. This new edition features new coverage of acceptors and nucleophiles, as well as organocatalysis, gold catalysis, peptide catalysis, arene additions, and emerging areas such as biocatalytic

Monica meets Astro Boy and other creations from famed mangaka Osamu Tezuka!Comics cultures collide when Brazil’s best-selling and most popular comics characters meet the legendary manga creations of O

This brand-new series highlights some of the major contributions women have made in the world of science.From studying stars and discovering comets to flying into space as pioneering astronauts, women have been central to learning about space. Female astronomers gave us our first understanding of how large the universe really is and how much matter it contains. They were key to designing humans’ first rocket-powered flights into space. And as soon as women could go into space themselves, they were eager to do so: some 65 women have now become space travelers. This book tells their stories and describes their vital contributions.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor-including eating d

The Notebook for Johann Christian Bach completes the collection of surviving instructional works from within the Bach family, following the highly praised Notebooks for Anna Magdalena and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach. Together, Bach's Notebooks provide a fascinating glimpse into the domestic music academy of the Bach family home. They contain original compositions, exercises, and model examples by other composers, all collected with a view to providing a rounded musical education to family members. Presented as a luxury linen-bound edition with gold-embossed cover lettering, illustrations and critical commentary, this volume includes pieces not featured in previous collections. This first Urtext edition Notebook for Bach's son Johann Christian has been reconstructed by renowned Bach scholar Christoph Wolff from copies from the estate of C.P.E. Bach. It includes pieces for keyboard by J.S. Bach, Johann Christian's initial attempts at composition (minuets and polonaises), and pieces by the ol

Yiddish Choral Series Series Editors: Samuel Seifert and Ludwig B鐬meYiddish folk songs explore the complete range of human emotions, powerfully expressing all that the Jewish people have loved, embraced and endured. Since their origins in the 14th century, the songs have traditionally been passed on to each generation as words and melodies alone. The Yiddish Choral Series now makes this music available for the first time in stunning new arrangements for choirs.Series Editors Samuel Seifert (a member of Ensemble Rozhinkes) and Ludwig B鐬me (director of the Leipzig Synagogal Choir) have commissioned a range of renowned international arrangers to illustrate the huge variety of creative responses to Yiddish songs: from simple choral settings to expansive, through-composed concert arrangements, and from typical Yiddish harmonies to aleatoric composition.The Yiddish Choral Series, which allows choirs everywhere to discover the fascinating world of Yiddish song, features: A range of choral sty

Yiddish Choral SeriesSeries Editors: Samuel Seifert and Ludwig B鐬meYiddish folk songs explore the complete range of human emotions, powerfully expressing all that the Jewish people have loved, embraced and endured. Since their origins in the 14th century, the songs have traditionally been passed on to each generation as words and melodies alone. The Yiddish Choral Series now makes this music available for the first time in stunning new arrangements for choirs.Series Editors Samuel Seifert (a member of Ensemble Rozhinkes) and Ludwig B鐬me (director of the Leipzig Synagogal Choir) have commissioned a range of renowned international arrangers to illustrate the huge variety of creative responses to Yiddish songs: from simple choral settings to expansive, through-composed concert arrangements, and from typical Yiddish harmonies to aleatoric composition.The Yiddish Choral Series, which allows choirs everywhere to discover the fascinating world of Yiddish song, features: A range of choral styl

After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet's urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century. Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, and the Americas to showcase comprehensive global scholarship on the urban periphery. Contributors explicitly reject the traditional centre-periphery dichotomy and the prioritization of epistemologies that favour the Global North, especially the North American cases, over other experiences. In doing so, the book strongly advances the notion of a post-suburban reality in which traditional dynamics of urban extension outward from the centre are replaced by a set of complex contradictory developments. After Suburbia examines multiple centralities and diverse peripheri

On the Farm all animals were equal. In the Castle some are more equal than others. For fans of the bestselling Stray Dogs and the Eisner Award winning Beasts of Burden comes an animal fable at once familiar and surprising! You may think you know the story but set aside your assumptions, this animal uprising is unlike any you have read! Nestled in the heart of a farm forgotten by men, the Animal Castle is ruled with an iron hoof by President Silvio. The bull and its dog militia savor their power, while the other animals are exhausted by work, until the arrival of the mysterious Azelard, a traveling rat who will teach them the secrets of civil disobedience. Collecting issues 1-5 of the bestselling comic series into a handsome hardcover volume, with complete cover gallery and bonus material, including behind the scenes info and illustrations

The most dynamic, comprehensive, and student-friendly text on the nature of microorganisms and the fascinating processes they employ in producing infections diseaseA Doody’s Core Title for 2022For more than a quarter-of-a-century, this renowned text has helped readers develop a solid grasp of the significance of etiologic agents, the pathogenic processes, epidemiology, and the basis of therapy for infectious diseases. Now, with a NEW four-color design, the book is shorter and more assessable for students! Outstanding pedagogical elements are carried throughout this edition including:Over 400 outstanding images with hundreds of tables and illustrationsDetailed legends under the art so the reader can better understand what’s occurring within the illustration, without having to flip back to the textClinical Cases with USMLE Style QuestionsMargin Notes identifying the “high-yield” must know content in each chapterBulleted Summaries that conclude each chapterSherris & Ryan's Medical Mic

Timeless tales of the Silver Surfer! Galactus’ latest meal, the powerful Elders of the Universe, isn’t sitting well ― and only the Surfer and Fantastic Four can cure his fatal case of cosmic indigesti

From "the voice of Generation Z" (Evening Standard) and creator of the world’s most popular LGBTQ+ Blog, TheShitneySpears, a guide to coming out for teens and young adults in the 21st centuryComing to

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SHENANIGRAMS is a mega-mischievous, tile-based word game that all ages will LOVE! EASY TO LEARN, IRRESISTIBLY FUN. It's travel-friendly and the perfect grab-and-go game to keep everyone entertained fo

With a host of friendly animals to guide them, children can learn how to subtract one number from another, and how to write a subtraction calculation. The activities in this book build confidence and

This book was written to demonstrate and teach the use of Rhinoceros 7.0 software for the design and creation of jewelry modeling. This is the second of two volumes.. This volume deals with basic Rhino commands and the creation of 3-dimensional (3-D) projects. Chapters are in tutorial format with step-by-step instructions that will gradually build a knowledge base as later chapters become more advanced. Good for self-instruction or classroom.