Introduction to Stochastic Programming

Inside Maker Comics: Design a Game!, the latest volume of First Second's DIY comic series, you'll find step-by-step instructions for six tabletop game design projects!Siblings Shen, Shondra, and Shontoya arrive at Ludum Omega Summer Camp with a passion for games, and Professor Zephyr is excited to teach this year’s students all about the art and science of game design! What makes a game fun? What kinds of games are out there? How can designers turn an okay game into a great one?With Maker Comics: Design a Game! as your guide, you’ll play and modify classic games to learn the fundamentals of design and build and test a prototype of a new game that’s all your own!

Inside Maker Comics: Design a Game!, the latest volume of First Second's DIY comic series, you'll find step-by-step instructions for six tabletop game design projects!Siblings Shen, Shondra, and Shontoya arrive at Ludum Omega Summer Camp with a passion for games, and Professor Zephyr is excited to teach this year’s students all about the art and science of game design! What makes a game fun? What kinds of games are out there? How can designers turn an okay game into a great one?With Maker Comics: Design a Game! as your guide, you’ll play and modify classic games to learn the fundamentals of design and build and test a prototype of a new game that’s all your own!

Turn back the clock with History Comics! In this volume, experience the great railroad race. Who will build the longest track and connect the East to the West?The year is 1863, and America is divided not just by the civil war but by months of travel over thousands of miles. Two railroad companies, one from the East and one from the West, are given the task of connecting the nation by rail. Building this railroad will be a monumental undertaking, difficult and dangerous. The work falls to immigrant laborers from the lowest social and economic classes. They accomplish astounding feats of engineering while waiting for an answer: Will those who connect the country be accepted into it?

In this middle grade graphic novel, twelve-year-old Victoria is burned out from the high-pressure world or riding competitions. Can she get back to basics and rekindle her love of horses?Victoria thou

By Artemis, it's the better half of the Olympian's family, in one boxed set! How does so much family drama and good hair fit in here... Well, sit down and get ready for adventures you've only dreamed of as the Greek gods come to explosive life in this Olympians Boxed Set containing Books 7-12--see the Olympians face off in the ultimate family blowout in Ares and then come back together as they welcome the youngest member of the family in Dionysos. Epic battles, daring quests, and terrible monsters await you!

Inside Conduct a Science Experiment!, the latest volume of First Second's DIY comic series, you'll find step-by-step instructions for six STEM projects.Reed’s moms are about to leave for a summer trip

Inside Conduct a Science Experiment!, the latest volume of First Second's DIY comic series, you'll find step-by-step instructions for six STEM projects.Reed’s moms are about to leave for a summer trip

Get all of your favorite friends in one boxed set featuring these bestselling and beloved graphic memoirs: Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever!From award-winning creators Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham comes a series about friendship, family, and finding your own path, inspired by Shannon's real life.This boxed set includes paperback editions of the three books in the Friends series: Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever.Real FriendsWhen best friends are not forever...When Shannon makes her first ever friend, she thinks she's found her bestie for life. But when her friend joins up with another circle of friends called The Group, Shannon feels left out. Will they stay friends? And is Shannon in The Group? Or out?Best FriendsFollow your heart. Find your people.Now that Shannon's best friends with the most popular girl in school, sixth grade is supposed to be perfect. But suddenly, everyone has to watch the same shows, love the same songs, and like the same people. Is

In the third volume of this middle-grade series, Drew Weing delivers a fresh and funny take on the age-old battle between kids and closet-dwelling monsters.As the assistant to Margo Maloo, Charles has

SummaryA young adult graphic novels about three foriegn exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to life in Japan.Living in a new country is no walk in the park―Nao, Hyejung

Don your vest and get case-cracking with this deluxe boxed-set edition of, InvestiGators, the New York Times-bestselling adventure series from John Patrick Green.The InvestiGators are on the case...and in a slipcase! This confidential box contains the first three adventures of the sewer-loving secret agents, Mango and Brash plus an exclusive poster! Uncover the mysteries behind why this New York Times-bestselling graphic novel series is both highly classified and hi-larious!Meet the InvestiGators. With their gadgets, know-how, and super-fast transportation system (they flush themselves down toilets to speed through the sewers!), Mango and Brash are the scourge of the super-villain landscape! As vest-wearing employees of the Special Undercover Investigation Teams, they solve all kinds of mysteries and frequently butt heads with their archnemesis: a former agent known as Crackerdile. Riddled with puns, potty humor, absurdism, and hilarious twists, InvestiGators is the perfect series for

Julia and her house full of fantastic friends are on the move, from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Ben Hatke.Julia's flying house has come down to earth...and sprouted legs! Now it roams the lan

In Other Boys, debut author Damian Alexander delivers a moving middle grade graphic memoir in the vein of New Kid and Hey, Kiddo.Damian is the new kid at school, and he has a foolproof plan to avoid t

In Other Boys, debut author Damian Alexander delivers a moving middle grade graphic memoir in the vein of New Kid and Hey, Kiddo.Damian is the new kid at school, and he has a foolproof plan to avoid t

Following up the mega-bestselling Real Friends and Best Friends graphic memoirs, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with a story about learning to love yourself exactly as you are.Shannon is in eig

Following up their mega-bestselling Real Friends and Best Friends graphic memoirs, Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with Friends Forever, a story about learning to love yourself exactly as you ar

In this contemporary middle-grade graphic novel, twelve-year-old Lucy discovers her father's collection of Beatles records and is inspired to form an all-girl rock band.It's the first day of seventh g

In this contemporary middle-grade graphic novel, twelve-year-old Lucy discovers her father's collection of Beatles records and is inspired to form an all-girl rock band.It's the first day of seventh g

Now available for the first time in paperback, Cici's Journal is a heartfelt, gorgeously-rendered graphic novel about an aspiring young writer with a knack for people-watching who sets out to solve a

An aspiring young writer with a knack for people-watching sets out to solve a few mysteries in the second volume of this heartfelt, gorgeously rendered middle-grade graphic novel series.Cici’s life is

An adult graphic novel with a hilarious and satirical take on the “gig economy” as the residents of Fairhaven constantly hire the nearest monster hunter to keep their lives somewhat peaceful and intac

An adult graphic novel with a hilarious and satirical take on the “gig economy” as the residents of Fairhaven constantly hire the nearest monster hunter to keep their lives somewhat peaceful and intac

You wouldn't expect Nate and Charlie to be friends. Charlie's the laid-back captain of the basketball team. Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. But they are friends, however unlikely--until Nate declares war on the cheerleaders and the cheerleaders retaliate by making Charlie their figurehead in the ugliest class election campaign the school has ever seen. At stake? Student group funding that will either cover a robotics competition or new cheerleading uniforms, but not both. Bad sportsmanship? Sure. Chainsaws? Why not. Running away from home on Thanksgiving to illicitly enter a televised robot deathmatch? Let's do this

All Marmalade wants to do is build things.She is, after all, a trained architect.She's also a distractingly adorable kitten. Fed up with not being taken seriously because she's so cute, Marmalade band

Astronaut Academy: Re-entry is the adventurous second volume of the middle-grade graphic novel series from Dave RomanHakata Soy still has a lot to learn!It's a new semester at Astronaut Academy and ev

Astronaut Academy: Re-entry is the adventurous second volume of the middle-grade graphic novel series from Dave RomanHakata Soy still has a lot to learn!It's a new semester at Astronaut Academy and ev

In Science Comics: The Digestive System, visit the inside of your mouth, stomach, liver, intestines, and other organs that make up the gastrointestinal tract! Your guide to the gut is a friendly bacte

In this compelling middle-grade graphic novel The Leak, Ruth, a young journalist, is determined to uncover a secret that threatens her town.Ruth Keller is brash and precocious; she argues with her den

In this compelling middle-grade graphic novel The Leak, Ruth, a young journalist, is determined to uncover a secret that threatens her town.Ruth Keller is brash and precocious; she argues with her den

American Born Chinese, a Printz Award winner and a New York Times bestseller, is coming to you in a paperback edition with a new afterword from the author.A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling

Turn back the clock with History Comics, First Second's new nonfiction graphic novel series! In this volume, learn how wild mustangs were first introduced to America and how they still roam free today

Turn back the clock with History Comics! This volume of First Second's new nonfiction series introduces readers to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster of 1986.Let this graphic novel be your time mac

Teen twins battle to the death with aliens who have taken over Earth in this final book of the gripping YA graphic trilogy.Wyatt is now the reluctant leader of the "last picked"―the disabled, the elde

Teen twins battle to the death with aliens who have taken over Earth in this final book of the gripping YA graphic trilogy.Wyatt is now the reluctant leader of the "last picked"―the disabled, the elde

The latest volume in our World Citizen Comics series, Fault Lines in the Constitution teaches readers how this founding document continues to shape modern American society.In 1787, After 116 days of h

Just in time for the holidays, Natalie Andrewson brings the tale that inspired the Nutcracker ballet to life with a spellbinding adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman's original story.Of all the gifts under th

Leave no stone unturned with Science Comics: Rocks and Minerals, the latest volume in First Second’s action-packed nonfiction graphic novel series for middle-grade readers!Every volume of Science Comi

A gripping YA graphic novel about five principle players in a struggling girls' basketball team.One summer day, Ren meets Luna at a beachside basketball court and a friendship is born. But when Luna m

A gripping YA graphic novel about five principle players in a struggling girls' basketball team.One summer day, Ren meets Luna at a beachside basketball court and a friendship is born. But when Luna m