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Over the last quarter century, a nationalized and increasingly conservative Republican Party made unprecedented gains at the state level, winning control of twenty-four new state governments. Liberals and conservatives alike anticipated far-reaching consequences, but what has the Republican revolution in the states achieved? Red State Blues shows that, contrary to liberals' fears, conservative state governments have largely failed to enact policies that advance conservative goals or reverse prior liberal gains. Matt Grossmann tracks policies and socioeconomic outcomes across all 50 states, interviews state insiders, and considers the full issue agenda. Although Republicans have been effective at staying in power, they have not substantially altered the nature or reach of government. Where they have had policy victories, the consequences on the ground have been surprisingly limited. A sober assessment of Republican successes and failures after decades of electoral victories, Red State B

There are many new realities confronting labor in the United States. Technology is redefining traditional employment, and globalization continues moving manufacturing as well as service jobs to lower-cost jurisdictions. This timely sixth edition discusses the recent political developments that impact American labor, as well as new court cases and the social and economic issues that American workers are confronting. For union and employer representatives and labor lawyers, alike this volume not only describes the labor law system briefly and clearly, but also attempts to further an understanding among workers, unions, and businesses in order to promote an improved working environment. Professor William B. Gould, IV brings to this work more than a half-century of experience as a practicing labor lawyer and academic, as well as practical exposure to the relationship between administrative agencies and the public.

David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Renaissance England from the perspective of communal eating. Rather than focus on traditional models of interiority, choice and consumption, Goldstein demonstrates that eating offered a central paradigm for the ethics of community formation. The book examines how sharing food helps build, demarcate and destroy relationships – between eater and eaten, between self and other, and among different groups. Tracing these eating relations from 1547 to 1680 - through Shakespeare, Milton, religious writers and recipe book authors - Goldstein shows that to think about eating was to engage in complex reflections about the body's role in society. In the process, he radically rethinks the communal importance of the Protestant Eucharist. Combining historicist literary analysis with insights from social science and philosophy, the book's arguments reverberate well beyond the Renaissance. Ultimately, Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England forces

Since its inception over two hundred years ago, Swaminarayan Hinduism has flourished into a transnational movement described as one of the fastest growing Hindu groups in the world. Despite being one of the largest and most visible Hindu traditions both in India and the West, surprisingly little is known about what the Swaminarayan fellowship believes. An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hindu Theology provides a comprehensive doctrinal account of the Swaminarayan tradition's belief system, drawing on its rich corpus of theological literature, including the teachings of Swaminarayan himself and classical commentaries on canonical Vedāntic texts. Part I delineates the sources and tools of Swaminarayan Hindu theology, while Part II systematically expounds upon its distinctive five eternal entities - Parabrahman, Akṣarabrahman, māyā, īśvara and jīva - and mukti (spiritual liberation). In presenting these key themes theologically and lucidly, Swami Paramtattvadas makes the Swaminarayan Hindu b

Program music was one of the most flexible and contentious novelties of the long nineteenth century, covering a diverse range that included the overtures of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, the literary music of Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's symphonic poems, the tone poems of Strauss and Sibelius, and compositions by groups of composers in Russia, Bohemia, the United States, and France. In this accessible Introduction, Jonathan Kregor explores program music's ideas and repertoire, discussing both well-known and less familiar pieces by an array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers. Setting program music in the context of the intellectual debates of the period, Kregor presents the criticism of writers like A. B. Marx and Hanslick to reveal program music's growth, dissemination, and reception. This comprehensive overview features numerous illustrations and music examples and provides detailed case studies of battle music, Shakespeare settings, and Goethe's Faust.

The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic' approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from the

Human induced development activities are introduced with insufficient attention to their consequences for our living environment, even in cases where environmental assessments have been carried out. This apparent lack of attention to biodiversity in environmental assessment is rooted in the difficulties we have in adequately addressing biodiversity within the scope, time frame and budget allocated for assessments. This book provides a conceptual background and practical approaches to overcome these difficulties. It integrates the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity, its ecosystem approach, and the conceptual framework of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment into a comprehensive approach to biodiversity in environmental assessment. It highlights the need to consider the value of biodiversity based on its use by each stakeholder, addresses the importance of both social and economic development to reach the Millennium Development Goals, and provides insights into ways to b

While authors in early modern England were gaining new authority - legally, economically and symbolically - Renaissance readers also were expected to participate in and make use of an author's writings. In this book, Stephen B. Dobranski examines how the seventeenth-century phenomenon of printing apparently unfinished works ushered in a new emphasis on authors' responsibility for written texts while it simultaneously reinforced Renaissance practices of active reading. Bringing together textual studies, literary criticism and book trade history, Dobranski provides fresh insight into Renaissance constructions of authorship and offers discerning interpretations of publications by Sir Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Robert Herrick and John Milton. The omissions in all these writers' works provide a unique window into English literary history: through these blank spaces we glimpse the tension between implication and inference, between writers' intentions and readers' responses and be

This study offers an original exploration of Milton's relationship to the seventeenth-century book trade. Critics have often assumed that Milton presided over all stages of his texts' creation, and little has been said about his dependence on other people for producing his works. Examining Milton's changing historical circumstances with special attention to his texts' material production, Stephen B. Dobranski shows in a series of provocative and original case studies that Milton benefited from a collaborative process of writing and publishing. He worked with amanuenses, acquaintances, printers and publishers, often in dramatic and surprising ways: paradoxically, Milton's implied persona of the independent, even isolated, poet required the cooperation of these various individuals. With the attentiveness of textual scholarship and booktrade history to the material forms of publication, Dobranski offers fresh insight into the practice of authorship and the meaning of Milton's works.

In Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Gregory Castle examines the impact of anthropology on the work of Irish Revivalists such as W. B. Yeats, John M. Synge and James Joyce. Castle argues that anthropology enabled Irish Revivalists to confront and combat British imperialism, even as these Irish writers remained ambivalently dependent on the cultural and political discourses they sought to undermine. Castle shows how Irish Modernists employed textual and rhetorical strategies first developed in anthropology to translate, reassemble and edit oral and folk-cultural material. In doing so, he claims, they confronted and undermined inherited notions of identity which Ireland, often a site of ethnographic curiosity throughout the nineteenth-century, had been subject to. Drawing on a wide range of post-colonial theory, this book should be of interest to scholars in Irish studies, post-colonial studies and Modernism.

Social security institutions have been among the most stable post-war social programs around the world. Increasingly, however, these institutions have undergone profound transformation from public risk-pooling systems to individual market-based designs. Why has this 'privatization' occurred? Why do some governments enact more radical pension privatizations than others? This book provides a theoretical and empirical account of when and to what degree governments privatize national old-age pension systems. Quantitative cross-national analysis simulates the degree of pension privatization around the world and tests competing hypotheses to explain reform outcomes. In addition, comparative analysis of pension reforms in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Uruguay evaluate a causal theory of institutional change. The central argument is that pension privatization emerges from political conflict, rather than from exogenous pressures. The argument is developed around three dimensions: the double b

In his book Dr Morgan describes the relations between the First International and the first German socialist parties, the General German Workers' Union, founded by Ferdinand Lassalle and led by J. B. von Schweitzer, and the rival organisation of Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel, whose programme was partly inspired by Marx. In particular Dr Morgan studies the attempts of the International's leaders, especially the German exiles Marx and Johann Philipp Becker, to spread its influence in Germany. Dr Morgan's study is not simply a history of socialist ideas, but an analysis of one source of these ideas - the International - and its influence on the problems of organisation and personalities facing the German Labour movement. As he shows in his concluding chapter, although the International played a subsidiary role, it did influence the development of German socialist thinking.

Throughout the last decade, defenders of the US role in Vietnam have argued that America's defeat was not the result of an illegitimate intervention or military shortcomings but rather a failure of will because national leaders, principally Lyndon B. Johnson, forced the troops to 'fight with one hand tied behind their backs.' In this volume, Robert Buzzanco disproves this theory by demonstrating that political leaders, not the military brass, pressed for war; that American policymakers always understood the problems and peril of war in Indochina; and that civil-military acrimony and the political desire to defer responsibility for Vietnam helped lead the United States into the war. For the first time, these crucial issues of military dissent, interservice rivalries, and civil-military relations and politics have been tied together to provide a cogent and comprehensive analysis of the US role in Vietnam.

本書以年輕女孩的視角，描繪敘利亞革命初期的動盪與難以抉擇的現實。Salama 曾是藥學生，如今在戰地醫院日夜奔波，心中卻矛盾交織——逃離，還是留下？她創造出名為 Khawf 的幻影，試圖與恐懼共處。某日，她與命運交錯的少年 Kenan 相遇，讓她開始重新思考家的意義與自由的代價。As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow 不僅是一封寫給敘利亞的情書，更是一場關於信念與生存的靜默抗爭。A love letter to Syria and its people, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a speculative novel set amid the Syrian Revolution, burning with the fires of hope, love, and possibility. Perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Salt to the Sea. Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenager's life. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate, that she has manifested a physical embodiment of her fear in the form of her imagined companion, Khawf, who haunts her every move in an

逆時偵查組，是由精英刑警、尖端科學家、犯罪學家、網絡專家組成，針對反偵查能力極強，且掌握著時間逆行、人工智能、基因編輯、大數據信息等尖端科技的犯罪集團所成立的秘密專案組。 一次失敗的時間實驗，讓A世界的刑警路天峰意外穿越時空，與B世界的自己彼此交換。路天峰驚訝地發現，在B世界，A世界死去的人紛紛“復活”，而女友陳諾蘭卻下落不明。為了回到各自的世界，兩個路天峰開始了跨越時空的通信。面對詭異的連環綁架案、不斷莫名死去的人，兩個彼此並不信任的路天峰必須聯手，才有機會找到真相…… 小說巧妙融合科幻元素，深入展現偵查與反偵查、高科技與高智商的生死較量，栩栩如生地刻畫了精英刑警、尖端科學家、網絡專家、犯罪分子等近百個人物。局中局、案中案，強設定、強邏輯、強結構，帶給你剝洋蔥般層層嵌套的閱讀體驗。

本書系統地講解了計算機的基本應用和相關操作的知識內容，全書編寫按照A+B模式，即基礎部分A（第1章～第7章，每個專業都必須學習的部分），強化訓練部分B（第8章～第10章，根據專業需求進行選修）。基礎部分採用案例方式講解計算機基礎知識、Windows 7操作系統、辦公軟件Word 2010、Excel 2010、Powerpoint 2010的功能及其用法、Internet及其應用和多媒體技術基礎知識。強化訓練部分選用一些專業相關教學案例有針對性地對辦公軟件Word 2010、Excel 2010、Powerpoint 2010的綜合訓練進行講解，提高學生的應用能力。本書在內容組織上以應用為主線，以任務驅動式教學為導向，以培養學生的實踐能力為目標，能夠幫助學生快速提高計算機的應用能力和操作水平。本書可以作為高等院校的計算機基礎課程教材，也可以作為計算機愛好者或辦公自動化工作人員的參考用書。

賀思嘉×吳臻“漂亮流量”愛豆VS“斯文敗類”影帝從恨不得對方立刻糊的對家，成了手挽手一起追逐夢想的知己。晉江完結9.8分的高讚好文星空並不遙遠，只要踮起腳尖。終有一日，我們可以並肩。 賀思嘉，新晉小生，圈內公認的漂亮流量，業務稀爛。吳臻，大滿貫影帝，圈內公認的德藝雙馨，業務標杆。雙方粉絲群有深仇大恨，正主關係卻撲朔迷離。頭條A：吳臻賀思嘉合作新片，力破不和傳聞！頭條B：影帝流量實力演繹塑料情，片場吵架氣暈導演！頭條A：當紅小生與一線巨星酒店密會，疑將二次合作！頭條B：網曝賀思嘉吳臻關係破裂，停車場互毆火藥味十足！……直到某天，賀思嘉作為主角參演了吳臻導演的第一部的電影，一舉斬獲大獎，榮耀加冕。賀思嘉：感謝吳老師帶我看見了表演的世界，讓我感受到表演的樂趣。吳臻：鏡頭即是攝影師的眼睛，透過我的鏡頭來看你，才是最好的模樣。雙方粉絲狂歡。

A.慢性萎縮性胃炎：慢性萎縮性胃炎經常被作為篩選胃癌高危人群的手段，臨床上要盡量掌握其普通白光內鏡所見，以及萎縮黏膜病灶分界線，當前的臨床實踐中已達成以下共識：①內鏡萎縮分界線的定義為正常胃底腺黏膜與萎縮胃底腺黏膜的分界線；②木村、竹本的論文原著有需要改進的方面，有收集相關資料重新編輯的需要；③為明確普通白光內鏡所見／萎縮邊界線，有必要將普通白光內鏡所見與切除標本的組織病理學結果進行比較。期待通過放大內鏡對胃小區進行的診斷，向病灶區域診斷方向發展。 B.胃癌：放大內鏡是發現病灶、評判疾病性狀及診斷浸潤程度的必要手段。對於A、B共同的“臨床實踐（clinical practice）”而言，確立正確的普通內鏡檢查方法重要，同時，要在保證相關訓練的基礎上，普及和發展放大內鏡檢查。

At once darkly tense, boldly feminist, and stunningly original, Damsel is the twisty, new YA fairy tale from National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold.*A 2019 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book*The rite has existed for as long as anyone can remember: When the king dies, his son the prince must venture out into the gray lands, slay a fierce dragon, and rescue a damsel to be his bride. This is the way things have always been.When Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory, she knows none of this. She has no memory of what came before she was captured by the dragon or what horrors she faced in its lair. She knows only this handsome young man, the story he tells of her rescue, and her destiny of sitting on a throne beside him. It’s all like a dream, like something from a fairy tale.As Ama follows Emory to the kingdom of Harding, however, she discovers that not all is as it seems. There is more to the legends of the dragons and the damsels than anyone knows, and the greatest threats may not b

本書共10個單元，內容包括世界建築史、中國古代建築、建築設計、建築材料、建築結構、建築施工、房屋設備、室內裝飾、園林設計以及生態與建築。每個單元由Text A、Text B、Oral Practices和Translation Skills四部分組成。本書內容豐富、選材廣泛、圖文並茂、易於理解，專業性和應用性強。本書既可以作為高等院校建築類專業的專業英語教材，也可以作為其他各專業學生的

本書適合初級英語學習者使用，共分為五個部分：第一部分(Section A)講解英語中42個音素的發音及拼寫；第二部分(Section B)講解單詞中的音節和重音；第三部分(Section C)講解短語、句子和語法，涉及連讀、節奏、強讀和弱讀、縮略式等語音知識；第四部分(Section D)主要講解實際對話中的語調；第五部分(Section E)是一些實用的語音學習參考資料，內容包括：音標表、各種語

住在下町的主角‧小馬是個淘氣的男孩。作品描繪他與同住的父母、好朋友的有趣日常生活。另外還收錄「珍念與阿京」、「小A小B探險記」等等當時一同發表的作品。 手塚治虫的出道作品。曾在日本國民新聞大阪版連載73次，是一部四格漫畫。因為是17歲的時候畫的，乍看可能不完整，但是依舊將四格漫畫的起承轉合表現得淋漓盡致。

本書根據2009年教育部新頒《中等職業學校體育與健康教學指導綱要》而編寫。本書分為兩部分：基礎模塊和拓展模塊，其基礎模板內容包括健康教育專題講座、田徑運動、體操運動、足球、籃球、排球；拓展模塊A內容包括體育舞蹈、街舞、健美操、保健操、瑜伽、乒乓球、羽毛球、網球；拓展模塊B內容包括游泳與水上救護、野外運動、民族民間傳統體育項目。

品名：彩漾名片證件夾材質：聚氯乙烯商品規格：H11xW16.5xD0.5cm(測量有±2mm誤差值)數量：1入款式：(A)藍 (B)白 (C)粉 (D)綠 (E)黃，共五款產地：台灣保存期限：妥善保存無期限適用年齡：九歲以上用途：收納名片、證件、拍立得、金融卡、會員卡、健保卡、集點卡、婚禮謝卡等 使用方法：拆封即可使用注意事項：●請勿放置於潮濕處或高溫日照下●請勿放置於幼兒易取處●請勿接近火源以及

Michael McAteer examines the plays of W. B. Yeats, considering their place in European theatre during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This original study considers the relationship Yeats's work bore with those of the foremost dramatists of the period, drawing comparisons with Henrik Ibsen, Maurice Maeterlinck, August Strindberg, Luigi Pirandello and Ernst Toller. It also shows how his plays addressed developments in theatre at the time, with regard to the Naturalist, Symbolist, Surrealist and Expressionist movements, and how symbolism identified Yeats's ideas concerning labour, commerce and social alienation. This book is invaluable to graduates and academics studying Yeats but also provides a fascinating account for those in Irish studies and in the wider field of drama.

《我是劉慈欣》是劉慈欣《三體》之外的重要作品。該書主要分為兩大板塊：A面是正面，劉慈欣系統講述了他的想像體系與人生體驗；B面是側面，完整呈現了劉慈欣的思想碎片與生活瑣思。關於《三體》背後的劉慈欣，關於“科幻熱”之外的劉慈欣，關於生活中的劉慈欣……這些文字，還原出一個立體而真實的劉慈欣，借此也可以窺見劉慈欣的思想宇宙。

Ｑ.對血型不同的四胞胎提問：如果只能帶一樣東西去無人島，妳會帶什麼？“完全不同類型的四胞胎女高中生”她們的“血型全都不一樣”。Ａ型長女明明是辣妹卻很認真、Ｂ型次女我行我素、Ｏ型三女四海皆兄弟，ＡＢ型四女是怪咖少女。儘管生長在相同環境下還是不一樣，非常有個性的四胞胎觀察喜劇就此拉開序幕!!

謝侃告訴你，英語也可以很腦洞。無論你是愛學英語的讀者A，還是只會I don't know的讀者B，或者只為找樂趣長知識的讀者C，《侃侃而談 腦洞英語》都是不二之選。中文裡的英文知識，英文裡的中文故事。腦洞一開深不見底，從此國際范兒路上多了一個你！ 優美如“春風十裡不如你”，流行如“吃雞”“戲精”，萬萬沒想到之“good”竟然可以表示“拒絕”， Don't know? Now you know!

★ 日本超人氣繪師 lack 首本個人畫冊，正式授權繁中版！★ 繁中版獨家附贈：雙面炫光卡一張 (共三款，隨書附贈一款)280磅炫光紙印製，值得收藏！A款：黑貞德「聖夜的晚餐」+ 原創作品「Palette」B款：FGO「弗郎西斯・德雷克」+ 原創作品「西櫻的天宮」C款：FGO「第六天魔王」+ 原創作品「зима」 ★ 本書收錄了 lack 最具代表性的商業、原創作品，美麗的插畫驚豔您的視覺！★ 「

本書英語為載體，以海洋工程領域文章為依託，使學生在獲取海洋工程相關知識的基礎上，提高英語的閱讀和翻譯能力。本教程包括海洋生物工程、海洋建築工程、海洋運輸工程、海洋信息工程、海洋土木工程等5個章節。每章節包括4個單元，每個單元分別包括A、B兩篇課文及詞匯、短語、專有名詞、翻譯及解析、練習和趣味短文等部分。

寶馬（ B M W ） 、戴姆勒—賓士（ D a i m l e r -Benz）、阿爾塔納化學品集團（Altana）、生產毛瑟的德意志武器和廠（DWM）、瓦爾塔電池公司（Varta）……這些光芒炫目的“德國製造”背後，都閃爍著一個家族的身影——匡特家族。匡特家族是世界上最富有的家族之一，在公眾視野中卻近乎“隱形”。家族成員保持著從19世紀中葉沿襲下來的家族傳統——謙遜、低調、自信與堅忍，從不使用

《大鼻涕龍和小鼻涕龍》精選了周銳最有代表性的獲獎童話《B 我消滅A 我》《大個子老鼠小個子貓》《扣子老三》《大鼻涕龍和小鼻涕龍》等三十多篇童話，這些作品構思巧妙，語言俐落風趣。這種別具一格的寫作風格和創作手法，展現了大俠周銳的幽默風采和豁達胸懷，也為讀者帶來一次充滿友愛、想像、智慧的快樂之旅。

本書是與《機器人特工訓練營——搭建指南（上）A》和《機器人特工訓練營——搭建指南（上）B》配套的學生活動手冊，可幫助學生學習和鞏固結構知識以及機械基礎知識，激發和提升學生對設計、探究基礎結構和機械結構的興趣。要求學生結合課程內容分步完成本手冊中的題目，認真設計模型，認真完成手冊中的實驗內容。

從小孩到大人都搶著學的超EASY生活英語，教你用APP隨手聊、脫口溜英文，英語會話，真的一本就能TALK！ ◎ 和老外即時對談、手寫往來，都還是讓你緊張得「落漆」？「落漆」情境A：想邀人共進晚餐，Hmm...了半天也沒進展？「落漆」情境B：職場閒聊，卻礙於英文而無法與同事交流？「落漆」情境C：看完電影和展覽，只懂得用good/bad聊心得？ 想擺脫「看一句、背一句」，背了半天卻開不了口的窘境嗎？拋

「一晃眼就已經五年了……」隨著父母的忌日愈來愈近，堅強的靜香也不禁流露出一絲的哀愁。身為青春年華的少女，平日開朗活潑的【房東】到底在期盼些什麼？除此之外，為了拯救「由莉佳A、B」所組成的里見騎士團，以及與孝太郎過從甚密的皇帝艾法莉亞到底有什麼不為人知的祕密，也是第14集不容錯過的重點喔！

《線性代數》是高等學校獨立學院經濟管理類線性代數教材。全書共4章，內容包括：行列式、矩陣、向量空間、線性方程組、特征值問題和二次型。書中每章設有引言、小結、碩士研究生試題摘選等欄目。A、B兩組習題緊貼教材內容，旨在強化“三基”訓練，提升解題能力。 《線性代數》內容豐富，便于自學，便于應用。可作為高等學校的教材或數學參考書。

作者是電腦業第一代資深前輩，服務 IBM(HK)三十年，他撰寫電腦業發展，詳盡真實，內容包括：(a) 詳述電腦業在香港以及中國的發展歷程，同時分享他親身參與過的大型項目，檢討得失成敗，甚具參考價值；(b) 除他本人以外，還邀請其他業內人士，按目前行業存在的問題發表寶貴意見，也展望將來行業的發展。“I hope the book will offer something for everyone:

The second book in the new fun, fact-packed history series, from classical historian, author and broadcaster, Bettany Hughes exploring how children just like YOU lived back in the day.It's your LUCKY day! You’ve stumbled across an ancient treasure chest in your school that was buried THOUSANDS of years ago by achild living in ancient Egypt. And the chest is packed with 20 strange and curious items that tell us so much about their life, such as:• The OLDEST cheese in the world• A special lunch box shaped like a DUCK• Slippers worn by the YOUNGEST ever Pharaoh• MAGICAL spells written on ancient tombs!Unpack the treasure chest and discover the objects that a child just like YOU was using thousands of years ago. You’ll uncover fascinating facts and true tales about their school, family life, clothes, games, favourite snacks and so much more.The true, real-life experiences of children in ancient times is a part of history that has been neglected for far too long – award-winning historian, b

Created by a teacher, Bob Books have been helping children learn to read for more than forty years! This set gives children who are just beginning to read practice with their early phonics skills, setting them up for success on their reading journeys!With playful stories, silly illustrations, and a phonics approach based on Science of Reading research, Bob Books keep young readers'' confidence high, leading to continued success and a love of reading. Your child will soon join the millions of happy kids who say, "I read the whole book!"®Science of Reading research proves that mastering phonics is key to a child''s success in learning to read. Like all Stage 1 Bob Books, these 12 storybooks feature simple words with consistent short vowel sounds. Early readers get lots of practice with foundational phonics skills while giggling at the playful stories and pictures!This set is perfect for children who have never read Bob Books, or for children who have read Bob Books Beginning Readers or B

Two former teammates and ex-best friends with benefits reunite twelve years later in this steamy small town hockey romance by Rachel Reid. Perfect for #BookTok readers looking for their next five-star romance!A sweet and sexy hockey romance about two ex-teammates and former best friends with benefits who are about to discover whether you can ever really have a second chance. From theNew York Timesbestselling author of theHeated Rivalry, Rachel Reid.After moving back to his hometown ten years ago, Riley Tuck thought he had left his major league hockey career—and his broken heart—far behind. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes, it brings ex-teammate and former best friend with benefits Adam Sheppard back into his life.Coming to the small town of Avery River, Nova Scotia, might have been a mistake. Adam’s not sure he’ll ever win back Riley’s trust after the way they left things—and the attention he’s getting as a huge hockey star isn’t exactly helping. Yet the chemistry that crackles b