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Nemoto'S Travels

This is the illustrated diary of Imperial Japanese Navy floatplane pilot Warrant Officer Nemoto Kumesako, dating from the early months of the Pacific War. His recollections offer an intimate perspective into his life, along with insights into Japanese thinking of the times. Unusually, these memoirs are presented in a style consistent with the format of Japanese manga (illustrated cartoon).The curious floatplanes of the time, some of which verge on the steampunk, come to life with the author's uncanny sense of humor. Nemoto defies every stereotype of the Samurai warrior, for his diary betrays coveted romanticism. Although an exceptional character, he was certainly a man of his times. Not particularly close to his comrades, Nemoto prided himself in his worldly credentials. For example, he read Tolstoy's War & Peace in German between missions.Nemoto's writing

An Unnatural Attitude

An Unnatural Attitude traces a style of musical thought that coalesced in the intellectual milieu of the Weimar Republic--a phenomenological style, which sought a renewed contact with music as a worldly circumstance. Deeply critical of the influence of naturalism in aesthetics and ethics, figures in this milieu argued for an understanding and description of music as something accessible neither through introspection nor through experimental research, but rather in an attitude of outward, open orientation toward the world. With this approach, music acquires meaning when the act of listening is understood to be constitutively shared with others.Benjamin Steege interprets this discourse as the response of a post-World War I generation amid a virtually uninterrupted experience of war--actual or imminent--a younger cohort for whom disenchantment with scientific achievement

Middle School Mischief The Magical Reality of Nadia #2

Inspired by the author's real-life experiences, this second hilarious and sweet novel about sixth grade Egyptian immigrant Nadia has her battling school newspaper drama, controversy with the school mascot, and some magical mischief, too.Nadia loves fun facts. Here are a few about her:There was a magical--and hilarious--ancient Egyptian teacher named Titi trapped in her hippo amulet until she freed him last fall.Her school is choosing a new mascot and her idea is totally going to winShe's going to kick butt writing for the school newspaper this term......Maybe. A couple of weeks in, the newspaper is a big mess. The mascot contest is mayhem, too. (Who knew choosing a costumed character could cause such controversy? )Then Nadia and Titi discover that the hippo amulet holds a second secret, one that's super

Super Smart Thinking: Psychology Made Easy

\nWelcome to the wonderful world of Psychology!\n

Illustrated Treasury of Classic Children's Stories

Now available as a paperback, The Illustrated Treasury of Classic Children's Stories allows kids to enjoy classic works of children's literature illustrated by Charles Santore, a New York Times bestselling illustrator!Enjoy the ultimate collection of illustrated children's classics, featuring the beautiful artwork of #1 New York Times best-selling illustrator Charles Santore. Stunning watercolor artwork brings these cherished stories to life like never before. This treasury contains fourteen stories, from beloved tales of mischievous bunnies to fairy tale classics like Snow White. These timeless tales will captivate readers of all ages, and are sure to be treasured for generations to come. Children will be delighted and adults can reminisce on childhood favorites, making storytime that much more

Diakopes sti Santorini Greek Easy Readers - Stage 3

In Cold Blood

'I read this in one sitting and loved every minute of it. The detective story reads like an episode of Vera.' 5 stars, NetGalley reviewerNo secret can stay buried forever...As the Whitworth family begin renovations on their new home, their plans are brought to an abrupt end when they discover a body buried in the back garden.DI Isabel Blood and her team are called to investigate, but as she approaches Ecclesdale Drive, a feeling of unease settles in her gut.The property cordoned off is number 23. The house she used to live in as a child...The forensic team estimate that the body has been in the ground for up to forty years - coinciding with the time Isabel's family lived in the house.Isabel's father vanished without a trace when she was fourteen years old. And with her mother

Meet a Sanitation Worker! In Our Neighborhood

Join Emma and Theo on their adventures as they meet community helpers in their neighborhoodTheo and Emma are doing a class project about sanitation workers--and now they are headed to the recycling center to learn more. Come along as they get a firsthand look at a sanitation worker's job.Join in the excitement as these fun-loving friends continue to meet a variety of new community helpers and learn the ins-and-outs of their very important jobs. Each story is told from the point of view of either Emma or Theo in an engaging narrative that combines fiction and nonfiction text. Beautiful illustrations and real-life photos contribute to the fun. Add in a detailed map, a Q&A with a community helper, as well as tips and tools, and you've got a series of books that kids won't want to put down Key features: - An illustrated, fun adventure with Theo and Emma keeps readers engaged. -

Wayfaring Stranger

In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life.In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends with Weldon firing a gun, unsure whether it hit its mark.Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland barely survives the Battle of the Bulge, in the process saving the lives of his sergeant, Hershel Pine, and a young Spanish prisoner of war, Rosita Lowenstein--a woman who holds the same romantic power over him as the strawberry blonde Bonnie Parker, and is equally mysterious. The three return to Texas where Weldon and Hershel get in on the ground floor of the nascent oil business.In just a few years' time Weldon will spar

The Military Life and Times of General Sir Miles Dempsey

Miles Dempsey, Commander of the British Second Army in the invasion of Europe 1944-45, is almost unknown to the general public. Yet his part in Britain's contribution to that campaign was second only to Montgomery's in importance.Dempsey survived two and a half years of bitter fighting as an infantry officer on the Western Front before accompanying his beloved Royal Berkshire Regiment in the little-known North West Persia campaign of 1920-21. In six years he rose from Major to command over half a million men in the largest combined operation in history, and led them to victory a year later.Based on sources which include some of Dempsey's previously unpublished work and the views of those who knew him, the book traces his career as a soldier of rare distinction, a talented sportsman, and a man of huge charm and shrewd intellect, dedicated to his beloved regiment and

Sanctuary Trilogy

Alien meets The Darkest Minds in this thrilling trilogy about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who teams up with a group of superpowered criminal teens to save the Earth from an alien invasion. The Sanctuary series is now available together in a paperback boxed setKenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.As a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar's space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. But then a routine drill goes sideways and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners.Kenzie plans her escape, but then realizes there's a more sinister threat looming, something ancient and evil that has clawed its way into Sanctuary from the vacuum of

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure

Mad Travelers

A brilliant, young con artist offered to help the world's most traveled people reach the planet's last untouched frontiers; instead, they were taken for a wild ride that turned into a costly lesson on the perils of wanderlust.At twenty-three, William Simon Baekeland was well on his way to becoming the world's best traveled person. The "billionaire" heir to a great plastics fortune had already visited 163 countries, but his real passion was finding ways to visit the world's most challenging destinations--war torn cities, disputed territories, and remote or officially off-limits islands at the margins of the map. He earned rock-star status in the world of extreme travel by finding ingenious ways to bring the world's most widely traveled people to difficult-to-reach and forbidden places. But when his story began to unravel, an eccentric group of hyper-well-traveled country

Storyworlds Reception/P1 Stage 3, Our World Stories 4 Pack

Part of the "Storyworlds" series, this pack contains the four Stage Three "Our World" stories about children's experiences at home and school. The stories are "The Lost Coat", "The Empty Lunchbox", "The Robots" and "The See-Saw." Each stage of "Storyworlds" provides a carefully structured introduction of words and language. The different worlds ensure that these are introduced and practised in a variety of contexts. Stage Three, like Stage Two, offers the "springboard approach" - developing the role of the young child as an independent reader, whilst retaining some support offered by the experienced reader. Twenty-two new key words are introduced. The opening page of each story provides simple text for the teacher or older child to read. The child then reads the rest of the story. The repetitive language allows for the confident development of word-recognition

Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant's Guide for Fundamental Investors

You have great investment ideas. If you turn them into highly profitable portfolios, this book is for you.Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant's Guide for Fundamental Investors is for fundamental equity analysts and portfolio managers, present, and future. Whatever stage you are at in your career, you have valuable investment ideas but always need knowledge to turn them into money. This book will introduce you to a framework for portfolio construction and risk management that is grounded in sound theory and tested by successful fundamental portfolio managers. The emphasis is on theory relevant to fundamental portfolio managers that works in practice, enabling you to convert ideas into a strategy portfolio that is both profitable and resilient. Intuition always comes first, and this book helps to lay out simple but effective rules of thumb that require little

The Perfect Pet for You!

A whimsical meditation for little animal lovers on finding an animal companion who will be more than just a pet.Hey there Are you looking for a pet? Don't rush or panic. Let's think...Do you want someone to snuggle when you're afraid? One who is quiet and slow, or one who will talk to you? There's so much to consider when choosing a new pet that it can be almost overwhelmingEach person is unique and so is every animal. In this gentle guide to finding the perfect pet, Estelle Laure asks childlike questions to help readers consider. Amy Hevron's warm acrylic on wood illustrations makes each pet feel lovable--especially the bat, the snake, and the spider This is a book that encourages self-reflection, human individuality, and animal

Geometry of Grief

In this profound and hopeful book, a mathematician and celebrated teacher shows how mathematics may help all of us--even the math-averse--to understand and cope with grief.We all know the euphoria of intellectual epiphany--the thrill of sudden understanding. But coupled with that excitement is a sense of loss: a moment of epiphany can never be repeated. In Geometry of Grief, mathematician Michael Frame draws on a career's worth of insight--including his work with a pioneer of fractal geometry Benoit Mandelbrot--and a gift for rendering the complex accessible as he delves into this twinning of understanding and loss. Grief, Frame reveals, can be a moment of possibility.Frame investigates grief as a response to an irrevocable change in circumstance. This reframing allows us to see parallels between the loss of a loved one or a career and the loss of the elation

Spirit Life & Science - Understanding Your Gifts of Healing and Mediumship

This book offers an unprecedented scientific approach to show the reader how anyone has the potential to develop astounding capabilities by understanding their natural spiritual

Shoulder Season

Named a Best Book of Summer by Good Morning America - Parade - EW - Travel & Leisure - PopSugar - Brit & Co - SheReads - Women.comA dazzling portrait of a young woman coming into her own, the youthful allure of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and what we lose--and gain--when we leave home.ONCE IN A LIFETIME, YOU CAN HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFEThe small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is an unlikely location for a Playboy Resort, and nineteen-year old Sherri Taylor is an unlikely bunny. Growing up in neighboring East Troy, Sherri plays the organ at the local church and has never felt comfortable in her own skin. But when her parents die in quick succession, she leaves the only home she's ever known for the chance to be part of a glamorous slice of history. In the

Principles and Obstacles for Sharing Data from Environmental Health Research

On March 19, 2014, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on the topic of the sharing of data from environmental health research. Experts in the field of environmental health agree that there are benefits to sharing research data, but questions remain regarding how to effectively make these data available. The sharing of data derived from human subjects--making them both transparent and accessible to others--raises a host of ethical, scientific, and process questions that are not always present in other areas of science, such as physics, geology, or chemistry. The workshop participants explored key concerns, principles, and obstacles to the responsible sharing of data used in support of environmental health research and policy making while focusing on protecting the privacy of human subjects and addressing the concerns of the research community.

Revolution

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutionsThis book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of dialectical images: Marx's locomotives of history, Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others. It connects theories with the existential trajectories of the thinkers who elaborated them, by sketching the diverse profiles of revolutionary intellectuals--from Marx and Bakunin to Luxemburg and the Bolsheviks, from Mao and Ho Chi Minh to Jos Carlos Mari tegui, C.L.R. James, and other rebellious spirits from the South--as outcasts and pariahs. And finally, it analyzes the entanglement between revolution and communism that so deeply

The Cognitive Neurosciences

The sixth edition of the foundational reference on cognitive neuroscience, with entirely new material that covers the latest research, experimental approaches, and measurement methodologies.Each edition of this classic reference has proved to be a benchmark in the developing field of cognitive neuroscience. The sixth edition of The Cognitive Neurosciences continues to chart new directions in the study of the biological underpinnings of complex cognition--the relationship between the structural and physiological mechanisms of the nervous system and the psychological reality of the mind. It offers entirely new material, reflecting recent advances in the field, covering the latest research, experimental approaches, and measurement methodologies.This sixth edition treats such foundational topics as memory, attention, and language, as well as other areas, including

Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 1978-2015 Ross Judith Joy

Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 1978-2015 is an illuminating retrospective that explores the life and career of a revered American photographer, illustrated by two hundred of her images, many never before seen or published.The work of Judith Joy Ross marks a watershed in the lineage of the photographic portrait. Her pictures--unpretentious, quietly penetrating, startling in their transparency--consistently achieve the capacity to glimpse the past, present, and perhaps even the future of the individuals who stand before her lens. Adolescents swim at a local municipal park, ordinary people are at work and play. From immigrants and refugees, to tech workers and students, military reservists and civilians--all are incisively rendered with equal tenderness in Ross's black-and-white, large-format portraits.Published alongside the largest exhibition to feature

I am Dog

\nA day in the life of a dog... told from the dog\'s point of view! A funny rhyming story from Peter Bently and Chris Chatterton - illustrator of the bestselling Ten Minutes to Bed series.\n

Seven Sins Of Memory Updated Edition

By one of the world's foremost psychologists, a groundbreaking and award-winning study updated for the 20th anniversary with new research that delves into the complex behavior of memoryTwenty years ago, The Seven Sins of Memory offered the first framework that explained common memory vices--and their surprising virtues. Now, in this updated edition, Daniel L. Schacter revisits his groundbreaking research with the twenty-first century's cultural trends and scientific discoveries. How does our ever-increasing reliance on Google, Instagram, and other websites harm our mind's ability to store and retrieve memories? How has repeated exposure to "fake news" and other false statements increased our bias and made it easier for us to think these statements are true? Exploring the memory miscues that occur in everyday life--absentmindedness, transience, blocking,

Santa's New Sleigh

Christmas Eve was here at last,The countdown clock was ticking fast . . .But yikes When Santa turned the key (The reindeer need some help you see)The engine didn't start, it spluttered, 'That isn't right', the elves all muttered . . .When Santa's sleigh stops working on Christmas Eve the elves all rally round to help. Maybe they could use a slingshot? Or the owls could help? How about polar bears?Will they be able to sort the sleigh out before it is too late? Things are not looking good until one small elf has a bright ideaFestive and fun, this is destined to become a seasonal

Complete Musashi: The Book of Five Rings and Other Works

The culmination of 25 years of research, Alex Bennett's groundbreaking English translation of Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings reveals the true meaning of the original work. Plus, definitive translations of five more known works of Musashi!This piece of writing by famed samurai Musashi (1584-1645) is the single-most influential work on samurai swordsmanship, offering insights into samurai history, the Zen Buddhist state of "no-mind" that enables warriors to triumph and the philosophical meaning of Bushido--"the way of the warrior."Until now, English translations of The Book of Five Rings have been based on inaccurate copies of Musashi's long-lost original manuscript. Bennett's translation is the first to be based on a careful reconstruction of the original text by Japan's foremost Musashi scholar. By identifying discrepancies among the existing

Sbírka úloh z fyziky pro základní školy a víceletá gymnázia

Nově koncipovaná sbírka obsahuje především úlohy, které vycházejí z běžných životních situací a pobízejí řešitele k větší samostatnosti při vyhledávání informací v literatuře i na internetu, vymýšlení různých způsobů řešení úloh i experimentování. Sbírka rovněž obsahuje řadu námětů na provádění pokusů, pozorování a realizaci fyzikálních projektů. K řešení zadaných problémů musí žáci používat vědomosti z různých vyučovacích předmětů, při pokusech uplatní i svoje manuální dovednosti.Sbírka má rozsah 200 tiskových stran a je členěna do 9 kapitol, které obsahují poznatky týkající se jednotlivých oblastí fyziky: fyzikální měření a práce s grafy, vlastnosti látek a těles, pohyb a síla, práce, výkon, energie, mechanika kapalin a plynů, termika, elektřina a magnetismus, optika, akustika, jaderná energie a meteorologie, Země a vesmír.Jednotlivé kapitoly obsahují v úvodu úlohy početní a problémové, řazené se vzestupnou obtížností; dále pokračují náměty na jednoduché pokusy a návrhy na laboratorní práce a projekty.Nedílnou součástí celé sbírky je přiložené CD, které obsahuje výsledky a řešení jednotlivých úloh v rozsahu téměř 120 tiskových stran.Data obsažená na CD lze také stáhnout z adresy www.prometheus-data.cz.

Professor Wooford McPaw's History of Astronomy - Elliot Krusynski

This second book in the Wooford McPaw series takes on the subject of the cosmos and everything within it. In his distinctively humorous, somewhat subversive tone, Elliot Kruszynski (in the guise of the Prof) looks at how our understanding of our place within the universe has evolved from the days of Ancient Greece, to the discoveries of Copernicus and Gallileo, through to Newton and then to Einstein and Hawking. In and amongst these stories, we find out about how the universe may have been formed, the birth and death of stars, different types of galaxies, our own solar system and the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.Krusysnki's comprehensive but easily understood texts are brought to life in comic-style panels with plenty of dialogue and discussion bringing the subject alive, and providing a refreshingly new take on the broadest of all subject matters!