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Kids Book of Crosswords Finnegan Ivy

Question of History: Why did the ancient Greeks ride elephants into battle? And other questions about ancient Greece Coo...

Discover the weird and wacky world of the ancient

Data Driven Decisions: A Practical Toolkit for Library and Information Professionals Stubbing Amy

Data Driven Decisions: A Practical Toolkit for Library and Information Professionals is a simple, jargon-free guide to using data for decision making in library services. The book walks readers step-by-step through each stage of implementing, reviewing and embedding data driven decisions in their organisation, providing accessible visualisations, top tips, and downloadable tools to support readers on their data journey. Staring with the absolute basics of using data, the author creates a framework for building skills and knowledge slowly until the reader is comfortable with even complex uses of data. The book begins with an exploration of explore the foundations of data driven decisions in libraries including a look at the impact of the current financial climate on resources, theoretical foundations of data collection and analysis, and how this book can be used in practice. The

Hell and High Water Unge Christian

The first in a new Swedish crime series featuring Tekla Berg, a fearless doctor with a remarkable photographic

Book of Dinosaurs Balkan Gabrielle

A stunning dinosaur picture book by the team behind the global bestseller Book of Bones - with touch-and-feel skeletons and fascinating facts to amaze, educate, and entertain young readers In this interactive book with touch-and-feel skeletons, ten record-breaking dinosaurs are introduced through a guessing game with clues. Readers examine the prehistoric skeletons and guess and read a series of boastful hints to guess the mystery dinosaur. The answers are uncovered in stunning page-turn reveals, featuring vibrant scenic habitats and a few reasons why each dinosaur is so special. The showstopping final pages make a clever connection between the 10 extinct dinosaurs and some of their contemporary counterparts. Learn which dinosaur had: The toughest armor The sharpest eyesight The biggest belly The spikiest tail And more! The book also includes a letter from the author, a 24-word glossary, a species index, and a 'Discover More' section that highlights books, podcasts, and other resources for the dinosaur-curious. This witty, informative introduction to the connection between anatomy and behaviour is full of fun, relatable facts as well as touch-and-feel finishes that bring the creatures to life - the ultimate dinosaur book for children. Ages 5-8

A Cloud Where the Birds Rise Harding Michael

A unique collection of quotes and observations from Michael Harding, one of Ireland's best-loved memoirists, with stunning and evocative illustrations from Irish illustrator Jacob

Reimagining Globalization and Education Rizvi Fazal

This book brings together leading scholars in Global Studies in Education to reflect on how various developments of historic significance have unsettled the neoliberal imaginary of globalization. The developments include greater recognition of inequalities and the changing nature of work and communication; the emergence of new technologies of governance; a greater awareness of geopolitical shifts; the revival of nationalism, populism and anti-globalization sentiments; and the recognition of risks surrounding pandemics and climate change. Drawing from a range of disciplinary perspectives, the chapters in this collection examine how these developments demand new ways of thinking about globalization and its implications for education policy and practice -- beyond the neoliberal imaginary.

Words of Wonder: Endangered Languages and What They Tell Us Evans Nicholas

M is for Mummy Cox Katy author

Your family doesn't fit the mould. So what? Since giving birth to her second child, Lucy's life is totally unrecognisable: the romance in her marriage is officially dead and so is the career it took her years to build. Instead of playing the cello behind superstars at packed-out arenas, Lucy now spends most days mopping up broccoli vomit whilst listening to her four-year-old recite facts about the gallbladder. Something needs to change. With a little help from her friends, Lucy comes up with a plan to get her life on track, claw back her career and help her extraordinary son to find his place in an ordinary

The Golden Oldies Kyeyune Kevin Lawrence

Dark days are upon us. Alien invaders have landed and are ready to do some damage, very worrying damage especially to us, the human race.In their way stands the only hope for planet Earth, a secret organisation. The population is resigned to what is to befall them and their only hope is, The Golden Oldies.To stop this threat, they'll need their best agents out on the job. Join Jeff, an elite agent, on an action-packed adventure around the world, fighting against the dastardly

The Spitfire Kids: The Generation Who Built, Supported and Flew Britain's Most Beloved Fighter Cross Alasdair

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An inspirational read celebrating the incredible young people who gave so much for this iconic British aircraft'. John Nichol, bestselling author of Spitfire: A Very British Love StoryDespite the many films and television programmes over the decades since the end of the Second World War that portrays our allied heroes as grown-up men and women, the Battle of Britain was in the main actually fought and won by teenagers. The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was just twenty years old. Many of the men and women who designed and built their planes were even younger.Based on the hit BBC World Service podcast Spitfire: The People's Story, we use contemporary diaries and memoirs, many of them previously unpublished, to tell the story of the Spitfire through the voices of the

Theranostics and Precision Medicine for the Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Volume 3: Translational and Clinical...

Theranostics and Precision Medicine for the Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma provides comprehensive information about on-going research as well as clinical data about liver cancer. It presents detailed descriptions about diagnostics and therapeutic options for easy understanding, with a focus on precision medicine approaches to improve treatment outcomes.The third volume, Clinical assessment, management, and precision medicine, discusses topics such as clinical and safety assessment of HCC patients; liver transplantation as therapeutic option; immunotherapy interventions; and image-based surveillance. In addition, it discusses immunohistology of HCC-enabled precision medicine and artificial intelligence for hepatocellular carcinomas.It is a valuable resource for cancer researchers, oncologists, graduate students, hepathologists, and members of biomedical

Single-Sentence Shakespeare Gorter Courtney

This amusing approach to Shakespeare's classic dramas features the plot of each of the Bard's 39 plays reduced to a single descriptive sentence.For this volume Shakespeare's 39 plays are divided into their five canonical groupings: comedies, tragedies, histories, problem plays, and collaborations. Each single-sentence summary will be foregrounded against a two-page spread featuring classic artwork that speaks both to the seriousness of the play illustrated as well as to the points made by the

Field Notes Griffin Maxim Peter

Field Notes is the record of a territory in full colour: a book of words and artworks that capture a year spent on foot in the Lincolnshire landscape.It is about topography and time. Chalk and flint and marsh. The coming and going of the sea, Neolithic farmers and the razzle-dazzle of weary coastal towns. It is as much about the ghost of a mammoth as it is the scream of a jet fighter, heading east.Each image is a still from a film - a film that is under constant production inside Maxim Peter Griffin's skull.Griffin's art is about taking somewhere and looking at it over and over so that with each looking it becomes strange and new. As well as being a testament to the isolated beauty of Lincolnshire itself, Field Notes is an extraordinary account of what it is like to be present in, to fully inhabit, a

Exit Stage Left Duerden Nick

A quirky, thought-provoking look at the curious afterlife of pop

Change Activist: Make Big Things Happen Fast McConnell Carmel

This book is for anyone wanting to make change happen in their life, in their workplace or community and possibly for a better world. It shows how social activists ask better questions, take baby steps to move to the next level. From green campaigns to building profitable, trusted teams, to Government policy, Carmel offers practical tools and strategies in your personal and professional life. Rather than tune out or hope someone else will create the best options, Change Activists use passion, purpose and a compelling plan to move forward. Change activists ask better questions - what am I passionate about, what change do I want to see in the world, how can I make big things happen fast in my life? If you are interested in values led change for yourself, and across any kind of organization this will help; there is power in being true to yourself, in doing the right thing. And it is

An Ethnography of the Lives of Japanese and Japanese Brazilian Migrants: Childhood, Family, and Work Kosminsky Ethel V.

This book explores the Japanese emigration to the planned colony of Bastos in Sao Paulo, Brazil in the early twentieth century. Using interviews and fieldwork done in both Bastos and Japan, Ethel Kosminsky analyzes the consequences of these temporary labor migrations on the immigrants and their

Dont Wake Dad! Wells Eden

A funny, rhyming picture book to celebrate Dad bears everywhere - the perfect gift for Father's Day!Ssshhhh! Don't wake Dad! Bear cubs, Obi and Nadia, are throwing a surprise party for their sleepy (but amazing) dad. They've got balloons to blow up, cakes to make, and they've invited all of their woodland friends and family.Dad is sound asleep and snoring in bed, so it's vital that he doesn't wake up before everything is ready. But with so many noisy guests, instruments, party poppers and balloons, can the cubs get the party ready before dad wakes up?This rhyming, riotous picture book is perfect for sharing together and ends with a heart-warming celebration of dads and all the amazing things they do!Disclaimer: Remember not to wake a bear - all dads need their rest!

Keep Her Sweet FitzGerald Helen

When a middle-aged couple downsizes to the countryside for an easier life, their two daughters become isolated, argumentative and violent ... A chilling, vicious and darkly funny psychological thrillerDesperate to enjoy their empty nest, Penny and Andeep downsize to the countryside, to forage, upcycle and fall in love again, only to be joined by their two twenty-something daughters, Asha and Camille. Living on top of each other in a tiny house, with no way to make money, tensions simmer, and as Penny and Andeep focus increasingly on themselves, the girls become isolated, argumentative and violent. When Asha injures Camille, a family therapist is called in, but she shrugs off the escalating violence between the sisters as a classic case of sibling rivalry ... and the stress of the family move. But this is not sibling rivalry. The sisters are in far too deep for that. This

Literature, Social Wisdom, and Global Justice: Developing Systems Thinking Through Literary Study Bracher Mark

This book responds to the pressing and increasingly recognized need to cultivate social wisdom for addressing major problems confronting humanity. Connecting literary studies with some of the biggest questions confronted by researchers and students today, the book provides a practical approach to thinking through, and potentially solving, global problems such as poverty, inequality, crime, war, racism, classism, environmental decline, and climate change.Bracher argues that solving such problems requires "systems thinking" and that literary study is an excellent way to develop the four key cognitive functions of which systems thinking is composed, which are causal analysis, prospection/strategic planning, social cognition, and metacognition.Drawing on evidence-based learning theory, as well as the latest research on systems thinking and its four cognitive functions, the

The Eric Clapton Sessions Wild Andrew

If you've never delved into Eric Clapton's contributions to other artist's recordings, then this is a handy guide to help the reader find his way into such a lengthy and successful second career. If his own albums are the main story, then these recordings run alongside: an alternative history of one of rock's most prolific

Official Jurassic World Dominion Sticker Activity Book

Discover more about your favourite Jurassic World dinosaurs in this fun-packed sticker activity

Man Meets Woman Liu Yang

It's time for reality check with the opposite sex. Ako časť jeho najlepších pictogramov série, vedúci dizajnér Yang Liu distiluje skúsenosti, challenges, a mnoho perspektív, ktoré sa uskutočnia muži a ženy, z dvoch-ročných clihés do aktuálnych diskusií, z boardroom politics to bedroom antics.

Social Media Marketing in the Self-Media Era: A Self-Experiment on Tiktok Aytan Giovanni

"I don't get the hype either" was Charli D'Amelio's bio on TikTok. She couldn't understand her own success on TikTok, as she saw herself as a normal US American teenage girl. Now Charli is the biggest influencer on TikTok with over 100 million followers. This research focuses on social media marketing on TikTok. The topic is crucial for future marketing approaches, because TikTok offers new and efficient marketing tools and a growing audience.We live in a self-media era. People present themselves on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. TikTok has taken the self-media logic to a new level: anyone can go viral on the platform, even without a large follower base. People are becoming self-publishing consumers.I started a self-experiment and created my own TikTok channel. It was a huge success - I managed to go viral with nearly every video. This

Understanding Success and Failure in Adult ESL: Superacin Vs Dropout of Adult English Learners in the Us Kim Taewoong

This book explores the reasons why adult ESL learners drop out of their language classes and suggests explicit strategies for keeping students engaged. The most effective strategies may be personal rather than technical or

A Valley Secret Jacobs Anna

The second book in the brand new Backshaw Moss series from million-copy bestseller Anna JacobsLancashire, 1930s. When her mother dies, leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's identity, 22-year-old Maisie Bassett is determined to make a fresh start.Changing her name and moving to the small town of Rivenshaw, she finds a respectable job in a grocery store. But unwanted attentions from a man at her new church make life increasingly difficult - until the shy, handsome Gabriel Harte comes to her rescue.Then she receives an inheritance from a distant relative and her world is turned upside down. The home she's always dreamed of may finally be hers - if she can keep it safe from a grasping slum landlord. With Gabriel's help, can Maisie untangle the secrets of her past and secure her future?Curl up with this heartwarming read from the

Mirror and the Palette Higgie Jennifer

A dazzlingly original and ambitious work of art history, intertwining biography and cultural history, and packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy

Full Circle Hutton Mike

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Weaponized Asher Neal

A thrilling standalone adventure set in the world of the Polity. When a far-flung colony is attacked by powerful alien raptors, its inhabitants will be forced to fight back - even as war changes them in monstrous

Wonderdog Howard Mr Jules