Chris Scott: 89 books
Little Learning Labs: Unofficial Minecraft for Kids, abridged edition
24 Family-Friendly Creative Building Activities That Teach Math, Science, History, and Culture; Projects for STEAM Learners
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Little Learning Labs: Unofficial Minecraft for Kids**--an abridged edition of***** Unofficial Minecraft Lab for Kids--***offers a variety of creative exercises that explore the game through fun, educational lessons.
Activities selected from an Amazon Best Kids’ Books of 2016 pick!
Balancing...
The Devious Book for Cats
A Parody
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Cats have nine lives. Shouldn’t they be lived to the fullest?
“Domesticated” does not mean “docile.” The ho-hum routine of sleep, eat, eat, and sleep is no way for any creature who ruled Egypt for a millennium to spend her day. It’s high time felines everywhere woke up from their...
by Tim Blevins, Dennis Daily, Sydne Dean
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The 1859 “gold fever” emboldened many adventurous souls to head west to the mineral-rich regions of the Kansas and Nebraska territories. Their destination, commonly called “Pike’s Peak,” was the area known today as Colorado’s Front Range. The prospector’s dream was of an easy life of...
Intelligent M&A
Navigating the Mergers and Acquisitions Minefield
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Most mergers and acquisitions fail to deliver their expected outcomes, yet they remain essential for growing world-class companies. It follows that those handling M&As must draw on all the tools at their disposal to improve their chances of success. Applying the techniques of business intelligence...
The New Vampire's Handbook
A Guide for the Recently Turned Creature of the Night
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Being turned into a vampire is the easy part.
Actually becoming a vampire is far more difficult.
In today’s world of vampire-obsessed pop culture, misinformation abounds. A newly turned vampire who looks to movies and novels for answers to everlasting life’s questions will inevitably be...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
Edgar G. Ulmer
Detour on Poverty Row
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors...
After Montaigne
Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays...
by Noel Scott, Chris Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Contemporary Tourism Reviews will provide you with critical, state-of-the-art surveys of all of the major areas of tourism study to people who are coming to a topic for the first time. The CTR series provides accessible and structured overviews to all areas of research in the broadly defined subject...
by Lorraine Young, Philip Beadle, Scott Willhite
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Do you want to develop Web sites without the help of a programmer? Lucky for you there’s DotNetNuke, a content management system that allows you to build and maintain dynamic Web sites just by using a Web browser.
DotNetNuke For Dummies helps you get down to business and shows you how to...
Network Analysis and Tourism
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
This book aims to provide a comprehensive review of the contribution of network analysis to the understanding of tourism destinations and organizations. Theoretical and methodological aspects are discussed along with a series of applications. While this is a relatively new approach in the tourism...
Conflict and Housing, Land and Property Rights
A Handbook on Issues, Frameworks and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Housing, land and property (HLP) rights, as rights, are widely recognized throughout international human rights and humanitarian law and provide a clear and consistent legal normative framework for developing better approaches to the HLP challenges faced by the UN and others seeking to build long-term...
Intelligent M & A
Navigating the Mergers and Acquisitions Minefield
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Almost 70% of mergers fail, yet deals are essential for growing world-class companies. Therefore they must use all the tools and techniques at their disposal to improve their chances of success. Applying the techniques advocated in this book can help managers beat the odds - and employees themselves...
by Steven Percy, Chris Knight, Scott McGarry
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
This book discusses the history of thermal heat generators and focuses on the potential for these processes using micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) technology for this application. The main focus is on the capture of waste thermal energy for example from industrial processes, transport systems...