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Sleep Is for the Weak
The Best of the Mommybloggers Including Amalah, Finslippy, Fussy, Woulda Coulda Shoulda, Mom-101, and More!
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Seeking advice and a sense of camaraderie, more than half a million readers per month turn to the "mommyblogs" featured in this collection, which brings together their best and brightest essays, ranging in style from snort-Diet-Coke-out-the-nose funny to poignant and bittersweet. Written...
Marie Curie for Kids
Her Life and Scientific Discoveries, with 21 Activities and Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Marie Curie, renowned for her work on radioactivity, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win in two fields (chemistry and physics), and the first woman to hold a chair position at the Sorbonne. Marie Curie for Kids details Curie's remarkable life, from her childhood under...
Galileo for Kids
His Life and Ideas, 25 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Galileo, one of history's best-known scientists, is introduced in this illuminating activity book. Children will learn how Galileo's revolutionary discoveries and sometimes controversial theories changed his world and laid the groundwork for modern astronomy and physics. This book will inspire kids...
by Freeman Dyson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
In this sequel to The Scientist as Rebel (2006), Freeman Dyson—whom The Times of London calls “one of the world’s most original minds”—celebrates openness to unconventional ideas and “the spirit of joyful dreaming” in which he believes that science should be pursued. Throughout these...
Why Should Anyone Work Here?
What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Imagine designing the best company on earth to work for . . .
What would that company be like? How would you build and sustain it? As a leader, you need to know. In the past, businesses made people conform to the organization’s needs. But the old paradigm has shifted. Now leaders must transform...
Charting the World
Geography and Maps from Cave Paintings to GPS with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Maps have been a part of human culture since the days of scratching on cave walls, and this richly illustrated history chronicles the road from simple diagrams used to avoid danger to the complex, navigational charts used today. Displaying an array of historic atlases and a variety of cartography...
Ticked
A Medical Miracle, a Friendship, and the Weird World of Tourette Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
An inspirational tale of personal struggle with and triumph over Tourette syndrome, this is the story of Jeff Matovic and the radical treatment he sought to cure himself. After suffering from Tourette’s for years—with his tics and outbursts getting progressively worse and with no results coming...
Answer Them Nothing
Bringing Down the Polygamous Empire of Warren Jeffs
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The compelling story of the struggle by law enforcement and activists to dismantle the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is finally told. In 1953, when police raided the Short Creek compound of the FLDS, it soon became a political and publicity nightmare eventually...
Warning Signs
How to Protect Your Kids from Becoming Victims or Perpetrators of Violence and Aggression
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Warning Signs provides practical methods to reduce harm to and by children. Doctors Johnson and Berdahl present the most common risk factors and warning signs, along with practical parenting advice and strategies for raising strong, safe kids and protecting them from becoming either perpetrators or...
by Captain James Cook
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
Between 1768 and 1779, Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy made three voyages of exploration for purposes of scientific research. On each voyage he kept a log of scenes and adventures. Cook's reputation rose steadily with each voyage largely because Europeans were fascinated with the romance of discovery as well as reports of sexual licence in Tahiti and other Polynesian islands.
Half Man, Half Bike
The Life of Eddy Merckx, Cycling's Greatest Champion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Eddy Merckx is to cycling what Muhammad Ali is to boxing or Pele to soccer: simply the best there has ever been. Merckx amassed an astonishing 445 victories. Lance Armstrong, by comparison, managed fewer than 100. Merckx didn’t just beat his opponents; he crushed them.
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A Kid's Guide to African American History
More than 70 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
What do all these people have in common: the first man to die in the American Revolution, a onetime chief of the Crow Nation, the inventors of peanut butter and the portable X-ray machine, and the first person to make a wooden clock in this country? They were all great African Americans. For parents...
Rainbow Warrior
My Life in Color
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
In 1978, Harvey Milk asked Gilbert Baker to create a unifying symbol for the growing gay rights movement, and on June 25 of that year, Baker's Rainbow Flag debuted at San Francisco's Gay Liberation Day parade. Baker had no idea his creation would become an international emblem of freedom, forever...
Why We Remain Jews
The Path To Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Dr. Tsesis describes the path he traversed from religious ignorance to strong belief in the Jewish religion. Tsesis assigns a special place to the proof of his conclusion that religion and science—especially in light of recent discoveries—are not antagonists, and are, in fact, in complete harmony,...