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Collapse of Venezuela: Scorched Earth Politics and Economic Decline, 2012-2020
The Collapse of Venezuela documents Venezuela's economic implosion as politicians adopted strategies that severely harmed the economy in their struggle for power.
Between 2012 and 2020, Venezuela suffered the largest economic contraction ever documented outside of wartime. This collapse was caused not just by the failure of an economic model but also the deeper failure of its political system to manage the conflicts inherent to a polarized society. The Collapse of Venezuela argues that when the stakes of power are high, politicians have an incentive to adopt political strategies that directly harm the economy. Author Francisco Rodríguez describes these scorched earth strategies and shows how politicians used these methods to target the Venezuelan economy in their fight for power. Ultimately, the conflicting sides have trapped the economy in a catastrophic stalemate that has destroyed the country's living standards and turned the economy into a political battlefield.
By charting Venezuela's experience with scorched earth politics, Rodríguez reveals an essential cautionary tale for other democracies around the globe.
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Shade the Changing Man by Peter Milligan Omnibus Vol. 1
The surreal superhero epic penned by Peter Milligan is back in print, now collected in omnibus format for the first time! Along with fellow classics like The Sandman, Animal Man, and Hellblazer, Shade, the Changing Man--a subversive reinvention of a character created by comics legend Steve Ditko--helped usher in the era of DC's Vertigo imprint, populated by stories with a distinctly mature sensibility and fearless creative vision. Now, Shade, the Changing Man--written by acclaimed scribe Peter Milligan and with art by Chris Bachalo, Mark Pennington, and more--is collected in the omnibus format! Shade, the Changing Man starts with Kathy George's encounter with Shade's arrival on Earth from his home dimension of Meta--in the body of her parents' killer. From there, Shade and Kathy journey into America's collective unconscious to find the evil known only as The American Scream. From there, it's a mind-bending journey into the heartland of a nation, in the most celebrated work of Milligan's prolific career! Collects Shade, the Changing Man #1-41, and a story from Vertigo Jam #1, along with a brand-new introduction by Peter Milligan. -
300 Full Body Kettlebell Workouts Book for Men and Women: Big Guide to 150 Kettlebell Exercises & 150 Kettlebell and Bodyweight Exercises with Step-by
Unlock your fitness potential with the 300 kettlebell workouts. This comprehensive guide is the definitive kettlebell training book you've searched for. This kettlebell workout book offers an unparalleled range of exercises that combine the dynamic power of kettlebells with the versatility of bodyweight movements, creating a balanced and effective workout regimen.
This kettlebell book is your perfect companion. With 300 kettlebell workouts, you'll have endless options to challenge yourself and achieve your fitness goals.
Each exercise is designed to build strength, burn fat, and enhance overall fitness.
Key Features of this Kettlebell and Bodyweight Exercise Book:
- Diverse Workout Options: Choose from 150 kettlebell workouts and 150 workouts combining kettlebell and bodyweight exercises. This variety ensures a full-body workout that targets all major muscle groups for a balanced fitness routine.Timed-Based and Rep-Based Workouts: Enjoy a mix of timed-based and rep-based workouts to keep your training dynamic and effective.Step-by-Step Instructions: Each exercise comes with detailed guides and clear images, making this an excellent kettlebell exercise book for perfect form and technique.Muscle Targeting Information: Understanding which muscles you're working with each exercise can help you focus on your fitness goals and achieve better results.BONUS 1: Extra 1,000 Workouts - stay motivated and avoid workout boredom with endless variety.BONUS 2: Logging sheets to record your workouts.
Why Choose This Book?
- Convenience: You don't need a gym membership or extensive equipment. A kettlebell and your body weight are all you need to perform these effective workouts.Efficiency: Focus on exercises that deliver results without wasting time, ensuring a productive workout session.Motivation: Keep your workouts exciting and varied with various exercises to prevent boredom and enhance motivation.Results: Build strength, lose fat, and improve your overall fitness with a proven combination of kettlebell and bodyweight workouts.
With clear instructions and step-by-step guidance, you will feel empowered to push your limits and reach new heights in your fitness journey.
What Sets This Book Apart?
- Visual and Interactive Learning: Step-by-step guides and images make learning and executing exercises straightforward and engaging.Comprehensive Approach: The blend of kettlebell and bodyweight exercises provides a well-rounded fitness regimen, promoting balanced muscle development and overall fitness.
Don't miss this chance to elevate your fitness routine.
Click the BUY NOW button and start your journey to a stronger, fitter you today with this essential kettlebell book workouts edition!
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Sold outDreaming Alongside
Let Dragonfly lead you on a journey of inspiration!
Following your winged guide, visit the places and things that can help you find strength in the present and imagine your amazing future. Dream alongside everything from a construction site and a sewing machine to the river and a blanket of moss. After your travels, Dragonfly asks: What do you like to dream about? With its mixed setting in rural and urban environments and exploration of both the natural and modern world, Dreaming Alongside gives readers permission to daydream and think of what magic their lives have the potential to hold.
Bilingual edition (English and Plains Cree) available as Dreaming Alongside / ê-pawâtamahk.
Praise for Monique Gray Smith:
★"Joyful and tender...celebrates the activities that bring gladness through family and cultural connections."--School Library Journal, starred review for My Heart Fills With Happiness
★"Smith tackles difficult and complex conversations with straightforwardness and compassion."--School Library Journal, starred review for Speaking Our Truth
"Gentle...Notably centering Indigenous families and characters of color in personal and communal activities--and encouraging readers to evaluate their actions toward others."--Publisher's Weekly for When We Are Kind
"Smith's text is heartwarming!"--Debbie Reese, American Indians in Children's Literature for You Hold Me Up
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One Day at the Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea
A clever little girl outsmarts a silly hungry shark in this rhyming underwater read-aloud romp--perfect for ages 3-7.
A clever little girl "with a net for catching pearls" meets a shark who wants nothing more than to eat her for dinner. Diving into these gorgeous pages, readers will find nothing short of a classic tale: a bully being shown up by his weaker and far more clever adversary! An ebullient and unabashedly entertaining read aloud, One Day at the Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea has enough bite to excite readers of all ages. Delightful characters created by Brandon James Scott are perfectly matched to Daniel Bernstrom's rollicking tale of bravery, trickery and undersea adventure.Sold out -
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From Gordon Korman, the bestselling author of Restart, the story of a boy who's stuck at home with two broken legs... and who starts using cameras and a drone to spy on his classmates, neighbors, and a possible criminal who's come to town.If Carter hadn't been checking his phone, he might have seen his brother coming down the ski slopes in his direction. And if Carter had seen his brother in time and avoided the crash, he might not have two broken legs right now.
Oops.
Now Carter is stuck at home for weeks, with both his legs in casts. Bored, he starts checking out the live feeds from police cams around his town. Before he knows it, he's obsessed -- watching his classmates when they don't know he's looking, and discovering some other VERY STRANGE things going on that no one else is noticing.
But what happens when Carter is found out... and the people he's watching know where he lives?
Accelerated Reading Level 5.3
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Clifford y el Dia de Halloween = Clifford's Halloween
Emily Elizabeth remembers all the wonderful holidays she's spent with her big red dog -- especially Halloween. What should Clifford be for Halloween this year?Sold out -
Sold outMillie Fleur Saves the Night
Wednesday Addams meets The Night Gardener in the sequel to the New York Times bestselling Millie Fleur's Poison Garden. A delightfully peculiar story about embracing the magic of the night.Garden Glen was afraid of the dark.
Each night when the sun went down, all the lights in town turned on. The houses shone like the noon sun. Every house except for Millie Fleur La Fae's, of course.
Millie Fleur knows there are enchanting things that can only be glimpsed in the dark. But ever since she moved to Garden Glen, her nighttime friends are nowhere to be found.
Determined to welcome the dark back to town, Millie Fleur bakes delicious moon pies and plants a sweet-smelling moon garden. But before the nighttime creatures will return, Millie Fleur must convince the townspeople to be brave and turn out the lights.
Millie Fleur Saves the Night is a delightfully peculiar story that encourages readers to find beauty in the darkness. A gorgeous companion to the New York Times bestseller Millie Fleur's Poison Garden, perfect for fans of The Dark by Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen.
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Sold outUnderwater Battles
Dive into underwater animal battles in this exciting bind-up featuring four favorite action-packed Who Would Win? books!
Which underwater animals would win in a head-to-head battle? Find out in this awesome bind-up of four books in the popular Who Would Win? series. The collection features a range of ocean battles to satisfy all kinds of animal fans, including Hammerhead vs. Bull Shark, Whale vs. Giant Squid, Lobster vs. Crab, and Killer Whale vs. Great White Shark.
Kids will learn about each animal's anatomy, behavior, and more alongside photos, charts, illustrations, and amazing facts.
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Tocamos!: Mexican Folk Art Music Makers in English and Spanish
Young readers will delight in learning about a wide variety of musical instruments in English and Spanish through beautifully handcrafted sculptures from Oaxaca, Mexico.
Los lectores jóvenes se deleitarán aprendiendo sobre una amplia variedad de instrumentos musicales en inglés y español a través de bellas esculturas hechas a mano en Oaxaca, México.
Musical feathered friends gather to form an ensemble! A rooster brings a double bass, a crow totes a trombone, and a macaw carries an accordion. They are almost all together but wait--someone is missing! Once the final member joins the group, the music begins!
Featuring vibrant wood carvings and rhythmic text that's fun to read aloud in both English and Spanish, ¡Tocamos! introduces children to many orchestral instruments played at concerts in Mexican town squares. Each bird was lovingly hand carved and painted by master woodcarver Avelino Pérez who lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. Both Cynthia and Avelino are delighted to teach children the names of instrumentos musicales in Spanish and English.
¡Amigos musicales emplumados se reúnen para formar un conjunto! Un gallo trae un contrabajo, un cuervo lleva un trombón y una guacamaya lleva un acordeón. Están casi todos juntos pero espera, falta alguien. Una vez que el último miembro se une al grupo, ¡comienza la música!
Con vibrantes tallas de madera y texto rítmico que es divertido leer en voz alta tanto en inglés como en español, ¡Tocamos! presenta a los niños muchos instrumentos orquestales que se tocan en conciertos en las plazas de las ciudades mexicanas. Cada pájaro fue cuidadosamente tallado y pintado a mano por el maestro tallador de madera Avelino Pérez, que vive en Oaxaca, México. Tanto Cynthia como Avelino están encantados de enseñar a los niños los nombres de instrumentos musicales en español e inglés.
Check out the other titles in this series:
ABECEDARIOS - OPUESTOS - COLORES DE LA VIDA - COUNT ME IN! - ANIMAL TALK - LET'S WORK! - VÁMONOS - ¡TOCAMOS!
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An inspiring and profoundly moving story about speaking up for yourself and creating healthy spaces from acclaimed CEO, author, and activist Bellen Woodard, creator of the More than Peach project.Bellen Woodard adores ballet and always looks forward to reaching new heights. Though as a very young dancer, she notices that pink shoes and pink or white tights ― often referred to as ballet pink ― are synonymous with ballet. She realizes that the purpose of "ballet pink" is to blend with a dancer's arms and legs. What about welcoming brown tights, shoes -- and more -- in the same way? When her dance studio doesn't act, Bellen takes matters into her own hands and creates a way for all of us to see the "many beautiful colors of dance" ― coining a new term in the process and naming it "ballet brown."
This second inspirational picture book from Bellen Woodard is an immediate call to action from a teen leader to children, families, and studios. She shows us all just how much someone's "right-fit" matters and how a child's action and courage to stand tall can better our world!
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THREE STARRED REVIEWS! - The Times Children's Book of the Year - Nominated for the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award -- Young People's Literature From award-winning author Kenneth Oppel comes a startling, can't-wait-to-talk-about-it-with-someone novel that defies genre to create a teen survival thriller unlike any you've read before. For fans of Leave the World Behind, A.S. King, M.T. Anderson, and Margaret Atwood. Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad's pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations, and it's only for a short time. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only . . . one morning he wakes up and the house isn't where it was before. It's like it's been lifted and placed . . . somewhere else. When Xavier, his dad, and Nia go explore, they find they are inside a dome, trapped. And there's no one else around . . . Until, three years later, another family arrives. Is there any escape? Is there a reason they are stuck where they are? Different people have different answers -- and those different answers inexorably lead to tension, strife, and sacrifice. In this masterpiece, award-winning author Kenneth Oppel builds a heart-stopping story that feels very much of our moment, where our very human choices collectively lead to humanity's eventual fate.Sold out -
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Award-winning author Wendy Wan-Long Shang dives in to the deep end of sportsmanship, prejudice, and the power of friendship in this funny, heartfelt story about two very different girls and one shared passion: swimming.
Esme Sun absolutely does not care about winning shiny trophies or finally receiving some of the praise her mother bestows so lavishly on her three older, brilliant sisters. But, actually... it would be nice to be good at something. So when Esme discovers on the first day of summer, opening day at the community pool, that her growth spurt over the winter has made her a really fast swimmer, she wonders if she just might have found that thing.
After Esme has an uncomfortable encounter at the pool with a new girl, Kaya, Esme worries she may have hurt Kaya's feelings. Then, embarrassed by Esme's awkwardness, her friend Tegan, the cool girl at school who seems to do everything perfectly, makes Esme promise that from now on, she'll be chill, not act so babyish and intense about things--especially not swim team.
But when their swim competitions begin, and Esme starts winning, she finds that she actually cares a lot. In fact, she wants to break the pool's freestyle record. That doesn't mesh so well with her promise to Tegan. And as Esme tries to navigate swimming and her friendships, she searches for a way to apologize and make things right with Kaya.
Esme's mom's focus on winning confuses her, though, and she begins to wonder: Is winning really as important as she thinks, even if it means being unkind to your friends and teammates? Or is there another way to compete, to be a good sport and a good friend?
Wendy Wan-Long Shang, the award-winning author of The Great Wall of Lucy Wu and The Secret Battle of Evan Pao, dives in to the deep end of sportsmanship, prejudice, and the power of friendship in this funny, sweet, and wonderfully moving story.
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Sold outOver in the Mangroves
Reimagining a classic nursery rhyme, Over in the Mangroves is an enchanting and multilayered picture book about the interconnected animals of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest.Over in the mangroves by the river in the sun, slinks a fierce mama tiger and her little tiger one.
Inspired by the classic nursery rhyme, Over in the Mangroves is a fresh take that layers counting and social emotional moments into a beautiful interactive tale. From dawn to dusk, this enchanting story follows forest animals as they fish, swim, dig, and bask before a storm sends them all searching for shelter among the mangrove trees.
Set in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest -- a UNESCO World Heritage site straddling India and Bangladesh -- Over in the Mangroves uses lyrical rhyming text to explore the interconnected creatures who call this forest their home. Lavish illustrations will draw readers in, and children will love searching for more creatures hiding among the trees. Extensive back matter includes an author's note and more information on the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest and the animals found inside the book!
A delightful read-aloud that kids are sure to turn to again and again.
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