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This innovative, interactive trace-and-flip book introduces children to the alphabet and first words. Features letter tracks to trace with a finger to learn letter formation, as well as flaps to lift, and bright, bold illustrations.

This unique, innovative trace-and-flip book offers an engaging new way for children to discover letters and first words! Young readers can trace each capital letter by following the tracks with a finger to learn the shape of the letter. A colorful lift-the-flap on every sturdy board page highlights a first word that begins with the featured letter. To reinforce learning, caregivers are encouraged to help children trace each letter as they say its name and make its sound; point to each picture while reading the words; and practice hand-eye coordination as they lift the flap on each page.

The Men's College Basketball Encyclopedia introduces readers to the sport's most iconic teams, with an emphasis on the defining athletes, moments, traditions, and championships that set each team apart. In addition, the book offers an in-depth introduction covering the sport's history, along with information about statistical leaders in various categories. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Encyclopedias is an imprint of Abdo Reference, a division of ABDO.

Bring you eras to life with inspiration and practical advice from the signature looks and glamorous wardrobe of Taylor Swift

Calling all Swifties! Pop legend Taylor Swift is known for her iconic style transformations for each album, both her lyrics and outfits are a beloved part of the performance.

From chapter to chapter, learn how to incorporate elements of Taylor Swift's wardrobe into your own style. From her teenage country days to her bejeweled bodysuits and notable red lip, Swift's silhouettes, color palettes, and aesthetics bring her eras to life.

• Are you feeling FEARLESS in cowboy boots and a sundress?
• Are you feeling like a LOVER in pastels and soft silhouettes?
• Are you feeling RED in a bold lip and retro sunglasses?
• Are you feeling EVERMORE in a cozy cardigan and braids?

Style Codes: Taylor Swift is filled with practical tips, anecdotes, and inspiration to not only incorporate elements of Swift's fashion legacy into your own wardrobe, but how to be fearless and tell your own style love story.

From the founder of LogoLounge comes a definitive guide to creating timeless visual identities.

The LogoLounge Guide to Iconic Branding blends decades of trend forecasting and practical insight to help designers build logos that last. Known for his annual trend reports and top LinkedIn Learning courses, author Bill Gardner, founder of Gardner Design, reveals the principles, patterns, and processes behind enduring brand marks.

This book goes beyond just inspiration--it shows you how to understand trend trajectories, when to evolve or break tradition, and how branding is shifting with emerging technologies like AI, AR, and sonic identity. With more than 500 images, case studies, and a comprehensive look at branding elements, this is a must-have resource for any brand designer.

Features include:

• Expert insights from trend forecaster and LogoLounge founder Bill Gardner
• Case studies from visionary designers worldwide
• Frameworks for understanding trends and projecting future visual languages
• A global perspective from industries, cultures, and design eras
• Explorations of future brand environments, including AI, the metaverse, and sensory branding
• 500+ visuals, including logos, identities, timelines, and more

This visually rich, idea-packed volume is perfect for professional designers, brand strategists, students, and anyone who wants to better understand how branding evolves--and how to build marks that last.

There are many ways to celebrate the United States of America. Patriotic Arts & Crafts offers young makers creative ways to add patriotism into their art. Crafting tips, step-by-step directions, and photographs guide crafters to success in making cool arts and crafts such as a flag wreath, a ribbon wind sock, star slime, and more! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Come along with Roscoe & Ivy as Ivy explores a new food.

Ivy ALWAYS wants PASTA! Pasta makes Ivy feel calm and safe. But Roscoe's veggie pizza is weird. It looks messy. It smells a little stinky. Can using her senses help Ivy feel more curious about a new food?

• Bilingual Spanish/English edition
• Roscoe & Ivy series focuses on the daily life of a neurodivergent family
• Created by neurodivergent author and illustrator drawing from their own lived experiences
• Endnotes offer gentle guidance on trying new foods

Spend storytime traipsing through the Hundred Acre Wood with Winnie-the-Pooh and friends! In this cozy board book, Piglet and Pooh do their best to celebrate Eeyore's birthday, with questionable results. Humor and delight mark this story of friendship and only the best intentions. This little book is a wonderful window into the classic characters created by A.A. Milne, and the perfect gift for babies and toddlers discovering the world of Winnie-the-Pooh.

Perfect for bedtime stories, read-aloud moments, or first independent "reading" experiences, this board book helps young children build early literacy skills while enjoying familiar tales. Parents and grandparents will love sharing this treasured story, making it a meaningful gift for birthdays, baby showers, or holidays.

• A.A. Milne's classic Winnie-the-Pooh stories distilled into stories for babies and toddlers.
  
• Reading familiar stories provides a foundation for learning and comprehension through kindergarten.
  
• The charming artwork of Eeyore and his friends makes this heartfelt story a pleasure to read again and again.
  
• Sturdy, thick board pages designed to withstand traditional wear and tear on board books for curious little infants and toddlers.
  
• This timeless tale inspires kindness, teaches problem-solving, and is perfectly paced to hold a child's attention.
  

Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated

Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Each time we are handed a bag of groceries or a cup of coffee, call for a cab or have our homework graded, we confront both the enormity and the intimacy of the contemporary service sector.

Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?

If service work has often been treated as a footnote to modern capitalism, Beneath the Wage reveals it as crucial to understanding how exploitation functions today. Uncovering a history that runs from eighteenth-century servants to present-day gig workers, Annie McClanahan retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated.

Assembling a diverse set of sources for understanding and reimagining service work--from reality television and conceptual poetry to novels and workers' own descriptions of what they do--McClanahan explores three paradigmatic types of contemporary service labor: superexploited tipwork, deskilled clerical microwork, and informalized gigwork. She shows how work done "beneath the wage" depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination, is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation, and yet has begun to generate a new politics of social reproduction and solidarity.

Robert Cooper--deputy assistant attorney general for counterintelligence in the DOJ's National Security Division--has built a storied career distinguished by high-profile arrests and prosecutions of enemy spies. One morning, he's approached by a Russian sleeper agent looking to defect. The agent offers Cooper alarming information: Russian operatives have infiltrated the US government at its highest levels, including a mole in the senior ranks of the FBI. Cooper's investigations lead to the discovery of a clandestine Russian plot involving deep-cover agents in senior government positions. As Cooper and his team at the DOJ race to uncover the Kremlin's plans and unmask the traitors, a coup in Russia brings to power a militant extremist regime seemingly intent on sidelining the US on the world stage while Russia retakes its former Soviet territories. In Robert B. McCaw's fast-paced novel, high-stakes political intrigue mixes with riveting moments of international espionage.

Postwar New York City famously expired in a 1970s tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." From its ashes the city reemerged to reach new heights, whether in stock averages or the gleaming pencil towers punctuating Midtown. But at ground level the city's basic institutions were cracking. The city was rebuilt on a foundation of deep inequality.

This elegant history traces the making of contemporary New York over the half-century from the fiscal crisis of the 1970s to the Covid pandemic. The focus is on city life in three of its key dimensions: housing, schooling, and policing. With finance and real estate driving the city's growth, each of these areas became more exclusive, less democratic. Affordable housing grew scarce, with the homeless population surging and working New Yorkers paying rents well above the 30 percent standard of affordability. Underfunded public schools were crowded out by better-resourced charter schools and academies, magnet schools, and gifted-and-talented programs. Policing was the most volatile flashpoint over this fifty-year period. Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Broken Windows strategy of attacking crime by cracking down on minor offenses escalated into Michael Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk policy, which targeted young Blacks and Latinos and yielded relatively few arrests. The city's deepening inequality was heavily racialized, one of many connections between this New York story and those of cities across the country.

The rich cast of characters ranges from mayors, governors, and headline public figures like Al Sharpton, to behind-the-scenes reformers like the progressive educator Deborah Meier, to the everyday New Yorkers who organized to support rent guidelines or local control of the schools. It is in a widespread civic engagement that the city's progressive traditions continue to thrive.

A poet watches the limbs of a eucalyptus tree get sawed off: the image persists, refracting and recurring across poems of art, language, selfhood, memory, and loss.

Joan Mitchell said, When I talk about love, I mean loving a tree. When I talk about love, I mean loving where a tree used to be.

Men assess the eucalyptus tree growing on the poet's street; a crane arrives. The sound of a chainsaw rings in the air and branches begin to fall. This tree-cutting haunts the poet and becomes the locus from which the rest of the collection spirals. It refracts across works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Mitchell, and Hilma af Klint, whose painting series lends the collection its title and who becomes a model for engaging with the world. At the core of the collection, the long poem "Eureka" examines the violent 1885 expulsion of Chinese Americans from the eponymous California town. Roving, evocative, and intricate, Tree of Knowledge is rooted in Victoria Chang's crystalline voice and generous, probing gaze, and by certain images --trees, a hanging figure, a branch, fingertips, a briefcase--that resurface like apparitions.

What do you do when someone you love, maybe the person you love most in the world, is in trouble--even drowning? Do you jump in to save them? Will you be able to bring both of you back to shore?

One night, Virginia Eubanks received the kind of news we all fear. Her beloved partner had been brutally beaten, just steps from their house.

Virginia jumped into the water.

She dived into the responsibilities of being a primary caregiver. In the weeks, months, and years that followed, she and her partner struggled to stay afloat in the sea of tasks required to keep them both safe and alive despite wave upon wave of setbacks: police disinterest, suspended health insurance, inadequate medical care, lost income, lost friends, endless paperwork, and, for J, a serious case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Then, Virginia herself developed what is known as collateral PTSD, a condition common among caregivers but rarely discussed.

Virginia looked for help.

She turned to reliable sources for survival tips: scientists, therapists, trauma theorists, social movements. But it wasn't until she happened on an old lifesaving manual that she found advice that actually helped. Inspired by its lessons, she signed up for instruction in wilderness first aid, kayak self-rescue, Winter Survival 101, map and compass use, bushwhacking, lifeguarding. She went out in search of other people's stories and of experts, interviewing everyone from neuroscientists to forest rangers. She gathered skills and knowledge that made her feel strong, competent, more prepared for the challenges ahead.

As disarmingly funny as it is quietly wise, A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving is the story--heart-wrenching and all too relatable--of how one woman tried to save her beloved and learned that she would also have to save herself. It is a moving, hopeful love story about two people
caught in their own kind of wilderness, trying not just to survive but to truly care for each other. Built from
cataclysmic loss and tenacious love, A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving challenges readers to reconsider the ways in which we tend our loved ones and ourselves, and it reminds us: no one survives the wilderness alone.

The quintessential guide for new parents while they navigate the joys and challenges of their baby's first year.

Parenting these days is harder than ever, and having a new baby in the age of social media is both a blessing and a curse. It can be hard to know what information out there is sound and trustworthy.

In Hiccups: A Pediatrician Mom's Guide to Surviving Your First Year of Parenthood, Dr. Diane Arnaout provides a down-to-earth and (very, very) honest guide for the first year of your baby's life. She covers the most common questions she gets daily in her office and on social media-she's seen and heard it all-and breaks down the science of babies in an easy way for any parent looking to be led by evidence, not influencers. From reflux to snot, food allergies to vaccines, sleep regressions to illnesses, Dr. Diane leaves no stone unturned. And every topic discussed feels like a conversation with a good friend-who also happens to be a pediatrician.

Hiccups provides new parents with encouragement and reassurance from a pediatrician mom who's been there, with a dose of humor and personal anecdotes alongside evidence and science. Featuring easy-to-read recommendations for at-home care and guidance for when to call the doctor, Hiccups lets parents know the weird "normals" of babies, understand the science behind the way they are, and experience the joy of every milestone reached.

From an acclaimed archaeological writer, a worldwide history of hunting

"Offers a comprehensive, authoritative history tracing hunting's influence on culture and society through the ages."--Bill Heavy, Wall Street Journal

Hunting is one of humanity's most ancient and universal activities. It has been embedded in every facet of our lives, shaping social bonds, power hierarchies, and interactions with the spirit world. This book tells the story of how hunting evolved from a means of survival practiced with clubs and spears to a genteel display of royal power, and how it has become, in today's world, complicated and hotly contested.

In this wide-ranging study, Brian Fagan discusses how Neanderthals stalked prey and killed at close range, how hunting evolved as a political spectacle, and how commercial and trophy hunting precipitated an ecological crisis. He invites us to hunt with Charlemagne, explains how there was more to the demise of North American bison herds than rifles, and describes how influential figures such as John Muir, George Bird Grinnell, and Theodore Roosevelt fought for conservation during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Filled with lively stories, fascinating discoveries, and compelling characters, Fagan's exploration of hunting--a companion to his Fishing--offers an informed and entertaining history of an essential human pursuit.

In Null Entity, sequel to Seth Haddon's bloody and sapphic Volatile Memory, Wylla and Sable take their revenge to the very corporation keeping the galaxy turning.

"A gorgeously tender exploration of human connection in a post-human universe."--The Washington Post, on Volatile Memory

With her identity erased from the Corporate Federation, Wylla is a ghost in the machine: untraceable, unpredictable, and fueled by vengeance. She fights alongside Sable, the digital consciousness she loves in ways no system could ever define. Together, they've built a reputation for tearing through VisorForge's carefully constructed lies.

But notoriety has a cost.

When one of their attacks draws the attention of the Edenic Order--a clandestine eco-resistance whose insurgents bloom with Old Earth flora--Wylla and Sable are offered something more than revenge: a chance to dismantle VisorForge from the roots up.

As they fall deeper into the Order's radical vision, tensions rise. Wylla: aching to change the world yet seduced by thoughts of a quiet life, free of bloodshed. Sable: pushed to her moral limits when what she's wanted since death is at her fingertips.

To survive, they'll need to embrace what makes them dangerous: two minds, one body, and a shared resolve to bring down a corporatized dystopia--no matter the cost.