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Earth's Essential Rainforests: ... and Keeping Our World in Balance
Rainforests around the world keep our world in perfect balance. They are essential to life on earth and are the world's oldest living ecosystems. The Earth's Essential Rainforests introduces why rainforests are so important to us and our planet, and what we can do to protect them. -
Warship (Black Fleet Saga, Book 1)
From USA TODAY bestselling author Joshua Dalzelle, comes WARSHIP, science fiction with an all-new vision of humanity's future. In the 25th century humans have conquered space. The advent of faster-than-light travel has opened up hundreds of habitable planets for colonization, and humans have exploited the virtually limitless space and resources for hundreds of years with impunity. So complacent has humanity become with the overabundance that armed conflict is a thing of the past, and their machines of war are obsolete and decrepit. What would happen if humans were suddenly threatened by a terrifying new enemy? Would humanity fold and surrender, or would they return to their evolutionary roots and meet force with force? One ship--and one captain--will soon be faced with this very choice. Against incredible odds, Jackson Wolfe is determined to save humanity-and in the process, might end up saving himself. 2015 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction From USA Today Bestselling author Joshua Dalzelle, author of the bestselling Omega Force series! The Expanse meets Old Man's War
For fans of: The Expanse, Battlestar Galactica, Honor Harrington, Starship Troopers, Old Man's War (John Scalzi), The Forever War (Joe Haldeman), The Lost Fleet (Jack Campbell), Terms of Enlistment (Marko Kloos) -
Split Second (Split Second, Book 1)
From New York Times bestselling author Douglas E. Richards, comes SPLIT SECOND, a science fiction thriller with a stunningly unique take on time travel, where traveling fractions of a second back in time can change the fate of humanity. "Richards is an extraordinary writer!"--Dean Koontz "Richards is a worthy successor to Michael Crichton." --SF Book.com "Will keep you turning the pages all night long." --Douglas Preston A stunningly original twist on time travel from the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Douglas E. Richards! What if you found a way to send something back in time? But not weeks, days, or even minutes back. What if you could only send something back a fraction of a second? Would this be of any use? You wouldn't have nearly enough time to right a wrong, change an event, or win a lottery. Nathan Wexler is a brilliant physicist who thinks he's found a way to send matter a split second back into the past. But before he can even confirm his findings, he and his wife-to-be, Jenna Morrison, find themselves in a battle for their very lives. Because while time travel to an instant earlier seems useless, Jenna comes to learn that no capability in history has ever been more profound or far-reaching. Now, as Jenna fights to defeat the powerful forces arrayed against her, nothing less than the fate of humanity hangs in the balance . . . SPLIT SECOND is a roller-coaster ride of a thriller, one that will have readers pondering the nature of time, and of reality, long after they've read the last page. Michael Crichton's Timeline meets Peter Cline's The Fold ! For fans of Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, Lee Child, Douglas Preston, Blake Crouch (Dark Matter, Recursion), Gillian McAllister (Wrong Place, Wrong Time), Nick Jones (The Joseph Bridgeman series), A.G. Riddle (Lost in Time, Quantum Radio), Patrick Lee (the Travis Chase series), Jack Finney (Time and Again, From Time to Time), The Man Who Saw Seconds (Alexander Boldizar), Lightning (Dean Koontz), The Fold (Peter Clines), and The Third Rule of Time Travel (Philip Fracassi). -
Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered) (Special Edition, Special)
From the fringes, the unknown beckons. Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered) Special Edition contains secrets that any player or GM can use to reveal the paranormal lurking in their Pathfinder games, all updated to work perfectly with the remastered Pathfinder Second Edition rules! This spine-tinglingly secretive 224-page rulebook presents two new character classes perfect for delving into the unexplained: Unleash the untold power of your mind as the psychic or leverage supernatural secrets and mystic implements as the thaumaturge!
Beyond these new classes, eight secret case files each provide player options, GM tools, and lore into a different paranormal topic, including:
- Strange cryptids glimpsed in the night, gear to track them, and the powers you might gain by surviving an encounter with one.
- Cults and esoteric belief, with apocryphal divine magic and the secret of becoming a living vessel for an eldritch being.
- Temporal anomalies, with archetypes that skim along the surface of time and a new mystery for oracles unbound from causality
- Each file concludes with a short adventure to immerse players in the paranormal, spanning across Golarion--play all eight to uncover the inexplicable phenomena of the Age of Lost Omens!
Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered) Special Edition is the perfect addition to the library of any player or Game Master who wants to add a touch of strangeness and mystery to their Pathfinder campaign.
This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.
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Home Is a Hug
Discover the true meaning of home in this heartfelt hug of a book--with peek-through page and life-the-flap surprises throughout.
What does it take to build a home? Bricks and concrete, windows and walls, glass and steel? Sometimes, home is something much more . . . With clever peek-through pages and lift-the-flap surprises, explore the many different shapes a home can take--an apple, a box, a cozy reading nook, a reassuring hug. Perfect for children navigating change, this is a playful ode to all the places we find comfort. INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS: Flaps and die-cuts create a fun interactive reading experience. EVERGREEN SUBJECT: Conveyed warmly through Cindy Wume's vivid illustrations and simple text, the concept of what home means will always be important. ENCOURAGES MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS: Home is a Hug can spark conversation between grown-ups and kids about what home means to everyone. Perfect for:- Parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, and anyone looking to encourage conversations about what home means
- Gift-givers seeking cute, distinctive books with interactivity
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Whole Leaders, Wild Trust: The Courageous Path to Personal, Relational, and Organizational Change
The future of leadership begins with trust--and it starts within
In Whole Leaders, Wild Trust, leadership expert Dr. Rob McKenna redefines what it means to lead in a world fragmented by broken promises, disconnection, and low engagement. Backed by research with thousands of leaders and organizations, this book reveals how trust is built, broken, and rebuilt--and why whole leader development is the key to sustainable performance and well-being.
McKenna introduces his WiLD approach, a groundbreaking model that integrates personal growth, team dynamics, and organizational design. The result is a trust-building process that begins at the core of who we are and extends outward to reshape culture.
Inside, you'll discover:
- How to diagnose the trust fractures silently undermining your people, your teams--and even your own leadership--and quickly repair them
- Strategies to move your culture forward using the WiLD Trust Quadrant--from a Jungle of Trust to a Stronghold of Trust
- Ways to develop whole and trusted leaders with practical tools, measurable frameworks, and conversations that build real trust from the inside out
Whether you're a seasoned executive, a parent trying to raise a future-ready leader, an emerging professional, or someone simply trying to lead well in your corner of the world--this is your roadmap to becoming a whole and trusted leader. You'll learn how to build teams that don't just function, but lead movements.
It's time to stop reacting to broken trust--and start leading from it.
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Anni Albers: A Life
The first major biography on Anni Albers traces the complex personality and influential artistic career of the groundbreaking modern artist
Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. As a textile designer, weaver, writer, and graphic artist, she inspired a reconsideration of fabrics as an art form, both in their functional roles and as wall hangings, and took the processes of printmaking into uncharted territory. This intimate biography draws on personal conversations with Albers from the 1970s up until Albers's death and on unprecedented archival research to tell a fresh and full story of Albers's life and the development of her unique and influential artistic vision.Capturing Albers's extraordinary perspective about the world around her, whether the milieu she was observing was the wealthy bourgeois Berlin of her childhood or the Mexican villages where she came to feel remarkably at home, Nicholas Fox Weber brings the artist's pithy wit and imaginative mind to life. Weber presents a riveting narrative that follows Albers's trajectory from her time at the Bauhaus and at Black Mountain College to her later years in Connecticut. He considers her complex relationship with her world-renowned husband, Josef Albers, as well as her encounters with luminaries such as John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Louise Nevelson. He also describes her torturous, late-life obsession with film star Maximilian Schell, thirty-one years her junior. Weber foregrounds Albers's perpetual curiosity, originality, and humor, as well as her novelistic sense of the world around her.
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My Butterfly Secret: The Butterfly Catchers of Indonesia
Kakak is torn between protecting the precious, secret butterflies his father showed him and selling them to collectors to feed his family.
Eventually, hunger proves to be stronger than the butterflies' magic. What if the village could come together to find a way to save the beauty of the environment and help disadvantaged families survive?
Based on the writer's own experience, My Butterfly Secret tells of the struggle many impoverished children experience, trading precious parts of their home for a full stomach. These families are caught between protecting the nature they love and their own survival. This story offers understanding--and a solution.
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Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds
A new perspective on renowned twentieth-century artist Paul Klee, revealing his enduring creativity in the face of darkness by foregrounding his lesser-known late work Celebrated for his colorful, fantastical paintings, Paul Klee (1879-1940), a pioneer of modernism and expressionism, is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Though he is remembered for the chromatic style of his most famous works, Klee's late work reflects a dark and dramatic transformation, providing insight into the artist's psychological landscape. Forced to flee Nazi persecution in 1933, Klee faced final years that were marked by exile, illness, and political upheaval. Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds takes the unsettling last decade of Klee's life as its subject, arguing that he accepted his vulnerability as a strength--one that enabled him to develop a personal rebuff of fascism through a lexicon of abstraction. With 120 illustrations highlighting works from throughout Klee's career, this catalog traces the evolution of his artistic practice and frames his late work in the context of his oeuvre. Essays by leading scholars and curators reexamine Klee's legacy and the importance of his late masterpieces as an artistic defiance against oppression. Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York Exhibition Schedule: Jewish Museum, New York
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Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose
An internationally celebrated poet and critic translates Jagadish Chandra Bose's revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communication
Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was a Bengali scientist and polymath who developed a theory of plant communication more than a century ago. Bose suggested that plants had their own vocabulary, an "unvoiced life" that he recorded as a "script" with a crescograph, a device that measured how plants respond to each other and their environments. Inviting readers into the "resounding silence of the green plant kingdom," he described an underlying unity beneath the multiplicity of phenomena, and a world in which "endless music is sung everywhere." Dismissed as idiosyncratic and unscientific when he was alive, Bose provocatively challenged the hierarchy of living beings, which relegated plants to the bottom, and created a mesmerizing body of work on nonhuman intelligence. Through her lyrical translations from Bose's essay collection Abyakta ("The Unsaid"; 1922), Sumana Roy reveals the revolutionary character of his mind, as poetic and philosophical as it was scientific. -
Bug World: Explore the Busy World of Bugs
Embark on an exciting learning adventure into the fascinating world of bugs.
This engaging book is a step up from board books, inviting young fans to explore the lives of insects. Children will pore over eleven brightly illustrated scenes to spot Tiny Buzzy Bee and discover the exciting activities of bugs in their natural habitats.
- Interactive questions encourage playful learning and discussion as you explore each scene.
- Spot Tiny Buzzy Bee who's hidden in every scene.
- Scenes prompt questions and challenge observation skills.
Perfect for developing early learning skills, this book is an ideal addition to homes, schools, and libraries. It's perfect for curious little explorers eager to learn more about the exciting natural world of bugs!
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Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales: Magical Stories of Dragons, Fairies and Selkies from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and More
A sumptuous collection of magical stories retold for children, with breathtaking illustrations of creatures from folklore.
Travel to enchanting Celtic lands where you'll meet shapeshifting selkies, duelling dragons, a terrifying waterhorse, a cheeky changeling, a cunning fairy and a bloodthirsty giant...
In this gorgeously illustrated new collection, award-winning Scottish author and storyteller Lari Don retells classic tales of myth, magic and mischief so they can be enjoyed by children aged six and up. Elise Carmichael's exciting and luminous illustrations bring the rich shared folklore of the Celtic lands - Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, The Isle of Man and Brittany - to life.
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Together Treehouse
Sam is heartbroken when his best friend moves away. What will happen to the treehouse they were building together? A sweet book about friendship and big emotions.
When new neighbor Martha tries to make friends, Sam is angry and upset. He misses Milo too much. Then Martha offers to help with the treehouse, and Sam is torn: he knows he can't do it alone.
As Sam and Martha build the treehouse and a friendship, Sam realises there's space in his heart for old and new friends together.
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Perfect Pet: Discovering Your Next Best Friend
From dog and cat breeds to small rodents, birds, reptiles, and fish, this book helps young readers choose their perfect companion--whether furry, feathered, scaly, or finned! The Perfect Pet is an illustrated guide designed to help young readers learn about different pets and find the one that best suits them! Featuring not only the most family-friendly dog and cat breeds, but also small rodents, birds, reptiles, and even aquatic animals from all over the world, this book is full of adorable companions just waiting to be discovered. Each chapter provides practical information, fun facts, and insightful tips to understand the personality and needs of each pet, helping kids choose their next best friend!
- Wide range of pets: Dogs, cats, rodents, birds, reptiles, and fish, all in one accessible guide Educational and practical: Includes clear explanations, fun facts, and basic care tips for each animal Encourages responsibility: Helps children understand what it really means to care for a pet Child-friendly format: Bright illustrations and easy-to-follow content for young readers Perfect for animal lovers: An ideal companion for curious kids dreaming of their first pet!
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Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art
A vivid history of the evolution of printmaking as a means of creative expression, from prehistory to the present day
The significance of printmaking within the history of art is often underplayed, obscured or misunderstood. This book tells the story of artist prints from across the globe in a manner that is accessible and engaging. It demystifies how prints are made--from woodblock to etching--and explores how, throughout history, printmaking has defied easy categorisation, straddling "fine" art practices and commercially minded production. In fact, it has been employed as much for creative experimentation as it has for disseminating information.
Beginning in ancient East Asia and travelling through Renaissance Europe, revolutionary Mexico, and post-Apartheid South Africa, these ten chapters celebrate the interconnected nature of the printed image and its multiple histories, while illuminating the lesser-known players who have been deliberately or erroneously overlooked. Whether formed by slicing linoleum or plunging plates into acid, then distributed via bound books or pasted posters, the print has not just replicated the world, it has shaped it.
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Once Upon a Pickup Time
Ben is always the last kid left at pickup time, and one day he invents an amazing tale to explain why. An energetic, imaginative story that will strike a chord with busy families.
Ben hates being the only one left at pickup time and it happens every single day. So one afternoon Ben tells his friends why his dad is always last: he's busy ruling over a kingdom full of treasure, snake-monsters, knights and robbers. Now all the children want to stay later at pickup time to hear Ben's amazing tale...