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From Pacifica to San Jose to Henry W. Coe State Park, your next nature fix is just steps away!

• Compact, portable size makes it easy to tuck into a pack
• Includes trailhead locations, maps, elevation gain, amenities, and public transit options
• Sidebars provide area history, nature, tips, and sights

Urban Trails: Peninsula & South Bay is your essential guide to 50 of the best local hikes, walks, and running routes across Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. Designed for outdoor enthusiasts of all levels, this user-friendly book features trailhead directions, elevation gain, maps, transit options, and nearby amenities.

From coastal rambles in Pacifica to urban paths in San Jose neighborhoods to stunning hikes in parks and preserves, author and longtime local Alexandra Kenin highlights the full range of experiences available just outside your door. Engaging sidebars share fascinating local history, natural highlights, and tips to make the most of each outing. Whether you're a hiker, walker, or runner, this guide will help you find your next favorite trail.

What would you do if your crush had ear-splitting farts?

Such are the deep, philosophical questions Aimi and Nami, two friends-slash-rivals in romance, ponder as they pull out every unhinged stop to catch the eye of their oblivious classmate Kirio--conducting nightly rituals to entice him into their dreams and listing what they love about him down to the very last organ.

But can their hilarious friendship survive the battle for the heart of this boy who hardly seems to know they exist?

First adapted into a live-action drama and soon to debut as an anime, this rip-roaring romcom will prove once and for all what is fair in love and war--or, if nothing else, what's fair in love and rock, paper, scissors.

¡Sumérgete en la historia, la cultura y el patrimonio del estado de California con Who HQ! Descubre todo, desde las estrellas de Hollywood hasta las millas de vistas costeras, en este libro ilustrado para jóvenes lectores.

De los creadores de la exitosa serie ¿Quién fue?, serie bestseller del New York Times, llega una nueva colección de libros dedicada a los cincuenta estados.

¿Sabías que el puente Golden Gate en realidad no es dorado? ¿Estás al tanto de que el sur de California experimenta alrededor de 10 000 terremotos cada año? ¿O que podrías encontrar el nombre de tu celebridad favorita en el Paseo de la Fama de Hollywood? Este libro incluye información sobre los numerosos grupos indígenas de la región y explora la rica historia y cultura de California, desde sus nueve parques nacionales hasta los estudioas donde se filman la mayoría de las películas de Estados Unidos. ¡No es de extrañar que sea el estado con más habitantes del país!

Dive into the history, culture, and heritage of the state of California with Who HQ! Learn about everything from the stars of Hollywood to the miles of coastal views in this illustrated book for young readers, now in Spanish.

From the creators of the #1 New York Times bestselling Who Was? series comes a new collection of books all about the fifty states!

Did you know that the Golden Gate Bridge isn't actually gold? Are you aware that Southern California experiences around 10,000 earthquakes each year? Or that you might spot your favorite celebrity's name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Including information on the region's many Indigenous groups, this book explores California's rich history and culture, from its nine national parks to the filming sites of most American movies. No wonder it's the most populous state in the country!

What If You Could Take Care of Your Family... with What's Growing Outside Your Door?

Think about it: if the pharmacy was closed tomorrow, would you know how to keep your loved ones healthy-using only plants?

That's where this book comes in.

This isn't some dry textbook or overly scientific manual. It's a beautifully written, beginner-friendly guide to bringing herbal healing into your everyday life-right in your kitchen, using simple tools and trusted plants.

Whether you're totally new to herbalism or have dabbled in teas and tinctures, this book gives you the confidence to start making your own remedies for common issues like colds, sleep, stress, digestion, skin care, and more.

Here's what you'll find inside:

✔ Over 200 natural remedies-from teas and tinctures to salves, syrups, and balms

✔ Clear explanations of how herbs work and how to use them safely

✔ Profiles of 40+ essential herbs every home apothecary should have

✔ Simple how-to's for crafting and storing your own herbal medicine

✔ Seasonal tips to support your body all year long-from spring cleanses to winter tonics

✔ Even fun recipes to bring herbs into your meals, drinks, and self-care rituals

You don't need a garden. You don't need fancy equipment.

You just need curiosity-and this book. Let it be your guide to slower living, natural wellness, and rediscovering the healing power of plants.

Ready to bring herbal healing into your home?

Click "BUY NOW" and let the journey begin.

The Woodpecker Method is the name given by Axel Smith to a training system developed by his compatriot and co-author Hans Tikkanen. After training with his method in 2010, Tikkanen achieved three GM norms within a seven-week period. The quick explanation of the Woodpecker Method is that you need to solve a large number of puzzles in a row; then solve the same puzzles again and again, only faster. It's not a lazy shortcut to success - hard work is required. But the reward can be re-programming your unconscious mind. Benefits include sharper tactical vision, fewer blunders, better play when in time trouble and improved intuition. This book contains everything you need to carry out your own Woodpecker training. Smith and Tikkanen explain how to get the maximum benefit from the method, before presenting over 1100 puzzles and solutions, all of which have been checked and double-checked for accuracy and suitability.

In the vein of A Silent Voice and Perfect World, Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love!, Volume 3 is the next installment of a beloved manga series! Yumeko is an introverted young woman who suffers amnesia after a car accident and suddenly becomes a new person--outgoing, self-confident, and ready to take on the world.

When Yumeko discovers her love for her close friend, the vice president, is unrequited, she tries to find the silver lining. But even her new positive outlook isn't enough to combat the heartache as she listens to him talk about his mysterious new love.

All seems lost until the vice president brings up their shared past and how he fondly remembers Yumeko, even before her accident and self-confidence...

A practical guide for scholars ready to write beyond the academy.

Public scholarship should not be reserved for celebrity intellectuals or tenured faculty at elite institutions. It's designed for anyone who wants to share their academic work and engage with the public beyond the classroom or conference panel. In The Public Scholar, historian and journalist David M. Perry offers a clear, candid, and practical guide to writing for public audiences.

Rather than debating whether academics should write for the public, Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? What counts as evidence in a 900-word op-ed? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world? Covering the full life cycle of public writing, Perry walks readers through pitching, writing, editing, publishing, building a platform, and navigating the real-world risks and rewards that come with stepping into the public sphere. As the author of multiple best-selling books and over five hundred essays, Perry shares insights that are direct, hard-won, and refreshingly honest. He explains how public-facing work can support an academic career, how it can provide leverage for tenure and promotion, and, importantly, how it can also live outside traditional institutional paths.

Perry's accessible approach invites scholars at all stages to consider what public engagement might look like in their own lives. Whether you're hoping to write for major newspapers, connect with communities beyond your discipline, or simply make your research more visible, The Public Scholar offers the right tools to help you get started.

A triumphant, cross-generational exploration of Black joy and resilience.

Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites readers to breathe deeply and return to that "carefree" season. From riding bikes with friends through the neighborhood, to hopping the ferry to Boblo Island, catching catfish along the river, dancing on warm nights to Afrobeats and jazz music, and cooling off in the Swimmobile, those sun-drenched memories were often clouded by racism for the Detroiters in this evocative anthology. These emerging and award-winning creators of all ages recount the struggles and triumph of staking their claim to public spaces. Ranging from poetry to essay, creative nonfiction to comics, this collection blends nostalgia with struggle and resilience. Arising from the iconic city of the African American experience comes this exploration of Black joy in the urban outdoors.

Lindon has a year left.When his time runs out, he'll have to fight an opponent that no one believes he can beat. Unless he learns sacred arts the right way, from scratch, he won't have a chance to win...and even then, the odds are against him.In the course of their training, he and Yerin travel to the Blackflame Empire, where they fight to master an ancient power.Success means a chance at life, but failure means death.In the sacred arts, only those who risk the most can travel far.

"The Cradle series is explosively fun, endlessly addictive, and it somehow manages to make reading feel like a full-contact sport. Wight makes writing this stuff look so easy." -- Matt Dinniman, New York Times best-selling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl

Lindon has taken his first step on the road to power, but the sacred artists of the world outside his homeland are still far beyond him.

To advance, he turns to the arcane skills of the Soulsmiths, who craft weapons from the stuff of souls. With new powers come new enemies, but also new allies, including a mysterious mentor who seems interested in Lindon for his own purposes.

Even with new training and new help, Lindon is still only a Copper, and he soon finds himself facing down an entire sect of enemy Golds.

Series Description
Cradle is a New York Times best-selling progression fantasy series following Lindon's growth as he goes from one of the weakest users of his world's magic to among the strongest.

The completed 12-book series features an original magic system inspired by Chinese cultivation and martial arts novels, with a heavy emphasis on anime-style super-powered battles.

10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION featuring new covers, a map of Cradle, and a bonus scene (or two!) in each book!

Teepa Snow's new Dementia Care Partner Guide features many updates from the original Dementia Caregiver Guide, including:

• A more in-depth look at the GEMS States of Brain Change, with her updated language and philosophy
• New photos to enhance learning, including a step-by-step photo guide to the Hand-under-Hand(R) support position
• Essential information about Positive Action Starters, Positive Personal Connectors, and Visual-Verbal-Touch Cueing
• Bonus resource card visual aids

The goal of this updated version is to help individuals truly make the shift from caregiver to care partner.

• Discover what's unique, remarkable, and even precious in the progression of dementia
• Let go of what is missing and learn to celebrate and use what remains, making life worth living until the end of the journey

The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology

Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact--in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans.

As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground.

Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.