Designed for beginning learners, this dictionary can help you master the essential words of French. It presents pronunciations and grammatical information in a clear, easy-to-understand format, as well as helpful example sentences to show each word in everyday context.[...]

"Understanding Motor Development", a worldwide best-selling text, provides students with both an explanatory and a descriptive basis for the processes and products of motor development. Covering the entire life span, this text focuses on the phases of motor development and provides a solid introduct[...]

A guide to solving every "crisis" a girl could encounter. Discover how to cope with looming spots and under-eye bags on the day of a hot date, find out why you should have an emergency goodie pack at work, learn a few boyfriend tactics and pick up tips on dieting and grooming.[...]

With pedagogical elements to enhance and reinforce learning opportunities, this book explores what foods involve the optimum nutritional value for dietary needs including specific dietary requirements, and the impact of preparation on both the nutritional value of a food and it's consumer acceptabil[...]

Completely updated in a new edition, this book presents a look at the application of the Neuman Systems Model in nursing education and practice, with emphasis on social change, current trends, and future nursing needs. It includes specific guidelines for providing holistic systems based perspective [...]

Rose loves watching videos and sits in front of the telly all the time. So when the video player breaks, it's a total nightmare! But then a very mysterious repair man comes to fix it. He gives Rose the power to forward and rewind her life and then Rose sees what really happens to someone who spends [...]

Acclaimed biographer Sarah Bradford explores the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the woman who has captivated the public for more than five decades, in a definitive portrait that is both sympathetic and frank. With an extraordinary range of candid interviews--many with people who have never spok[...]

Two brilliant books in one! VIDEO ROSE - Rose loves watching videos and is sat in front of the telly ALL the time. So when the video player breaks, it's a total nightmare! But then a very mysterious repair man comes to fix it. He gives Rose the power to forward and rewind her life and then Rose sees[...]

"Four Children and It" is the number one bestseller from Jacqueline Wilson, the award-winning, bestselling creator of "Tracy Beaker", "Hetty Feather" and "The Illustrated Mum". A funny and heartwarming story of four children who discover an extraordinary way to make wishes come true, "Four Children [...]

Hailed by NPR's Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth, part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs, this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literature's favorite sleuths.Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Throu[...]

When eleven-year-old Olive moves into a crumbling Victorian mansion with her parents, she knows there's something strange about the house - especially the odd antique paintings covering the walls. And when she puts on a pair of old spectacles, she discovers the strangest thing yet: She can travel in[...]

Hurricane Katrina took her mother and granmother. And even though Laurel Daneau has moves on to a new life--one that includes a new best friend, a spot on the cheerleading squad, and dating the co-captain of the football team--she can't get past the pain of that loss. Then her new boyfriend introduc[...]

My new T-shirt said I LOVE EVERGREEN ADVENTURE HOLIDAYS. My new T-shirt was a liar. Dumped at Evergreen Summer Camp while her mum's off on a swanky honeymoon, Stella just knows she's going to hate it. Being mistaken for a boy and having to share a room with snobby Louise and nasty Karen is just the [...]