Learn when a serger stitch is needed for finishing edges, making garments, or decorative work. Get clearly spelled out techniques for long, straight seams and fabrics that stretch, pill, ravel, or are otherwise hard to control. Fully illustrated instructions show how to make buttonholes, and do lace[...]
This work provides drills for functional warm ups that can be adapted to prepare your players for the specific needs of the upcoming training session or match.[...]
Offers a guide to the locations of significant popular culture events, including the crash of the Hindenburg, the "Saturday Night Fever" disco, the first MacDonald's location, and the "American Bandstand" studio.[...]
When "Profit from the Core" was published in 2001, it became an international bestseller, helping hundreds of companies find their way back to profitable growth after the bursting of the Internet bubble. The 2007 global financial meltdown reaffirmed the perils of pursuing heady growth through untest[...]
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Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off: With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's[...]
James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life"--which the "LA Times" called "a perfectly pitched novel"--is another riotous and heartwarming story about living large.
After sixth grade, the very "worst" year of his life, Rafe [...]
Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest standup comedian--even if he doesn't have a lot to laugh about these days. He's new in town and stuck living with his aunt, uncle, and their evil son Stevie, a bully who doesn't let Jamie's wheelchair stop him fro[...]
In this follow up to the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "I Funny," middle schooler Jamie Grimm has big dreams of being the best stand-up comic in the world--and he won't let the fact that he's wheelchair-bound stand in his way. After winning the New York state finals in the Planet's Funniest Kid Com[...]
From the #1 "New York Times "bestselling author of "Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life "and "I Funny "comes a brilliantly original new adventure series, jam-packed with action, humor, and heart
The Kidd siblings have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and traveling the world, helping the[...]
Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest standup comedian--even if he doesn't have a lot to laugh about these days. He's new in town and stuck living with his aunt, uncle, and their evil son Stevie, a bully who doesn't let Jamie's wheelchair stop him fro[...]
James Patterson's hilarious story of perseverance and courage shows everyone's favorite troublemaker, Rafe Khatchadorian, the star of the Middle School series, learning to become a leader at long last.
After a rough summer, Rafe is heading back to the dreaded Hills Village Middle School, the si[...]
The sequel to James Patterson's bestselling series launch "Treasure Hunters" is another hilarious, hair-raising and highly-illustrated adventure for the First Family of Action
Bick Kidd and his globe-trotting siblings Beck, Storm and Tommy may have completed their first treasure hunt after the[...]
For nearly a quarter of a century, top sports psychologist James E. Loehr has been training world-class athletes, from Olympic gold medalist speed-skater Dan Jansen to tennis stars Monica Seles and Jim Courier His bestselling book, Mental Toughness Training for Sports, is a classic. In The New Tough[...]
This book is designed to give the reader a strong grounding in the mathematical basis of photogrammetry while introducing them to the related fields, such as remote sensing and digital image processing, which are increasingly important to photogrammetric research and practice.[...]
Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative[...]
In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. This new book draws together the major developments in the field. In particular, the book discusses contemporary sociological and anthropological research in order to develop key links between the study[...]
Worship--the Key Is your worship of the Lord bringing you closer to Him? Is it everything He is worthy of receiving? "The Lost Art of Pure Worship" is a gathering of great spiritual leaders who share their unique experiences and desires about the precious act of worshiping a worthy heavenly Father. [...]
Applied Anatomy for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care is an invaluable tool for trainee and practised anaesthetists and intensive care physicians seeking to learn, revise and develop their anatomical knowledge and procedural skills. Concise textual descriptions of anatomy are integrated with descriptio[...]