The Power of Comics
By:"Randy Duncan","Matthew J. Smith"
Published on 2009-07-01 by A&C Black
Offers undergraduate students with an understanding of the comics medium and its communication potential. This book deals with comic books and graphic novels. It focuses on comic books because in their longer form they have the potential for complexity of expression.
This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
The Six Mountain-travel Books
By:"Eric Shipton","Jim Perrin"
Published on 1997-07-01 by The Mountaineers Books
Nanda Devi; Blank on the Map; Upon That Mountain; Mt. Everest Reconnaissance Expedition 1951; Mountains of Tartary; and Land of Tempest.
This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword travel books.
Divergent
By:"Veronica Roth"
Published on 2011 by
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword books for teens.
The Ship of Dreams
By:"Mary Durack"
Published on 196? by
This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword drama for children.
Comics Values Annual, 1998
By:"Alex G. Malloy"
Published on 1997-08-01 by Antique Trader
With more than 30,000 updated prices and over 650 photos and illustrations, \
This Book was ranked 28 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
A Complete History of American Comic Books
By:"Shirrel Rhoades"
Published on 2008-01-01 by Peter Lang
This book is an updated history of the American comic book by an industry insider. You'll follow the development of comics from the first appearance of the comic book format in the Platinum Age of the 1930s to the creation of the superhero genre in the Golden Age, to the current period, where comics flourish as graphic novels and blockbuster movies. Along the way you will meet the hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and visionaries who made the American comic book what it is today. It's an exciting journey, filled with mutants, changelings, atomized scientists, gamma-ray accidents, and supernaturally empowered heroes and villains who challenge the imagination and spark the secret identities lurking within us.
This Book was ranked 2 by Google Books for keyword comics books.
A Travel Guide to Basque America
By:"Nancy Zubiri"
Published on 2006 by University of Nevada Press
Discusses the America's Basque-American communities, their history, culture, and festivals. This book lists dozens of restaurants, Basque cultural clubs and events, and hundreds of Basque-related Web sites as well as adding information about cultural events in the Basque Country, their impact on Basque-Americans, and more.
This Book was ranked 16 by Google Books for keyword travel books.
50 Bible Dramas for Children
By:"Lynda Neilands"
Published on 2005-11 by Kingsway Communications Limited
Unpacking Bible truth through drama isn t a new idea - God told the prophets to act out their message and Jesus used dramatic action as well as words. These tried and tested dramas will help today?'s youngsters engage with the Bible. Not every drama is designed to be performed by children. Some will work better when adults perform them and others are written for a mixture of adult and child performers.
This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword drama for children.
When Breath Becomes Air
By:"Paul Kalanithi"
Published on 2016-01-12 by Random House
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, this inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both. Praise for When Breath Becomes Air “I guarantee that finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option. . . . Part of this book’s tremendous impact comes from the obvious fact that its author was such a brilliant polymath. And part comes from the way he conveys what happened to him—passionately working and striving, deferring gratification, waiting to live, learning to die—so well. None of it is maudlin. Nothing is exaggerated. As he wrote to a friend: ‘It’s just tragic enough and just imaginable enough.’ And just important enough to be unmissable.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “An emotional investment well worth making: a moving and thoughtful memoir of family, medicine and literature. It is, despite its grim undertone, accidentally inspiring.”—The Washington Post “Possesses the gravity and wisdom of an ancient Greek tragedy . . . [Kalanithi] delivers his chronicle in austere, beautiful prose. The book brims with insightful reflections on mortality that are especially poignant coming from a trained physician familiar with what lies ahead.”—The Boston Globe “Devastating and spectacular . . . [Kalanithi] is so likeable, so relatable, and so humble, that you become immersed in his world and forget where it’s all heading.”—USA Today “It’s [Kalanithi’s] unsentimental approach that makes When Breath Becomes Air so original—and so devastating. . . . Its only fault is that the book, like his life, ends much too early.”—Entertainment Weekly “Split my head open with its beauty.”—Cheryl Strayed From the Hardcover edition.
This Book was ranked 22 by Google Books for keyword children books.
Niger
By:"Jolijn Geels"
Published on 2006 by Bradt Travel Guides
Transport options are a particular feature, including long-distance connections to neighbouring countries, river trips on the River Niger, and camel trekking in the Massif de l'Aïr and Tènèrè desert regions, home to the nomadic Tuareg people. This guide covers both ends of the developing travel market for Niger: upmarket travellers looking for background information as a supplement to a tour, and budget explorers with a need to know all the practicalities.
This Book was ranked 20 by Google Books for keyword travel books.
Teaching Middle Graders to Use Process Writing Skills
By:"Marilyn Seguin"
Published on 1994 by Incentive Publications
This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
The Adventure Collection
By:"Jonathan Swift","Jack London","Rudyard Kipling","Howard Pyle","Robert Louis Stevenson"
Published on 2012-11-13 by Amazon Publishing
Presents a collection of five classic adventure stories, including Rudyard Kipling's \
This Book was ranked 36 by Google Books for keyword classic adventures.
Backcountry Skiing Adventures
By:"David Goodman"
Published on 1998-09-01 by Appalachian Mountain Club
Detailed descriptions and topographic maps for more than 20 tours--including Tuckerman Ravine--plus important gear and safety information, make this guide a must-have for every backcountry skier.
This Book was ranked 26 by Google Books for keyword classic adventures.
Show Me a Story!
By:"Leonard S. Marcus"
Published on 2012 by Candlewick Press
Presents a collection of interviews with twenty-one artists and writers of picture books who, regardless of their country of origin, have had a major impact on children's literature in the United States.
This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword picture books.
Informational Picture Books for Children
By:"Patricia J. Cianciolo"
Published on 2000-02-01 by American Library Association
Offers 250 critical reviews of picture books dealing with the natural world, numbers and arithmatic, the physical world, exploration, children and families, cultures, language, and art.
This Book was ranked 8 by Google Books for keyword picture books.
Saxon Math: An Analysis for Middle School Students At-risk of Low Performance
By:
Published on 2008 by ProQuest
Publishers of Saxon Math proclaim that it is the leading researched skills-based product in the nation; districts throughout the United States and in foreign countries employ the program. Studies reviewed of program effectiveness, although limited at the middle school level, showed that students performed higher on districts' performance tests than students who were not instructed with the program. Questionable, however, were factors relative to this performance, especially as related to the teacher. This study investigated the effects of Saxon Math on low performing middle school students in mathematics who were located in a school district in the state of Georgia. The study found no positive significant difference in the performance of these students when Saxon Math was the only instructional tool used. However, when other strategies were used in conjunction with Saxon Math, a positive significant difference was found. Conclusions reached were that the years of teaching experience in mathematics at the middle school level and experience teaching at-risk learners were significant to student achievement. Also concluded was that Saxon Math used with strategies to include the use of manipulatives and cooperative learning enhanced the achievement of learners at-risk of failure in mathematics.
This Book was ranked 19 by Google Books for keyword middle graders.
Teen-Proofing
By:"John Rosemond"
Published on 2000-09-01 by Andrews McMeel Publishing
In his trademark user-friendly, humorous, and common-sense style, Rosemond, a renowned child psychologist, lays out a logical case for recognizing the realities of the teen-parent relationship, forming the foundation, and parenting with the \
This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword books for teens.
Life Through the Cotton Fields
By:"Cecil R. Chesser"
Published on 1994 by
This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword drama for children.
Rocky & Bullwinkle: Classic Adventures
By:"Al Kilgore","Jack Mendelsohn","Dave Berg"
Published on 2016-01-13 by IDW Publishing
The earliest comic book adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle are collected in this volume that includes issues #1_12 of the Gold Key series that began in 1962. Also includes tales from Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Dudley Do-Right, and the whole gang.
This Book was ranked 9 by Google Books for keyword classic adventures.
Old Picture Books
By:"Alfred William Pollard","Alice Pollard"
Published on 1902 by
This Book was ranked 39 by Google Books for keyword picture books.
Ghana
By:"Philip Briggs"
Published on 2014-01-28 by Bradt Travel Guides
Friendly, safe and inexpensive, Ghana is an ideal destination for first-time visitors to Africa. It is rich in little-visited national parks, forest reserves, cultural sites and scenic waterfalls and blessed with bleached white beaches and the lush rainforest of the Atlantic coastline. Updated throughout, this revised guide includes authoritative history and wildlife sections, accommodation and restaurant recommendations and a wealth of background and practical information. Written by Africa expert Philip Briggs, it provides unrivalled detail and knowledge of this little-visited nation. This sixth edition is the first time the book has been updated by the original author since the 3rd edition. Philip has more than 20 years experience writing travel guides to Africa, and has overhauled the content to reflect broader changes in the Ghana travel scene over the past six years or so. This has resulted in a new look guide, with better maps, revised structure, along with the usual routine updating of all locations covered.
This Book was ranked 12 by Google Books for keyword travel books.
The Book for Teens
By:"Tyndale House Publishers"
Published on 1999 by Tyndale House Pub
The Book for Teens is an easy-to-read, contemporary Bible that will make an excellent gift for teens. Using the New Living Translation, this Bible shows teens how biblical truths are relevant to their lives today. Topical verses, teen-friendly book introductions, and a helpful front section will show young people that The Book for Teens can help them with life issues, relationships, their future, and their faith.
This Book was ranked 25 by Google Books for keyword books for teens.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
By:"J.K. Rowling"
Published on 1999-07-08 by Pottermore
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This Book was ranked 1 by Google Books for keyword harry potter.
It's Complicated
By:"danah boyd"
Published on 2014-02-25 by Yale University Press
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers’ ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boyd finds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity. Boyd’s conclusions are essential reading not only for parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging technologies on society, culture, and commerce in years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reassuringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated.
This Book was ranked 3 by Google Books for keyword books for teens.
Midnight's Children
By:"Salman Rushdie"
Published on 2010-08-26 by Random House
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Winner of the Booker of Bookers Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehru himself, Saleem grows up to learn the ominous consequences of this coincidence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that sway the course of national affairs; his health and well-being are inextricably bound to those of his nation; his life is inseparable, at times indistinguishable, from the history of his country. Perhaps most remarkable are the telepathic powers linking him with India’s 1,000 other “midnight’s children,” all born in that initial hour and endowed with magical gifts. This novel is at once a fascinating family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people–a brilliant incarnation of the universal human comedy. Twenty-five years after its publication, Midnight’s Children stands apart as both an epochal work of fiction and a brilliant performance by one of the great literary voices of our time.
This Book was ranked 18 by Google Books for keyword children books.
