Joanna Cole, Illustrations Bruce Degen. "Cole and Degen continue their collaboration with gusto and intelligence to create a fine introduction to social insects and honeybees in particular." -The Horn Book. Paperback.
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First came the postwar High, then the Awakening of the '60s and '70s, and now the Unraveling. This audacious and provocative book tells us what to expect just beyond the start of the next century. Are you ready for the Fourth Turning?Strauss and Howe will change the way you see the world--and your place in it. In The Fourth Turning, they apply their generational theories to the cycles of history and locate America in the middle of an unraveling period, on the brink of a crisis. How you prepare for this crisis--the Fourth Turning--is intimately connected to the mood and attitude of your particular generation. Are you one of the can-do "GI generation," who triumphed in the last crisis? Do you belong to the mediating "Silent Majority," who enjoyed the 1950s High? Do you fall into the "awakened" Boomer category of the 1970s and 1980s, or are you a Gen-Xer struggling to adapt to our splintering world? Whatever your stage of life, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for America's next rendezvous with destiny.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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With his magic purple crayon, Harold draws himself into a rocket voyage to Mars, then safely back to earth just in time for breakfast.
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A controversial hit that sparked debate among businessmen, environmentalists, and bloggers, The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler is an eye-opening look at the unprecedented challenges we face in the years ahead, as oil runs out and the global systems built on it are forced to change radically.
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Individuality vs. conformity. Identity vs. access. Freedom vs. control.The bar code tattoo.The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity. But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There's no option but to run . . . for her life.Indivuality vs. conformity.. Identity vs. access. Freedom vs. control.The bar code tattoo.
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The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships. Rather than providing exuberant accounts or cautionary tales, it offers a data-grounded primer on how to make sense of these important changes in relational life.The book identifies the core relational issues these media disturb and shows how the ways we talk about them echo historical discussions about earlier communication technologies. Chapters explore how we use mediated language and nonverbal behavior to develop and maintain communities, social networks, new relationships, and to maintain relationships in our everyday lives. It combines research findings with lively examples to address questions such as whether mediated interaction can be warm and personal, whether people are honest about themselves online, whether relationships that start online can work, and whether using these media damages the other relationships in our lives. Throughout, the book argues for approaching these questions with firm understandings of the qualities of media as well as the social and personal contexts in which they are developed and used.Personal Connections in the Digital Age will be required reading for all students and scholars of media, communication studies, and sociology, as well as all those who want a firmer understanding of digital media and everyday life.
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Exotic, beautiful, and instructive, this "mathematical folktale" by author-illustrator Demi emerged from her love of India. The narrative and the evocative illustrations combine to create a real sense of the culture and atmosphere of this romantic land. It's the story of Rani, a clever girl who outsmarts a very selfish raja and saves her village. When offered a reward for a good deed, she asks only for one grain of rice, doubled each day for 30 days. Remember your math? That's lots of rice: enough to feed a village for a good long time--and to teach a greedy raja a lesson.
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A brilliant new reading of the economic crisisâand a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermathâby one of our most trenchant and informed experts.When the nationâs economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: it lies in the increasing concentration of income and wealth at the top, and in a middle class that has had to go deeply into debt to maintain a decent standard of living.Persuasively and straightforwardly, Reich reveals how precarious our situation still is. The last time in American history when wealth was so highly concentrated at the topâindeed, when the top 1 percent of the population was paid 23 percent of the nationâs incomeâwas in 1928, just before the Great Depression. Such a disparity leads to ever greater booms followed by ever deeper busts. Reichâs thoughtful and detailed account of where we are headed over the next decades reveals the essential truth about our economy that is driving our politics and shaping our future. With keen insight, he shows us how the middle class lacks enough purchasing power to buy what the economy can produce and has adopted coping mechanisms that have a negative impact on their quality of life; how the rich use their increasing wealth to speculate; and how an angrier politics emerges as more Americans conclude that the game is rigged for the benefit of a few. Unless this trend is reversed, the Great Recession will only be repeated. Reichâs assessment of what must be done to reverse course and ensure that prosperity is widely shared represents the path to a necessary and long-overdue transformation. Aftershock is a practical, humane, and much-needed blueprint for both restoring Americaâs economy and rebuilding our society.
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Filled with stop-action and close-up photography, an early scientific book features such images as a single snowflake and a falling drop of water, accompanied by introductions to such concepts as evaporation and condensation.
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More than just a guide and introduction to the new, free, must-have Kindle for iPhone App, "No Kindle Required" also provides all that you need to unlock a dazzling new "service in a book," the "Lightning Web Navigator for iPhone & iPod Touch." For everything you will ever want to do with your Kindle for iPhone App, and some things you haven't even thought of yet, bestselling Kindle guide author Stephen Windwalker walks you through each step in the clearest, most concise, easy to follow language.You'll be pleased to see how easy it is to read Kindle books on your iPhone or iPod Touch, and amazed at how the "Lightning Web Navigator for iPhone & iPod Touch," included here in the low 99-cent price, allows you to turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a seamless, direct, no-extra-steps web-browsing computer. Includes: The Convergence of Convergence Devices - Why Kindle for iPhone is a Must-Have App For iPhone and iPod Touch Users - Getting Started with the Kindle for iPhone App - Making Your Kindle Books Available on Your iPhone or iPod Touch from the Manage Your Kindle Page - Deleting Books from Your Kindle for iPhone App - Sampling and Buying Content from the Kindle Store with Your iPhone or iPod Touch - Reading with Kindle for iPhone - Shopping Other Amazon Departments from Kindle for iPhone With Our "Lightning Web Navigator For iPhone and iPod Touch" - Unlocking "Lightning Web Navigator For iPhone and iPod Touch" - Index To "Lightning Web Navigator For iPhone And iPod Touch" Links And Bookmarks - Free Book Sites - Kindle Store Bestseller Links - Amazon Store Bestseller Links - Best Blogs - Blog Lists - Book Catalogs - Book Reviews - Business & Finance - Comics - eBook Downloads, Support & Discussions - Entertainment - Hobbies - Kindle Blogs - Kindle Gear - Local Favorites - Magazines - Mail & Message - Mobile RSS Readers - Mobile Transcoders - Mobile Site Lists - News: National - News: Sports - News: Technical - Reference - Shipping Carriers - Shopping - Travel - Weather - Glossary Plus Free Excerpts from The Complete Guide to the Amazing Amazon Kindle 2: A Sleek New Hardware Package - From an Ugly Duckling to a Swan - No SD Card Slot, but Seven Times the Storage Capacity of the Kindle 1 - The Crisper, Faster Kindle 2 Display - Enhanced Design and Placement of Buttons, Switches, Bars and Keyboard - A 5-Way Joystick Controller for Better On-screen Navigation - Dual Rear-Mounted Stereo - Speakers for Improved Hands-Free Listening - Addition by Subtraction: Designer Covers for the Kindle 2 - The New Kindle Battery and Charging Options - What's Inside the Kindle 2 - An Enhanced, More User-Free Kindle Reading Environment - Let Your Kindle Read to You with a New "Read-to-Me" Feature - Hands-Free Reading Options - Improved Periodical Navigation - Improved Reading and Web Navigation with the Joystick and the Back Button - Zoom in to Enlarge Graphics, Tables and Pictures - Instant On-Screen Dictionary Lookup - WhisperSync Feature Allows Instant Synchronization of Catalog and Reading Place Across Kindles and Other Devices - Slightly Improved Content Management and Sorting - Opening, Deleting, and Restoring Kindle Content - An Electronic Paper, e-Ink Display Screen, Purpose-Built for Long-Form Reading and Easier Navigation - The Best Features of the Original Kindle, Improved - Whispernet Wireless Connectivity: The Kindle's Connection to Millions of Books - Instant Access to a Growing Amazon Catalog - Greatly Improved Free Wireless Web Access - Emailing Content to Your Kindle Address - Traveling with Your Kindle - Using the Kindle to Translate Foreign or Technical Words and Phrases - Making the Most of Your Kindle Connections Overseas - Using the Kindle as a Travel Guide - The Kindle and GPS - Checking Sprint Wireless Coverage for the Kindle 2 - Downloading Kindle Editions via USB Cable - Using Gift Cards, Gift Certificates, and Promotional Certificates to Give or Purchase Kindle Content
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