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Discover 500 fascinating facts about everything from astronomy to zoology in this amazing science book for kids age 9 to 12! Do you love dinosaurs and dolphins, mountains and meteors? The Fascinating Science Book for Kids has all of that and more! This trivia-packed book includes 500 stupendous science facts that offer hours of exploration. Alongside full-color pictures on every page, you'll find weird and wonderful facts about topics like prehistoric life, the deep sea, weather, minerals, the human body, the solar system—and even your own backyard! In this engaging book of science fun facts for kids, you'll learn amazing things like: Scientists have evidence that tiny diamonds sometimes fall from the sky on Neptune. The giant squid has a brain shaped like a donut. Some bacteria species generate electricity when they breathe and can even power a battery. Get a heaping helping of the science facts kids love with The Fascinating Science Book for Kids — one of the best in kids' educational books!

Discover 500 fascinating facts about everything from astronomy to zoology in this amazing science book for kids age 9 to 12! Do you love dinosaurs and dolphins, mountains and meteors? The Fascinating Science Book for Kids has all of that and more! This trivia-packed book includes 500 stupendous science facts that offer hours of exploration. Alongside full-color pictures on every page, you'll find weird and wonderful facts about topics like prehistoric life, the deep sea, weather, minerals, the human body, the solar system—and even your own backyard! In this engaging book of science fun facts for kids, you'll learn amazing things like: Scientists have evidence that tiny diamonds sometimes fall from the sky on Neptune. The giant squid has a brain shaped like a donut. Some bacteria species generate electricity when they breathe and can even power a battery. Get a heaping helping of the science facts kids love with The Fascinating Science Book for Kids — one of the best in kids' educational books!

Splash into the incredible world of fish with the Junior Scientists series for kids ages 6 to 9 Get up close and personal with the fascinating fish that live all around the world. Fish for Kids is full of colorful photos and illustrations that help you explore 35 different species, from goldfish and neon tetras to eels and great white sharks! Interactive learning—Unlike other fish books for kids, this one features hands-on activities and tips for going fishing or keeping your own aquarium. Fun facts—Learn how fish use camouflage, how they find food, and which fish can swim almost 70 miles per hour! Fishy profiles—Go beyond other fish books for kids with complete profiles on freshwater and saltwater fish, including where they live, how big they get, and more. Take a peek into the lives of fish in this standout choice among fish books for kids.

First published in 1979, Group Counseling has consistently been a widely used and praised text, providing both novice and experienced counselors with a framework from which to expand group counseling skills and knowledge. This revised sixth edition offers a reader-friendly and engaging journey through the group process that is congruent with 2016 CACREP standards and the Association for Specialists in Group Work (ASGW) practice standards and grounded in the most cutting-edge research and theory. The authors present a thorough discussion of the rationale for using group counseling with an emphasis on the group's role as a preventive environment and as a setting for self-discovery. They examine the group facilitator's internal frame of reference and ways to overcome initial anxiety about leading groups, and they also explore typical problems in the development, facilitation, and termination of the group process and provide suggested solutions. Individual chapters are included to explore the application of group counseling with children and adolescents. Notable additions include: an expanded chapter on diversity and social justice in group work; an expanded chapter on co-leadership, a topic often ignored in other group counseling texts; a new chapter on ethics and leadership training; a reworked chapter on leader functions, styles, and skills; and a reworking of the chapter on group counseling with children that includes an in-depth look at Landreth's innovative and empirically validated Child-Parent-Relationship Therapy.

Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources, Second Edition, presents a broad, completely updated overview of the profession of forestry. The book details several key fields within forestry, including forest management, economics, policy, utilization and forestry careers. Chapters deal specifically with forest regions of the world, landowners, forest products, wildlife habitats, tree anatomy and physiology, and forest disturbances and health. These topics are ideal for undergraduate introductory courses and include numerous examples and questions for students to ponder. There is also a section dedicated to forestry careers. Unlike other introductory forestry texts, which focus largely on forest ecology rather than practical forestry concepts, this book encompasses the economic, ecological and social aspects, thus providing a uniquely balanced text. The wide range of experience of the contributing authors equips them especially well to identify missing content from other texts in the area and address topics currently covered in corresponding college courses. - Covers the application of forestry and natural resources around the world with a focus on practical applications and graphical examples - Describes basic techniques for measuring and evaluating forest resources and natural resources, including fundamental terminology and concepts - Includes management policies and their influence at the local, national and international levels

Enjoy hours of fun with hundreds of would-you-rather questions for kids ages 8 to 12 Would you rather...leave the house barefoot OR wear tap shoes all day? Have your own treehouse OR your own secret room in your home with a hidden door? The Big Book of Would You Rather Questions for Kids offers hundreds of fun prompts to think about and laugh over with friends and family. With more than 350 thought-starters, kids will develop skills in critical thinking, creativity, and friendly debate. What sets this would-you-rather book apart: Kid-friendly questions—Keep the pages turning and the conversations flowing with age-appropriate questions that all ages will enjoy. On-the-go fun—Take this book anywhere with a compact size that makes it easy for kids to pass around, write their own questions, and bring on road trips. All kinds of questions—Discover silly and stimulating scenarios within 10 different categories, ranging from sports and hobbies to superpowers and skills. Enjoy hours of friendly debate for the whole family with this would-you-rather book for kids.

Mark Mallory is a junior reporter for the Des Moines Register who gets a big break to investigate a local crop circle anomaly. His research leads him to a nearby town with an active military missile silo on the property and reported UFO sightings. From here, Mark is followed by the Department of Homeland Security, his computer hacked, and apartment bugged. Mark makes four new friends from Iowa State University; Beth, Sam, J.T. and Raj, who share his passion for sci-fi. They offer to lend their skills to help Mark uncover the secrets of the U.S. military shadow agencies and UFO’s. Beth and Sam almost die when Sam’s car brake-line is severed. Mark knows the government will stop at nothing to keep their secrets hidden. J.T. and Raj discover a cryptic message in a crop circle -- He’s Coming. Mark’s dormant faith is challenged by the revealed message. Is this the man of destruction described in scripture who brings the apocalypse? How is the crop circle message, UFO’s, and the military all connected? With the fate of the world in the balance, will Mark have time to learn the truth and reveal the Bibles darkest mystery?

Sports Medicine of Baseball includes all-encompassing coverage of the evaluation and treatment of common problems encountered in baseball players at all levels of competition. A large portion of the book focuses on shoulder and elbow problems, given the high number of shoulder and elbow injuries that affect baseball players. The text will also cover lower extremity injuries, spine conditions, and common medical problems that may be encountered. Of special interest to athletic trainers, topics such as different training regimens for in-season versus off-season workouts and tailoring throwing programs for relievers and starters is given particular attention.

Over the past two centuries, many aspects of criminal behavior have been investigated. Finding this information and making sense of it all is difficult when many studies would appear to offer contradictory findings. The Handbook of Crime Correlates collects in one source the summary analysis of crime research worldwide. It provides over 400 tables that divide crime research into nine broad categories: - Pervasiveness and intra-offending relationships - Demographic factors - Ecological and macroeconomic factors - Family and peer factors - Institutional factors - Behavioral and personality factors - Cognitive factors - Biological factors - Crime victimization and fear of crime Within these broad categories, tables identify regions of the world and how separate variables are or are not positively or negatively associated with criminal behavior. Criminal behavior is broken down into separate offending categories of violent crime, property crime, drug offenses, sex offenses, delinquency, general and adult offenses, and recidivism. Accompanying each table is a description of what each table indicates in terms of the positive or negative association of specific variables with specific types of crime by region. This book should serve as a valuable resource for criminal justice personnel and academics in the social and life sciences interested in criminal behavior.

This book fills a gap in the literature on economic liberalism in France as it strives to resolve a paradox. How do we reconcile the fact that while France has been among the most fertile of soils for the liberal intellectual tradition, the theoretical ideas it has produced has little impact on its own public debate and public policies? Using a wide range of data on public policies, it demonstrates that neo-liberal thought has had far less influence in France than in other European nations during the period from 1974 to 2012. The failure of neo-liberalism to propagate in public policies France is shown to be mainly due to the strong resistance of public opinion towards it. In addition, the structure of French institutions has reinforced the effect of "path dependence" in the making of public policy by valuing state expertise above that of actors likely to question the post-war consensus, such as academics and think tanks. Finally, the book identifies other more incidental factors which contributed to neo-liberalism marginality: the fragmentation and radicalism of neo-liberal advocates, as well as the absence of charismatic political actors to effectively embody these ideas. This book is a useful educational tool for students of economics, sociology, political science, and of French political history. This book is also of interest for journalists, think tank researchers and professionals of politics and administration.