Stanhope and Byram have rich industrial histories that were shaped by local natural resources. Winding its way through Stanhope, the Morris Canal aided the town's iron production, while Lake Musconetcong helped sustain production and transport materials through the area. Stanhope began as an unincorporated village, having been carved out of Byram Township, a neighboring community established in 1798, and was officially incorporated as Stanhope Borough in 1904. Byram benefitted from the Morris Canal, with its Waterloo Village as a thriving halfway point along the canal. Situated between Jersey City and Phillipsburg, Waterloo provided a perfect stopover for weary canal workers. Despite its prime location and various amenities, the village was ultimately abandoned in the 1920s. Preservation and restoration efforts and fundraising have been ongoing, and the site currently offers tours and programs. Stanhope and Byram shares the history of these two close-knit bedroom communities that are embraced for their tranquil scenery and inviting atmospheres.

Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe.

When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning the love of handsome Prince Mahdi. And yet Sera finds herself haunted by strange dreams that foretell the return of an ancient evil. Her dark premonitions are confirmed when an assassin's arrow poisons Sera's mother. Now, Serafina must embark on a quest to find the assassin's master and prevent a war between the Mer nations. Led only by her shadowy dreams, Sera searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas. Together, they will form an unbreakable bond of sisterhood and uncover a conspiracy that threatens their world's very existence.

Buy 15 copies and save 15% with the Literacy Teacher's Playbook, K-2 book study bundle!

'Instead of glancing quickly and drawing a single conclusion, we can lean in and look with the same spirit of curiosity and interest that our youngest students have taught us to have.'
-Jennifer Serravallo

'I wanted to write a book that helps you really see your students,' writes Jennifer Serravallo. From a kindergartner's loops and pictures to a second grader's reading log, her Literacy Teacher's Playbook details exactly how she comes to understand them deeply and meet everyone's literacy needs-and the standards.

'My I-wish-I-knew-then-what-I-know-now experiences are the main inspiration for this book,' writes Jen. So her workshop-in-a-book shares a powerful approach to assessment, planning, and teaching. Go beyond curriculum to develop differentiated reading and writing goals then plan targeted instruction with her four-step assessment protocol:

• collect data-student work and everyday assessments-that will be the most useful to you
• analyze the data to understand deeply what kids know and can do
• synthesize data from multiple assessments to create learning goals
• develop instructional plans and follow-ups to monitor progress.

'What you can pull out of a child's messy seat pocket is data.' So Jen provides downloadable assessment packets from real children representing two puzzling types of young learners. Spread Marelle's packet out and let Jen model how she analyzes little kids' work. Next try a guided practice with Emre's work. Then you'll be ready to try it with your own students.

'My goal,' writes Jen, 'is to help you understand your students with the depth that allows you to tweak your units and ensure you're giving every student opportunities for success.' Follow the play tens of thousands of teachers have succeeded with: trust Jen Serravallo and feel the confidence that comes from making winning instructional decisions based on powerful assessments.

This steamy trio of stories features Linda Lael Miller's 'One Last Weekend,' in which a couple on the brink of divorce find themselves stranded in their beach cottage for a weekend, giving them a chance to fall in love all over again as waves of passion wash over them. Original.

Mid-twentieth-century California offered fertile ground for design innovations. Thestate's reputation as a land of unlimited opportunity, its many institutions of higher learning, andits perpetually booming population created conditions that allowed designers and craftspeople toflourish. They found an eager market among educated and newly affluent Californians, and theirproducts shaped the material culture of the entire nation. This book, a companion to the popular2011 MIT Press/LACMA publication California Design, 1930--1965: 'Living in a ModernWay,' reveals the complex web of influences, collaborations, institutionalaffiliations, and social networks that fueled the California design economy. This book offers morethan 140 illustrated biographical profiles of the most significant mid-century California designers,including such famous names as Saul Bass and Charles and Ray Eames as well as many lesser known butinfluential practitioners. These designers, craftspeople, and manufacturers worked in the full rangeof design media, creating furniture, fashion, textiles, jewelry, ceramics, and graphic andindustrial design. Each entry includes a succinct biography, a portrait of the designer or image ofan important design, cross-references to other entries, and a list of sources for further research.Significant examples of California design and craft objects are featured in more than 180illustrations and rare photographs. Created by internationally renowned graphic designer Irma Boom,the book is a beautifully crafted object in its own right. It will become an indispensable resourcefor all those interested in modern design.

Examines the geography, history, economy, society, people, and culture of Chile.

An introduction to the landscape, culture, and people of Iceland, with photographs, maps, a description and image of the country's flag, and a fast fact file.

Examines the geography, history, economy, society, people, and culture of South Korea.

Even if they don't know much about rocks, most folks can name at least one place they have encountered granite. That's because speckled, sparkly, and beautiful granite is common and easy to identify. In everyday life you'll find countertops, headstones, flooring—even whole buildings made of granite. In the natural world it forms random boulders in fields and many of the planet's loftiest peaks. The first title in the What's So Cool About Geology Series, What's So Great About Granite? brings this enigmatic rock to the light, exploring some of its mysteries with lively and lucid prose. Learn why some granite is pinkish while some is gray; why some granite crumbles in your hands while other granite can't be crushed by a tank; and why some granite is solid and unbroken for miles while some is riddled with cracks. Illustrated with crisp, stunning photographs and informative figures, What's So Great About Granite? is a must-have for anyone interested in one of the world's most fascinating rocks.

With an estimated 40 million Americans dealing with musculoskeletal disorders, it's likely that many of these patients will turn to you first for treatment. Now, it's easier than ever to enhance your orthopaedic knowledge and skills...so you can manage more of these problems in your practice! Noted authority Mark D. Miller, MD, together with a stellar editorial team and numerous contributors representing a breadth of specialty areas within orthopaedics and primary care, offers you the comprehensive, multidisciplinary insight you need to confidently diagnose and treat sprains, fractures, arthritis and bursitis pain, and other musculoskeletal problems, or refer them when appropriate. Videos on DVD demonstrate how to perform 29 joint injections, 7 common physical examinations, a variety of tests, and 6 splinting and casting procedures. Online, in print, and on DVD, the new Essential Orthopaedics equips you to conquer the MSK challenges you'll see more and more in everyday practice.

• Includes online access via expertconsult.com, enabling you to search the complete contents of the text, perform quick searches, and download all of the images.
  
• Presents multidisciplinary coverage that provides authoritative orthopaedic guidance oriented towards the practical realities of primary care practice.
  
• Offers videos on DVD demonstrating how to perform 29 joint injections, 7 common physical examinations, a variety of tests, and 6 splinting and casting procedures.
  
• Features templated chapters containing procedural and non procedural sections in a bulleted format that makes finding the guidance you need quick and easy.
  
• Uses a joint-by-joint organization that provides a close look into regions of the body that are closely related and helps you diagnose more efficiently.
  
• Contains standard chapter elements such as ICD-9 codes, physical examination, diagnostic imaging, additional tests, differential diagnosis, treatment, patient instructions-and many more-providing all the answers you need on 300 conditions.
  
• Includes key concepts, clearly depicted in color images and drawings that help you make decisions with exact visual guidance.

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Ransdell (Boise State U.), Dinger (U. of Oklahoma), Huberty (U. of Nebraska, Omaha), and Miller (U. of Kentucky) offer information, methods, and techniques for health-related professionals looking for alternatives that do not require a rigid application of the traditional frequency, intensity, and time (FIT) approach to exercise. In particular, the text targets individuals involved in training people to design, implement, and evaluate physical activity interventions or conduct research related to physical activity interventions, including state health department employees, community program designers, fitness club professionals, and academic professionals. Coverage includes the foundations of physical activity; evidence-based recommendations for working with specific populations, including women, overweight/obese people, older adults, and ethnically diverse populations; environmental approaches to increasing physical activity; the influences of setting--home, family, church, worksite, medical community--on interventions; and using mediated programming to extend the reach of an intervention. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

You might meet them at the coffee shop, the grocery store, or walking down the street. They're women across North America committed to reaching out and changing lives one good deed at a time. Five of these exceptional women have been selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award. And once again five New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors have kindly offered their creativity to write original short stories inspired by these real-life heroines.

We hope More Than Words will touch your heart and inspire the heroine living inside you.

Writing with fierce honesty, Jennifer Miller has created an extraordinary synthesis of history, reportage, and coming-of-age memoir in Inheriting the Holy Land. Her groundbreaking perspective on the conflict is presented through interviews with young Israelis and Palestinians and conversations with some of the most influential officials involved in the Middle East, including Shimon Peres, Yasir Arafat, James Baker, Benjamin Netanyahu, Colin Powell, Ehud Barak, and Mahmoud Abbas. This book will open eyes, open hearts, and open minds.

Miller grew up in an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., surrounded by the chaotic politics of the Middle East. Her father was a U.S. State Department negotiator at the Oslo and Camp David peace summits, and dinnertime conversation in the Miller household often included discussions of the Middle Eastern conflict. When Miller joined Seeds of Peace, a program that brings Middle Eastern kids to Maine for intensive sessions of conflict resolution, her real experience with the Middle East began. As she befriended young Palestinians, Israelis, Egyptians, and Jordanians, Jennifer came to realize that their views were missing from the ongoing debate over the Holy Land. By helping these young voices be heard, she knew she could reveal something vitally new and deeply challenging about the future of this torn region.

Miller, however, learned fast that it was one thing to hang out at the idyllic Seeds for Peace camp in Maine and quite another to confront young people on their own turf–in the alleys of East Jerusalem, behind the armed gates of West Bank settlements, in the teeming refugee camps of Gaza. Friendships that had blossomed in the United States withered in the aftermath of yet another suicide bombing. Big-hearted teens on both sides of the conflict shocked Miller with the ferocity of their illusions and the twisted logic of their misconceptions. But she also found rays of hope in places where others had reported only despair–surprising open-mindedness among the ultra-religious, common ground shared by those who had lost loved ones to the violence, a yearning for peace amid the rubble of refugee camps and the shards of bombed cities.

A deft writer, she interweaves her startlingly candid interviews with the vibrant realities of life in the streets. Just as Jennifer Miller was forced to confront her biases as an American, a Jew, a woman, and a journalist, in Inheriting the Holy Land, she similarly challenges readers to reexamine their own cherished prejudices and assumptions.


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Un divertente libro interattivo con tanti simpatici animali come protagonisti. Schiaccia il bottone, ascolta e canta le canzoncine dei cuccioli. Età di lettura: da 1 anno.