Welcome to the Pet Rescue Club! When Janey starts a blog where people can share cute pet photos and stories, she never imagines she’ll receive a heartbreaking photo of a skinny, abandoned dog. She calls on her friends Lolli, Zach, and Adam to help – and that’s just the start! When these animal-loving fourth graders discover how many animals need help in their suburban hometown, they can’t just sit by and do nothing…

Animal-crazy Janey can’t have any pets of her own because of her father’s severe allergies. Her overly-indulgent parents try to make it up to her by giving her everything else she wants, including the latest model tablet computer. So Janey uses the tablet to create a blog where kids can post cute photos of their dogs and cats.

But then someone sends in a heartbreaking picture of a skinny dog. Janey isn’t sure what to do, so her friends Lolli and Adam get involved to try to help the poor creature. They also enlist hyper Zach from their class at school. He might be annoying, but his mom is a vet who works with the local animal shelter. Can the four of them save the dog – and maybe start a pet rescue club to help other animals in need?
Based on the real-life dog named Harry Truman adopted from the ASPCA.

Read a book and help save a life:4%-5% of the purchase price of every Pet Rescue club book goes directly to the ASPCA® so they can continue their mission of helping the helpless.

Welcome to the Pet Rescue Club! When Janey starts a blog where people can share cute pet photos and stories, she never imagines she’ll receive a heartbreaking photo of a skinny, abandoned dog. She calls on her friends Lolli and Adam to help – and that’s just the start! When these animal-loving fourth graders discover how many animals need help in their suburban hometown, they can’t just sit by and do nothing…

Zach’s neighbors just had a new baby – and now they’re threatening to take their cat, Hallie, to the animal shelter! The kids have been volunteering there since starting the Pet Rescue Club, and they know an older cat might have trouble getting adopted. Can they convince the family to give their kitty another chance – or maybe find someone who truly appreciates all that an older kitty has to offer? It won’t be easy, especially since Janey is distracted by a lost pet bird and Lolli by a sad classmate.

Read a book and help save a life:4%-5% of the purchase price of every Pet Rescue club book goes directly to the ASPCA® so they can continue their mission of helping the helpless.

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Jess and Jaylen's friendship gets tested when they try to agree on summer activities they both enjoy.

Jess and Jaylen accidentally break Jaylen's brother's phone and try to hide it.

Jess and Jaylen enter a costume contest and must work up the courage to go through a scary haunted house.

On a school field trip to the museum, Jess and Jaylen try to solve the mystery of a missing camera.

Jess and Jaylen must figure out what to do when a new boy moves to their neighborhood and starts bullying Jaylen.

Jess and Jaylen want to enter a skateboard contest, but Jess falls and hurts her wrist when she skateboards without the right safety gear.

Jess cheats off Jaylen during a math quiz.

Jaylen gets addicted to a video game Jess gives him for his birthday.

Be prepared to offer not only the physical rehabilitation regimen injured athletes need, but also the psychological and psychosocial support they need to recover from injuries.

Here’s a user-friendly introduction to the application and practical use of psychosocial theories and techniques. You’ll develop an understanding of the research that underlies practice, and see how sports psychology is applied in clinical practice. Practical examples and suggested activities teach you how.

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Hasanlu V provides archaeologists with a new, more accurate chronology of Hasanlu, the largest and arguably the most important archaeological site in the Gadar River Valley of northwestern Iran. This revised chronology introduces Hasanlu Periods VIa, V, and IVc for the first time. Based on new findings, the report overturns current constructions of the origins of the archaeological culture in Hasanlu, which sought to link the Monochrome Burnished Ware Horizon (formerly known as the Early Western Grey Ware Horizon) to the migration of new peoples into western Iran in the later second millennium B.C. Hasanlu V shows instead that the Monochrome Burnished Ware Horizon developed gradually from indigenous traditions. This reappraisal has important implications for our understanding of Indo-Iranian migrations into the Zagros region.

When the wind blows a farmer's hat from his head, it is enjoyed by his horse, a duck, baby rabbits, squirrels, and other animals before the farmer finally retrieves it.

Megan and the dragon travel by many different transportation modes, and are joined by a variety of traveling companions along the way.

Even though he has not quite mastered the skill of barking, Mr. Doodle's poodle performs many tricks.

When Mason's wish for a pet dinosaur is granted, Mason and his pet have an adventure-filled day, including tricks, a pet race, and winning a blue ribbon.

Forward by Richard J. Riordan, former Mayor of Los Angeles and California Secretary For Education. How do children succeed today? Our world is undergoing dizzying change comparable to the Industrial Revolution or introduction of the printing press. The globe truly has become flat and workers struggle to adapt as jobs are outsourced, industries rise and fade in a heartbeat and opportunities increasingly go to the more educated and skilled. Education is not keeping up with the changing realities our children face as they graduate into a weak job market, breakdown of traditional career paths and new industries. Yet children are also more than the sum of what they know. Values, leadership, creativity, critical thinking, continued learning, innovation and passion are too often never part of any curriculum. Get Your Child to the Top contains insight from educators, kids, venture capitalists, thought leaders and CEOs to provide constructive answers and real solutions to prepare children for the ever-evolving opportunities and challenges of the modern world. The book also describes the realities our kids inhabit in and out of school, including the impact of technology. Aimed at parents, educators and children it empowers each to help kids succeed long term. Updated resources are available at www.laernn.com About the author: Megan Lisa Jones is an investment banker, lawyer, writer, technologist and mom. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her two children and two Persian cats. A child of immigrants and Silicon Valley she believes that each person is fully capable of achieving their dreams if given the proper education, a fair opportunity and a lot of love. www.meganlisajones.com and www.blogspot.meganscribbles.com . Interviews include: Richard J. Riordan (former Mayor of Los Angeles and California Secretary for Education), Frank Baxter (former CEO of Jefferies & Co., US Ambassador to Uruguay and Alliance Charter Schools Board) , Tim Draper (Draper, Fisher Jurverson), Terry Moe (Hoover Institute), Arthur Levine (Woodrow Wilson Foundation), Chris Lewis (Riordan, Lewis & Haden), Marty Albertson (Guitar Center), Kris Duggan (Badgeville), Mark Suster (GRP Partners), Laird Malamed (Activision), David Dwyer (High Tech High and USC) and Shannon Rotenberg (J.K. Livin Foundation)...educators, CEOs and venture capitalists.

The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young girls of their childhood. However, measuring such claims against a wide range of data sources reveals a far more complicated picture.

Becoming Sexual begins with a simple question: why does this discourse feel so natural? Analyzing potent cultural and historical assumptions, and subjecting them to measured investigation, R. Danielle Egan illuminates the implications of dominant thinking on sexualization. The sexualized girl functions as a metaphor for cultural decay and as a common enemy through which adult rage, discontent and anxiety regarding class, gender, sexuality, race and the future can be expressed. Egan argues that, ultimately, the popular literature on sexualization is more reflective of adult disquiet than it is about the lives and practices of girls.

Becoming Sexual will be a welcome intervention into these fraught polemics for anyone interested in engaging with a high-profile contemporary debate, and will be particularly useful for students of sociology, cultural studies, childhood studies, gender studies and media studies.

The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young girls of their childhood. However, measuring such claims against a wide range of data sources reveals a far more complicated picture.

Becoming Sexual begins with a simple question: why does this discourse feel so natural? Analyzing potent cultural and historical assumptions, and subjecting them to measured investigation, R. Danielle Egan illuminates the implications of dominant thinking on sexualization. The sexualized girl functions as a metaphor for cultural decay and as a common enemy through which adult rage, discontent and anxiety regarding class, gender, sexuality, race and the future can be expressed. Egan argues that, ultimately, the popular literature on sexualization is more reflective of adult disquiet than it is about the lives and practices of girls.

Becoming Sexual will be a welcome intervention into these fraught polemics for anyone interested in engaging with a high-profile contemporary debate, and will be particularly useful for students of sociology, cultural studies, childhood studies, gender studies and media studies.

Dunn (psychology, Moravian College), Gurung (human development and psychology, U. of Wisconsin-Green Bay), Naufel (psychology, Georgia Southern U.) and Wilson (psychology, Georgia Southern U.) along with twenty-two contributors provide an indispensable set of pedagogical tools for navigating controversial issues in the classroom. Organization is in four parts: guiding frameworks for teaching about controversial issues, helping students arrive at an empirically based conclusion, opening consideration of multiple views, and concluding thoughts and going forward. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession, as her ticket out of town. But Jason may just be gay, and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks that is the most dangerous and courageous thing a man could be.

Enter Sammy Barlach, a loser ex-con passing through a tired nowhere on the way to a fresher nowhere. Jamalee thinks Sammy is just the kind of muscle she and Jason need.

The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking.

Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains: System One is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System Two is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Examining how both systems function within the mind, Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities as well as the biases of fast thinking and the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and our choices. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, he shows where we can trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking, contrasting the two-system view of the mind with the standard model of the rational economic agent.

Kahneman's singularly influential work has transformed cognitive psychology and launched the new fields of behavioral economics and happiness studies. In this path-breaking book, Kahneman shows how the mind works, and offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and personal lives--and how we can guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble.


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This collection of twenty five articles on adaptive technologies for disabled users showcases current scholarship in the development of eye tracking hardware and software for communications and motive applications. The volume is divided into sections covering user assessments, interface design, attentive and gaze-aware interfaces, application metrics and evaluation, and practical construction of eye tracking hardware. Individual essays address such topics as communications and text entry by gaze, brain-computer interfaces for attentive applications, gaze data analysis, and safety parameters and infrared light. Works include abstracts, illustrations, and tables, and a volume-wide listing of reading resources is provided. The contributors are academics in computer science and engineering from institutions around the world. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing cats, including the manx and calico, and dogs, like the boxer and border collie.

Briefly: 25 Great Philosophers from Plato to Sartre outlines the lives of 25 of the Great Philosophers from the western tradition, including Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Mill, Russell and Sartre, and explores some of their key ideas - ideas which have had a major impact on the development of western thought and society.

As well as highlighting contrasting approaches to philosophical questions, different treatments of particular issues, and areas where the thinking of one philosopher has influenced the ideas of others, this book reflects its authors' strongly-held belief that philosophy is for everyone, not only those who study it at university.

Each chapter has a context section, which looks at those aspects of the philosopher's thinking that shed light on the key ideas; a short biography; discussion of the key ideas; an impact section summing up their influence; and suggestions for further reading, including Internet resources. A glossary of philosophers and thinkers gives brief information about other philosophers and thinkers referred to in the book, while the glossary of terms briefly defines specialist philosophical and other terms. There is also an index.

Sex is best when it's one-on-one...plus one.

Four of erotic fiction's most talented authors carry readers away with all-new tales of ecstasy that prove that the most delectable things in life come in threes.

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