What's your favorite way to get around? Explore sparkly vehicles--including strollers, diggers, planes, trains, and more in this fun, engaging board book that is filled with bright, bold illustrations and simple text that little ones will really enjoy. It's packed with 10 sparkly images that teach young children about ways to get around and comes with tabs on the end so you can flip to baby's favorites. From planes to trains and beyond, there's always something wonderful for little ones to discover. This book is so delightful, parents will want to collect the whole Baby Sparkler series!

What's your favorite thing that goes splash? Bathtubs, boats, ducks, and more things that get wet--10 in all--are here in this sparkly board book. Bright, bold illustrations and simple text teach young children about some things that go splash, along with tabs on the end so you can flip to baby's favorites. From bathtubs to rain boots, there's always something wonderful for little ones to discover. This book is so delightful, parents will want to collect the wholeBaby Sparkler series!

A hulking freighter waits at a darkened pier. Aboard, filmmaker Carl Denham prepares for a strange voyage to a distant island…an island where he hopes to make the most exciting movie of all time. First mate Jack Driscoll has concerns about the journey—concerns that only grow deeper when Denham talks a down-on-her-luck beauty named Ann Darrow into joining them. And what waits for them at the end of the journey? More danger and excitement than any of the three could have imagined. For what waits at the end of the journey is…Kong.

Join the showman, the sailor, the blonde, and the beast for one of the greatest adventures of all time, as the actors of Full Cast Audio sweep you into the pulse-pounding epic of King Kong, Eighth Wonder of the World!

'Questa bella storia di Wilde introduce alcune delle più profonde domande morali e spirituali che si possano immaginare. A cosa serve la bellezza? Com'è che un cuore spezzato può guarirne un altro? Come fa un amore trascendente e incondizionato a far capolino nel mondo del cambiamento e del limite? Scritto con una chiarezza musicale che ancora costringe all'attenzione, la storia apre la porta a una visione della verità a cui lo stesso Wilde non ebbe il coraggio di credere completamente fino alla fine della sua vita. La storia ci dice, però, che Wilde desiderava fortemente che questa visione fosse vera prima ancora di comprendere - con il proprio cuore spezzato - che era vera. La storia ha ancora il potere di aprire quella porta (e quel desiderio) a molti lettori'. (Rowan Williams) Età di lettura: da 4 anni.

Security for Business Professionals offers business executives and managers everything they need to set-up a security program, especially for those who don’t have the resources to hire an in-house security staff. It can also be used for assessing the adequacy of an existing security program.

The book provides an overview of the key security objectives and challenges that managers face, such as how to measure the effectiveness of a security program and balance the costs and benefits. It also shows how to develop security procedures that conform to key regulatory requirements, and how to assess an organization’s most important risks, vulnerabilities, and threats.

Security for Business Professionals addresses key physical and informational security concerns, including areas such as asset protection, loss prevention, and personnel security. It also discusses how to develop emergency and incident response plans, and concludes with suggested safety and security exercises and training recommendations.

• Written in an introductory and accessible way for those new to security.
• Illustrates key concepts with case studies and real-world examples from a wide variety of industries.
• Provides recommended readings and checklists for more in-depth coverage of each topic.

Joe Orlando was a mainstay at EC, especially on science fiction, and this collects 23 of his best sf stories. All of them, most scripted by Al Feldstein, serve up classic O. Henry-style endings, such as “I, Robot,” and “Fallen Idol.” The title story is one of EC’s most famous, with its blunt anti-racism message. When it was printed during the era of the Comics Code, publisher Bill Gaines and Feldstein had to fight to keep the story’s final panel “reveal” (and thus its whole point) intact. It was a Pyrrhic victory, however, as “Judgment Day” became the last story in the last comic book EC published. This volume also features two of Orlando’s outstanding adaptations of classic Ray Bradbury science fiction stories: “The Long Year” and “Outcast of the Stars.” Also included are all of EC’s “Adam Link” adaptations, a series which was later also adapted for The Outer Limits TV show and featured Leonard Nimoy.

In an educational context where school and district performance is of increasing focus, it’s essential for leaders at all levels of the educational system to focus on improving student performance. This volume zeros in on a promising set of strategies and practices for all leaders to motivate, support, and sustain learning in contemporary schools. Learning-Focused Leadership in Action explores what it means for educational leadership to be 'learning-focused,' what this looks like in practice at both the school and district level, and how such leadership changes can be set in motion. Drawing on extensive case study research in schools and districts that are making progress on learning improvement, this volume explores how leaders at all levels of the educational system can productively seek to improve the quality of learning opportunities and student performance, no matter how challenging the circumstances.

In an educational context where school and district performance is of increasing focus, it’s essential for leaders at all levels of the educational system to focus on improving student performance. This volume zeros in on a promising set of strategies and practices for all leaders to motivate, support, and sustain learning in contemporary schools. Learning-Focused Leadership in Action explores what it means for educational leadership to be 'learning-focused,' what this looks like in practice at both the school and district level, and how such leadership changes can be set in motion. Drawing on extensive case study research in schools and districts that are making progress on learning improvement, this volume explores how leaders at all levels of the educational system can productively seek to improve the quality of learning opportunities and student performance, no matter how challenging the circumstances.

Unsurprisingly, given Sigmund Freud's understanding of religion, the conversation between Christianity and psychoanalysis has long been marked by mutual suspicion. Psychoanalysis originated within a naturalist, post-Enlightenment context and sought to understand human functioning and pathology--focusing on phenomena such as the unconscious and object representation--on a strictly empirical basis. Given certain accounts of divine agency and human uniqueness, psychoanalytic work was often seen as competitive with a Christian understanding of the human person.The contributors to Christianity and Psychoanalysis seek to start a new conversation. Aided by the turn to relationality in theology, as well as by a noncompetitive conception of God?s transcendence and agency, this book presents a fresh integration of Christian thought and psychoanalytic theory. The immanent processes identified by psychoanalysis need not compete with Christian theology but can instead be the very means by which God is involved in human existence. The Christian study of psychoanalysis can thus serve the flourishing of God?s kingdom.

From Cassandra King comes her best book yet, a novel of dark secrets and second chances, a writer’s homage to the gothic classic Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.When Helen Honeycutt falls in love with Emmet Justice, a charismatic television journalist who has recently lost his wife in a tragic accident, their sudden marriage creates a rift between her new husband and his oldest friends, who resent Helen’s intrusion into their tightly knit circle. Hoping to mend fences, the newlyweds join the group for a summer at his late wife’s family home in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Helen soon falls under the spell not only of the little mountain town and its inhabitants, but also of Moonrise, her predecessor’s Victorian mansion, named for its unique but now sadly neglected nocturnal gardens. But the harder Helen tries to fit in, the more obvious it is that she will never measure up to the woman she replaced.Someone is clearly determined to drive her away, but who wants her gone, and why? As Emmet grows more remote, Helen reaches out to the others in the group, only to find that she can’t trust anyone. When she stumbles on the secret behind her predecessor’s untimely death, Helen must decide if she can ever trust — or love — again.

Clark Kent is dead! When grave circumstances cause Superman to leave behind his alter ego, an unimpeded Man of Steel must face his deadliest foe to date: Nimrod the Hunter! Metropolis' newest threat has killed everything he's ever tracked, but he's never killed an alien. Will the red and blue Kryptonian be his first?

Legendary writer Grant Morrison (ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, BATMAN) continues his best-selling, critically acclaimed run on SUPERMAN: ACTION COMICS, with art by Rags Morales (IDENTITY CRISIS), Gene Ha (TOP 10) and a host of comics' finest illustrators.

This trade paperback graphic novel collects SUPERMAN: ACTION COMICS 9-12, 0 and ANNUAL 1.