Forged in the Desert Heat

Forged in the Desert Heat

A woman that could start a war

Forged in the Desert Heat

25 Prewriting Graphic Organizers and Planning Sheets

25 Prewriting Graphic Organizers and Planning Sheets

Before students can start writing their first draft, they need to get their ideas together and organize them. Prewriting graphic organizers and planning sheets can help! Standards-based lessons introduce students to the prewriting stage of the writing process and model how to use the graphic organizers and planning sheets in this book. Includes acrostic, cause and effect, imaging, recall, sketch and label, story map, timeline, and more. For use with Grades 3-5.

25 Prewriting Graphic Organizers and Planning Sheets

A Hundred Flowers

A Hundred Flowers

A powerful new novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary times at the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution China, 1957. Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society: Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend. Many intellectuals fear it is only a trick, and Kai Yings husband, Sheng, a teacher, has promised not to jeopardize their safety or that of their young son, Tao. But one July morning, just before his sixth birthday, Tao watches helplessly as Sheng is dragged away for writing a letter criticizing the Communist Party and sent to a labor camp for reeducation.

A Hundred Flowers

The Vanishing

The Vanishing

Recently widowed and rendered penniless by her Ponzi-scheming husband, Julia Bishop is eager to start anew. So when a stranger appears on her doorstep with a job offer, she finds herself accepting the mysterious yet unique position: caretaker to his mother, Amaris Sinclair, the famous and rather eccentric horror novelist whom Julia has always admired . . . and who the world believes is dead.

The Vanishing

International Marketing, Tenth Edition

International Marketing, Tenth Edition

INTERNATIONAL MARKETING is an innovative, up-to-date text ideal for anyone seeking success in this fast-paced field. You will discover topics ranging from beginning start-up operations to confronting giant global marketers. This in-depth text will prepare you to conquer the international business world!

International Marketing, Tenth Edition

Moral Theory at the Movies

Moral Theory at the Movies

Moral Theory at the Movies provides students with a wonderfully approachable introduction to ethics. The book incorporates film summaries and study questions to draw students into ethical theory and then pairs them with classical philosophical texts. The students see how moral theories, dilemmas, and questions are represented in the given films and learn to apply these theories to the world they live in. There are 36 films and a dozen readings including: Thank you for Smoking, Plato’s Gorgias, John Start Mill’s Utilitarianism, Hotel Rwanda, Plato’s Republic, and Horton Hears a Who. Topics cover a wide variety of ethical theories including, ethical subjectivism, moral relativism, ethical theory, and virtue ethics. Moral Theory at the Movies will appeal to students and help them think about how philosophy is relevant today.

Moral Theory at the Movies

The Dream Dress

The Dream Dress

A seamstress at a swanky bridal boutique, Gabi Delgado dreams of doing more than ripping out seams and fitting dresses to doe-eyed brides. She wants to see her own dress designs gracing the young women of Texas. When Jordan Spencer, the editor of Texas Bride magazine visits the shop to do a feature, Gabi is devastated to lose her job in his very influential presence. Convinced she’ll never get her dreams off the ground now, Gabi needs lots of encouragement–especially from her friend Bella Neeley–to take a chance and start her business. And as she gets to know Jordan, she discovers that she may have to take a chance on love as well. Could it be that she’ll have to design her own wedding dress soon?

The Dream Dress

The Truth about Faking

The Truth about Faking

When Harley and Jason start fake dating, they uncover a school of deceptions. Trent’s got a secret, but so does Jason. And the more time Harley spends secretly kissing her fake boyfriend, the further she gets from her dreams with Trent. Worst of all, Harley’s mom is getting cozy with her hot massage therapy student, and even Harley’s Reverend Dad can’t fake not being bothered by it. But when the masks finally come off, can everyone handle the real truth?

The Truth about Faking

Beginning Programming For Dummies

Beginning Programming For Dummies

Do you think the programmers who work at your office are magical wizards who hold special powers that manipulate your computer? Believe it or not, anyone can learn how to write programs, and it doesnt take a higher math and science education to start.

Beginning Programming For Dummies

Learning Cython Programming

Learning Cython Programming

A practical and a fast-paced guide that gives you all the information you need to start programming using Cython.This book is for developers who love C/C++ for low latency and speed but who also require the ability to add more dynamic features to applications both fast and reliably. It will also show you how you can get new applications off the ground by reusing Python libraries to get started.

Learning Cython Programming

Learning QlikView Data Visualization

Learning QlikView Data Visualization

A practical and fast-paced guide that gives you all the information you need to start developing charts from your data.Learning QlikView Data Visualization is for anybody interested in performing powerful data analysis and crafting insightful data visualization, independent of any previous knowledge of QlikView. Experience with spreadsheet software will help you understand QlikView functions.

Learning QlikView Data Visualization

Low Carb Diet for Beginners

Low Carb Diet for Beginners

Start seeing results right away with Low-Carb Diet for Beginners.

Low Carb Diet for Beginners

Living with Your Body and Other Things You Hate

Living with Your Body and Other Things You Hate

Lets be honest: most people are unhappy with at least some aspect of their physical appearance. Just think of all the money we spend each year trying to improve our looks! But if worrying about your appearance is getting in the way of living, maybe its time to start thinking about body image in a completely new way.

Living with Your Body and Other Things You Hate

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c is a fast-paced and feature-packed book, designed to get you working with Java EE 6, JDK 7 and Oracle WebLogic Server 12c straight away, so start developing your own applications.Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer’s Guide is written for developers who are just getting started, or who have some experience, with Java EE who want to learn how to develop for and use Oracle WebLogic Server. Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Developer’s Guide also provides a great overview of the updated features of the 12c release, and how it integrates Java EE 6 and JDK 7 to remove boilerplate code.

Getting Started with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c

Mastering 3D Printing

Mastering 3D Printing

Mastering 3D Printing shows you how to get the most out of your printer, including how to , models, choose materials, work with different printers, and integrate , printing with traditional prototyping to make techniques like sand casting more efficient.,

You’ve printed key chains. You’ve printed simple toys. Now you’re ready to innovate with your 3D printer to start a , or teach and inspire others.,

Joan Horvath has been an educator, engineer, author, and startup 3D printing company team member. She shows you all of the technical details you need to know to go beyond simple model printing to make your 3D printer work for you as a prototyping device, a teaching tool, or a business machine.

Mastering 3D Printing

Make: Electronics

Make: Electronics

Want to learn the fundamentals of electronics in a fun, hands-on way? With Make: Electronics, you’ll start working on real projects as soon as you crack open the book. Explore all of the key components and essential principles through a series of fascinating experiments. You’ll build the circuits first, then learn the theory behind them!

Make: Electronics

Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible

Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible

There’s a lot to be said for going back to basics. Not only does this Bible give you a quick refresher on the structure of open-source , software, it also shows you how to bypass the hefty graphical user interface on Linux systems and start interacting the fast and efficient way with command lines and automated scripts. You’ll learn how to manage files on the filesystem, start and stop programs, use databases, even do Web , without a GUI with this one-stop resource.

Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014

Get a head start evaluating , , 2014 – guided by two experts who have worked with the technology from the earliest beta. Based on Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2) software, this guide introduces new features and capabilities, with practical insights on how SQL Server 2014 can meet the needs of your business. Get the early, high-level overview you need to begin preparing your deployment now.

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2014

PowerPoint 2013 Bible

PowerPoint 2013 Bible

In today’s business climate, you need to know PowerPoint inside and out, and that’s not all. You also need to be able to make a presentation that makes an impact. From using sophisticated transitions and animation in your PowerPoint presentations to interfacing in person with your audience, this information-packed book helps you succeed. Start creating professional-quality slides that captivate audiences and discover essential tips and techniques for making first-rate presentations, whether you’re at a podium or online.

PowerPoint 2013 Bible

Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat, 2nd Edition

Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat, 2nd Edition

Start building Java – based web applications now, even if you’re a complete newcomer to Java. Comprehensive and example – driven, Beginning JSP, JSF, and Tomcat: , Web Development, Second Edition is all you need to develop dynamic Java-based web applications using JSP, connect to databases with JSF, and put them into action using the world’s most popular open source Java web server, , Tomcat.

Beginning JSP, JSF and Tomcat, 2nd Edition