Uses bird and bee cartoon characters to present straightforward explanations of topics related to sexual development, love, reproduction, adoption, sexually transmitted diseases, and more.
From the expert team behind "It's Perfectly Normal" and "It's So Amazing!" comes a book for younger children about their bodies--a resource that parents, teachers, librarians, health care providers, and clergy can use with ease and confidence. Full color.
A straightforward look at the changes--physical, psychological, emotional, and social--that come with the onset of puberty. Also covered are such other topics as sexual orientation, reproduction, birth control, abortion, pregnancy and childbirth, sexually transmitted diseases, and sexual abuse. Colorful cartoon-style illustrations accompany the ...
This is a thorough revision of the bestselling guide to the tools and tricks of the hybrid hacker. Written by seasoned security authors and instructors, this fully updated volume offers a comprehensive overview of today's hacking and computer security landscape. You will learn the latest techniques to uncover, legally disclose, and fix ...
This book covers a wide variety of topics in combinatorics and graph theory. It includes results and problems that cross subdisciplines, emphasizing relationships between different areas of mathematics. In addition, recent results appear in the text, illustrating the fact that mathematics is a living discipline.The second edition includes many new ...
This comprehensive work considers and presents the arts of Africa as art history, rather than as expressions of anthropological and societical impulses and traditions. The book's aim is to animate the study of African art, showing how it has continuously developed from evolving beliefs and traditions, complex cultural interactions, historical and ...
Bridges the gap between theory and practice in engineering ethics. Provides real-life cases, structured methodology for analysing cases, and examples of analysed cases to give students a true understanding of what is involved in practicing ethical engineering.
Extend your analytical skills to moral deliberation with this best-selling engineering ethics text. "Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases, 4E" bridges the gap between theory and practice with more than 100 current case studies available in the text and on the companion website, including current and controversial topics, such as Hurricane ...
The northern cod have been almost wiped out. Once the most plentiful fish in the Grand Banks, the cod is now on the brink of extinction, and tens of thousands of people have been left without work by a 1992 moratorium on fishing the stock. Today, the Pacific salmon stocks are in similar trouble -- victims of the same blind, stupid greed. Michael ...
An account of the early hours of a baby girl's life, from the moment she slides out into the midwife's hands and gives her first cry. The snipping of the cord, early cuddles, the first opening of the eyes, the visitors and the gifts, and the bonding are all included in this book.
Informal, effective undergraduate-level text introduces vibrational and electronic spectroscopy, presenting applications of group theory to the interpretation of UV, visible, and infrared spectra. 200 problems with solutions. Numerous illustrations.
Smashing into theaters faster than a speeding bullet this July, comes the blockbuster movie "Superman Returns!" The Man of Steel returns to Earth - and the big screen! - after a mysterious absence of several years, only to find that Lois Lane has moved on with her life, and old enemy Lex Luthor is plotting to render Superman powerless once and for ...
Health Promotion in the Workplace is written from a scholarly perspective that reflects the full knowledge of science in the field yet recognizes the constraints of practical application. This comprehensive text covers the importance of health promotion programs; the process of designing, managing and evaluating programs; the positive effects such ...
Updated to reflect all changes to the core text, the Sixth Edition of the Study Guide and Solutions Manual tests you on the learning objectives in each chapter, and provides answers to all of the even numbered end-of-chapter exercises.
"It's gone! It's nowhere! Where is MY BOOK? I need MY BOOK!" What happens when your favorite book goes missing? Bestselling duo Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley climb into the mind of a young child and create a hilarious picture book romp. As the frantic search for the beloved book takes off all sorts of horrifying thoughts come to mind and ...
"The Manual of Interior Photography" aims to equip the photographer with both practical information and a general understanding of the possibilities and limitations in all areas of interior photography, from residential to industrial. Practical tips and suggestions are combined with two alternative methods of achieving professional results: one a ...
In this book, artist and art historian Michael Harris investigates the role of visual representation in the construction of black identities, both real and imagined, in the United States. He focuses particularly on how African American artists have responded to - and even used - stereotypical images in their own works. Harris shows how, during the ...
A gripping memoir leavened by humor, loyalty, and pride of accomplishment, this is the story of a young man's tour of duty at the Atomic Energy Commission's Pacific Proving Ground at Eniwetok.
Rising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) feels the urgency of spring migration. Elegant, noble, and spiritual, the sandhill crane is one of the most ancient of all birds. More than a half-million strong, flying in squadrons, these majestic creatures point northward to their Arctic and sub ...
'The Judas Kiss' tells the whole, astounding story of this former RCMP undercover agent (who insists to this day that he is innocent of his wife's murder). It is a non-fiction murder mystery; a cautionary tale of how undercover agents can so easily go bad; and another rattling good read from Canada's top investigative writer, Michael Harris.
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date general account of the genus available today, covering every aspect of cultivation, including propagation and hybridization, in plain and jargon-free language. It has additional sections on growing lilies in America, New Zealand and Australia and is illustrated extensively with fine line artwork and ...
Free from jargon or technical language, this is a simple psychological profile of the Chinese. It has been designed for anyone who wants to understand the Chinese mentality - whether for day-to-day social interaction or for business dealings.
It has become apparent that vision is not a passive process working on the retinal image like a film to record a perfect copy as the perception. Instead, higher-level cognitive processes such as expectancies, memories and experience play a critical, almost overriding role. This book is a review and summary of the tremendous advances that have been ...
"CatchUp Math and Stats" provides students with a step-by-step review of topics and techniques that are crucial to a quantitative understanding of biology.
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