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This Harper Classic edition of the Newbery Medal winner and #1 New York Times bestseller includes an author's note, a letter from the real Ivan's caretaker at Zoo Atlanta, Ivan's "signature, " discussion questions, and more. The #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Award-winning novel The One and Only Ivan is coming to Disney+ this summer!This unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power...

Beginning with a general overview of nanocomposites, Bionanocomposites: Integrating Biological Processes for Bio-inspired Nanotechnologies details the systems available in nature (nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids) that can be integrated within suitable inorganic matrices for specific applications. Describing the relationship between architecture, hierarchy and function, this book aims at pointing out how bio-systems can be key co...

Get your friends to open up!Friendships are built on conversations. Whether you like to discuss your interests, daily activities, beliefs, similarities, or differences, 52 Questions for Friends is here with a year's worth of fun, thought-provoking conversation starters to help strengthen your friendships and make fun memories, all through the power of communication.Whether you are looking to learn the basics about a new friend or want to get d...

Action, explosions, adventure, terrorist plots and conspiracies combine for a compelling thriller in the vein of Clancy, MacLean and Ludlum. A light aircraft flies over Sydney Harbour carrying the spores of a deadly microbe, enough to kill the people below and render the city uninhabitable for decades. Intelligence agent Marika Hartmann races to the scene aboard a taipan helicopter packed with Australian commandos, unable to shoot the plane do...

This is the story about the dual life of Lillith Messinger. Soon after working on a mass air crash in Maine, Medical Examiner Paul O'Brien, is called to the scene of Lillith's suspicious death. At the scene, he discovers her hidden diaries and takes them without anyone knowing. As Paul gets to know Lillith through her writing, her ghost begins talking to him, and the secrets of her death unfold. Paul isn't sure if her ghostly presence is real,...

The collected wit and wisdom of [Southern Living's garden editor] can be found in a single A-Z volume, providing gardeners from coast-to-coast with his ... tips for planting, troubleshooting, and growing flowers, vegetables, shurbs, trees, and more, all delivered in his signature cantankerous style"--Amazon.com.

The classic Harvard Business Review articles every manager and aspiring leader should read--and share with their teams--from such bestselling Harvard Business Review authors as Peter Drucker, Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, Daniel Goleman, Jim Collins, Gary Hamel, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, and many more. Each compact book represents the most important ideas on management, leadership, and life. Build your professional library and advance ...

The Dark Edge of the Bluff engages with the mutable nature of memory and its instantiations: memory as artifact, memory as place, memory as story, memory as compulsion. The poems tackle a vast geography of recollectionâfrom Fiesole to the Okefenokee to the turnings and obsessions of the author's mind itself. In testing memory's capacity for multiple truths, and in discovering its inherent limitations, this collection grapples with the simultan...

This collection of high-quality articles in the field of combinatorics, geometry, algebraic topology and theoretical computer science is a tribute to Jiří Matoušek, who passed away prematurely in March 2015. It is a collaborative effort by his colleagues and friends, who have paid particular attention to clarity of exposition – something Jirka would have approved of.The original research articles, surveys and expository articles, written by le...

Les filtres jouent un rôle important dans plusieurs applications RF/micro ondes. Ils sont utilisés pour séparer ou combiner différents signaux micro ondes. Les applications émergeantes telles que les communications sans fils continuent à challenger les filtres RF/micro ondes via plusieurs exigences : haute performance, petite taille, poids léger, et prix bas. Les filtres type FSS à base des rubans métalliques à couplage capacitif série et à co...

William Fotheringham (Author) William Fotheringham is the bestselling author of Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike, Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi, Roule Britannia, The Badger: Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling, and Put Me Back on My Bike, which V¿ magazine called `the best cycling biography ever written¿. He writes for the Guardian and Observer on cycling and has reported on over twenty Tours de France. James Nunn (I...

The World Health Organisation estimates that, by 2030, six out of every ten people in the world will live in a city. But what does it mean to inhabit the city in the twenty-first century? Posthuman Urbanism evaluates the relevance and usefulness of posthuman theory to understanding the urban subject and its conditions of possibility. It argues that contemporary science and technology is radically changing the way that we understand our bodies ...

The upcoming Java 9 module system will affect existing applications and offer new ways of creating modular and maintainable applications. With this hands-on book, Java developers will learn not only about the joys of modularity, but also about the patterns needed to create truly modular and reliable applications.

A master list of the top 100 'must-know' architectural designs built and completed between 1900 and 2000.

In this magnificently illustrated cultural history—the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews—Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492 to the modern day.It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of ...

With remarkably detailed and beautifully crafted dioramas, Rudy retells the classic tale of the city mouse and the country mouse with a modern twist. Full color.

PelZ is the living symbol of a sport he dubbed "the beautiful game"--a game that brings people together regardless of race or nationality. This biographical graphic novel beautifully depict Pele's rise from the slums of Brazil to the international soccer stage. Full color.

When Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a rogue herd of elephants in his reserve in South Africa, it was the last chance for these elephants. If Anthony didn't take them, they would be shot. But he had no experience with elephants at all. What was he to do?Take them on, of course!What follows is an exciting and heartwarming series of adventures, in which Anthony learns about elephants and becomes part of their family. Full of both triumph an...

A lyrical picture book biography of the author of "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little, " two beloved classics of children's literature, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Castillo. Full color.

Recounts the friendship between propaganda photographers Refik Veseli and Mosha Mandil and how their lives intersected with the foreign relations efforts between Albania and China. Consists primarily of archival photographs from the 1970s with captions in which the author assumes the voice Veseli.