Need some serious help solving equations? Totally frustrated by polynomials, parabolas and that dreaded little x?THE MATH DUDE IS HERE TO HELP!Jason Marshall, popular podcast host known to his fans as The Math Dude, understands that algebra can cause agony. But he's determined to show you that you can solve those confusing, scream-inducing math problems--and it won't be as hard as you think!Jason kicks things off with a basic-training boot camp to help you review the e...

In "Why Math isn't an Awful Nerd" Jason Marshall, the guy behind the incredibly popular Math Dude's Quick and Dirty Tips podcast, shows readers how insanely easy and downright elegant math can be. Marshall focuses on perfect squares and patterns (hint: they're called perfect squares for a reason), and clearly—and most importantly concisely—explains step-by-step how numbers work. Multiple games and puzzles re-enforce the concepts Marshall presents, making for a crazy fun, accidenta...

One day while sitting on a small hill, a young girl watches a Red Shouldered Hawk land on the branch of a nearby tree. Within the mystical realms of enchantment, she is able to talk with the hawk. A friendship is formed and the hawk allows her to ride upon its back to experience the wonderful, joyous feeling of flying.

Here begins the thrilling story of a young vigilante, though he’d never call himself such. Marvin simply has certain… needs. Needs which can only be satisfied by watching people suffer. Pedophiles annoy him, so he targets them. Don’t worry, though—Marvin’s not big on blood. He prefers the mental sort of suffering, which in many ways is all the more gruesome. Of course, sometimes things get out of hand, and blood cannot be prevented.A therapist by day and a stalker and intruder by n...

Graduating college is a momentous achievement.But once the diploma is awarded and the parties are over...now what?What's the next step?How do we bridge the gap between our college days and the "real world"?That's where the experts at Quick and Dirty Tips come in. Their wisdom and experience will turn your uncertainty into confidence, your ineptitude into skill, and your questions into answers.In this essential guide for life after college, 12 experts fr...

Marshal is book 4 in the Wanted seriesFederal Marshal Carl Waters has teamed up with his daughter, a Deputy Marshal herself, to infiltrate a drug, weapons, and human trafficking organization while dealing with threats to his family. A simple case of climbing the ladder of a criminal organization is never a simple case. Especially when an old friend has a breakdown and hires professional killers to come after his loved ones.Serial killers, Mexican d...

Counseling Families: Play-Based Treatment offers an engaging and practical integration of expressive arts and play therapy within family counseling. Building upon the most current research in family counseling, this volume presents new and humanistic approaches of family play therapy, including family-based cognitive behavioral therapy, family theraplay, and filial therapy. Application of these methods is explored with children and families affected by autism, divorce, and trauma. Essentia...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention to how such meaning arises out of the intentionality of Bach’s own compositional choices or (in Part IV in particular) how meaning is discovered, and created, through the reception of Bach’s voc...

Book-Four in the “Houses of Servitude” collection this time brings us three tales of female-led autocracy in the home and beyond.Read on as a wife conspires with the friend and widow who is now his partner to bring him to his knees and worse by his previously loving wife to become not only her househusband but that of the German widow he can’t abide also.Another wife is led to the darkside by a wealthy and conniving Indian neighbour who thinks it is a waste of time for her ...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...

Explore the latest research avenues in the field of high-power microwave sources and metamaterialsA stand-alone follow-up to the highly successful High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies, the new High Power Microwave Sources and Technologies Using Metamaterials, demonstrates how metamaterials have impacted the field of high-power microwave sources and the new directions revealed by the latest research. It’s written by a distinguished team of...

Flexible and efficient, VMware ESX is the tool of choice for enterprise data centers looking to make the most of the latest virtualization methods. However, to date, no single manual provides users with a systematic way to understand and take full advantage of all its features and options.Novel Solutions for Every Level of the IT ChainVMware ESX Es