The Boy Who Developed a Life-Changing Software follows Alex Thornberry, a 12-year-old tech whiz with a heart full of compassion.Inspired by his grandfather's health struggles, Alex creates CareConnect, an app designed to make managing health simple, fun, and accessible. Joined by his quirky coding club and Fred, a bowtie-wearing frog mascot, Alex faces challenges, setbacks, and triumphs as his idea grows from a basement project to a global sensation.This he...

On Halloween night, Elvis, a curious 10-year-old boy, dares to explore the haunted Ghost Castle in the city of Tombstone. Whispers of ghosts, witches, and spooky creatures fill the air, but nothing can stop Elvis from unraveling the mysteries of the eerie castle.As he sneaks inside, Elvis encounters one strange being after another—each more mysterious than the last. He faces terrifying challenges at every turn.Will he survive the haunted castle and uncover its secrets, or w...

Over 400,000 people moved their families in search of a better life in the American West during the Westward Expansion. The pioneers made room for musical instruments with their guns, food, and tools, while taking only the minimal necessities that would fit into modest wagons. During what seemed like an interminable dusty journey, music was often the sole source of light and happiness for these exhausted travelers.This book examines the roles of music in the Westward Expansion and ...

From award-winning creators Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell comes one of the decade's most celebrated and acclaimed YA graphic novels about toxic relationships and queer first love. Winner of the Eisner Award, the Ignatz Award, and a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, this story is perfect for fans of Heartstopper and This One Summer.Laura Dean is the most popular girl in school—funny, confident, and impossible for Freddy R...

Laura Deane, statuesque and passingly beautiful, had imagined her life would be altogether different at the age of thirty-six. Instead, washed up on the far side of the Second World War, she is living above a chemist with her elderly mother, Maeve, a string of lacklustre jobs, ranging from minor acting parts to modelling lingerie behind her.Falling back on her limited typing abilities, a secretarial position with Albert Coombe, a private inquiry agent, seems to offer more scope for...

Faz quase um ano que Freddy está apaixonada por uma menina chamada Laura Dean. Mas ela não imaginava que um namoro poderia ser tão complicado…Freddy Riley só quer que Laura Dean pare de terminar com ela. O dia em que começaram a namorar foi o melhor de sua vida, mas agora parece apenas uma lembrança distante. Laura Dean é popular, engraçada e MUITO LINDA… mas também pode ser insensível e bem cruel. O relacionamento cheio de idas e vindas deixa Freddy desnorteada, e...

Work Psychology: The Basics provides an accessible, jargon-free introduction to the fundamental principles of work and occupational psychology. Covering key theories and models in this dynamic area, it offers a solid understanding of both academic theory and practical applications.The book follows the structure of the British Psychological Society curriculum for Masters courses, exploring psychological assessment at work, learning, training and development; wellbeing at wo...

This book offers an original and compelling analysis of women’s madness, gender and the Australian family. Taking up Anne McClintock’s call for critical works that psychoanalyze colonialism, this radical re-assessment of novels by Christina Stead and Kate Grenville provides a sustained account of women’s madness and masculine colonial psychosis from a feminist postcolonial perspective. This book rethinks women’s madness in the context of Australian colonialism. Taking novels of madness by ...

Unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and riveting suspense: These are the trademarks of beloved author Judith McNaught. With millions of devoted fans and ten New York Times bestsellers to date, McNaught is a writer whose work just gets better with each new novel–and Every Breath You Take is the book readers have been waiting for. Returning to the lavish Chicago setting of her popular novel Paradise, and revisiting some of that book’s characters as well, this story will captivate in ...

A practical, comprehensive manual for assessment design and implementationAssessment in Student Affairs, Second Edition offers a contemporary look at the foundational elements and practical application of assessment in student affairs. Higher education administration is increasingly called upon to demonstrate organizational effectiveness and engage in continuous improvement based on information generated through systematic inquiry. This book provides a tho...

No number has captured the attention and imagination of people throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi—or ? as it is symbolically known—is infinite and, in The Joy of pi, it proves to be infinitely intriguing. With incisive historical insight and a refreshing sense of humor, David Blatner explores the many facets of pi and humankind's fascination with it—from the ancient Egyptians and Archimedes to Leonardo da Vinci and the modern-d...

Originally published in 1983, this cross-national study had three aims. First, to examine the cross-national differences among the elderly community in the prevalence of psychiatric problems and their relationship to other health and social problems. Second, to examine the differences in health care of aged people, with a view to providing a framework for improvement of health and support services to those elderly with psychiatric problems who reside in the community. Finally, the differen...