With over 30 years of experience in helping young people discover the joys of scientific inquiry, Dr. Robin L. Cooper brings us this accessible interactive guide to STEM modules that are cost-effective and easily recreated in the field. Students and faculty will find activities and presentations suitable for science fairs, summer camps, life science days, and workshops for elementary, middle- and high school teachers, as well as CURE/ACURE courses at the college level.

" Three da' Hard Way: It's Only Just Begun" is the first book of a trilogy in which Robin L. Cooper speaks about her personal experiences with teenage dating abuse and violence. She shares detailed accounts of her fears and frustrations which began at the age of fifteen while three months pregnant with her first child. Although this storyline is capable of standing independently it is followed by, Three da Hard Way: Caught in the Middle and the final book in the trilogy entitled, Three da ...

This hands-on guide by University of Kentucky neurobiology students was created to lead others to understand and freely explore new research disciplines. It offers clear detailed guided learning modules—ones students can use to investigate, record, and analyze invertebrate behaviors, such as those in crayfish and larval Drosophila. These real-world modules can be easily duplicated at minimal cost in both simple or more complex ways at home or in the classroom—making them highly adaptable f...

Similar to the sciatic nerve, lobster nerves are useful tools for teaching conduction velocity, examining pharmacological actions, addressing recruitment of neurons, obtaining compound action potentials, and covering the principles of refractory periods. This book shows how to obtain lobster nerve preparations and to record synaptic transmission at neuromuscular junctions and measure sensory proprioception—all within a single animal.

'Even funnier than the funniest book I've read' - Matt LucasIn his 2004 bestseller The Timewaster Letters, Robin Cooper plagued everyone from the Campaign for Courtesy to the British Halibut Association with his bizarre and surreal written requests. In Return of the Timewaster Letters, he delivers another wonderful collection of his polite, persistent and peculiar correspondence.Whether he is raising money...

A wonderful collection of short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Emerald City Comic Con 2026!In 2024 Grim Oak Press exhibited at Dragonsteel Nexus, Brandon Sanderson's convention in Salt Lake City, UT, where the award-winning publisher released Grimoire, an anthology containing short stories by attending authors. It sold out on the first day.Due to reader demand, a new Grimoire published at Emera...

This comprehensive guide to relationship-based practice in social work communicates the theory using illustrative case studies and offers a model for practice. Updated and expanded, it now includes increased coverage of anti-oppressive and diversity issues, service user perspectives and systemic approaches in social work.The book explores the ranges of emotions that practitioners may encounter with service users, and covers working in both short-term and long-term professional rela...

For several years, Robin Cooper has been plaguing department stores, hotels, associations, fan clubs and a certain children's book publisher with his letters. From Prince Charles to the Peanut Council, Harrods to the British Halibut Association - no one is safe. So who is Robin Cooper? Architect, thimble designer, trampoline tester and wasp expert, Robin Cooper is all of these things - it just depends on the person he's writing to...

Essays on hip-hop feminism featuring relevant, real conversations about how race and gender politics intersect with pop culture and current events.For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic day jobs were lacking in conversations they actually wanted. To address this void, they started a blog that turned into a widespread movement. The Collective's writings foster dialogue about activist methods, intersectionality, and sisterhood. And the writers' personal ide...

A triumphant, cross-generational exploration of Black joy and resilience.Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites listeners to breathe deeply and return to that “carefree” season. From riding bikes with friends through the neighborhood, to hopping the ferry to Boblo Island, catching catfish along the river, dancing on warm nights to Afrobeats and jazz music, and cooling off in the Swimmobile, those sun-dr...

Attraverso squarci della vita e della carriera di due grandi interpreti statunitensi, Gary Cooper e Cary Grant, si traccia in queste pagine uno spaccato della realtà cinematografica hollywoodiana, che conobbe la sua epoca d’oro nella prima metà del XX secolo. L’assonanza dei nomi di entrambi gli interpreti contrassegnò l’indiscusso successo da essi raggiunto con il loro straordinario e impareggiabile lavoro cinematografico. Un appassionante confronto storico-culturale e artistico-biografic...

This book provides an up-to-date, self-contained account of deep inelastic scattering in high-energy physics, intended for graduate students and physicists new to the subject. It covers the classic results which led to the quark-parton model of hadrons and the establishment of quantum chromodynamics as the theory of the strong nuclear force, in addition to new vistas in the subject opened up by the electron-proton collider HERA. The extraction of parton momentum distribution functions, a k...