With Squishy Circuits, you can create your own electrical circuits using soft, squishy dough. Through simple text written to foster creativity and problem solving, students will the art of innovation. Large, colorful images show students how to complete activities. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information.

Immerse yourself in the diverse teachings of the world’s greatest spiritual masters through this illuminating and unifying audio course.Your guide is Dr. Kenneth Rose (Ph.D., Harvard University), an acclaimed expert in comparative religion. Under his tutelage, you'll discover the lives and teachings of eleven holy persons throughout the ages and from around the world. Each of these legendary men and women helped bridge Eastern and Western spirituality. By examining...

For every would-be leader, this acclaimed Taoist classic offers timeless insights for building a better worldThe Taoist sages of ancient China have long been lauded for their transformative teachings on the art of harmonious living, community organization, and cultivating the common good. Along with Sun Tzu’s Art of War, the Huainanzi, here brought to life in English by preeminent translator Thomas Cleary, represents an essential window into this ...

Join one of the twentieth century’s great spiritual masters in exploring Christian history and the contemplative life.Thomas Merton was a mystic, writer, artist, and monk of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, better known as the Trappists. In this series of conferences Merton delivered in the 1960s, he presents an insightful exploration of Cistercian history. Merton’s monastic vision shaped his profound spirituality, and he examines how the Cisterci...

The subtle arts of management and leadership have been developed over thousands of years by the Chinese. The Book of Leadership and Strategy represents the Taoist culmination of this long tradition and is one of the most prestigious works of ancient Chinese thought. Collected here are insightful teachings on the challenges of leadership on all levels, from organizational management to political statecraft. The translator, Thomas Cleary, has chosen and arranged these teachings to e...

There are moments when we forget how fortunate we are to have the California coast. The state is home to 1,100 miles of uninterrupted coastline defined by long stretches of beach and jagged rocky cliffs. Coastal Sage chronicles the career and accomplishments of Peter Douglas, the longest-serving executive director of the California Coastal Commission. For nearly three decades, Douglas fought to keep the California coast public, prevent overdevelopment, and safeguard habitat. In do...

An Introduction to Child Development, Third Editionprovides undergraduate students in psychology and other disciplines with a comprehensive survey of the main areas of child development, from infancy through to adolescence, in a readily accessible format. It equips students with an appreciation of the critical issues, while providing balanced coverage of topics that represent both classic and cutting edge work in this vast and fascinating field.The new edition has been ful...

This Fourth Edition of Thomas A. Schwandt’s one-of-a-kind guide to the terms and phrases that help shape the origins, purpose, logic, meaning, and methods of the practices known as qualitative inquiry features 20 additional terms as well as a restructured Reader’s Guide. Key references have been updated and select terms and phrases from previous editions have been reorganized and greatly expanded. Together, the dictionary entries provide a guide to the methodological and e...

Un conte satirique moderne aux accents dystopiques et allégoriques.Sørn, rêveur naïf, porte un anneau symbolisant espoir et ruine, héritage d'une grandeur passée. En 2025 au Danemark, il épluche les couches de corruption avec un pinceau et du carton usé, dans un pays où la liberté d'expression murmure dans le vent et le système judiciaire s'effondre. Le Groenland vendu à des étrangers, les voix étouffées par la Princesse Ministre, et sa sœur avide qui préférerait le voir sombrer da...

Heinrich der Löwe unternahm 1172-73 eine Reise zu den Heiligen Stätten Jerusalem, Bethlehem und Nazareth. Um diese Reise entstanden Sagen, die von seiner Begegnung mit dem Vogel Greif, einem Drachen und einem Löwen und schließlich sogar dem Teufel berichten. Diese Sagen werden hier kindgerecht erzählt.

Social Psychology, Third Edition invites students to discover the relevance of social psychology in their everyday lives. Authors Thomas Heinzen, Wind Goodfriend, and new co-author Gary Lewandowski capture students′ interest by weaving stories drawn from personal experience with compelling examples from daily life, all carefully placed in historical and cultural context. Social psychology is presented as an evolving conversation, with chapters building on core que...

"Docherty is not only is a brilliant critic of those forces that would like to transform higher education into an extension of the market-place... he is also a man of great moral and civic courage, who under intense pressure from the punishing neoliberal state has risked a great deal to remind us that higher education is a civic institution crucial to creating the formative cultures necessary for a democracy to survive, if not flourish."- Henry Giroux, McMasters Universi...