From the creator of the hit TV series The Bold Type comes an empowering and heartfelt novel about a future female president's senior year of high school.Ava, CJ, Jordan, and Martha (listed in alphabetical order out of fairness)have been friends since kindergarten. Now they're in their senior year, facing their biggest fears about growing up and growing apart. But there's more than just college on the horizon. One of these girls is destined to become the pr...

Ava, CJ, Jenna y Marta han de hacerse a la idea de que este es su último año juntas. Sueñan con su futuro y se preguntan qué está por llegar a sus vidas. El porvenir parece tan incierto y las decisiones a tomar parecen tan... grandes. Especialmente cuando han de sobrevivir al chico más encantador del instituto, Diffender.Aunque la historia sucede en el presente, el prólogo se desarrolla dentro de 30 años, en el día de la investidura de la primera Presidenta de los Estados ...

Qui serà la nova presidenta dels Estats Units?L'Ava, la CJ, la Jordan i la Martha estudien a l'Institut William McKinley en un barri de Cleveland. Inseparables des de petites, han de fer-se a la idea que aquest és el seu últim any juntes. El futur és incert i hauran de prendre grans decisions.Tot i que la història succeeix en el present, el pròleg es desenvolupa d'aquí trenta anys, el dia de la investidura de la primera presidenta dels Estats Units. E...

From the creator of the hit TV series The Bold Type comes an empowering and heartfelt novel about a future female president's senior year of high school.Ava, CJ, Jordan, and Martha (listed in alphabetical order out of fairness)have been friends since kindergarten. Now they're in their senior year, facing their biggest fears about growing up and growing apart. But there's more than just college on the horizon. One of these girls is destined to become the pr...

Captain Paul Watson, 2012 für seinen Umweltaktivismus mit dem Jules Verne Award ausgezeichnet, ist ein Kämpfer mit klarer Mission: die Weltmeere vor illegaler Ausbeutung und Umweltzerstörung zu schützen -- "Wenn die Meere sterben, sterben wir alle." Seit Jahrzehnten riskiert Paul Watson sein Leben für den Erhalt und die Unversehrtheit von Meeresbewohnern. Mit 27 Jahren rief er die Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ins Leben, deren erstes Schiff, die Sea Shepherd, 1978 die heute weltbekannt...

COVID-19 and the Classroom: How Schools Navigated the Great Disruption presents social science research that explores how schools navigated the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020 through the 2020-21 school year. This book also serves as a history book, documenting what this period was like for those involved in the enterprise of educating children. The book is divided into three sections, allowing for an in-depth exploration of the pandemic’s impact. The fi...

"You can take down an individual, you can take down an organization, but you can't destroy a movement." Paul Watson Captain Paul Watson, honored with the Jules Verne Award for his environmental activism in 2012, is a fighter with a clear mission: to protect the world's oceans from illegal exploitation and environmental destruction. "If the oceans die, we die." For decades, Paul Watson has risked his life for the conservation and well-being of marine life. At the age of 27, he founded the S...

By focusing on effective communication strategies and leveraging cutting-edge research, Mental Health Communication for Underserved Populations makes meaningful progress toward improving mental health outcomes for everyone, with a particular emphasis on underserved populations.Health communication research offers a critical lens for examining mental health, especially in relation to marginalized populations. Contributors to this volume identify and critica...

Born roughly between 1964 and 1980, Generation X has received much less critical attention than the two generations that precede and follow it: the Baby Boomers and Millennials. This essay collection examines representations of Generation X in contemporary popular culture, including in television, movies, music, and internet sources. Drawing on generational theory, cultural studies theory, race theory, and feminist theory, the essays in this volume consider the past identities of Generatio...

Every city has its own rhythm, its own beat and character; none more so than Barcelona. To commemorate the 2016 European Science Fiction Convention being held in this historic city, NewCon Press invited many of Spain’s top SF and fantasy authors to join those from Britain, France, and Canada to write stories that cast the city in a whole new light. Original stories from the likes of multiple award-winning Elia Barceló (whose work has been translated into eighteen languages), and Spain’s mo...

Southerners should be proud of their ancestors who fought with great courage and sacrifice in the Civil War. This anthology is dedicated to the brave solders of the Rebellion. They are scorned in the pages of history books, but each and every one of them deserves our deepest respect and admiration. These courageous young men valiantly defended their homeland, fought bravely, and ultimately gave their lives for the land they were born in. These are not the rich plantation owners and politic...

When missionaries arrive at Sarah's door with a message for her and her family, Sarah is initially skeptical. There are rumors in her small Iowa town about the missionaries' strange church. But after Sarah accepts their challenge to find out the truth for herself, she then prays for a miracle for her husband. Through an interesting turn of events, Sarah learns the power of prayer. This illustrated children's story from Sister Wendy Nelson's own family history will help your children increa...