Conquer math anxiety and build essential data literacy with this empowering, beginner-friendly guide to everyday numbers. Whether you are commuting to the office or focusing on personal self-improvement, this reassuring listen transforms intimidating concepts into clear, actionable critical thinking skills. Say goodbye to the frustration of messy data and misleading statistical claims.Instead of dry academic lectures, experience a calm, accessible journey through the real-world app...

Explore a captivating historical mystery where cutting-edge forensic science collides with ancient religious devotion. Perfect for your daily commute or deep-focus learning, this thought-provoking investigation traces a single, highly controversial piece of cloth backward through time. Witness the fiery survival, meticulous physical repairs, and centuries of fierce debate surrounding civilization's most enigmatic relic.Step inside modern laboratories and medieval European courts on...

Designed for an undergraduate course or for independent study, this text presents sophisticated mathematical ideas in an elementary and friendly fashion. The fundamental purpose of this book is to teach mathematical thinking while conveying the beauty and elegance of mathematics. The book contains a large number of exercises of varying difficulty, some of which are designed to help reinforce basic concepts and others of which will challenge virtually all readers. The sole prerequisite for ...

Designed for an undergraduate course or for independent study, this text presents sophisticated mathematical ideas in an elementary and friendly fashion. The fundamental purpose of this book is to engage the reader and to teach a real understanding of mathematical thinking while conveying the beauty and elegance of mathematics. The text focuses on teaching the understanding of mathematical proofs. The material covered has applications both to mathematics and to other subjects. The book con...

Who Else Wants to Say, "I Passed"? The Master Lecture Series Boosts Exam Scores While Reducing Test Anxiety and Study Time.Say goodbye to boring study sessions with Dr. Rosenthal’s Master Lecture Series for the NCE, CPCE, CECE, and State Counseling Exams. Revolutionize your exam prep and have fun doing i with the help of Dr. Howard Rosenthal, EdD, an award-winning educator and professor emeritus of human services and addiction studies at St. Louis Communit...

The perfect picture book for children expecting a new sibling, from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Dear Girl, I Wish You More, and Yes Day, Amy Krouse Rosenthal.The big news is this: Little Miss becomes a big sis! Little Miss learns the wonders of becoming a big sister as she and her family celebrate the momentous arrival of a new baby.From Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Peter H. Reynolds, the creators of Plant a K...

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Dear Girl, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a simple and timeless celebration of the power of love.Little Miss planted a kiss...One small act of love blooms into something bigger and more dazzling than Little Miss could have ever imagined in this epic journey about life, kindness, and giving.Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Peter H. Reynolds team together to share a message of hope and to remind u...

How far would you be willing to go to finish the job?Declan Hunt is having a bad week. His kidnapping case is showing little progress, his office assistant has left him on short notice, and his latest investigation has left him literally battered and bruised. But things change when he hires twenty-four year old Charlie Watts to help out at the office. They form an unlikely partnership trying to solve two seemingly unrelated cases whose threads begin to weave together when ...

When the Democrats retook control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2007 after twelve years in the wilderness, Nancy Pelosi became the first woman speaker in American history. In Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the New American Politics, Ron Peters, one of America's leading scholars of Congress, and Cindy Simon Rosenthal, one of America's leading scholars on women and political leadership, provide a comprehensive account of how Pelosi became speaker and what this tells us a...

This edited book is written for students, postdocs and established investigators who want to enter the field of single-particle cryo-EM. This is a recently developed method to determine high-resolution structures of biological macromolecules. A major strength is the fact that cryo-EM does not require prior crystallization of protein complexes. Furthermore, it is especially well suited for larger complexes and molecular machines, although it can also be used for macromolecules as small as 4...

Recent, unpredictable incidents in diverse locations – Paris, Nice, Ankara, Sinai, California, Manchester and London – reinforce how governments and scholars must look beneath the surface for understanding of the turbulent post-9/11world. In particular, what does ‘expertise’ mean in this new era? This book answers that question? The volume is about a particular kind of expert – a type suffering from ‘bad press’ for a long time – namely, scholars who carry out area-based research. The term ...

Erik Mitchell traveled the world uncovering art fraud and relic theft, which pitted him against spoiled billionaires, unscrupulous collectors, mobsters, and cartels. He worked with law enforcement across the US and Europe, but then a sting goes wrong, Erik ends up injured and returns to find his partner cheating. He decides to stop globetrotting and buy an antique shop in scenic Cape May, New Jersey, rebuild his life, and nurse his broken heart.Undercover Newark cop Ben Nolan went ...