Ashton is your typical kid, friends, likes, hobbies and such. However, he sees things; things that would make a great horror movie. His vivid dreams are scaring his family and friends. His dreams cause a chain reaction of events that will forever shape America and cause us to r eflect on the direction we are headed in. The year is 2016 and the country has never been more divided. Special interest groups run the country and the once great United States of America has become the butt of many...

Lance Knight is an average Joe ready to declare his independence from the rat race. With a briefcase in hand, he enters a Vancouver bank, walks up to a teller and in one minute and thirty seconds, robs four tills and the vault. Toting three grocery bags and the briefcase, Lance quickly exits the bank and escapes in a Chevy Impala. A half hour later, Vancouver police detective Rob Passaglia receives word of Lances robbery and is assigned to the case. His captain thinks the case will be a sl...

Clint McBride wanted to have it all--a beautiful wife, a great career, success, wealth--all before age 30, but it was not to be. Everything came crashing down on him, including his beautiful home that he burned to the ground. Doors opened for Clint everywhere he went, as his best friend's father took the young architect into his construction business. Deal followed deal, success followed success, and soon Clint and his wife, Dusty, seemed to have it all. But it was too much too soon for th...

The story opens in 1962 a few miles south of San Francisco. Brian Conners, a freshman in college, majoring in cartoon animation and drama, has just broken up with his girlfriend of 3 years. Brian meets Lee Thorndyke at an 8AM creative writing class. Lee invites Brian to a Mung City party at his parents house in the posh town of Hillsborough. Several hundred bacchanalian and maenad party mongers, wearing togas, sarongs, buskins and wreaths were dancing the Dipsomania Shuffle in the street. ...

"A highly ambitious and provocative survey of the cultural history of science and industry" from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries ( Journal of Modern History).In 1687, the publication of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica sparked a profound transformation in the world. From that event in the late-seventeenth century to the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, science gradually moved to the center Western thought and economic development....

Science museums are in the business of making science accessible to the public-a public constantly bombarded with new information and research results. How the public understands this information will affect what they expect and take away from a museum's exhibits and programs. Creating Connections looks at the public understanding of research (PUR) and how it affects what science museums do. What are the opportunities and critical issues in PUR? What strategies are working and what are som...

Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in ‘decidedly interesting times’ in which established orders in politics and science were challenged by revolutionary new ideas. Enthusiastically participating in the heady atmosphere of Enlightenment debate, Beddoes' career suffered from his radical views on politics and science. Denied a professorship at Oxford, he set up a medical practice in Bristol in 1793. Six years later - with support from a range of leading industrialists and scientists including t...

Similar to our One Story A Day Series, One Story A Day for Early Readers series contains a total of 365 stories — one for each day of the year — separated into 12 books, each representing one month of the year.

Recess in the Dark is a unique collection of poems that offers a new perspective on how students live in the Canadian North, complete with stunning illustrations of Canada's natural beauty.With Recess in the Dark, you can:- Explore historical, cultural, geographical, and ethnic differences- Establish an open-minded and accepting worldview- Discover the power and the value of words- Develop a new appreciation for natural beauty.Recess in the D...

Similar to our One Story A Day Series, One Story A Day for Early Readers series contains a total of 365 stories — one for each day of the year — separated into 12 books, each representing one month of the year.

One Story A Day series contains a total of 365 stories — one for each day of the year — separated into 12 books, each representing one month of the year. With interesting topics and motivational content, these stories encourage enthusiasm for reading. Thoughtful illustrations reinforce the concepts in the stories, enhancing the child's understanding of the text.

Similar to our One Story A Day Series, One Story A Day for Early Readers series contains a total of 365 stories — one for each day of the year — separated into 12 books, each representing one month of the year.