Harvest basic botany knowledge from this abundant bookBotany For Dummies gives you a thorough overview of the fundamentals of botany, but in simple terms that anyone can understand. Great for supplementing your botany coursework or brushing up before an exam, this book covers plant evolution, the structure and function of plant cells, and plant identification. Plus, you'll learn about how plants of different types are changing and adapting in response to c...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, unpredictable autoimmune disease that affects millions of people worldwide. It poses unique challenges for people with MS and their care partners because the symptoms (many of which are invisible to others) are so variable from day to day and month to month. Multiple Sclerosis For Dummies helps you and your loved ones understand the importance of early treatment and become familiar with all of the latest treatment options and therapies. You ar...

From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not w...

Every single day our bodies are under attack from nasty little organisms which range from the pesky to the frighteningly serious. So, what's the best way to fight back? Thankfully nature has provided us with a powerful interior armor-plating—and Boosting Your Immunity For Dummies shows you how to keep that crucial biological gift in tip-top condition.Boosting Your Immunity For Dummies sets out the sound ways we can supercharge our immune systems to prevent illness...

Support, celebrate, and grow your best teachers so that they stay in your school and continue to have maximum impact. Burnout and teacher turnover are on the rise, yet we often spend more of our energy on the underperformers. In this powerful book from bestselling authors Todd Whitaker, Connie Hamilton, Joseph Jones, and T. J. Vari, you'll learn why it's crucial to recognize your best teachers, going beyond superficial gestures of appreciation and investing in them in deeper ways.T...

Fans of Verity by Colleen Hoover won't want to miss this thrilling suspense audiobook from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl Who Was Taken**! Hiding her own dark past in plain sight, a TV reporter is determined to uncover the truth behind a gruesome murder decades after the investigation was abandoned. But TWENTY YEARS LATER, to understand the present, you need to listen to the past…**...

Leira is done making nice fighting magical demons with everyone else's rules.Too many dead bodies and not enough answers. The dark Wizarding families have put a target on her back and made it their mission to put a stop to her.The shifters are coming out of the shadows and they have a big bad alpha, Lucius at the front of the pack. Can Leira get them to play nice or is that just one more group she will have to fight?Even th...

Two weeks ago, I logged my first failure as an Oracle. Two days ago, I learned that magic is a fickle thing. Two hours ago, I unleashed a posse of the undead.Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, they did.Not only did I need to figure out how to free Nina, I had a new consultant. Double booked is an understatement. Now, I must discover why Hazel Dane, one of the most stressed out—and most impolite—consultants I've ever had is cursed. Or enchant...

A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent ideas about women came from.The dangerous belief that granting women reproductive freedom poses a threat to "traditional" values is a myth that has long prospered in American politics, playing an especially vicious role in the development of totalitarianism in the West. How did such damaging ideas arise?In Reproductive Wrongs, acclaime...

Unearthing a relic might be their only hope, but its location has remained a secret for centuries.A panicked midnight phone call rips Carter and Avery from a remote research expedition in South America. Carter's young niece has disappeared from her summer camp without a trace, and her safe return home instantly becomes their sole focus.Despite Avery's wealth and the best detectives money can buy, the days stretch on with no leads, no answers, and no sign of...

Three weeks ago, I kicked a necromancer to the curb. Three days ago, I took a much needed vacation with my new love. Three hours ago, someone threatened everything that matters to me. I've just met Nina Davenport, my newest consultant, and to say she needs my help is an understatement. For starters, it turns out she's got one hell of a gnarly curse covering her. I have no idea what this curse is meant to do, but whatever it is, it's not good. To make matters worse, Nina is on the ...

One week ago, I became the queen of the Oracles. One day ago, I learned the cost of such a power. One hour ago, I decided this isn't all it's cracked up to be.There's no rest for the weary. Or the wicked, depending on how you look at it.So let's look at it. First, I have a demon problem. I've had one all along, but now I know who it is and why she's here. And what she wants—she is not getting, Not if I have anything to say about it. But going up against a d...