How did a campy, low-budget video game featuring B-movie actors and fake vampires provoke a massive federal moral panic, forcing the United States Senate to threaten the outright censorship of an entire multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry? The 1993 congressional hearings regarding the game Night Trap fundamentally rewired the modern cultural landscape. As the Sega CD introduced "Full-Motion Video" (FMV) to gaming, the visual fidelity of games jumped from cartoon sprites to actual f...

Read and discover all about Earth in the past and Earth today. How did Earth form? What natural resources does Earth give us? Read and discover more about the world!This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.An Oxford Press Audio production.

Read and discover all about animals in the air. What is the fastest bird in the world? What are flying foxes? Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.An Oxford Press Audio production.

Read and discover all about food around the world. Where are cacao trees grown? What drink can you make from cherries? Read and discover more about the world!This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.An Oxford Press Audio production.

Read and discover all about your five wonderful senses. How do your eyes work? What's under your skin? Read and discover more about the world!This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.An Oxford Press Audio production.

In my memories and dreams I still walk the streets of Cabbagetown. Now an older man trying to capture something of my youth to explain to you those feelings of rock bottom loneliness and hunger, as I walk away from that old apartment, I am changed. I am different – for now, I know what love is. It seems so simple to me, but was very difficult for my family. They were incapable of love. I understand that now.

Read and discover all about your amazing body. How many bones are there in your skeleton? What do your white blood cells do? Read and discover more about the world!This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.An Oxford Press Audio production.

Read and discover all about machines in the past and today. When did people invent the wheel? What is a nanobot? Read and discover more about the world!This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.An Oxford Press Audio production.

Let your child’s mission transform your whole family. This empowering book will teach you how to turn the pain of separation in to joyful communion. Learn to read and write by the Spirit, making each letter from home a precious message that draws you and your missionary closer to God and to each other. Realize the promised blessings of missionary service for your entire family as you serve the Lord together.

Building the Bridge As You Walk On It tells the personal stories of people who have embraced deep change and inspired author Robert Quinn to take his concept one step further and develop a new model of leadershipthe fundamental state of leadership. The exploration of this transformative state is at the very heart of the book. Quinn shows how anyone can enter the fundamental state of leadership by engaging in the eight practices that center on the theme of ever-increasing integrityreflectiv...

Continuing his groundbreaking work in Positive Organizational Scholarship, Robert Quinn (bestselling author of Deep Change) offers a clear path and concrete actions for creating extraordinarily high-performing organizational cultures.Conventional beliefs and cultures all too often create work groups, departments, and even entire organizations that are full of unengaged, underperforming people. Drawing on his decades of pioneering research, Robert Quinn shows how to create organizat...

A guide to leading with your best self, which in turn drives others to be their best.NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDJust as the Wright Brothers combined science and practice to finally realize the dream of flight, Ryan and Robert Quinn combine research and personal experience to demonstrate how to reach a psychological state that lifts us and those around us to greater heights of achievement, integrity, openness, and empathy. The updated edition of this awa...