“The Chicken and the Pig” is a heartwarming children’s story about kindness, courage, and understanding others who are different. When a gentle pig finds himself surrounded by chickens who don’t understand him, he discovers the power of using his voice and choosing compassion over conflict. Together the farm animals learn the important moral of the "Golden Rule", Treating others how you want to be treated.Filled with vivid colored-pencil illustrations and expressive animal characte...

Most students study by re-reading their notes. Science shows this is the least effective way to learn. The "Generation Effect" states that information is better remembered if it is generated from one's own mind rather than simply read. In other words: You have to create the answer, not just look at it. This guide flips the classroom model. It encourages "active recall" and the creation of new material—writing summaries, teaching empty chairs, or drawing diagrams from memory. It explains wh...

An anthology of plays by emerging playwrights : Midnight Brainwash Revival, When Words Fail…, Making Peter Pope, Crunching Numbers, Café Society, So, I Killed a Few People…, Are We There Yet? Plus bonus materials of new work by the playwrights.

The NASA Kepler and K2 missions have made fundamental, paradigm-changing advances in essentially every area of astrophysics and planetary science. While known for their breakthrough discoveries in exoplanets – especially small rocky worlds orbiting in the habitable zone of their host suns – these missions have also continued to make numerous scientific advances in solar system science, stellar astrophysics and extragalactic astronomy. This book is devoted to the Kepler and K2 missions and ...

Turning your great idea into reality always feels like the most difficult step in getting your start-up off the ground -- until you realize that nobody beyond your family and close friends knows about your amazing product or service.This difficult lesson evades many aspiring entrepreneurs: The success of your startup is limited by the number of potential customers who know about it.Ideally, you’ll market your startup well before you’re open for business. And you need to sprea...