The exciting adventures continue with Book 3 of the RoboBattlePets series: Home Invasion. Follow the action packed adventures of Otto, Sofie, and Carrie Madison as they help defend the Earth against the evil Squiddy aliens.

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 The first Junior League RoboBattlePet tournament will be decided by the final battle-and it's all up to Otto! He can't wait to face off against the neighborhood bully and finally get back at the older boy for all of the mean things he has done. ...

The exciting adventures continue with Book 2 of the RoboBattlePets series: The Junior League. Follow the action packed adventures of Otto, Sofie, and Carrie Madison as they help defend the Earth against the evil Squiddy aliens. 
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 The first college-level RoboPattlePet tournament was a fantastic success! Otto and his sisters can’t wait to join the new Junior League for kids. Unfortunately, the neighborhood bully and his mean friends also join the league. At the first pr...

Discover the exciting new world of RoboBattlePets with Book 1 of the series: Squiddy Attack! Follow the action packed adventures of Otto, Sofie, and Carrie Madison as they help defend the Earth against the evil Squiddy aliens. From the back cover: “Robo-Battle-ize!” yelled Otto as he hit the big red button. He watched in wonder as lightning flashed from the Transmogrifier to the shimmering blue bubble growing around his pet cat Two-Toe. The bubble burst in a shower of sparks, and there sto...

What can today’s behavioural economists learn from the classical liberals of the past? Here, Erik Matson offers critical reflections on what he calls ‘the new paternalism’ – a modern-day approach to policy-making that aims to make individuals better off, when judged by their own standards. He argues that the new paternalist approach to policy is far too prescriptive, relying on inappropriate conceptions of rationality and welfare. And he looks to the works of two giants of economics and ph...

Sources in Christian Political Economy: A Reader, compiled by Jordan J. Ballor and Erik W. Matson, gathers forty-nine essential texts, spanning literary genres and theological traditions, that illuminate a rich history of political economies. From the early church to the twentieth century, this volume presents seven key works from each of seven distinct historical periods, showcasing the evolution of Christian thought on economic matters. Encounter the influential ideas of Augusti...

Political economy concerns one of the most foundational organizers for society: how we order production, exchange, and consumption to achieve collectively determined goals. From its earliest days, Christianity has offered much to say directly to political economies, and through the centuries has shaped our intellectual inheritance in profound ways. However, very few studies have aimed to trace comprehensively the nature and scope of this inheritance.This book offers a survey of Chr...

Volume 41A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium on “Religion, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Rise of Liberalism,” a new research essay by Syed Mohib Ali, and a roundtable on the institutionalist economics of Geoffrey Hodgson.

Sound is the stand-alone companion to Alexandra Duncan's acclaimed debut novel Salvage, which was praised by internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins as "brilliant, feminist science fiction." For fans of Beth Revis, Firefly, and Battlestar Galactica.As a child, Ava's adopted sister, Miyole, watched her mother take to the stars, piloting her own ship from Earth to space making deliveries. Now a teen herself, Miyole is finally living her dream as a research assistant on h...

"One of the most intense, thrilling, and achingly beautiful stories I've ever read."-- Marie Lu, New York Times best-selling author of the Legend trilogyThe first in the New York Times bestselling author duo Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner's sweeping science fiction trilogy, These Broken Stars is a timeless love story about hope and survival in the face of unthinkable odds.It's a night like any othe...

The thrilling sequel to Bot Wars, perfect for fans of Skylanders!Trout St. Kroix can't believe that his half-human/half-robot father is the leader of the Meta-Rise, the robot civil rights movement. Trout can’t even enjoy being a Bot Territory celebrity, because it also puts his whole family in danger. Ratch, a robot and former friend, has found a way to take control of robot Thinkchips, and under Ratch's control, all bots—including Trout's dad—would become Ratch's...

When the 1% and the 99% clash, the fate of the human race hangs on the actions of two teens from very different backgrounds in this thrilling adventure that School Library Journal calls “a strong choice for YA sci-fi shelves.”In the Upperworld, the privileged 1% are getting ready to abandon a devastated planet Earth. And Cam can’t wait to leave. After sleeping through a 1,000-year journey, he and his friends will have a pristine new planet to colonize. And...

Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity. This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three diverse approaches. Looking at its historical and theoretical development, analysing t...