How to Get Your Dog to Love Tracking!Dogwise Publishing, along with our friends at Kosmos-Verlag based in Germany, are happy to bring an English language of their best-selling tracking book, Tracking Training for All Dogs, to tracking enthusiasts all over the world. This book is the most comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to compete in tracking trials, but also can help those who to want to get out with their dogs and experience the thrill of watching them follow a scent trail. Track...

Not every hero is shiny.Not every journey is easy.When a baker’s delivery breaks down, a very important birthday cake still needs to reach a party on the other side of town. The road is long, the hill is steep, and help is hard to find—until one small blue ute decides to give it a go.Inspired by the classic The Little Engine That Could, The Little Ute That Could is a modern Australian retelling about perseverance, kindness, and believing in yourself. Set against dus...

"Chiquita" follows the story of the titular character, a young woman who is the daughter of a Ute chief. Set against the backdrop of the American West during the 19th century, the novel explores Chiquita's life and experiences as she navigates the challenges of her Native American heritage and encounters the influences of white settlers and missionaries.As the narrative unfolds, readers are immersed in Chiquita's world, witnessing her struggles and triumphs as she grapples with questions o...

When fate offers Gwynn Powell a chance to start over, she jumps at the opportunity. Laid off and living with a husband whose gambling problem has eaten through a good part of their savings, Gwynn buys a farmhouse sight unseen, leaving both her marriage and her old home behind.But fate has more in mind for Gwynn than just a new home. The farmhouse, tucked away in the Green Mountains of Vermont where even GPS can't find it, is also a step back in time. And Slate Peck, the farm's care...

This open access book introduces readers to a new methodology for assessing the risks to the marine environment following accidental oil spills. The methodology will soon be implemented on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and will be complemented by guidelines for its use in a regulatory framework.The brief book is intended to provide international readers with a basic grasp of what the ERA Acute methodology consists of, what its applications are, and the underlying impact and resto...

This collection presents research-based interventions using existing knowledge to produce new pedagogies to teach evolution to learners more successfully, whether in schools or elsewhere. ‘Success’ here is measured as cognitive gains, as acceptance of evolution or an increased desire to continue to learn about it. Aside from introductory and concluding chapters by the editors, each chapter consists of a research-based intervention intended to enable evolution to be taught successfully; all...

Our culturally shaped values influence the way we work as well as our behaviour towards our colleagues, superiors and business partners – whether we care to acknowledge it or not. Not surprisingly, then, intercultural competence has come to be one of the key skills of the 21st century: anyone seeking success on the international business scene needs a navigation system to guide them through the complexities of other cultures' modes of interaction, behaviour and communication.In this book, ...

In times of globalization, digitalization and demographic change, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the fragility and complexity of the world of work. It represents the peak of a process of change in the world of work in economic, social, socio-political and individual psychological terms.This book outlines how effective and future-oriented human resource management can look like in times of demographic and technological change on the one hand and the immediate and lasting effects...

Until today, research on monolingual text processing has offered a broad spectrum of results and theoretical explanations of how texts are processed. This book extends the current trend to cover only reading comprehension by considering extensively listening comprehension. Comprehensive presentations of research on children’s listening comprehension allow for a broader developmental perspective reaching preschool years. Although text comprehension is the essence of learning in educational ...

Etosha National Park is one of Africa's greatest wildlife sanctuaries, celebrated for its stark beauty, sweeping plains, and extraordinary diversity of wildlife. At its heart is Etosha Pan, the remnant of an ancient inland lake, now desiccated and bleached for most of the year. Yet along its fringes, springs and waterholes sustain an astonishing abundance of life: elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, springbok and gemsbok gather in great herds - trailed by the lions, cheetahs and leopa...

This book provides an overview of and introduction to the use of bioluminescence for controlling light-sensing molecules. Different from the standard use of bioluminescence in imaging applications in vitro and in vivo, bioluminescent optogenetics harnesses molecularly produced light to activate the wide range of light-controllable modules available, from ion channels to transcription factors. The book covers the principal biological mechanisms of light emission and light sensing and the pa...

"[A] chronicle of the legendary Underground Railroad conductor . . . Tubman's early life in slavery is well described, as are her brave efforts to escape." — BooklistAfter I escaped from slavery on the Underground Railroad, I returned to the South again and again and again, to rescue more slaves. During the Civil War, I was a spy and a nurse—and even helped lead a battle! I am Harriet Tubman.With a forward-thinking attitude, Harriet Tubman e...