Something happens in students when they define themselves as makers and inventors and creators. They discover powerful skills-problem-solving, critical thinking, and imagination-that will help them shape the world's future ... our future. If that's true, why isn't creativity a priority in more schools today? Educators John Spencer and A.J. Juliani know firsthand the challenges teachers face...

Magazyn dla nowoczesnych kobiet, obecnie ukazuje się w ponad 60 krajach. Prezentuje nowe trendy w modzie, zdjęcia z pokazów, nowości kosmetyczne i makijażowe, aktualności ze świata kultury, piękne wnętrza i zdrową kuchnie. Przybliża sylwetki inspirujących postaci, twórców, tematy związane z rodziną, rozwojem osobistym, psychologią i pracą.

Struggling to Get Your Foot in the Door of Big Companies? Setting up meetings with corporate decision makers has never been harder. It's almost impossible to get them to pick up the phone. They never return your calls. And if you do happen to catch them, they blow you off right away. It's time to stop making endless cold calls or waiting for the phone to ring. In today's crazy marketplace,...

During the past decade there has been a tremendous growth in daylighting analysis methods, allowing designers to meet ever higher standards. But in relying too heavily on these methods, there is a risk of reducing daylighting design to a quantitative exercise, overlooking the qualitative, aesthetic, and experiential aspects of design. This book reveals how architects have bridged the poetic and...

Welche Buchstaben entderckst du im Klassenzimmer?  Wer wurfelt sich am schnellsten zur Schule? Und kannst du schon die Uhr lesen? In diesem bunten Buch fur die Einschulung gibt es: - Ubungen zum SEchreiben und Le4sen - Aufgaben zum Rechnen im Zahlenraum bis 20  - Ratsel rund ums Them Achule - Bastelideen zur Einschulung  - 100 sticker...

Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed the perilous journey to paradise, a utopian Egypt that could only be entered following the final judgment. When acclaimed photographer Sandro...

An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late abstract paintings, experiencing Richter’s work always offers us the unexpected and unseen. Where he once set out to liberate the medium from ideological ballast, today, faced with the overwhelming...

The State We're In is the first new collection in a decade from the writer that John Updike credited with creating 'an entirely different kind of short story'. Cool, ironic and witty, these stories are sharply observed, but underpinned with a quiet tenderness. Told through the voices of vivid and engaging women of all ages, The State We're In explores their doubts and desires and reveals the...

'This is Inglorious Basterds - but much better. Because it is the real story of clandestine Jewish fighters wreaking havoc against the Nazi war machine' Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich has fallen across the entire European continent. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan: a new commando unit made up of Jewish...

Compact and easy to use, Kaplan & Sadock's Concise Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, Fourth Edition is an authoritative, affordable text that provides must-know information in clinical psychiatry. Containing the most relevant clinical material from the best-selling Kaplan and Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry, Eleventh Edition , it offers step-by-step guidance on the clinical examination, the...

When it was published in 2008, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness quickly became one of the most influential books in modern economics and politics. Within a short time, it had inspired whole government departments in the US and UK, and others as far afield as Singapore. One of the keys to Nudge’s success is Thaler and Sunstein’s...

Atlas turystyczno-samochodowy Niemiec, Beneluxu, Austrii, Szwajcarii, Czech na rok 2016, bardzo praktyczny w podróży. Publikacja zawiera: - aktualny stan dróg i autostrad, - dokładny indeks nazw, - skorowidz podziału na arkusze map, - 57 plany centrów miast, Atlasy są aktualizowane każdego roku.

As one of Britain’s leading newspapers for more than 200 years The Times has covered every major world events as they happened. This book profiles the ones that have had the most impact on the world today from the fall of the Berlin Wall to stepping onto the Moon. News-breaking stories as told from The Times with commentary setting each event in context. Historian and editor, James Owens,...

In A.J.P. Taylor's words, Churchill was 'the saviour of his country' when he became prime minister in 1940. Yet he was also a deeply flawed character, whose personal ambition would cloud his political judgement. While Churchill's Shadow gives due credit to the achievements, it also reveals some spectacular failures; indeed, it appears that for every Finest Hour there were many more Gallipolis....

A collection of essays dealing with the issue of normativity from various academic and scientific perspectives. The Reader will learn how phenomena such as norms, morality and rule-following are described and explained in philosophy, biology, psychology, linguistics and neuroscience. In addition, a discussion of the naturalistic fallacy from the philosophical and ethical perspectives will be...

Unwiderstehliche Trendtörtchen. Fruchtig, nussig, beschwipst, mit Schokolade oder raffiniert gefüllt – Cupcakes und Muffins stehen für himmlischen Genuss im Kleinformat! In diesem liebevoll gestalteten Backbuch haben wir die schönsten Cupcake- und Muffin-Rezepte für die Party, die Kaffeetafel oder einfach für zwischendurch zusammengetragen. Entdecken Sie die Vielfalt der unwiderstehlichen...

Nimona is the New York Times bestselling graphic novel sensation from ND Stevenson, based on his beloved and critically acclaimed web comic. Kirkus says, ?If you're going to read one graphic novel this year, make it this one.?Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from ND Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive...

An irresistible story from Kasie West that explores the timeless question: What do you do when you fall for the person you least expect?When Autumn Collins finds herself accidentally locked in the library for an entire weekend, she doesn't think things could get any worse. But that's before she realizes that Dax Miller is locked in with her.Autumn doesn't know much about Dax except that he's...

Sie sind halb so groß, aber doppelt so lecker – geschmacklich sind die Mini-Kuchen den Großen auf jeden Fall ebenbürtig. Dank dieses sorgfältig zusammengestellten Buches können wir der Zeit des lästigen Umrechnens und Rechnens ein Ende bereiten, denn in unseren Rezepten sind alle Mengenangaben passend zu unseren Lieblings-Kleinbackformen angegeben. Fruchtige Köstlichkeiten, raffiniert...

We humans are social animals, naturally driven to form close-knit groups. All too often, though, these groups become partisan. They start to compete with one another. They become mutually hostile. Why does this happen? And what can be done to counter the tendency In Poles Apart, an expert on polarisation, a behavioural scientist and a professional communicator explain why we are so prone to be...