In the summer of 1963, a five-year-old boy with a speech impediment and undiagnosed ADHD crossed the U.S. from coast-to-coast-to-coast in the back seat of an overloaded Simca. His older brother was already slotted for greatness. His older sister could see music as color. He was pegged as The Dumb One in both senses of the word. The one nobody noticed.So he watched, and listened, and learned. Then somewhere between the Jim Crow South and Route 66, between an Uncle still taking photo...

Trains of Recollection: Drawn from Fifty Years of Railway Service in Scotland and Canada, and told to Arthur Hawkes is a captivating memoir chronicling the remarkable life and career of David Blyth Hanna, a pioneering figure in the development of railways across two continents. Spanning half a century, this book offers a vivid, firsthand account of the evolution of the railway industry from the late 19th to the early 20th century, as seen through the eyes of a man who played a pivotal role...

Today truly useful and interactive graphics are available on affordable computers. While hardware progress has been impressive, widespread gains in software expertise have come more slowly. Information about advanced techniques—beyond those learned in introductory computer graphics texts—is not as easy to come by as inexpensive hardware. This book brings the graphics programmer beyond the basics and introduces them to advanced knowledge that is hard to obtain outside of an intensive CG wor...

“I have had the good fortune to watch both David and Tina facilitate learning groups and have learned from the power of their modeling. . . . I am delighted that they have gathered their wisdom here in this volume to share with others eager to embark on the journey and experience the joys of facilitating learning with colleagues.”—From the Foreword by Ron Ritchhart, senior research associate, Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of EducationOne of the most ...

As the celebrated author of Akenfield, Ronald Blythe, turns 100 this year, Next to Nature brings together a seasonal collection from the very best of a lifetime of writing.Ronald Blythe lives at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border between Suffolk and Essex. His home is Bottengoms Farm, a sturdy yeoman's house once owned by the artist John Nash. From here, Blythe has spent almost hal...

This book is an essential tool for facilitators of groups using protocols, or structured conversations, to collaboratively review student and teacher work. A follow-up to Looking Together at Student Work and Assessing Student Learning, this resource considers the purposes for engaging in collaborative review and provides some of the most effective strategies for using protocols to support successful group work.Features:Guidance for u...

Despite being described as ‘a remarkably successful partnership’ by John Howard and a ‘triumph of trust’ by his counterpart, Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson, the art of coalition government is a delicate (and sometimes difficult) balancing of policy, politics and personalities. The relationship between the Liberal and Nationals parties ensured the Howard Government’s stability and provided a solid foundation for its legislative program between 1996 and 2007. While ...

Jeannie grew up with autism, but no one around here knew it. Twirling Naked in the Streets will take you on a journey into the mind of a child on the autism spectrum; a child who grows into an adolescent, an adult, and becomes a wife, mother, student, and writer with autism. This is a gripping memoir of a quirky, weird, but gifted child who grows up never quite finding her niche only to discover at the age of 38 that all the issues, problems, and weirdness she experienced were because she ...

A shunned princess. A resentful warrior. The magic that could save—or doom—them both.Princess Meiling harbors a deadly secret.Her people believe her lack of magic to be a curse, so she has spent her life in the background, all but shunned from court.But she does have magic—and it’s the magic of legends.When the secret of her magic is threatened, she is forced to flee her home into the dangerous wilderness with nothing but a begrudging warrior as protection. ...

Read this swoon-worthy standalone prequel novel that readers are calling, “Mulan goes to Hogwarts.” Perfect for fans of Elise Kova’s Air Awakens.Sixteen-year-old Song Liena is just one of the many peasants in the empire until the discovery of her unexpected magic upends her world. She’s ripped from her family and forced to join the hundreds of elite magic-wielders fighting to graduate from the empire’s rigorous Academy with their lives and honor intact.

This edition takes the first British edition of The Years as its copy-text, and includes a comprehensive introduction, extensive explanatory notes, and a full list of textual variants and editorial emendations.Features a comprehensive introduction, detailing the lengthy process of the composition and revision of the novel, and its subsequent publication historyIncludes extensive explanatory notes, highlighting the political, historical, social and literary ...

The fascinating, largely untold true story of the Kray twins following their imprisonment, from the Sunday Times bestselling true crime writer.‘This explosive book has lifted the lid on the Kray twins’ time in prison’ The SunIn the 60s, Ronnie and Reggie Kray were Britain’s most notorious gangsters.With violence and intimidation, they were the kings of London. They sipped champagne with celebrities and rubb...