Fundamental to this book is an attempt to understand the nature of individual differences in word and nonword reading by connecting three literatures that have developed largely in isolation from one another: the literatures on acquired dyslexia, difficulties in learning to read, and precocious reading.

Taking the themes of entrepreneurship, start-ups, innovation and collaboration, this book seeks to answer the urgent question of how countries and companies can stay competitive in an ever-changing digital environment. The authors determine which entrepreneurial processes will work for whom and under what circumstances, presenting methodological implications for business research, start-ups and policy making. Examining the success of Germany as an innovation powerhouse, and comparing this ...

Get your heart racing…This starry-night collection is full of toe-curling kisses. So good, you won't be able to stop at just one.Take It Easy by Susan Johnson - They had nothing in common but trauma. Together, can love make their lives worth living again?Mercury Falling by Tracey Cramer-Kelly - She wants nothing to do with a bad boy biker. When a crash brings them together will opposites attract?Cour...

This exciting audio collection contains three hours of rapid-fire smokin’ mysteries and all the clues you need to solve them at breakneck speed. Scott Brick, Pat Fraley, and a full cast of twenty-six narrators voice dames, dolts, and detectives in this collection of original whodunit gems.This audiobook includes special recordings of late audiobook narrator Frank Muller, as well as a tribute to his memory. Proceeds go to the Frank Muller family.

This new edition - now with Nancy Jackson as a co-author - continues the themes of the first edition: the need to restore the biodiversity, ecosystem health, and ecosystem services provided by coastal landforms and habitats, especially in the light of climate change. The second edition reports on progress made on practices identified in the first edition, presents additional case studies, and addresses new and emerging issues. It analyzes the tradeoffs involved in restoring beaches and dun...

The box. A dreaded place where no one wants to go. Yet, young girls are being abducted and put in the box to wait, but why?A new case for Carrie Border and Randy Jeffries, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents, finds them deep in this series of disappearances of middle school girls.With no apparent motive, these crimes reach so far outside the norm, that no one has any experience with what's occurring.Then, a body is found. Carrie and Randy desperately work ...

Begun in 1941 as an outgrowth of Friends of the Land, the journal The Land was an attempt by editor Russell Lord to counteract -- through education, information, and inspiration -- the rampant abuse of soil, water, trees and rivers. But for all its seriousness of mission, The Land was a stimulating mix of fact and charm. It included literature, philosophy, art, and the practical observations of farmers and conservation workers, to encourage small farmers to understand and...

**A clique of popular girls is haunted by the tragedy that marked their high school friendship fifteen years before in this gripping standalone novel from the New York Times bestselling Sisters of Suspense.“An increasingly tense race to find who’s doing the killing—and who’s going to survive.” —The OregonianFirst they were five. Then they were four…Who will be next?**In the Portland suburb of West Knoll, Delta and her friends were Bristol High Scho...

Christianity Today Book Award of Merit in History/Biography (2024)Sojourner Truth's powerful voice calls to us through this evocative narrative of faith in action—and her words are more relevant than ever.Though born into slavery, Sojourner Truth would defy the limits placed upon her as a Black woman to become one of the nineteenth century's most renowned female preachers and civil rights advocates. In We Will Be Free, Nanc...

They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most readers, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown—until now. In this utterly captivating book, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature’s elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes.

An interdisciplinary reevaluation of William Bartram’s Travels, illuminating the natural, cultural, and intellectual landscapes of the eighteenth‑century Southeast through diverse scholarly lenses.William Bartram, author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws, was colonial America’s first n...