Singapore has been ruled by many different empires during its history! Beginning readers can learn how the city-state changed over the years through narrative text and vibrant illustrations in this fact-filled title. Special features help readers engage with the text, while a map and timeline reinforce information and add context. Young students will love their trip to spectacular Singapore with this title!

In this day and age, technology has become ever more prominent and omnipresent in our lives. As technological developments emerge and become more ubiquitous, it becomes vital to understand and analyze the impact of technology on society.Drivers of Competitiveness focuses on technology and seeks to analyze its causes and consequences on productivity and competitiveness and to examine the dynamic relationships between the different factors in various contexts. Building on state-of-the-art re...

The story of the most remarkable—and controversial—World Cup triumph in history, told in a long-awaited firsthand account from Diego Maradona, its most legendary player.“This is Diego Armando Maradona speaking, the man who scored two goals against England and one of the few Argentines who knows how much the World Cup actually weighs”In June 1986, Diego Maradona—one of soccer’s greatest and most polarizing figures—proudly hoisted the World Cup above...

You have the idea. You have had it for years. What you do not have is the money, so you are waiting.Here is what the research actually says.A Harvard professor went to the five hundred fastest growing companies in America and asked them how they had started. The median was around ten thousand dollars, most of it personal savings. Five per cent had venture capital. Two thirds began with no business plan at all.Since 1980, about two companies in every thousand have raise...

Mark Waid's (Daredevil) superhero epic asks the question, "What if the world's greatest superhero decided to become the world's greatest supervillain?" Collects issues #24-31.

Nineteen-year-old refugee Alephonsion Deng, from war-ravaged Sudan, had great expectations when he arrived in America three weeks before two planes crashed into the World Trade Towers. Money, he’d been told, was given to you in pillows. Machines did all the work. Education was free.Suburban mom Judy Bernstein had her own assumptions. The teenaged “Lost Boys of Sudan”—who’d traveled barefoot and starving for a thousand miles—needed a little mothering and a change of scenery: a trip ...

Collects issues #16-23 of Mark Waid's (Kingdom Come) superhero epic that asks the question, "What if the world's greatest superhero decided to become the world's greatest supervillain?"

Narrated by Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz, Michael Cera, Juan Diego Botto, Norbert Leo Butz, Taylour Paige, and Edoardo Ballerini“A major literary talent’s virtuosic debut” (Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author), the iconoclastic, two-time Academy award-winning writer and director reveals his singular mind as never before in this collection of twelve remarkable storiesWith this debut collection, film legend Pedro Almodóvar...

A fugitive can't run from her feelings for a lawman in this heartwarming holiday historical romance set in Southern California's gold country.Clear Springs' new schoolteacher, Gemma Starling, feels as if she's been given a fresh start. So long as no one discovers her dark secret—she once shot a man in self-defense!Sheriff Craig Parker has forsworn love, but delightful Miss Starling intrigues him. And when events at the school turn dangerous, Craig won't let...

"Orbit: RAP Icons" dives into the lives and legacies of four of hip-hop’s most influential figures: Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, and Eminem. This graphic novel biography explores their rise to fame, from Tupac and Biggie's tragic rivalry to Jay-Z’s empire-building career and Eminem's groundbreaking artistry. Each chapter highlights their personal struggles, musical achievements, and enduring impact on rap culture. Illustrated in vivid detail, "Orbit: RAP Icons" captures the e...

Humans have returned to Pandora—with an armada of starships—but Jake Sully and the Na’vi are ready for them!Knowing this day would come, Jake has trained his Na’vi warriors with a plan that should make it too costly for the humans to try again . . . if the plan works.But, any chain of events is only as strong as the weakest link, and in this case the weak link is human nature. As the plan unravels, Jake and Neytiri must race against time to return to Pandor...

Summer 2014. Diego Costa has arrived for his first day as a Chelsea player and he has something he wants to say to his new team-mates. He's been practising a single, short sentence. Actually, a mission statement. "I go to war - you come with me." In The Art of War, Fran Guillen retraces every step of Costa's brutal, exhilarating journey: from street footballer in his home city of Lagarto, north-east Brazil, to La Liga winner at Atletico Madrid, through loan spells at Celta Vigo, Albacete, ...