Encompassing sports, civics, and regional identity, this is a multifaceted narrative of launching a franchise from the ground up.In 2021, Seattle released the Kraken.Evoking the aquatic mystique of Puget Sound while epitomizing colorful innovation, the Seattle Kraken, the National Hockey League's newest expansion franchise, entered its inaugural season backed by league-wide fanfare and with an eye toward the future of both the team and its city.In true...

Even the most die-hard Seattle Sounders fans don't know everything about their beloved club. Whether you were around for the USL days or were drawn in more recently by the team's incredible 2016 comeback, these are the 100 things all fans need to know. Award-winning sportswriter Geoff Baker has collected every essential piece of Sounders knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progr...

This edited bookoffers a compelling exploration of the personal and professional lives of educators through four thematic arcs. Using autoethnography, contributors share intimate narratives that reveal how emotion, experience and context shape educational practice. Part 1: Transition and Change reflects on career shifts and adaptation within evolving educational landscapes. Part 2: Leadership and Mentorship explores the emotional and strategic dimensions of guiding others through complex i...

AI-Powered Pedagogy and Curriculum Design offers practical insights and guidance on the effective integration of AI tools into teaching practices and curriculum design. While numerous claims exist as to the validity and authenticity of the applications of AI in schools, too little attention has been paid to empirical research conducted with and by teachers in real-world classrooms. This book synthesises diverse viewpoints from teacher educators across disciplines and levels toward...

Think You Know Your Stuff? Prove It.The gauntlet's been thrown down. Time to man up and face the challenge. This book tests it all-sports, movies, cars, history, everything-everything any real guy should know. And acing this test's the only way to prove you know it all.What type of gun does Dirty Harry use to clean up the streets and display his general badassness?Which beer is the product of the oldest active brewery in the United States?Who'...

This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading, provides a detailed analysis of his mindset.Blundell was neither the passive victim nor the entirely loyal subject that he and others have claimed. He actively defended his family from the penal laws and used the relative freedom that this gave him to patronise other Catholics. Not only did he rewrite the histories of recent civil conf...

What sort of worms live in your garden or paddocks? Are they orange, red, cream, pink, green, or brown and purple stripes? This booklet provides a simple identification key for most common worm species in Australia, and outlines their role in enhancing soil productivity. Tips on how to collect and preserve earthworms, and maps of the known distribution of some species are included.

This guide is designed to be a simple approach to a complex tradition dating back nearly a thousand years - the art of Bonsai! As a beginner, this ebook will help you to soon master your skills of growing and maintaining your very own bonsai, covering every topic from varying styles and shaping techniques to propagating and appropriate display.

"One of the more readable, insightful and entertaining celebrity autobiographies in recent memory—a tragicomedy that could be turned into its own movie." — Chicago Sun-TimesThere is—and could only ever be—one Billy Bob Thornton: actor, musician, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and accidental Hollywood badass. In The Billy Bob Tapes, he leads us into his Cave Full of Ghosts, spinning colorful tales of his modest (to say the least) Southern upbri...

Thomas Cromwell was a man of humble origins and outstanding intellect who rose up to become Henry VIII's chief minister and right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous power while he retained the king's favour, but the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves, which Cromwell had arranged, led to his swift downfall and execution. In this biography, John Schofield reveals that the popular image of Cromwell as a blood-stained henchman is largely fi...

A home grower's guide to growing orchid favorites at home.  Contains 16 original photos. 

For 25 years, there's always been a home in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader for those times in life you wish you could take back--"oops" moments, embarrassing accidents, spectacular failures. Because we never get tired of reading about unfortunate accidents (as long as they're happening to someone else), here is a whole book of "the best of the worst," the troubling and funny stories of things got terribly awry. Read all about:* The little math error that took down a spaceship.* A sexy stimul...