Your teenager is speaking a language you helped pay for and cannot understand. This book fixes that.Inside are sixty-seven words your kid is actually saying - in the group chat, in the hallway, in the passenger seat of a car you are still making payments on. For each one:The plain meaning, in one sentence a grown-up can useA real example, heard in the wildWhere it came fromA note on preci...

Written by veteran aerospace journalist Bob Ward, who spent years investigating his subject, this biography presents a revealing but even-handed portrait of the father of modern rocketry. As he chronicles Werner von Braun's life, Ward explodes many myths and misconceptions about the controversial genius who was a hero to some, a villain to others. The picture of von Braun that emerges is of a brilliant scientist with limitless curiosity and a drive to achieve his goals at almost any price—...

Published in 1999, the book is the proceedings volume of the 23rd International Conference of Agricultural Economists, held in Sacramento, California, in August 1997. It continues the series of triennial IAAE conferences.

This book addresses the changes in education practices, especially basic education, necessitated by the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development and in a context characterized by increasing poverty and inequality, migration and refugees.Written by a range of international scholars, scientists and grassroots practitioners from Africa, Latin America, Asia (India, China, Malaysia) and Europe, the individual contributions focus on education policies and child dev...

This volume deals with land degradation, which is occurring in almost all terrestrial biomes and agro-ecologies, in both low and high income countries and is stretching to about 30% of the total global land area. About three billion people reside in these degraded lands. However, the impact of land degradation is especially severe on livelihoods of the poor who heavily depend on natural resources. The annual global cost of land degradation due to land use and cover change (LUCC) and lower ...

Some families inherit fortunes. Others inherit revolutions.OVERVIEWWhen legendary filmmaker Lasse Braun announces he's disappearing on one final "mission," his son Axel expects another of his father's elaborate fantasies. Instead, the conversation opens the door to a lifetime of astonishing stories—stories of rebellion, privilege, deception, and the unlikely rise of a young Italian aristocrat who refused to accept the future his family had ...

After a brief investigation in 1945, a British secret agent concluded that Hitler and Braun committed suicide together in the Führerbunker in Berlin shortly before the fall of the German capital and were cremated immediately afterwards, although he had no concrete evidence to support this hypothesis. Nevertheless, this has been the official version ever since. Between 1945 and 2009, however, testimony and evidence began to emerge that suggested otherwise. Luc Vanhixe, criminologist and ret...

Single mother Kelli takes care of her daughter on her own and works at a famous department store. She applied for a management position to move her career forward but, because she is a single mother, they didn’t even give her an interview. She spoke with the vice president of the company, Sam, but he didn’t listen. He may be a handsome and successful man but he is hardheaded! Luckily Kelli receives some surprising news when she gets home. She is offered a chance to be on the popular TV sho...

Single mother Kelli takes care of her daughter on her own and works at a famous department store. She applied for a management position to move her career forward but, because she is a single mother, they didn’t even give her an interview. She spoke with the vice president of the company, Sam, but he didn’t listen. He may be a handsome and successful man but he is hardheaded! Luckily Kelli receives some surprising news when she gets home. She is offered a chance to be on the popular TV sho...

They’re always watching. They’re always waiting. They’re always starving…Ten years ago, the sky shattered and the Hellions emerged. No one was able to keep them from destroying the city of Westraven. Now that the bloodthirsty monsters rule the skies and have forced the few remaining humans underground, Claire Abernathy lives in a nightmare. She survives by using her skills as an engineer for a ruthless tyrant connected to her mother and father’s past failure.Then Claire’s w...

A single night can change your life… for the worst.It’s been a century since the last Centennial Storm, the calamitous phenomenon that covered the world in disasters– tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, tsunamis, and dust storms– caused not by nature, but by alien creatures from another realm. The Stormkind.Ava Reid tries not to think about that night, when she was caught in a hurricane and brought face to face with one of the Stormkind, the man with a dagger, and the agony s...

Tempest is the only daughter of billionaires. Even though she's trying to work as a serious actress, she's treated as a C-lister, and reported to be involved in scandal after high-society scandal. If only someone would see her for who she really is someday. Tempest takes countless private lessons to prepare for a coveted movie audition…but the director of that movie just happens to be her ex-boyfriend Colin. Three years ago, he believed a story the media was spreading about Tempest and dum...