What Good Thing Happened to You Today? is a children’s colouring book with a rhyming story throughout, in the manner of Dr. Seuss. The story, meant to be read to a child, especially at bedtime, elicits positive memories of the day. Both the reader and the child end their day with memories of good things that happened to them that day.

The emergence of Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (the FAANGs) has created an unprecedented challenge to Canada's news, television and film businesses. In this book Richard Stursberg offers a brief account — often based on his insider's experience — of how Canada's cultural industries were built. And he explains that independent Canadian media and cultural industries are unlikely to survive due to the large share of ad dollars and audience attention captured by the big digital m...

The White Island is, and always has been, a magnet for hedonists. Its history reads like a history of pleasure itself. It is also a story of invasions and migrations, of artists and conmen, of drop-outs and love-ins.The Carthaginians established a cult to their goddess of sex there, and named the island after Bez, their god of dance. Roman centurions in need of a bit of down time between campaigns would go to Ibiza to get their kicks. And over the centuries, cultures around the Med...

They're ex-special forces, CIA spooks or Foreign Legionnaires.They're fighting insurgents in Baghdad and patrolling government buildings in Afghanistan.And now they're spying on environmental protestors and policing the 2012 Olympics.They are above the law and independent from government.They are the privatised armies of mercenaries.Meet the private security contractors - a stock-market-listed corporate version of the mercenary. These private soldier...

Get ready to ace your AP U.S. History Exam with this easy-to-follow, multi-platform study guide5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. History 2018 Elite Student Edition introduces an effective 5-step study plan to help you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to achieve a high score on the exam. This popular test prep guide matches the latest course syllabus and latest exam. You'll get online help, six full-length practice tests (three in the ...

Engineering and Product Development Management is a practical guide to the components of engineering management, using a holistic approach. It will help engineers and managers understand what they have to do to improve the product development process by deploying new technology and new methods of working in concurrent teams. The book takes elements from six well known and understood bodies of knowledge and integrates them into a holistic approach: integrated product development, project ma...

Get ready for your AP U.S. History exam with this straightforward, easy-to-follow study guideThe wildly popular test prep guide—updated and enhanced for smartphone users—5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. History 2017 provides a proven strategy to achieving high scores on this demanding Advanced Placement exam.This logical and easy-to-follow instructional guide introduces an effective 5-step study plan to help students build the skills, knowledge, an...

You think that the recession isn't biting? Look again. You think that the riots in August 2011 were unpredicted? Think again.75 years after George Orwell's classic expose on life in the North, Stephen Armstrong returns to find that many things have changed, but not always for the better. Here he finds how young girls go missing because of the intransigence of the benefits systems, how fragile hope can be in the face of poverty and why the government stands in the way of a community...

75 years after the Beveridge Report: The shocking extent of hardship in the UKRight now in the UK, 13 million people live in poverty; one in five children subsist below the poverty line. Figures such as these suggest devastating repercussions for health, education and life expectancy. The new poor, however, is an even larger group than these official statistics suggest, and its conditions are something new to our era. More often than not, these people are the worki...

A proven 5-step study guide for today’s digital learners preparing for the AP U.S. HistoryexamThe wildly popular test prep guide—updated and enhanced for today’s digital learners—AP U.S. History Cross-Platform Prep Course 2017 provides a proven strategy for achieving high scores on this demanding Advanced Placement exam, as well as access to the whole course in print, online, and on mobile devices.This logical and easy-to-follow instructional guide...

Get ready for your AP exam with this straightforward and easy-to-follow study guide, updated for all the latest exam changes!5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. History features an effective, 5-step plan to guide your preparation program and help you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to succeed. This fully revised edition covers the latest course syllabus and provides model tests that reflect the latest version of the exam.Inside...

Get ready for your AP exam with this straightforward and easy-to-follow study guide, updated for all the latest exam changes!5 Steps to a 5: AP U.S. History features an effective, 5-step plan to guide your preparation program and help you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to succeed. This fully revised edition covers the latest course syllabus and provides model tests that reflect the latest version of the exam.Inside...