Get Ready Yeti takes Yeti through the process of dressing for outside on a cold day. What should Yeti put on first? And after that? But what if a Yeti doesn't NEED to get ready....Then what happens?Get Ready, Yeti! Takes children through the process of dressing for the cold as they follow along with Yeti getting reday. But Yeti's aren't children, and their needs for outdoor play may be quite unexpected, setting up and ending that will elicite giggles from children of all ages.

Does what a church believes about how people become Christians change how we do evangelism? In this concise book, Michael Lawrence explains the doctrine of conversion and helps us consider the relationship between what we believe about how people are saved and our approach to sharing the gospel in the context of the local church. Readers of this book will understand how the local church should participate in the conversion process through ordinary means, such as biblical preaching and inte...

Creating Schools reminds us that while we argue about reading and instruction styles, the teaching profession is being strangled, and students (and teachers!) in record numbers are feeling alienated from education. The implications of this play out in crime, violence and an inestimable cost to society. “Creating Schools Where Teachers and Students Want to Be by Michael Lawrence and Dr. Fabio D’Agostin is a deep, comprehensive and much needed exploration of what’s broken in the Australian e...

The first Indian to become an international film star, Sabu rose to fame as a child actor in Elephant Boy (1937), and subsequently appeared in a succession of British pictures before relocating to Hollywood, where he died in 1963. Repeatedly cast in orientalist extravaganzas and jungle thrillers, he was associated with the 'exotic' and the 'primitive' in ways that reflected contemporary attitudes towards India and 'the East' more generally.In this captivating study, Michael Lawrenc...

Programming Graphical User Interfaces with R introduces each of the major R packages for GUI programming: RGtk2, qtbase, Tcl/Tk, and gWidgets. With examples woven through the text as well as stand-alone demonstrations of simple yet reasonably complete applications, the book features topics especially relevant to statisticians who aim to provide a practical interface to functionality implemented in R. The book offers:A how-to guide for developing GUI...

Yeti is getting sleepy. It's almost time for bed...but oh-oh...where's Yeti's Ted? Yeti looks everyhwere, but it's just not good. He can't find his Teddy bear no matter how hard he looks. Where could Teddy be? Children will relate as Yeti tries to find his favorite sleep toy before bed. But what if Yeti vcan't find Teddy...? Told in verse with simple vibrant illustrtaions, "Where's Yeti's Teddy?" is the perfect bedtime story, complete with a satisfying happy ending that will warm the heart...

It's a bad day.You have offended the wrong people.A million dollars has been offered for your life.So what do you do?Why, make a run for it, of course.But where to?Well, why not that house youknew as a boy when it was a ruin?Bleakridge.Perfect. They'll never find you there.But sometimes things get a littleconfused at Bleakridge.Past and present overlap, get mixed up.At such times you're ...

Short, Accessible Guide Addresses the Local Church's Role in Evangelism and ConversionDoes what we believe about how people become Christians change how the church does evangelism? In this concise book, Michael Lawrence explains the doctrine of conversion and helps us consider the relationship between what we believe about how people are saved and our approach to sharing the gospel in the context of the local church. Readers of this book will understand how the loc...

Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our understanding of the development of film star cultures in India during the 20th and 21st centuries.The contributorsseek to inspire and inform further inquiries into the histories of film stardom-the industrial constr...

From the proto-cinematic sequencing of animal motion in the nineteenth century to the ubiquity of animal videos online, the histories of animal life and the moving image are enigmatically interlocked.Animal Life and the Moving Image is the first collection of essays to offer a sustained focus on the relations between screen cultures and non-human animals. The volume brings together some of the most important and influential writers working on the non-human animal's significance for...

Have you ever wondered if, just beyond your reach,there's another you, with a life not quite like yours?Lena Rainey of Moorhens wonders this.Lena, 41, stares into mirrors, thinkingthat nothing feels quite right these days,while another Lena, also of Moorhens,died two years ago, aged 39.And that's not all. That's far from all.Before a week's out, the living Lena will havea grown-up son instead of a grown-up daughter,

When a newly married couple holds hands, everyone knows why. When a ten year married couple holds hands, everyone wonders why. Conflicts in marriage often arise due to lack of lively communication, proper understanding and the much needed patience. A common discovery regarding marriage is that harsh thoughts criticize, condemn, and cause the decline of happiness in spousal relationships. To understand the other without any presumptions. To listen to the other without judging and ti be avai...