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Without Japan, you probably wouldn't have your car...but how much do you really know about this fascinating country's rich and colorful history? For a country that’s brought us household names as diverse as Nintendo, Toyota, and Sony, shockingly little is known about Japan’s rich and complex history. Like many westerners, you may have a love of Japanese culture and cuisine.

Stretching from the moon all the way to the South Pole, follow the boy and the penguin on their adventures as they reach for the stars and try to fly away. This spectacular collection of four much-loved modern classics includes How to Catch a Star, Lost and Found, The Way Back Home, and Up and Down.

This book is an honest and vulnerable first-person account of Celeste Edmunds a young woman who was raised by drug addict parents and, at a young age, learned to survive and protect her siblings among rapists and drug dealers. Eventually the state separated the family and Celeste was adopted, alone, into a dysfunctional, fractured home where she was treated, by a sadistic and manipulating mother, as an unwanted outsider.

Robert Spire is thrust into an archeological adventure and a search for a ancient relic - an object of immense technological power - missing since historical times. It must be found at all costs, and time is running out...A sinister and powerful group of terrorists are also searching for the ancient artifact however, and will stop at nothing to get it, no matter what the cost...

Princess Masuma lived during the time when Afghanistan was ruled by kings. In this real-life Cinderella story, as relayed by her granddaughter Dr. Sherzai, Masuma is transformed from a simple Hazara orphan into a princess when she marries the son of Prince Regent Nasrullah Khan. Her fairy tale life is filled with both tragedy and triumph as political intrigue, rivalry, assassinations, and arrests directly affect her life, fortune, and family.

Fourteen-year-old Tom Röschenberg has inherited a ghost train and its members of the undead are very lively! And it's a suspenseful time for our young Ghostsitter: Vlarad the vampire has consumed too much hamster blood and has now turned into one, and Wombie the Zombie's hundredth deathday is coming right up. But the ritual for celebrating Wombie's deathday is no easy task: It requires a voodoo dagger, a magic ring, and an enchanted cauldron, and if Tom and his undead friends don't perform the ritual in time, Wombie will turn to dust.

Imagina un negocio donde la gente te da dinero, y tu no les devuelves absolutamente nada. Eso es lo fantástico sobre los humanos y la disonancia cognitiva alguien puede ser atrapado, probarse comportarse de manera deshonesta. La gente estará disgustada o permitirán que cualquier excusa sirva como razón genuina para que el comportamiento sea mal entendido o se de por echo, la disonancia cognitiva funciona bien en los desesperados e ignorante.

Cynada Jeffers was venturing from her comfort zone into a world that was way over her head. It was her only resort. She allowed her best friend to set her up as an escort to make the money needed to take care of her sick mother. However, when she knocked on his penthouse door, the client was not at all what she expected. Could she go through with this after meeting the man who caused her to stop breathing and move on when it was all over?

God appears on a popular chat show and gives his version of the events of the Old Testament. A light-hearted interpretation of the Bible stories. After several centuries in retirement, God has decided to make a comeback and will be granting an exclusive interview to popular chat-show host, Binty O'Reilley. In an attempt to put the Biblical record straight, God will give his version of the events of the Old Testament, as well as revealing some intimate details of his personal life and commenting on the state of the world in 2020.

Asia Brooks thought she escaped her past but little did she know it has caught up to her. Running away from her abusive boyfriend, she has moved from state to state until she finds herself in Charlotte, North Carolina working as a security officer. As Asia tries to settle into a new life in a new city, she unexpectedly finds love from the one man she never would have thought, her boss.

Diamond Death is a Katri Velvet whodunit about mayhem and murder set against the backdrop of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and the ambience of South Florida where true love and true greed intertwined.

Clare has just started her first year in high school and just made her first friend - an outgoing ninth grade student name Sherry. At first, things seem great and normal between them. They share some of the same interests. But when Sherry starts telling Clare outrageous tales of famous celebrities visiting her between classes, Clare realizes she is off her rocker.

The intersection between esports and education is a place where innovation and excitement flourish. Author Paul Richards takes us inside the world of esports in order to understand the new challenges and opportunities that are helping to change modern education. From a perspective of acceptance and encouragement, parents and educators have the chance to find common ground that can help students excel in a sport that they are passionate about.

Il n’est pas nécessaire que ce soit logique, explicite ou rationnel, cela peut être un collage de sentiments, car l’émotion est la clé. Les lignes peuvent s'arrêter et démarrer comme une voiture de course, ou elles peuvent rythmer comme le meilleur liseré de cuir. Un vers peut ressembler à une peinture impressionniste ou à une histoire vue à travers le rétroviseur du temps. Dans ce recueil, j'avance toutes ces perspectives et plus encore. Détachez votre coeur, mettez votre ceinture de sécurité, faites un tour sur la route de la vie.

In Prague researching the legend of the Golem, a fantastical "living" creature made of clay, archaeologist Annja Creed is faced with an even bigger mystery on her hands when someone begins murdering the homeless. And every day there's a fresh corpse. As the suspicion that Golem is behind the deaths circulates quietly on the streets of the city, Annja cannot resist unraveling the thread that binds science to superstition. According to Czech history, these aren't new attacks.

Numerous times in American history, reformers have sought to help the poor by putting them amidst nature, in the belief being that physical beauty can make beautiful people. It seems like an odd idea. But Thomas Jefferson believed it fervently. And it's also the reason Central Park exists in New York City and the town of Greenbelt exists in Maryland. This program, from seasoned producer Richard Paul, looks at a time in our past when nature was used to uplift the poor.

In conversations about the use of technology in schools, what you'll often hear is: Once we have a cadre of young teachers and administrators who've grown up with technology, computer use in schools will take off. This program examines that premise by following a young teacher, Brian Mason (7th grade American History) as he begins his second year in the classroom.

As more and more information is available on-line, as software allows anyone to find any passage in any book, an important question becomes: Who needs libraries anymore? Why does anyone need four walls filled with paper between covers? Surprisingly, they still do and in this program award-winning producer Richard Paul explores how research libraries, university libraries, school libraries and public libraries have adapted to the new information world.

Today, the computer in the classroom is ubiquitous. But how did it get there? Was it an organic process, or was it driven by manufacturers looking for a new place to push their machines? Turns out it was a little of both — altruism and profit. Hear from some of the people who started it all. Two teachers in the 1960s and 70s were among the very first to use computers in the American classroom: Dale LaFrenz in Minneapolis and Sylvia Charp in Philadelphia.

In hindsight, Apollo 11's trip to the moon seems inevitable. But it was, in fact, an incredibly bumpy ride. This is not a story about mechanical failures or the scientific and engineering challenges — which were enormous. This is the other story of the Apollo program. Producer Richard Paul tells of the seven-year battle to balance politics and priorities inside the Capitol Beltway to land an American on the moon.