Learning Science

Did you know the moon is a satellite? In fact, the moon is the Earth's only natural satellite. Children will learn about lunar phases, eclipses, lunar exploration and the moon's effect on the Earth.

This is an audio summary and analysis of the book Attached by Dr. Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel Heller. They use the attachment theory to provide insight into how love actually works. Discover your attachment style and learn how it affects your romantic relationships - for better or for worse.

Published in 1925, The Gift is one of French sociologist Marcel Mauss's few non-collaborative works. In it, he elevates what might appear to be a simple gift from the status of innocent object to something that has the capacity to motivate people and define social relationships. The Gift analyzes cultures across the world and across time, with the way gifts are given and received working as a guide to understanding the rules and traditions of many different societies.

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II offers more inspiring stories to help you master the game we call life. Today's teens have ever more issues and social pressures to juggle than young adults just 20 years ago. This book, like its predecessor, can be your guide, a beacon in the darkness, a safe haven in a storm, a warm hug in the cold and a respite from loneliness. There's no preaching as to what you should and shouldn't do. Instead, this book is full of teens sharing their experiences.

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days, the 1890 book by Nellie Bly, chronicles her sensational 72-day trip around the world for the tabloid newspaper, New York World. On November 14, 1889, she boarded the steamer Augusta Victoria on her journey of 23,899 miles with the goal of finishing in 75 days. Her journey took her through England, France, Italy, the Suez Canal, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan to San Francisco where she boarded a private chartered train which brought her to New York on January 25, 1890, 72 days and six hours after leaving.

Boilers, auxiliaries, and accessories are often grouped together when studying and learning boiler plant operation principles. This book focuses on those three major aspects. Added in this edition are chapters on feed water and turbines with a multiple choice section for practice at the end of the book. Whether you are studying for a license examination or would like a basic overview of boilers, auxiliaries, and accessories, this book provides that for the listener in a plain language offering.

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for The Giver by Lois Lowry includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as societal control versus individual freedom, loneliness and isolation, and the pain of growing up. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

Veterinarians care for all kinds of animals. Listeners will find out the tools vets use, the different types of veterinarians, and how people get this caring and exciting job.

The United States keeps its gold safe at Fort Knox. How is this done? There are fences, locks, guards, and more. Learn more about this high-security place!

For too long, White educators have relied on people of color to make change to a relentlessly racist school system. Racial equity will not come until White educators recognize their role in supporting racist policies and practices, and take responsibility for dismantling them.

At 13, bright-eyed straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: She was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number. Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being a teenager.

Are you drowning in endless tasks? Stuck using outdated tools that make your workday drag on forever? Does the mere mention of AI make you feel like you're lost in a sci-fi thriller you don't understand? Take a deep breath. You don't have to be a tech guru to harness the game-changing powers of AI and ChatGPT. You're just one listen away from demolishing the barriers that prevent you from unlocking a wealth of new skills and opportunities.

Drawing on decades of experience as a technical instructor and daily Microsoft Word user, author Marc Allan Moore has condensed a lifetime’s worth of insider tips, tricks, and secrets of making Microsoft Word 2021 and Word for Office 365 work for you into this volume. Whether you’re on Windows or OSX, PC or Mac, or Word 2021 or Word for Office 365, don’t waste time learning irrelevant formatting, confusing macros, or impenetrable jargon—get up to speed, get your work done and get on with your life .

In the aftermath of World War II, America stood alone as the world's premier military power. Yet its martial confidence contrasted vividly with its sense of cultural inferiority. Still looking to a defeated and dispirited Europe for intellectual and artistic guidance, burgeoning transnational elite in New York and Washington embraced not only the war's refugees but many of their ideas as well, and nothing has proven more pernicious than those of the Frankfurt School and its reactionary philosophy of "critical theory".

Let's take stock of young America. Compared to previous generations, American youth have more schooling (college enrollments have never been higher); more money ($100 a week in disposable income); more leisure time (five hours a day); and more news and information (Internet, The Daily Show, RSS feeds). What do they do with all that time and money? They download, upload, IM, post, chat, and network. (Nine of their top ten sites are for social networking.) They watch television and play video games (2 to 4 hours per day).

To give fifteen-year-old Nita a vacation from magic—and her partner Kit—her parents pack her off for a stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland. But Nita soon finds herself with a host of Irish wizards battling mythical beings, wolves, and elves from a nightmare land.

While teaching ethics is universally applauded, how one goes about it is much more difficult and contested than is often recognized. On Teaching and Learning Christian Ethics addresses what it means to teach and learn ethics through a thorough comparison of two ethicists, Henry Sidgwick and F. D. Maurice. Where Sidgwick understood ethics as developing a method for guiding voluntary action to what is right, Maurice maintained that ethics concerns life as a whole, and that requires placing it within a metaphysical and theological realm in which the good is much more definitive than right.

This study guide follows the syllabus for the Microsoft AI Foundations exam (AI-900). More importantly, this audiobook will help you gain the foundational knowledge needed to become an AI practitioner. You do not need a mathematical or programming background to understand the concepts in this audiobook or to pass the AI-900 exam. This study guide does not contain any material that compromises the integrity of any Microsoft exam. All materials, including practice questions, were developed using the syllabus for the exam and thorough research of published articles.

Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where brilliant minds of all nationalities mingle freely with few questions asked. Intelligence agencies have always recruited bright undergraduates, but now, in an era when espionage increasingly requires specialized scientific or technological expertise, they're wooing higher-level academics.

Are you ready to unlock the doors to endless opportunities and take control of your future? Look no further than our comprehensive GED Test Prep & Study Guide, designed to guide you towards triumph in the General Education Development (GED) examination. Whether you're a high school dropout seeking a second chance or an adult learner aiming to expand your horizons, this book is your essential companion on the road to success.