Surprise Visitors: For tablet devices

Surprise Visitors: For tablet devices
Author: Heather Amery
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2013-05-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409567141

Who are the surprise visitors causing a disturbance at Apple Tree Farm? Young children will love finding out what happens in this delightful short story specially written, with the help of language experts, to ensure new readers succeed in their first attempts. Exclusive ebook material includes a map of Apple Tree Farm, showing all of the places mentioned in the story. Don't forget to spot the Little Yellow Duck on every double page. This is a highly illustrated ebook that can only be read on the Kindle Fire or other tablet. "Usborne farmyard tales are delightful short stories superbly illustrated and in easy language, just right for the children who are just beginning to read... if you have a child in the age group of two to five, you can be sure that they are going to love these books." - A Spoonful of Ideas

A Surprise Visitor

A Surprise Visitor
Author: Poppy Green
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2016-08-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 148146700X

A little bird who’s learning to fly accidentally winds up in Sophie’s yard in the eighth charming book of The Adventures of Sophie Mouse! Sophie gets a surprise visitor when a little bird makes a crash landing into her yard and hurts his wing. But with Sophie and her friends to help nurse him back to health, the baby bird will be flying high in no time! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Adventures of Sophie Mouse chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.

Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers

Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers
Author: Robin K. Morgan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2015-10-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0253018404

Valuable practical advice for managing classrooms, workloads, and careers. Non-tenure-track lecturers and adjunct instructors face particular challenges at US colleges, including heavy teaching loads, lack of office space, little control over the selection of course topics or textbooks, and long commutes between jobs at two or more schools. Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers contains short, practice-oriented articles by experienced instructors that offer valuable teaching and career tips for balancing competing demands, addressing student issues, managing classrooms, and enhancing professional development.

The Visitor

The Visitor
Author: Louvie G. Tucker
Publisher: Louvie G. Tucker
Total Pages: 163
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Nusans don’t cause trouble. Peter is a good Nusan. Single, annoyed with his best friend’s constant blind dates, and comfortably provided for with his job as a genmod technician, he spends his days telling expectant parents what their unborn children will look like. For a fee, he can modify physical and mental traits. To ensure Nusa’s perfect society, however, it is law that all babies must be born with white skin, an IQ 120 or above, and without any illnesses or disabilities. These modifications are free of charge. It’s the law. And good Nusans obey the law. The people of Susa, however, are known to be troublemakers. Thank goodness the dark-skinned Susans all live south of the border, in Susa. The closest Peter ever has to come to a dangerous Susan is either on the silver screen being vanquished by a heroic Nusan hero or on the news as deporters -- the force charged to keep Nusa safe -- prepare to send them south to Susa. That is, until a dark-skinned visitor is suddenly inside the four walls of Peter’s quiet existence. Snarky. Irreverent and without any regard for the rules, the stranger should be a Susan but is he? Why is he claiming to have fallen from the stars? Everything Peter knows is suddenly in question and even his status as a good Nusan is under threat as deporters seek him out on suspicion of a capital crime. Has Peter caused trouble? Life as Peter has known it is fragile. Can he survive long enough to learn the truth? And will he even want to believe it once he finds it? Get your copy today and find out!

Target on Her Back

Target on Her Back
Author: Julie Miller
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488067325

Only she knows the answers.Only he can keep her alive. After discovering her boss has been murdered, Professor Gigi Brennan becomes the killer’s next target. She is the only one who can complete a complicated scientific formula, and the murderer won’t hesitate to come after her next if she doesn’t cooperate. She quickly learns that her best chance at survival is Detective Hudson Kramer. Now, with the clock ticking, can she and Hud uncover who’s terrorizing her…before their dreams of a shared future are over before they’ve even begun?

Free to Focus

Free to Focus
Author: Michael Hyatt
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1493409549

Everyone gets 168 hours a week, but it never feels like enough, does it? Work gobbles up the lion's share--many professionals are working as much as 70 hours a week--leaving less and less for rest, exercise, family, and friends. You know, all those things that make life great. Most people think productivity is about finding or saving time. But it's not. It's about making our time work for us. Just imagine having free time again. It's not a pipe dream. In Free to Focus, New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt reveals to readers nine proven ways to win at work so they are finally free to succeed at the rest of life--their health, relationships, hobbies, and more. He helps readers redefine their goals, evaluate what's working, cut out the nonessentials, focus on the most important tasks, manage their time and energy, and build momentum for a lifetime of success.

Report on Rescue 1122

Report on Rescue 1122
Author:
Publisher: 1122
Total Pages: 35
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

The concept of rescuing humans in man-made or natural disasters is marked with risk, and demands commitment, training, accuracy, timeliness and deliverance. The vision, scope and goals of RESCUE 1122 as life saving organization are all well-tethered into its organizational structure, training, resources and operational practices [R1]. However, the fast evolving dynamics of Pakistani society as in urbanization and its parallel rural co-exist have an interplay with ever increasing mandate of RESCUE 1122 to cover a wider ambit of activities. This confluence gives rise to a a new spectrum of problems ranging from traffic congestion in cities to a inertial nonacceptance in rural settings. Such retarding factors to RESCUE 1122 services undermine the operational preparedness and efficiency of the organization. The observership was undertaken with an avid focus on the technological aspects of RESCUE 1122 to identify areas where the technology could be optimized as such or if need be, a new suite of IT-solutions could be suggested to address emerging issues. This consolidated report takes a stepwise approach to understand intra-RESCUE 1122 technology-based departmental activities, the interfacing with external agencies including patients, hospitals, traffic wardens, and service providers such as TPL, IDS, ISPs, PTCL, and other government bodies. It then identifies the obvious and non-obvious ineptness through the personal exposure of the observer in rescue missions and through the feedback received from the staff. As the most important and final step, concrete recommendations are made which serve in two ways; a) to address the shortcomings of the operational areas in order to meet desired goals in a better way, and b) to augment altogether new dimensions to the services which compliment the existing ones. Extraneous to the purview, but highly relevant problems of national significance including terrorism and sabotage and power crisis are also taken into broader consideration to make the report adept to incumbent and more strategic national needs.

Blended Learning. New Challenges and Innovative Practices

Blended Learning. New Challenges and Innovative Practices
Author: Simon K.S. Cheung
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319593609

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Blended Learning, ICBL 2017, held in Hong Kong, China, in June 2017. The 42 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: Keynotes; Experiences in Blended Learning; Strategies in Blended Learning; Assessment for Blended Learning; Computer-Support Collaborative Learning; Improved Flexibility of Learning Processes; Open Educational Resources; Pedagogical and Psychological Issues.

16-Tom Swift and the Reconstructed Planet (HB)

16-Tom Swift and the Reconstructed Planet (HB)
Author: Victor Appleton II
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1365096955

In this hardbound edition of Tom's 16th adventure in this series, he finds out that a newly classified exo-planet outside Pluto's orbit is about to have a close encounter with the return of Haley's Comet. The problem is that at such distances nobody can tell just how close. A visit to the Planet, Eris, is called for but he must first devise a ay to travel faster than he ever has before so the trip can be accomplished before the pass by. What he comes up with astounds even his father, and that takes a lot! Tom, Bud and their crew arrive in time to witness a catastrophic collision that begins the slow and inevitable break up of the planet. But, trouble is brewing as calculations show some of the debris will eventually drift in and possibly collide with Mars and the Earth. What to do? Nobody has ever tried to put an entire planet back together. This is a Humpty Dumpty exercise of planetary proportions.

Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game

Mr. Lemoncello's All-Star Breakout Game
Author: Chris Grabenstein
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0525646469

Mr. Lemoncello is going live with a brand-new televised BREAKOUT game! Discover what James Patterson calls "the coolest library in the world" in the fourth puzzle-packed adventure in Chris Grabenstein's New York Times bestselling MR. LEMONCELLO series! Greetings, boys and girls, gamers of all ages--are you ready to play Mr. Lemoncello's BIGGEST, most dazzling game yet? After months of anticipation, Mr. Lemoncello is taking his games out of the library and going LIVE across the nation on the world-famous Kidzapalooza Television Network! Everyone's invited to audition, but only a lucky few will be chosen to compete in front of millions of viewers in a brand-new, completely immersive live-action breakout game--with real kids as the playing pieces! Kyle Keeley is determined to be one of them. Each of the winning teams must make it through five different rooms in Mr. Lemoncello's fantastic new Fictionasium by solving a puzzle to unlock each room and, in the end, break out of the library! But nothing is ever as it seems with Mr. Lemoncello, and the surprises in store just might stump even the game master himself. Can Kyle break out of his own expectations--and win Mr. Lemoncello's ultimate game show?