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At a family reunion in sunny California, seven cousinsfive dogs and two catsare brought together for the first time. Despite their many obvious differences, the seven are determined to get along. After getting to know each other a little better, the seven find inspiration in their diversity and decide...

Welcome to Tales from the Treasure Chest. An Anthology of 10 short childrens stories and two poems. These stories are suitable from ages 4 up. Though of course an older sibling or parent may like to read the stories to those so young. This collection is written by Children's Indie Authors from...

Cats are well-known for their curiosity, but giraffes? This pretty, prancing giraffe certainly has an inquisitive side to her nature, although she can be a bit jumpy and bound off if things go horribly wrong as a consequence of her investigations. Simple gathering is used to good effect here in creating...

This foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent...

This fully revised and expanded edition of Fundamentals of Soil Ecology continues its holistic approach to soil biology and ecosystem function. Students and ecosystem researchers will gain a greater understanding of the central roles that soils play in ecosystem development and function. The authors...

As a information technology professional, Conner has seen his share of traditional college graduates entering the IT field and he knows from experience that you can’t simply graduate with enough experience and knowledge to pass the certification exams. The key to handling these exams is have the...

This guide for practicing statisticians, data scientists, and R users and programmers will teach the essentials of preprocessing: data leveraging the R programming language to easily and quickly turn noisy data into usable pieces of information. Data wrangling, which is also commonly referred to as...

Arguably the most capable of all the open source databases, PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system first developed in 1977 by the University of California at Berkeley. In spite of its long history, this robust database suffers from a lack of easy-to-use documentation. Practical...

Welcome to Harry Potter Places Book One--London and London Side-Along Apparations, the first of five guidebooks designed to help Potterites visit Potterverse places in the UK, including real-life places mentioned in JKR's novels and movie film sites. On the website you'll find Book One's Table of...

In the life of struggles, stress, and strain along with facing the positives and negatives of everyday life, Dr. Hayes, author of "If You Can Look Up, You Can Get Up" believes in a positive everyday daily walk using principles for keeping victory in the form of scriptorial knowledge and...

Simplifying a complex subject. Child psychology is required for college level psych and elementary education majors. It is a complex subject that can include developmental psychology, biology, sociological psychology, and various schools of theory and therapies. The only sources of information...

The leading text on the biological and psychological relationship between mental illness and addiction, Dual Disorders contains important resources for individuals and their families. Depression. Schizophrenia. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Millions of individuals diagnosed with psychiatric...

The covers of such magazines as Time and Newsweek have described parents as living in “mayhem” and “madness” with their children. TV’s Supernanny regularly captures kids wildly, unbelievably out of control. How did our families get to such a state? Child psychologist Dr. Beth Grosshans has...