New Releases by Brian Martin

Get ready to clap your hands and stomp your feet as you sing along with the traditional song in this book! This text introduces early learners to rhythm and rhyme with a fun traditional piece that helps patents and adults balance structured learning time and free play. This book encourages play and movement with an engaging song, percussive motions, and vibrant, full-color illustrations, helping early readers develop fundamental skills as they read or as they are read to. Perfect for at-home learning or any preschool classroom, this traditional piece allows early learners to join the legacy of reading and storytelling children through history. Add rhythm and movement to the reading experience with this fun traditional that your child will love!

Cam and Sam saw their classmates painting, and it seemed so fun that they wanted to try it too. But it looks like these chameleon friends will have to get colorful…and messy! This fiction book opens up early readers’ imaginations and helps adults balance structured learning time and free play. The book engages early learners with a funny story and vibrant, full-color illustrations. Perfect for at-home learning or any preschool classroom, this book creates a rich shared reading experience for children who are early and developing readers. Early learners need to see their lives and interests reflected in the fictional stories they encounter. Develop fundamental skills while stimulating your child’s curiosity and creativity with this fiction book!

This school year, follow Cam E. Chameleon on her classroom adventures and world travels! Breathe new life into learning with this early childhood fiction book about an adventurous chameleon. This exciting chapter book includes beautiful, full-color illustrations and is intended for use across one prekindergarten school year. Early learners will become invested in Cam’s story, which helps foster a love of reading and a motivation to keep reading. The book offers teachers and families countless opportunities to boost language development and share a meaningful reading experience. Teachers can balance structured learning time and free play, support research-based instructional routines, and build fundamental skills with this fun, action-packed story that any early learner will love!

This school year, follow Cam E. Chameleon on her classroom adventures and world travels! Breathe new life into learning with this early childhood fiction book about an adventurous chameleon. This exciting chapter book includes beautiful, full-color illustrations and is intended for use across one prekindergarten school year. Early learners will become invested in Cam’s story, which helps foster a love of reading and a motivation to keep reading. The book offers teachers and families countless opportunities to boost language development and share a meaningful reading experience. Teachers can balance structured learning time and free play, support research-based instructional routines, and build fundamental skills with this fun, action-packed story that any early learner will love!

Cam and Sam saw their classmates painting, and it seemed so fun that they wanted to try it too. But it looks like these chameleon friends will have to get colorful…and messy! This fiction book opens up early readers’ imaginations and helps adults balance structured learning time and free play. The book engages early learners with a funny story and vibrant, full-color illustrations. Perfect for at-home learning or any preschool classroom, this book creates a rich shared reading experience for children who are early and developing readers. Early learners need to see their lives and interests reflected in the fictional stories they encounter. Develop fundamental skills while stimulating your child’s curiosity and creativity with this fiction book!

Introduce early learners to rhythm and rhyme with this catchy traditional piece! This book breathes new life into a familiar song while helping adults balance structured learning time and free play.

Pelham Rigby is an investigative journalist for a London newspaper, and his travels take him around the world on missions that can never be discussed. Roxanne is the beautiful wife of a Spanish businessman with a dubious past, but she only has eyes for Rigby. Arne is the powerful CEO of Myrex, Inc., a corporation that is not all it seems. When Rigby's newspaper sends him on a mission to Estonia, all four lives become entwined in an explosive series of events that threaten not only Rigby's safety, relationships and career, but his life. Increasingly drawn into the clutches of both British and American security services, and the murky cauldron of Myrex, Rigby is forced to make decisions that compromise everything he's ever believed in. Building up to a stunning dénouement, where the action shifts from a Soviet submarine base in Estonia to a smart London hotel, The Double Bind of Mr Rigby is an exciting, absorbing thriller which will not only take you places you've never been before, but make you question whether what you are reading is fact or fiction.

The narrator resigns his post at an Oxford school where Latimer's son has been educated. This enables him to develop his relationship with Latimer's wife, Francine, in order to discover more about Latimer himself - whose past is not what it seems. As events descend into a spiral of distrust, jealousy, sex and murder, the narrator is increasingly certain that he is being haunted by the presence of Latimer's son - and that these unseemly happenings are more than just the product of his over-active imagination. A spine-chilling, psychological drama, Latimer shows Brian Martin at his most thoughtful, thrilling best.

Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts, From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge examines the role of Canadians in the American Civil War Despite all we know about the Civil War, its causes, battles, characters, issues, impacts, and legacy, few books have explored Canada’s role in the bloody conflict that claimed more than 600,000 lives. A surprising 20 thousand Canadians went south to take up arms on both sides of the conflict, while thousands of enslaved people, draft dodgers, deserters, recruiters, plotters, and spies fled northward to take shelter in the attic that is Canada. Though many escaped slavery and found safety through the Underground Railroad, they were later joined by KKK members wanted for murder. Confederate President Jefferson Davis along with several of his emissaries and generals found refuge on Canadian soil, and many plantation owners moved north of the border. Award-winning journalist Brian Martin will open eyes in both Canada and the United States about how the two countries and their citizens interacted during the Civil War and the troubled times that surrounded it.

Great cooking is rarely about which pan you put on your stove. It's about what you put inside it. Push those limits, and find a new world in your kitchen. The Heart Healthy Cookbook for Two includes: Tips and Tricks A Whopping Collection of Recipes For Every Occasion Step-By-Step Instructions and Easy-To-Follow Advice, You Don't Need To Be an Expert! Includes Preparation Time, Cooking Time, and Easy Serving Sizes Stop worrying―you'll always have just the right amount on your plate with China Doll

A young German immigrant, Barney Dreyfuss was an American success story in business and in baseball. He fell in love with the game after settling in Paducah, Kentucky, where he discovered he had a knack for assembling good players on the diamond. Relocating to Louisville, he became involved in the professional game with the Colonels. Faced with ouster from the National League, he took his players to Pittsburgh, where he became owner of the Pirates and forged a winning tradition, leading the club to six pennants and two World Series. This first biography of Dreyfuss chronicles the innovative career of the Hall of Famer executive who built Forbes Field--the National League's first concrete-and-steel ballpark, into which he put $1 million of his own money--pushed for creation of the office of commissioner to govern the game and helped initiate the modern World Series.

At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss. Yet the many books written about Babe Ruth relegate the soft-spoken teacher and coach to the shadows. Ruth credited Boutilier--known as Brother Matthias in the Congregation of St. Francis Xavier--with making him the man and the baseball player he became. Matthias saw something in the troubled seven-year old and nurtured his athletic ability. Spending many extra hours on the ballfield with him over a dozen years, he taught Ruth how to hit and converted the young left-handed catcher into a formidable pitcher. Overshadowed by a fellow Xavierian brother who was given the credit for discovering the baseball prodigy, Matthias never received his due from the public but didn't complain. Ruth never forgot the father figure who continued to provide valuable counsel in later life. This is the first telling of the full story of the man who gave the world its most famous baseball star.

The Charter has been created to serve as a living document to guide best practice when working with Indigenous knowledge in commercial design projects. Supported by the Indigenous Council of Design (ico-D), the International Indigenous Design Charter considers the needs of the diverse design communities and cultures globally.

The Detroit Tigers were founding members of the American League and have been the Motor City's team for more than a century. But the Wolverines were the city's first major league club, playing in the National League beginning in 1881 and capturing the pennant in 1887. Playing in what was then one of the best ballparks in America, during an era when Detroit was known as the "Paris of the West," the team battled hostile National League owners and struggled with a fickle fan base to become world champions, before financial woes led to their being disbanded in 1888. This first-ever history of the Wolverines covers the team's rise and abrupt fall and the powerful men behind it.

Despite his outstanding pitching record, James Francis "Pud" Galvin (1856-1902) was largely forgotten after his premature death. During his 18-year career with Pittsburgh, Buffalo and St. Louis, he was one of the best-paid players in the game--but died penniless. The diminutive hurler was the first to reach 300 wins (and only four pitchers have amassed more). A determined researcher documented Galvin's record decades after his death and he was enshrined in the Hall of Fame in 1965 with 365 wins. This book is the first comprehensive biography of Galvin and his use of a testosterone-based concoction--with eye-popping results--which earned him newfound attention as a pioneer of performance enhancing drugs.

methods of nonviolent action can be used to bring down dictators. Nonviolence Unbound shows how insights into what makes nonviolent action eff ective can be applied to four completely diff erent arenas: defending against verbal abuse, responding to online defamatory pictures, and engaging in the struggles over euthanasia and vaccination. This investigation shows how to analyse options for opposing injustice.

This is the previously untold story of the London Tecumsehs, an 1870s baseball team that rose to the top ranks of pro ball. The Tecumsehs of London, Ontario, were among the founding members of the International Association in 1877, the first league established to challenge the struggling National League, formed a year earlier. The team played against the top competition of the day and defeated nines from Chicago, St. Louis and elsewhere. They became the first champions of the International Association when they defeated Pittsburgh with the arm of Fred Goldsmith, one of the first curveball pitchers. This is also the story of the International Association, the only one of the six leagues challenging the primacy of the National League that has never been accorded major league status. To this day it has been relegated to minor league status to the detriment of some of the pioneer players in the game.

Climate change, psychiatric drugs, genetically modified organisms, nuclear power, fluoridation, stem cell research - these are just a few of the hundreds of issues involving science and technology that are vigorously debated. If you care about an issue, how can you be more effective in arguing for your viewpoint and campaigning in support of it? The Controversy Manual offers practical advice for campaigners as well as plenty of information for people who want to better understand what's happening and to be able to discuss the issues with friends. The Controversy Manual provides information for understanding controversies, arguing against opponents, getting your message out, and defending against attack. Whether experts are on your side or mostly on the side of opponents, you'll find advice for being more effective. While not taking sides on individual controversies, the emphasis is on fostering fair and open debate and opposing those who use power and manipulation to get their way.

Soon after arriving at his Oxford school, the enigmatic North has invited his female history teacher, Bernie, to lunch - and not, as she had thought, to discuss history. When Monty, North's married physics teacher, makes it clear that he wants Bernie for himself, North seeks to mollify him in his own particular way: by seducing him. As North and his bizarre cohort travel across Oxford, London, Ravello, and Washington, the sexual anarchy grows ever more devastating, until eventually North's farcical ménage-à-trois results in death and tragedy. But what is the real story - and is the English master's version to be trusted? A dazzling psychological thriller, North is by turns erudite, audacious and brilliantly witty. An utterly assured and wholly original debut.

The story about baseball's being invented in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839 by Abner Doubleday served to prove that the U.S. national pastime was an American game, not derived from the English children's game of rounders as had been believed. The tale, embraced by Americans, has long been proven false but to this day, Cooperstown is celebrated as the birthplace of baseball. The story has captured the hearts of millions. But who spun that tale and why? This book provides a surprising answer about the origins of America's most durable myth. It seems that Abner Graves, who espoused Cooperstown as the birthplace of the game, likely was inspired by another story about an early game of baseball. The stories were remarkably similar, as were the men who told them. For the first time, this book links the stories and lives of Graves, a mining engineer, and Adam Ford, a medical doctor, both residents of Denver, Colorado. While the actual origins of the game of baseball remain subject to debate and study, new light is shed on the source of baseball's durable creation myth.

Every day, everywhere, talented, enthusiastic and technically savvy people think up new ways to use the e-world to achieve their dream of personal success.From the sidelines, it looks so easy that almost anyone can do it. And in some ways it really is. So why do so many fail, as the statistics tell us that most do? What are they missing? And what about me? What do I need to do to make sure I'm one of the few that actually make it, so that, against the odds, I'm still thriving one, two and more years down the track?We've written this book to help you develop your personal skills in a way that brings the best learning of the old world into the newer, fast-paced, techo climate of the e-world. Whether you're a young man or woman with a passion to make your mark, or an older hand looking to do your own thing and seeing the e-world as your vehicle, you'll need these skills to get to where you want to be, to create your own success in the e-jungle.

A Story about a normal teen boy who stumbles on one of two mythological swords once belonging to a powerful ancient God. The sword gives him Superhuman abilities nothing ever experienced by anyone on the planet. But danger rises when an Evil God known as Solaro finds out of the last sword being found; which he wants for himself. After waiting for centuries, Solaro now has the last sword in his grasp; but it is a fight to the finish to make sure this last sword does not get into the wrong hands. If it does, it could mean the end of the World; and perhaps the universe.

Attacks can backfire on attackers_sometimes spectacularly. Examples include the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police in 1991, the surveillance of Ralph Nader in 1965, and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Attackers often inhibit adverse reactions by covering up the attack, ...

Identifies and describes the learning actions and learning sources used by a selected group of firefighters in Montana who are recognized as using best practices in preparing a safe and competent workforce.

This book addresses the power of popular nonviolent action against repression, aggression, and oppression. A crucial aspect to effective nonviolent action is communication. Activists need to be able to contact each other and to mobilize support from other parts of the world. However, within the nonviolence literature, communication has been almost entirely neglected, while within the communication literature, nonviolent action is seldom mentioned. This is the first major study to focus on the joint dynamics of nonviolence and communication. Three case studies are examined: the popular action that forced the resignation of Indonesian President Suharto in 1998, the successful people's resistance to the Soviet coup in 1991, and the successful internationally coordinated campaign against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment in 1988. In each case, special attention is given to the role of communication in the struggle. Attention is then turned to theory. Surveys are made of nonviolence and communication theories, probing for insights relevant to the nonviolence-communication nexus. Gradually a model for analyzing people's communication is developed. The insights from theory are then used to prose a set of steps by which activist groups can analyze communication and develop effective communication strategies