New Releases by Merce Segarra

Perfect for nighttime read-alouds, this calming Bible invites young listeners to ponder the stories of long ago and dream of God''s boundless love. Written in a gentle, soothing tone, Bedtime Bible is the perfect book for bedtime or anytime a child wants to snuggle up and read. Featuring 46 best-loved and treasured Bible stories, each page has adorable, colorful illustrations, just right for little ones to point out sweet details such as lady bugs, birds, and kittens. Inviting pictures will draw in any preschooler or toddler as they see themselves throughout the pages and prepare to go to sleep. Quick and short stories allow adults to decide how many stories and how much time to read every night. This beautiful treasury brings together adults and kids so you can bond through story time and strengthen a love for the Bible and reading. This highly recommended, child-friendly collection of stories from God''s Word is sure to become part of your bedtime routine and makes the ideal gift for baby showers, christenings, baptisms, Easter, or Christmas.

A Brand-New, Illustrated Bible for Beginning Christians! Introduce your child to the Christian faith with My First Bible! Some of the most famous stories in the Bible are retold in this fully illustrated Bible, including: Noah’s Ark Joseph and the Coat of Many Colors The Ten Commandments David and Goliath The Birth of Jesus Jesus’s Parables The Last Supper And more! Perfect for beginning readers, My First Bible retells Bible stories in a way that young children can understand. Give this Bible as a gift for baptisms, birthdays, and Christmas, or save it and read it for bedtime stories. No matter how you use it, My First Bible is sure to become a household favorite!

In this collection of Bible stories, young children will learn about some of the best-known figures in the Old and New Testaments. The engaging stories - complemented by delightfully colorful illustrations - will likely become favorite bedtime reading for a new generation of little Catholics.

Ceramic materials are usually considered as most brittle since they are full of defects, sometimes difficult to determine, that affect all their properties, from functional to mechanical. This book presents the most recent advances in the synthesis, processing and characterization of some ceramic materials. Hybrid organoceramics, lead-free piezoelectric ceramics, dental zirconia, raw clays and scintillator materials are presented, as well as different methods to evaluate their suitability for certain applications, such as a new approach based on the response surface methodology, the instrumented nanoindentation, or the use of thermal phonons. The relationship between functional characteristics of these materials and the manufacturing technology used to obtain them is also discussed in some chapters. A full review of a novel processing method to fabricate ceramic nanocomposites using SPS is also included.

Follows three children as their family adopts a hamster, offering information on the necessary equipment, handling, care, diet, safety concerns, and other matters necessary to making a good home for a hamster.