Best Selling Books by David Kirk

Miss Spider and Holley explore car lots, test drive some cars and encounter a few near misses, but all ends well thanks to the help of benevolent Moth, Sue.

IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL NOVEL SWORD OF HONOR, DAVID KIRK CONTINUES THE SAGA OF MUSASHI MIYAMOTO, THE GREATEST SWORDSMAN IN JAPANESE HISTORY, AS HE JOURNEYS TO THE ANCIENT CITY OF KYOTO TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE AND HIS IDEALS. Having survived the cataclysmic battle of Sekigahara, which established the mighty Tokugawa Shogunate, young Musashi Miyamoto travels through Japan determined to proclaim his revolutionary epiphany that the “way of the samurai,” the ancient code that binds warriors to their masters, needs to be abolished. But during the battle Musashi insulted an adept of the powerful Yoshioka school, and a price has been put on his head. Musashi is drawn to Kyoto, domain of the Yoshioka, driven by anger and certain that he will deal a crushing blow to the traditional samurai dogma by destroying the school. Musashi will learn, however, that the capital of the nation is rife with intrigue and potential rebellion against the newly established government, a struggle into which he unwittingly enters. Among other outcasts, Musashi will find the worth of his spectacular skill with the sword weighed against the deep cunning of manipulative Lords, and must make his reckoning with the Yoshioka, the way of the samurai, and ultimately his own nature. Only then will he be able to take one step closer to becoming the wise old sage who wrote The Book of Five Rings. Sword of Honor seamlessly blends meticulous research, mesmerizing action sequences, and a driving narrative to bring this extraordinary figure to life.

Squirt and Shimmer care for a pet caterpillar, and even though it requires a lot of work, the end result is worth it.

Tertiary text introducing the socio-cultural dimensions of exercise, physical education, physical recreation and sport. Covers psychological, pedagogical, philosophical, sociological and historical aspects. Includes Australian and NZ examples, ideas for assessment tasks, a bibliography and an index. May be used with the companion volume, ''The Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement''. Also available in hardback. The authors teach in the department of human movement studies at the University of Qld.

Sunny Patch School Was the best place to goTo study the lessons All bugs ought to know.When the first day of school arrives, Little Miss Spider is almost beside herself with excitement. She gobbles her breakfast ("a fresh flower plate") and runs all the way to Sunny Patch School. But poor Miss Spider is in for a day of frustration. She can''t seem to master the new lessons: dung digging, leaf drilling, stinging, or flying. As the day draws to a close, Miss Spider bemoans her lack of skills. Isn''t there anything she can do well? We are all soon to find out...

Miss Spider worries that she is not a good mother when one of her recently hatched spiderlings goes off to find where an egg belongs.

"Based on the TV episode A cloudy day in Sunny Patch, written by Steven Sullivan, from the animated TV series Miss Spider''s Sunny Patch friends"--T.p. verso.

Written specifically with A-Level students in mind, this text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the educational, historical, social, political, cultural and psychological dimensions of performance, studied at this level.

Offers abridged versions of three of Miss Spider''s best-loved adventures.

This book explores the social construction of children''s bodies in Australian and British schools between 1870 and 1950, focusing on practices within physical training, medical inspection, and sport. The key argument is that there was a process of constructing the body in accordance with that phase of modernity Foucault calls ''disciplinary society''. The docile body produced was pliable, yet economically productive, a body that could, through close scrutiny and careful measurement, be regulated to ensure the healthy propagation of the race and a ready supply of economically productive citizens. Until 1915, a matrix of precise, meticulous and ponderous discursive practices to achieve this end was employed in Australian and British schools. The inter-war years saw a process of reconstruction, and by 1945, more liberalized forms of physical education had been introduced, which form the basis of contemporary practices that are only in the 1990s beginning to be challenged.

The creator of the Miss Spider series presents the adorable tale of Biddle Pig, who thinks she is much too pretty to be rolling around in the mud with all the other pigs, until she begins to feel lonely and decides to dive right in!

The insect''s from Sunny Patch teach young readers how to count from one to twenty.

Everybuggy does his or her part in Sunny Patch. Young readers are invited to come along with Squirt, Shimmer, Bounce, and the rest of the gang as they see what all the bugs do to help out. Full color. of reusable stickers. Consumable.

This groundbreaking textbook teaches readers how to program massively parallel processors to achieve high performance, and the approach does not require a great deal of hardware expertise. The presentation focuses on computational thinking techniques that enable readers to think about problems in ways that are amenable to parallel computing. Students will learn to complete a suite of API programming tools and techniques at least once, so that they will be able to apply the experience to other APIs and other tools in the future. This book teaches parallel programming for correct functionality and dependability, which constitute a subtle issue in parallel computing. Those who have worked on parallel systems in the past know that achieving initial performance is not enough. The challenge is to achieve it in such a way that you can later debug the code, reproduce the bugs when they reappear, and support the code. This book shows that with the CUDA programming model, which focuses on data parallelism, one can achieve both high-performance and high-reliability in their applications.

Adopting an innovative systems-based approach, the authors provide the reader with both an understanding of particular services and functions within the hospitality industry and an overview of the industry as whole. Using an array of international case studies, Hospitality Operations provides a comprehensive, integrated analysis of a diverse and complex industry.

Produced for unit ECS811 offered by the Faculty of Education in Deakin University''s Open Campus Program.

Miss Spider and Holly just can''t seem to get to bed on time, so their little bugs step in to help out.