New Releases by Mark Stacey

In today''s fast-paced world, many of us find it challenging to weave prayer into our daily routines. Life pulls us in different directions, and the demands on our time seem endless. Yet, the longing for a deeper spiritual connection remains. Many Christian adults, like you, yearn for practical guidance on how to integrate prayer into their busy lives. Prayers That Work!: Discover the Power of Prayer and Transform Your Spiritual Journey, Even If You’ve Never Felt His Presence Before addresses that need, offering tangible methods to make prayer a consistent and meaningful part of your day.

Learn to speak, read, write and understand Spanish! Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship-whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners'' Spanish will help you to: Communicate naturally in everyday situations. Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities. Understand and pronounce Spanish easily with online audio. Remember what you learn with our effective Discovery Method. Focus your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners. Access the audio for this course for free by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app or streaming it on library.teachyourself.com. Is this course for me? Beginners'' Spanish is for absolute beginners and those who''ve had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Spanish. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it''s the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app. Where do I go next? Continue learning with Teach Yourself Complete Spanish and Enjoy Spanish. Have some fun with our Short Stories in Spanish for Beginners by Olly Richards'' or 50 Spanish Coffee Breaks. Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 85 years.

A set of wargaming rules for fighting large battles set during the American Civil War. From the First Bull Run to Appomattox Court House, enter one of the defining conflicts of American history. With shot, shell, and sabre, guide the armies of the Blue and the Grey through this first modern war to determine the fate of a nation. With Hot Lead and Cold Steel is a large-scale, mass-battle wargame for recreating the American Civil War. Designed to handle brigade and divisional level engagements while providing a balance between ease of play and period detail, With Hot Lead and Cold Steel is ideal for new gamers and wargaming veterans alike. It contains everything players need to raise armies and craft scenarios, whether based upon historical campaigns and orders of battle or those of their own devising.

Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017. This coursebook covers Paper 3, HL option 2: History of the Americas, Topic 17: Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas Post-1945 of the History for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma syllabus for first assessment in 2017. Tailored to the requirements of the IB syllabus, and written by experienced examiners and teachers, it offers an authoritative and engaging guidance through the origins, nature and achievements of civil rights and social movements in the Americas after 1945.

Go beyond design concepts and learn to build state-of-the-art visualizations The visualization experts at Microsoft''s Pragmatic Works have created a full-color, step-by-step guide to building specific types of visualizations. The book thoroughly covers the Microsoft toolset for data analysis and visualization, including Excel, and explores best practices for choosing a data visualization design, selecting tools from the Microsoft stack, and building a dynamic data visualization from start to finish. You''ll examine different types of visualizations, their strengths and weaknesses, and when to use each one. Data visualization tools unlock the stories within the data, enabling you to present it in a way that is useful for making business decisions This full-color guide introduces data visualization design concepts, then explains the various Microsoft tools used to store and display data Features a detailed discussion of various classes of visualizations, their uses, and the appropriate tools for each Includes practical implementations of various visualizations and best practices for using them Covers out-of-the-box Microsoft tools, custom-developed illustrations and implementations, and code examples Visual Intelligence: Microsoft Tools and Techniques for Visualizing Data arms you with best practices and the knowledge to choose and build dynamic data visualizations.

1. Introduction -- 2. Native American movements in the Americas -- 3. The African-American experience from slavery to the Great Depresssion -- 4. The emergence of the civil rights movement in the 1940s and 1950s -- 5. The peak of the campaign fo civil rights 1960-65 -- 6. The achievement of the civil rights movement by 1968 -- 7. The growth of Black Power in the 1960s -- 8. Youth protest movements in the Americas -- 9. Feminist movements in the Americas -- 11. Exam practice.

Learn to build and deliver SharePoint BI applications Written by a team of leading SharePoint and Business Intelligence (BI) experts, this unique book-and-DVD package shows you how to successfully build and deliver BI applications using SharePoint 2010. Assuming no previous SharePoint experience, the authors deliver a clear explanation of what SharePoint will do for your BI and information management capabilities. Each lesson in the book is reinforced with a helpful tutorial on the DVD and cover topics such as interactive reporting with Excel, document sharing for collaborative reporting, and controlling data sources. As you learn best practices for configuring and securing SharePoint 2010 BI applications and planning and implementing your SharePoint BI project plan, you''ll be well on your way to gaining a solid foundation of understanding and working with SharePoint 2010 and BI. Provides an invaluable training book-and-DVD package that takes you through building and delivering BI applications using SharePoint 2010 Features an accompanying video tutorial for each lesson covered in the book, along with a "Try It" section at the end of each lesson Covers interactive reporting with excel Covers Power Pivot advanced analytics Details report and document sharing for collaborative reporting Shows how to use SharePoint lists and libraries for data sources repositories in your BI projects Explains how to control data sources, reports and business intelligence content with permissions and workflow approvals. With this unique book-and-DVD combo, you''ll be well on your way to successfully building and delivering BI applications using SharePoint 2010. Note: As part of the print version of this title, video lessons are included on DVD. For e-book versions, video lessons can be accessed at wrox.com using a link provided in the interior of the e-book.

Teach Yourself takes the pain out of picking up the Turkish language Get Started in Turkish requires no prior experience in the language and gives you the opportunity to study at a reasonable, steady pace. This course makes the process nearly painless--it is written in a friendly and supportive tone, and the structure offers you plenty of opportunities for self-practice. You are in control of your learning experience, so you never feel overwhelmed or rushed. This practical course introduces the new language without inundating you and includes dialogues and exercises, a helpful pronunciation section, manageable lists of practical vocabulary, a glossary of grammar terms, and more. Features: Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author’s many years of experience Tests in the book to keep track of your progress

Are you looking for a course in Spanish written for the absolute beginner who has no experience of learning a foreign language? Get Started in Spanish will give you the confidence to communicate in Spanish. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online. The emphasis of the course is placed on communication, rather than grammar, and all the teaching is in English, so that you will quickly and effortlessly get started in Spanish. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B1 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. Learn effortlessly with new, full-colour easy-to-read page design and interactive features: NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author''s many years of experience. USEFUL VOCABULARY Easy to find and learn, to build a solid foundation for speaking. DIALOGUES Read and listen to everyday dialogues to help you speak and understand fast. PRONUNCIATION Don''t sound like a tourist! Perfect your pronunciation before you go. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at: www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the culture and history of Spain. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you''ve learnt and how to use it.

This product is most effective when used in conjunction with the corresponding audio support. - You can purchase the book and audio support as a pack (ISBN: 9781444100686) - The audio support is also sold separately (ISBN: 9781444100693) (copy and paste the ISBN number into the search bar to find these products) Are you looking for a course in Spanish written for the absolute beginner who has no experience of learning a foreign language? Get Started in Spanish will give you the confidence to communicate in Spanish. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online. The emphasis of the course is placed on communication, rather than grammar, and all the teaching is in English, so that you will quickly and effortlessly get started in Spanish. By the end of this course, you will be at Level B1 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. Learn effortlessly with new, full-colour easy-to-read page design and interactive features: NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author''s many years of experience. USEFUL VOCABULARY Easy to find and learn, to build a solid foundation for speaking. DIALOGUES Read and listen to everyday dialogues to help you speak and understand fast. PRONUNCIATION Don''t sound like a tourist! Perfect your pronunciation before you go. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at: www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of the culture and history of Spain. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you''ve learnt and how to use it.

Avec cette nouvelle méthode concrète et accessible, vous serez capable de vous débrouiller en espagnol en quelques semaines seulement. Son objectif est de vous permettre de communiquer dans les situations les plus courantes de la vie quotidienne et de maîtriser les bases nécessaires à un apprentissage complet. Une pédagogie motivante : tout pour un apprentissage autonome : conseils, explications grammaticales simples, exercices d''évaluation, lexique ; l''introduction très progressive des notions et termes nouveaux ; la reprise systématique des notions abordées dans les chapitres précédents pour faciliter la mémorisation. Une orientation pratique : une mise en situation réelle : des documents tirés du quotidien (petites annonces, publicités, etc.) ; des dialogues naturels. Une méthode conviviale : des activités variées et originales ; des informations culturelles ; une présentation attrayante et illustrée par des dessins.

This double CD provides over two hours of listening material and accompanies the book Teach Yourself Beginner''s Spanish. The book and CDs are also available as a pack (0 340 87017 6).

The ''Tudors'' poster is structured around a central timeline spanning from 1485 - 1603, and features information under the following headings: Henry VII; exploration and trade; travel and transport; crime and punishment; clothing; education; religion; Mary I; Elizabeth I; entertainment; everyday life; food and drink; Henry VIII; houses; literature. Images of artefacts such as a hornbook and surviving buildings such as Hardwick Hall and Hampton Court Palace provide exciting evidence of the period and help children to gain a broader understanding of life under the Tudors.