Best Selling Books by Miriam Peskowitz

Welcome to Code Like a Girl, where you''ll get started on the adventure of coding with cool projects and step-by-step tips, from the co-author of the bestselling The Daring Book for Girls. Coding is about creativity, self-expression, and telling your story. It''s solving problems and being curious, building things, making the world a better place, and creating a future. It''s about you: whoever you are, wherever you''re at, whatever you want. Nearly everything you encounter on a screen is made from code. You see, with code you can have an idea and put it into action: it''s your voice and your vision. From the outside, tech and code may seem puzzling and mysterious, but when you get through the door and past the first few beginner steps and your code starts to work, it feels like magic. In this book, you''ll learn how to: - Code with Scratch--projects like making a dog walk through the park, sending your friend a card, and devising a full-scoring game! - Build your own computer--really! - Create your own digital fortune-teller, with the Python language. - Make your own smartphone gloves. - Make light-up bracelets. - Code a motion sensor that tells you when someone enters your room. - And lots more!

Revisit old favorites and discover even more facts and stories. The perfect pocket book for any girl on a quest for knowledge. Includes New Chapters + the Best Wisdom & Wonder from The Daring Book for Girls

The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn''t mean sewing buttonholes! Whether it''s female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it''s not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers—although that''s included, of course! Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl''s invitation to adventure.

The follow up to the bestselling The Daring Book for Girls—more outrageous fearless fun from making a raft to the art of the Japanese Tea Ceremony. In response to the resounding success of The Daring Book for Girls comes a second volume with all original material that promises to be full of even more daring adventure than the first. Girls will learn how to surf, horseback riding tips, April Fool''s Day history and pranks, how to make a labyrinth, how to sing, all about cowgirls, and how to organize a croquet tournament. Just as packed with creative and exciting material as the original, but double the fun, The Double-Daring Book for Girls is an adventure guidebook of stories, activities, facts, and games for daring girls everywhere.

Para toda chica con espíritu independiente que busca travesuras, aquí está la única guía de aventuras donde no se permiten chicos.

The author of Spinning Fantasies: Rabbis, Gender and History deconstructs the myth of the "mommy wars" revealing that there is in fact no conflict between working mothers and stay-at-home moms and urging a new dialogue on the issue that privileges choice over polarizing rhetoric. Original.

Después del éxito de ventas El libro peligroso para los chicos, nos llega la versión para las chicas. No autorizada para chicos. Para las chicas con espíritu independiente y talento para los problemas ésta es la guía de aventuras no autorizada para los chicos. El libro peligroso para las chicas es el manual que todas las chicas tienen que saber, ¡y eso no significan que tengan que saber coser un botón! Todas las heroínas de la historia, trucos secretos para sacar mejores notas, experimentos, pulseras de la amistad, nociones de chino, la rueda perfecta y hasta la revelación del misterio más grande del mundo: ¿qué piensan los chicos?... Este libro lo tiene todo. Seas como seas, te guste jugar a muñecas o a coches, este es tu libro de aventuras. El libro peligroso para las chicas es un libro necesario en la era de los teléfonos móviles y la Playstation.

Clues to the value of Helios/Zodiac depictions in the synagogue can be found in sources literary and archaeological. One can assume that the images appearing in the synagogue were not chosen haphazardly but rather arose contextually from historical/political/religious surroundings and circumstances. One starting point is a display of zodiac/solar imagery in the Pseudepigrapha. Although the following works in which solar and zodiac imagery appear- 1 Enoch, 2 Enoch, and Book of Jubilees- were written at an earlier time than the dates of the synagogues under consideration, they were popular works known to Jews of Roman-Byzantine times. It is safe to assume that the Pseudopigraphic imagery was important in the formation of any visual form of Judaism.

''O livro das garotas audaciosas'' mostra os cinco movimentos básicos do caratê, a melhor hora para surfar, como customizar as roupas, se preparar para uma aventura ao ar livre e muito mais.