New Releases 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!

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

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.

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.

A portable, pocket-sized take on the bestselling phenomenon,The Daring Book for Girls, this book is filled with many favorite activities from the original, plus some exciting new games, crafts, and projects. Whether following tips for riding a skateboard, learning how to run faster, or making a skirt out of a pillowcase, the most daring of girls will be occupied all season long. The Pocket Daring Book for Girls: Things to Do also includes the long-awaited chapter, "Make Your Own Zip Line," along with classic instructions for activities like Fourteen Games of Tag, Marco Polo, How to Be a Spy, Washing the Car and Building a Campfire. It would be remiss not to mention that the book teaches girls a skill not found in the original DARING BOOK FOR GIRLS, namely, how to make a fifteen-foot backyard geyser from a concoction of Mentos and Diet Coke, and that the book holds the definitive answer to the age-old question, Can you really fry an egg on the sidewalk? Join girls everywhere who are pursuing these delightful activities and living out the Daring Girls credo: Enjoy yourself. Learn new things. Lead an Interesting Life.

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.

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.

It is through this study of the imagery and remains of spinning that Peskowitz shows how gender and rabbinic Judaism were indeed inextricable.