In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.

A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories. While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home wherever she goes. In this poetic testament to the power of place in our lives, Mayes reflects on "home," from the earliest imprint of four walls to the startling discoveries of feeling the strange ease of homes abroad, friends' homes, and even momentary homes that spark desires for other lives. Her musings are...

Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University delivers twenty-four lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinctive identity of the Americas today.

This title covers clustering, from basic methods to more refined and complex data clustering approaches, paying special attention to recent issues in graphs, social networks, and other domains. It presents core methods for data clustering, including probabilistic, density- and grid-based, and spectral clustering and explores various problems and scenarios pertaining to multimedia, text, biological, categorical, network, streams, and uncertain data....

In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. Called a madman by his enemies, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone, Nikola Tesla was, without a doubt, a trailblazing inventor who created astonishing, sometimes world-transforming devices that were virtually without theoretical precedent. Tesla not only discovered the rotating...

Dr. Gafni explores how Judaism was permanently transformed by the events that took place between 586 BC [Babylonian captivity] and 70 AD [Roman invasion]. He shows how the loss of the 2 temples, their land, and the Diaspora in the first century AD changed worship practices, interpretation of sacred texts, and how the people's view of themselves changed and their relation to the world at large and to God.

"Kids will learn to sharpen their minds and develop their critical thinking skills as they complete math exercises, word games, puzzles, and more. Introduce your child to 15 popular fruits. The app features four instructional sections including fruit school, fruit play, fruit show and prize page. By giving your child an opportunity to learn in a fun way, you will be helping him or her establish an early love of learning. Match words to their corresponding...

"This exploration of the private wartime diary of Alfred Rosenberg--Hitler's 'chief philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology--interweaves the story of its recent discovery with the revelation of its never-before-published contents, which are contextualized by the authors: The result is a unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia. A groundbreaking historical contribution,...

Kids will be wrapped up in discovery, adventure, and exploration as they learn skills that will set them up for school year success. Ideal for keeping kids between kindergarten and second grade interested in learning over the summer months. Practice addition, subtraction, mulitplication, and division facts; strengthen spelling and vocabulary concepts; learn about different animals; explore history and language.

"Kids will dive into a land of discovery while building a foundation of knowledge in science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Build early reading skills with favorite characters ; develop a love of science ; improve hand-eye coordination ; put your imagination and creativity to work"--