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Blast off on the biggest micro-adventure yet, with these six fantastic stories featuring the popular Project X characters - Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger - and their new micro-friends, Nok the alien and Seven the robot. Carefully levelled and highly motivating, these books are ideal for independent reading.

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Tony Gaddis is the principal author of the Starting Out with series of textbooks. He has nearly two decades of experience teaching computer science courses, primarily at Haywood Community College. Tony is a highly acclaimed instructor who was previously selected as the North Carolina Community College Teacher of the Year, and has received the Teaching Excellence award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. Tony, Haywood Community College 1981 Business Administration and 1985 Electronic Data Processing graduate, was selected as Outstanding Alumni Recipient for 2012 for the college. His Starting Out with series includes introductory textbooks covering Programming Logic and Design, Alice, C++, Java, Microsoft Visual Basic, and Python.

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El thriller más fascinante sobre la primera vuelta al mundoCuando Diego de Soto finaliza sus estudios universitarios en Valladolid es requerido por uno de sus profesores, el gran cronista real Pedro Mártir de Anglería, para que sea su discípulo y lleve a cabo su primer encargo como ayudante: Diego debe viajar a Sevilla para recabar datos de las expediciones a ultramar y completar así sus crónicas. Pero este viaje le depara mucho más de lo que puede imaginar. Lo pondrá en la pista del viaje de Magallanes, considerado un traidor por muchos, y descubrirá que lo que cuentan algunos de los que regresaron de esa épica expedición que consiguió llegar hasta las islas Molucas y dar la primera vuelta al mundo, bajo el mando del nuevo héroe Elcano no coincide con las crónicas oficiales. Esta revelación le hará dudar de todo lo que se ha dicho del portugués hasta ese momento.Porque qué pasa si la historia miente?He tratado de conocer la verdad. He luchado por ella. Pe

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The world is overrun with monsters called Nemeses—and a young boy infected by one will stop at nothing to defeat them all!Evil creatures called Nemeses fall from the skies and the only ones who can fight them are Wizards—infected ones who survived a Nemesis's corruption. Seth, one of these survivors, vows not only to fight the Nemeses, but to find their mythical nest, Radiant, and destroy it!After getting hit by a giant dragon's head an enduring a couple of other setbacks, Seth's team in the Broom Broom Survival Cup finds itself in a difficult position. While clearly not in his element, Seth comes up with some ingenious tactics that result in a surprising, one-of-a-kind finish! After the race, Seth and his friends confront an emergency that forces a rethink about frienships and alliances forged in the past. Spurred by this, Seth and the others head out to lands unknown to them and stumble into a situation promising more amazing adventures!

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"Playful, brooding, skeptical, ironic—Sanders turns high-jinks edginess into compassionate art in this crafty and urgent book of warnings."—Edward Hirsch

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A perfect introduction to fairy tales for little ones! This abridged classic features bright, fun illustrations and a sturdy board format with tabs to make it easy for little hands to turn the pages. Discover the adventure that happens after Jack swaps the family cow for some rather magical beans.

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The trials and tribulations of two girls who exchange places through time, between a 21st-century and a fifth-century Camelot.

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DiMag & Mick is a portrait of DiMaggio and Mantle as the old and young exemplars of what was a more confident, masterful age not only in baseball but in the country where they were held up as cultural heroes over two generations, symbolic of an America celebrating its recent triumph over Nazism and ever-curious about the new age of color television, rocket ships, and technology. Tony Castro shows DiMag and Mick as fathers and sons, rebels and heroes, and reveals the rite of passage of two men who would go down in baseball immortality – DiMaggio as he reluctantly prepares to leave the spotlight of adoration and hero-worship for glitzy world of Marilyn’s exploding Hollywood celebrity, and Mantle in his awkward attempt to leave his country roots of Dust Bowl Oklahoma for the big city exposure and expectations of greatness being placed on him. Yankee legend and glory holds a special magic all its own, and Castro examines the heart and soul of that mystique, especially the bond of the players themselves and how that came to breed and spread the perception that there was any animosity between DiMaggio and Mantle – two polarizing personalities who drove many teammates away from one and galvanized their friendship with the other.

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The Grateful Dead rose out of San Francisco's '60s underground rock scene with an unprecedented sound and image. Its members steeped in rock folk classical and blues; their instrumental prowess; and their refusal to bow to commercial conventions helped originate jam band music. Unapologetic in its advocacy of drug use as a means toward mind expansion the Dead helped catapult psychedelic music. After performing at the Monterey International Pop Festival and Woodstock the group became iconic without ever scoring a hit single. A large devoted fan base ä Deadheads ä began to follow the band everywhere. The group suffered a tragedy when bandleader Jerry Garcia slipped into a coma in 1986 but returned the next year with a top-selling album and surprise hit single Touch of Grey. By 1993 the Dead was the top-grossing live act in the United States. The band ended when Garcia died in 1995 but the music lives on with a stream of live releases.ÞIn ÊGrateful Dead FAQÊ Tony Sclafani examines the band's impact and influence on rock music and pop culture. This book ventures into unexplored areas and features a host of rare images making it a must-have for both Deadheads and casual fans.

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Twenty Poems That Could Save America presents insightful essays on the craft of poetry and a bold conversation about the role of poetry in contemporary culture. Essays on the ''vertigo'' effects of new poetry give way to appraisals of Robert Bly, Sharon Olds and Dean Young. At the heart of this book is an honesty and curiosity about the ways poetry can influence America at both a private and public level. Tony Hoagland is already one of this country''s most provocative poets, and this book confirms his role as a restless and perceptive literary critic.

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In California in the early '50s the Fender company introduced the world's first electric bass guitar. They couldn't have known known it then but the Precision Bass would start a revolution in the sound of popular music. This book explains how that revolution happened and how its reverberations are still felt today.ÞThe two-guitars-bass-and-drums lineup that would define pop music found its heart with the Fender bass. In the coming decades the bass guitar provided the solid foundation upon which much modern music is still built. ÊThe Bass BookÊ is the first to study its story with the full lowdown of the most important bass players and bass makers. Brands featured in the book include Alembic Danelectro Epiphone Fender Fodera Gibson Hofner Ibanez Lakland Line 6 Music Man Peavey Rickenbacker Sadowsky Spector Squier Steinberger Wal Warwick and Yamaha.ÞOriginal interviews with makers of bass guitars from the past and present illuminate the book with the popular establishment of the bass during the '60s and '70s examined in detail along with more recent developments such as the popularity of the five-string bass. There is an exclusive interview with Paul McCartney and other bassists who feature in the story including Stanley Clarke Flea James Jamerson Jaco Pastorius and Robert Trujillo.ÞDozens of unusual desirable and rarely seen basses are presented in high-quality photos. A reference section provides a wealth of information on the key makers. ÊThe Bass BookÊ has all you need to know about the story of the bass guitar in one stylish readable volume and this revised and refreshed third edition brings the story right up to date.

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Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterpriseare sent to evacuate the Federation mining colony Vesbius, a frontier settlement that is on the brink of an extinction-level event, threatening the lives of all the colonists and the disruption of ore production vital to Starfleet. However, the colonists refuse to abandon this frontier settlement, not wanting to leave their claims. It is after these irrational decisions that First Officer Spock suggests that perhaps an unexpected ally could aid the colony and help complete the mission....

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