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May 18, 2016
Morelle Code Detectives (Case #3: Yellow Bellied Fool)
The town of Curiosity, Washington is full of little mysteries. The quiet town’s police department can’t keep up with so many cases. The kid-sleuthing team known as the Morelle Code Detectives is on the hunt to track down clues and solve each mystery. Morelle, with her knack for details, never gives up. With the help of her teenage brother Adam and his high-tech investigating skills, as well as her guard dog Shadow’s keen senses, they tackle any case that comes across their desk.
In case #3: Yellow Bellied Fool, the kid detectives stumble upon a boy who is being bullied. As the bullying gets worse, the detectives start to investigate. Why is the bully picking on him? How can they make him stop? Follow the clues along with the Morelle Code Detectives to solve this mystifying case.
*Note to parents: The Morelle Code Detectives are stand-alone, Middle Grade books (for 8-12 year olds). Each novelette in this series hovers at around 10,000 words. They serve as quick reads for inquisitive minds with a dash of mystery and useful life lessons carefully placed throughout.
Morelle Code Detectives (Case #2: Sheepishly Clever)
The town of Curiosity, Washington is full of little mysteries. The quiet town’s police department can’t keep up with so many cases. The kid-sleuthing team known as the Morelle Code Detectives is on the hunt to track down clues and solve each mystery. Morelle, with her knack for details, never gives up. With the help of her teenage brother Adam and his high-tech investigating skills, as well as her guard dog Shadow’s keen senses, they tackle any case that comes across their desk.
In case #2: Sheepishly Clever, while on a stay-cation to their Uncle Paul’s homestead, the Morelle Code Detectives realize that something is lurking in the snowy woods, and it’s already attacked a helpless young sheep! Follow the clues along with them to help the Morelle Code Detectives solve the case and catch the sheepishly clever creature that’s been terrorizing the homestead.
*Note to parents: The Morelle Code Detectives are stand-alone, Middle Grade books (for 8-12 year olds). Each novelette in this series hovers at around 10,000 words. They serve as quick reads for inquisitive minds.
May 16, 2016
May 9, 2016
Chanel Collections and Creations
Overview
A lush visual selection from the Chanel archive essential reading for fashionistas and design aficionados everywhere.
Chanels combination of tradition, originality, and style has always made it the most seductive of fashion labels. Here the House of Chanel opens its private archives, revealing a galaxy of brilliant designs created by Coco Chanel from 1920 onwards. Dazzling clothes, intricate accessories, beautiful models, and timeless design leave no doubt as to the lasting fame of her name and embody everything that has come to symbolize the magic of Chanel.
The book explores five central themes the suit, the camellia, jewelry, makeup and perfume, the little black dress and follows the threads from past to present to show how these key items have been rediscovered and reinvented by new designers. It includes many previously unpublished archive photographs and original drawings by Karl Lagerfeld, as well as glorious images from some of the greatest names in fashion photography. 139 illustrations, 83 in color.
LaChapelles images of the most famous faces on the planet, and marginalized figures like transsexual Amanda Lepore or the cast of his critically acclaimed social documentary Rize call into question our relationship with gender, glamour, and status. Using his trademark baroque excess, LaChapelle inverts the consumption he appears to celebrate, pointing instead to apocalyptic consequences for humanity itself. While referencing and acknowledging diverse sources such as the Renaissance, art history, cinema, The Bible, pornography, and the new globalized pop culture, LaChapelle has fashioned a deeply personal and epoch defining visual language that holds up a mirror to our times.
Author Information
Daniele Bott is a journalist specializing in fashion and beauty, who has written for Vogue and many other magazines. She is the author of Chanel Collections and Creations.
Microbiology
Overview
Books a la Carte are unbound, three hole punch versions of the textbook. This lower cost option is easy to transport and comes with same access code or media that would be packaged with the bound book.
This no. 1 selling non majors microbiology textbook is praised for its straightforward presentation of complex topics, careful balance of concepts and applications, and proven art that teaches. In its Tenth Edition, Tortora Funke Case responds to the no. 1 challenge of the microbiology course: teaching a wide range of student levels, while still addressing student under preparedness. The Tenth Edition meets students at their respective skill levels.
First, the book signals core microbiology content to students with the new and highly visual Foundation Figures that students need to understand before moving forward in a chapter. Second, the book gives students frequent opportunities for self assessment with the new Check Your Understanding questions that correspond by number to the chapter Learning Objectives. Then, a new visual learning orientation includes an increased number of the popular Diseases in Focus boxes, newly illustrated end of chapter Study Outlines that provide students with visual cues to remind them of chapter content, and new end of chapter Draw It questions. The all new art program is contemporary without compromising Tortora Funke Cases hallmark reputation for precision and clarity. Content revisions include substantially revised immunity chapters and an increased emphasis on antimicrobial resistance, bioterrorism, and biofilms.
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Author Information
JimGerard J. Tortora is a professor of biology and teaches microbiology, human anatomy, and physiology at Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey. He received his M.A. in Biology from Montclair State College in 1965. He belongs to numerous biology microbiology organizations, such as the American Society of Microbiology (ASM), Human Anatomy and Physiology Society (HAPS), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), National Education Association (NEA), New Jersey Educational Association (NJEA), and the Metropolitan Association of College and University Biologists (MACUB). Jerry is the author of a number of biological science textbooks. In 1995, he was selected as one of the finest faculty scholars at Bergen Community College and was named Distinguished Faculty Scholar. In 1996, Jerry received a National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) excellence award from the University of Texas and was selected to represent Bergen Community College in a campaign to increase awareness of the contributions of community colleges to higher education.
Prehistoric Life
Overview
With an extensive catalog at its heart, Prehistoric Life profiles hundreds of fascinating species in incredible detail. The story starts in earnest 3.8 billion years ago, with the earliest known form of life on Earth, a bacteria that still exists today, and journeys through action packed millennia, charting the appearance of new life forms as well as devastating extinction events. Of course, the ever popular and endlessly intriguing dinosaurs feature large, but Prehistoric Life gives you the whole picture, and the plants, invertebrates, amphibians, birds, reptiles, and mammals that are the ancestors of todays species also populate its pages, making this book unprecedented in its coverage of prehistory. Specially commissioned artworks use cutting edge technology to render species in breathtakingly realistic fashion, with astonishing images of prehistoric remains, such as skeletons and fossils, to complete the story. To put all the evidence in context, the concept of geological time is explored, as is the classification of species and how the evidence for their evolution is preserved and can be deciphered.
Author Information
Collected by the Museum of Modern Art, Bostons Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others. Six of his books, A Users Guide to the View Camera, Darkroom Dynamics, A Short Course in Photography and A Short Course in Digital Photography (both with Barbara London), Photography 10th Edition, and Photography The Essential Way (both books with Barbara London and John Upton), are in wide and continued use for university level courses, and there have been three artist books published of his photographs, Stranger Than Fiction (Light Work, 1993), Historiostomy (Piltdown Press, 2001), and Why My Pictures are Good (Nazraeli Press, 2005).
Stone has received awards from the Massachusetts Arts Council, The New England Foundation for the Arts, The San Francisco Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For several years he served on the board of directors for the Society for Photographic Education and Boston Photographic Resource Center. He taught formerly at Boston College and the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently he is Professor of Photography at the University of New Mexico.
