Squishy Taylor Versus The Mayor

Author : Ailsa Wild
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1760129577

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Squishy Taylor Versus the Mayor by Ailsa Wild Pdf

A hilarious junior fiction book series from Ailsa Wild about solving mysteries, blending families and leaping to conclusions! Sita 'Squishy' Taylor is a cheeky, sneaky 11-year-old who lives with her dad and step-family in a very crowded apartment. Luckily for Squishy, their building is huge - and there's always plenty of mysteries to investigate! Like ... Why is the mayor being so SNEAKY? How do you make someone look fake-sick? How many dumplings are too many dumplings? What is the Boss of the World doing at Jessie's violin concert? Australian superstar Squishy Taylor is a curious, likeable and instantly relatable hero for ALL kids aged 6 and up. She's part of a blended family - a new kind of normal for so many kids, whether it's a Modern Family or more of a Brady Bunch. Between nightly Skype-chats with her mum, dealing with a noisy baby or her two new 'bonus sisters', there's always a new challenge or exciting mystery to solve. Squishy Taylor and the Bonus Sisters (#1) was listed as a Notable Book in the 2017 CBCA Awards, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Readings Children's Book Prize. Squishy Taylor and the Tunnel of Doom (#6) was shortlisted for the Wilderness Society's Environment Award for Children's Literature in 2017.

Author : Ailsa Wild
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781782027751

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Squishy Taylor and the Bonus Sisters by Ailsa Wild Pdf

Author : Ailsa Wild
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781782027744

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Squishy Taylor and a Question of Trust by Ailsa Wild Pdf

Author : Drew Hayden Taylor
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039000612

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Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor Pdf

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons. Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil, her teenage son, is less than enchanted. Suspicious of the stranger’s intentions, he teams up with his uncle Wayne – a master of aboriginal martial arts – to drive the stranger from the Reserve. And it turns out that the raccoons are willing to lend a hand.

Author : Carl Patton,David Sawicki,Jennifer Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317350002

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Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning by Carl Patton,David Sawicki,Jennifer Clark Pdf

Updated in its 3rd edition, Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning presents quickly applied methods for analyzing and resolving planning and policy issues at state, regional, and urban levels. Divided into two parts, Methods which presents quick methods in nine chapters and is organized around the steps in the policy analysis process, and Cases which presents seven policy cases, ranging in degree of complexity, the text provides readers with the resources they need for effective policy planning and analysis. Quantitative and qualitative methods are systematically combined to address policy dilemmas and urban planning problems. Readers and analysts utilizing this text gain comprehensive skills and background needed to impact public policy.

Author : B. J. Mendelson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781250017505

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Social Media Is Bullshit by B. J. Mendelson Pdf

A provocative look at social media that dispels the hype and tells you all you need to know about using the Web to expand your business If you listen to the pundits, Internet gurus, marketing consultants, and even the mainstream media, you could think social media was the second coming. When it comes to business, they declare that it's revolutionizing advertising, PR, customer relations—everything. And they all agree: it is here to stay. In this lively, insightful guide, journalist and social critic B.J. Mendelson skillfully debunks the myths of social media. He illustrates how the notion of "social media" first came to prominence, why it has become such a powerful presence in the marketing field, and who stands to benefit each time it's touted in the press. He shows you why all the Facebook friends and Twitter followers in the world mean nothing to you and your business without old-fashioned, real-world connections. He examines popular tales of social media "success," and reveals some unsettling truths behind the surface. And he tells you how to best harness the potential of the Internet—without spending a fortune in the process. Social media is bullshit. This book gives the knowledge and tools you really need to connect with customers and grow your brand.

Author : Sue Monk Kidd
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698175242

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The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Pdf

The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide. Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women. Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will endure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements. Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better. This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved. Please note there is another digital edition available without Oprah’s notes. Go to Oprah.com/bookclub for more OBC 2.0 content

Author : Carlton Reid
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610918169

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Bike Boom by Carlton Reid Pdf

Bicycling advocates envision a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation, but this reality is still far away. Will we ever witness a true "bike boom" in cities? What can we learn from past successes and failures to make cycling safer, easier, and more accessible? In Bike Boom, journalist Carlton Reid uses history to shine a spotlight on the present and demonstrates how bicycling has the potential to grow even further, if the right measures are put in place by the politicians and planners of today and tomorrow. He explores the benefits and challenges of cycling, the roles of infrastructure and advocacy, and what we can learn from cities that have successfully supported and encouraged bike booms. In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, Reid sets out to discover what we can learn from the history of bike "booms."

Author : Brendan O'Flaherty
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674019180

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City Economics by Brendan O'Flaherty Pdf

This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development. Its methods of analysis are primarily verbal, geometric, and arithmetic. The author achieves coherence by showing how the analysis of various topics reinforces one another. Thus, buses can tell us something about schools and optimal tolls about land prices. Brendan O'Flaherty looks at almost everything through the lens of Pareto optimality and potential Pareto optimality--how policies affect people and their well-being, not abstract entities such as cities or the economy or growth or the environment. Such traditionalism leads to radical questions, however: Should cities have police and fire departments? Should tax preferences for home ownership be repealed? Should public schools charge for their services? O'Flaherty also gives serious consideration to such heterodox policies as pay-at-the-pump auto insurance, curb rights for buses, land taxes, marginal cost water pricing, and sidewalk zoning.

Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0312203438

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No Logo by Naomi Klein Pdf

"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.

Author : Mark Graham,Rob Kitchin,Shannon Mattern,Joe Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995577676

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How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables by Mark Graham,Rob Kitchin,Shannon Mattern,Joe Shaw Pdf

Author : Valerie Solanas
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784784416

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SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas Pdf

Classic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol “Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.” Outrageous and violent, SCUM Manifesto was widely lambasted when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published the book just before she became a notorious household name and was confined to a mental institution. But for all its vitriol, it is impossible to dismiss as the mere rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has proved prescient, not only as a radical feminist analysis light years ahead of its time—predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against underrepresentation in the arts—but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman. In this edition, philosopher Avital Ronell’s introduction reconsiders the evocative exuberance of this infamous text.

Author : Louis Klarevas
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781633880672

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Rampage Nation by Louis Klarevas Pdf

In the past decade, no individual act of violence has killed more people in the United States than the mass shooting. This well-researched, forcefully argued book answers some of the most pressing questions facing our society: Why do people go on killing sprees? Are gun-free zones magnets for deadly rampages? What can we do to curb the carnage of this disturbing form of firearm violence? Contrary to conventional wisdom, the author shows that gun possession often prods aggrieved, mentally unstable individuals to go on shooting sprees; these attacks largely occur in places where guns are not prohibited by law; and sensible gun-control measures like the federal Assault Weapons Ban—which helped drastically reduce rampage violence when it was in effect—are instrumental to keeping Americans safe from mass shootings in the future. To stem gun massacres, the author proposes several original policy prescriptions, ranging from the enactment of sensible firearm safety reforms to an overhaul of how the justice system investigates potential active-shooter threats and prosecutes violent crimes. Calling attention to the growing problem of mass shootings, Rampage Nation demonstrates that this unique form of gun violence is more than just a criminal justice offense or public health scourge. It is a threat to American security.

Author : Michael Sullivan
Publisher : Wilderness Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780899977447

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The Trees of San Francisco by Michael Sullivan Pdf

Trees of San Francisco introduces readers to the rich variety of trees that thrive in San Francisco's unique conditions. San Francisco's cool Mediterranean climate has made it home to interesting and unusual trees from all over the world - trees as colorful and exotic as the city itself. This new guide combines engaging descriptions of sixty-five different trees with color photos that reflect the visual appeal of San Francisco. Each page covers a different tree, with several paragraphs of interesting text accompanied by one or two photos. Each entry for a tree also lists locations where "landmark" specimens of the tree can be found. Interspersed throughout the book are sidebar stories of general interest related to San Francisco's trees. Trees of San Francisco also includes a dozen tree tours that will link landmark trees and local attractions in interesting San Francisco neighborhoods such as the Castro, Pacific Heights and the Mission - walks that will appeal to tourists as well as Bay Area natives.

Author : Kate Douglas Wiggin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1332795420

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Pinafore Palace (Classic Reprint) by Kate Douglas Wiggin Pdf

Excerpt from Pinafore Palace Every home, large or small, poor or rich, that has a child in it, is a Pinafore Palace, and we have borrowed the phrase from one of child hood's most whimsical and devoted poets-laure ate, thinking no other words would so well em. Press our meaning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.