Look Out! The Weenie Dogs are at it again. This time they plot the perfect Ham Heist right under mommy's nose! This book is designed for three to ten year old children. It contains fantastic, bright illustrations and the story is narrated by the ever mischievous weenie dog named Snickers. This book is playful, entertaining, and most important, written through the eyes of a child (its 8 year old author Lexi Shockley.)
The strength of this textbook lies in the careful exposition of mathematical thinking, basic set-theoretic notions, and proof techniques combined with contemporary numerical methods used throughout the book. A basic version of computer programs compatible with the widely used program MatLab, and exercises are provided on a disk included with the book.Warmup * Matrix Operations * Invertible Matrices * Subspaces * Rank and Dimension * Geometry * Determinants-I * Diagonalization * Differential Equations * Hermitian Matrices * Triangular Matrices * Unitary Matrices * Block Diagonalization * Jordan Normal Form * Determinants-II * Proofs * Mathematical Induction†* Summary of MINIMAT * Answers * MINIMAT Tutorial (PC Version)
Caldecott Honor recipient Steve Jenkins shines as the author of this amusing and thorough introduction to animal homes. Turtles, birds, fish, beavers, and kangaroos are just like people--they need homes, and take up residence in unusual places. A simple main text introduces similarities between human and animal homes while sidebars detail the unique qualities of each animal and its home. Stylized yet realistic watercolor illustrations prove that nonfiction can be accurate and elegant, and readers of all ages will appreciate this layered narrative.
California is home to over sixteen hundred species of undomesticated bees—most of them native—that populate and pollinate our gardens, fields, and urban green spaces. In this absorbing guidebook, some of the state's preeminent bee and botany experts introduce us to this diverse population. California Bees and Blooms holds a magnifying glass up to the twenty-two most common genera (and six species of cuckoo bees), describing each one's distinctive behaviors, social structures, flight season, preferred flowers, and enemies. Enhancing these descriptions are photographs of bees so finely detailed they capture pollen scattered across gauzy wings and iridescent exoskeletons. Drawing from years of research at the UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab, California Bees and Blooms presents an authoritative look at these creatures, emphasizing their vital relationship with flowers. In addition to opening our eyes to the beautiful array of wild bees in our midst, this book provides information on fifty-three bee-friendly plants and how to grow them. Just a few square feet of poppies, sage, and phacelia are enough to sustain a healthy population of wild bees, transforming an urban or suburban garden into a world that hums and buzzes with life.
"Join Sammy in 'Sammy's Special Hanukkah, ' a heartwarming children's beginning chapter book that explores the resilience of family bonds during challenging times.Sammy is eagerly looking forward to celebrating Hanukkah with his family, especially his beloved grandfather, who plays a special role in their holiday traditions. But this year, an unexpected turn of events casts a shadow over their Hanukkah festivities. Sammy's grandfather breaks his leg and must stay in the hospital, a daunting prospect during the COVID-19 shutdown.As Sammy grapples with the disappointment of not being able to visit his grandfather in person, technical glitches with virtual connections make the situation even more difficult. Frustration and sadness set in as Sammy longs to share the holiday spirit with his grandfather and connect with him through Zoom.Throughout this touching tale, Sammy learns valuable lessons about the power of family, resilience, and the importance of adapting to new challenges. As the day to light the menorah approaches, Sammy discovers that the warmth of their family's love can transcend physical barriers, bringing hope and joy into their lives.'Sammy's Special Hanukkah' is a heartening story that reminds young readers of the enduring strength of family ties and the creative ways we can stay connected, even when circumstances keep us apart. Join Sammy on his journey of discovery, and let the light of Hanukkah illuminate your heart."This touching children's book offers a relatable and uplifting story that resonates with the experiences of many families during challenging times, ultimately emphasizing the enduring power of love and togetherness.
"Join Sammy in 'Sammy's Special Hanukkah, ' a heartwarming children's beginning chapter book that explores the resilience of family bonds during challenging times.Sammy is eagerly looking forward to celebrating Hanukkah with his family, especially his beloved grandfather, who plays a special role in their holiday traditions. But this year, an unexpected turn of events casts a shadow over their Hanukkah festivities. Sammy's grandfather breaks his leg and must stay in the hospital, a daunting prospect during the COVID-19 shutdown.As Sammy grapples with the disappointment of not being able to visit his grandfather in person, technical glitches with virtual connections make the situation even more difficult. Frustration and sadness set in as Sammy longs to share the holiday spirit with his grandfather and connect with him through Zoom.Throughout this touching tale, Sammy learns valuable lessons about the power of family, resilience, and the importance of adapting to new challenges. As the day to light the menorah approaches, Sammy discovers that the warmth of their family's love can transcend physical barriers, bringing hope and joy into their lives.'Sammy's Special Hanukkah' is a heartening story that reminds young readers of the enduring strength of family ties and the creative ways we can stay connected, even when circumstances keep us apart. Join Sammy on his journey of discovery, and let the light of Hanukkah illuminate your heart."This touching children's book offers a relatable and uplifting story that resonates with the experiences of many families during challenging times, ultimately emphasizing the enduring power of love and togetherness.
This textbook is suitable for a one semester lecture course on differential geometry for students of mathematics or STEM disciplines with a working knowledge of analysis, linear algebra, complex analysis, and point set topology. The book treats the subject both from an extrinsic and an intrinsic view point.The first chapters give a historical overview of the field and contain an introduction to basic concepts such as manifolds and smooth maps, vector fields and flows, and Lie groups, leading up to the theorem of Frobenius. Subsequent chapters deal with the Levi-Civita connection, Geodesics, the Riemann curvature tensor, a proof of the Cartan-Ambrose-Hicks theorem, as well as applications to flat spaces, symmetric spaces, and constant curvature manifolds. Also included are sections about manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature, the Ricci tensor, the scalar curvature, and the Weyl tensor. An additional chapter goes beyond the scope of a one semester lecture course and deals with subjects such as conjugate points and the Morse index, the injectivity radius, the group of isometries and the Myers-Steenrod theorem, and Donaldson's differential geometric approach to Lie algebra theory.
The first comprehensive, practical guide to the selection, construction, and installation of soil bioengineering and biotechnical slope protection Here is the ultimate guide to physically attractive, environmentally compatible, and cost-effective methods of protecting slopes from erosion and mass wasting. Lavishly illustrated with more than 150 photographs and supplemented with scores of charts and tables, this book covers the entire subject from general principles and background on the nature of soil erosion and mass movement to detailed information on root strengths, treatment selection, unit costs, critical tractive stresses, methods for harvesting and handling live cuttings, and more. Four illustrated case studies, each addressing a different set of problems and solutions, demonstrate both the application of particular technologies and the site investigation, planning, scheduling, and organization required to complete these projects successfully. This unique reference handbook *Reviews the horticultural and engineering underpinnings for biotechnical and soil engineering treatments *Documents and explains the role of woody plants in stabilizing slopes against both surficial erosion and mass movement *Provides details on a broad range of soil bioengineering methods, including live staking, live fascines, brushlayering, live crib walls, branchpacking, and live slope gratings *Describes various biotechnical methods and materials, including the incorporation of vegetation in erosion control blankets, flexible mats, cellular revetments (geocells), rock armor (rip rap), and gabion and open-front crib walls *Summarizes the findings of the National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop to assess the state of the art and determine research needs For practicing professionals, researchers, and students in geotechnical engineering, geology, soil science, forestry and forest engineering, landscape architecture, environmental horticulture, and restoration ecology, this book offers thorough, up-to-date coverage that is not available from any other single source.
More than ever before, there is widespread interest in studying bumble bees and the critical role they play in our ecosystems. Bumble Bees of North America is the first comprehensive guide to North American bumble bees to be published in more than a century. Richly illustrated with color photographs, diagrams, range maps, and graphs of seasonal activity patterns, this guide allows amateur and professional naturalists to identify all 46 bumble bee species found north of Mexico and to understand their ecology and changing geographic distributions. The book draws on the latest molecular research, shows the enormous color variation within species, and guides readers through the many confusing convergences between species. It draws on a large repository of data from museum collections and presents state-of-the-art results on evolutionary relationships, distributions, and ecological roles. Illustrated keys allow identification of color morphs and social castes. A landmark publication, Bumble Bees of North America sets the standard for guides and the study of these important insects. * The best guide yet to the 46 recognized bumble bee species in North America north of Mexico* Up-to-date taxonomy includes previously unpublished results * Detailed distribution maps * Extensive keys identify the many color patterns of species
The authors define combinatorial Floer homology of a transverse pair of noncontractible nonisotopic embedded loops in an oriented 2 -manifold without boundary, prove that it is invariant under isotopy, and prove that it is isomorphic to the original Lagrangian Floer homology. Their proof uses a formula for the Viterbo-Maslov index for a smooth lune in a 2 -manifold.
This book provides an introduction to geometric invariant theory from a differential geometric viewpoint. It is inspired by certain infinite-dimensional analogues of geometric invariant theory that arise naturally in several different areas of geometry. The central ingredients are the moment-weight inequality relating the Mumford numerical invariants to the norm of the moment map, the negative gradient flow of the moment map squared, and the Kempf--Ness function. The exposition is essentially self-contained, except for an appeal to the Lojasiewicz gradient inequality. A broad variety of examples illustrate the theory, and five appendices cover essential topics that go beyond the basic concepts of differential geometry. The comprehensive bibliography will be a valuable resource for researchers.The book is addressed to graduate students and researchers interested in geometric invariant theory and related subjects. It will be easily accessible to readers with a basic understanding of differential geometry and does not require any knowledge of algebraic geometry.
London, 1938. With a world war on the horizon, a shocking crime begins to unfold - and one reporter knows too much to be allowed to survive. An absorbing and gripping mystery from the critically acclaimed author of SNOW HILL.
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. The sheriff has been stealing from the market without paying. Will Robin Hood be able to make it fairer? This fun re-telling was written by Alice Hemming. Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion. The focus sounds in this book are: /oo/ /igh/ /air/ /or/ /ee/ /ai/ /oo/ /ow/ /er/ Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support forreading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
Once in a while a book is produced that captures the energy and spirit of the world of rock. Somebody Someday was published to massive popular and critical acclaim in September 2001. It shot straight to No 1 in the bestseller lists and proceeded to spend 14 weeks in the top 3. The insight, honesty and humour of the book was unprecedented. The photographic quality and design innovation; no more than this pop icon deserved. In short it was a triumph. For the paperback edition Robert P. Williams and Mark McCrum have delved even further into the phenomenon that is Robbie - covering his million selling 2001 album and looking at changes in his professional, family, social and love lives. Dynamically repackaged in a tempting trade paperback and including new photographs, this is a fitting follow up 2001's most successful hardback - Somebody Someday.
The legend of Robin Hood is part fact and part fiction. Robin Hood lived in Bernsdale Forest (adjoining Sherwood) early in the 14th centruy. His exploits were described in popular ballads of which the meeting with John Little is one.
