In this book, readers will team up with groups of divers for all kinds of deep ocean adventures, learning they have many different jobs and need to know real-world math. They'll discover the concepts of area and perimeter and learn how to measure the distance and size of the ocean discoveries in this book.
Travel with the experts to locate and extract venom from various venomous animals. We use the venoms for antivenom treatment of bites, pain relief, and even for diseases such as cancer. In this book, readers will use multiplication and division to determine the correct amounts for extraction.
This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy. Games in the Renaissance offered an inventive and imaginative understanding of the world for their players, one founded not only on iterative performances, but also through a visual and material culture imbricated in early modern Italy’s ideologically inflected artistic, scientific, and social systems. As this book demonstrates, the materia of play took part in shaping the imaginary of the Cinquecento and its roots in the Quattrocento within a network of interwoven courts, intellectual circles, and civic centers situated on the Italian peninsula. For makers, players, viewers, and patrons, for lords, professional athletes, and gambling workmen, the visual culture of games—the art of play—stood at the very center of the world we have long known as the Renaissance. Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy above all focuses on how the material and visual cultures of games shaped their performance and practice and, crucially, our knowledge of the past. The structure of this book echoes infamous gambler and polymath Cardano’s categorization of games as Games of Wit (including both skill and mixed skill and chance), Games of Fortune (including both chance and Terence’s fate), and Games of Vigor (including athletics of agility and strength).This book will resonate with scholars and students of Renaissance studies, art history, and cultural history, offering fresh perspectives on the material and visual cultures of games.
Whether in a salon, shop, or spa, there are many jobs in the field of cosmetology. If you have always been interested in hairstyles and being creative with makeup and nails, this may be the field for you. This book lays out the skills you will need to learn to become a cosmetologist. Features include activities for further learning, author biography, comprehension questions, educational front/back matter, full-color photographs, glossary of key words, index, note to parents and educators, suggested websites, and table of contents.
"I loved the other world/reality where Jason is a girl. I want to live there No plastic, everyone grows their own food and it's a matrichal society I can see a Netflix series made from this I would definitely recommend for lovers of science fiction/the cosmos and I'm sure both (open-minded) men and lesbians will enjoy this story." Amazon Reviewer If you push your luck, expect it to push back. That's what my Grandma Beasley used to say. And she was right. I had it illustrated to me ten days ago, and again on this frigid October night in the middle of Nowhere, Kansas. So begins the journey of twenty-five year old Jason Beasley, a Synesthete-- his brain merges his senses in a way that allows him to see words and images before him as if on a Plexiglas screen. When he leaves his mother's house for the last time, along with her pious and overbearing preacher boyfriend, his journey takes him to an old barn laboratory in Coffeyville Kansas, which holds much more than some mad scientist's forgotten notebooks. He is about to discover, literally, a new reality, and that the research Professor Pritchard has done will lead him to the life he didn't know he was missing. If he could only get used to all the differences; starting with the fact that his own gender has changed, and he's now a lesbian.
Lesbians. Dinosaurs. Time travel. Fun. "Five stars. Science, smart women, and a craftily woven tale - Brilliant " "I really enjoyed this story. The characters were feisty, intelligent, and quick-witted (necessary in the Jurassic Age just as now). The story was intriguing. The science was just right and done in such an interesting fashion. This was such a fun read " "My mind was completely blown - several times - while reading this absolutely brilliant story. If you like science, smart women, sarcasm, wit, and a really clever story, then don't hesitate to click Buy Now. What I like most about the story, aside from the two main characters, were the possibilities presented regarding manipulating time, chance, and outcome. Oh, and there's a love story, too If I could give it more stars I would. Loved it " Paleontologist Dr. Veronica Hill has just returned from a dig in New Zealand, where her most interesting find was not a fossil, but a mysterious artifact of unknown origin. What was an intricate brass mechanism doing buried alongside 150 million-year-old dinosaur bones? Museum janitor Jonna Clarke has a curious mind, a knack for adapting to any situation, and a mad crush on the High Falutin' Fossil Goddess. Even though she knows that Dr. Hill is way out of her league, it doesn't stop her from wanting to catch a glimpse of the sexy professor before her workday is over. A few harsh words, a misplaced hand, and a swirling beam of light later, both women get more than they bargained for when they wake up elsewhere. Veronica thinks it looks just like Pitfall Cave in New Zealand. The exact location where she excavated the brass, bedialed mechanism. But after a quick look around, Dr. Hill knows not only where they are, but when. While Veronica is living her fantasy, Jonna has never been more skewered by reality. Navigating a prehistoric landscape is not a skill set most humans have, but Jonna knows that some survival tactics are universal. Food, water, shelter. And as she quickly realizes, someone has to protect Veronica while she makes goo-goo-eyes at her living fossils. With danger coming at them from all directions-land, air, sea, the future, and the past-will Veronica's scientific mind combined with Jonna's unique intelligence help them survive the primitive landscape of Jurassic New Zealand? Can they ever find a way back home? Lesbians. Dinosaurs. Time travel. Fun. "This took me to the many great adventure stories that I read as a girl - Only the heroes here, are women " "I think this is a very well-written story with a great storyline." "I really, really enjoyed this book. I loved it so much I couldn't put it down. It was action-packed, anxiety-inducing, with a whole lot of hilarity thrown in. Well done." "Joanna and Veronica are different as two peas in the pod. But they work well together. I felt like I was watching Star Trek, Jurassic Park, and Land of the Lost. Lol. These two together had me cracking up. I like the events that happened. I definitely recommend this book." "I enjoyed this story, especially since it takes place during the actual Jurassic instead of the late Cretaceous like the vast majority of time-travel stories do because that's when everybody's favorite T. rex thrived. I'd be just as satisfied if our heroes stumbled upon a hungry Allosaurus, which DOES happen in this book." "Absolutely loved this book. I'm a big fan of the lesbian sci-fi genre. This story had just enough historical information to peak my interest and not so many big words that I got annoyed. I liked that the story included the not-so-typical dinosaurs that are in most movies. The book was a good read and I didn't want to put it down until I was done. I hope to see more like it in the future."
Whatever the underlying motives--be they love, financial security, or mere masochism--the fact is that getting involved in a romantic partnership is emotionally, morally, and even politically fraught. In Hard To Do, Kelli Mar a Korducki turns a Marxist lens on the relatively short history of romantic love, tracing how the myth of economic equality between men and women has transformed the ways women conceive of domestic partnership. With perceptive, reported insights on the ways marriage and divorce are legislated, the rituals of twentieth-century courtship, and contemporary practices for calling it off, Korducki reveals that, for all women, choosing to end a relationship is a radical action with very limited cultural precedent.Kelli Mar a Korducki is a journalist and cultural critic. Her byline has appeared frequently in the Globe and Mail and National Post, as well as in the New Inquiry, NPR, the Walrus, Vice, and the Hairpin. She was nominated for a 2015 Canadian National Magazine Award for "Tiny Triumphs," a 10,000-word meditation on the humble hot dog for Little Brother Magazine. A former editor-in-chief of the popular daily news blog Torontoist, Korducki is based in Brooklyn and Toronto.
