Derek Miller

What's the difference between skin and scales? Why do some animals live inside a hard shell? Early readers will learn about the diverse body coverings that allow animals to survive in their various environments, from the jungle to the ocean. Using simple language and close text-to-image correlation, this book introduces children to the fascinating ways animals' bodies have evolved to thrive in different parts of the world.

The president's ability to issue executive orders is a process steeped in misconceptions. This must-have volume looks at the history of this important executive power, explains executive orders that have had wide-ranging effects, and demonstrates the legal limits of the president's power. With emphases on checks and balances put in place by the U.S. Constitution and responses from Congress and the Supreme Court to past executive orders, the book covers the objectives of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards. Contemporary examples of executive orders, such as President Trump's orders related to immigration, provide background knowledge about key debates today.

Taxes are often regarded as a dreaded topic, but in reality, the revenue from taxes is what keeps the United States government running. Money from taxes helps the government to provide essential services, such as schools, roads, and Social Security benefits. Through accessible explanations that align with the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards, this volume illustrates how the president, Congress, and the IRS work together to fund the federal government, as well as the people and processes behind state and local taxes. This book paints a vivid and engaging picture of the people who levy taxes and legislate tax reforms, imparting the necessity of tax collection.

HOW THE HELL DO YOU CROWDFUND $100,000? HERE’S THE ULTIMATE HANDBOOK. In this bold, irreverent, hilarious how-to guide, bestselling Kickstarter campaign manager Derek Miller takes his millions of dollars of supercrowdfunding experience and delivers everything you need to know about being a modern entrepreneur in today’s global marketplace. In other words, this ain’t your dad’s business book. Embrace community and learn how to maximize your MESSAGE, MECHANICS, and MARKETING so you can successfully: - Get people to give a damn about you and your crazy idea so you can stand out from the noise. - Avoid the mistakes the rest of us made. - Discover your creative freedom and make that sweet, sweet cash. Accompanied by laugh-out-loud illustrations by cartoonist Joy Ho, enjoy an exhaustive look into what it takes to manage and execute a successful six-figure crowdfunding campaign with over $20 million worth of collective advice and pro-tips from the world class asskickers who brought you: Dude Bro Party Massacre 3 ($241,071) Augie and the Green Knight ($384,410) OrganATTACK! ($526,274) The Cyanide & Happiness Show ($770,309) Superbook ($2,952,508) Joking Hazard ($3,246,588) G-RO ($3,307,773) Pillars of Eternity ($3,986,929)

In the nineteenth century, copyright law expanded to include performances of theatrical and musical works. These laws transformed how people made and consumed performances. Exploring precedent-setting litigation on both sides of the Atlantic, this book traces how courts developed definitions of theater and music to suit new performance rights laws. From Gilbert and Sullivan battling to protect The Mikado to Augustin Daly petitioning to control his spectacular 'railroad scene', artists worked with courts to refine vague legal language into clear, functional theories of drama, music, and performance. Through cases that ensnared figures including Lord Byron, Laura Keene, and Dion Boucicault, this book discovers how the law theorized central aspects of performance including embodiment, affect, audience response, and the relationship between scripts and performances. This history reveals how the advent of performance rights reshaped how we value performance both as an artistic medium and as property.

Experience the excitement of travel - discovering new land, a new language, feeling like an explorer, new currency and all the little challenges that go along with it. Feed your inspirations and inquisitive mind by opening yourself up to visiting and learning foreign cultures and lifestyles. Traveling will help you become more spontaneous and prevent you from living for the future or the past. Living in the moment, being impulsive and having an open mind is what travel is all about. Travel through my eyes will help you learn and visualize what our planet has to offer. Share with me my passion for travel and the powerful attributes that it provides. Realize how travel is an enrichment process where you the traveler gain self-confidence and empowerment through your travel experiences. This book will broaden your mind and horizons in many ways - but perhaps more importantly, it will be motivation for you to pack your bags and see the world in your own eyes.

During World War II a top secret battalion made up of magicians, actors, and artists saved over thirty-thousand lives without firing a single shot. They were known as The Ghost Army.In 2014 the battalion saves one more life when an unlikely friendship with a surviving veteran pulls a troubled teen from the edge of self-destruction.

This study offers an explicit theory of media pressure - what it is, how it works, how it can be measured - based in part on the 'positioning theory' in discursive psychology. This offers the first independent and comparative history and analysis of media pressure vs. coverage, through the lens of the insurrection against Saddam Hussein in 1991.

This study offers an explicit theory of media pressure - what it is, how it works, how it can be measured - based in part on the 'positioning theory' in discursive psychology. This offers the first independent and comparative history and analysis of media pressure vs. coverage, through the lens of the insurrection against Saddam Hussein in 1991.

This work presents a comprehensive approach to the problems that adolescents have in society. It provides the required therapeutic and social skills to help these individuals move into maturity and examines the nature/structure of social organisations in which they function.

Argues that adolescents who wage war on their own lives can be successfully treated. Topics covered include: adolescent sexual disorders; adolescent suicide; adolescent violence and predatory behaviour; mood and behavioural disturbances; and the planning of treatment.