Laura Miller

Amy and Jack are on vacation. They are visiting Max. It is dark. They cannot sleep. Suddenly, Amy points. "Look!" she says. "What are they?" Bats, birds, butterflies, moths...? Learn about animals of the night!

You use your brain all the time. It is like a very intelligent computer inside your head. What does your brain look like? What does it do? Come on, let's exercise your brain!

Amy and Jack are on vacation. They are visiting Max. It is dark. They cannot sleep. Suddenly, Amy points. "Look!" she says. "What are they?" Bats, birds, butterflies, moths...? Learn about animals of the night!

This is pure romance at its best. -Romantic Reading Escapes From the author who brought you the best-selling novel Butterfly Weeds and small-town firefighter Will Stephens, comes the other side of the story-an unforgettable and poignant tale about risking everything for the one you love.Will Stephens doesn't chase dreams outside of his small, Missouri town. He's perfectly happy with his high school sweetheart in his arms, his guitar and his quiet summer nights. But life for Will is about to change. He's about to find out what it's like to chase a dream-one he has loved since he first laid eyes on her.A firefighter by day and a musician by night, Will balances his dangerous career with his weekend gigs, but his mind is never far from Julia Lang. They said their goodbyes years ago, but Will now hopes a song from their past will help Julia stop and remember a life they once shared together. His only fear is that he's waited too long to get his song to her ears.

An Amazon Best-seller Beautifully written and sure to leave a lasting footprint on your heart -The Indie Bookshelf An authentic and timeless novel about young love, loss and second chances, Butterfly Weeds is sure to warm the hearts of YA romance fans everywhere. Julia Lang expected a nice night away from the office-free of thoughts about the case, her failed engagement, her past. But she should have known better. Her past haunted her every chance it got these days, and tonight it came in the form of lyrics she never expected to hear again-not after a decade, not in the arms of another man and definitely not in the form of a confession. Now, Julia must discover for herself if the song-and more importantly, the man behind it-is enough to leave her new life for her small-town, Missouri roots and a second chance at love. And look for the special preview of My Butterfly, Will's side of the story, inside this edition.

Student Book w/ CD-ROM Each level of the Student Book contains a Welcome unit and 8 units each designed for 3-5 hours of class per week. Each unit includes a values lesson, a cross curricular lesson and a “phonics” lesson. The access code printed at the back of the book gives students and parents unique and safe access to the online world. The CD-ROM contains additional interactive games and puzzles related to each unit of the Student Book. It also includes the songs and chants.

Student Book w/ CD-ROM Each level of the Student Book contains a Welcome unit and 8 units each designed for 3-5 hours of class per week. Each unit includes a values lesson, a cross curricular lesson and a “phonics” lesson. The access code printed at the back of the book gives students and parents unique and safe access to the online world. The CD-ROM contains additional interactive games and puzzles related to each unit of the Student Book. It also includes the songs and chants.

THE MAGICIAN'S BOOK is the story of one reader's long, tumultuous relationship with C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. Enchanted by its fantastic world as a child, prominent critic Laura Miller returns to the series as an adult to uncover the source of these small books' mysterious power by looking at their creator, Clive Staples Lewis. What she discovers is not the familiar, idealized image of the author, but a more interesting and ambiguous truth: Lewis's tragic and troubled childhood, his unconventional love life, and his intense but ultimately doomed friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien.Finally reclaiming Narnia 'for the rest of us', Miller casts the Chronicles as a profoundly literary creation, and the portal to a life-long adventure in books, art and the imagination.

In 1998, the U.S. Army became the only service to shift its senior enlistment force from a fixed enlistment contract system to indefinite reenlistment, which eliminated the reenlistment requirement in the latter half of a noncommissioned officer's career and placed them on the same indefinite service contract as officers. This study considers the utility of this program and potential applicability to the other service branches.

This engaging introduction to Japan's burgeoning beauty culture investigates a wide range of phenomenon - aesthetic salons, dieting products, male beauty activities, and beauty language - to find out why Japanese women and men are paying so much attention to their bodies. Laura Miller uses social science and popular culture sources to connect breast enhancements, eyelid surgery, body hair removal, nipple bleaching, and other beauty work to larger issues of gender ideology, the culturally-constructed nature of beauty ideals, and the globalization of beauty technologies and standards. Her sophisticated treatment of this timely topic suggests that new body aesthetics are not forms of "deracializiation" but rather innovative experimentation with identity management. While recognizing that these beauty activities are potentially a form of resistance, Miller also considers the commodification of beauty, exploring how new ideals and technologies are tying consumers even more firmly to an ever-expanding beauty industry. By considering beauty in a Japanese context, Miller challenges widespread assumptions about the universality and naturalness of beauty standards.