Product Description: Laura was a self-certified couch potato who, until a few years ago, could only run for a couple of minutes at a time, and couldn’t swim. She has now completed several marathons and is a committed triathlete. But Laura couldn’t have achieved what she has without the advice and support of her friend Katie...read more

Product Description: Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communicating complex information across multiple media platforms. Against a backdrop of competing national priorities, changing technologies, globalization, and academic capitalism, these industries have sought to reach increasingly differentiated local audiences, even as distributed production practices have made the lack of authorial control increasingly obvious...read more

Explores the appearance, characteristics, and behavior of protists and fungi, lifeforms which are neither plants nor animals, using specific examples such as algae, mold, and mushrooms.

Product Description: Katrina, a young girl abandoned by her mother and taken in by a band of misfits, struggles to identify the shadow within her. Will it all come to her too late?

Presents information and instructions for activities relating to principles of heat in everyday life.

Two members of the U.S. Women's Olympic gold medal-winning ice hockey team share their personal accounts of their sport, along with tips on skating skills, fitness, equipment, rules, conditioning drills, and more for women who want to take up the sport. Original. Tour. IP. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Katie King examines the development of U.S. feminist theory, tracing its inception, rocky development, and internecine struggles. She argues that the subject matter of women’s studies is cultural studies."This book should definitively alter the map of contemporary feminist theory in the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)