Product Description: Peer pressure, bullies and the power to control the universe. Most teenagers will never have to contend with all of these problems, but not Oscar Scott Armstrong. Since he found the Stone of Light bubbling in Bender’s Pond, his life will never be the same...read more

Product Description: Silicon, silica and silicones each have important but separate technological roles to play for mankind in this millennium. All three have the element silicon (Si) in common but they have unique and distinctive chemistries, properties and applications...read more

Product Description: Desperado is proud to present a retrospective volume devoted to the entire career of one of today’s most popular science-fiction and comic artists, Dave Dorman. This book offers readers and fans a chance to witness his immense and phenomenal career from the early days to the present, offering glimpses of previously neverbefore-seen material from his files and sketchbooks, his enormously popular comic and science-fiction work, magazine and book illustrations, as well as beautifully reproduced images of his personal favorites with insights into his life and creative process...read more

Product Description: In this remarkable introduction, Stephen D. Smith describes the inspiring journey he and his family took in creating the first Holocaust center in Britain. This story was written in response to many questions. It replies with a powerful challenge to all who think that never again is really worth the struggle...read more

Still grieving her mother's death, Joy finds solace on the basketball court, but a jealous teammate is making life miserable, and her father has begun to date.

During a game of Truth or Dare, Katie Irwin confesses to a drinking incident, and as a result a jealous volleyball teammate plots to get her kicked off the team.

Eighth-grader Beth asks God for guidance after she neglects her best friend and withdraws from competitive snowboarding to become the girlfriend of a popular classmate.

As she is getting ready to graduate from eighth grade, Stephanie relies on God's help when she joins a softball team with some angry teammates, makes a new friend who is struggling with anorexia, and tries to figure out her changing relationship with theboy who has been her best friend since grade school.Stephanie relies on God's help when she joins a softball team with some angry teammates, makes a new friend who is struggling with anorexia, and tries to figure out her changing relationship with her best friend, Matt.

When troubled thirteen-year-old Luke's dream of becoming a professional surfer seems threatened by some real competition from a girl he barely knows at junior high school, he reacts with angry outbursts that drive his friends away.

Seventh-grader Matt Kramer is happiest when he runs, but when his alcoholic mother disrupts a track meet and he leaves the team in embarrassment, he must find the strength to open up to the help of others.

Seventh-grader Alex Rogers is devastated at not making the junior high football team, but his involvement with a Bible study group and a teamwork lesson on the paintball field help him cope.

Twin brothers Andy and Paul engage in intense sibling rivalry and playing on the same soccer team may not solve the problem.

Product Description: Around 1980, G. Mason announced the classification of a certain subclass of an important class of finite simple groups known as ""quasithin groups"". The classification of the finite simple groups depends upon a proof that there are no unexpected groups in this subclass...read more

Product Description: In the wake of Mel Gibson’s blockbuster movie The Passion of Christ, Christians have taken a hard look at their faith and the anti-Semitic interpretations of past generations. Guided by Christ’s selfless love, Christians from Catholics to Pentecostals often express the desire to understand the roots of their faith and, by extension, the Jewish experience...read more

Product Description: The true story of John Megson, falsely convicted for murder in 1990, and of Stevie Smith, who spent three years bringing the case to appeal.

Product Description: This book is intended as an overview of a research area that combines geometries for groups (such as Tits buildings and generalizations), topological aspects of simplicial complexes from $p$-subgroups of a group (in the spirit of Brown, Quillen, and Webb), and combinatorics of partially ordered sets...read more

Product Description: The authors of this text systematically present the factors that determine interest rates on different types of securities at a particular point in time, and why these rates change as economic conditions change.