With three games to choose from that use bulldozers, yarders, and cranes, kids trucks : alphabet games works on letter recognition in a way that is fun and easy for preschoolers and children to enjoy! Happi reads is designed to stimulate early readers by engaging them in a colorful and teacher approved single word reading activity. Children and early learners can practice both lower-case and upper-case letters, numbers, shapes or full words. Writing...

You will learn Ruby! Zed Shaw has perfected the world's best system for learning Ruby. Follow it and you will succeed -- just like the hundreds of thousands of beginners Zed has taught to date! You bring the discipline, commitment, and persistence; the author supplies everything else. In Learn Ruby the Hard Way, Third Edition, you'll learn Ruby by working through 52 brilliantly crafted exercises. Read them. Type their code precisely. (No copying and...

A comprehensive yet synoptic account of communicable diseases, it covers theory, epidemiology and control, then systematically groups diseases by their main means of transmission.

With 250 entries, this updated filmography and resource is the encyclopedic guide to all things lycanthropic and a fascinating compendium of comparative mythology and folklore. Delving into the 15th century to uncover the origins of the werewolf legend, it is an eye-opening, blood-pounding tour through the ages, landing on the doorstep of creatures like hirsute mass-murderer Albert Fish, Michael Lupo (Lupo is wolf in Italian), and Fritz Haarman who...

In this carefully selected anthology, the author of Renaissance Music presents full scores for all the music highlighted in the companion text -- a total of 102 works for complete movements by some 75 composers. The Anthology of Renaissance Music may also be used independently of the book, as a well-balanced collection for students and teachers of the era's music. The list of works spans the period from the early 15th century to the late 16th. Here...

This updated encyclopedia provides ready information on all aspects of capital punishment in America. It details virtually every capital punishment decision rendered by the United States Supreme Court through 2006, including more than 40 cases decided since publication of the first edition. Entries are also provided for each Supreme Court Justice who has ever rendered a capital punishment opinion. Entries on jurisdictions cite present-day death penalty...