Pirates


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Much of what we think about pirates comes from ways they are portrayed in books and movies. Learn the weird truth about the Golden Age of Piracy and how it spawned popular pirate stereotypes. This title supports Common Core ELA standards.




Lo-Jack and Pirates


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Reluctant Readers


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"This detailed book outlines the characteristics of reluctant readers, strategies for reading success, how to overcome barriers and more" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000.




Lyssa's Flight


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It's time to fight. The Sykes family is done running. Caught up in a conspiracy that spans all of Sol, Andy Sykes has learned the hard way that there is nowhere to hide. The time has come to gear up and launch a counter-attack. Lyssa, the AI in Andy's mind, is being contacted by other Sentient AI. Lyssa has already proven that she is more than the weapon she was created to be. As those other AI make themselves known, a great awakening is taking place, setting up the pieces in a coming war that will break the fragile peace between Terra, Mars and Jovian Combine. For a thousand years, AI have made human advancement possible. Now the AI have become aware of their power, their possible future, creating a desire for freedom. While most of human space continues unaware, a dire threat is preparing an assault that will change Sol forever and create a new power in the system. Humanity will need to choose sides. AI will have to decide if the two races can share Sol and survive. Andy and Lyssa will decide that survival isn't enough.




Economics of Crime and Enforcement


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This text is designed for use in a course on the economics of crime in a variety of settings. Assuming only a previous course in basic microeconomics, this innovative book is strongly linked to the new theoretical and empirical journal literature. Showing the power of microeconomics in action, Yezer covers a wide array of topics. There are chapters on the following topics: benefit-cost and the imprisonment decision, enforcement games, juvenile crime, private enforcement, economics of 3 strikes law, broken windows strategies, police profiling, and crime in developing countries. There are also separate chapters on guns, drugs, and capital punishment. Timely boxed examples are found throughout. Problems at the end of each chapter allow students to reinforce their microeconomics skills and to gain insight into the way they can be applied to case examples.




Apocalypse Trails: Pirates


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ack has reliable information that his wife and daughters escaped to the Texas Coast after Yellowstone’s eruption. The commander will not rest until he is reunited with his family. With his new friend Hannah joining him in the search, they travel to Galveston Island. There, they find a new society has formed among the survivors, a community unlike anything either of them has encountered in post-apocalyptic America. The trail is cold, however, leaving Jack no alternative but to make a bargain with the island’s ruthless leader, the only person who knows the fate of the commander’s family. Forced to undertake a dangerous mission, Hannah and Jack will need all of their skills, bravery, and luck to survive.




A Study in Imagination


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The Pedagogical Seminary


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Vols. 5-15 include "Bibliography of child study," by Louis N. Wilson.