From multi-award-winning, literary legend Ursula K. Le Guin comes a speculative fiction classic, The Beginning Place. Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place"—a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle inhabitants of Tembreabrezi, or Mountaintown, and she sees Hugh as a trespasser. But then a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are they on their way to a new beginning...or a fateful end? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In Victoria on a former prison colony, two exiled groups--the farmers of Shantih and the City dwellers--live in apparent harmony. All is not as it seems, however. While the peace-loving farmers labor endlessly to provide food for the City, the City Bosses rule the Shantih with an iron fist. When a group of farmers decide to from a new settlement further away, the Bosses retaliate by threatening to crush the "rebellion." Luz understands what it means to have no choices. Her father is a Boss and he has ruled over her life with the same iron fist. Luz wonders what it might be like to make her own choices. To be free to choose her own destiny. When the crisis over the new settlement reaches a flash point, Luz will have her chance.

A brilliant physicist attempts to salvage his planet of anarchy.

Here's a fun way for your students to informally experience place value. They will use Funtastic Frogs and Logs for Frogs to show numbers in different ways, explore ones, tens, and hundreds, use a place value chart, and solve problems. Your students will love learning about place value this way!

Here's a fun way for your students to explore addition and subtraction and learn place value. They will use Funtastic Frogs to play each of these simple, but powerful, skill-building games. Each game is easy to learn and works well in a learning center or with small groups. This approach is excellent for mastering basic facts. Your students will love learning about addition and subtraction this way. These activities are perfect for learning centers, large or small groups, or for individual use.

A major study of the major and minor fiction, poetry, and children's books of SF and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin. As Le Guin herself writes, "It is written in English, not academese, and will be of interest to a wide spectrum of students, scholars, and interested readers."

In this book Vernon K. Robbins provides an accessible introduction to socio-rhetorical criticism, illustrating the method by guiding the reader through the study of specific New Testament texts and stories. An opening chapter outlines this new approach and its focus on values, convictions, and beliefs both in the text we read and in the world in which we live. Then follow studies and exercises dealing with specific textural features: inner texture, intertexture, social and cultural texture, ideological texture, and sacred texture.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of 6 internationl workshops held in Brisbane, Australia, in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2007, in September 2007. The 45 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 80 submissions to the following 6 international workshops: Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2007), Business Process Design (BPD 2007), Collaborative Business Processes (CBP 2007), Process-oriented Information Systems in Healthcare (ProHealth 2007), Reference Modeling (RefMod 2007), and Advances in Semantics for Web Services (semantics4ws 2007).

This is a historical record of the 1906 annual meeting of the New York State Historical Association. This book provides a detailed account of the presentations, discussions, and debates that took place during the conference, as well as important speeches and lectures on topics such as New York State history, politics, culture, and economy. The book includes a report from the treasurer, as well as updates on the committee's efforts to mark historic spots in the vicinity of Lake George. It also contains a historic sketch relating to the spots marked and proposed to be marked, along with a cut of the tablets erected and to be erected. This volume offers a unique insight into the intellectual and cultural landscape of New York in the early 20th century.