What-a-mess, the afghan puppy, is always in trouble so that his mother disowns him. He sets out to find what he really is - a bee, a hat, a fish?

What a Mess! follows two siblings on a misadventure of epic proportions after the mess in their room becomes completely out-of-control! The cluttered chaos begins to explode from their doorway, sends them to the top of a toymountain, spins them around in a dust-nado, and much more! Every page turn has dazzling and complex paper pop-ups -that will surely delight and amaze.

After Franklin Pig wins first prize in an art contest, his very messy family finally begins to put their dirty, messy home in order.

Over the last 150 years, demand for oil has risen sharply - and so has the number of oil spills. What causes spills, and how do they affect our environment? Most importantly, how can we try to avoid these oily messes? CSI Chapters is a leveled collection of 25 original chapter books in both hard copy and interactive e-book formats that are designed to accelerate comprehension development, vocabulary acquisition, and content literacy. The nonfiction titles are designed to support students' reading comprehension across science, math, and social studies as well as general nonfiction. Using a metacognitive learning approach to support and scaffold students, CSI Chapters gives students the confidence and skills needed to tackle any text.

James Roberts Worthington was born in 1933 and lived his growing up years in the north of England, doing what normal northern lads do. He took a job down South, met his wife and returned back to the North there after. Who is he then?Bob, as he was known, was just a normal gent who had a normal life up until he was struck down with Multiple Sclerosis, a disease of the nervous system.This book is a true life reflection of how Bob lived his life to the full and, in his own words, tells the stories of what happened in his life (all the comedy moments, warts and all) whilst coping with the onslaught of this dreadful, debilitating disease.Bob was always a 'Jack the Lad', having a laugh and a joke with his friends and, when he got the news, the MS didn't stop him and he went on to build two businesses with a "e;You thought you got me"e; attitude. He carried on no matter what.Whilst sitting in his old armchair, staring out of the window, with time on his hands and his feet freezing cold (Bob's feet were always freezing), he decided to share his story with the world by writing this book.Whilst writing the book, he didn't want to sit around an old piano and regale stories with others in the same situation; he wanted to inspire people to carry on regardless and fight this damn thing head on. With this in mind, he decided to go on holiday on a Jumbulance down the Rhine (one off the bucket list) and take an Open University degree (there's another), all within the last twelve months of his life.In short, this book was written to make you smile, to make you cry sometimes in laughter but, more than that, to share his journey and show that life does not come to an end with MS. We all have the same destination, it's just how we live it that makes the difference - with or without inconveniences such as 'MS'.

Set between 1879 and 1919, this family saga covers three to four generations of the Garden family. The lives of the six children are affected by their father, a clergyman whose frequent shifts in religious sympathies generate a sense of the provisionality of all systems of belief. The diverse fates of the six children also mirror the intellectual fashions of the ages through which they live. The book is divided into four parts: Victorian, Fin-de-Siècle, Edwardian, Georgian and the Georgian part is further sub-divided into three periods, namely Circus, Smash, and Debris. So though each child epitomises an aspect of social and intellectual change, the overall effect is of a cyclical view of history or history as 'indefinite sameness' as she puts it an essay. There are four daughters: Roma, the daughter whose intellectual detachment comes closest to the narrator's voice, loves an intellectual aesthete who is murdered by the relatives of his Russian wife; Stanley (f) goes to Somerville and is a politically passionate intellectual, tragically besotted by Parnell; Una, the youngest, epitomises the less intellectual aspects of the New Women.

On their farm nestled in upstate Trumansburg, New York, veterinarian Austin McKenzie and his wife Madeline keep themselves busy looking after a variety of ailing farm animals and pets in poor health. But while they may be able to mend creatures great and small, they have yet to find a cure for murder… Austin has never been a fan of high-society horseplay. So when he’s invited to be the Veterinary Delegate to the Earlsdown Three Day Event, he bluntly refuses. Madeline, however, reminds him how much they could use the money—and how much she would love to take the trip with him. But trouble rears up before they even leave town, when one of Austin’s fellow vets is killed by a sniper—and no one has a clue as to why. Now, as they jump into the high-stakes world of equestrian competition, Austin and Madeline must try to rein in a killer… Praise for Claudia Bishop’s Hemlock Falls Mysteries: “Always a great reading experience.”—The Best Reviews “Off-beat, intriguing.”—The Armchair Detective

What Duke Ellington and Miles Davis teach us about leadership How do you cope when faced with complexity and constant change at work? Here’s what the world’s best leaders and teams do: they improvise. They invent novel responses and take calculated risks without a scripted plan or a safety net that guarantees specific outcomes. They negotiate with each other as they proceed, and they don’t dwell on mistakes or stifle each other’s ideas. In short, they say “yes to the mess” that is today’s hurried, harried, yet enormously innovative and fertile world of work. This is exactly what great jazz musicians do. In this revelatory book, accomplished jazz pianist and management scholar Frank Barrett shows how this improvisational “jazz mind-set” and the skills that go along with it are essential for effective leadership today. With fascinating stories of the insights and innovations of jazz greats such as Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, as well as probing accounts of the wisdom gleaned from his own experience as a jazz musician, Barrett introduces a new model for leading and collaborating in organizations. He describes how, like skilled jazz players, leaders need to master the art of unlearning, perform and experiment simultaneously, and take turns soloing and supporting each other. And with examples that range from manufacturing to the military to high-tech, he illustrates how organizations must take an inventive approach to crisis management, economic volatility, and all the rapidly evolving realities of our globally connected world. Leaders today need to be expert improvisers. Yes to the Mess vividly shows how the principles of jazz thinking and jazz performance can help anyone who leads teams or works with them to develop these critical skills, wherever they sit in the organization. Engaging and insightful, Yes to the Mess is a seminar on collaboration and complexity, against the soulful backdrop of jazz.