No kid in your house will ever say, "I'm bored" again. So much fun from such a little book! Over 200 wild and exciting games for kids of all ages, both indoors and out, feature: Dozens of games with balloons and soap bubbles, hiding games and relay races. Blindfold games. Guessing games. Many variations on Musical Chairs and Simon Says. Games with ping-pong balls and electric fans. Lots of concentration and memory games. Eight different Frisbee games. Fifteen relay races. Eight marbles competitions. 21 games you can play with a basketball or baseball. Novelty games using simple but fun streamer balls and twister sticks. Games with names like Cape in the Mud, Dizzy Race, Giggle Ball, Punch Ball and Swamp Monster. With so many games for one or two and for groups up to a dozen, you can turn your house and garden into a magical world with hours of fun from ordinary tables and chairs, soda straws and coins, balls and bats, bowls of water and cardboard boxes. Every game comes complete with instructions, rules, tactics and techniques for winning. They're perfect for parties and picnics and rainy days--and just for times when kids need to stretch their muscles and exercise their brains and learn the fun of teamwork.

Although best known as a poet, Langston Hughes was also the author of two novels that richly evoke the black experience in America. First published in 1930 and 1958, respectively, Not without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory reflect the early and late vision of one of the twentieth century's most distinguished men of letters. In his introduction to this combined edition of both novels, Dolan Hubbard addresses Hughes's growing influence on American letters and reveals how a black aesthetic tradition shaped his art and his imagination. Hughes shows us how the discourse of black America informs and alters our understanding of cultural history and of aesthetic values. In Not without Laughter, he movingly tells the story of a black boy growing into manhood in a small Kansas town during the early twentieth century and his experiences with race, family, school, work, music, and religion. His grandmother, a humble religious woman, struggles to keep her family (living with her are two of her three daughters, one son-in-law, and her grandson) together, on the meager income she earns by taking in washing. Set in Harlem, the center of Hughes's spiritual universe, Tambourines to Glory is an urban folk melodrama based on the black fusion of Christian hymns and spirituals with the blues. This comic novel captures the spirit of newly transplanted southern blacks who bend the alien rhythms of the city to the gospel sound. This volume of The Collected Works of Langston Hughes is a testament to a man whose life and writings have had a profound influence on world literature and is proof that Hughes's immense talent embraced not only poetry, but fiction as well.

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SOLIDWORKS 2023: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users textbook has been designed for instructor-led courses as well as self-paced learning. It is intended to help engineers and designers interested in learning SOLIDWORKS for creating 3D mechanical designs. This textbook is a great help for new SOLIDWORKS users and a great teaching aid in classroom training. This textbook consists of 14 chapters, with a total of 780 pages covering the major environments of SOLIDWORKS such as Sketching environment, Part modeling environment, Assembly environment, and Drawing environment. This textbook teaches users to use SOLIDWORKS mechanical design software for creating parametric 3D solid components, assemblies, and 2D drawings. This textbook also includes a chapter on creating multiple configurations of a design. This textbook not only focuses on the usage of the tools and commands of SOLIDWORKS but also on the concept of design. Every chapter in this textbook contains tutorials that provide users with step-by-step instructions for creating mechanical designs and drawings with ease. Moreover, every chapter ends with hands-on test drives which allow users to experience the user friendly and technical capabilities of SOLIDWORKS. Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to SOLIDWORKS Chapter 2. Drawing Sketches with SOLIDWORKS Chapter 3. Editing and Modifying Sketches Chapter 4. Applying Geometric Relations and Dimensions Chapter 5. Creating Base Feature of Solid Models Chapter 6. Creating Reference Geometries Chapter 7. Advanced Modeling - I Chapter 8. Advanced Modeling - II Chapter 9. Patterning and Mirroring Chapter 10. Advanced Modeling - III Chapter 11. Working with Configurations Chapter 12. Working with Assemblies - I Chapter 13. Working with Assemblies - II Chapter 14. Working with Drawings