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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sandra Kring's A Life of Bright Ideas. Wisconsin, 1961. Evelyn “Button” Peters is nine the summer Winnalee and her fiery-spirited older sister, Freeda, blow into her small town–and from the moment she sees them, Button knows this will be a summer unlike any other. Much to her mother’s dismay, Button is fascinated by the Malone sisters, especially Winnalee, a feisty scrap of a thing who carries around a shiny silver urn containing her mother’s ashes and a tome she calls “The Book of Bright Ideas.” It is here, Winnalee tells Button, that she records everything she learns: her answers to the mysteries of life. But sometimes those mysteries conceal a truth better left buried. And when a devastating secret is suddenly revealed, dividing loyalties and uprooting lives, no one–from Winnalee and her sister to Button and her family–will ever be the same.

Is your English degree collecting dust? Wouldn’t you love to work from anywhere, engaged in work you enjoy, while working for yourself and meeting all your financial needs? If you find this combination of freedom and interesting work appealing, The Nomad Editor will give you the tools you need to put your language skills, degree, and imagination to work for you as a freelance editor. And because the self-publishing revolution continues to expand, editors are needed now more than ever. Work is abundant, and The Nomad Editor will help you find it. Join Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD, author, editor, and owner of Superior Book Productions, for an up-close-and-personal look at what it takes to be a freelance editor. In The Nomad Editor, you will discover how to: · Acquire the basic skills and knowledge of an editor · Determine what to charge · Set up your own business · Market your skills to compatible and lucrative clients · Provide outstanding value · Avoid clients who would eat you alive · Juggle multiple projects and meet deadlines · Never work for someone else again Best of all, you’ll be able to set your own hours, work from home or anywhere you want, supplement or replace your current income, create financial stability for yourself and your family, and do work you’ll love. Plus, you’ll know you’re making a difference by helping to bring entertainment and education to millions. Your new life of freedom as a freelance editor awaits you. Just open this book to claim it.

Part of the dynamic reading programme Project X, this book is truly boy-friendly. Project X is a reading programme that has been developed based on research into what will really hook boys into reading and make them love books. Project X includes fiction and non-fiction, exciting adventure stories, lots of gadgets, and 21st-century illustrations. Each book comes with notes for parent/teaching assistants thathighlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities.

Just because you're born with a “Y” chromosome doesn't excuse you from cleaning the bathroom, especially in this day and age when time's at a premium and partners have to be, well, partners. To help men step up to the plate (and wash it) is DAD'S OWN HOUSEKEEPING BOOK, the book of everything your mother never taught you about taking care of a house. Written by a real guy, in a real guy's voice and with a direct guy-to-guy point of view, DAD'S OWN HOUSEKEEPING BOOK—in the spirit of Dad's Own Cookbook, with 270,000 copies in print—takes even the most Swiffer-challenged dad and shows him that housekeeping is no different from yard work, that if you can organize your shop you can organize a kitchen, and if you can load a trunk you can load a dishwasher. From laundry room to attic storage, from the “Five- Minute Attack Plan: Bathroom” to the all-out assault of spring cleaning (it really does make a big difference), from mold to stains to picking-up-after-the-kids-without-driving-yourself-crazy, this is the comprehensive crash course. Here's how to do the laundry without dulling colors. Stock the pantry to make weekday meals infinitely easier. How to get mildew off the shower tiles. How to make a bed—in one minute. How to be best friends with baking soda—just one of the many tips the author gives for saving money. And what you can do in thirty minutes to make your house completely presentable for your mother-in-law. Sorry, no more excuses.

Deal yourself an idea Experiencing writers block? Stumped for a solution to a personal problem? Lacking inspiration for an upcoming project? The Bright Idea Deck is the perfect tool for supercharging the brainstorming process and getting the creative juices flowing. Designed to generate ideas, expand creative expression, and stimulate thought processes, this brainstorming companion is ideal for the workplace or home. Filled with colorful, contemporary imagery, this deck suggests hundreds of possible strategies, perspectives, opportunities, motivations, goals, actions, and answers. The boxed kit includes a companion book that describes the decks structure and card meanings, along with sample scenarios that demonstrate how to use this effective idea generator.

Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Starting your own business can be the most liberating, fulfilling step you've ever taken but you need a trusted guide, particularly in the tricky, early stages. Many start-up books focus on the mechanics of running a business, without really giving you insight into how you get to that point in the first place.That's where WHAT'S YOUR BRIGHT IDEA? comes in. Both authors have considerable experience of new business ventures. They offer an honest, waffle-free assessment of what's required to set up a business, and give you plenty of sound advice along the way. Going into business involves a lot of hard work, but it should also be fun too, and WHAT'S YOUR BRIGHT IDEA? will help stimulate the vital sense of adventure required to make a success of possibly the most significant journey of your life.

Provides wonderful ideas on all aspects of the Young Women program. Includes: structuring personal progress, implementing the young women values, organizing girls camp, planning new beginnings and young women in excellence, providing leadership instruction, increasing parental support, seasonal celebrations, ideas for youth conference, etc.

A discovery that made the world a brighter place! Joe and Bob Switzer were very different brothers. Bob was a studious planner who wanted to grow up to be a doctor. Joe dreamed of making his fortune in show business and loved magic tricks and problem-solving. When an accident left Bob recovering in a darkened basement, the brothers began experimenting with ultraviolet light and fluorescent paints. Together they invented a whole new kind of color, one that glows with an extra-special intensity—Day-Glo. This cover reproduction is not printed with Day-Glo colors. The actual book, however, is printed using three Day-Glo colors: Saturn Yellow, Fire Orange, and Signal Green.