Benjamin Franklin 6-Pack

Even as the world changes, skilled labor will always be needed. There's nothing quite like the ability to create things with your skills and your own hands. Carpenters use their skills to build things we use every day, including items such as furniture, buildings, and bridges. They read building plans, choose materials, design, and create. This book teaches kids that to become a carpenter, you have to use a lot more than a hammer and nails; you need your brain too. Photographs and diagrams enable readers to make key connections with the text.

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and set off on a course of events that will shape Ulysses' life for the next four decades. As Ulysses returns home to London,...

Muchos estudiantes universitarios se preguntan en algún momento: ¿sería interesante adquirir una preparación que complemente la de mis estudios?, ¿en qué aspectos?, ¿de qué tipo? Todos los recién graduados se hacen a sí mismos preguntas como: — ¿Qué hago? — ¿Me dedico a tiempo total a buscar trabajo? — ¿Dónde y cómo buscarlo? — ¿Recurro al autoempleo? A unos y a otros, este libro, con una dimensión claramente práctica, les ayudará a orientar su carrera y a complementarla con la formación que el mundo laboral les exige, así como en el aprendizaje de las mejores...

An award-winning, educator-approved first book on birds. In this simple volume, educator and author Cathryn Sill uses clear, easy-to-understand language to teach children what birds are, what they do, and how they live. Noted wildlife illustrator John Sill provides beautifully detailed, realistic paintings to showcase the birds' diverse and natural worlds, and an afterword provides more details about each bird and inspires further learning.