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Vaccination Investigation: The History and Science of Vaccines

by Tara Haelle

Vaccines are biological substances that cause the human immune system to build up its defenses against specific diseases. Public health officials recommend a series of vaccines for all children, as well as some vaccines for teenagers and adults. But not everyone gets the vaccines they need. Many poor nations don't have the resources to deliver vaccines to every community. Some parents refuse to have their children vaccinated because they don't believe the evidence proving that vaccines are safe. The effort to wipe out diseases using vaccines continues. Vaccine Investigation recounts the fascinating history of vaccines, their important role in protecting community health, and the excitement of cutting-edge research.

Algebra 2

by Haenisch A. G. S. Secondary

Specially written for low-level learners, Algebra 2 covers several methods for solving quadratic equations, such as factoring, completing the square, and graphing. The text also introduces trigonometry and exponential functions—vital concepts for real world applications. Filled with full-color illustrations and examples throughout, Algebra 2 motivates students to learn.

AGS Algebra

by Siegfried Haenisch

Topics include linear equations; inequalities and absolute values; systems of linear equations; powers, exponents, and polynomials; quadratic equations and factoring; rational expressions and proportions; and more. Also includes practice pages, assessment tests, reproducible grid paper, and an answer key. Supports NCTM standards.

Algebra (California)

by Siegfried Haenisch

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Geometry

by Siegfried Haenisch

Geometry is the study of how points, lines, and planes can be used to picture to space around us. In this book, the main attention will be placed on plane geometry. Plane geometry studies geometric figures in a plane, like squares, triangles, and circles. Later, we will learn about solid figures like cubes, prisms, and spheres.

Pre-Algebra

by Siegfried Haenisch

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet

by Katie Hafner Matthew Lyon

Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the Net. Where Wizards Stay Up Late is the exciting story of the pioneers responsible for creating the most talked about, most influential, and most far-reaching communications breakthrough since the invention of the telephone. In the 1960's, when computers where regarded as mere giant calculators, J.C.R. Licklider at MIT saw them as the ultimate communications devices. With Defense Department funds, he and a band of visionary computer whizzes began work on a nationwide, interlocking network of computers. Taking readers behind the scenes, Where Wizards Stay Up Late captures the hard work, genius, and happy accidents of their daring, stunningly successful venture.

The Courage To Advance: Real life resilience from the world’s most successful women in business

by Bonnie Hagemann Lisa Pent The WomenExecs on Boards

A powerful collection of 36 stories about how the world's most successful women have overcome some of life's biggest challenges to reach the top of their professions. This is a book written for every current and aspiring leader, revealing the things that leaders rarely talk about; the behind the scenes struggles.The women in these stories are powerful, internationally diverse and have impressive leadership accomplishments. They were brought together through one unifying experience: they have all completed the Harvard Business School Women on Boards program, a course that has turned into a movement. Today there are over 130 members of the WomenExecs on Boards network, from 17 countries. This is the network where organizations go to find educated, prepared, qualified and diverse women for corporate board seats.After reading this book you will be inspired to lead and make a difference for others whether it's running a company or leading a division, team, project, community event or your family and home. You will discover that you already have all you need to succeed when it gets hard, to never give up, and how to keep going through life's difficult and sometimes terrible challenges. These women want you to know that you are not alone, and that you can lean on the strength of those who have gone before you, keep leading and keep getting back up again and again.

Nothing Ever Happens Here

by Sarah Hagger-Holt

Warm and hopeful, this is a touching and honest depiction of a family changing together–and staying together. &“I wonder what people would think if they could take the front off our house like a doll&’s house and watch us. All in the same house, but everyone separate. No one talking, but everyone thinking the same thing. Will we ever be a normal family again?&” Izzy&’s family is under the spotlight when her dad comes out as Danielle, a trans woman. Izzy is terrified her family will be torn apart. Will she lose her dad? Will her parents break up? And what will people at school say? Now all eyes are on Izzy. Can she face her fears, find her voice, and stand up for her family and what&’s right?

December Stillness

by Mary Downing Hahn

Sensitive and idealistic fifteen-year-old Kelly McAllister feels at odds with everyone around her. Her best friend has suddenly turned boy crazy. Her talented mother creates greeting card designs instead of real art, and her father never talks to her about anything except working hard and getting ahead.<P><P> That's why Kelly becomes so involved in the plight of a homeless Vietnam vet who takes refuge in the library each day. Interviewing him began as a Social Studies project, but it takes on new meaning after her offers of food and friendship backfire into a real disaster.What had the war done to destroy this man? And what had it done to her own father, who had been to the same war ... and refuses to speak of it?<P> Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor Book

The Gentleman Outlaw and Me

by Mary Downing Hahn

A &“ripsnorting western . . . With plenty of twists and turns—and a cameo appearance by Doc Holliday—it&’s a real cowgirl triumph&” (Kirkus Reviews). In 1887, twelve-year-old Eliza Yates—disguised as a boy—sets out with her faithful dog Caesar to search for her missing father. Along the way, she falls in with gentleman outlaw Calvin Featherbone. &“Together, they make their way to Tinville, Colorado, where, coincidentally, Calvin&’s father was killed by a certain Sheriff Yates. Calvin plans to avenge the murder, but he gets himself and Eliza in so much trouble with his amateurish schemes that the pair arrives in town ready to be hanged as horse thieves. Hahn&’s writing crackles like gunshot in the Ol&’ West, and Eliza and Calvin make a lovable team. The plotting is . . . tight and fast paced, and Hahn does a fine job of recreating the atmosphere of the days of cowboys and miners&” (Booklist). &“Hahn has obviously done her research, and succeeds in bringing the ambiance of the Old West to her novel. The result is a fast, funny, and entertaining adventure that&’s just the thing for fans of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.&”—School Library Journal &“An amusing comedy of errors that derives much of its humor from Calvin&’s speech and manners and Eliza&’s wry asides alluding to her true identity as a girl.&”—Kirkus Reviews

The Uncyclopedia

by Gideon Haigh

Make way for this defiantly idiosyncratic, hilariously illuminating compendium of curiosities you never knew you wanted to know! How do you flirt in Turkish? How do you dump someone in Japanese? What are the names of all the animals ever sent into space? These are just some of the fun and insightful oddities that made Gideon Haigh's The Uncyclopedia a hit overseas. The first ever encyclopedia for the curious, The Uncyclopedia is a compendium of illuminating knowledge and a delight for all inquisitive readers. As proved by Schott's Original Miscellany and the enormous rise in popularity of quiz and trivia nights, arcane knowledge and non-essential facts have never been so popular. At last in one convenient volume, everything for knowledge-hungry readers: Lists of Norse gods Suicide notes of the famous All anyone needs to know about How to toast in 10 languages A list of all the men to walk on the moon Twenty Latin mottoes Fortune-telling techniques Neither trivial nor essential, yet always engaging and illuminating, The Uncyclopedia is the reference book referred to purely for the purposes of amusement--and readers just can't put it down!

A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 2

by Kiyotaka Haimura Kazuma Kamachi

A certain unlikely hero...In Academy City, where superhuman abilities are scientific reality, Touma Kamijou is trying to reconstruct a life for himself, but that's easier said than done with a girl by his side with the arcane knowledge of 103,000 grimoires rattling around in her brain...Now seemingly inextricably caught up in a world where magic is a reality, Kamijou learns that a certain shrine maiden is being held captive in one of Academy City's cram schools. Can Touma ally himself with a sorcerer who has on more than one occasion tried to do him in? The only thing he knows for sure is that he really does have rotten luck...

A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 4

by Kiyotaka Haimura Kazuma Kamachi

A certain unlikely hero...Touma Kamijou has gotten permission to leave Academy City and goes on a beach vacation with his family. But somehow no one is who he remembers--and a certain magical spell is to blame for everything! Touma finds himself swept up in the mysterious Angel Fall spell in the latest volume of the smash-hit light novel series!

Glencoe Science, Waves, Sound, and Light (Glen Sci: Sound And Light Ser.)

by Nicholas Hainen Dinah Zike Cathy Ezrailson Deborah Lillie Glencoe McGraw-Hill Staff

<P>There's a well-known expression that advises "if at first, you don't succeed, try, try again."<P> Fortunately, Thomas Edison lived by these words as he worked in his research laboratories developing over 1,000 patented inventions. <P>Among the many items that his team developed are the phonograph, the first commercial electric light, and power system, a motion picture camera, and the incandescent lamp. <P>Edison's search for a suitable filament for the incandescent lamp demonstrates how he used the experimental method to guide his scientific research.

The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings (Mammoth Books)

by Peter Haining

This giant collection includes a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts of hauntings, such as the American troops who repeatedly saw the ghosts of a dead platoon of men while on patrol in Vietnam; and the witnessed haunting of a house near Tintagel in Cornwall that led actress Kate Winslet to pull out of buying the property.It covers the full spectrum of credible hauntings, from poltergeists (the noisy, dangerous and frightening spirits that are usually associated with pubescent girls, like the Bell Witch), to phantoms (like the Afrits of Saudi Arabia) and seduction spirits (such as the Lorelei, which have lured German men to death).Also included are the notes of the most famous ghost hunters of the twentieth century such as Hans Holzer, Susy Smith (USA); Harry Price, Jenny Randles (UK); Joyce Zwarycz (Australia), Eric Rosenthal (South Africa), and Hwee Tan (Japan). Plus essays by such names as Robert Graves, Edgar Cayce, and M. R. James outlining their own - often extraordinary - conclusions as to just what ghosts might be; along with a full bibliography and list of useful resources.Praise for MBO Haunted House Stories:'A first rate list of contributors ... Hair raising!' Time Out'All we need say is buy it.' Starlog

California Saxon Math: Intermediate 6, Volume 1

by Stephen Hake

Saxon Math thoroughly covers all the California Mathematics Standards and has been designed to meet all the requirements of the Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools. The cohesive integrated approach of Saxon Math helps build in the time necessary for all California students to develop the solid mathematical foundation needed for success in algebra -- and beyond.

California Saxon Math Intermediate 6, Volume 2

by Stephen Hake

Saxon Math thoroughly covers all the California Mathematics Standards and has been designed to meet all the requirements of the Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools. The cohesive integrated approach of Saxon Math helps build in the time necessary for all California students to develop the solid mathematical foundation needed for success in algebra -- and beyond.

Power Up Workbook: Course 3 (Saxon Math)

by Stephen Hake

The Power Up section of each lesson in Saxon Math Course 3 is designed to build your mathematical power. Each Power Up has three parts: Facts Practice, Mental Math, and Problem Solving. <p><p> The three parts are printed on every Power Up page where you will record your answers. This workbook contains a Power Up page for every lesson.

Saxon Math, Course 3: Algebra Appendix Assessments And Solutions (Saxon Math Course 3 Ser.)

by Stephen Hake

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Saxon Math, Course 3

by Stephen Hake

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Math 54: An Incremental Development

by Stephen Hake John Saxon

We study mathematics because it is an important part of our daily lives. Our school schedule, our trip to the store, the preparation of our meals, and many of the games we play all involve mathematics. Most of the word problems you will see in this book are drawn from our daily experiences.

Math 65 An Incremental Development, Second Edition

by Stephen Hake John Saxon

Math textbook for middle school

Saxon Math 5/4 (3rd edition)

by Stephen Hake John Saxon

Addition is the combining of two groups into one group. For addition example, when we count the dots on the top faces of a pair of dot cubes (dice), we are adding.

Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom

by Catherine Hakim

In 2010, pioneering sociologist Catherine Hakim shocked the world with a provocative new theory: In addition to the three recognized personal assets (economic, cultural, and social capital), each individual has a fourth asset-erotic capital-that he or she can, and should, use to advance within society. In this bold and controversial book, Hakim explores the applications and significance of erotic capital, challenging the disapproval meted out to women and men who use sex appeal to get ahead in life. Social scientists have paid little serious attention to these modes of personal empowerment, despite overwhelming evidence of their importance. In Erotic Capital, Hakim marshals a trove of research to show that rather than degrading those who employ it, erotic capital represents a powerful and potentially equalizing tool-one that we scorn only to our own detriment.

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