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(Essential Elements for Strings with EE Interactive). The world's leading strings method just got an update! Essential Elements for Strings offers beginning students sound pedagogy and engaging music, all carefully paced to successfully start young players on their musical journey. EE features both familiar songs and specially designed exercises, created and arranged for the classroom in a unison-learning environment, as well as instrument-specific exercises to focus each student on the unique characteristics of their own instrument. EE provides both teachers and students with a wealth of materials to develop total musicianship, even at the beginning stages. Essential Elements includes free access Essential Elements Interactive (EEi), the ultimate online music education resource. EEi introduces the first-ever, easy set of technology tools for online teaching, learning, assessment, and communication... ideal for teaching today's beginning band and string students, both in the classroom and at home. These new editions include 150+ professionally recorded videos online featuring Essential Elements educators, 50 new copyrighted pop songs available online across all levels, three new song replacements, new color photography, and much more. Best of all, new editions still work side-by-side with previous copies of Essential Elements.

What is life like in a coral reef? What do corals eat? Why are corals more colorful at nighttime? Learn about some of the most beautiful locations in the natural world in this new Spanish edition of a Gail Gibbons classic!

Marine biologists believe coral reefs existed 400 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Today this active environment is home to about 20,000 kinds of brilliantly colored corals, plants, and animals--more sea creatures than are found anywhere else in the world. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is so large that astronauts can see it from outer space!

Young Spanish speakers and Spanish language learners will enjoy this new translation of Gibbon's informative text, derived from the newly updated English edition, which was vetted by a scientist working at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The simple Spanish vocabulary is reinforced by clear and detailed illustrations that guide readers on their journey into the unique lives of coral reefs.

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern era

This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The body of the book takes readers from the origins of Islam to the eve of the nineteenth century, and an epilogue continues the story to the present day. Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity.

After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history. It continues with the spectacular rise of the Caliphate, an empire that by the time it broke up had nurtured the formation of a new civilization. It then goes on to cover the diverse histories of all the major regions of the Muslim world, providing a wide-ranging account of the key military, political, and cultural developments that accompanied the eastward and westward spread of Islam from the Middle East to the shores of the Atlantic and the Pacific.

At the same time, A History of the Muslim World contains numerous primary-source quotations that expose the reader to a variety of acutely insightful voices from the Muslim past.

Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.

A surrealistic journey into the wild west--and readers' imaginations--from two-time Caldecott winner Chris Van Allsburg, creator of Jumanji and The Polar Express. Now available in a special paperback edition.

Riverbend was a quiet little town, the kind of place where one day was just like all the rest and nothing ever happened. Occasionally the stagecoach rolled through, but it never stopped, because no one ever came to Riverbend and no one ever left.

The day the shiny, greasy slime appeared, making marks of many colors throughout the town, Sheriff Ned Hardy knew something was terribly wrong. Something had to be done, and Sheriff Hardy aimed to do it.

This suspenseful story full of mystery, wonder, and bravery encourages readers to ask questions and ponder the realities of the world within books--and the world at their fingertips.

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate

"Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement's aspirations and attainments against its flaws and contradictions, hoping to recuperate Surrealism's 'critical and imaginative essence' for the present. . . . The best concise account of the movement available."--Michael Saler, Wall Street Journal

Selected by Art in America as an "Essential Book About Surrealism"

Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after André Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism? How do we encounter Surrealism today? Mark Polizzotti vibrantly reframes the Surrealist movement in contemporary terms and offers insight into why it continues to inspire makers and consumers of art, literature, and culture.

Polizzotti shows how many forms of popular media can thank Surrealism for their existence, including Monty Python, Theatre of the Absurd, and trends in fashion, film, and literature. While discussing the movement's iconic figures--including André Breton, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Man Ray, and Dorothea Tanning--he also broadens the traditionally French and male-focused narrative, constructing a more diverse and global representation. And he addresses how the Surrealists grappled with ideas that mirror current concerns, including racial and economic injustice, sexual politics, issues of identity, labor unrest, and political activism. Why Surrealism Matters provides a concise, engaging exploration of how, a century later, the "Surrealist revolution" remains as dynamic as ever.

Award-winning stories about growing up and finding resiliency amid uncertainty.

In 1970s and '80s Detroit, the city wrestles with an unending economic downturn, increasing violence, and white exodus to the suburbs. Amid all of this is twentysomething Mary who is just trying to grapple with her identity in a world filled with uncertainty.

In this collection of linked stories, we follow Mary as she seeks to cope with and withstand hardship and confront her fears of exploitation, abuse, and death. Along the way, she delves into the complex yet nurturing relationships with her family and friends who teach her to love better, live fuller, and question power. The Patron Saint of Lost Girls presents an unflinching tale of life in the late twentieth-century postindustrial Midwest.

The prose poems in Patrick Swaney's debut collection, Hand Over Hand Over the Edge of the World, are suspended between a world we think we know and a world where anything can happen. Manatees take over a bathtub, an egg becomes a kite, a man finds a warning in an empty lot and brings it home to raise with his wife. The absurdity at the heart of this collection is rooted in an impulse to examine the rituals of living. Using language that is disarmingly direct, these compact narratives consistently surprise and clarify. In their search for meaning, the poems find truths in the unexpected that remind us what we have in common.

"Patrick Swaney's warm, strange, precise poems are causing me to rethink my relationship with the line."

-Kyle Minor, author of Praying Drunk

"In the tradition of Russell Edson, whose work this book brings to mind, these prose poems never fail to disorient, surprise and delight. Sly and disarming, they are intellectual queries couched as fabulist vignettes, which, at their best, reveal our ordinary world as the strange, absurd, mysterious experience it truly is."

-Mark Cox, author of Knowing

This reputation won't fix itself.

I'm tired of being the girl everyone talks about. The one every man leaves. I know that story all too well.

So when I catch my boyfriend of two years cheating with my tour manager, I shake it off and seek revenge-with his dad.

Ford Hall is gorgeous so you can't blame me when I do something bad and convince him to kiss me on New Year's Eve. Or when I do it again in the daylight.

He may be completely off limits but I'm going to make him my lover.

Author's Note: Revenge Era features fictional brunette bombshell Lake Paige and her ex-boyfriend's dad Ford Hall with plenty of easters eggs, spice, and swoon to make your holiday bejeweled.

An impactful approach to teaching assessment that boosts teaching practice while ensuring student success

More effective learning goes hand-in-hand with a commitment to instructional excellence, but institutional approaches to instructor evaluation often fall short in assessing quality. In Transforming College Teaching Evaluation, Ann E. Austin, Noah D. Finkelstein, Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Doug Ward, and Gabriela Cornejo Weaver propose a thorough reform of teaching evaluation that strengthens teaching and learning processes, enriches faculty practice, and enhances the institutional culture of teaching and learning for long-term success.

This work understands that the academic department is the basic unit of change in a college and to truly transform teaching evaluation, department-level, college-level, and central institutional efforts must link together to drive reform. Leveraging data from the seven-year TEval study conducted at University of Colorado Boulder, University of Kansas, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the authors introduce a model for high-quality teaching evaluation that considers seven dimensions of educational practice, spanning the full array of teaching activities inside and out of the classroom. This framework incorporates a constellation of evaluative tools and data, such as faculty self-report, external reviews, and student surveys, and different approaches to evaluation that leaders can adapt to institutional needs.

For administrators and educators seeking to advance modern teaching practices and fair teaching evaluation, this book provides a robust plan for reorienting the faculty reward system toward excellence.

An immersive and rollicking graphic novel of two treasure-hunting dog adventurers who are in way over their snouts!

Adventurers Sparky and Pugsly have been hired by the prince of the kingdom of New Pawston to find its most precious treasure, the Golden Bones. They aren't the sharpest dogs, but they make up for it with a lot of energy and enthusiasm! Unafraid and unaware, their search sends them from one peril to another--going up against brigands, a secret society of cats, a snobby hotel clerk, and the deepening mystery of the prince's true intentions. All the while, the two remain constant companions, their friendship and their understanding of the world growing as they move through it.

​This zany graphic novel, written by Michael Sweater and rendered in bracing panoramic detail by artist Josue Cruz, is a delightful romp for mutts and kids alike!

WE ARE MEANT TO BE

Ibuki and Tsuzumi are the leaders of two rival school gangs, and despite their constant fights over territory, seeing each other was love at fight sight. Ibuki is keeping his meetings with Tsuzumi a secret from their friends, but everything from secret intentions, combative friendships, and twisted affections are leading their romance to a violent end!

The final volume!

RAGS TO REGAL

Hiura is excited to star in his class's tableau for the school festival, but his costume is ruined right before the big event. "No... You, of all people, can make it work, Hiura." The curtain rises on a "Little Mermaid" that only Hiura can bring to life.

You can't help but fall in love with the star of this gender-bending rom-com--the most powerful femboy of our time!

LONGING AT LONG DISTANCE

With Hayama Asami filming a movie in the U.K., and Shirasaki Yuki starting in a TV drama, the two actors have to make their relationship work across different timezones. Shirasaki is ready for his leading role, but the director is an authoritarian bully from his past. Meanwhile, Hayama has to play the hardest role of his career...depicting his novelist father. Hopefully, their support for each other can cross the distance between continents!

THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SERIES ABOUT A MAN TIME-TRAVELING BACK TO HIS YOUTH TO SAVE HIS GIRLFRIEND FROM A STREET GANG--NOW IN BEAUTIFUL FULL COLOR!

After leaping twelve years into his past, Takemichi has now fallen in with two leaders of the Toman gang, Mikey and Draken. Despite his best efforts, he's failed to avoid an encounter with the opposing Moebius gang, and a Toman member ends up in jail for assault! A schism soon splits Toman, with Mikey on one side and Draken on the other. Takemichi does his best to mediate, but thanks to his future knowledge, he knows the upcoming festival night of August third is the day Draken dies! Will Takemichi be able to save Draken's life when he doesn't even know who wields the knife?