Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about surviving natural disasters with this engaging nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress. DK Super Readers Level 3: Built to Survive Natural Disasters will introduce kids to ingenious ways to make buildings safe in the face of fires, floods, earthquakes, and more—from swaying skyscrapers to houses that float—and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for children ready to enter the riveting world of reading. DK Super Readers take children on a journey through the wonderful world of nonfiction: traveling back to the time of dinosaurs, learning more about animals, exploring natural wonders and more, all while developing vital nonfiction reading skills and progressing from first words to reading confidently. The DK Super Readers series can help your child practice reading by: Covering engaging, motivating, curriculum-aligned topics. Building knowledge while progressing key Grades 3 and 4 reading skills. Developing subject vocabulary on topics such as natural disasters, weather, and architecture. Boosting understanding and retention through comprehension quizzes. Each title, which has been leveled using MetaMetrics®: The Lexile Framework for Reading, integrates science, geography, history, and nature topics so there’s something for all children’s interests. The books and online content perfectly supplement core literacy programs and are mapped to the Common Core Standards. Children will love powering up their nonfiction reading skills and becoming reading heroes. DK Super Readers Level 3 titles are visually engaging, full of fun facts about exciting topics, and motivate children to improve their nonfiction reading skills. Perfect for children ages 8 to 10 (Grades 3 and 4) who are newly independent readers ready to advance.

Made to Survive is book 3 and the finale of The Ancestors MC trilogy! It starts with a drink. It ends with a baby in my womb. "One night only" is a slippery slope. I fell hard for the biker – then he disappeared. But he's back now, and this time, when he leaves… He's dragging me with him – whether I like it or not. ANYA He showed up in my emergency room looking like the devil had worked him over with a tire iron. But Bryce Johnson didn't want a nurse. He wanted a gun, a car… And a hostage. And lucky for me, I was his first pick. I'd always wanted out of this small town. But I never thought my ticket to freedom would barge into my life like this. A gorgeous biker with windswept hair and inky tattoos crawling over his muscular shoulders? He might've looked like a dream. But the outlaw f**ked like a nightmare. Like an animal. Like a brutal, savage beast. I'd never been with a man like him before. And after the first kiss, the first touch, the first night, I knew: I'd never want another man again. But landing in the biker's bed was just the start of this madness. Now, I'm riding shotgun with a killer behind the wheel. And there's no telling if I'll make it out alive. BRYCE Life for me as an outlaw biker has always been simple: take the job and get it done. By any means necessary. Some men were born to create chaos. To burn things down. To f**k sh!t up. And God knows I'm one of them. I've always managed to escape the mayhem alive. But this time, I might've bitten off more than I can chew. Even though I've done dirty things before, and there's no doubt in my mind I'll do them again. And I thought I'd learned the hard way not to get distracted when there's a mission on my plate. But the curvy nurse with the shining eyes is testing my focus. She's a do-gooder, a saint in scrubs, a angel if ever there was one. She deserves a white picket fence, a boring-a$$ husband, and a few obnoxious, giggling little kids. But she ain't gonna get that with me. Because my world is a hell of a lot different. My world is mobs and MCs, suspense and submission, whiskey and women. I drink fast and ride hard. I f**k. I break. I hurt. It sure as hell ain't for everyone. So I did the fair thing: I pointed my gun at her head and gave her a choice. She can either run for cover. Or she can get in the car with me, and see where the road takes her. That's just the beginning of our story. And I'll make a vow to you right now. This will end only one way: With my ring on her finger, my brand on her skin… And my baby in her belly.

The author details how he designed and oversaw the construction of a custom home capable of full operation for at least a year off the electric grid and without public utilities, including heating and cooling, washing and drying clothes, and the ability to run all the electrical appliances that anyone would want in the twenty-first century.

In this groundbreaking book, organizational effectiveness experts Edward Lawler and Christopher Worley show how organizations can be “built to change” so they can last and succeed in today’s global economy. Instead of striving to create a highly reliable Swiss watch that consistently produces the same behavior, they argue organizations need to be designed in ways that stimulate and facilitate change. Built to Change focuses on identifying practices and designs that organizations can adopt so that they are able to change. As Lawler and Worley point out, organizations that foster continuous change Are closely connected to their environments Reward experimentation Learn about new practices and technologies Commit to continuously improving performance Seek temporary competitive advantages

The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.

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Resilience: How to Thrive and Survive in Any Situation helps you to prepare for adversity by finding healthier ways of responding to stressful thoughts and feelings. You will learn a comprehensive toolkit of effective therapeutic strategies and techniques, drawing upon innovative 'mindfulness and acceptance-based' approaches to cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), combined with elements of established psychological approaches to stress prevention and management. The book also draws upon classical Stoic philosophy to provide a wider context for resilience-building. This book is a complete course in resilience training, covering everything from building long-term resilience by developing psychological flexibility, mindfulness and valued action, through specific behavioural skills such as applied relaxation, worry postponement, problem-solving, and assertiveness. Each chapter contains a self-assessment test, case study, practical exercises and reminder boxes and concludes with a reminder of the key points of the chapter (Focus Points) and a round-up of what to expect in the next (Next Step), which will whet your appetite for what's coming and how it relates to what you've just read.