Seaman, Meriwether Lewis's Newfoundland dog, describes Lewis and Clark's expedition, which he accompanied from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean.

Complete Preparation for the New MCAP Mathematics Assessments! This practice test book is the perfect preparation tool for Maryland's MCAP Mathematics assessments. It includes ten practice sets that cover all the skills assessed on the MCAP tests and provides practice with all the question types found on the tests. Provides Ongoing Skill Development and Practice - Provides ten practice sets for ongoing test preparation and skill development - Begins with two short practice sets to introduce students to testing - Continues with eight 60-minute practice sets to give students the experience they need to perform well on assessments - Covers all the skills in the Maryland College and Career Ready Mathematics Standards - Prepares students for the question types found on the state tests Preparation for the MCAP Mathematics Assessments - Covers the same skills as the MCAP assessments - Provides practice completing selected-response, constructed-response, and technology-enhanced questions - Question formats mimic those using online features and will prepare students to take the tests online - More rigorous questions prepare students for the higher difficulty of the new assessments Key Benefits - Develops and builds on all the mathematics skills that students need - Builds confidence by improving student performance - Reduces test anxiety by allowing low-stress practice - Ensures students are comfortable with a range of question formats - Introduces students to the more complex tasks found on the MCAP assessments - Format allows for testing, revision, and retesting

Standardized test-taking skills for reading, math and language for grade 7.

Ideal for students and professionals looking for fast-track prep for the Test of English for International Communication, used by more than 4,000 corporations worldwide to measure English-language proficiency.

This issue presents original research that illuminates symbolic and social processes at work in the artistic development of children spanning the toddler years to early adolescence. Through longitudinal case studies, consensual assessment, and prospective and retrospective designs, the authors analyze children's artwork for symbolic sequences and development as well as the impact of social and cultural context on the children's artistic development. A great deal of emphasis is placed on whether or not children have discernable artistic styles, what criteria and methods can be used to define and judge these styles and if and how a child's style changes over childhood and adolescence. Authors also discuss the interplay of endogenous skill and social support as well as the nature of style, continuity, and discontinuity in development. This issue will serve as an invaluable resource to art development researchers and scholars involved in many other developmental domains. This is the 90th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.

Meet Kevin Pugh, 12-year-old couch potato. Now meet Cromwell, his part beagle, part potato chip dog. Kevin’s looking forward to spending his summer doing as little as possible. Unfortunately, Kevin’s father, former Chicago Bears star player/super-sports fanatic, Howie Pugh, feels differently. So does Cromwell, who has suddenly and mysteriously developed a fascination with agility competitions: running up seesaws, leaping over hurdles, soaring through hoops (sometimes). If he has to do anything, Kevin would rather do something for newly obsessed Cromwell, but dog agility lessons do not constitute a sport in his father’s mind, so football camp it is. Until some well-timed events collide, literally, and soon Kevin’s found a way for he and Cromwell to take classes, and the upstart Team Cromwell is born. Andy Behrens has written a hilarious novel with a dry-as-dirt protagonist who’s constantly tortured by the goings-on around him. It’s also a charming story about a boy and his dog, as well as a meaningful and heartfelt look at a relationship between a boy and his father who don’t always see eye-to-eye.

This book investigates the geopolitics and strategic dimensions of US-American foreign policy during George W. Bush's and Barack Obama's presidential terms. Based on a vast amount of empirical and historical sources, the author offers deep insights into the recent political developments ('Arabellions') along the axis of Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, situating them in the context of the global geopolitical and geo-economical Great Game, either latent or overt, between USA/NATO and Russia. The author also analyses the influence of the US on these historical and political processes in the last two decades.