Echo the bat's mother teaches him how and where to find food, and when he becomes separated from her in a storm, he relies on these lessons to find his own way home.

A story about a big brown bat migrating through the varied habitats of Arizona, combining art illustrations & satellite images. Scientists use Landsat imagery to help study & preserve our Earth's habitats like those in Echo's adventure. Preserving habitats & routes between them are important to survival of migrating species such as the big brown bat. Author & illustrator Ginger Butcher, who works at the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics at Goddard Space Flight Center, designed a web site called The Adventure of Echo the Bat.Ó It teaches middle school children about the electromagnetic spectrum, remote sensing, & biodiversity. This book is based on the website. For Grades K-4. Printed on heavy card stock.

Black & white print. Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.

Tells the story of the growing Chinese Navy - The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) - and its expanding capabilities, evolving roles and military implications for the USA. Divided into four thematic sections, this special collection of essays surveys and analyzes the most important aspects of China's navel modernization.