What do you do when your parents have been kidnapped, possibly taken to another realm, and your ability to communicate has been stolen by a magical spell? Ed and Mel must figure this out. They are used to exploring the world with their adventurous parents, but now they are on their own. And the spell? Learning to read again is the only thing that has allowed them to start speaking again. Join them on their journey to fight the spell and find their parents before it is too late. The Black Silk Path of the Ed and Mel Decodable Adventures book series is written for Dyslexic students and other beginning readers who may be a little older than the typical beginning reading student. It provides a shared reading experience for students. Each chapter contains a parent or tutor read passage, a decodable student passage, and a game to play. New reading concepts are added as Ed and Mel add to their reading and communication skills. The progression of new skills in The Black Silk Path follows the scope and sequence of the Barton Reading & Spelling System Level 3. The Black Silk Path provides 14 shared reading chapters and 15 reading games. Notes on which concepts are added to each chapter are included at the beginning of each chapter. Also listed is the corresponding Level 3 Barton Reading & Spelling System lesson and note of any variation from the Level 3 scope and sequence. Please visit DecodableAdventures.com and look under the "The Black Silk Path" tab for more information.

Virtually all American judges are former lawyers. This book argues that these lawyer-judges instinctively favor the legal profession in their decisions and that this bias has far-reaching and deleterious effects on American law. There are many reasons for this bias, some obvious and some subtle. Fundamentally, it occurs because - regardless of political affiliation, race, or gender - every American judge shares a single characteristic: a career as a lawyer. This shared background results in the lawyer-judge bias. The book begins with a theoretical explanation of why judges naturally favor the interests of the legal profession and follows with case law examples from diverse areas, including legal ethics, criminal procedure, constitutional law, torts, evidence, and the business of law. The book closes with a case study of the Enron fiasco, an argument that the lawyer-judge bias has contributed to the overweening complexity of American law, and suggests some possible solutions.

Controls and splinter bids are explained in detail in the book. Their use give you an advantage over your opponents in deciding when slam is possible, when to stop in game or even stop below game when that is the correct choice. The variety of situations that are covered will improve your bidding and help you get to the right contract every time!

A thorough update to the Artech House classic Modern Radar Systems Analysis, this reference is a comprehensive and cohesive introduction to radar systems design and performance estimation. It offers you the knowledge you need to specify, evaluate, or apply radar technology in civilian or military systems. The book presents accurate detection range equations that let you realistically estimate radar performance in a variety of practical situations. With its clear, easy-to-understand language, you quickly learn the tradeoffs between choice of wavelength and radar performance and see the inherent advantages and limitations associated with each radar band. You find modeling procedures to help you analyze enemy systems or evaluate radar integrated into new weapon systems. The book covers ECM and ECCM for both surveillance and tracking to help you estimate the effects of active and passive ECM, select hardware/software for reconnaissance or jamming, and plan the operation of EW systems. As radar systems evolve, this book provides the equations needed to calculate and evaluate the performance of the latest advances in radar technology.

John Barton's revised classic text is intended for students who have already learned some of the techniques of biblical study and who wish to explore the implications and aims of the various critical methods currently in use. Chapters include: form criticism, redaction criticism, canonical criticism, structuralism, reader-response criticism, and postmodern approaches. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.