This collection of spring-themed stories features Nickelodeon’s PAW Patrol, Blaze and the Monster Machines, and Shimmer and Shine. It’s sure to thrill children ages 3 to 7. This Nickelodeon read-along contains audio narration.

“A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time.” —Outside A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild places The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage. The book ends with Ketcham's vision of ecological restoration for the American West: freeing the trampled, denuded ecosystems from the effects of grazing, enforcing the laws already in place to defend biodiversity, allowing the native species of the West to recover under a fully implemented Endangered Species Act, and establishing vast stretches of public land where there will be no development at all, not even for recreation.

The picture on the front cover of this book depicts a young man pulling a fishnet, a task of practical relevance for many centuries. It is a complex task, involving load transmission throughout the body, intricate balance, and eye head-hand coordination. The quest toward understanding how we perform such tasks with skill and grace, often in the presence of unpredictable pertur bations, has a long history. However, despite a history of magnificent sculptures and drawings of the human body which vividly depict muscle ac tivity and interaction, until more recent times our state of knowledge of human movement was rather primitive. During the past century this has changed; we now have developed a considerable database regarding the com position and basic properties of muscle and nerve tissue and the basic causal relations between neural function and biomechanical movement. Over the last few decades we have also seen an increased appreciation of the impor tance of musculoskeletal biomechanics: the neuromotor system must control movement within a world governed by mechanical laws. We have now col lected quantitative data for a wealth of human movements. Our capacity to understand the data we collect has been enhanced by our continually evolving modeling capabilities and by the availability of computational power. What have we learned? This book is designed to help synthesize our current knowledge regarding the role of muscles in human movement. The study of human movement is not a mature discipline.

"Law of Real Estate Brokers is a comprehensive treatise covering the full range of legal issues concerning real estate brokers, from listing agreements and the rights to a commission to antitrust, anti discrimination, and other federal and state concerns. The author provides insightful analysis and practical, expert guidance in one complete volume. Whether you represent a broker whose client is seeking to avoid paying a commission, a buyer who suffered damages resulting from a broker's misrepresentation, or a broker bringing suit against another broker, this all-inclusive reference has the answers you are looking for. Audience: Practitioners in the field of real estate law"--

Myrthia, a mystical world of magic that was once connected to ours, has been overrun by an army of vampires. Two crystal shards containing ancient and powerful magic are all that stands between an evil tyrant and an age of darkness prophesied by a powerful being of magic known as the Oracle. After a brutal attack by a vampire looking for the shards, Alex Bellwood’s life is thrown into chaos. Learning that he is the heir to a powerful and dark legacy, he is taken to Myrthia to face his destiny. There he must confront the dark visage of himself that haunts his mind and find the girl that has been in his dreams for most of his life. The fates of two worlds lie upon the edge of a knife. It would take but a baby’s breath to plunge all into the foretold Epoch of Darkness! In the Dark we cannot see. Yet in the Light, we see only what it allows us too. -The Oracle

"A significant and important story about how a small group of landowners, inspired by Aldo Leopold, pioneered private conservation and ecological restoration. It offers an insightful reflection on what it means to live the 'land ethic' that is quite relevant to today's growing conservation challenges."--Tia Nelson