Most Popular Books by James McDonald

The Moon is beautiful to look at in the night sky, and it also plays an important part in the cycle of life on Earth. And maybe someday the Moon will be a place people call home.

It''s Saint Patrick''s Day, and Wilford has an important lesson to learn with help from his best friend Blue. Goofy, games, and sharing shamrocks with friends are just some of the celebrations in this funny animal book for young children about Saint Patrick''s Day. Wilford decides that sneaking up and startling friends on the farm is a fun way to celebrate Saint Paddy''s Day. With help from his best buddy Blue, it doesn''t take long for Wilford to understand that having fun at the expense of someone else isn''t very nice and can come with consequences.It''s Saint Patrick''s Day at the farm and Farmer McDonald is ready to decorate. He starts with a nice green bow for his favorite sheep, Wilford. What Farmer McDonald doesn''t realize is the chain of events set off by the fun of wearing green on this favorite holiday.

Fifty years of happenings in factories crammed into forty hours. Some of these stories are funny, Some of them are sad. Some of them are tragic. Most of them are just plain stupid. All of them are true

After the cold of Winter, comes the warmth of Spring. I Am Spring takes young children on a journey through the many important events that occur uniquely in the beautiful growing season of Spring. From sprouting seeds to buzzing bees, children, preschool through first grade, will learn the important changes that happen during this season of rebirth.Bright and colorful pictures of busy landscapes full of life are great for keeping the attention of kids ages 3-7. Large print and illustrations make it a perfect classroom book for preschool, kindergarten and first grade. I Am Spring is a vibrant nonfiction book that represents the science of the season of Spring in a storytelling fashion that is excellent for kids 5-8.When the day becomes longer than the night, and the leaves begin to sprout on the bare branches, and bugs and animals that were hiding start to reappear, get ready, because that means Spring is here!

Although food processing sector production is inherently linked to the availability and prices of agricultural materials (MA), this link appears to be weakening due to adaptations in input costs, technology, and food consumption patterns. This study assesses the roles of these changes on food processors costs and output prices, with a focus on the demand for primary agricultural commodities. Our analysis of the 4-digit U.S. food processing industries for 1972-1992 is based on a cost-function framework, augmented by a profit maximization specification of output pricing, and a virtual price representation for agricultural materials and capital. We find that falling virtual prices of MA and input substitution have provided a stimulus for MA demand. However, scale effects have been MA-saving relative to intermediate food products, and disembodied technical change has strongly contributed to declining primary agricultural materials demand relative to most other inputs.

This paper explores the ability of some popular income distributions to model observed skewness and kurtosis. We present the generalized beta type 1 (GB1) and type 2 (GB2) distributions'' skewness-kurtosis spaces and clarify and expand on previously known results on other distributions'' skewness-kurtosis spaces. Data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to estimate sample moments and explore the ability of the generalized gamma, Dagum, Singh-Maddala, beta of the first kind, beta of the second kind, GB1, and GB2 distributions to accommodate the skewness and kurtosis values. The GB2 has the flexibility to accurately describe the observed skewness and kurtosis.

It may prove somewhat helpful, in the understanding of, Charles Sanders Peirce''s writings, to include some brief biographical comment on the man. Peirce was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 10, 1839, the second son of Benjamin and Sarah Peirce. His father, a professor of mathematics at Harvard, was the foremost mathematician of his time in America, The father took pains to give his brilliant son a superior training in the theory and practice of experimental science, mathematics, logic, and philosophy. It is reported that the father tried to teach the son the art of concentration "at a tender age" by playing rapid games of double dummy with him that lasted from 10:00 P.M. till dawn. It is also reported that when Charles began to read philosophers in his teens, his father would get him to repeat their proofs "and in a very few words would usually rip them up and show them empty."