Best Selling Books by Jason Chin

Jason Chin''s Redwoods tells the story of a boy who discovers a book about redwoods and finds himself in their midst as he turns the pages. An ordinary train ride becomes and extraordinary trip to the great ancient forests. A subway trip is transformed when a young boy happens upon a book about redwood forests. As he reads the information unfolds, and with each new bit of knowledge, he travels--all the way to California to climb into the Redwood canopy. Crammed with interesting and accurate information about these great natural wonders, Jason Chin''s first book is innovative nonfiction set within a strong and beautiful picture storybook. Chin''s approach makes Redwoods a must-have common core tool for teachers and librarians introducing scientific principals to young students.

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity. As in his previous books, Redwoods, Coral Reefs, and Island, Jason Chin has taken a complex subject and made it brilliantly accessible to young readers in this unusual, innovative, and very beautiful book. Chin''s approach makes this book a must-have common core tool for teachers and librarians introducing scientific principals to young students. A Neal Porter Book

Rivers wind through earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the cavernous wonder, discovering life both present and past. Weave in and out of time as perfectly placed die cuts show you that a fossil today was a creature much long ago, perhaps in a completely different environment. Complete with a spectacular double gatefold, an intricate map and extensive back matter.

Blending meticulously researched facts and vivid paintings, the processes that led to the formation of the Galapagos Islands are related in this work of narrative nonfiction.

Jason Chin, winner of the Caldecott Medal for Watercress, dives into the microscopic building blocks of life in this companion to the award-winning Your Place in the Universe. In Your Place in the Universe, Jason Chin zoomed outward, from our planet, solar system, and galaxy to the outer reaches of the observable universe. Now, Chin reverses course, zooming in past our skin to our cells, molecules, and atoms, all the way down to particles so small we can’t yet even measure them. Like its companion, The Universe in You is a mind-boggling adventure that makes complex science accessible and enjoyable to readers of any age. Impeccably researched, wholly engrossing, and with extensive backmatter for additional learning, The Universe in You is another knockout from the award-winning creator of Redwoods, Grand Canyon, and other distinguished works of nonfiction for young readers. An American Library Association Notable Children''s Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Horn Book Fanfare Title A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Explore the known Universe and consider its mind-boggling scale in this crisply illustrated, well-researched picture book from Caldecott Medalist Jason Chin. Winner of the Cook Prize! Most eight-year-olds are about five times as tall as this book . . . but only half as tall as an ostrich, which is half as tall as a giraffe . . . twenty times smaller than a California Redwood! How do they compare to the tallest buildings? To Mt. Everest? To stars, galaxy clusters, and . . . the universe? Jason Chin, the award-winning author and illustrator of Grand Canyon has once again found a way to make a complex subject--size, scale and almost unimaginable distance--accessible and understandable to readers of all ages. Meticulously researched and featuring the highly detailed artwork for which he is renowned, this is How Much is a Million for the new millenium, sure to be an immediate hit with kids looking for an engaging way to delve into perspective, astronomy, and astrophysics. Curious readers will love the extensive supplementary material included in the back of the back of the book An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book A New England Book Award Finalist A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Children''s Book of the Year!

A young girl gets quite a surprise when the text of a library book she is reading transforms her surroundings into those of a teeming-with-life coral reef!

If you''re already an improviser, even if you''re just starting out, this is the book for you. This book merges basic improvisation techniques with Zen philosophy in order to create a new way of performing scenes and shows. Based on decades of work with the art form, Jason R. Chin strips away pretense and creates a simple, yet elegant method of improvising longer, more rich scenes and characters. A powerful tool for the advanced improviser and a wonderful book for the beginner, Zen and the Art of Long-form Improvisation is a welcome addition to your improv library.

The periodic table never looked so good! From the properties of matter and mole calculations to the kinetics of reactions and enthalpy change, this guide demystifies the complexities of chemistry through easy-to-follow charts, graphs, and sample problems.

"Y si tus pies se levantaran solos del suelo? Que es lo que impide que todo flote en el espacio? Se trata de LA GRAVEDAD, una fuerza invisible que hace que los objetos se atraigan entre si. Jason Chin, como es habitual en su trayectoria, ha elegido aqui un tema complejo y atractivo y lo ha hecho comprensible para los lectores mas jovenes; el resultado es un libro inusual, innovador y muy hermoso." --Amazon.

Caldecott Medalist Jason Chin charts the thrilling saga of an island community’s brush with a category three hurricane, and the cutting-edge science that helps them prepare. It’s a beautiful day on Hatteras Island, North Carolina. But while all seems calm now, a hurricane is barreling across the Atlantic, and everyone is wondering when it will hit the U.S. coast. And where. Night and day, meteorologists use satellites to monitor the storm. Brave pilots fly directly into the tempest, dodging lightning bolts to gather crucial data. Back on the island, families board up windows, drag furniture upstairs, and stock survival kits to prepare for what may come. From its dramatic opening, Hurricane alternates between striking maps charting the hurricane’s progress and daily life on the island. Hurricane is at once a fascinating view into a natural disaster and a reassuring survey of the tools we use to mitigate the damage. As climate change makes hurricanes ever more destructive, this engaging and rigorous book is perfect for classrooms, and for families making their own safety plans. Jason Chin’s breathtaking artwork and clear, compelling text make Hurricane a gripping read for all ages. At the end, find even more information about hurricanes, with visual aids for deeper understanding.

Love Says Go is a "Supernatural Lifestyle" training book. This book will help equip you in: hearing God''s voice, experiencing His presence, healing the sick and basic prophecy. I hope Love Says Go will radically inflame your life with the passion and love of Jesus! Thank you, Jason Chin Please visit www.lovesaysgobook.com

Explore the known Universe and consider its mind-boggling scale in this crisply illustrated, well-researched picture book from Caldecott honoree Jason Chin.

As the identity of people of color (PoC) continues to morph amidst demographic change in the U.S., its role in galvanizing collective action amongst racial minorities can take shape in myriad ways. The potential for its effects is especially broad among Latinx and Asian Americans, who are not commonly considered the group''s prototype and themselves express doubt about their membership in the group. The present research seeks to understand how people act collectively on behalf of a group, without presuming their membership in it, and argues that the suspension of assumption is crucial for expanding theorization and measurement of political behavior amongst minority group members. Namely, I argue that factors asides from direct group identification and subsequent group-based emotions may better explain collective action intentions when a group category''s definition is in flux. I do so by synthesizing insights from the literatures on collective action and allyship (action on behalf of ingroups and outgroups, respectively), to design three studies of collective action intentions. I find evidence reframing the PoC category as more expansive bolsters identification and consequent experiences of group-based emotions amongst Asian Americans, I do not find the same pattern for Latinx Americans. In line with my expectations, feelings of solidarity with PoC promoted the experience of group-based emotions and consequent collective action more so than PoC identity centrality. Notably, and counter to expectations, this effect extended beyond Latinx and Asian Americans to Black Americans-the prototypical racial group of people of color. The present findings suggest that while direct group identification may promote collective action on a group''s behalf, feelings of solidarity can be more powerful, and inclusive of group members who may feel less of a claim to group identity but nonetheless spurred to act for social change.

Love Says Go is a "Supernatural Lifestyle" training resource. This book will help equip you in: hearing God''s voice, experiencing His presence, healing the sick and basic prophecy. I believe Love Says Go will radically inflame your life with the passion and love of Jesus! Thank you, Jason Chin Please visit www.lovesaysgo.com

Canadian courts are loathe to admit expert evidence from psychological scientists when that evidence does not concern a disposition, typically a psychological disorder. As a result, psychological evidence concerning the unconscious processes and situational forces that underlie mistaken eyewitness identifications and wrongful confessions are regularly excluded from courtrooms. Courts justify these exclusions on the basis that the evidence is not beyond the ken of the trier of fact - the psychologist would simply be describing an experience shared by judge and jury. This reasoning stands on a fundamental misunderstanding of psychology. In fact, psychological science finds that the situation drives behaviour in a manner that regularly evades the trier of fact''s ken. This is because these situational forces rely on unconscious cognitive processes, and humans rarely have introspective access to these processes. As a result, humans cling to several deep misconceptions about memory processes and confessions.In this Article, we first discuss the mechanics of the mischief: why humans fail to account for unconscious processes and the situation, and instead focus on disposition. Then we provide evidence for this type of reasoning in decisions to exclude expert evidence about eyewitness identifications and false confessions. We conclude with recommendations to manage prejudicial evidence in a manner that is based on a more nuanced understanding of human psychology.

Canadian courts regularly affirm their commitment to gatekeeping scientific evidence, saying it is fundamentally important to determine the admissibility of such evidence before it can impact the ultimate decision. The significance of gatekeeping is underscored by the fact that unreliable science has been at the heart of many high-profile wrongful convictions. In fact, a leading study demonstrated that invalid forensic science was present in approximately 60% of wrongful convictions. But while pronouncements of commitment to gatekeeping are laudable, they are empty if not rigorously followed. In fact, a recent trend has seen a more permissive approach take hold, with scientific evidence characterized as “specialized knowledge”, and evaluated primarily on the basis of the expert''s qualifications. Exacerbating this issue, trial judges sitting alone are regularly more permissive in their gatekeeping role than those sitting with a jury. Both trends, which insulate scientific evidence from scrutiny, came to a head in a recent 2-1 decision of the Alberta Court of Appeal. In this case, R v Awer, the Crown''s expert presented a theory about DNA transfer supported by his own previous informal observations and journal articles penned by a police crime lab (and of questionable reliability). Despite the Crown''s characterization of the expert''s testimony as science, the majority of the Court of Appeal characterized it as specialized knowledge, and refrained from any inquiry into how the expert performed his tests, his sample size, or any controls for bias. Similarly, despite characterizing the journal articles as science, the majority did not scrutinize them at all. As a result, two highly prejudicial forms of evidence were allowed to impact a critical legal decision with no analysis as to their reliability.

When opening an RRSP or RRIF, investors typically designate a beneficiary. We expect that, when making this choice, most investors intend that their designated beneficiary will indeed benefit from the investment on their death. And further, if there is a dispute between the designated beneficiary and the investor''s estate, we expect investors intend that their choice of beneficiary will prevail. Surprisingly, this is not the case in many provincial appellate courts, which in fact favour the estate in such disputes. More specifically, most Canadian courts apply the presumption of resulting trust to beneficiary designations: they assume, absent other evidence, that the designated beneficiary holds the proceeds of the RRSP or RRIF in trust for the deceased investor''s estate. Only Saskatchewan has taken a contrary position. The Alberta Court of Queen''s Bench in Morrison v Morrison recently weighed both options and endorsed the approach that applies the presumption of resulting trust.In the present article, we analyze the doctrine of resulting trust, its rationale as presented by several leading cases, and empirical evidence evaluating the intentions of Canadian investors. We conclude that applying the presumption of resulting trust to beneficiary designations betrays both the theory and purpose of the presumption. It also runs counter to the intentions of most Canadians and creates uncertainties in millions of beneficiary designations. Finally, we present several solutions for bringing the law in line with the intentions of investors, and indeed common sense.