New Releases by Melanie Mitchell

This colourful book retells the Bible in 20 favourite episodes so that young children may begin to explore the Bible for themselves. The simple, short stories highlight key aspects of the Christian faith - love, obedience and trust - whilst Melanie Mitchell''s bright and smiley characters exude cheerfulness and faith. Ideal for very little children to browse on their own or have read aloud to them.

This simple title provides a fun look at all types of noses, ending with a human.

Dental Instruments: A Pocket Guide to Identification is designed to be a dental assistant''s go-to resource, from clinical courses on their into their career. This quick reference and review covers dental instruments, their uses, their placement on a tray, and their different varieties with full color photos, illustrations, and dynamic learning features. Unique to this title is the companion student resources CD-ROM in the back of the book, which provides the student with an interactive learning experience. The CD-ROM includes an image bank, interactive tray set-ups, crossword puzzles, student quizzes, and more games and activities for self-study. Dental assisting faculty has the challenge of simulating a clinical environment and making a student comfortable and confident before they are with a patient in a real clinical setting. This text with the companion CD-ROM does just that.

Each title in this series focuses on a different component of staying healthy. Topics include physical, behavioural and emotional aspects of health, giving kids friendly yet instructive advice. Fun activities and questions keep readers engaged.

A book to read, a puzzle to master, and fuzzy animals to play with! These two irresistible novelty books are follow-ups to Farm and Safari on the Spring 2006 list. Featuring two adorable, tactile animals on each page to pull out and play with, these simple jigsaw books will delight babies as well as help develop eye-hand coordination. Collect all four titles!

A book to read, a puzzle to master, and fuzzy animals to play with! These two irresistible novelty books are follow-ups to Farm and Safari on the Spring 2006 list. Featuring two adorable, tactile animals on each page to pull out and play with, these simple jigsaw books will delight babies as well as help develop eye-hand coordination. Collect all four titles!

"The adorable, furry animals on each page are puzzle pieces that can be played with again and again"--Cover back.

Suitable for young children to develop hand-eye co-ordination, and for little hands to stroke. Part of a series of four books, this work features two soft-to-touch animals on every page. It helps children play with the eight velvety safari animals, matching each baby with its mummy and then fitting them together again by pressing out!

Readers can move the little lamb as the Good Shepherd tries to find him, in this illustrated version of the parable.

Learn how to eat well to keep healthy.

This handy pocket reference and interactive CD-ROM will help you learn and retain important information you need as a dental assistant, and it is all in one place. The "Pocket Guide" format allows you to have a complete and handy resource during clinical dental assistant practice. You can quickly and effortlessly review tray setups, dental materials, dental charting, cement mixing, assembling the XCP instrument, and film placements. The hands-on Pocket Guide plus interactive CD-ROM facilitate learning and can be used as a reference or for review. Interactive exercises, procedure videos, a database of dental materials, and Internet links will make your career as a dental assistant easier.

There are cows, pigs, sheep and chickens to meet in this book. Children can press out and play with the eight fluffy farm animals, matching each baby with its mummy and then fitting them together again! It is one in a series of four books. These jigsaws have been designed for young children to develop hand-eye co-ordination.

Young children will enjoy using the chalks to draw simple pictures in this innovative book which can be used over and over again - just wipe clean and start again.

This book is a collection of essays exploring adaptive systems from many perspectives, ranging from computational applications to models of adaptation in living and social systems. The essays on computation discuss history, theory, applications, and possible threats of adaptive and evolving computations systems. The modeling chapters cover topics such as evolution in microbial populations, the evolution of cooperation, and how ideas about evolution relate to economics. The title Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems honors John Holland, whose 1975 Book, Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems has become a classic text for many disciplines in which adaptation play a central role. The essays brought together here were originally written to honor John Holland, and span most of the different areas touched by his wide-ranging and influential research career. The authors include some of the most prominent scientists in the fields of artificial intelligence evolutionary computation, and complex adaptive systems. Taken together, these essays present a broad modern picture of current research on adaptation as it relates to computers, living systems, society, and their complex interactions.

Learn about school bus drivers and how they do their job.

Board book with shaped lift the flaps. 1-3 yrs.

BOARD BOOK. With shaped lift the flaps; illustrated in rich jewel colours. 1-3yrs.

The animals are playing jungle hide-and-seek. Lift the BIG flaps to help find them all! Little readers will love naming the familiar animals and peeking behind the BIG flaps in these fabulous, first flap books. With mini-pops to play with behind each flap, and refrains to join in with on each page, these books are stimulating, surprising and very satisfying!

Introduces the many jobs and responsibilities of grade school teachers.

A simple introduction to earth''s single moon.

How is an American flag made? Thread is woven into cloth that is dyed red, white, and blue in a factory. Workers cut the red cloth into strips, and the white cloth into strips and stars. The blue cloth is cut into squares and the stars are sewn onto them. Then, the flag is sewn together and shipped to stores on trucks to be bought and flown by people.

A very simple introduction to ears and some of the animals that have them.

A simple introduction to the sun.

A simple introduction to some different animals that have tails.

An introduction to cloth and its uses in everyday life.

A basic overview of the life cycle of a butterfly.