Best Selling Books by Michael Sampson

A fabulous new counting book from Bill Martin, Jr. Rock it, Sock it, Number Line! Numbers and Veggies, Party Time! 1 rockets through the sky, and parachutes down with a pumpkin pie. The numbers are having a party in the vegetable garden! Bouncy rhymes and bold, bright art make for a lively and delicious introduction to counting. In Rock It, Sock It, Number Line, acclaimed author and language specialist Bill Martin, Jr. does for numbers what he did for the alphabet in his classic Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

Ryan and Ben were intrigued when Mr. Kramer, their middle school science teacher, told them that time travel was possible. That evening they stood in front of a 150 year-old mirror, and their lives were forever changed. Can two boys from the 21st century survive in the turbulent years just before the civil war? Can the mirror that took them back in time return them to the present? And after meeting the freckle faced, red-headed and fun Laura, will Ryan want to come home again?

Ten Little Squirrels brainstorm a way to evade their natural foe until one of them sneezes. No need to get squirrely--practicing classic rhythm and rhyme while teaching children to count has never been more fun! Ten Little Squirrels by New York Times bestselling authors Bill Martin Jr and Michael Samson follows the "tail" of these furry friends as they determine what to do when a dog approaches their tree. Readers can enjoy the charming illustrations, count each of the colorful squirrels, and go nuts rereading to their hearts'' content.

From the creators of the bestselling classic Chicka Chicka Boom Boom comes a rollicking first concept board book collection! A told B, and B told C, I’ll meet you at the top of the coconut tree! From the creators of the bestselling classic Chicka Chicka Boom Boom comes a delightful board book gift set that includes three Chicka Chicka classics! Little ones will love learning their ABCs, 123s, and fancy, dancy first words. This rollicking collection includes: Chicka Chicka ABC Chicka Chicka 123 Words

The intention of this research was to apply the DMAIC tool and other Six Sigma tools to assess the reliability of diesel generator peaker units when called into activation. While this is not strictly a manufacturing application, this study makes adequate use of the Six Sigma methodology to evaluate a non-manufacturing engineering process. This research and associated case study aim to evaluate the reliability of the current system and compare that process sigma to a Six Sigma process. By establishing a quantifiable metric by which reliability can be compared, DMAIC analysis can be used to develop a process for evaluating improvements in reliability and suggest realistic improvements that can be implemented and measured to show improvement upon the current reliability. Furthermore, this research will also suggest methods of process control that can be developed and utilized to ensure that the solutions presented here continue to be effective as they are continually utilized and improved.

New texts from Greek antiquity continue to emerge on scraps of papyrus from the sands of Egypt, not only adding to the surviving corpus of classical and Hellenistic literature, but also occasionally offering a glimpse into how these poems were studied in antiquity. New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection: Mythographic Lyric and a Catalogue of Poetic First Lines presents three such new texts: an innovative lyric poem on the Trojan cycle, a scholarly anthology of lyric verses, and a brief but enigmatic third text. Cassandra Borges and C. Michael Sampson offer the original Greek text of these pieces, along with their scholarly commentary, analyzing their features in a variety of contexts-historical, cultural, poetic, mythological, religious, and scholarly. The fragments collected here are of considerable antiquity (late third to second century BCE) a fact that is significant inasmuch as it places them among the oldest Greek papyri, but all the more so because in this period, a scholarly community was thriving in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the political and cultural capital of Hellenistic Egypt. The fragments bear witness to that scholarly activity: not only is their anthology of poetic verses consistent with other scholarly selections, but the very survival of these texts may well be at least partially indebted to the work of the Alexandrians in studying and propagating Greek literature in Egypt. This edition supplements the 1970s work of Reinhold Merkelbach and Denys Page. Recent digitizing for the APIS project revealed a previously unsuspected join with other material, however, which alone warrants a new, comprehensive edition and analysis.