Andrew Stellman Boeken

Designed to get kids thinking - and making! Key topics are explored through a mixture of facts and crafts

A natural-history guide to wild birds with 25 build-your-own birdhouse projects, shown in 760 pictures.

Deals with planet's weather and climate. This book explains how and why of our global weather and its effects, from atmospheric influences, the seasons, and climate zones to extreme events, forecasting, and global warming.

We are all aware of the importance of the environment - it's in the news, it affects our behaviour and the decisions we make every day. This thought- provoking book looks at the way changing ideas about the environment and sustainability have affected our attitudes to conservation, and will do so in the future.

What will you learn from this book? For beginning programmers looking to learn C#, this practical guide provides a bright alternative to the legions of dull tutorials on this popular object-oriented language. Fun and highly visual, this introduction to C# will keep you engaged and entertained from first page to last. Head First C# guides you through the fundamentals and shows you how this language works to create user interfaces, databases, and more. You'll apply what you've learned in a series of hands-on labs. Why does this book look so different? Based on the latest research in cognitive science and learning theory, Head First C# uses a visually rich format to engage your mind, rather than a text-heavy approach that puts you to sleep. Why waste your time struggling with new concepts? This multi-sensory learning experience is designed for the way your brain really works.

Agile revolutionized the way people think about developing software, but there are literally dozens of ways that you can go agile. This book demystifies agile methodologies: why they're designed the way they are, what problems they address, and the values, principles, and ideas they embody

Get ready...as a harderned sailor, you're about to join Shackleton in what will prove to be one of the most gruelling adventures of all time as you brave your way across the bitterly cold continent of Antarctica. As you encounter extreme cold, strong icy winds and a worrying lack of food and water, you'll soon see why you really wouldn't want to join Shackleton's polar expedition! This title in the best-selling children’s history series, You Wouldn't Want To…, features full-colour illustrations which combine humour and accurate technical detail and a narrative approach placing readers at the centre of the history, encouraging them to become emotionally-involved with the characters and aiding their understanding of what life would have been like on Shackleton’s polar expedition. Informative captions, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal introduction to the conventions of information books for young readers. It is an ideal text for Key Stage 2 shared and guided reading and helps achieve the goals of the Scottish Standard Curriculum 5-14.

"Free full-length practice PMI-ACP exam inside"--Cover.

Discover the peoples who live in the most northerly reaches of the Earth - including the Inuit, Nenet, Saami and Chukchi races - their origins, history and everyday lives. Fact boxes, pictures and try-it-yourself projects make finding out fun for 8 to 12 year-olds.

Whether you're starting a software project from scratch, or fixing an ailing one, this handy guide helps you out. It provides essential project management tools, techniques, and practices - all designed to eliminate the frustrating cycle of releases and patches. It supplies you with the information you need to diagnose your team's situation.