George Palmer joined the Navy in 1967 to "see the world" and because he "didn't like walking in the jungle." He served as a Fireman E-3 at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, Vietnam and Seattle, Washington. While in Vietnam, he repaired small boats, including PVR, or "swift" boats.

Emphasis on mathematical thinking and teaching strategies on using shapes to create polygons. Students can also investigate various properties of triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons.

Captain Wright graduated from Wentworth Instutute in 1955. He joined the Air Force soon thereafter, as an enlisted mechanic for three years, then as part of the Aviation Cadets to become a fighter pilot flying the F-86L. Later he became an instructor pilot and after accumulating many flying hours was invited to become a U-2A Pilot, flying the single engine, single seat high altitude (70,000 +) spy plane. He left the Air Force in 1966 to become a pilot...

Collection includes brochures (The Walden loon, Walden facts and chronology, Voices for Walden, and Henry David Thoreau : how great a son of Concord) issued by Walden Forever Wild, and lengthy article Forever wild, by Joel Lang.

"With art so stunning it glistens like freshly fallen snow, this cozy Christmas tale is an essential treasure for anyone celebrating the holiday season! Bursting with gorgeous illustrations that accompany the lyrics to this classic carol, the festive artwork and jolly characters capture all the merriment of the popular Yuletide tune. Randall's style feels charmingly classic while also strikingly contemporary, making this particular partidge in a pear...

When two young female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch joins the search to find them. When two corpses are discovered - the bones picked clean by coyotes - rumors spread that the women were stalked and killed by the increasingly aggressive canines. Despite some misgivings, Bowditch does his grisly job. But he finds his complacency challenged by his new girlfriend, the brilliant but volatile biologist...

You might know that tigers are the largest of the big cats, but there's so much more to learn about these incredible predators! Discover why tigers have stripes, what makes them stick out their tongue, and how they can survive in habitats ranging from snowy Siberia to the tropical rainforest of Indonesia. You'll also discover what it takes to become a tiger zoologist--including learning how to track a tiger using its paw prints! Filled with simple...

The extraordinary -- and extraordinarily powerful -- follow-up to Hey, Kiddo. When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim? But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine:...

Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big finance to produce the spiritually and materially ambitious heart of Silicon Valley, whose products are changing how we do everything from driving around to eating food. It is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of...