"E.T. phone home" with this officially licensed kit celebrating everyone's favorite extraterrestrial. * Specifications: Includes a 31/2 -inch figurine of E.T. with a light-up glowing heart * Sound Element: Features audio of iconic E.T. phrases, including "E.T. phone home," "Be good," and more * Book Included: 32-page book with popular quotes and images from the original film * Perfect Gift: A must-have gift for fans of E.T. * Officially Licensed: Authentic collectible 2022 (c) Universal City Studios LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Bring the fun of horseshoes indoors with this miniature desktop version of the classic game!

Kit includes:

• Mini plastic pit with metal stake
• 4 metal horseshoes
• bag of sand
• Illustrated mini book that will help you become a horseshoe pitching champ in no time

Christianity Today Book Award Winner Friendship is a relationship like no other. Unlike the relationships we are born into, we choose our friends. It is also tenuous--we can end a friendship at any time. But should friendship be so free and unconstrained? Although our culture tends to pay more attention to romantic love, marriage, family, and other forms of community, friendship is a genuine love in its own right. This eloquent book reminds us that Scripture and tradition have a high view of friendship. Single Christians, particularly those who are gay and celibate, may find it is a form of love to which they are especially called. Writing with deep empathy and with fidelity to historic Christian teaching, Wesley Hill retrieves a rich understanding of friendship as a spiritual vocation and explains how the church can foster friendship as a basic component of Christian discipleship. He helps us reimagine friendship as a robust form of love that is worthy of honor and attention in communities of faith. This book sets forth a positive calling for celibate gay Christians and suggests practical ways for all Christians to cultivate stronger friendships.

Empirical legal research is a growing field of academic expertise, yet lawyers are not always familiar with the possibilities and limitations of the available methods. Empirical Legal Research in Action presents readers with first-hand experiences of empirical research on law and legal issues. The chapters, written by an international cast of scholars, reflect on the methods that they have applied in their own empirical work, spanning a wide breadth of research from psychological experiments in personal injury to field studies in criminology. Empirical Legal Research in Action not only reviews the advantages, limitations and challenges that such methods pose but also considers the value of empiricism to lawyers and the law. Vitally, the contributions offer an academic reflection on methodological challenges, as well as the relevance, of empirical research for lawyers. This insightful book will be useful reading for academic researchers in law and for policymakers seeking to understand the methodological challenges of empirical work in legal research. Social sciences scholars will also find this book of interest to appreciate the multitude of methods in empirical legal research. Contributors include: B. Boppre, J. Crijns, P. Desmet, C. Engel, J. Etienne, I. Giesen, H. Grootelaar, P. Mascini, C.P. Reinders Folmer, M. Rorie, S.S. Simpson, W. Voermans, W.H. van Boom, K. van den Bos, I. van Oorschot

Now in its 21st year, this engagement calendar is packed full of practical information on cultural happenings in New Mexico's urban centers, small towns, and Pueblos alike from ceremonial dances, music festivals and rodeos to International Folk Art Market, Indian Market, Spanish Market, and the Hatch Chile Festival. Showcases celebrated New Mexico photographers with stunning images of the state's cultural attractions and unique natural landscapes.

Much like a driver can step out of the car, we are not our biocomputer. The Self is something far greater and more mysterious. Rooted in his extensive knowledge of neurophysiology, neuroanatomy and electronics and developed through personal experimentation in the sensory isolation tank which he invented, Lilly presents a method for learning to manipulate--to drive the bio-robot, which is our vehicle here on Earth. robots. This manual shows how to step out of the mind-body and find out who we really are.

For 10 seasons, the classic sitcom FRIENDS (TM) followed the lives of six friends living in Manhattan in the 1990s and early 2000s. Now, fans both old and new can celebrate their love for the show and their own friendships with this one-of-a-kind, spiral-bound recipe journal. This recipe journal provides pages to collect all of the tastiest creations from the kitchens of your friends and includes a journaling component on each recipe page to record things like how you met your friend, a particular time you spent together, and what is special about the recipe you collected. This recipe journal is full of bonus features to make it a special keepsake of your favorite recipes and friendships. Divided into six easy-to-use sections-Breakfast & Breads, Soups & Salads, Appetizers, Starters, Mains, and Dessert & Drinks-each tabbed divider page offers a bonus, starter recipe from the officially licensed Friends (TM): The Official Cookbook, plus a pocket to store additional recipe clippings, notes, photos, or mementos of your experiences with your friends. Within each section is space to record 19 different recipes, so that you can collect more than 100 recipes from your friends. It features a recipe quick-guide reference page at the start of each section to record and reference the recipes you've collected. Plus, scattered throughout each section are quotes from the Friends (TM) television series, celebrating some of the most classic and hysterical exchanges between Rachel, Monica, Ross, Joey, Chandler, and Phoebe. Finally, a useful kitchen measurement guide is also included for your most common measurement conversion needs. More than just a place to store recipes, this journal is a treasured keepsake of friendship. It makes a wonderful birthday, bridal shower, or holiday gift for an engaging activity of sharing recipes and memories among friends. Includes: 6 sections-Breakfast & Breads, Soups & Salads, Appetizers, Starters, Mains, and Dessert & Drinks 6 tabbed divider pages with storage pocket 6 recipes from Friends (TM): The Official Cookbook 114 recipe pages Useful kitchen measurement guide

We can hardly underestimate the importance of privacy in our data-driven world. Privacy breaches are not just about disclosing information. Personal data is used to profile and manipulate us - sometimes on such a large scale that it affects society as a whole. What can governments do to protect our privacy? In The Governance of Privacy Hans de Bruijn first analyses the complexity of the governance challenge, using the metaphor of a journey. At the start, users have strong incentives to share data. Harvested data continue the journey that might lead to a privacy breach, but not necessarily - it can also lead to highly valued services. That is why both preparedness at the start of the journey and resilience during the journey are crucial to privacy protection. The book then explores three strategies to deal with governments, the market, and society. Governments can use the power of the law; they can exploit the power of the market by stimulating companies to compete on privacy; and they can empower society, strengthening its resilience in a data-driven world.

We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) discovered during World War II, bees communicate the location of food sources to each other through complex circle and waggle dances. For centuries, beekeepers had observed these curious movements in hives, and others had speculated about the possibility of a bee language used to manage the work of the hive. But it took von Frisch to determine that the bees' dances communicated precise information about the distance and direction of food sources. As Tania Munz shows in this exploration of von Frisch's life and research, this important discovery came amid the tense circumstances of the Third Reich.The Dancing Bees draws on previously unexplored archival sources in order to reveal von Frisch's full story, including how the Nazi government in 1940 determined that he was one-quarter Jewish, revoked his teaching privileges, and sought to prevent him from working altogether until circumstances intervened. In the 1940s, bee populations throughout Europe were facing the devastating effects of a plague (just as they are today), and because the bees were essential to the pollination of crops, von Frisch's research was deemed critical to maintaining the food supply of a nation at war. The bees, as von Frisch put it years later, saved his life. Munz not only explores von Frisch's complicated career in the Third Reich, she looks closely at the legacy of his work and the later debates about the significance of the bee language and the science of animal communication. This first in-depth biography of von Frisch paints a complex and nuanced portrait of a scientist at work under Nazi rule. The Dancing Bees will be welcomed by anyone seeking to better understand not only this chapter of the history of science but also the peculiar waggles of our garden visitors.

A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award.
"War and War," Laszlo Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do away with himself, but before he can commit suicide, he feels he must escape to New York with the precious manuscript and commit it to eternity by typing it all on the world-wide web. Following Korim with obsessive realism through the streets of New York (from his landing in a Bowery flophouse to his moving far uptown with a mad interpreter), "War and War" relates his encounters with a fascinating range of humanity, a world torn between viciousness and mysterious beauty. Following the eight chapters of "War and War" is a short "prequel acting as a sequel," "Isaiah," which brings us to a dark bar, years before in Hungary, where Korim rants against the world and threatens suicide. Written like nothing else (turning single sentences into chapters), "War and War" affirms W. G. Sebald's comment that Krasznahorkai's prose "far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing."

Batman fans can call upon the world's greatest superhero with this high-quality die-cast metal Bat-Signal--projects up to 20 feet! Special features: - 5-inch tall authentically detailed Bat-Signal replica - Metal construction - LED light-up function, up to 20-feet projection in darkness - 360A Degrees rotatable base - 48-page hardcover book on Batman and Bat-Signal lore, featuring full-color illustrations throughout 3 AAA batteries not included.

A dazzling how-to adventure for young artists and writers "Playful, artful, and at times, profound..." -Linda Booth Sweeney, EdD, author of Connected Wisdom, Living Stories About Living Systems. Celebrating the natural world and its symbols, Dreams to Dance in Moonlight is a playful way to nurture the creative spirit in all of us. It asks, "How does your imagination bloom?" and the story will fire up a dialogue between children, parents, and teachers. With visual-thinking strategies for drawing and writing, this book offers lyrical prose and painterly riddles to engage young readers, while its magical creatures and environments call for inventive attention and stewardship. Beautifully illustrated with the author's "dreamy...evocative" (School Library Journal) paintings, every page contains a story. Wolves, tigers, cows, and condors stare back from gorgeous landscapes, challenging readers: When is what you see much more than what you think you see? When you awake "This simple yet profound book of poetry, imagery, and challenge will serve as a portal through which a child may become reacquainted with his or her imagination that may one day develop into a mature and confident enthusiasm."-Peter S. Dean, Professor of Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies, Rhode Island School of Design.

* UNIQUE DESKTOP ACCESSORY: Includes a 3" spring-loaded "door" that's ready to be slammed when needed * FUN SOUND FEATURE: The door electronically produces a satisfying SLAM sound * BOOK INCLUDED: 32-page, 2-1/2 x 3" humorous mini book with full-color illustrations * PERFECT GIFT: A great gag gift for new graduates entering the workforce, stocking stuffer, or White Elephant gift

Are you an owl, a cat or perhaps a whale? Connect with your animal guardian and embark on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment. Your animal may come to you in dreams or through manifestations and signs. You may also recognize your animal from one of the 40 descriptions in this book. Your animal guide will bring you power, protection, and wisdom, and you will learn to listen for the messages they bring.

The Apgar Score is known the world over: a test given to babies to determine their health moments after they are born. Less well-known is the story of the brilliant, pioneering woman who invented it. Born at the turn of the twentieth century, Virginia “Ginny” Apgar soared above what girls were expected to do—or not do. She wasn’t quiet, she wore all sorts of outfits, she played the sports she wanted to—and she pursued the career she chose, graduating near the top of her class at Columbia University and becoming only the second board-certified female anaesthesiologist in the United States. The simple five-step test she created—scribbled on the back of a piece of paper in answer to a trainee’s question—became the standard and continues to impact countless newborn babies’ lives today. Ginny adored science, hated cooking, drove fast, made her own violins, earned a pilot’s license and travelled the world. Here, Carrie Pearson’s jaunty storytelling and Nancy Carpenter’s playful illustrations capture the energy and independence of a woman who didn’t slow down for anything—and changed newborn care forever.

Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Neil Armstrong, Jack Kerouac, Yoda: these are just a handful of the writers and speakers whose words are parsed in this diverting romp through sentences culled from poems, essays, speeches, songs, fiction and film. In chapters titled for distinctive features, such as "U-turn" and "impossibility", master teacher Geraldine Woods deftly reveals the underlying craft that goes into the creation of a memorable sentence. Literature lovers will be delighted to discover new authors and revisit favourite passages from a fresh perspective. And writers who want to stretch their skills by following the prompts in each chapter may well find themselves feeling as Henry James did when he wrote, "I have many irons on the fire, and am bursting with writableness." 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way is a must-read book for any resister of grammar-bound, sentence-diagramming analysis who wants to understand the art that lifts a sentence from good to great.

How can we explain the difference between the "miraculous" Christianity expressed in the Gospels and the nearly miracle-free Christianity of Paul? In this historically informed study, senior New Testament scholar Graham Twelftree challenges the view that Paul was primarily a thinker and reimagines him as an apostle of Jesus for whom the miraculous was of profound importance. Highlighting often-overlooked material in Paul's letters, Twelftree offers a fresh consideration of what the life and work of Paul might teach us about miracles in early Christianity and sheds light on how early Christians lived out their faith.

It's almost Halloween, and Monster needs to decide what he's going to be. With so many options, how will he ever choose? In this playful, rhyming story, Monster shows young readers that sometimes being different, daring to try something new, and being yourself are the best solutions.Kit includes:

*32-page illustrated Monster Needs a Costume mini book

* Collectible, bendable Monster figurine