For hundreds of years, psychologists, researchers, and philosophers have studied what compels people to lie. From the little white lies that are told to spare someone's feelings, to the whoppers that are told to gain attention, telling lies is part of human behavior. The question remains--what drives people to lie? Packed with fun facts and fascinating sidebars, this full-color informational text examines contemporary issues and the topic of deception through high-interest content. Featuring TIME content and images, this nonfiction book has text features such as a glossary, an index, and a table of contents to engage students in reading as they build their comprehension, vocabulary, and reading skills. The Reader's Guide and extended Try It! activity increase understanding of the material, and develop higher-order thinking. Check It Out! offers print and online resources for additional reading. Keep students reading from cover to cover with this captivating text!

Two children visit the Museum of Military History in Johannesburg and are intrigued by a painting of a black serviceman at the top of the stairs. . .

There were 354,000 South Africans who volunteered to serve in South Africa's defence force and nursing services in World War II. This book tells of one of these men, Job Maseko, whose heroic deed was almost forgotten for 50 years.

"The astounding story of one girl's journey from war victim to UNICEF Special Representative."

As a child in a small rural village in Sierra Leone, Mariatu Kamara lived peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Rumors of rebel attacks were no more than a distant worry.

But when 12-year-old Mariatu set out for a neighboring village, she never arrived. Heavily armed rebel soldiers, many no older than children themselves, attacked and tortured Mariatu. During this brutal act of senseless violence they cut off both her hands.

Stumbling through the countryside, Mariatu miraculously survived. The sweet taste of a mango, her first food after the attack, reaffirmed her desire to live, but the challenge of clutching the fruit in her bloodied arms reinforced the grim new reality that stood before her. With no parents or living adult to support her and living in a refugee camp, she turned to begging in the streets of Freetown.

In this gripping and heartbreaking true story, Mariatu shares with readers the details of the brutal attack, its aftermath and her eventual arrival in Toronto. There she began to pull together the pieces of her broken life with courage, astonishing resilience and hope.

Engaging illustrations and an empowering story combine to introduce young readers to the world of coding, computers and problem-solving. Curious Sam has lots of questions. What is an algorithm? Could a robot be instructed to walk a dog? What is artificial intelligence? A day spent with Auntie Jo turns into a fascinating lesson in coding for Sam! They discover that the world is full of clever computers, find out about the language they "speak" and the brilliant coders who have helped us to understand it. Maybe Sam can try out some awesome coding projects and become a coder too? With pages encouraging kids to try out coding for themselves and opening their minds to the fun things that can be created using computer code, this brilliant picture book written by engineer and TV presenter Dr Shini Somara unlocks a love of coding and computing and celebrates women in STEM.

Let's do is a learner-centred series for Grades 1-7 with a step-by-step approach that ensures full syllabus coverage. Written by experts at this level, activities engage learners in their own learning process in a practical way, and focus on learning through doing.

This major study reconsiders the creation of the Gandhian legend through the myriad texts and images that helped spread it through both India and the Western world. In revealing how the picture of the Mahatma as saint-as-politician was founded on Indian nationalistic selectivity and limited Western representations of Gandhi, Claude Markovits shows how Gandhi s legend has obscured the facts of his public career. Gandhi's professional role in the public sphere, Markovits argues, was heavily influenced by his long and critical phase of maturation in South Africa, a period often dismissed as the precursor to his celebrated work in India. Markovits proposes that Gandhi s later Indian career, marked by his meteoric rise to prominence, was the result of his own radical self-reinvention as he negotiated the pitfalls of political life in order to create his influential political manifesto.In reevaluating critical stages of Gandhi's career, and his sometimes ambivalent ideological positions, Markovits confronts the discrepancies between his early and late careers, closely rereading the Mahatma's varying intellectual positions as described both within his own writings and in those by commentators and biographers. Rather than seeing Gandhi as an upholder of traditional Indian values, Markovits stresses the paradoxical modernity of Gandhi's anti-modernism.The picture of Gandhi that emerges from "The Un-Gandhian Gandhi" is of a contradictory, multifaceted figure, whose peculiar modernity, and susceptibility to varying appropriations, makes him of enduring significance for future generations.

On September 12, 1942, the RMS Laconia was attacked by a German submarine five hundred miles off the coast of western Africa. What the Germans didn't know was that they had just attacked their allies: locked below decks on the British ship were nearly 1,800 Italian prisoners of war. When the Germans realized their mistake, they made the unprecedented decision to rescue all survivors regardless of their nationality, attempting to declare the waters a neutral zone. But when an American bomber flew over the humanitarian effort, he was ordered to drop bombs, contributing to the deaths of many Italian POWs and British civilians in the process. Some of those who remained alive endured weeks adrift at sea, fighting for survival with little water or food, and in shark infested oceans. Suspenseful and informative, this incredible true account, which includes historic photographs, is a testament to the idea that compassion can rule over conflict-even at the cruel heights of war.

Tiger Woods is a golfing phenomenon with a mile-wide smile, a charismatic personality, and a talent that leaves other golfers gasping in astonishment. At the mere age of twenty-one, his accomplishments are already legendary. In 1997 he amazed the golfing world by winning the prestigious Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. But winning is too tame a term for what Tiger did: he absolutely annihilated the competition, breaking records for lowest score on the back nine and lowest score ever on the course as well as defeating the top golfers in the world by a remarkable twelve strokes.

Tiger's victory at Augusta was the highlight of a young career already studded with stellar achievements on courses throughout the world. In this exciting biography, Matt Christopher, the number one sports writer for kids, chronicles those achievements and takes a look at Tiger's childhood and the greatest influences in his life: his father and mother.

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Our Values gives readers their first taste of some of the most important values in today's world. Here children can explore what it means to be part of a society and discover the cultural and spiritual diversity that life has to offer.

Die Entwicklung der Hoeheren Madchen- und Frauenbildung im 19. Jahrhundert wurde lange Zeit nur im Zusammenhang mit der Geschichte der organisierten Frauenbewegung gesehen. Private Bildungsinitiativen einzelner Frauen wie Anna Vorwerk und Henriette Schrader-Breymann und ihre grosse Bedeutung fur das deutsche Madchenschulwesen wurden dabei zu wenig berucksichtigt. Als selbststandige Unternehmerinnen in Sachen Bildung bauten sie im Herzogtum Braunschweig eine Privatschule auf, die allgemeine Bildung und berufsbezogene Ausbildung vereinte. Das Leben und die Arbeit Anna Vorwerks zeigt eindrucksvoll, welche Handlungsspielraume sich burgerlich-konservative Frauen im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert schafften. Trotz staatlicher Restriktionen und gesellschaftlicher Ablehnung taten Frauen wie sie den Schritt in die OEffentlichkeit und ermoeglichten Madchen und jungen Frauen den Weg an die Universitaten und in die Erwerbstatigkeit.

A creative, child-friendly program designed for use with elementary school children, filled with original exercises to foster healing, self-understanding, and optimal growth

A Child's Workbook About Exploring Hurt and Abuse

As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.

Kinderlyrik bewegt sich zwischen den Polen Oralitat und Literalitat. Dieses Dasein im Dazwischen spiegelt sich auch in den kindlichen Umgangsweisen mit Kinderlyrik wider. Neben einer historisch-hermeneutischen Verortung der Gattung Kinderlyrik wird in diesem Buch dessen Realisierung untersucht. Dabei wird zunachst der Blick auf die Familie als primarer Sozialisationsinstanz gerichtet. Ihre Bedeutung wird im Hinblick auf die Entwicklung von Sprachbewusstheit untersucht. Im Zentrum der Uberlegungen stehen schlieszlig; lich die Leistungen von Vorschulkindern im Umgang mit gereimter Sprache. Ihre sprachilchen Handlungen verweisen auf das Vorhandensein von Phonologischer Bewusstheit und Metasprachilichkeit und markieren damit eine erste Annaherung an Schriftsprachlichkeit. Es wird gezeigt, dass Kinder, die noch nicht lesen und schreiben konnen, bereits uber Wissensstrukturen verfugen, die erste Spuren von Literalitat aufweisen.

Fans of Emma Lord, Rachel Lynn Solomon, and Alex Light will love this clever, charming, and poignant debut novel with a masterful slow-burn romance at its core about a girl who must decide whether to pursue her dreams or preserve her relationships, including a budding romance with her ex-best friend, when an app she created goes viral. Ro Devereux can predict your future. Or, at least, the app she built for her senior project can. Working with her neighbor, a retired behavioral scientist, Ro created an app called MASH, designed around the classic game Mansion Apartment Shack House, that can predict a person's future with 93% accuracy. The app will even match users with their soulmates. Though it was only supposed to be a class project, MASH quickly takes off and gains the attention of tech investors. Ro's dream is to work in Silicon Valley, and she'll do anything to prove to her new backing company-and the world-that the app works. So it's a huge shock when the app says her soulmate is Miller, her childhood best friend with whom she had a friendship-destroying fight three years ago. Now thrust into a fake dating scenario, Ro and Miller must address the years of pain between them if either of them will have any chance of achieving their dreams. And as the app takes on a life of its own, Ro sees that it's affecting people in ways she never expected-and if she can't regain control, it might take her and everything she believes in down with it.

Study & Master Agricultural Sciences Grade 10 has been especially developed by an experienced author team for the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). This new and easy-to-use course helps learners to master essential content and skills in Agricultural Sciences. The comprehensive Learner's Book includes: * an expanded contents page indicating the CAPS coverage required for each topic * activities throughout that help develop learners' knowledge and skills * revision tasks and review at the end of each module that provides for consolidation of learning * case studies that link science to real-life situations and present balanced views on sensitive issues * 'information' boxes providing interesting additional information and 'Note' boxes that bring important information to the learner's attention * Glossary boxes to explain unfamiliar and difficult terms

Learn more about Alzheimer's disease, its effects on those who have it, and how to show love to someone living with it.

This is a kids’ book about Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer's can be a big and scary-sounding word, especially if you know someone who has it. It's a disease that affects every part of daily life and impacts everyone: those who have it and the people close to them.

This book was made to help kids aged 5-9 understand what Alzheimer's is and what it can look like, and to offer support and encouragement for kids (and grownups) who love someone with Alzheimer's.

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Japanese legend holds that if a person who is ill makes a 1,000 paper cranes, the gods will grant that person's wish to be well again. Beautiful illustrations by Caldecott-medalist Ed Young enhance the story of Sadako, a young girl dying of leukemia as a result of the atom bombing of Hiroshima.