Illustrated by Rick Anderson

Discover the unspoiled beauty of Arkansas in "N is for Natural State: An Arkansas Alphabet." Acansa is the Sioux Indian name for the state we know today as Arkansas and this begins our alphabet journey. Next you'll find Blanchard Springs Cavern with its 80,000 bats and then to "D is for Diamonds," and learn the Natural State is the only state that mines them. Illustrator Rick Anderson's rich and colorful images bring the beautiful vision of Arkansas to all readers.

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by some historical, geographical, or cultural fact about Mississippi, accompanied by objects to find in the illustrations.

For every service member killed in Iraq, 15 others have fallen ill, and 4,500 have been returned to the U.S. for medical treatment. Why? in crisp, clear, compelling writing, a prize-winning journalist examines the health and medical issues--with detailed individual examples--facing American military personnel and veterans, and investigates the military/bureaucratic politicking behind them, with: - comprehensive documentation from the CDC, VA, Pentagon- historical, war-by-war overview of the issues- comprehensive list of illnesses, syndromes and symptoms- veterans' battles over medical services and policy- analysis of military hospitals and services- public and classified military experiments- discussions of anthrax vaccine and depleted uranium- analysis of the high suicide, alcoholism and homicide rates in the in military.

A young man is growing up, and as he enters adulthood he is full of shame for what he has caused and what he has become. He's constantly thinking of what his mother may have been told when he was born.

"Congratulations, it's a baby boy." As her tear-moistened smile stated proudly, Look ... my son.

Always being taught the importance of values, morals, and manners over the years, only to watch them slowly grow fainter in a war waged for an only son's soul.

What seemed innocent in the beginning was the very poison which led to death and separation. Approaching now was a battle no one saw coming. After many years of living for this adversary, it was time to take a stand or die. What her now-grown son experienced on a cold winter's night was not just getting life back, it was life-changing. And to think it all happened in the back corner of a single car garage.

So, you've created a few projects with Arduino, and now it's time to kick it up a notch. Where do you go next? With Pro Arduino, you'll learn about new tools, techniques, and frameworks to make even more ground-breaking, eye-popping projects. You'll discover how to make Arduino-based gadgets and robots interact with your mobile phone and with Unity3D. You'll learn all about the changes in Arduino 1.0, you'll create amazing output with openFrameworks, and you'll learn how to make games with the Gameduino. You'll also learn advanced topics, such as modifying the Arduino to work with non-standard Atmel chips and Microchip's PIC32. Rick Anderson, an experienced Arduino developer and instructor, and Dan Cervo, an experienced Arduino gadgeteer, will give you a guided tour of advanced Arduino capabilities. If it can be done with an Arduino, you'll learn about it here.What you'll learn * How to modify the Arduino to work with other chips * How to simulate sensors for testing and debugging * How to set up advanced XBee networks * How to write Arduino libraries and share them with the Arduino community * How to get started with the Android accessory development kit * How to create games with hardware or with Gameduino * How to use Unity3D with Arduino to control virtual objects * How to connect your iPhone or Android phone to an Arduino sensor network Who this book is for Arduino fans, technogeeks, and electronic artists who want to take their skills to the next level.

No doubt about it: strategic planning is a serious commitment. But when carried out skillfully, thoughtfully, and with sensitivity to the impacts on all those involved, it’s an undertaking that can pay large dividends for the library and its users. A strong strategic plan gives shape and clarity to the library’s intentions and, when carefully written, can make a powerful case for the library’s indispensability to its sponsoring institution. Providing library deans, directors, and university librarians with up-to-date guidance, this book outlines a step-by-step method that helps readers prepare for a successful strategic planning process, create and implement a strategic plan, and assess the effectiveness of both the process and the resulting plan; discusses the differences between scenario planning and strategic planning, with pointers on determining which would be best in a given organization; offers expert advice for communicating a strategic plan clearly and compellingly to the library’s many stakeholders at every stage of the process; shares ways to bring library staff as well as users into the planning process; teaches how to use surveys and focus groups to inform strategic planning, complete with sample survey questions and a consent cover letter; addresses whether and how to hire consultants; concludes with a summary of the essential elements of a successful planning process, ideal for quick reference; and includes an appendix with numerous useful templates, from an Executive Council Strategic Planning Retreat Agenda to a Final Report. Written by a team of authors with decades of library administration experience between them, this powerful resource enables academic libraries to produce plans that will offer directional guidance to employees while also demonstrating the library’s power to meet institutional goals.

A creative thinker on topics related to library collections and scholarly publishing, Rick Anderson does not back away from controversy. “Whenever we, as members of an organization like a library, are forced to choose between good things, we may start by trying to figure out some way to have both things,” he writes in the preface. “But in many cases, that will turn out to be impossible and we’ll have to decide which good thing is going to take priority over the other. We can’t make that decision without invoking values, and the moment we start invoking values is when the conversation can take a really difficult and interesting turn.” When it’s time for your organization to make choices and set priorities, this collection of essays, articles, white papers, and blog posts will provide conversation starters for your strategic discussions. Anderson offers engaging, persuasive arguments on a range of timely topics, such as: the decline of print; patron-driven acquisitions; Open Access (OA); blacklisting publishers and relations with publishers’ sales reps; patron privacy; symptoms of zealotry; unintended consequences of the print-on-demand model; and how to define library value . Ideal for browsing, the ideas in this collection will kickstart your brainstorming sessions and spur your organization to confront choices head on.

A retelling of the true tale of young Abbie Burgess who, in 1856, kept a Maine lighthouse in operation during a brutal winter storm.