Introducing a brand new companion title to the Big Fat Notebooks and its bestselling title, Math - The Big Fat Middle School Math Workbook. Because just like music or a sport or learning a new language, the only way to achieve math competency, let alone excellence, is through practice. Whether used as a supplement to Big Fat Notebook Math or on its own, this consumable, lie-flat workbook is filled with exercises and over 600 problems to help students work through everything that's being taught in middle school math and reinforce what they're learning. Each chapter begins with a brief recap of a key concept - such as the number system, expressions and equations, introduction to geometry, statistics and probability - followed by an example of a problem and steps needed to solve it, and then exercises and word problems for practice, test review, and remedial help. And in the back, students won't find a simple answer key, but rather a 'solution process' that gives step-by-step guidance for how to solve a specific problem so they can see how to reach the right answer and how they might have erred. It's like getting individually tutored by the best teacher in school.

"A classic. Read it. Use it. It can help guide you step by step into the bright light of the world of recovery." --from the Foreword by Harry Haroutunian, M.D., Physician Director, Betty Ford Center "The Recovery Book is the Bible of recovery. Everything you need to know you will find in here." --Neil Scott, host, Recovery Coast to Coast radio Hope, support, and a clear road map for people with drug or alcohol addiction. Announcing a completely revised and updated second edition of The Recovery Book, the Bible of addiction recovery. The Recovery Book provides a direct and easy-to-follow road map to every step in the recovery process, from the momentous decision to quit to the emotional, physical, and spiritual issues that arise along the way. Its comprehensive and effective advice speaks to people with addiction, their loved ones, and addiction professionals who need a proven, trusted resource and a supportive voice. The new edition of The Recovery Book features the revolutionary Recovery Zone System, which divides a life in recovery into three chronological zones and provides guidance on exactly what to do in each zone. First is the Red Zone, where the reader is encouraged to stop everything, activate their recovery and save their life. Next is the Yellow Zone, where the reader can begin to rebuild a life that was torn apart by addiction. Finally, the reader reaches the Green Zone, where he can enjoy a life a recovery and help others. Readers also learn how to use the Recovery Zone ReCheck, a simple, yet very effective relapse prevention tool. The Recovery Zone System works hand-in-hand with the 12-step philosophy and all other recovery methods. In addition, The Recovery Book covers new knowledge about addiction mechanisms and neuroplasticity, explaining how alcohol and drugs alter the brain. The authors outline a simple daily practice, called TAMERS, that helps people to use those same processes to "remold their brains" around recovery, eventually making sobriety a routine way of life. Written by Al J. Mooney, M.D., a recovery activist who speaks internationally on recovery, and health journalists Catherine Dold and Howard Eisenberg, The Recovery Book covers all the latest in addiction science and recovery methods. In 26 chapters and over 600 pages, The Recovery Book tackles issues such as: Committing to Recovery: Identifying and accepting the problem; deciding to get sober. Treatment Options: Extensive information on all current options, and how to choose a program. AA and other 12-Step Fellowships: How to get involved in a mutual-support group and what it can do for you. Addiction Science and Neuroplasticity: How alcohol and drugs alter pathways in the brain, and how to use the same processes to remold the brain around recovery. Relapse Prevention: The Recovery Zone ReCheck, a simple new technique to anticipate and avoid relapses. Rebuilding Your Life: How to handle relationships, socializing, work, education, and finances. Physical and Mental Health: Tips for getting healthy; how to handle common ailments. Pain Control: How to deal with pain in recovery; how to avoid a relapse if you need pain control for surgery or emergency care. Family and Friends: How you can help a loved one with addiction, and how you can help yourself. Raising Substance-Free Kids: How to "addiction-proof" your child. The Epidemic of Prescription Drugs: Now a bigger problem than illegal drugs. Dr. Al J. Mooney has been helping alcoholics and addicts get their lives back for more than thirty years, using both his professional and personal experiences at his family's treatment center, Willingway, and most recently through his work as medical director for The Healing Place of Wake County (NC), a homeless shelter. The Recovery Book will help millions gain control of their mind, their body, their life, and their happiness. www.TheRecoveryBook.com

A compelling activity for crafters and artists, doodlers and colourers of all ages, each Paint by Sticker book includes everything you need to create twelve vibrant, fuli-color "paintings." The original images are rendered in low-poly, a computer graphics style using geometric polygon shapes to create a 3D effect. As in paint-by-number, each template is divided into dozens of spaces, each with a number that corresponds to a particular sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, and place it in the right space. Add the next, and the next, and the next--it's an activity that's utterly absorbing, both in the pleasure of peeling and sticking and the growing satisfaction of watching a "painting" come to life, emerging from a flat black-and-white illustration to a dazzling image with color, body, and spirit. Paint by Sticker: Music Icons brings us face-to-face with Elvis, The Beatles, Beyonce, Katy Perry, David Bowie, Cher, Prince, and other legendary stars.

The Paint by Sticker series is growing-literally! Paint by Sticker: Plants and Flowers will have 12 stunning images of all kinds of plants- a spotted stargazer lily, a white lotus floating on the surface of a pond, the majestic Saguaro cactus, a charming trio of potted succulents, and more. Featuring scenes of plants in both their natural environments and in the homes of loving plant parents, this installment of the PBS series will have tons of variety, and appeal to every kind of plant lover.

Hundreds of irresistible, reusable, and collectible stickers to mix, match, and trade! Here are 400 amazingly detailed and vibrantly coloured stickers featuring engines, cars, crossing signs, and other icons of railroad life. Whether on windows, notebooks, lunch boxes, or scrapbooks, these peel-and-place stickers are perfect for creating your own work of art-anytime, anywhere. Plus, these stickers are ultra-high quality-when playtime is over they can be peeled up and used again and again!

Peel the sticker, place the sticker, and watch your painting come to life. Degas, Van Gogh, Renoir, and . . . you! Sit down to paint your masterpiece-actually, twelve of them!-with Paint by Sticker: Works of Art, which includes everything you need to complete a dozen colourful, world-renowned paintings. And note-the cardstock pages are perforated, so the finished picture can easily be removed for framing, turning your home into a museum.

Practice makes As with a fill-in workbook from the editors of the Big Fat Notebooks! This hands-on Big Fat Math Workbook equals being tutored by the best teacher in the school, through a recap of every key concept using definitions, examples, and special services like THINK, showing just how to get into the concept, and REMEMBER, summing up critical facts. Plus: Sample problems worked out step by step. 600 exercises and word problems. A solution process instead of an answer key to guide students through each problem they missed or to reinforce how they succeeded.

EyeLike Stickers, the bestselling series with over 2 million copies in print, introduces two beloved topics--pirates and trucks. Each book contains 400 full-color photographic stickers that will delight kids and crafters. EyeLike Stickers: Trucks features hundreds of vehicle stickers that will delight construction fans and invite imagination and play. See trucks of all sizes, scales, and types--ice cream trucks, fire trucks, pickups, and garbage trucks. Plus, traffic cones, streetlights, road signs, and equipment like helmets, wrenches, and safety vests will provide hours of fun to kids who are enthusiastic about construction or building. The stickers are durable and reusable; place them on any surface--binders, laptops, phone cases. You can even peel them off and stick them on again without losing the adhesive!

Learn by Sticker: Addition and Subtraction combines the most powerful features of two best-selling series (Paint by Sticker Kids® and Brain Quest®) into one new, fun curriculum-based resource. This activity-packed sticker book for children ages 5 and up provides basic addition and subtraction practice while creating ten beautiful baby animal images, one sticker at a time. Explore a fun new way to practice math: with stickers! This activity-packed sticker book for children ages 5 and up provides basic addition and subtraction practice while creating ten adorable baby animal images, one sticker at a time. Step 1: Solve the problem Step 2: Find the matching sticker Step 3: Place the sticker ...and watch your baby animal pictures come to life! Combining the joy of Paint by Sticker Kids® with the curriculum-based practice of Brain Quest®, Learn by Sticker™ is a completely new way for kids to practice key math skills. In Learn by Sticker: Addition and Subtraction, solve first grade-level addition and subtraction problems and use the answers to determine where to place each sticker to create ten sticker images of beautiful baby animals. Plus, the back of each sticker page contains fun, critical thinking-based math activities like solving riddles, decoding secret messages, and more.

In Brain Quest Learn to Write: Letters, children ages 4 and up practice their penmanship while learning to write the letters of the alphabet. Learning to write and recognize letters and their sounds are key early literacy skills. Each workbook page includes engaging illustrations, multiple practice exercises, and fun activities that give children ample opportunity to master the content and experience the joy of learning.

“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance Sixty-five extraordinary writers grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter with a stranger leave such an eternal mark? When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to write a letter to a stranger about an unforgettable encounter, she opened the floodgates. The responses—intimate and addictive, all written in the second person—began pouring in. These short, insightful essays by a remarkable cast of writers, including Elizabeth Kolbert, Pico Iyer, Lauren Groff, Gregory Pardlo, Faith Adiele, Maggie Shipstead, Lia Purpura, Kiki Petrosino, and Jamil Jan Kochai, are organized around such themes as Gratitude, Wonder, and Farewell and guide us both across the globe and through the mysteries of human connection. Addressed to a first responder after a storm, a gambler encountered on jury duty, a waiter in Istanbul, a taxi driver in Paris, a roomful of travelers watching reality TV in La Paz, and dozens of others, the pieces are replete with observations about how to live and what we seek, and how a stranger’s loaded glance, shared smile, or question posed can alter the course of our lives. Moving and unforgettable, Letter to a Stranger is an irresistible read for the literary traveler and the perfect gift for anyone who is haunted by a person they met once and will remember forever.