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Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Readers met the comical Kevin in Liar, Liar and Flat Broke. Kevin gets serious about Tina Zabinski, the Most Beautiful Girl in the World. Finally, finally, he's worked up his courage—he's going to ask her out. Or will his trademark scheming get in his way?
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kevin doesn't mean to make trouble when he lies. He's just really good at it, and it makes life so much easier. But as his lies pile up, he finds himself in big—and funny—trouble with his friends, family, and teachers. He's got to find a way to end his lying streak—forever.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kevin struggled to overcome his knack for lying in Liar, Liar, and now he's back for another round of mayhem and misunderstandings in this financial comedy of errors. In Kevin, Gary Paulsen has created an appealing teen boy character who is just as human and fallible as his readers.
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Get started in real estate investment. Learn how to buy and maintain your first cash-flowing rental property.
Investing in rental property is a time-tested strategy for building wealth in real estate. Contrary to popular opinion, generating passive rental income does not require you to deal with tenants, handle repairs, or even see the property in person. Nor does it require a major capital investment or prior real estate experience. All you need...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Challenge your coding abilities with CSS logical properties in this approachable hands-on course.
Are you ready to shift your CSS mindset using properties that work in any written language or device orientation? Join coding expert and veteran LinkedIn Learning instructor Jen Kramer to find out more about how to use the recently supported CSS logical properties specification, which allows you to make your models compatible with all possible directions...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Explore how XAML treats content within XML markup and the dependency properties framework, which enables services such as data binding and animation in Windows applications.
If you want to use XAML, the XML-based markup language developed by Microsoft to create better user interfaces for Windows applications, you need to understand how it treats content and properties. Walt Ritscher continues his exploration of XAML in part 2 of Microsoft XAML Fundamentals,...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dig deeper into the properties of phases and phase diagrams. First, see how a flask of water can be made to boil by cooling it. Then, explore why a curve in a phase diagram has a certain slope. Close with a multicomponent phase diagram that explains why salt causes ice to melt.
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to develop more dynamic, responsive applications with JavaFX. Explore the kinds of applications that JavaFX properties, JavaBeans, and bindings can help you construct.
Learn how to develop more dynamic, responsive applications with JavaFX, the next generation of GUI development for Java. In this course, instructor Neelam Dwivedi goes over the kinds of applications that JavaFX properties, JavaBeans, and bindings can help you construct, demonstrating...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learn the capabilities of the utilities and properties of AutoCAD to investigate drawings and organize your designs.
AutoCAD is one of the world’s top design and drafting tools, used in industries like engineering, manufacturing, architecture, and more. In this course, Autodesk Certified Instructor Shaun Bryant digs into AutoCAD utilities and properties, showing how to use their capabilities to organize your designs and enhance your drawings. He...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Materials profoundly influence the form, function, and structure of great buildings, bridges, and towers. Using steel (which is superior in terms of strength, ductility, and stiffness) as a benchmark, compare the structural properties of wood, masonry, concrete, and iron: and see them at work in thousands of years' worth of structures.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Take stock of the wide range of stellar luminosities, temperatures, masses, and radii using spectra and other data. In the process, construct the celebrated Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, with its main sequence of stars in the prime of life, including the Sun. Note that two out of three stars have companions. Investigate the orbital dynamics of these binary systems.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Certain properties of solutions depend only on the concentration of the solute particles dissolved, not on the nature of the particles. Called colligative properties, these involve such behaviors as lowering the freezing point, raising the boiling point, and osmotic pressure. Study examples of each.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Now turn to liquids, which have a more complicated behavior than gases. The same intermolecular forces apply to both, but at much closer range for liquids. Explore the resulting properties, including viscosity, volatility, incompressibility, and miscibility. Also consider applications of these qualities.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Among Einstein’s insights was that light comes in discrete packets of energy called photons. Explore the photoelectric effect, which prompted Einstein’s discovery. See a do-it-yourself project that demonstrates the photoelectric effect. Close by surveying applications of the quantum theory of light to phenomena such as lasers, fluorescent dyes, photosynthesis, and vitamin D production in skin.
Author
Publisher
Playaway
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"'I'm the greatest family member you'll ever meet.' Kevin Spencer has a history of big ideas going completely awry. This time around, it's personal--suddenly he's kind of in charge of a double wedding in his backyard, and a whole tribe of wacky relatives is crowding him out of his own house."
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