Spark your creativity and gain the electronics skills required to transform your innovative ideas into functioning gadgets. This hands-on, updated guide outlines electrical principles and provides thorough, easy-to-follow instructions, schematics, and illustrations. Find out how to select components, safely assemble circuits, perform error tests, and build plug-and-play prototypes.

Now adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity, Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important-and successful-history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. Now Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction...

"A complete 15-part course in one book, using photo-strip cartoons; with grammar, exercises, conversations and vocabulary. A good start for the more ambitious learner."--Publisher's description.

If you have some knowledge of German and want to polish your skills, this guide focuses on just the core concepts you need to communicate effectively.

A collection of texts emphasizing guided reading practice and the development of reading speed, for those who want to strengthen their reading skills for academic, personal, or career purposes.

"Essential Japanese Grammar" is an indispensable reference for students of Japanese at all levels, as well as anyone seeking to brush up on the language. Providing clear, jargon-free explanations of how Japanese grammar works and offering hundreds of example sentences, it is an essential handbook for self-study or for the classroom and should be a valued resource for years to come.