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  • California: The Golden State

    Tika Downey

    Paperback (PowerKids Press, Sept. 1, 2009)
    California has a rich history, which includes the Mission period and the Gold Rush. Readers will also learn about California's natural and human-made wonders, such as the Sierra Nevada mountain range and the Golden Gate Bridge.
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  • Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Lakes

    Tika Downey

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, Jan. 1, 2010)
    Minnesota is a wonderful, wild place. While known for its thousands of lakes, this gorgeous area is also home to one of the largest populations of Timber Wolves. This book provides an entertaining and fact-filled tour of landmarks, beautiful cities, and amazing geographic features through lively photographs and engaging text.
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  • How the Arabs Invented Algebra: The History of the Concept of Variables

    Tika Downey

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, July 1, 2004)
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  • Texas: The Lone Star State

    Tika Downey

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, Sept. 1, 2009)
    Why is Texas called the Lone Star State? Why is the Longhorn the state animal? Your curious readers will find out the story behind both of these questions and more from this colorful, compelling book.
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  • Indiana: The Hoosier State

    Tika Downey

    Paperback (PowerKids Press, Jan. 1, 2010)
    Transport readers to the Hoosier State, which has produced many well-known yet down-to-earth individuals such as David Letterman, Jane Pauley, and John Mellencamp. State history, and major geographic and cultural landmarks are presented in a fun, engaging manner that will make a mental traveler of any reader.
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  • Massachusetts: The Bay State

    Tika Downey

    Paperback (Powerkids Pr, Sept. 1, 2009)
    Describes the history, ecology, geography, economy, and sights of the Bay State, Massachusetts.
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  • Washington: The Evergreen State

    Tika Downey

    Library Binding (Powerkids Pr, Sept. 1, 2009)
    Describes the history, ecology, geography, economy, and sights of the Evergreen State, Washington.
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  • Florida: The Sunshine State

    Tika Downey

    Library Binding (PowerKids Press, Sept. 1, 2009)
    Introduction to the history, geography, industry, and culture of Florida.
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  • Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Lakes

    Tika Downey

    Paperback (PowerKids Press, Jan. 1, 2010)
    Minnesota is a wonderful, wild place. While known for its thousands of lakes, this gorgeous area is also home to one of the largest populations of Timber Wolves. This book provides an entertaining and fact-filled tour of landmarks, beautiful cities, and amazing geographic features through lively photographs and engaging text.
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  • Washington: The Evergreen State

    Tika Downey

    Paperback (PowerKids Press, Sept. 1, 2009)
    Washington is known for being rainy, but readers may be surprised to learn that there is a rain forest in Washington. Your students will get to take a look at the Space Needle, Mt. Rainier, and Puget Sound, and many other sights and symbols of Washington State.
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  • New York: The Empire State

    Tika Downey

    Paperback (PowerKids Press, Sept. 1, 2009)
    Introduction to the history, geography, industry, and culture of New York.
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  • Guide to Web Development with Java: Understanding Website Creation

    Tim Downey

    Hardcover (Springer, Feb. 18, 2012)
    This comprehensive textbook introduces readers to the three-tiered, Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture by using Hibernate, JSPs, and Java Servlets. These three technologies all use Java, so that a student with a background in programming will be able to master them with ease, with the end result of being able to create web applications that use MVC, validate user input and save data to a database. Features: presents the many topics of web development in small steps, in an accessible, easy-to-follow style; uses powerful technologies that are freely available on the web to speed up web development, such as JSP, JavaBeans, annotations, JSTL, Java 1.5, Hibernate and Tomcat; discusses HTML, HTML Forms, Cascading Style Sheets and XML; introduces core technologies from the outset, such as the MVC architecture; contains questions and exercises at the end of each chapter, detailed illustrations, chapter summaries, and a glossary; includes examples for accessing common web services.