For the 20 million parents of 10- to 15-year-olds, The Roller-Coaster Years is a lively guide to mastering the ups and downs of early adolescence. Every parent knows about the terrible twos and the brooding teens, but few have anticipated the wild ride of these magical yet maddening years that can provide all the thrills and chills of a carnival ride. Now, drawing together the latest information from experts, supported and advised by the National Middle School Association, and with surprising insights from the authors' own surveys of parents, teachers, and the children themselves, The Roller-Coaster Years covers every facet of the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of early adolescents, including: • Appearance Anxiety • Distractibility • Fears and Other Emotions • The Battle for Independence • Success in School • Friendship and Peer Pressure • Sexual Awakening • The Lure of Tobacco, Drugs, and Alcohol • The Promise and Peril of Electronic Media • Sticky Questions About Your Own Past

Rocky Rattlesnake is every bit as excited as the rest of his friends when he learns about the new amusement park being built in his hometown of Cactus Grove. But his excitement quickly fades when he finds out about the enormous rollercoaster at the center of the park. All of his life, Rocky's friends have admired his strength and bravery; after all he's rattlesnake, and nothing should scare him...right? Wrong! How can Rocky keep his friends from finding out how terrified he is about the new rollercoaster? Especially, since one of his friends is having her birthday party at the amusement park. What will his friends say if they discover Rocky's secret? And, does Rocky have what it takes to overcome his fear in order to help someone he cares about?

The belief in society will never be a reality when life lived by one has not been lived by another. As these statements being true and experienced, understand that we all fall through the cracks, willingly or unwillingly. Whatever your vice, the roller coaster continues . . .

Covering A-level Year 2 for the 2015 AQA specification, this Student Book combines the most comprehensive explanation with features that build skills in practical work, maths and evaluation. With a clear path of progress, it prepares students for the demands of A-level and beyond.

Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, Tongji University (College of Arts & Communications), course: Master in Communication, language: English, abstract: In recent years, China's Automotive Market has grown tremendously and reached the goal to be the worlds biggest. With the increase of automotive competitors, not only from local but also foreign organizations, a car brand needs to understand its audience well in order to apply its marketing communication strategies. In other words, apply the correct messages and related media to communicate with the targeted Chinese consumers successfully. China has currently 1.3billion individual consumers on the market, out of which over 350 are USD Billionaires and 500 million are below age 30. These two distinctive statistics of the consumer market are specifically pointed out, as they are the key to acknowledging that the consumers in China are changing. Recent studies have shown that the purchasing criteria, decision making process and used communication channels are quite different of the younger consumers than those of the 'lost generation' who acquired sudden wealth after the Cultural Revolution. Though, the newly rich, now in their 50's, are still the main target group of luxury brands in China, a good marketer always has to be able to predict future developments. With the modernization of the Chinese society, the costumers who will inherit the fortunes of the "lost generation" and rise in line with the rise of the countries economy is namely Generation Y. Who are these successors of the post-revolution newly rich consumers and how do we communicate a product to them successfully? On the basis of my unquestionable fascination by China's Automotive Market and German Luxury car brands, I will pursue to answer the above question in order to give an overview for a marketer as to how successfully communicate a car to Chinese Generation

Two action-packed stories, hundreds of different endings! This volume contains books three and four of the series, bound in tete-beche format. Find your way through a maze without being killed, and survive the angry ghosts in spook house!

This groundbreaking book contains 13 articles by Korean youth from India, Africa, Australia, and the U.S.A. who explore their identity as a Korean.

A study of the Battle of Kursk (at Prokhorovka), one of the largest tank engagements in world history, which led to staggering losses - imncluding nearly 200,000 Soviet and 50,000 German casualties within the first ten days of fighting. Drawing on both German and Soviet sources, David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House seek to separate myth from fact to show what really happened at Kursk and how it affected the outcome of World War II. Their access to Soviet archive material adds detail to what is known about this conflict, enabling them to reconstruct events from both perspectives and describe combat down to the tactical level.