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Isaac LOVES to have fun! The only thing he loves more than having fun is getting a good laugh from his friends. That’s all well and good until some of Isaac’s fun starts to get in the way of what he’s supposed to be doing. At school, at home, and at tennis practice, he’s so busy having fun, he’s distracting himself and others from the work that needs to get done. Instead of working hard, Isaac is hardly working! With help from his teacher and mom, Isaac learns four steps to staying on task until the job is finished. If Isaac can follow these steps, he can avoid additional work! Author Bryan Smith pens another hilarious and relatable tale for K-5 students in the Stepping Up Social Skills book series.

This book gives an overview of the key issues related to books and reading within the field of cultural economics and identifies additional lacunae in this area of research. The field of cultural economics is surprisingly short on research on the book market and on the activity of reading compared with other more recently invented media such as films and musical recordings. In addition, books and reading are strongly impacted by the disruptive innovations of digital technology and the use of online distribution platforms that fuel much of the research on the more recently invented cultural media. This book shows that the area of books and reading has had contributions in historically established areas of cultural economics and those currently exciting attention - chiefly with respect to digital disruption. Finally, it explains how books and reading are a fully developed rational addition model rather than something just based on the addition of past behaviour. Previously published in Journal of Cultural Economics Volume 43, issue 4, December 2019

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Dinah Nichols, PR chick for Green World International, knows how to spin a story. She has to, otherwise how else would rescuing loons get the media attention it deserves? But a visit from Higher Management guru Ian Trutch means she'll have to put some spin on the "fabulous work" she and the staff have been doing. Sure, her latest hobby of haranguing a cocky colleague is worthwhile, but it isn't part of GWI's mission statement or anything. So, how to convince the higher-ups she and the others are working hard for their higher purpose? Hmm. Dating Trutch seemed the obvious move, but now she's not so sure he is what he says he is, and the office is turned upside down as acts of local ecoterrorism are suddenly on the rise, and Dinah's famed mother—a bona fide well-known Jacques Cousteau type—makes an unforgettable appearance, putting Dinah's entire career in jeopardy. Will Dinah navigate her eclectic crew to safety, or will they have to swim for it?

In It Takes Two To Tangle, Philip Wiebe presents a light, informative, humorous and perceptive look at the intersecting relationships of men and women. Within the context of Christian values, It Takes Two To Tangle covers the broad expanse of relationships from brief encounters to life-lasting ties that bind. It Takes Two To Tangle is highly recommended reading for those in the first blush of romance to the seasoned couple with a decades old bond between them, and all who aspire to the joy and hard work of parenting, vacationing together, managing busy schedules, and all the other interactions and shared activities that make up the man/woman dichotomy.

Enfant Terrible! Jerry Lewis in American Film is the first comprehensive collection devoted to one of the most controversial and accomplished figures in twentieth-century American cinema. A veteran of virtually every form of show business, Lewis's performances onscreen and the motion pictures he has directed reveal significant film-making talents, and show him to be what he has called himself, a "Total Film-Maker." Yet his work has been frequently derided by American critics. Book jacket.