“This game means a lot to me, and by the grace of God,
I’ll never lose sight of the privilege it is to play it.”
Kirk Cousins
Here’s a chance to sit down with Kirk Cousins, record-setting former Michigan State Quaterback and draft pick of the NFL’s Washington Redskins. Get an inside look at high-stakes football and the experiences that helped Cousins put his values and faith into action, on and off the field. In this book, Kirk Cousins tells stories from his own life under the bright lights of college and pro football.
What’s it really like to live in the spotlight of pressure and fame? This book will give you an inside look at Big Ten and professional football through the eyes of Kirk Cousins, former quarterback for Michigan State University and draft pick for the NFL’s Washington Redskins. Game Changer is a dispatch from a real Christian life–with all its victories and defeats–lived under the bright lights of high-stakes football.
Featuring:
-Personal stories and struggles of a competitive Christian athlete
-Truthful discussion of media hype and modern sports culture
-Reflections on honesty, humility, hard work, and privilege
-Life principles for winning choices on and off the field.
Wenn es dunkel wird, bereiten sich die Menschen auf die Nacht vor. Auch für die jungen Zuhörer wird es Zeit ins Bett zu gehen. In diesem Hörspiel erfahren kleine Träumer alles über den Abend und die Nacht. Sie betrachten den Mond, der jeden Abend anders aussieht, erfahren, wie die Tiere schlafen und welche Menschen nachts arbeiten. Und bei den beliebten Schlafliedern wie 'Kleiner Stern' und 'Schlaf, Kindchen, schlaf' werden die Kleinen schließlich selbst ganz müde und schlafen bald schon ein.
Altersgerechte Fragen und Antworten, authentische Geräusche, viele Mitmach-Aktionen und Musik machen die Reihe 'Wieso? Weshalb? Warum? junior' zu einem Hörerlebnis für die Kleinsten.
Das gleichnamige Buch von Constanza Droop ist im Ravensburger Buchverlag erschienen.
In moving verse, Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis gives new voice to seventeen heroes of civil rights. Exquisitely illustrated by five extraordinary artists, this commanding collection of poems invites the reader to hear in each verse the thunder that lies in every voice, no matter how small. Featuring civil rights luminaries Coretta Scott King, Harvey Milk, Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Sylvia Mendez, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mamie Carthan Till, Helen Zia, Josh Gibson, Dennis James Banks, Mitsuye Endo, Ellison Onizuka, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Yunus, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.
If a black hole is not a hole, then what is it? Find out what black holes are, what causes them, and how scientists first discovered them. Learn how astronomers find black holes, get to know our nearest black-hole neighbor, and take a journey that will literally s-t-r-e-t-c-h the mind.
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In this young reader’s edition of his New York Times bestselling book Through My Eyes, NFL quarterback and college football star Tim Tebow gives readers seven and up the behind-the-scenes details of his life both on and off the field, sharing how his Christian faith, family values, and relentless will to succeed have molded him into the person and the athlete he is today. Includes sixteen pages of full-color photo inserts, a question and answer section with Tim, and a color poster.
World War II was raging, with thousands of American soldiers fighting overseas against the injustices brought on by Hitler. Back on the home front, the injustice of discrimination against African Americans was playing out as much on Main Street as in the military. Enlisted black men were segregated from white soldiers and regularly relegated to service duties. At Fort Benning, Georgia, First Sergeant Walter Morris's men served as guards at The Parachute School while the white soldiers prepared to be paratroopers. Morris knew that in order for his men to be treated like soldiers, they would have to train and act like them, but would the military elite and politicians recognize the potential of these men, as well as their passion for serving their country? Tanya Lee Stone examines the role of African Americans in the military through the lens of the untold story of the Triple Nickles as they became America's first black paratroopers and fought a little-known World War II attack on the American West by the Japanese. The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, in the words of Morris, "proved that the color of a man had nothing to do with his ability."
One day, villagers from Lacaune, in the mountains of southern France, returned from the woods with a startling story. They'd glimpsed a naked boy digging in the leaves. A year later - in 1798 - the strange, scarred boy appeared again, and this time woodsmen captured him and marched him down the mountain to the village square, where everyone crowded around to take in the spectacle. And so began the curious public life of the boy known as the Savage of Aveyron, whose journey took him all the way to Paris. In a moving work of nonfiction that flows like a novel, the acclaimed author of The Fairy Ring invests another compelling story from history with vivid and arresting new life.
A biography of the African American artist who grew up in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance and became one of the most renowned painters of the life of his people.
Marko Simsa nimmt Klein und Groß mit auf eine faszinierende Reise in die Welt des jungen Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mit zahlreichen Musikbeispielen und lustigen Mitmach-Elementen entführt er sein Publikum in das spannende Leben und Werk des großen Komponisten. Bei einer holprigen Kutschfahrt geht es mit Familie Mozart in fremde Länder. Auf einem feierlichen Maskenball darf fröhlich mitgetanzt werden. Und Papageno und Papagena aus der beliebten Oper 'Die Zauberflöte' laden zum Mitsingen ein.
Europa Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts: Der Italiener Christoph Kolumbus ist fest entschlossen, Indien auf westlichem Wege zu erreichen. Ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit, wie alle Seefahrtexperten finden. Doch Kolumbus gibt nicht auf. Sein Weg führt ihn von Italien, über Portugal bis nach Spanien. 1492 sticht er auf Geheiß der spanischen Krone in See. Seine Mission: die sagenhaften Schätze Indiens gewinnen.
Maja Nielsen nimmt Klein und Groß mit auf die wohl berühmteste Entdeckungsfahrt der Geschichte. Gemeinsam mit dem Kolumbus-Nachfahren Cristóbal Colón XX. zeichnet sie das spannende Bild eines eindrucksvollen Mannes und einer bewegten Zeit. 'Kolumbus' ist ein spannendes Abenteuer-Feature mit vielen Sprechern, Musik, Geräuschen und Original-Interview mit Cristóbal Colón XX.
Das gleichnamige Buch ist im Gerstenberg Verlag erschienen.
Meet rufa red knot B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this robin-sized shorebird has flown the distance to the moon - and halfway back! Each February he joins a flock that lifts off from Tierra del Fuego, headed for breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic, 9,000 miles away. Late in the summer, he begins the return journey.
B95 can fly for days, but eventually he must descend to refuel and rest. However, recent changes at stopover sites along his migratory circuit - changes caused mostly by human activity - have reduced the food available and made it harder for the birds to reach. During B95’s lifetime, the worldwide rufa population has collapsed by nearly 80 percent.
Still, the Moonbird wings on; he is now nearly 20 years old. Shaking their heads, scientists ask themselves: How can this one bird make it year after year when so many others fall? National Book Award-winning author Phillip Hoose shows the obstacles rufa red knots face, introduces a worldwide team of scientists and conservationists trying to save them, and offers insights about what we can do to help shorebirds before it’s too late. With inspiring prose, thorough research, and stirring images, Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction through the triumph of a single bird.
The poet, author, and indomitable naturalist Jack Prelutsky, having returned safely from far-flung places with an extensive collection of unique creatures that are a blending of the animate and inanimate, has worked in close collaboration with the fine artist Carin Berger, who herself conducted considerable field operations in preparing Mr. Prelutsky's specimens for exhibition and publication. While many creatures (two dozen species in all) were discovered and recorded and their precise qualities examined, we are presenting sixteen here for the first time and for the enjoyment and education of the general public.
