Unlike many programming guides, this book has a direct approach and dives straight in, to get you writing reusable code from the start. Additionally, there is a lesson specific knowledge base on the accompanying website, for those who need more in-depth information to bring you quickly on track. Therefore, this book series is suitable for anyone from the absolute beginner to the more experienced programmer who wishes to ...

A teenage girl is facing an unexpected pregnancy and is carried into the future to see what her child's life may or may not become....

A young boy describes his experiences with various desert phenomena. He traces the paths of lightning across a monsoon sky with his eyes and watches the world turn reddish brown as a dust storm approaches. He sees the sunset as the product of a giant squeezing tubes of paint from below the horizon and canyon walls as layers from the mud, sun, and parched-land years. The desert provides wonderful sensations for him to explore....