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Título: New Stock Trend Detector: A Review of the 1929-1932 Panic and the 1932-1935 Bull Market : With New Rules and Charts for Detecting Trend of Stocks
Descripción: When I wrote TRUTH OF THE STOCK TAPE in 1923, it was because there was a demand for a book of that kind. People needed the help that I could give them and the benefit of my experience and knowledge. In that book I gave the best I had and received my reward. People appreciated my efforts. They bought the book then and they are still buying it. They say it is a good book and more than worth the money. That is very gratifying to me. After the 1929 bull market culminated there was a demand for a new book to meet changed conditions under the so-called “New Era,” so I wrote WALL STREET STOCK SELECTOR in the spring of 1930. I gave freely of my knowledge and the benefit of years of experience. This book helped others to protect their principal and make profits. People who read the book pronounced it one of the best. It is still selling, and again I have been rewarded. No man can learn all there is to know about forecasting the trend of stocks in 3, 5, 10, or 20 years, but if he is a deep student and hard worker, he learns more and knowledge comes easier after years of experience. I knew more about determining the trend of stocks in 1923 than I did in 1911. Seven more years of experience gave me more knowledge and enabled me to write the WALL STREET STOCK SELECTOR in 1930 and give my readers the benefit of my increased knowledge. Now, after five more years have elapsed, my experience and practical test of new rules have enabled me to learn more of value since 1930. The 1929-1932 panic and what has followed since, gave me valuable experience and I have gained more knowledge about detecting the right stocks to buy and sell. I cannot lose if I pass this knowledge on to those who will appreciate it.
Autores: W. D. Gann
Categoría: Business & Economics
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Título: American Boys
Descripción: When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
Autores: Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
Categoría: JUVENILE FICTION
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Título: Buying a Property: Florida (Buying a Property - Cadogan)
Descripción: A reassuring guide that gives readers all the information they need to buy a property in Florida. Every step of the process is covered, from organizing visas to drawing up contracts, and there is essential background on the state's economy, climate, and facilities. Anecdotes and case studies give this guide a unique, personal insight into moving to Florida.
Autores: Christian Moen, John Howell, Marcell Felipe
Categoría: Travel
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Título: Squeeze the Day: 365 Ways to Bring Joy and Juice Into Your Life
Descripción: Who among us has not heard the phrase “Seize the day!”? Webster’s dictionary informs us that it means to possess, attack, or take forcibly. The explanation, however, feels as though it’s one more reason for those already caught up by the relentless need to live life as though it was an endless war on completing tasks . . . to vindicate their behavior. I don’t want to seize anything, but I do want to squeeze the juice out of every precious moment I’m given and get the most joy out of everything I do, because if I don’t, I’ll become dried up and lifeless. This means that I have to pay attention and be aware of living a great life. I want to feel like a delicious piece of fruit just waiting to be plucked off the vine. I want to look like a child with watermelon all over their face fully involved with their eyes wide with wonder. I want to Ooh and Aah much more than I want to Oh no and Boo-hoo. We all desire those outcomes, but when our attention is to get to some finish line, what we’re doing whether it’s sex or sewing, merely becomes the segue to the next task. and so . . . we’re never squeezing . . . we’re seizing, being seized and seizing up. This little book will help guide you to a place where you’ll begin to feel the delicious bounty that life has to offer. Pick a page randomly, read the message, and let it resonate for the day. Above all, have fun. . . . This isn’t another task for you to perform, but a way to plump up your life . . . and your soul.
Autores: Loretta LaRoche
Categoría: Self-Help
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Título: Intergalactic Mercenaries
Descripción: These exciting tale of powerful, interstellar gunslingers feature such bestselling and awrad-winning authors as Gordon R. Dickson, Edward Bryant, Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Timothy Zahn, and Lois McMaster Bujold.
Autores: Sheila Williams
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: A Season of Loss, a Lifetime of Forgiveness: The Dan Snyder and Dany Heatley Story
Descripción: This narrative about two boys from different backgrounds touches on family, forgiveness, sport, and making peace with tragedy. Dan Snyder was not a sure thing in professional hockey, but defied expectations—playing for both the minor league's Chicago Wolves and the NHL's Atlanta Thrashers. Dany Heatley, on the other hand, had been tapped for success from the start as a college star and high draft pick. The two made an unlikely pair, but became friends. In September of 2003, the then 22-year-old Heatley lost control of his speeding Ferrari; Snyder was thrown from the vehicle and died six days later. The loss of their teammate, friend, and son sent those who knew Snyder looking for healing or revenge. As the legal story unfolds, so too does a story of forgiveness, rooted in the Canadian Mennonite tradition from which Snyder hailed. Snyder's family, taking an approach to their loss dictated by their faith, chose to make peace with both Heatley and his parents. This story of forgiveness reveals a lesson in loss, hope, and peace in the face of tragedy.
Autores: John Manasso
Categoría: Biography & Autobiography
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Título: Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought
Descripción: The idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and intense controversy. According to the strong version of this hypothesis, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis after the American linguists who propounded it, languages vary in their semantic partitioning of the world, and the structure of one's language influences how one understands the world. Thus speakers of different languages perceive the world differently. Although the last two decades have been marked by extreme skepticism concerning the possible effects of language on thought, recent theoretical and methodological advances in cognitive science have given the question new life. Research in linguistics and linguistic anthropology has revealed striking differences in cross-linguistic semantic patterns, and cognitive psychology has developed subtle techniques for studying how people represent and remember experience. It is now possible to test predictions about how a given language influences the thinking of its speakers. Language in Mind includes contributions from both skeptics and believers and from a range of fields. It contains work in cognitive psychology, cognitive development, linguistics, anthropology, and animal cognition. The topics discussed include space, number, motion, gender, theory of mind, thematic roles, and the ontological distinction between objects and substances. Contributors Melissa Bowerman, Eve Clark, Jill de Villiers, Peter de Villiers, Giyoo Hatano, Stan Kuczaj, Barbara Landau, Stephen Levinson, John Lucy, Barbara Malt, Dan Slobin, Steven Sloman, Elizabeth Spelke, and Michael Tomasello
Autores: Dedre Gentner, Susan Goldin-Meadow
Categoría: Psychology
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Título: SARA CREWE OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHINS
Descripción: Reproduction of the original: Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Autores: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: 101 Ways to Be a Special Dad
Descripción: Features tips for entertaining children, including taking a child to work for the day, reading the funnies together, planting a tree, and more
Autores: Vicki Lansky
Categoría: Family & Relationships
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Título: Gods, Goddesses, and Images of God
Descripción: Keel and Uehlinger's unique study brings the massive Palestinian archaeological evidence of 8,500 amulets and inscriptions to bear on these questions. Vindicating the use of symbols and visual remains to investigate ancient religion, the authors employ iconographic evidence from around 1750 B.C.E. through the Persian period (c. 333 B.C.E.) to reconstruct the emergence and development of the Yahweh cult in relation to its immediate neighbors and competitors. They also fully explore whether female characteristics were present in the early Yahweh figure and how they might have evolved in Israelite religion. Keel and Uehlinger's major study marks the maturation of iconographical studies and affords an exciting glimpse into the vibrant religious life of ancient Canaan and Israel.
Autores: Othmar Keel, Christoph Uehlinger
Categoría: History
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Título: Bettors guide to harness racing: A complete book of standardbred handicapping
Descripción: Elizabeth Anne Larsen explores how harness horse racing has resisted gender equalization and excluded women from key roles. With stirring accounts of the strong women who are surviving and succeeding in this sport, Larsen provides insight for studies of gender and work, occupational sex segregation, and women’s studies.
Autores: Elizabeth Anne Larsen
Categoría: Social Science
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Título: Enemy Ace: War Idyll
Descripción: This book is a painted work that boldly exhibits the mental anguish and emotional despair that afflicts war veterans throughout their lives. While being interviewed by a Vietnam vet, Enemy Ace, the greatest combat pilot of World War I, relives the horror of his fighting days. As he relives his adventures as a German pilot, it becomes apparent that although separated by generations and having fought in different wars, these two men suffer from the same emotional affliction. In its graphic nature, this book reveals that some of the greatest casualties of war are the survivors.
Autores: George Pratt, Willie Schubert, Robert Kanigher
Categoría: Graphic novels
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Título: The Knowable Future: Psychology of Forecasting and Prophecy
Descripción: The Knowable Future examines the science underlying futures prediction as a formal venture and as an informal activity. It explains how left brain rationality and right brain psychic abilities are both used in conjunction with forebrain governing capacities. Loye advances a theory of how the future is shaped by and predicted according to the “matrix impact” of liberalism, conservatism and five other major factors of ideology.
Autores: David Loye
Categoría: Business & Economics
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Título: Siguiriya: A Novel
Descripción: The saga of a family trying to survive the Spanish Inquisition. They are the Cozars, a line which begins with the marriage of a Moorish general and a Jewish woman who breeds horses. Eventually they are forced to convert.
Autores: Sylvia López-Medina
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Warriors of Virtue 5: Yee and the Wolves
Descripción: When an avalanche destroys the hunting grounds of a pack of ravenous wolves, the starving animals make their way to the cold, snowy mountains of Tao, where they now menace Yee's people, and it is up to Brad, a young human, to concoct a plan to stop them. Original.
Autores: John Vornholt
Categoría: Juvenile Fiction
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Título: Theodore and the Tall Ships (Jellybean Books(R))
Descripción: Theodore the tug has a busy day welcoming the huge tall ships from countries all over the world to Big Harbor.
Autores: Ivan Robertson
Categoría: Juvenile Fiction
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Título: Street Fame
Descripción: There's a lot going on from Charlotte to Miami to San Francisco -- almost none of it favorable to Tommy 'Fatboy' Dupree. While one man is sleeping around with Tommy's live-in girlfriend, another urges a psychopath to rob him for multiple kilos. These men are...his friends...which means the worst is yet to come. Alicia Anderson's beauty is off the scales. The physically fit college student has a father who is a real estate mogul, so she could care less about a 'fat boy' named Tommy who deals drugs. However, this new woman challenges him to give up the illicit profession and invest everything in a California real estate venture. Their serious love affair is overshadowed by his inability to hustle up enough money to walk away from the game. And although Fatboy has a few tricks in store for all his backstabbing friends, the DEA has plans to throw a nasty twist in his story. But Fatboy has even saved one last trick for the feds. This URBAN SUSPENSE threatens to brind the underground to the surface.
Autores: K. Elliott
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Spider-Man: India TPB (Amazing Spider-Man)
Descripción: A "what if" story that places Spider-Man in India instead of New York. Pavitr Prabhakar is a teenager from a small village who moves to Mumbai (Bombay) for a better education. The story describes how he becomes Spider-Man, witnesses the death of his Uncle Bhim, and must fight two demonic villains for the lives of his girlfriend Meera Jain and his Aunt Maya.
Autores: Jeevan J. Kang
Categoría: Comics & Graphic Novels
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Título: Cooks Books
Descripción: The classic, must-have American cookbook from one of our greatest authorities on food. James Beard was the "dean of American cookery" (New York Times), and he put practically everything he learned about cooking into this single magnificent--now classic--cookbook. JAMES BEARD'S AMERICAN COOKERY includes more than fifteen hundred of his favorite and most successful recipes, as well as advice on dozens of cooking questions, from choosing meats and vegetables to preserving fruit and making real cheeseburgers. A celebration of the roots of cooking in the American style, this repackaged edition features the original text and color illustrations, and a new foreword by Tom Colicchio. Like Mastering the Art of French Cooking and The Joy of Cooking, it is a standard reference no kitchen is complete without.
Autores: James Beard
Categoría: Cooking
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Título: TRIUMPH & BSA TRIPLES
Descripción: This is a comprehensive, visual history of the motorcycles from Britain that were bred in the US and Canada. Tuck in with Triumph Motorcycles in America and get ready for the ride of a lifetime. Triumphs have been part of North America’s motorcycling soul since long before World War II. Born in Britain but bred in the US and Canada, Triumph’s iconic models—Bonneville, Trophy, Thunderbird, Daytona, Tiger, Speed Twin, Speed Triple, and Rocket III—resonate deeply with enthusiasts who love their style, sound, performance, and undeniable coolness. It’s not coincidental that Triumph was Steve McQueen’s favorite ride. Triumph Motorcycles in America is packed with thorough, entertaining text, plus hundreds of historical images, most of them in color and never before published. This incredible volume of history and culture was written by award-winning professional journalist and lifelong Triumph fanatic Lindsay Brooke, with a foreword by America’s favorite “Triumph guy,” Peter Egan. Don't think twice about it, Triumph Motorcycles in America is a must-have for every fan of Britain’s most legendary bike brand.
Autores: Lindsay Brooke
Categoría: Transportation
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Título: Male Female Email
Descripción: Numerous cases illustrate the various ways e-mail and the Internet have an impact on how people relate to one another. Psychologist Civin (Adelphi U., and private practice) finds that some people and relationships are indeed profoundly affected in both negative and positive ways, and he describes various scenarios and syndromes that develop among the susceptible.
Autores: Michael A. Civin
Categoría: Psychology
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Título: Parables for Preachers: The Gospel of Mark, Year B
Descripción: The parables of Jesus are puzzling sayings and stories with world-transforming potential. Parables for Preachers offers an understanding of how parables work and a fresh variety of possible meanings not only for Jesus's original audience and for the early Christians for whom Matthew, Mark, and Luke wrote but also for contemporary Christians as well. The Gospel parables are analyzed in the order in which they appear in the Lectionary, making this book an indispensable resource for preachers, teachers, catechists, liturgy planners, and Bible study groups. Barbara Reid is Professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. She is the author of Matthew in the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series as well as Choosing the Better Part? Women in the Gospel of Luke, both published by Liturgical Press.
Autores: Barbara E. Reid
Categoría: Religion
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Título: Megan In Ancient Greece Pb (Magic Attic Club)
Descripción: Dejected when the class hayride that she helped organize is cancelled because of rain, Megan consoles herself with a trip to Ellie's attic where the magic mirror transports her to ancient Greece.
Autores: Susan Korman
Categoría: Adventure stories
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Título: The inheritors
Descripción: A small tribe of Neanderthals find themselves at odds with a tribe comprised of homo sapiens, whose superior intelligence and agility threatens their doom.
Autores: William Golding
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Faith and the Future: Essays on Theology, Solidarity, and Modernity (Concilium)
Descripción: In complementary ways, these authors have emphasized the eschatological character of Christianity in a way that does justice both to the transcendent and this-worldly implications of the gospel. This book brings their work into a unique dialogue, drawing on their respective contributions to the international journal Concilium, of which they are both editors.
Autores: Johannes Baptist Metz, Jürgen Moltmann
Categoría: Religion
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Título: Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)
Descripción: Miller's LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT, 13th Edition is a science-based book designed for introductory courses in environmental science. Tyler Miller is the most successful author in environmental science instruction because of his attention to currency, trend-setting presentation, outstanding student and instructor supplements, and his ability to retain and refine the pedagological hallmarks on which instructors have come to depend. In this edition Miller has added an on-line Web- based resource, entitled the Resource Integration Guide, which is updated quarterly with CNN® Today video clips, animations, and articles from InfoTrac® College Edition. Instructors can seamlessly incorporate current news articles and research findings to support classroom instruction. And, for the first time ever, students will receive a complementary CD-ROM entitled Interactive Concepts in Environmental Science. This groundbreaking addition integrates nearly 100 engaging animations and interactions with chapter summaries, flashcards, and Web-based quizzes. Organized by chapter, students will find links to relevant resources, narrated animations, interactive figures and prompts to review material and test themselves. The content in the Thirteenth Edition of LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT is everything you have come to expect and more. There is more information on ecology and basic science than ever before. Instructors can continue to expect high quality end-of-chapter questions, an orientation toward solutions and prevention rather than clean-up, the integration of Web resources, and balanced presentation of controversial ideas that are supported through Pro/Con diagrams and discussions.
Autores: George Tyler Miller
Categoría: Nature
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Título: Holding at Third: A Novel
Descripción: If there's an even darker side to Hollywood than the one America is familiar with, Bruce Wagner has found it. A twenty-first-century Nathanael West, he has been hailed for his powerful prose, his Swiftian satire, and the scalpel-sharp wit that has, in each of his novels, dissected and sometimes disemboweled Hollywood excess. Now, in his most ambitious book to date, Still Holding, the third in the Cellular Trilogy that began with I'm Losing You and I'll Let You Go, Wagner immerses readers in post-September 11 Hollywood, revealing as much rabid ambition, rampant narcissism, and unchecked mental illness as ever. It is a scabrous, epiphanic, sometimes horrifying portrait of an entangled community of legitimate stars, delusional wanna-bes, and psychosociopaths. Wagner infiltrates the gilded life of a superstar actor/sex symbol/practicing Buddhist, the compromised world of a young actress whose big break comes when she's hired to play a corpse on Six Feet Under, and the strange parallel universe of look-alikes -- an entire industry in which struggling actors are hired out for parties and conventions to play their famous counterparts. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, ferocious and empathetic, Still Holding is Bruce Wagner's most expertly calibrated work.
Autores: Bruce Wagner
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Day by Day
Descripción: This book is a collaborative, not isolated, approach to teaching writing. The book is organized around six fundamental components of writing workshop. Each component is broken down into ten-day sections so you can explore the topic in depth. The authors provide daily encouragement, support, practical strategies, tips, advice, and everything you need to run an effective writing workshop.--[book cover]
Autores: Ruth Ayres, Stacey Shubitz
Categoría: Education
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Título: Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America
Descripción: In this pathbreaking study, Patricia Bonomi argues that religion was as instrumental as either politics or the economy in shaping early American life and values. Looking at the middle and southern colonies as well as at Puritan New England, Bonomi finds an abundance of religious vitality through the colonial years among clergy and churchgoers of diverse religious background. The book also explores the tightening relationship between religion and politics and illuminates the vital role religion played in the American Revolution. A perennial backlist title first published in 1986, this updated edition includes a new preface on research in the field on African Americans, Indians, women, the Great Awakening, and Atlantic history and how these impact her interpretations.
Autores: Patricia U. Bonomi Professor of History New York University (Emerita)
Categoría: Social Science
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Título: Art in Florida: 1564-1945
Descripción: The final chapter covers government-sponsored art in the 1930s, including murals in public buildings and the Index of American Design. Collected here are 160 illustrations of Florida art, 100 in color. The illustrated paintings were gathered from public and private collections all over the country, many reproduced here for the first time.
Autores: Maybelle Mann
Categoría: Art
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Título: Japanese for Busy People 2 Audio (Pt.2)
Descripción: Volume I dealt with "survival Japanese" for tourists and other short-term travelers and newcomers to Japan. Volume II, meanwhile, turns to the basics of Japanese syntax. The book is by no means only about grammar, however. Rather, it is designed to help learners consolidate their understanding of syntactical structure through lessons that focus on how to talk about topics relevant to daily life. In addition to serving learners continuing from Volume I, Volume II will benefit those who have already studied beginning Japanese to some extent but wish to brush up on syntax. Major Features of Japanese for Busy People II, Revised 3rd Edition Japanese for Busy People II, Revised 3rd Edition will enable learners to progress smoothly through the equivalent of the latter half of a typical first-year Japanese course while gradually building speaking and listening skills. Learners approaching mid-beginner status often find themselves suddenly faced with syntax and vocabulary much more complex than what they have studied before. Such grammar and vocabulary do not appear as frequently in everyday conversation as those words and structures they have learned up to this point, necessitating that they spend ample time on review. Moreover, learners at this stage are expected to become familiar with verb tense and aspect, time expressions, conditional clauses, and other topics that require them to have a solid grasp of context and speaker intent if they are to fully understand the differences in meaning conveyed by each. Such points cannot be mastered by reading through grammatical explanations alone. In short, the mid-beginner level is a difficult one for many adult learners who, unlike students in school, have neither time nor opportunities to take repeated tests or to otherwise gauge their progress. Japanese for Busy People II, Revised 3rd Edition helps overcome the above obstacles through grammar and content topics carefully selected to be appropriate to learners at this level of Japanese proficiency. The book is designed so that by practicing talking about each topic, learners will gradually and effectively acquire sentence patterns and vocabulary related to that topic. Like Volume I, Volume II is organized into several large units, each covering topics grouped under a particular theme. In this way, the book enables learners to achieve a well-balanced understanding of grammar, sentence structure, and context. Themes and lesson objectives of the five units in Volume II are as follows. Unit 1: Souvenir Shopping Following up on Volume I, Unit 1 presents survival Japanese related to shopping, thus providing learners with a thorough review of simple clauses. The unit also goes beyond what was covered in Volume I by showing ways of asking someone’s opinion while shopping, making comparisons between items, and describing an item’s characteristics. The overall theme is "picking souvenirs," a subject that should be relevant to learners both in Japan and abroad. The verbal skills and dialogue patterns studied here may be applied not only to shopping but also more broadly to any situation that involves choosing between options. Unit 2: Building Rapport with Colleagues This unit introduces the plain forms of verbs — a crucial component of Japanese compound sentences — along with several sentence-final elements that make use of these forms. Topics are selected from among those that typically come up when interacting with people from work. Covered are constructions for indicating interest in another’s actions, inviting someone to do something outside of work, asking for help or offering advice, and otherwise interacting with people in ways that help build relationships of trust and understanding. Unit 3: Returning to Japan for Work This unit explains how to build sentences using temporal clauses, direct and indirect quotation, and attributive modifiers. Through talking about factual events in one’s life history or in that of a particular neighborhood, learners will study how to relate an event in chronological sequence, compare the way something is now to how it was in the past, and describe facilities and other things around them. Unit 4: Planning a Vacation Along with sentences with clauses for stating reasons or reporting questions, this unit covers sentence-final elements used to express indefiniteness, for example wish or probability. Topics deal with verbal skills necessary for planning and carrying out activities in cooperation with others, including explaining reasons or circumstances, expressing probability, and indicating desire. The overall theme is that of planning and going on a trip to a unique place in Japan. Unit 5: Solving Problems The focus of this unit is on forming conditional clauses. Topics include preparing for earthquakes or other disasters, discussing dreams for the future, solving problems, helping someone who is lost, and other situations that call on learners to talk about what might happen in the future, discuss options for solving problems, and give instructions or explain steps for doing something.
Autores: AJALT
Categoría: Foreign Language Study
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Título: Outside Magazines Adventure Guide to the Pacific Northwest (Outside guides)
Descripción: The Disabled Hiker's Guide to Western Washington and Oregon is the first book of its kind to consider the diverse needs of disabled people in the outdoors. This groundbreaking guidebook will include 60 outdoor adventures, including drive-up experiences, verified wheelchair accessible trails, and foot trails suitable for disabled hikers.
Autores: Syren Nagakyrie
Categoría: Sports & Recreation
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Título: Facades
Descripción: A structural glass facade is a glass wall in which the glass itself is part of the building structure. The fundamental technology of structural façade systems has undergone a transition over the past decade from an emergent, experimental building form to a mature, fully robust technology. The book documents, defines, and categorizes the current state of the art in long-span glass façade design and construction, with a focus on structural systems, glass cladding options and implementation strategies for innovative design. With illustrations and case studies, the book discusses designs and design practices; engineering issues; material, process and fabrication considerations, installation means and methods, and project delivery strategies. A must for architects, industrial designers, and interior designers.
Autores: Mic Patterson
Categoría: Architecture
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Título: Foundations of Multinational Financial Management, 4th Edition
Descripción: Focused on real-life decision making in an international context, this text demystifies and simplifies multinational financial management in a clear, conceptual framework. The approach is to treat international financial management as a natural and logical extension of the principles and valuation framework provided by domestic corporate financial management to account for dimensions unique to international finance.
Autores: Alan C. Shapiro
Categoría: Business & Economics
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Título: Empty Sleeves (The Contemporary Poetry Series)
Descripción: From a world tilted a fraction off its axis, these poems speak of angels in Maine and Balinese dinners beneath the Kansas prarie moon. Standing at the interval between the real and surreal, the earthly and eternal, much of Sidney Wade's poetry ponders these intervening spaces, where hunger goes unabated and the air stirs with sighs of exquisite longing. In this collection, language seeks to replicate the world, wresting the soul to all its fluent conjugations--the discourse of insects on the forest floor, the rhetoric of ballroom dancers, the crusty inflections of brushstrokes in an Edward Hopper painting.
Autores: Sidney Wade
Categoría: Poetry
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Título: The Terrible Tide
Descripción: Holly takes a job caring for an elderly couple's valuable antiques, which become the target of a charming, but unscrupulous and murderous thief
Autores: Alisa Craig
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Painless Speaking (Barrons Painless)
Descripción: Speaking in today’s world involves more than prepared talks from behind a podium, and this up-to-date book provides guidance for a wide range of contemporary situations, including conversation, reading aloud to an audience, Skyping, and even giving a traditional formally prepared speech. Exercises throughout the text aid in composing, practicing, and delivering speeches. All titles in Barron’s Painless Series are being updated in new, improved editions, and they all feature access to brand-new subject-related arcade game apps that will appeal to students. Books in the Painless Series cover most classroom subjects, and include a variety of fun features for students who find the subjects difficult and confusing—or in some cases, just plain boring. Painless Books: Are written for middle school and high school students Feature cartoon-style illustrations and humorous approaches to subject matter Emphasize attention-catching ways students can put subjects to practical use Challenge students with puzzles, games, and “Brain Tickler” problems to solve— and now with access to a fun app learning game NOTE: The new apps features that are available with these revised titles can be downloaded on any iPhone, iTouch, iPad, or Android device. They add an extra element of fun to the teaching of each subject.
Autores: Mary Elizabeth
Categoría: Language Arts & Disciplines
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Título: Abraham Lincolns World
Descripción: A historical survey of Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas during the lifetime of Abraham Lincoln, examining people, places, and events which gave color to the world of the nineteenth century.
Autores: Genevieve Foster
Categoría: History, Modern
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Título: The Jeopardy Challenge: The Toughest Games from Americas Greatest Quiz Show
Descripción: Offers fans of the popular game show the opportunity to test their mettle against nineteen of the show's most difficult games
Autores: Alex Trebek, Merv Griffin
Categoría: Jeopardy! (Television program)
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Título: I Think
Descripción: “Your thoughts create your life!” This is the message that Louise Hay has been teaching people throughout the world for more than 27 years. Now, children can learn and understand the powerful idea that they have control over their thoughts and words, and in turn, what happens in their life. Within the pages of I Think, I Am! kids will find out the difference between negative thoughts and positive affirmations. Fun illustrations and simple text demonstrate how to make the change from negative thoughts and words to those that are positive. The happiness and confidence that come from this ability is something children will carry with them their entire lives!
Autores: Louise Hay, Kristina Tracy
Categoría: Juvenile Nonfiction
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Título: Inferences from a Sabre (Fiction series)
Descripción: The narrator tries to reconstruct the life and death of Krasnov, a Russian anticommunist, and his role in the history of the city of Trieste
Autores: Claudio Magris
Categoría: Italian fiction
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Título: Operation Pinball/the Usaafs Secret Aerial Gunnery Program of Wwii
Descripción: This book gives a complete picture of the Maritime Transport Industry so that those involved in shipping can see their own specific field of interest in perspective and understand how the basic mode of transportation works.
Autores: A.G. Williams, Emmanuel Gustin
Categoría: History
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Título: Hell on the Draw: The Best Western Stories of Loren D. Estleman
Descripción: John Jakes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of such acclaimed historical novels as North and South and The Kent Family Chronicles has long been both a fan and a distinguished author of novels and stories of the American West. Now, with the turning of the millennium, he has compiled in one volume a century's worth of his favorite Western fiction. To illustrate the evolution of the genre, Jakes has included such legendary authors as Owen Wister, Louis L'Amour, and Zane Grey along side their more contemporary peers such as Loren Estleman and Elmer Kelton. While the stories have changed over the years, certain timeless themes of Western fiction remain constant. At the heart of the stories are ideas that have become synonymous with the American dream---the frontier spirit, individual freedoms, and man's relationship with the land. A Century of Great Western Stories is essentially a retrospective of western writing over the past century, but Jakes also sets out to give readers a glimpse of what the future might hold for western fiction. While trends in publishing might not always be promising, the current crop of contemporary Western authors show that the old west will always have a place in the world of fiction. Like the American dream which it celebrates, Western fiction will perservere. Featuring classc stories by: John Jakes, Mantiow and Ironhand John M. Cunningham, The Tin Star, which became the classic Western film, High Noon Jack London, All Gold Canyon Louis L'Amour, The Gift of Cochise Thomas Thompson, Gun Job Elmer Kelton, The Burial of Letty Strayhorn Loren D. Estleman, Hell on the Draw Jack Schaffer, author of Shane, Sergerant Houck
Autores: John Jakes
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone
Descripción: Leo Proudhammer, an African American actor, reminisces about his past life and loves, while lying in the hospital, recovering from a heart attack
Autores: James Baldwin
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Passion for Hire (Lovegram Historical Romance)
Descripción: Determined to retain her independence, Julia Thornton, the daughter of a wealthy timberman, hires Chad Andrews to pose as her lover
Autores: Rosalyn Alsobrook
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: The Complete Idiots Guide to Cruise Vacations, Second Edition
Descripción: Explains how to assemble photographs and clippings into a homemade scrapbook and offers ideas for borders and themes.
Autores: Wendy Smedley
Categoría: Crafts & Hobbies
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Título: Human Croquet
Descripción: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year Part fairy tale, part mystery, part coming-of-age novel, this novel tells the story of Isobel Fairfax, a girl growing up in Lythe, a typical 1960s British suburb. But Lythe was once the heart of an Elizabethan feudal estate and home to a young English tutor named William Shakespeare, and as Isobel investigates the strange history of her family, her neighbors, and her village, she occasionally gets caught in Shakespearean time warps. Meanwhile, she gets closer to the shocking truths about her missing mother, her war-hero father, and the hidden lives of her close friends and classmates. A stunning feat of imagination and storytelling from Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet is rich with the disappointments and possibilities every family shares.
Autores: Kate Atkinson
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Caring for Aging Loved Ones (FOTF Complete Guide)
Descripción: Offers support to caregivers of the elderly, covering everything from understanding the physical and mental changes of aging to handling finances, making medical decisions, getting help, and dealing with end-of-life issues.
Autores: Henry Holstege, Robert Riekse, Ph.D.
Categoría: Family & Relationships
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Título: Crystal Skulls: Emissaries of Healing and Sacred Wisdom
Descripción: Crystal skulls invite you on a journey of deeper understanding of who you are. Learn to understand crystal skulls, their different characteristics, their special energies and how you can use these energies for your personal growth.
Autores: Jaap van Etten
Categoría: Body, Mind & Spirit
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Título: How to Marry a Divorced Man
Descripción: You may not be his first wife -- but you want to be his last! More than half of all American women between the ages of 18 and 54 will date or marry a divorced man during their lifetime. Entering a relationship with any man is daunting. But entering one with a divorced man means navigating a host of new and complicated problems. Will remnants of his past -- his guilt, the X, their children, the financial and legal fallout -- wreak havoc on your sanity and finances and sabotage your quest for love? In this reassuring book, Leslie Fram combines fundamental wisdom, guerrilla tactics, and humor to inform and empower the millions of women who are dating divorcés -- and the many more who someday will.
Autores: Leslie Fram
Categoría: Self-Help
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Título: Bansemers Book of Florida Lighthouses
Descripción: Written and fully illustrated by internationally known artist Roger Bansemer, this book, depicting Florida's thirty lighthouses in over 200 paintings and sketches, is sure to be an instant collector's treasure. The artist recently visited each lighthouse - a feat which took him on many land and sea adventures - and offers here the only book with an accurate description of how each looks today.
Autores: Roger Bansemer
Categoría: Architecture
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Título: Upchuck Summer
Descripción: Richie finds his summer at camp turning into a nightmare after the class nerd, Chuck, is assigned to his bunk, but he discovers that Chuck is human after all.
Autores: Joel L. Schwartz
Categoría: Behavior
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Título: Night Calls (Avalon Romance)
Descripción: Welcome back to WLVH Lovehandles, where love is more than just a song. Cassie Grant's nighttime radio program, Night Calls, centers around the belief that true love exists, that it matters. Unfortunately, Cassie's own love life disappears when she breaks off her engagement. So she does the only thing she can do - she declares herself a spinster and buys...a dog (she's allergic to cats). A big dog, because it's going to take something pretty big to make her forget that she can find love for everyone but herself. Jonathan Cooper is a lawyer who learned long ago that happily-ever-afters are fairy tales. He and Cassie have become friends since he moved next door. But every single man knows that while you can be friends with an engaged woman...there's no way it will work with a single one. Especially a crazy one who just bought an Old English Mastiff that looks more like a small pony than a dog. For a woman who's given up on fairytale endings and a man who's never believed in them, it seems impossible that they might find a happily-ever-after of their own.
Autores: Holly Jacobs
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Japanese for Busy People III
Descripción: Volume I dealt with "survival Japanese" for tourists and other short-term travelers and newcomers to Japan. Volume II, meanwhile, turns to the basics of Japanese syntax. The book is by no means only about grammar, however. Rather, it is designed to help learners consolidate their understanding of syntactical structure through lessons that focus on how to talk about topics relevant to daily life. In addition to serving learners continuing from Volume I, Volume II will benefit those who have already studied beginning Japanese to some extent but wish to brush up on syntax. Major Features of Japanese for Busy People II, Revised 3rd Edition Japanese for Busy People II, Revised 3rd Edition will enable learners to progress smoothly through the equivalent of the latter half of a typical first-year Japanese course while gradually building speaking and listening skills. Learners approaching mid-beginner status often find themselves suddenly faced with syntax and vocabulary much more complex than what they have studied before. Such grammar and vocabulary do not appear as frequently in everyday conversation as those words and structures they have learned up to this point, necessitating that they spend ample time on review. Moreover, learners at this stage are expected to become familiar with verb tense and aspect, time expressions, conditional clauses, and other topics that require them to have a solid grasp of context and speaker intent if they are to fully understand the differences in meaning conveyed by each. Such points cannot be mastered by reading through grammatical explanations alone. In short, the mid-beginner level is a difficult one for many adult learners who, unlike students in school, have neither time nor opportunities to take repeated tests or to otherwise gauge their progress. Japanese for Busy People II, Revised 3rd Edition helps overcome the above obstacles through grammar and content topics carefully selected to be appropriate to learners at this level of Japanese proficiency. The book is designed so that by practicing talking about each topic, learners will gradually and effectively acquire sentence patterns and vocabulary related to that topic. Like Volume I, Volume II is organized into several large units, each covering topics grouped under a particular theme. In this way, the book enables learners to achieve a well-balanced understanding of grammar, sentence structure, and context. Themes and lesson objectives of the five units in Volume II are as follows. Unit 1: Souvenir Shopping Following up on Volume I, Unit 1 presents survival Japanese related to shopping, thus providing learners with a thorough review of simple clauses. The unit also goes beyond what was covered in Volume I by showing ways of asking someone’s opinion while shopping, making comparisons between items, and describing an item’s characteristics. The overall theme is "picking souvenirs," a subject that should be relevant to learners both in Japan and abroad. The verbal skills and dialogue patterns studied here may be applied not only to shopping but also more broadly to any situation that involves choosing between options. Unit 2: Building Rapport with Colleagues This unit introduces the plain forms of verbs — a crucial component of Japanese compound sentences — along with several sentence-final elements that make use of these forms. Topics are selected from among those that typically come up when interacting with people from work. Covered are constructions for indicating interest in another’s actions, inviting someone to do something outside of work, asking for help or offering advice, and otherwise interacting with people in ways that help build relationships of trust and understanding. Unit 3: Returning to Japan for Work This unit explains how to build sentences using temporal clauses, direct and indirect quotation, and attributive modifiers. Through talking about factual events in one’s life history or in that of a particular neighborhood, learners will study how to relate an event in chronological sequence, compare the way something is now to how it was in the past, and describe facilities and other things around them. Unit 4: Planning a Vacation Along with sentences with clauses for stating reasons or reporting questions, this unit covers sentence-final elements used to express indefiniteness, for example wish or probability. Topics deal with verbal skills necessary for planning and carrying out activities in cooperation with others, including explaining reasons or circumstances, expressing probability, and indicating desire. The overall theme is that of planning and going on a trip to a unique place in Japan. Unit 5: Solving Problems The focus of this unit is on forming conditional clauses. Topics include preparing for earthquakes or other disasters, discussing dreams for the future, solving problems, helping someone who is lost, and other situations that call on learners to talk about what might happen in the future, discuss options for solving problems, and give instructions or explain steps for doing something.
Autores: AJALT
Categoría: Foreign Language Study
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Título: Alchemists Secret
Descripción: THE #1 BESTSELLER Introducing the explosive first Ben Hope adventure 'Non-stop action – this book delivers’ STEVE BERRY
Autores: Scott Mariani
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Why Jesus Died
Descripción: Why did Jesus Christ suffer and die? I believe that is the most important question of the twenty-first century. Here are ten answers from the Bible. Jesus came to die... #10) To destroy hostility between races The suspicion, prejudice, and demeaning attitudes between Jews and non-Jews in Bible times were as serious as the racial, ethnic, and national hostilities today. Jesus died to create a whole new way for races to be reconciled: he "has broken down...the dividing wall of hostility...making peace...through the cross" (Ephesians 2:14-16). It is impossible to build lasting unity among races by saying that all religions can come together as equally valid. God sent his Son into the world as the only means of saving sinners and reconciling races. Only as the races find this reconciliation will they love and enjoy each other. #9) To give marriage its deepest meaning God's design was never for marriages to be miserable, yet many are. That's what sin does...it makes us treat each other badly. Jesus died to change that. He knew that his suffering would make the deepest meaning of marriage plain. That's why the Bible says, "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" (Ephesians 5:25). God's design for marriage is for a husband to love his wife the way Christ loves his people, and for the wife to respond the way Christ's people should. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. #8) To absorb the wrath of God God's law demanded, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might" (Deuteronomy 6:5). But we have all loved other things more. This is what sin is--dishonoring God by preferring other things over him, and acting on those preferences. The seriousness of an insult rises with the dignity of the one insulted. Since our sin is against the Ruler of the Universe, "the wages of [our] sin is death" (Romans 6:23). Not to punish it would be unjust. So God sent his own Son, Jesus, to divert sin's punishment from us to himself. God "loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation"--the wrath-absorbing substitute--"for our sins" (1 John 4:10). Then God publicly endorsed Christ's accomplishment by raising him from the dead, proving the success of his suffering and death. #7) So that we would escape the curse of the law There was no escape from the curse of God's law. It was just; we were guilty. There was only one way to be free: someone must pay the penalty. "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us" (Galatians 3:13). The law's demands have been fulfilled by Christ's perfect law-keeping, its penalty fully paid by his death. This is why the Bible teaches that getting right with God is not based on law-keeping: "A person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ" (Galatians 2:16). Our only hope is having the blood and righteousness of Christ credited to our account. #6) To reconcile us to God The reconciliation that needs to happen between man and God goes both ways. God's first act in reconciling us to himself was to remove the obstacle that separated him from us--the guilt of our sin. He took the steps we could not take to remove his own judgment by sending Jesus to suffer in our place: "While we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son" (Romans 5:10). Reconciliation from our side is simply to receive what God has already done, the way we receive an infinitely valuable gift. #5) To show God's love for sinners The measure of God's love is shown by the degree of his sacrifice in saving us from the penalty of our sins: "he gave his only Son" (John 3:16). When we add the horrific crucifixion that Christ endured, it becomes clear that the sacrifice the Father and the Son made to save us was indescribably great! The measure of his love increases still more when we consider the degree of our unworthiness. "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Our debt is so great, only a divine sacrifice could pay it.
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Reconciliation from our side is simply to receive what God has already done, the way we receive an infinitely valuable gift. #5) To show God's love for sinners The measure of God's love is shown by the degree of his sacrifice in saving us from the penalty of our sins: "he gave his only Son" (John 3:16). When we add the horrific crucifixion that Christ endured, it becomes clear that the sacrifice the Father and the Son made to save us was indescribably great! The measure of his love increases still more when we consider the degree of our unworthiness. "God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Our debt is so great, only a divine sacrifice could pay it. #4) To show Jesus' own love for us The death of Christ is also the supreme expression that he "loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20). It is my sin that cuts me off from God. All I can do is plead for mercy. I see Christ suffering and dying "to give his life as a ransom for many" (Matthew 20:28). And I ask, am I among the "many"? And I hear the answer, "Whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). Jesus paid the highest price possible to give me--personally--the greatest gift possible. #3) To take away our condemnation The great conclusion to the suffering and death of Christ is this: "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1). To be "in Christ" means to be in relationship to him by faith. Christ becomes our punishment (which we don't have to bear) and our worth before God (which we cannot earn). The death of Christ secures freedom from condemnation for those who believe that Christ has served their death sentence. It is as sure that they cannot be condemned as it is sure that Christ died! #2) To bring us to God "Gospel" means "good news," and it all ends in one thing: God himself. The gospel is the good news that at the cost of his Son's life, God has done everything necessary to captivate us with what will make us eternally and ever-increasingly happy--namely, himself. "Christ...suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God" (1 Peter 3:18). #1) To give eternal life to all who believe on Him Jesus made it plain that rejecting the eternal life he offered would result in the misery of eternity in hell: "Whoever does not believe is condemned already....the wrath of God remains on him" (John 3:18, 36). But for those who trust Christ, the best is yet to come. "No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9). We will see the all-satisfying glory of God. "This is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent" (John 17:3). For all these reasons and more, Christ suffered and died. Why would you not embrace him as your Savior from sin and judgment, and live with God eternally? If you are moved to embrace God's Son in this way, tell God in words like these: Dear God, I'm convinced that Jesus suffered and died for my sins. I gratefully trust in him now as my Lord and my precious Treasure and the only way I'll ever receive your forgiveness and your promise of eternal life. Amen.
Autores: John Piper
Categoría: Religion
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Título: Dodge Pick-ups, 1994-2001 (Haynes Manuals)
Descripción: The mysteries of the versatile LS series engines are unlocked in the Haynes Techbook Cummins Diesel Engine Manual. Covering everything from engine overhaul, cylinder head selection and modification, induction and fuel systems, camshafts and valve train, to beefing-up the bottom end, turbo and supercharger add-ons, engine swaps and extreme builds, this manual will help you get the most from your LS-powered vehicle.
Autores: Editors of Haynes Manuals
Categoría: Transportation
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Título: Black Book List, New York 04: Restaurants, Bars, Clubs, Hotels (Black Book List Nightlife Guides)
Descripción: 'BlackBook Lists' are clandestine nightlife handbooks, covert guides to funky, classic, eclectic, popular, cool and esoteric restaurants, bars, clubs and hotels for cities around the globe. This handy manual is an expanded edition of the cult classic 'Little BlackBook List' published inside BlackBook magazine since 1997, covering over 33 global cities.
Autores: Evan L. Schindler
Categoría: Travel
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Título: Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
Descripción: "This book is designed to cover one year's work in Hebrew leading up to a full understanding of the language. It has been used by the author with his students for many years and the published text is the result of testing and refining over these years. Every attempt has been made to make the grammar clear and simple. For example, all Hebrew words are transliterated, as well as being given in the original for the first three-quarters of the book. The grammatical discussion is made as unsophisticated as possible for it is the author's intention that this book should also be of use to those who study Hebrew without a teacher. Review: 'Professor Lambdin spent ten years perfecting this book ... the book was worth ten years waiting for. Systematic, clear with all inessentials pruned, it presents Biblical Hebrew in depth and, of course, is first-rate preparation for anyone who wants to gain more than a superficial knowledge of modern Hebrew ... there simply is no substitute for books like Professor Lambdin's.' -- The Jewish Chronicle.
Autores: Thomas Oden Lambdin
Categoría: Hebrew language
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Título: A gallery of children,
Descripción: A series of short stories by A. A. Milne which he described as 'a fanciful elaboration of each picture' to accompany the delightful original illustrations. A re-issue of the famous ode to childhood by A A Milne. In 1925 Henriette Willebeek Le Mair was commissioned by the Colgate company to produce a series of illustrations for magazine advertising. The public imagination was so captured by these that AA Milne wrote an accompanying collection of short stories - A Gallery of Children.
Autores: Alan Alexander Milne
Categoría: Juvenile Fiction
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Título: Ewen McGregor: The Unauthorized Biography
Descripción: Traces the career of the Scottish actor who has already portrayed a variety of roles in films such as "Trainspotting," "Emma," and "The Phantom Menace"
Autores: Chris Nickson
Categoría: Biography & Autobiography
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Título: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
Descripción: Now updated with new material that brings the killer's picture into clearer focus. In the fall of 1888, all of London was held in the grip of unspeakable terror. An elusive madman calling himself Jack the Ripper was brutally butchering women in the slums of London’s East End. Police seemed powerless to stop the killer, who delighted in taunting them and whose crimes were clearly escalating in violence from victim to victim. And then the Ripper’s violent spree seemingly ended as abruptly as it had begun. He had struck out of nowhere and then vanished from the scene. Decades passed, then fifty years, then a hundred, and the Ripper’s bloody sexual crimes became anemic and impotent fodder for puzzles, mystery weekends, crime conventions, and so-called “Ripper Walks” that end with pints of ale in the pubs of Whitechapel. But to number-one New York Times bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell, the Ripper murders are not cute little mysteries to be transformed into parlor games or movies but rather a series of terrible crimes that no one should get away with, even after death. Now Cornwell applies her trademark skills for meticulous research and scientific expertise to dig deeper into the Ripper case than any detective before her—and reveal the true identity of this fabled Victorian killer. In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed, Cornwell combines the rigorous discipline of twenty-first century police investigation with forensic techniques undreamed of during the late Victorian era to solve one of the most infamous and difficult serial murder cases in history. Drawing on unparalleled access to original Ripper evidence, documents, and records, as well as archival, academic, and law-enforcement resources, FBI profilers, and top forensic scientists, Cornwell reveals that Jack the Ripper was none other than a respected painter of his day, an artist now collected by some of the world’s finest museums: Walter Richard Sickert. It has been said of Cornwell that no one depicts the human capability for evil better than she. Adding layer after layer of circumstantial evidence to the physical evidence discovered by modern forensic science and expert minds, Cornwell shows that Sickert, who died peacefully in his bed in 1942, at the age of 81, was not only one of Great Britain’s greatest painters but also a serial killer, a damaged diabolical man driven by megalomania and hate. She exposes Sickert as the author of the infamous Ripper letters that were written to the Metropolitan Police and the press. Her detailed analysis of his paintings shows that his art continually depicted his horrific mutilation of his victims, and her examination of this man’s birth defects, the consequent genital surgical interventions, and their effects on his upbringing present a casebook example of how a psychopathic killer is created. New information and startling revelations detailed in Portrait of a Killer include: - How a year-long battery of more than 100 DNA tests—on samples drawn by Cornwell’s forensics team in September 2001 from original Ripper letters and Sickert documents—yielded the first shadows of the 75- to 114 year-old genetic evid...
Autores: Patricia Cornwell
Categoría: True Crime
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Título: To Heaven With Diana!: A Study of Jordan of Saxony and Diana dAndal with a Translation of the Letters of Jordan
Descripción: Lists more than 80,000 rhyming words, including single, double, and triple rhymes, and offers information on rhyme schemes, meter, and poetic forms.
Autores: Willard R. Espy
Categoría: Reference
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Título: Basic Phonics Skills, Level A
Descripción: "Correlated to State standards. Beginning & ending consonants, short vowels, plural & inflectional endings, word families, 20 reproducible little phonics readers"--Cover.
Autores: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Categoría: Education
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Título: Where Is Tessie BearS Basket? (Noddy Board Books)
Descripción: When Tessie Bear's picnic basket disappears, along with Bumpy Dog, just as they arrive for a picnic, Noddy and Big-Ears go looking for their missing lunch. On board pages.
Autores: Lori Froeb, BKN International
Categoría: Juvenile Fiction
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Título: The Pyromaniacs Cookbook: the best in flaming food and drink
Descripción: A truly comprehensive collection of flambe dishes, this book includes recipes that are simple to prepare, yet elegant beyond words, ranging from appetizers and drinks to main dishes--with knowledgeable recommendations for companion wines--to desserts and coffees. 40 line drawings.
Autores: John J. Poister
Categoría: Cooking
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Título: Amok Fifth Dispatch: Sourcebook for the Extremes of Information
Descripción: Directory of the Extremes of Information in Print The 'Amok Sourcebook' presents in one volume the entire gamut of extreme literature available from hundreds of publishers worldwide, complete with ordering information. Exhaustively researched, entertainingly annotated and provocatively illustrated, it is a guide to over 3,000 of the most bizarre, controversial and thought-provoking books - plus selected CD-ROMs, videos, CDs and websites - in print.
Autores: Amok (Firm)
Categoría: Reference
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Título: An island to myself
Descripción: New Zealand shopkeeper describes his daily experiences over a five-year period while living alone on Suvarov, a tiny South Pacific atoll.
Autores: Tom Neale
Categoría: Suvarrow Islands
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Título: Introduction to Managing Technology (Engineering Management Series, 4)
Descripción: This volume is designed to teach engineers, scientists, and other technologists the basic management skills they will need to be effective throughout their careers.
Autores: Lucy C. Morse, Daniel L. Babcock
Categoría: Engineering
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Título: The High Blood Pressure Solution: A Scientifically Proven Program for Preventing Strokes and Heart Disease
Descripción: • Proves that the majority of cases of stroke, heart attack, and hypertension can easily be prevented by maintaining the proper ratio of potassium to sodium in the diet. • Updated with scientific evidence from a recent Finnish study showing a 60 percent decline in deaths attributed to strokes and heart attacks. • Provides a comprehensive program for balancing body chemistry at the cellular level. High blood pressure is entirely preventable, without reliance on synthetic drugs. Dr. Moore's approach is simple: by maintaining the proper ratio of potassium to sodium in the diet, blood pressure can be regulated at the cellular level, preventing the development of hypertension and the high incidence of strokes and heart attacks associated with it. Dr. Moore updates this edition with a new preface reporting on the latest scientific research in support of his program. The most striking results come from Finland, where for several decades sodium chloride has been replaced nationwide with a commercial sodium/potassium mixture, resulting in a 60 percent decline nationwide in deaths attributed to strokes and heart attacks. Extrapolated to America, the Finnish statistics would mean 360,000 strokes prevented and 96,000 lives saved every year. Dr. Moore makes it clear that high blood pressure is only one symptom of an entire systemic imbalance. He outlines a safe, effective program that focuses on nutrition, weight loss, and exercise to bring the entire body chemistry into balance. For those currently taking blood pressure medications, he includes a chapter on working with your physician to ensure that any reduction in hypertension drugs can be effected gradually and safely.
Autores: Richard D. Moore
Categoría: Health & Fitness
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Título: X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong
Descripción: The mysterious and powerful Phoenix Force is life incarnate, and yet it consumes whole worlds in a moment. Its long history with the X-Men is fraught with tragedy... especially concerning one of the most beloved of their number, Jean Grey. What will happen when the Phoenix returns to Earth in search of the one mortal who could ever contain its power... only to find her dead? Collects X-Men: Phoenix Endsong (2005) #1-5.
Autores: Greg Pak
Categoría: Comics & Graphic Novels
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Título: Writing Short Films: Structure and Content for Screenwriters
Descripción: This new edition has been completely updated and revised along with the addition of several new chapters. Currently, this title remains the best selling university text book on writing short film screenplays.
Autores: Linda J. Cowgill
Categoría: Performing Arts
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Título: Through the Darkness: One Mans Fight to Overcome Epilepsy
Descripción: From the time he was bitten by a mosquito at the age of nine months and infected with encephalitis, Mike Henle suffered from a seizure disorder for thirty-seven years—a chronic illness exacerbated by prescription drugs. He finally came under the treatment of a neurologist at Scripps Green Hospital in California and underwent brain surgery on December 6, 1994. After the surgery, Mike went through detoxification from prescription drugs such as phenobarbital. Now, ten years later, Mike’s life has changed in dramatic and simple ways. He can drive a car and not worry about having grand-mal seizures; his thoughts are clear and uncluttered; his self-worth is elevated, as well as his relationships with family members. This book is an account of Mike’s struggles with this disorder and his frustrations through the years of misdiagnoses and maltreatment.
Autores: Michael Henle
Categoría: Body, Mind & Spirit
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Título: Algebra Survival Guide Workbook: Thousands of Problems To Sharpen Skills and Enhance Understanding
Descripción: Following on the success of the Algebra Survival Guide, the Algebra Survival Guide Workbook presents thousands of practice problems (and all answers) to help children master algebra. The problems are keyed to the pages of the Algebra Survival Guide, so that children can find detailed instructions and then work the sets. Each problem set focuses like a laser beam on a particular algebra skill, then offers ample practice problems. Answers are conveniently displayed in the back. This book is for parents of schooled students, homeschooling parents and teachers. Parents of schooled children find that the problems give their children a leg up for mastering all skills presented in the classroom. Homeschoolers use the Workbook - in conjunction with the Guide - as a complete Algebra 1 curriculum. Teachers use the workbook's problem sets to help children sharpen specific skills - or they can use the pages as tests or quizzes on specific topics. Like the Algebra Survival Guide, the Workbook is adorned with beautiful art and sports a stylish, teen-friendly design.
Autores: Josh Rappaport
Categoría: Education
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Título: The gospel and the church
Descripción: This reissue of Archbishop Ramsey's classic theological study of Anglican views of the church is important for students of ecumenism, and for those concerned with the relationship between Christ and the church in the New Testament. Although some of the book is dated, its conviction that "the church's meaning lies in its fulfillment of the sufferings of Christ" and that "every part of its history is intelligible in terms of the Passion" remains perceptive and challenging. Examining Scripture, doctrine, and history, Ramsey paints an intricate portrait of the church as an example of Christ's death and resurrection. He explores Eastern orthodox doctrine; explains the purposes and preconditions of the Reformation; and calls for a renewal of liturgical worship and reconciliation within the communion of the saints. Originally published in 1936 while he was serving as sub-warden of Lincoln Theological College, this was Ramsey's first book. After more than seventy years, its wisdom concerning the relationship between Catholic and Evangelical, and the underlying complementarities and tensions which characterize the Anglican tradition, remains theologically sound and biblically astute.
Autores: Michael Ramsey
Categoría: Religion
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Título: The Winners Circle
Descripción: A team of America's most successful financial advisors offer their advice to private investors and financial professionals in this insightful guide. These advisors, who typically reserve their advice for elite and institutional investors, share their private wealth management and investing strategy secrets, including how they provide extraordinary advice and service, how they have built their businesses, which direction their businesses are taking for the future, and how they have set themselves apart from the vast majority of Wall Street professionals. Providing ideas and guidance for a variety of financial situations, this guide is an answer to securing prosperity for the future.
Autores: R. J. Shook
Categoría: Business & Economics
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Título: Working with Second Language Learners: Answers to Teachers Top Ten Questions
Descripción: Cary takes on the big questions in Working with English Language Learners. He answers them with examples drawn from actual classes that demonstrate outstanding ELL practices; coaching commentary that highlights key teaching strategies and ties together theory and practice; and professional reflection questions and action items, new to the second edition, that encourage strong, responsive ELL practices. Also includes updated and expanded lists of teacher resources, ELL references and acronyms, new samples of student work, helpful tools, templates, and self-assessment rubrics for teachers. --From publisher's description.
Autores: Stephen Cary
Categoría: Education
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Título: GIRL FROM THE SOUTH
Descripción: Gillion is from the American South, but she is definitely not a Southern belle. An art historian by trade, she takes a job in London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. Once in London she meets Tilly, a features editor, and her long-term boyfriend and wildlife photographer Henry, who is finding it hard to commit. Before long, Gillion inadvertently offers Henry an escape: the chance to travel to South Carolina and photograph its wildlife. Upon arriving, Henry is wholly seduced by the charms of Charleston, by Gillon's family, and by the old patrician way of life which presents itself. Neither Gillion nor Henry bargains on what they find there, nor the effect his departure will have on Tilly and the world he left behind.
Autores: Joanna Trollope
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Imagining London: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis
Descripción: Imagining London examines representations of the English metropolis in Canadian, West Indian, South Asian, and second-generation 'black British' novels written in the last half of the twentieth century.
Autores: John Clement Ball
Categoría: History
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Título: An Introduction to Mathematical Logic
Descripción: This comprehensive overview ofmathematical logic is designedprimarily for advanced undergraduatesand graduate studentsof mathematics. The treatmentalso contains much of interest toadvanced students in computerscience and philosophy. Topics include propositional logic;first-order languages and logic; incompleteness, undecidability,and indefinability; recursive functions; computability;and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem.Reprint of the PWS Publishing Company, Boston, 1995edition.
Autores: Richard E. Hodel
Categoría: Mathematics
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Título: Thai Spa Book: The Natural Asian Way to Health and Beauty
Descripción: The secrets of Thailand's deluxe spas are revealed in this luxurious but practical book. Offering techniques to relieve stress, revitalize the mind and beautify the body, this volume brings the Thai spa to every home. Included are straightforward recipes for a relaxing bath, refreshing tonic or a satisfying facial; easy-to-follow instructions on how to do Thai massage and meditation; a section on Asian aromatherapy; a guide to full beauty treatments at home and a spa listing for travellers. Lavishly illustrated, the photographs were shot entirely on location in Thailand using Thai supermodels. The result is a lush volume that will please the mind, body and spirit.
Autores: Chami Jotisalikorn
Categoría: Health & Fitness
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Título: City of Suspects
Descripción: In City of Suspects Pablo Piccato explores the multiple dimensions of crime in early-twentieth-century Mexico City. Basing his research on previously untapped judicial sources, prisoners’ letters, criminological studies, quantitative data, newspapers, and political archives, Piccato examines the paradoxes of repressive policies toward crime, the impact of social rebellion on patterns of common crime, and the role of urban communities in dealing with transgression on the margins of the judical system. By investigating postrevolutionary examples of corruption and organized crime, Piccato shines light on the historical foundations of a social problem that remains the main concern of Mexico City today. Emphasizing the social construction of crime and the way it was interpreted within the moral economy of the urban poor, he describes the capital city during the early twentieth century as a contested territory in which a growing population of urban poor had to negotiate the use of public spaces with more powerful citizens and the police. Probing official discourse on deviance, Piccato reveals how the nineteenth-century rise of positivist criminology—which asserted that criminals could be readily distinguished from the normal population based on psychological and physical traits—was used to lend scientific legitimacy to class stratifications and to criminalize working-class culture. Furthermore, he argues, the authorities’ emphasis on punishment, isolation, and stigmatization effectively created cadres of professional criminals, reshaping crime into a more dangerous problem for all inhabitants of the capital. This unique investigation into crime in Mexico City will interest Latin Americanists, sociologists, and historians of twentieth-century Mexican history.
Autores: Pablo Piccato
Categoría: History
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Título: The City Curious
Descripción: "The City Curious" by Jean de Boschère (translated by F. Tennyson Jesse). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Autores: Jean de Boschère
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: Greyhound: A Pictorial Tribute to an American Icon
Descripción: This book details the history of an American bus company that had its origins in the early 1920s, and went on to become one of the most celebrated transportation networks in American history.
Autores: Alex Roggero, Tony Beadle
Categoría: Bus travel
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Título: Patternmaking for Fashion Design
Descripción: For an undergraduate course in Patternmaking. Renowned for its comprehensive coverage, exceptional illustrations, and clear instructions, this #1 text offers detailed yet easy-to-understand explanations of the essence of patternmaking. Hinging on a recurring theme that all designs are based on one or more of the three major patternmaking and design principles-dart manipulation, added fullness, and contouring-it provides students with all the relevant information necessary to create design patterns with accuracy regardless of their complexity.
Autores: Helen Joseph Armstrong
Categoría: Clothing and dress
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Título: Resurrecting Virgil
Descripción: Winner of the Omaha Prize for Novel for the year 2000, selected by Mark Spencer. A modern comic-romance with a generous dollop of Southern Gothic, Resurrecting Virgil will keep readers turning the pages long into the night.
Autores: Dorie LaRue
Categoría: Funeral homes
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Título: Passion
Descripción: The PassionBook is the most famous work of erotica in the vast literature of Tibetan Buddhism, written by the legendary scholar and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951). Soon after arriving in India in 1934, he discovered the Kama Sutra. Realizing that this genre of the erotic was unknown in Tibet, he set out to correct the situation. His sources were two: classical Sanskrit works and his own experiences with his lovers. Completed in 1939, his “treatise on passion” circulated in manuscript form in Tibet, scandalizing and arousing its readers. Gendun Chopel here condemns the hypocrisy of both society and church, portraying sexual pleasure as a force of nature and a human right for all. On page after page, we find the exuberance of someone discovering the joys of sex, made all the more intense because they had been forbidden to him for so long: he had taken the monastic vow of celibacy in his youth and had only recently renounced it. He describes in ecstatic and graphic detail the wonders he discovered. In these poems, written in beautiful Tibetan verse, we hear a voice with tints of irony, self-deprecating wit, and a love of women not merely as sources of male pleasure but as full partners in the play of passion.
Autores: Gendun Chopel
Categoría: Self-Help
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Título: Barney Goes To The Zoo
Descripción: A LIFT-THE-FLAP BOARD BOOK which features Barney the dinosaur. Barney goes to a zoo and discovers a variety of exciting animals. Illustrated in colour throughout, by Karen Malzeke-McDonald. Part of the BARNEY series.
Autores: Linda Cress Dowdy
Categoría: Baby Bop (Fictitious character)
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Título: Scripture as Logos: Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)
Descripción: The study of midrash—the biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbis—has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years. Most recent scholarship, however, has focused on the aggadic or narrative midrash, while halakhic or legal midrash—the exegesis of biblical law—has received relatively little attention. In Scripture as Logos, Azzan Yadin addresses this long-standing need, examining early, tannaitic (70-200 C.E.) legal midrash, focusing on the interpretive tradition associated with the figure of Rabbi Ishmael. This is a sophisticated study of midrashic hermeneutics, growing out of the observation that the Rabbi Ishmael midrashim contain a dual personification of Scripture, which is referred to as both "torah" and "ha-katuv." It is Yadin's significant contribution to note that the two terms are not in fact synonymous but rather serve as metonymies for Sinai on the one hand and, on the other, the rabbinic house of study, the bet midrash. Yadin develops this insight, ultimately presenting the complex but highly coherent interpretive ideology that underlies these rabbinic texts, an ideology that—contrary to the dominant view today—seeks to minimize the role of the rabbinic reader by presenting Scripture as actively self-interpretive. Moving beyond textual analysis, Yadin then locates the Rabbi Ishmael hermeneutic within the religious landscape of Second Temple and post-Temple literature. The result is a series of surprising connections between these rabbinic texts and Wisdom literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Church Fathers, all of which lead to a radical rethinking of the origins of rabbinic midrash and, indeed, of the Rabbis as a whole.
Autores: Azzan Yadin
Categoría: Religion
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Título: Cat and Mouse in Space (Learn to Read Series)
Descripción: Designed to enable adult and child to share the first concepts of reading, this book bridges the gap between pre-reading activities and first solo storybooks. Colourful activities are intended to encourage children to start to recognize words and phrases.
Autores: Ray Gibson, Paula Borton
Categoría: Readers
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Título: A Little Bit of Winter
Descripción: Hedgehog, who hibernates through the winter, wants to know what winter feels like, so he asks his friend Rabbit to save him a little bit of winter to share in the spring.
Autores: Paul Stewart
Categoría: Big books
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Título: The Romance Of Certain Old Clothes
Descripción: "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" by Henry James. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Autores: Henry James
Categoría: Fiction
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Título: The Eighth Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack
Descripción: A collection of Garfield comic books, focusing on his love of food and fun.
Autores: Jim Davis
Categoría: American wit and humor, Pictorial
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Título: The Value of a Smile: Victimization 101
Descripción: Every family, touched by violent crime, is flooded with a range of emotional trauma that is beyond the range of normal human experience. There is no end to the damage, and no healing; most victims and survivors find the term 'closure' a meaningless, empty word. We learn to live with the life that is thrust upon us as a means of survival and after time our smiles return but never the life we knew before. It is these thoughts and lessons that we hope to share.
Autores: Dick Cress
Categoría: True Crime
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Título: Are You My Mother?
Descripción: Your kids will enjoy this classic story even more in this beautiful Read & Listen edition. A baby bird is hatched while his mother is away. Fallen from his nest, he sets out to look for her and asks everyone he meets—including a dog, a cow, and a plane—"Are you my mother?" This ebook includes Read & Listen audio narration.
Autores: P.D. Eastman
Categoría: Juvenile Fiction
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Título: The First World War (2): The Western Front 1914-1916 (Essential Histories)
Descripción: More than 80 years on, the Great War - and particularly the great battles such as the Somme and Verdun - continues to fascinate us and to cast long shadows over the world in which we live. For Britain, the effort and sacrifice involved in creating and sustaining its first-ever and biggest-ever mass citizen army, and in helping to defeat the main enemy in the decisive theatre of operations, left deep emotional and psychological scars that have influenced much of the nation's subsequent history and that are still felt today. In this volume Peter Simkins re-examines the struggle and sheds an interesting new light on the nature, course and effects of the fighting in France and Belgium from 1914 to 1916.
Autores: Peter Simkins
Categoría: History
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Título: The Prentice Hall Essentials Dictionary of Culinary Arts
Descripción: This concise version of the culinary dictionary is sized and priced to be used with other Hospitality/Culinary books. Offering over 6,000 entries, it includes authoritative yet concise definitions and a guide to accurate capitalization and phonetic pronunciation. Charts for common food additives, common food labeling terms, and selected produce varieties appear in the back and metric conversions and measurement equivalents are also included. Designed to support those in culinary arts, its definitions, line drawings, charts and tables are excellent for quick, at-a-glance reference.
Autores: Steven Labensky, Gaye G. Ingram, Sarah R. Labensky
Categoría: Cooking
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Título: Tetras and Other Characins
Descripción: These tropical fish do best in tanks that provide strong lighting. The author identifies many different varieties, and advises on everyday care. Titles in the extensive Complete Pet Owner's Manuals series provide pet owners with basic information on keeping healthy, contented, well-cared-for animals. The series includes approximately 175 titles and covers pets of every kind: dogs, cats, and birds of many breeds, as well as fish, reptiles, rabbits, hamsters, and just about any other animal that people keep as a pet. Facts and advice cover all aspects of pet care, which include proper feeding, housing, health care, grooming, training, and much more. The text in each manual is supplemented with many vivid, full-color photos, and with instructive, anatomically accurate line art. Each manual has been individually written by a breeder, trainer, veterinarian, or experienced animal specialist.
Autores: Mark Phillip Smith
Categoría: Pets
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Título: P.E.A.C.E.
Descripción: Peace is making new friends.Peace is helping your neighbor. Peace is a growing a garden. Peace is being who you are. The Peace Book delivers positive and hopeful messages of peace in an accessible, child-friendly format featuring Todd Parr's trademark bold, bright colors and silly scenes. Perfect for the youngest readers, this book delivers a timely and timeless message about the importance of friendship, caring, and acceptance.
Autores: Todd Parr
Categoría: Juvenile Fiction
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