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Suburban wife and mother, Julia Flanagan is good to a fault. She always plays by the rules, does what she's told and puts her family first. To be honest, her life's become rather dull -- and her sex life is humdrum, to say the least. But all that changes when Julia's best friends dare her to start living dangerously. At first, she only breaks little rules -- mixing her recyclables, illegally downloading music -- but when Julia meets a handsome professor at work, she finds that having started to live dangerously it's hard to stop!
Author: Debra Kent
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Publisher: Review (Headline)
Publication Date: 08 May 2006
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Martin Kratt, Chris Kratt |
Random
House
Books
For
Young
Readers
Wild Cats! (Wild Kratts)
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The Wild Kratts go in search of lions, tigers, and felines of all sizes in this leveled reader with stickers!PBS's successful animated show Wild Kratts joins the adventures of zoologists Chris and Martin Kratt as they travel to animal habitats around the globe. Along the way, they encounter incredible creatures while combining science education with fun. Boys and girls ages four to six can learn all about cats--from ferocious big cats like lions and tigers that live in the wild to adorable house cats. Stickers add to the fun.Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories for beginning readers who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.
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Friar Jack Wintz
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Paraclete
Press
Will I See My Dog In Heaven? - God's Saving Love For The Whole Family Of Creation
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Original Edition of I Will See You in Heaven What do you Will we see our dogs and cats in the hereafter? Does God's plan for eternity include the created nonhuman world? Franciscan friar and popular writer Father Jack Wintz brings a love for all creation and infectious enthusiasm to the serious task of exploring answers to these long-asked questions, In Will I See My Dog in Heaven? Father Jack admits that no one really knows what God has in mind for us in the next life. But in ten thoughtful chapters, he lines up evidence from the Scriptures, Christian tradition and liturgy, and the life and teachings of St. Francis of Assisi, that God desires all creatures (yes, including our beloved pets!) in the afterlife.
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Roy F. Baumeister
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Allen
Lane
Willpower : Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength
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Can you resist everything except temptation? In a hedonistic age full of distractions, it's hard to possess willpower - or in fact even understand why we should need it. Yet it's actually the most important factor in achieving success and a happy life, shown to be more significant than money, looks, background or intelligence. This book reveals the secrets of self-control. For years the old-fashioned, even Victorian, value of willpower has been disparaged by psychologists who argued that we're largely driven by unconscious forces beyond our control. Here Roy Baumeister, one of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, and journalist John Tierney, turn this notion on its head. They show us that willpower is like a muscle that can be strengthened with practice and improved over time. The latest laboratory work shows that self-control has a physical basis to it and so is dramatically affected by simple things such as eating and sleeping - to the extent that a life-changing decision may go in different directions depending on whether it's made before or after lunch. You will discover how babies can be taught willpower, the joys of the to-don't list, the success of Alcoholics Anonymous, the pointlessness of diets and the secrets to David Blaine's stunts. There are also fascinating personal stories, from explorers, students, soldiers, ex-addicts and parents. Based on years of psychological research and filled with practical advice, this book will teach you how to gain from self-control without pain, and discover the very real power in willpower. The results are nothing short of life-changing.
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Weng Danzhi
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Artpower
International
Window Display Design
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Window Display Design plays a significant part in the retail industry, it translates trends that have emerged from all aspects of culture including art, fashion, architecture and theater. This book focuses on analyzing and understanding examples of contemporary window display design from various famous designers and special design companies internationally.
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Roger James Hamilton
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Achievers
International
Wink and Grow Rich : A Step by Step Guide to Making a Lot of Money
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This book holds the keys to your wealth. Don't put it down. The keys will remain in this book until you open it and take them out. You can open it now, but to take out the keys, first you need to find them. The keys are in a story behind the A lesson behind the lesson. That means to find the keys, you need to become better at seeing. What you see will always be what you get. Each time y ou read the book, you will see a little better until, one by one, you take the keys out and use them to unlock the doors to your wealth. If you work hard enough, in time you will find the final key. This is referred to throughout the story, and it is the biggest key by far. It unlocks the door to wealth beyond words. Time is your greatest asset, and your wealth awaits. So don't waste another minute. Don't question. Just read this book. Read it now. Read it and grow rich....
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Jack Welch, Suzy Welch |
Harper
Business
Winning
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"Winning" could be a good read for someone who wants to gain insights on how to be a successful business leader. The book is authored by a champion manager of people and contains candid personal anecdotes and hard-hitting advice on how to navigate the many challenges people face in their careers. The unique aspect of this book is that it contains quotes from business leaders that Welch interviewed especially for the book, which adds a lot of value to the advice he provides.
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Jack Welch, Suzy Welch |
Harper
Paperbacks
Winning : The Ultimate Business How-To Book
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A champion manager of people, Jack Welch shares the hard-earned wisdom of a storied career in what will become the ultimate business bible With Winning, Jack Welch delivers a wide-ranging, in-depth, no-holds-barred management guidebook about the tough strategic, organizational, and personal challenges that face people at every stage of their careers. Loaded with candid personal anecdotes, hard-hitting advice, and invaluable dos and don’ts, Jack explains his theory of business, by laying out the four most important principles that form the foundation of his success. Chapters How to Get Promoted, How to Think about Strategy, How to Write a Budget that Works, How to Work for a Jerk, How Find Work-Life Balance and How Start Something New. Enlivened by quotes from business leaders that Welch interviewed especially for the book, it’s a tour de force that reflects Welch’s mastery of execution, excellence and leadership.
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David M. Cote
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Harpercollins
Leadership
Winning Now, Winning Later : How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term
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From local coffee shops to the largest Fortune 500 companies, everyone is struggling to make the impossible choice between chasing short-term objectives and creating a secure future for their company. David Cote understood this dilemma and rejected it. And in these pages, he shows you how taking the same revolutionary approach might be the smartest business decision you’ll ever make.Upon taking his place as CEO of Honeywell International in 2002, he encountered an organization on the verge of failure thanks to years of short-termism.Winning Now, Winning Later reveals the bold the operational reforms and counterintuitive leadership practices you can put into practice that will allow you to do two conflicting things at the same time—pursue strong short- and long-term results. This tested and proven approach can strengthen your business like never before, and even rescue it from the brink of disaster no matter how dire the current circumstances may seem. Offering 10 essential principles for winning both today and tomorrow, this book will help you:Spot practices that seem attractive in the short term but will cost the company in the future Determine where and how to invest in growth for maximum impact Sustain both short-term performance and long-term investments even in challenging times, such as during recessions and leadership transitions Feel inspired to stand up to investors and other managers who are solely focused on either short- or long-term objectives Step back, think independently, and foster independent thinking among others around youPresenting a comprehensive solution to a perennial problem, Winning Now, Winning Later is a go-to guide for you and leaders everywhere to finally transcend short-termism’s daily grind and leave an enduring legacy of success.
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Andrew J. DuBrin
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Prentice
Hall
Press
Winning Office Politics : Du Brin's Guide for the 90s
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This book is a must-read for anyone striving to succeed in the corporate world. It offers practical techniques and examples for navigating office politics and gaining power and visibility. Users will appreciate the step-by-step approach and effective strategies for handling various office scenarios. The book's unique and distinctive feature is its emphasis on political techniques that can be applied in any corporate setting.
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Charles F. Stanley
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Thomas
Nelson
Inc
Winning the War within
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Offers a biblical perspective on temptation, explains the difference between tests and temptation, and tells how faith can overcome temptation
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Amy Beasley, Bob Beasley |
Legacy
Press
Wisdom for Women
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Who is the Proverbs 31 woman and why is she so important? The daily devotions and Bible study guides found in this book provide Christian women with an in-depth look at her beautiful example of godly womanhood. As each characteristic of this biblical model is examined, today's women of God will find encouragement and inspiration for their own lives.
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Margaret MacDonald, Alice Ambrose, Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Prometheus
Wittgenstein's Lectures : Cambridge, 1932-1935
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Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein had an enormous influence on twentieth-century philosophy even though only one of his works, the famous Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, was published in his lifetime. Beyond this publication the impact of his thought was mainly conveyed to a small circle of students through his lectures at Cambridge University. Fortunately, many of his ideas have survived in both the dictations that were subsequently published, and the notes taken by his students, among them Alice Ambrose and the late Margaret Macdonald, from 1932 to 1935. These notes, now edited by Professor Ambrose, are here published, and they shed much light on Wittgenstein's philosophical development. Among the topics considered are the meaning of a word and its relation to common usage, rules of grammar and their relation to fact, the grammar of first person statements, language games, and the nature of philosophy. This volume is indispensable to any serious discussion of Wittgenstein's work.
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Elizabeth Gaskell, Laurence D. Lerner, Frank Glover Smith |
Penguin
Classics
Wives And Daughters
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Gaskell s last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England. At its core are family relationships father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one of comedy. Gaskell vividly portrays the world of the late 1820 s and the forces of change within it, and her vision is always humane and progressive. The story is full of acute observation and sympathetic character-study: the feudal squire clinging to old values, his naturalist son welcoming the new world of science, the local doctor and his scheming second wife, the two girls brought together by their parents marriage...
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Mike Poulton, Hilary Mantel |
Fourth
Estate
Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies : Rsc Stage Adaptation
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Recommended for those interested in historical fiction. This adaptation of Hilary Mantel's award-winning novels is a compelling and well-written drama that brings Tudor England to life. The performances are excellent, and the production is masterfully executed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Fans of historical fiction will find this production to be a must-see.
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Israel Epstein
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China
International
Book
Trading
Corp
Woman in World History : Soong Ching Ling - Mme.Sun Yatsen
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WONDER is the funny, sweet and incredibly moving story of Auggie Pullman. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, this shy, bright ten-year-old has been home-schooled by his parents for his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the stares and cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the first time, Auggie is being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. The thing is, Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?Through the voices of Auggie, his big sister Via, and his new friends Jack and Summer, WONDER follows Auggie's journey through his first year at Beecher Prep. Frank, powerful, warm and often heart-breaking, WONDER is a book you'll read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.
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In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo.Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies.To live, you must follow the rules. But some don't. These are the dangerous ones; these are the people who dare to hope and dream, and who infect others with their optimism.Their punishment is simple and deadly. They are allowed outside.Jules is one of these people. She may well be the last.
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Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow : Essays on the Present and Future of Photography
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At this transitional moment in the field of photography, how should we consider what is to come for the medium? Can its past and present practitioners help guide us, both as creators and as observers? David Levi Strauss-eminent author, critic, and teacher-rises to the challenge of these questions and more in Words Not Spent Today Buy Smaller Images Tomorrow: Essays on the Present and Future of Photographs. In the course of twenty-five essays, Strauss discusses the work of artists who provoke us with revealing, clear-eyed investigations of the ostensibly patent world in front of us, and others who transport us to new realms, poetic and unreal-creative minds ranging from Frederick Sommer, Helen Levitt, Daido Moriyama, and Joseph Beuys, to contemporary photographers Sally Mann, James Nachtwey, Susan Meiselas, Robert Bergman, Tim Davis, and many others. Also considered are the groundbreaking theoretical writings of Susan Sontag and Jean-Luc Nancy, the films of Chris Marker and Stan Brakhage, and issues and events that have irrevocably altered the way we consider the medium of photography and how it communicates: 9/11, Abu Ghraib, the death of Osama bin Laden, the Arab Spring, and Occupy Wall Street. Words Not Spent Today is an incisive exploration of photography's changing role as a tool of evidence and conscience as we move forward into-can we say it?-a post-photographic era.
Author: David Levi Strauss
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 192
Publisher: aperture
Publication Date: 31 May 2014
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Herminia Ibarra
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Harvard
Business
School
Press
Working Identity : Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
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How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into Reality Whether as a daydream or a spoken desire, nearly all of us have entertained the notion of reinventing ourselves. Feeling unfulfilled, burned out, or just plain unhappy with what we’re doing, we long to make that leap into the unknown. But we also hold on, white-knuckled, to the years of time and effort we’ve invested in our current profession. In this powerful book, Herminia Ibarra presents a new model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we’ve learned from "career experts." While common wisdom holds that we must first know what we want to do before we can act, Ibarra argues that this advice is backward. Knowing , she says, is the result of doing and experimenting . Career transition is not a straight path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become. Based on her in-depth research on professionals and managers in transition, Ibarra outlines an active process of career reinvention that leverages three ways of "working identity": experimenting with new professional activities, interacting in new networks of people, and making sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities. Through engrossing stories—from a literature professor turned stockbroker to an investment banker turned novelist—Ibarra reveals a set of guidelines that all successful reinventions share. She explores specific ways that hopeful career changers of any background can: A call to the dreamer in each of us, Working Identity explores the process for crafting a more fulfilling future. Where we end up may surprise us.
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Daniel Goleman
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Bloomsbury
Publishing
Ltd.
Working with Emotional Intelligence
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WORKING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
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Charles A. Frazee
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Barrons
Educational
Series
World History the Easy Way Volume Two
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Volume II opens with major world events between 1500 and 1789, and considers the development of shipbuilding that sent European explorers around the world.Following topics include the Ottoman Empire, Mughal India, Manchu China, Spanish conquests in the Americas, European world colonialism, the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, British imperial expansion, the revolutions in the Americas, the United States and Canada as world powers, World War I and II, postwar Europe, the end of European colonialism, the Cold War, modern China, and events affecting Pacific nations.
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Charles A. Frazee
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Barron's
Educational
Series,
Inc.
World History: Vol 1
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This volume offers a survey and overview of world history, starting with the earliest-known human settlements and concluding in 1500--the early years of Europe's Renaissance,and in the Americas, the era of the Aztec and Inca empires. Following a summary of prehistoric cultures, the author covers the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent, ancient Egypt, civilization in the Indus and Yellow River valleys, early Mediterranean cultures, India's classical age, the rise of China's dynasties, classical Greek and Roman civilizations, the Islamic world, African kingdoms of the first millenium, Europe's middle ages, the Holy Roman Empire, the Crusaders and their clash with Turks, the Mongol invasion, and the humanism of the early European Renaissance.
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Giles Andreae, Janet Cronin |
Egmont
Uk
World of Happy: The Elephant and the Spider
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A story of courage and overcoming fears Why are elephants so scared of spiders? This elephant wants to find out and she'll dig deep inside herself to find the answer.
"Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book." -Walter Isaacson, Time
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era-advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of recent decades-Kissinger now reveals his analysis of the ultimate challenge for the twenty-first century: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historical perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology, and ideological extremism.
There has never been a true "world order," Kissinger observes. For most of history, civilizations defined their own concepts of order. Each considered itself the center of the world and envisioned its distinct principles as universally relevant. China conceived of a global cultural hierarchy with the emperor at its pinnacle. In Europe, Rome imagined itself surrounded by barbarians; when Rome fragmented, European peoples refined a concept of an equilibrium of sovereign states and sought to export it across the world. Islam, in its early centuries, considered itself the world's sole legitimate political unit, destined to expand indefinitely until the world was brought into harmony by religious principles. The United States was born of a conviction about the universal applicability of democracy-a conviction that has guided its policies ever since.
Now international affairs take place on a global basis, and these historical concepts of world order are meeting. Every region participates in questions of high policy in every other, often instantaneously. Yet there is no consensus among the major actors about the rules and limits guiding this process or its ultimate destination. The result is mounting tension.
Grounded in Kissinger's deep study of history and his experience as national security advisor and secretary of state, World Order guides readers through crucial episodes in recent world history. Kissinger offers a unique glimpse into the inner deliberations of the Nixon administration's negotiations with Hanoi over the end of the Vietnam War, as well as Ronald Reagan's tense debates with Soviet Premier Gorbachev in Reykjavik. He offers compelling insights into the future of U.S.-China relations and the evolution of the European Union, and he examines lessons of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Taking readers from his analysis of nuclear negotiations with Iran through the West's response to the Arab Spring and tensions with Russia over Ukraine, World Order anchors Kissinger's historical analysis in the decisive events of our time.
Provocative and articulate, blending historical insight with geopolitical prognostication, World Order is a unique work that could come only from a lifelong policy maker and diplomat. Kissinger is also the author of On China.
Author: Henry Kissinger
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 432
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Publication Date: 01 Sep 2015
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Ages 9-12
Chris Colfer | Little Brown For Young Readers
Chris Colfer | Little Brown For Young Readers
Worlds Collide
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Worlds Collide is a great read for fans of fairy tales and modern twists on classic stories. The Land of Stories series is known for its lovable characters, action-packed plot, and witty humor. Readers will enjoy the unpredictable ending and the way the author blends the fairy tale world and the modern world in this final book.
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An exciting introduction to the diversity of musical cultures including Africa, North and South America, Eastern Europe, India, Indonesia, and Japan, this text conveys the fascination and the excitement associated with ethnomusicology through in-depth case studies written by those who have studied these cultures firsthand. Readers are introduced to the performers and learn the variations in style and opinion that make each culture's music vibrant and alive. The authors provide an understanding of each culture and its music, as well as an explanation of the theory and practice of ethnomusicology.
About the Author:
Jeff Todd Titon received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota, where he studied ethnomusicology with Alan Kagan and musicology with Johannes Riedel. He has completed fieldwork in North America on religious folk music, blues music and old-time fiddling with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For two years he was the guitarist in the Lazy Bill Lucas Blues Band, a group that appeared in the 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. The author or editor of seven books, including EARLY DOWNHOME BLUES (which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award) and the five-volume AMERICAN MUSICAL TRADITIONS (named by Library Journal as one of the outstanding reference works of 2003), Titon is also a documentary photographer and filmmaker. In 1991, he wrote a hypertext multimedia computer program about old-time fiddler Clyde Davenport that is regarded as a model for interactive representations of people making music. He founded the ethnomusicology program at Tufts University, where he taught from 1971 to 1986. From 1990 to 1995, he served as the editor of ETHNOMUSICOLOGY, the journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology. A Fellow of the American Folklore Society since 1986, he has been Professor of Music and the director of the Ph.D. program in ethnomusicology at Brown University.
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 536
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 07 Sep 1996
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Gordon Borror, Ronald B. Allen |
Multnomah
Books
Worship - Rediscovering The Missing Jewel
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With a strong underlying commitment to the authority of Scripture, Multnomah Press's Critical Concern Books seek to focus on important contemporary issues with major theological, societal or personal implications. This book is written by a musician and a theologian to help us to love God with all our heart, soul, strength and mind learning to worship in spirit and truth.
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Jim Benton
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Scholastic
Paperbacks
Worst Things in Life Also Free
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School's out for the summer, and that means no more Meat Loaf Thursdays, Sunday homework-cramming, or teachers (way way unsuccessfully) trying to act cool. It also means that certain Mackerel Middle Schoolers have a lot of time on their hands . . . and seriously empty pockets. Isabella is going to change all that. And Jamie and Angeline are going to help --- whether they like it or not. It's the best kind of teamwork: When a whole bunch of people work together to do something wrong, instead of doing it wrong one at a time.
Even when they're dead, writers are still full of surprises - and the ten in this book are more surprising than most. Ages 8+.
Authors: Tracey Turner, Clive Goddard
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 192
Publisher: Hippo
Publication Date: 17 Jun 2005
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0-312-40161-2 DIANA HACKER 4TH EDITION BEDFORD/St. MARTIN'S 1999 424 PAGES
Author: Hacker
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 424
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2002
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Brendan Hennessy
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Focal
Press
Writing Feature Articles
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Hennessy's classic text tells you everything you need to know about writing successful features. You will learn how to formulate and develop ideas and how to shape them to fit different markets.Now in its fourth edition, Writing Feature Articles has been fully revised and updated to take into account the changing requirements of journalism and media courses. You will also discover how to exploit new technology for both researching and writing online.Learn step-by-step how to plan, research and write articles for a wide variety of 'popular', 'quality' and specialist publications. Discover more and make the advice stick by completing the tasks and reading the keen analysis of extracts from the best of today's writing.Packed with inspirational advice in a friendly, highly readable style, this guide is a must-have for practising and aspiring journalists and writers.
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Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Ned Stuckey-French, Janet Burroway |
Pearson
Writing Fiction : A Guide to Narrative Craft
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The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, Ninth Edition guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision. A bestseller through eight editions, Writing Fiction explores the elements of fiction, providing practical writing techniques and concrete examples. Written in a tone that is personal and non-prescriptive, the text encourages students to develop proficiency through each step of the writing process, offering an abundance of exercises designed to spur writing and creativity. The text also integrates diverse, contemporary short stories in the belief that the reading of inspiring fiction goes hand-in-hand with the writing of fresh and exciting stories.
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S.E. Hinton, Emily Brontë |
Puffin
Books
Wuthering Heights
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Search the moors with HeathcliffAs the snow begins to fall, a man is forced to take shelter at the dark, foreboding Wuthering Heights. This house is haunted by memories and the dangerous story of Cathy and Heathcliff, who fell violently in love but could not be together. When Cathy refuses to marry him, Heathcliff's terrible revenge ruins them all - but still his and Cathy's love will not die...
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Over a dozen original tales that span the career of the uncanny X-Men "RM," from the team's early days as teen heroes to the present -- spotlighting Wolverine, Rogue, Gambit, and all your favorite mutants
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Henry N. Beard
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Avery
X-Treme Latin : All the Latin You Need to Know for Survival in the 21st Century
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In staff meetings and singles bars, on freeways and fairways, there are aggravating people lurking everywhere these days. But bestselling humorist Henry Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations, offering a slew of quips your nemesis won't soon forget . . . or even understand.Beard's gift is his ability to make fun of popular culture and the current zeitgeist. In X-Treme Latin he provides Latin with an attitude, an indispensable phrasebook that taps the secret power of Latin to deliver, in total safety, hundreds of impeccable put-downs, comebacks, and wisecracks. Within its pages you will learn how to insult or fire coworkers; blame corporate scandals on someone else; cheer at a World Wrestling Entertainment match; talk back to your computer, TV, or Game Boy; deal with your road rage; evade threatening situations; snowboard in style; talk like Tony Soprano; and much more.With dozens more zingers for quashing e-mail pranks, psyching out your golf opponent, giving backhanded compliments, and evading awkward questions, X-Treme Latin is destined for magnus popularity and will have readers cheering, “Celebremus!”
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The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable. Xenocide is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series
Ender's Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind Ender's Shadow series
Ender's Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight Children of the Fleet The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
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Author: Orson Scott Card
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 592
Publisher: Doherty (Tom) Associates,U.S.
Publication Date: 31 Aug 1992
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From the bestselling author of P.S. I LOVE YOU and LOVE, ROSIE, comes a tale of a woman who learns that sometimes it takes losing everything to truly find yourself...Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal--from the lone sock that vanishes in the washing machine to the car keys she misplaced. It's no surprise, then, that Sandy's life's work becomes finding people who have vanished from their loved ones. Sandy's family is baffled and concerned by her increasing preoccupation. Her parents can't understand her compulsion, and she pushes them away further by losing herself in the work of tracking down these missing people. She gives up her life in order to offer a flicker of hope to devastated families...and escape the disappointments of her own.Jack Ruttle is one of those devastated people. It's been a year since his brother Donal vanished into thin air, and he has enlisted Sandy Shortt to find him. But before she is able to offer Jack the information he so desperately needs, Sandy goes missing too...and Jack now finds himself searching for his brother and the one woman who understood his pain.One minute Sandy is jogging through the park, the next, she can't figure out where she is. The path is obscured. Nothing is familiar. A clearing up ahead reveals a camp site, and it's there that Sandy discovers the she has inadvertently stumbled upon the place-- and people--she's been looking for all her life, a land where all the missing people go. A world away from her loved ones and the home she ran from for so long, Sandy soon resorts to her old habit again, searching. Though this time, she is desperately trying to find her way home...
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This book was inspired by the Baal Shem Tov, a great teacher who lived in the Ukraine in the 18th century. It is a story about how all of us have the ability to unlock the gates of heaven--no matter how unworthy we think we are. For when we go against out selfish natures, we make miracles happen, in our lives and in the lives of others. We must never forget that hidden behind a large amount of darkness is a large amount of light. --Madonna
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The China-born center for the Houston Rockets chronicles his odyssey from his Shanghai youth, through his first year in the NBA and the challenges he has faced, to his role as an international sports icon.
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Jamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state candidate - as long as he’s behind the scenes. There’s no way he’d ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes…until he meets Maya.Maya Rehman’s having the worst Ramadan ever. Her best friend is too busy to hang out, her summer trip is cancelled, her parents are separating and now her mother thinks the solution to her problems is political canvassing - with some awkward guy she hardly knows ... Going door to door isn’t exactly glamorous, but maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world. After all, the polls are getting closer - and so are Maya and Jamie. Mastering local activism is one thing. Navigating the cross-cultural crush of the century is another thing entirely.
In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much). Powered by Amy's charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by.
Author: Amy Poehler
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Publisher: Pan MacMillan
Publication Date: 19 Nov 2014
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Whether you are looking for stamina, weight loss, or a renewed mental edge, Yoga/Pilates will take your there. The author introduces you to her fully researched and practiced programs aimed at giving you maximum results, whether you have only 15 minutes a day to spare or several hours. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and step-by-step instructions, this book History of old and new yoga and PilatesBreathing and alignmentClosing posturesCounter poses and relaxationQuick 15 minute and 30 minutes exercise plans
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1945 was a hard time to be a child in Japan. Many had seen their cities destroyed by US bombers. Food, fuel and materials were in short supply. Yet spirits remained high. In April 1945, Yoko Moriwaki started high school in Hiroshima, excited to be a prestigious 'Kenjo' girl, and full of duty towards her parents, school and country. But the country was falling apart and in four months time her city would become the target for the first atomic bomb ever used as a weapon. In her diary, Yoko provides an account of that time - when conditions were so poor that children as young as twelve were required to work in industry; when fierce battles raged in the Pacific and children like Yoko believed victory was near. With additions by Yoko's relatives and fellow students, and an introduction by award-winning author Paul Ham, Yoko's Diary not only shows us the hopes, beliefs and daily life of a young girl in wartime Japan, it is a touching account of the consequences of the first nuclear bombing of a city.
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You: Now a Major Netflix series (Volume 1) (YOU series) [Paperback] Kepnes, Caroline
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You Are an Ironman : How Six Weekend Warriors Chased Their Dream of Finishing the World's Toughest Triathlon
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A "New York Times" bestselling author takes readers inside the Ironman triathlon.As he did so masterfully in his "New York Times" bestseller, "The Gatekeepers, " Jacques Steinberg creates a compelling portrait of people obsessed with reaching a life-defining goal. In this instance, the target is an Ironman triathlon-a 2.4-mile open-water swim followed by a 112-mile bike ride, then finally a 26-mile marathon run, all of which must be completed in no more than seventeen hours.Steinberg focuses not on the professionals who live off the prize money and sponsorships but on a handful of triathletes who regard the sport as a hobby. Vividly capturing the grueling preparation, the suspense of completing each event of the triathlon, and the spectacular feats of human endurance, Steinberg plumbs the physical and emotional toll as well as the psychological payoff on the participants of the Ford Ironman Arizona 2009. His "You Are an Ironman" is both a riveting sports narrative and a fascinating, behind-the scenes study of what makes these athletes keep going..
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You Could Do Better
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Daphne tells herself that being glued to the set counts as research for her job at the Museum of Television and Radio. But the truth is that sex with fiancé Charlie just isn't making the ratings. Then Daphne meets sexy, successful writer/producer Jonathan and the picture comes in loud and this man can turn her on like a remote control. So what about her imminent marriage? What if Daphne could do better?