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1) Firefighters
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Read along with Disney! In this level 2 reader, Dusty Crophopper joins forces with veteran fire and rescue helicopter Blade Ranger and his courageous air attack team, including super scooper Lil' Dipper, heavy-lift helicopter Windlifter, ex-military transport Cabbie, and a lively bunch of brave all-terrain vehicles known as the Smokejumpers. Follow along with the word-for-word narration as the team battles wildfires in Piston Peak National Park!
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A Study Guide for Jean Racine's "Andromache," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
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Methadone Detox 2nd Edition is a guide to help people get off methadone in a way that is medically safe, and also maximizes their chances of avoiding a relapse. Written by a Methadone Treatment Counselor, there are numerous case studies presented, so you can avoid the mistakes of others. Most people who detox do not plan to fail, they fail to plan. Contained in this book are numerous detox plans including long term, rapid detox, and cold-turkey. You...
4) Storm Season
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A whirlwind of fantasy action and adventure descends on Thieves' World®-as related by C. J. Cherryh, Diana L. Paxson, Andrew J. Offutt, and others.
Welcome back to Sanctuary, "the city where anything could happen, where characters created by some of the best fantasy writers of the generation crossed paths and shared adventures" (Black Gate). The Thieves' World® series continues with a story line created by Robert Lynn Asprin, C. J. Cherryh, Diana...
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A child would enjoy a Super Cool Wildlife Picture Book because children love to learn about animals. A Super Cool Wildlife Picture Book opens the young reader's eyes and invites the reader into the wilderness to see and become familiar with wildlife animals and their surroundings. Pictures in the book allow the child to be stimulated visually as well as by reading the words. This book would grasp the attention of a child of any age. A Super Cool Wildlife...
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Nursing informatics (NI) is the specialty that integrates nursing science with multiple information and analytical sciences to identify, define, manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in nursing practice. For many people, NI, and health care informatics in general, are about technology. This is especially true of electronic health records (EHRs) that are required of all care facilities. That is just one among many aspects of...
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At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants of American sociology would have applauded the 2004 meetings of the American Sociological Association. The theme of the meetings, Public Sociology, presided...
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Over the course of the twentieth century, Mongolian life was transformed, as a land of nomadic communities encountered first socialism and then capitalism and their promises of new societies. The stories collected in this anthology offer literary snapshots of Mongolian life throughout this tumult. Suncranes and Other Stories showcases a range of powerful voices and their vivid portraits of nomads, revolution, and the endless steppe.
Spanning the...
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La universidad y, en particular, la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) se hallan en el centro de la atención pública, debido, principalmente, al debate actual sobre cuál es el modelo de universidad más adecuado para el desarrollo del país. Para hacer frente a esta demanda social, el Departamento de Humanidades de la PUCP organizó un coloquio internacional interdisciplinario en torno a las relaciones entre la universidad y la nación,...
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La configuración a partir del siglo XVI de las grandes monarquías europeas y de sus cortes conllevó el desarrollo de un ceremonial y una etiqueta que generaron una serie de tipologías de festejos cortesanos, periódicos y excepcionales, de carácter gozoso: juras reales, nacimientos de príncipes e infantes, bodas reales, triunfos militares, embajadas diplomáticas, etc. Los palacios fueron constantemente escenarios privilegiados de estos ceremoniales....
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, has been successful in supporting mitigation actions through carbon finance. With nearly 7,700 projects and 290 Program of Activities registered by the CDM Executive Board, the CDM allows GHG emission reduction projects in developing countries to generate Certified Emission Reductions which can be used to offset mandatory or voluntary emission reduction targets. It...
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Grand Larcenies features generous selections from the work of ten classic modern Dutch poets: Eva Gerlach, Gerrit Kouwenaar, Hester Knibbe, Hans R. Vlek, Rob Schouten, Willem van Toorn, J. Eijkelboom, H.H ter Balkt, K. Michel, and Esther Jansma.
The translator, a notable Welsh poet and writer now living in the Netherlands, takes his bearings from Robert Minhinnick's seminal Welsh anthology The Adulterer's Tongue, which attempts by means of experiment...
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This report contains the comprehensive reports of the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum Sub-Forum 1 (SF1) and Sub-Forum 2 (SF2). The SF1 report (Volume 1) analyzes the harmonization and standardization of the existing bond markets in the ASEAN+3. It also contains the individual market guides of 11 economies under the ASEAN+3 Bond Market Forum (ABMF). The SF2 report (Volume 2) provides an overview of the ASEAN+3 bond markets and their infrastructures, as well...
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a companion to Peter Wohlleben's The Hidden Life of Trees and NOT the original book. Preview: In The Hidden Life of Trees (2015), Peter Wohlleben shares expert insights and observations from his work as a professional forest-keeper at Eifel Mountain, Germany. Basing his theories on scientific data, Wohlleben suggests that trees are living beings that can communicate, learn, and sense pain… Inside this companion to the book:...
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Affectivity is at the core of everything we do in life. Thus, its development is also central to learning/acquisition and is important for educational contexts. The studies presented in this volume consider the different contexts of language learning and examine different types of participants in this process. Most of them look at a formal instruction context, while others look beyond the classroom and even report on the author's own affectivity and...
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A Study Guide for Pearl Cleage's "What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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Get this most comprehensive guide to Singapore! 100% independently researched and written by GuideGecko. Let us show you what Singapore (our hometown!) has to offer, from the mainstream sights to the best attractions off the beaten track. Complete with over 330 places to see, eat, sleep, shop, party, walks & tours, and much, much more. - Use it to get inspired, plan your trip and on the go! - Includes photos for every place - Independently researched...
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From iceberg mover and snake-venom collector to water-slide tester, panda nanny, and professional mermaid, here are the most fun, surprising, and amazing jobs on the planet. This fun and humorous book reveals to young readers just how different and amazing the world of work can be!
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