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Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two Nora Roberts novels together for the first time in one collection"Black Hills"A summer at his grandparents South Dakota ranch is not eleven-year-old Cooper Sullivan s idea of a good time. But things are a bit more bearable now that he s discovered the neighbor girl, Lil Chance, and her homemade batting cage. Each year, with Coop s annual summer visit, their friendship deepens from innocent games to stolen kisses, but there is one shared experience...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Between Zoom meetings, online classes, social media, gaming, and binge-watching TV series, humans now spend most of their free time submerged in screen life - and that’s taking a toll on real life. The good news is there’s a way back. Best-selling author David Murrow provides a rescue plan for parents, adults, teachers, and ministers who want to help others (or themselves) achieve screen-life/real-life balance. Built around five simple parables,...
1144) Love poems
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"An historic publication in which the legendary German poet and dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros. Bertolt Brecht is widely considered the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, and to this day remains best known as a dramatist, the author of Mother Courage, The Threepenny Opera, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, among so many other works. However, Brecht was also a hugely prolific and eclectic poet, producing...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"John C. Maxwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author, helps readers take the first steps to living a life that matters in INTENTIONAL LIVING. We all have a longing to be significant. We want to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful. But many people wrongly believe significance is unattainable. They worry that it's too big for them to achieve. That they have to have an amazing idea, be a certain age, have a lot of money,...
1147) The crime book
Author
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Explores the cases of over one hundred notorious crimes and criminals from world history, covering bandits, arsonists, hucksters, white collar criminals, organized crime, kidnappers, extortionists, and murderers.
1148) What Einstein got wrong
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
These twelve half-hour lectures are about what Einstein got wrong. He may have kindled a scientific revolution with his famous theory of relativity and his proof that atoms and light quanta exist, but he balked at accepting the most startling implications of these theories-such as the existence of black holes, the big bang, gravity waves, and mind-bendingly strange phenomena in the quantum realm. In a course that assumes no background in science and...
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach...
1151) Why fly fishing
Publisher
The American Museum of Fly Fishing
Pub. Date
MDMDIIIX [2011] [i.e.2007]
Language
English
Description
"Why is it that fly fishing generates such passion, such loyalty and such dedication among people who do it - people who fish with flies made from fur and feathers, tinsel and yarn? See and hear from a variety of participants who show and tell us what they love about their sport." -- Front of container.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations, and where African royals, thinkers, and artists played celebrated roles in the globalized world of the Middle Ages. The Golden Rhinoceros brings this unsung era marvelously...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in...
Publisher
U.S. Dept.. of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Within these pages are tools, tips, and ideas for submitting a winning application for the HealthierUS School Challenge. The HealthierUS School Challenge was established to recognize schools that are creating healthier school environments through their promotion of good nutrition and physical activity"--cf. p. 2.
Author
Series
Publisher
Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, U.S. Army War College
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In this monograph, the author proposes a way for non-military organizations to render assistance and development to fragile states through an organizational approach. Accordingly, he proffers the concept of the Government Assistance Center as a vehicle for effective coordination and cooperation in whole of government and comprehensive approaches. Conceptually, the GAC embodies a standardized camp and an organizational structure for decision-making....