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Seeking Best Friend Marcotte Alison

SEEKING BEST FRIENDWhen a child sends out an open call for a best friend, the most unlikely candidates apply for the job. But when each candidate disappoints, the child's list of requirements grows longer and longer--and more and more ridiculous! Only when she discovers that the way to find a friend is through being a good friend does she finally find the right person for the position.This humorous picture book is sure to make you laugh and will spur great conversations with children about what it means to be a good

Impostors Wife Shattock A.K.

Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley Spivak Jeffrey

Characterized by grandiose song-and-dance numbers featuring ornate geometric patterns and mimicked in many modern films, Busby Berkeley's unique artistry is as recognizable and striking as ever. From his years on Broadway to the director's chair, Berkeley is notorious for his inventiveness and signature style. Through sensational films like 42nd Street (1933), Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933), Footlight Parade (1933), and Dames (1934), Berkeley sought to distract audiences from the troubles of the Great Depression. Although his bold technique is familiar to millions of moviegoers, Berkeley's life remains a mystery. Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley is a telling portrait of the filmmaker who revolutionized the musical and changed the world of choreography. Employing personal letters, interviews, studio memoranda, and Berkeley's private memoirs,

Let Love Win May Nicola

The sequel to Working It Out From the bestselling author of the Cockleberry Bay and Ferry Lane Market series Ruby Matthews is back. She never expected to be starting over. But after a shocking bereavement, she begins to question whether she will ever be happy again. A chance encounter with handsome author Michael Bell throws her fragile heart into turmoil. Encouraged to game her demons, she volunteers at the Bow Wow Club (Boyfriends of Widows, Wives of Widowers). In this charming sequel to Working It Out, you'll laugh and cry along with a myriad eccentric characters as Ruby searches for inner peace. Will she let love win? Or allow her past to continue to haunt

Cambridge Companion to Ciceros Philosophy

Jack Turner: Truth in the Arctic Luckman David

The silence of the arctic night was broken by the strange sound of husky dogs barking. A boat was approaching in the distance.Out of the darkness loomed the shadowy figure of a local Inuit. He had made the dangerous journey along the west coast of Baffin Island to Arctic Bay. Jack Turner had been shot and was in urgent need of medical attention.Usually it was Jack who was the one who helped others. Being a trained pharmacist and pastor he was the one who would heal people's bodies and tend to their souls with the message of the gospel. He had come to this inhospitable land to translate God's Word into the native language. It was a world of snow and hunting and anyone who lived there had to become familiar with the ways of living in the arctic. Ten weeks out of every year the sun never set and for three months the world was in complete darkness.The spiritual

Chwerwfelys Roberts Rebecca

Home, Im Darling Wade Laura Author

Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature Richardson Rebecca

Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians valorized personal ambition in ways that previous generations had not. In Material Ambitions, Rebecca Richardson explores this phenomenon in light of the under-studied reception history of Samuel Smiles's 1859 publication, Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance. A compilation of vignettes about captains of industry, artists, and inventors who persevered through failure and worked tirelessly to achieve success in their respective fields, Self-Help links individual ambition to the growth of the nation.Contextualizing Smiles's work in a tradition of Renaissance self-fashioning, eighteenth-century advice books, and inspirational biography, Richardson argues that the

Reinventing the Sheikhdom Hedges Matthew

How to Survive a Modern-Day Fairy Tale Cruz Elle

This is no ordinary Cinderella story from #OwnVoices debut author Elle Cruz. Claire never believed in fairy tales--that is, until she met Nate--in this fun, flirty

The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha Cornwall Mark

Legend has it that twenty miles of volcanic rock rising through the landscape of northern Bohemia was the work of the devil, who separated the warring Czechs and Germans by building a wall. The nineteenth-century invention of the Devil's Wall was evidence of rising ethnic tensions. In interwar Czechoslovakia, Sudeten German nationalists conceived a radical mission to try to restore German influence across the region. Mark Cornwall tells the story of Heinz Rutha, an internationally recognized figure in his day, who was the pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czech space.Through a narrative that unravels the threads of Rutha's own repressed sexuality, Cornwall shows how Czech authorities misinterpreted Rutha's mission as sexual deviance and in 1937 charged him with corrupting adolescents. The resulting scandal

The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy Posner Richard A.

Following his timely and well-received A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had fallen in the autumn of 2008 and the winter of 2009.By means of a lucid narrative of the crisis and a series of analytical chapters pinpointing critical issues of economic collapse and gradual recovery, Posner helps non-technical readers understand business-cycle and financial economics, and financial and governmental institutions, practices, and transactions, while maintaining a neutrality impossible for persons professionally committed to one theory or another. He calls for fresh thinking about the business cycle that would build on the original ideas of Keynes. Central to these ideas is that of uncertainty as opposed to

Quickvalue: Discover Your Value and Empower Your Business in Three Easy Steps Slack Charles

Gain the competitive edge by conducting a valuation of your company every year--quickly, accurately, and inexpensivelyCompanies that know their value at any given moment have a distinct competitive edge--especially these days, when adding digital capabilities can dramatically affect value. But most businesses drop the ball because traditional valuation is complex, time-consuming, and expensive.Not anymore. Reed Phillips, Chairman of Oaklins International, one of the world's largest mid-market M&A firms, lays out a straightforward method for gaining a clear understanding of your company's current value in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. He walks you through three easy steps: - Identify the key value drivers behind the company's value and rate them to develop a Value Driver Score.Perform a careful

Fight! Hill Harry

Reading Hegel Zizek Slavoj

A spirit is haunting contemporary thought - the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative Realists, Historical Materialists and even 'liberal Hegelians'.Which of these groups has not been denounced as metaphysically Hegelian by its opponents? And which has not hurled back the branding reproach of Hegelian metaphysics in its turn? Progressives, liberals and reactionaries alike receive this condemnation.In light of this situation, it is high time that true Hegelians should openly admit their allegiance and, without obfuscation, express the importance and validity of Hegelianism to the contemporary intellectual scene.To this end, a small group of Hegelians of different nationalities have assembled to sketch the following book - a

Little Sister Wood Lana

The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill Goodspeed-Chadwick Julie

Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies in Popular and American Culture.The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill marks a significant development in literary recovery efforts related to Assia Wevill (1927-1969), who remains a critically important figure in the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sylvia Plath and the British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Editors Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and Peter K. Steinberg located over 150 texts authored by Assia Wevill and curated them into a collected scholarly edition of her letters, journals, poems, and other creative writings. These documents chronicle her personal and professional lives, her experiences as a single working mother in 1960s London, her domestic life with Hughes, and her celebrated translations of

Machine Learning for Subsurface Characterization Misra Siddharth

Machine Learning for Subsurface Characterization focuses on the development and application of neural networks, deep learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, and clustering methods for subsurface characterization under constraints due to financial, operational, regulatory, risk, technological and environmental challenges. The book introduces readers to methods of generating subsurface signals and analyzing the complex relationships within various subsurface signals using machine learning. Algorithmic procedures in MATLAB, R, PYTHON, and TENSORFLOW are displayed in text and through online instructional videos to assist training and learning. Field cases are also presented to demonstrate real-world applications, with a particular focus on examples involving shale reservoirs.Explaining the concept of machine learning, advantages to the industry, and

Himawari House Becker Harmony

Winner of the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' LiteratureA 2021 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the YearA 2021 School Library Best Books of the YearA young adult graphic novel about three foreign exchange students and the pleasures, and difficulties, of adjusting to living in Japan.Living in a new country is no walk in the park--Nao, Hyejung, and Tina can all attest to that. The three of them became fast friends through living together in the Himawari House in Tokyo and attending the same Japanese cram school. Nao came to Japan to reconnect with her Japanese heritage, while Hyejung and Tina came to find freedom and their own paths. Though each of them has her own motivations and challenges, they all deal with language barriers, being a fish out of water, self discovery, love, and

Stray Angel: an absolutely heart-rending Christmas saga Brellend Kay

Discover the Workhouse to War trilogy by Kay Brellend: a new saga series set in the Whitechapel Union workhouse in East London, between 1904 and 1916 . . . 1915, Chrisp Street Market, East London.While the man she loves is in France fighting for his country, Lily Larkin wakes up at dawn to carry crates of apples to his market stall. Left in charge of Greg's warehouse, she has blossomed from a street urchin into a shrewd tradeswoman. But the market is a man's world and she soon starts attracting some unwanted visitors, including Greg's old rival Scully.Luckily, Lily recruits her old friends, Margie and Fannie, as helping hands. While the work is hard, it is nothing compared to the drudgery they endured as children of the workhouse, and they bear their burdens as cheerfully as their heavy

A Book Called You: Understanding the Enneagram from a Grace-Filled, Biblical Perspective Brown Matthew Stephen

Consider the possible Enneagram types of well-known figures in the Bible to discover more about yourself and gain specific wisdom about how and why you are uniquely made.Who am I? Everyone asks that question, no matter their age or status in life. If we're truly supposed to be real with others, shouldn't that start by learning how to be real with ourselves?The Enneagram describes nine basic personality styles which can help us better understand who we are and what drives us. When God designed you, He did not create you as a number but as a uniquely created individual. Your Enneagram type can give you great insight into the complexities of yourself and others. A Book Called YOU will show you how a biblical view of self-discovery can improve every part of your life, and includes:The potential Enneagram type of well-known

Medicine Management Skills for Nurses Boyd Claire

An invaluable nursing handbook to increase your confidence with medicine managementIn the newly revised Second Edition of Medicine Management Skills for Nurses, renowned nursing trainer Claire Boyd delivers a concise, pocket-sized companion to the subject of medicines management and drug administration that's perfect for student nurses, associate practitioners, and newly qualified registered nurses.Part of the popular Student Survival Skills series, this edition includes tips, advice, and words of wisdom from nursing students written for people working through the nursing curriculum. It mirrors the standards set by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and contains interactive student activities throughout the book.An ideal companion to the forthcoming Calculation Skills for Nurses, 2nd Edition, the latest edition of Medicine

Second Chance Banks Sydney

A moving story of one man, deeply troubled by the circumstances of his life, who travels to the islands of Hawaii hoping to find peace. Here, he is befriended by two intriguing people who speak in ways that mystify yet fascinate him. Thus begins a spiritual journey into a world of extraordinary feelings, which bring him understanding and an answer beyond anything he had ever dreamed possible. In this novel, set in a world of soft tropical beauty, the author shares his quiet philosophical knowledge in a comprehensible yet profound

Coup: A Story of Violence and Resistance in Bolivia Farthing Linda

In three dramatic weeks in October and November 2019, the fourteen years of progressive change that Evo Morales' pink tide government had worked to implement in Bolivia and beyond came to a screeching halt. President Morales was forced to resign after protests against his re-election to a fourth term in allegedly fraudulent elections erupted among the urban middle classes, anti-indigenous racists, and prominent conservative politicians. The country's far right used the ensuing crisis to orchestrate a successful coup, with military and police backing, paving the way for a repressive "transition" government led by Jeanine ez to take power. The ez government quelled popular protests with lethal force, shut down critical media outlets, and targeted members of Morales' political party, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS). Despite postponing elections three times, the ez

The 12 Days of Lunar New Year Lettice Jenna

Count out twelve ways to celebrate Lunar New Year! This fun-filled picture book inspired by "The 12 Days of Christmas" is perfect for fans of Natasha Wing's The Night Before series.This cheery addition to the 12 Days series celebrates tradition, culture, and family in the lead-up to Lunar New Year! Young readers and their caregivers will enjoy counting all the different ways they can engage with their communities and honor their ancestors. This simple rhyming story is paired with warm illustrations, making these books the perfect gift for

Kant's Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason Mller Sofie

This is the first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors, whose philosophical importance has so far been overlooked. It will appeal to academic researchers and advanced students of Kant, early modern philosophy, legal philosophy, and intellectual

Successful Digital Transformation in Law Firms: A Question of Culture Parker Isabel

Understand what digital transformation means in a law firm context Explore the cultural barriers to transformation and learn how to overcome them Gain insight from the operating models of successful digital businesses Develop a business case and practical strategy for digital transformation Understand the importance of diversity and purpose in driving digital change Manage change and adoption challenges Build on learnings from the COVID 19 crisis to accelerate digital transformation As law firms take stock in the aftermath of COVID 19 there is an opportunity to rethink the law firm operating model for the next decade and beyond The crisis has reinforced the importance of agility and resilience and the critical role digital technologies play in client service For law firms digital transformation should no longer be viewed as an indulgence but as an urgent necessity For those that embrace this challenge the rewards for both clients and colleagues will be substantial Written by one of the most respected leaders of law firm innovation this book will help those contemplating or leading digital change in law firms to develop and execute a compelling digital transformation strategy With a particular focus on the cultural and organisational challenges inherent in a law firm partnership the book provides practical advice on how to effect meaningful and sustainable change This invaluable guide for law firm leaders lawyers and those leading digital change in a law firm includes plenty of best practice examples from outside as well as inside the legal profession The book provides valuable insight for start ups and technology providers looking to partner with law firms and for aspiring lawyers starting their professional careers Along with practical guidance on shaping digital transformation this engaging work will give the reader a comprehensive overview of the competitive landscape in legal services sharing diverse perspectives and case studies from leaders from different parts of the legal sector

African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology Arom Simha

In this detailed study Simha Arom takes a new and original approach to the understanding of the complex and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm that characterise African music. Considering in particular the harp, sanza, xylophone and percussion music of Central Africa, Simha Arom develops a a rigorous method for the analysis of the music and for the recording and deciphering of the many strands of polyphony and polyrhythm. Through a systematic breakdown of the many layers of apparently improvised rhythm he reveals the essential structure which underlies this rich and complex music. Inspired also by linguistic techniques, Professor Arom regards the music very much as a grammatical

Under a Bad Sun: Police, Politics, and Corruption in Australia Bleakley Paul

Why do police officers turn against the people they are hired to protect? This question seems all the more urgent in the wake of recent global protests against police brutality. Historical criminologist Paul Bleakley addresses this by examining a series of intersecting cases of police corruption in Queensland, Australia. The protection and extortion of illegal gambling operators and sex workers were only the most visible features of a decades-long, pervasive culture of corruption in the state's law enforcement agency. Even more dangerous--and far harder to prosecute--was the corrupt bargain between the police and the state's conservative government, which gave law enforcement free rein to profit from criminalized vice in return for supporting the government's repression and persecution of its political enemies, from punk music fans to gay men to left-wing protestors. While intimidating