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112381) Fishing
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IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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From casting to catch and release, there is a lot to learn about fishing! This low-level title takes beginning readers through fishing basics, including gear, laws, and favorite fish to catch. Features that highlight the gear needed and profile a star.
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Cavernosa, usualmente fría, siempre oscura, con un ligero olor a palomitas de maíz en el aire: la experiencia de ir al cine es universal. No es menos intensa en México, donde la experiencia ha evolucionado de formas complejas en años recientes. Películas como Y tu mamá también, El Mariachi, Amores perros y las obras de los paradigmáticos Guillermo del Toro y Salma Hayek, reflejan mucho más un renovado interés por el cine en México. En La...
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The biography of an intriguing man who came to Seattle as an inventor and went on to become a bootlegger, a spy, and a proponent of LSD.
Seattle has a long tradition of being at the forefront of technological innovation. In 1919, a mysterious young inventor named Alfred M. Hubbard made his first newspaper appearance with the announcement of a perpetual motion machine that harnessed energy from Earth's atmosphere. From there, Hubbard transformed himself...
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Signal intelligence is the most secret, and most misunderstood, weapon in the modern espionage arsenal. As a reliable source of information, it is unequalled, which is why Government Communications Headquarters, almost universally known as GCHQ, is several times larger than the two smaller, but more familiar, organizations, MI5 and MI6. Because of its extreme sensitivity, and the ease with which its methods can be compromised, GCHQ's activities remain...
112385) Conversation Skills Secret
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If you've always wanted to be able to chat with strangers effortlessly but have been put off by uncomfortable silences, keep reading...
Are you fed up with not being able to network easily?
Have you tried a plethora of alternative options, but none of them seem to work consistently?
Do you want to finally say goodbye to social anxiety and find something that works for you?
It's much simpler than you think.
The world seems to be catching on to introverts'...
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An impassioned takedown of the undemocratic features of American electoral politics and their role in the 2016 election. Americans are taught to cherish our democracy, especially our right to vote. But after the 2016 presidential election, we are confronted, yet again, with the reality that our system is neither free nor fair. Almost every step along the way is filled with intentional and unintentional pitfalls, barriers, and dysfunction. The results...
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In Fine Shotguns, expert John M. Taylor offers a global view of shotguns using photographs and descriptions of guns from the United States, Britain, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, and Italy. Here are all types of shotguns: single barrel, double barrel, combination guns, hammer shotguns, paired shotguns, special-use guns, small-bore shotguns, shotgun stocks or shotguns with metal finishes, and bespoke shotguns. This all-encompassing guide includes...
112388) From the Farm, to Our Table
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Grab your jacket and head outside with twins Finlay and Leo as they complete their chores and work up an appetite for a savory farm-fresh treat.
Based on the author's homesteading adventures, this book is sure to be a hit with nature-loving (and curious!) kids who are keen to learn about basic sustainable living practices. Readers follow siblings Finlay and Leo on a journey to collect colorful eggs, check on the pigs in the silvopasture, and find...
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After World War II, states on both sides of the Atlantic enacted comprehensive social benefits to protect working people and constrain capitalism. A widely shared consensus specifically linked social welfare to democratic citizenship, upholding greater equality as the glue that held nations together. Though the "two Wests," Europe and the United States, differ in crucial respects, they share a common history of social rights, democratic participation,...
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Partez à la découverte de Gueorgui Valentinovitch Plekhanov avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
L'importance historique de Georges Plekhanov vient de ce qu'il fut le véritable introducteur du marxisme en Russie. Après avoir adhéré à l'idéologie populiste, il fonda, dans son exil genevois, le groupe « Libération du travail », qui s'attacha à diffuser en Russie les idées de Marx et d'Engels et ...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour...
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Ghost stories from Southern California have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery!
Welcome to spooky Southern California! Stay alert! Ghosts lurk around every corner. Even the most unexpected places might be haunted by wandering phantoms.
Did you know the Hollywood Forever Cemetery is home to ghostly movie stars? Or that some ghosts get to spend eternity at Disneyland, "The Happiest Place on Earth?" Can you believe spirits from all...
112392) The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care
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How genomics, big data, and digital technology are revolutionizing every aspect of medicine, from physical exams to drug prescriptions to organ transplants
Mobile technology has transformed our lives, and personal genomics is revolutionizing biology. But despite the availability of technologies that can provide wireless, personalized health care at lower cost, the medical community has resisted change. In The Creative Destruction of Medicine, Eric...
112393) Comunicación Asertiva
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¿Te resulta difícil decir que NO?¿Tienes problemas para expresarte? ¿Te resulta complicado comunicar lo que sientes? ¿No encuentras el momento adecuado para expresar tus pensamientos?La comunicación no asertiva puede surgir por diversas razones, como la baja autoestima, la falta de confianza, la tendencia a asumir en lugar de preguntar, el hábito de juzgar y generalizar, entre otros. Cuando no te comunicas de manera efectiva, la calidad de...
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American communities face serious challenges when military bases close. But affected municipalities and metro regions are not doomed. Taking a long-term, flexible, and incremental approach, Michael Touchton and Amanda J. Ashley make strong recommendations for collaborative models of governance that can improve defense conversion dramatically and ensure benefits, even for low-resource municipalities. Communities can't control their economic situation...
112395) From Metal to Bicycle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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In From Metal to Bicycle, early fluent readers learn how a bicycle is made, from producing steel from metal to workers welding the frame. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about how this item gets to be the bike they ride for fun.
An infographic illustrates the cycle with real photos and descriptions. Children can learn more about bicycles using our safe search engine that provides relevant,...
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In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country's political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, James R. Lehning sheds light on democratization in modern France. He explores the extent to which the dramatic forms were present in the public performance of political...
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"Longlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation"
Taylor C. Sherman teaches in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her books include Muslim Belonging in Secular India and State Violence and Punishment in India.
An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in India
Nehru's India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations...
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The United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right-but there is still much work to be done to stem this growing environmental crisis. In this book, water activist Maude Barlow draws on her extensive experience to lay out a set of key principles that show the way forward to what she calls a "water-secure and water-just world."
Not only does she reveal the powerful players even now impeding the recognition of the human right...
112399) Weaving a Navajo Blanket
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The author of this guide spent four summers during the 1930s among the Navajos, from whom she learned the principles of weaving. This book conducts readers through the process, introducing the materials and methods of the Navajo style and commenting on history, patterns, symbolism, and other related matters. 97 illustrations.
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"A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year" Paul Tucker is a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the author of Unelected Power (Princeton). He is a former central banker and regulator at the Bank of England, and a former director at Basel's Bank for International Settlements, where he chaired some of the groups designing reforms of the international financial system after the Global Financial Crisis.
How to sustain an international system...
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