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With the aid of the various techniques mentioned in this book, I hope to propagate the reading of Classics to everyone... every student, parent, and educator. Through the use of these techniques, parents and educators will be able, to introduce students to the rich world of classic literature without the negative feelings that often result, when students are exposed to new, more difficult material. The book also focuses on the importance of reading...
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Bake Bread Like a Pro-Even If You've Never Used an Oven Before!
Imagine pulling a warm, golden loaf of bread out of your oven, filling your home with the comforting aroma of fresh-baked goodness. With Bread Baking Recipe Book for Beginners, you'll learn how to turn simple ingredients-flour, water, salt, and yeast-into irresistible loaves, rolls, bagels, and more.
Packed with 100+ beginner-friendly recipes, this essential bread-baking guide takes...
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Selected from the pages of Woodworker's Journal, these classic table projects will deliver both form and function to your home. Appropriate for beginner to intermediate woodworkers, these projects have been test built by experts and are presented with detailed instructions and color photos, exploded drawings, lists of required materials, and complete finishing options that guarantee success.
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"Me? Teach art? I don't even know how to draw!!"
Many of us started there. We felt a total lack of confidence about teaching art. We wanted to give our children all the benefits of art in their education but didn't know how. Some of us did a few colorful hands-on projects with our children, but we could see they weren't really learning the basics of art. We had never learned the basics of art ourselves.
But then, after a few years of teaching art...
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Based on interviews with the crew and captain of a torpedoed tanker who survived nineteen days in a lifeboat in heavy seas and scorching tropical sun-this information is incredibly useful even today.
How to Abandon Ship was written during World War II to save the lives of seamen by instilling a commonsense, organized, no-panic clarity to getting off torpedoed ships safely and, perhaps more importantly, surviving later. It is a gem that can once again...
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A practical guide to writing and publishing your first book, based on my real-life experience writing my first book.
A short, concise audio book filled with practical advice. What to do (and what not to do). How to find your personal creative time and writing space. Writing for passion, or for income. Storyline tips to make your first book easier to finish. Harnessing the power of deadlines. How the book business really works. The economics of writing...
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Writing and publishing your first book is a bit like climbing Mt Everest.
I wrote this book to make the climb easier for you. It takes you through the entire journey from writing your first draft, to your publishing and distribution options and how to price and market your book.
It offers practical advice on how to avoid the most common mistakes new writers make, based on my own experiences.
All in less than 100 pages to make it fast and easy...
10) Later
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2021.
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The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the...
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2022.
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"Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian's life is already mapped out. If he's lucky, he'll get a job at the hospital cafeteria. If he's extra lucky, he'll earn more than minimum wage. But Ray has a gift and a dream-he's determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can't afford a violin suitable to his talents;...
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2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file)
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Joel Barker's version of the Loren Eiseley classic effectively reminds us that we all have the ability to make a difference. The Star Thrower Story illustrates that as individuals, we can choose to take action and participate in the world around us. Together, we can shape the future!
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1994.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Maori couple Jake and Beth Heke are deeply in love, but Jake's alcoholic-fueled rage turns into domestic violence that threatens to tear their family apart. As their home life grows increasingly dangerous, Beth must do all she can to protect their three children. Set against the backdrop of traditional tribal culture, this classic and controversial 90's indie sleeper hit put New Zealand on the cinema map.
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Beam theories are exploited worldwide to analyze civil, mechanical, automotive, and aerospace structures. Many beam approaches have been proposed during the last centuries by eminent scientists such as Euler, Bernoulli, Navier, Timoshenko, Vlasov, etc. Most of these models are problem dependent: they provide reliable results for a given problem, for instance a given section and cannot be applied to a different one.
Beam Structures: Classical and Advanced...
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The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City – people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking. In this morally and aesthetically bankrupt world, Lily, age twenty-nine, seeks a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and all the trappings of wealth. But her quest comes to a scandalous end when she is accused of being the mistress of a wealthy man. Exiled from her...
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The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden...
17) Franklin is lost
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Franklin's mother tells him never to go into the woods. But one day Franklin is playing hide-and-seek with his friends and forgets what his mother has told him. Franklin is frightened when he realizes he's lost, but he knows just what to do -- stay in his shell and wait to be found.
18) Allegro
Publication Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (6 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Meet ALLEGRO, a young boy who can’t stand practicing the piano. It’s hard and frustrating and he is ready to give up—until the music itself suddenly whisks him away on a magical adventure!Classical music comes to life like never before in this magical journey through 11 timeless compositions. Follow along as ALLEGRO is carried through a range of emotive landscapes, each accompanied by a famous classical theme. Little ones will appreciate music...
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Picture book. In this Franklin Classic Storybook, our hero is thrilled to learn he'll be a big brother in the spring. He can hardly wait for the new baby, but spring seems a long time away. Franklin does everything he can to make spring come, but nothing happens. Even the seed he planted at school doesn't look like it will ever become a plant. Then, one day, spring finally appears and something very special arrives something little and green and absolutely...
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2013.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Problem solving skills are a key CBT technique for clients to learn and use. This course takes delegates through a range of evidence based problem solving techniques to incorporate into their practice. Starting with D'Zurilla and Goldfried’s classic approach to problem solving, this course outlines and explores a wide range of additional problem solving techniques that can be effectively used with clients...This course will be interesting and useful...






