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Angel Cats: When Feline Friends Touch Hearts and Change

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Anderson, Allen / Anderson, Linda, PUBLISHER: Penguin Books, True stories about the extraordinary ways cats have responded to human need.

Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend and the

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilde, Oscar / Russell, P. Craig, PUBLISHER: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, The next volume of the prize-winning and greatly acclaimed adaptations of Wilde's Fairy Tales presents two new stories about what constitutes real friendship, and a sacrifice to love with a cruel twist.

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Complete Hiker

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Long, John / Hodgson, Michael, PUBLISHER: San Val, Gear advice, terrain-specific tips, and real world scenarios make this a unique hiking guide. This revised and expanded edition: -- Features Hodgson and Long's hiking stories from their worldwide treks, and climate- and terrain-specific advice. -- Includes new chapters on long-distance hiking and camping for a day, a week, or longer. -- Aids you in predicting the difficulty of a hike, managing food and water, handling difficult terrain, administering first aid, hiking with kids, and selecting and using clothing and gear. The Complete Hiker (first published as Dayhiker's Handbook) has counseled and entertained many of America's 60 million hikers for years.

Side by Side: A Multicultural Reader

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wiener, Harvey S. / Bazerman, Charles, PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Side by Side is a multicultural reader that emphasizes reading and writing through 51 readings which represent a broad range of both voices and subject matter. Writing instruction guides students through the development of short, responsive essays, while fostering critical thinking and collaborative learning skills. The "Handbook for Writers" addresses students' questions about grammar, mechanics, and style.

Twins

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sandweiss, Ruth / Fields, David, PUBLISHER: Running Press Book Publishers, The connection between twins is powerful, enduring, and multifaceted. Celebrate this special relationship along with twins of all ages and backgrounds who tell their stories through original essays and striking duotone photographs. With candor and humor they relate what they have learned about themselves through their twin. Read tales of the famous and not-so-famous, including Mario and Aldo Andretti; Jane Seymour's children, Kristopher and John; Muhammad Ali's twin daughters, Rasheda All-Walsh and Jamillah Ali; Holocaust survivors Boris and Joseph Fisch; and NASA astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly.

My Favorite Bible Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mitter, Matt / Cox, Steve, PUBLISHER: Kregel Kidzone, What might the garden of Eden have looked like? How many people did Jesus feed with just two fish and five loaves of bread? Brilliant illustrations bring six Bible stories to life in eye-popping detail: The Creation, Noah and the Ark, Baby Moses, the Feeding of the Five Thousand, the Parable of the Lost Sheep, and Palm Sunday. Busy scenes and more than 175 labeled people and objects will keep kids looking and learning as they soak in the details of their beloved Bible stories.

Where Do Presidents Come From?: And Other Presidential Stuff

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Michael Townsend, PUBLISHER: Dial, "So You Want to Be President" meets "The Far Side" Just in time for the election, Michael Townsend presents his comic book guide to everything you ever wanted to know (and maybe a few things you didn't) about the President of the United States. It's full of insanely weird facts about our leaders (Did you know that President Coolidge had a pet pygmy hippo named Billy?), as well as the history and powers of the presidency, day-to-day life, and pros and cons of the job. Even the most mundane of facts become hilarious in this brilliantly cheeky guide to our nation's MVP.

The Long Road Home

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gordon, Willis, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, A collection of emotionally gripping and powerful stories about loss, sin, and redemption. Written during the darkest period of the author's life, The Long Road Home tells the story of men who have nowhere to turn but the highway. Incredibly well crafted and laced with humor, wit, and desperation, Gordon promises to be a name to remember.

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The Secret of the Shadow: The Power of Owning Your Whole

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ford, Debbie, PUBLISHER: HarperOne, Debbie Ford continues and deepens the work she began in her blockbuster The Dark Side of the Light Chasers. In this new book she examines our shadow elements-- the negative attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors that block our progress toward happiness and success in our lives and relationships. Each of us has a shadow that whispers stories of our own fears to us-- that we aren' t good enough, that we are unworthy of being loved, that we will be deserted by those whom we care about. Ford guides us hear those stories and find the positive message within each of them. She shows how understanding our own shadow side can lead us to lives of tremendous fulfillment and peace. Using illuminating stories and practical real-life examples, this book shows how each story and each shadow holds within it the unique key to our true purpose.

Old School

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Green, Terence, PUBLISHER: Xlibris Corporation, This is a book that tells the true story of a career police officer as he advances through the ranks of the Oakland California, Police Department from a patrolman working a one man car to the Commander of the Homicide Detail. The author gives the reader an inside look at what goes on in a metropolitan police department. The time period covered is through a period in American law enforcement best characterized by the popular bumper sticker of the day DEFY AUTHORITY. This book is about a man who started out a kid on Fair Oaks Street in San Francisco and later spent 29 years learning his trade, working toward his goal; Homicide investigation, the best job in police work. It's about being a young rookie police officer learning his way in an often violent urban community. It's about working the Patrol Division, then the Traffic Division then Juvenile leading to assignments with the Fraud-Bunco Unit and Special Operations; about car chases, riots, and hostage situations. It's about the bad guys and the victims as seen through the eye of a policeman. The author lived these stories. Most importantly it's about the people he came to know and care about. The stories are told with humor and respect for his colleagues. While these incidents happened in Oakland California, they could have happened in any metropolitan community in America.

The Good Land: Stories of Saskatchewan People

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilson, Peter / Wilson, Peter, PUBLISHER: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Saskatchewan is filled with people who have ignored the world's values and expectations and lived their lives, in their own way, on the land they love. The Good Land tells their stories - the stories of the many dreamers, inventors, immigrants, hermits, farmers, and artists who call Saskatchewan their home.

The Edge of Marriage: Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kaplan, Hester, PUBLISHER: University of Georgia Press, In nine stories of tension-filled choices, difficult awakenings, and ironic twists, characters in The Edge of Marriage ride the wavering line between commitments and promises. Full of conflict, betrayal, illness, manipulation, and indecision, these stories portray men and women on the brink of defeat and drastic change. In "Claude Comes and Goes" a husband confesses his sympathy and affection for his wife's dying former lover. "The Spiral" captures the crippling effects of miscommunication and unresolved grief. In "Dyaesthesia" a wife and mother grapples with her feelings about her marriage and her husband after he is maimed in an accident. Characters trapped in troubled relationships and on the edge of society walk along Hester Kaplan's "edge": an out-of-wedlock child, a grown victim of child abuse, the male lover of a married man with AIDS. The title stoW confronts the complexity of friendship, love, and marriage, as a husband faces his wife's emotional breakdown and his own surfacing resentments. This sometimes startling, frequently poignant collection is illuminated by keen insight and tempered with somber hope.

The Last Cannibals: A South American Oral History

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Basso, Ellen B., PUBLISHER: University of Texas Press, The Kalapalo are a Carib-speaking group of Brazilian Indians who live in the Alto (Upper) Xingu region around the headwaters of the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon. In this major discourse-centered study of their culture, Ellen Basso transcribes and analyzes nine traditional Kalapalo stories to offer important insights into Kalapalo historical knowledge and the performance of historical narratives within their nonliterate society. The stories focus on the biographies of exceptionally powerful warrior bowmen. Basso uses these stories to explore how the Kalapalo remember and understand their history and what specific linguistic, psychological, and ideological materials they employ to construct their narratives. This inquiry represents the first comprehensive study of Amazonian Indian ethnohistory using indigenous oral documents and the first attempt to understand, though indigenous discourse, the emergence of Upper Xingu society. It will be important reading in anthropology, linguistics, and South American studies.

7 Myths about Women and Work

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fox, Catherine, PUBLISHER: University of New South Wales Press, A book about being a woman, raising children, succeeding in a leadership role, and living a full life, this work debunks the seven most commonly held misconceptions about women and their professional careers. Penned by an award-winning journalist, this book discusses topics such as the gender pay gap, motherhood and a career, meritocracies in the workplace, and the use of quotas.

Hoover's Handbook of American Business

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hoover's Business Press, PUBLISHER: Hoover's, Hoover's Handbook of American Business has become the standard for accessible and interesting information about companies. This comprehensive two-volume set contains in-depth profiles of 750 of America's largest and most influential companies. You'll find major corporate giants like Coca-Cola, Exxon, General Motors and Wal-Mart, plus a selection of more than 50 of the largest privately owned companies, including Cargill and Mars. Unlike any other business resource on the market, Hoover's examines the personalities, events and strategies that have made these enterprises leaders in their fields. This valuable reference includes 60 pages of business lists, such as the Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. corporations, Computer Retail Week's Top 50 Computer Retailers and the companies on the Standard & Poor's 500. It also includes indexes by headquarters location and industry, and by the people, companies and brand names mentioned in the profiles.

ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook: With Answers

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brown, Faye, PUBLISHER: American Hospital Association, The most widely used publication for teaching ICD-9-CM to entry-level and experienced coders. It is designed for self-study and reference. The ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook is the only edition published in cooperation with the Central Office on ICD-9-CM of the American Hospital Association. The Central Office is an official industry body that participates in the editorial development, preliminary testing, and national committee and congressional hearings on ICD-9 and ICD-10 specifications and rules. Central Office staff are the nation's experts on coding protocols.] ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook provides more than 100 review exercises interspersed throughout the text and at the end of the chapters. These exercises describe additional information about a patient's background or present condition, and allow coders to practice their coding skills on examples that closely resemble actual patient records. The answers to these exercises not only provide the correct codes and principal diagnoses, they also explain why a particular code is correct or what information is most important in a certain case.

War: Stories about Conflict

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Morpurgo, Michael, PUBLISHER: MacMillan Children's Books, The pity, the cruelty, the courage and the consequences of many different conflicts feature in brand-new stories from Joan Aiken, Eva Ibbotson, Jamila Gavin, Elizabeth Laird, George Layton, Geraldine McCaughrean, Margaret Mahy, Michelle Magorian, Michael Morpurgo, Eleanor Updale, Celia Rees, and other top children's authors. From the Crusades to 's Beirut, to the Falklands, many aspects of war are explored in a collection of work that speaks powerfully to today's young readers.

Handbook of Design, Manufacturing and Automation

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dorf, Richard C. / Kusiak, Andrew, PUBLISHER: Wiley-Interscience, Comprehensive, detailed, and organized for speedy reference--everything you need to know about modern manufacturing technology. From concurrent engineering to fixture design for machining systems, from robotics and artificial intelligence to facility layout planning and automated CAD-based inspection, this handbook provides all the information you need to design, plan, and implement a modern, efficient manufacturing system tailored to your company's special needs and requirements. Handbook of Design, Manufacturing and Automation does more than simply present the characteristics and specifications of each technology--much more. Each technology is discussed both in terms of its own capabilities and in terms of its compatibility with other technologies, and the trade-offs involved in choosing one option over another are explored at length. An entire section is devoted to the business aspects of converting to the new technologies, including acquisition of automation, managing advanced manufacturing technology, and issues of cost and financing. The focus is on incorporating these technologies into a cohesive whole--an efficient, cost-effective manufacturing system. Other important topics include: * Design for automated manufacturing * Nontraditional manufacturing processes * Machine tool programming techniques and trends * Precision engineering and micromanufacturing * Computer-integrated product planning and control * Image processing for manufacturing * And much more

Salt and Pepper

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Olmstead, Lyle, PUBLISHER: Pleasant Word, Each person on earth has been created with a unique personality; yet we are similar in many ways. We all have dreams, challenges, and joys. Some experiences and emotions are timeless and universal-memories of childhood pastimes, fun times with loved ones, and struggles faced. Join Dr. Olmstead as he travels through time in Salt and Pepper, a series of observations on everyday life. As he shares his memories of the past, views of today, and thoughts about tomorrow, you will be inspired to think about your life and how it is different from and similar to the lives of others. Laugh, cry, and remember as you read thoughts and stories about the following: Knowing God Dealing with change Understanding your purpose in life Growing in relationships Handling money Overcoming challenges Enjoying life's brightest moments These thought-provoking, entertaining commentaries will encourage you and be a reminder that life is a gift, full of events, people, and lessons that give it spice.

The Barons of Texas

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sherman, Jory, PUBLISHER: Forge, Jory Sherman returns to the story of the unforgettable Baron family, which he began in Grass Kingdom and continued in The Barons of Texas and The Baron Range. It is the eve of the bloodiest conquest in American history and the ranchers of the Rio Grande Valley are fighting the Apaches and each other. Martin Baron is soon in danger when a killer from New Orleans conspires to destroy everything he has worked so hard for. This is a story of slave smuggling, murder, treachery, violence, and passionate love as the men and women of central Texas struggle for wealth and power in a savage and uncertain world.

The Collected Raffles Stories

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hornug, E. W. / Hornung, E. W. / Bloom, Clive, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, This entertaining collection of crime stories presents the adventures of one of fiction's most enduring characters, the hyper-elegant A.J. Raffles, man-about-town, thief, and "finest slow bowler of his generation." With his partner in crime, Bunny Manders, Raffles preys on the rich, the greedy, and the unspeakably vulgar. His talents are exercised not only in London, but as far afield as Italy, Australia, and South Africa at the height of the Boer War. Throughout these exciting yarns the emphasis on panache, with intensifying suggestions of fallibility, goes to the heart of late Victorian attitudes and values.

The Gift of Presence: Stories That Celebrate Nursing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jackson, Dave / Landis, Beth / Jackson, Neta, PUBLISHER: Herald Press, Nurses share with those entrusted to their care life's peaks and valleys, life's joys, tears, and mysteries. They are present for the baby's first cry and the dying person's last breath. They lose races to save life and see miracles unfold just as defeat seems imminent. Here is captured such moments. The 50 stories span the 50-year history of the Mennonite Nurses Association. These stories are universal stories that Christian nurses everywhere will recognize from their own experiences.

Pigeon and Pigeonette

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Derom, Dick / Derom, Dirk / Verroken, Sarah, PUBLISHER: Enchanted Lion Books, "Pigeon and Pigeonette "is a book about the friendship that develops between a large old blind pigeon and a little pigeon named Pigeonette, whose wings never grow to full size. Unable to fly South, Pigeonette has no choice but to spend her winter in the snowy forest. One day she meets Pigeon as he comes flying and crashing into the big forest trees. Left behind by the other birds, the two pigeons throw in their lots together and become friends, sharing stories and dreams, but also combining forces in their attempt to conquer flight. Will Pigeon and Pigeonette be able to fly off together to spend their next wnter in the sun? It looks as though they just might "Pigeon and Pigeonette "is a story about friendship. It's also a story about trial and error, believing in yourself, falling out of huge trees again and again, learning not to crash into them, and never giving up. But wait, did we mention? What it's really about are the two coolest pigeons you'll ever meet

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