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The International Guide to Building a Classical Music

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Parker, Bill, PUBLISHER: Cimino Publishing Group, In this edition Bill Parker expands and updates his previous selections and offers the consensus choices for the very. best classical recordings on compact disc. His knowledgeable comments on both new and old releases provide a valuable shortcut to those trying to sort out the relative merits of the past century of recording art. For the first time, this edition includes international record numbers for those collectors who prefer imported editions. With each musical period prefaced by a brief history, this edition truly becomes an indispensable reference guide for any new and curious collector.

Peak

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Smith, Roland, PUBLISHER: Harcourt Paperbacks, After Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile Detention or to go live with his long-lost father, who runs a climbing company in Thailand. But Peak quickly learns that his father's renewed interest in him has strings attached. "Big" strings. He wants Peak to be the youngest person to reach the Everest summit--and his motives are selfish at best. Even so, for a climbing addict like Peak, tackling Everest is the challenge of a lifetime. But it's also one that could cost him his life.

Cake or Death: The Excruciating Choices of Everyday Life

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mallick, Heather, PUBLISHER: Vintage Books Canada, A brilliant new book from one of Canada's most popular columnists - a no-holds-barred riposte to the mess we've made of things. "Mrs. Tittlemouse is heaven in a sponge mop. I read Beatrix Potter's books as a child and love her paintings, her stories, her home-boiling of squirrels so her watercolours could be anatomically exact. But most of all, Beatrix Potter made domesticity desirable. All right, she didn't, but she domesticated me. Personal order has become my badge and it's the only thing that really works with melancholy." Heather Mallick is sorely disappointed. The world has not turned out quite the way she had hoped it would. But rather than retreat from it, she takes the world head on, fearlessly and formidably on her own terms. In a new work of entirely original writing, we have Heather unplugged (some might even say unhinged), and uncensored from the restrictions of her "Globe and Mail "column writing. As her many fans have come to expect from her, she is incisive and outrageous, whether she's cataloguing the many situations and items in our daily lives that we are told we should fear, teaching us how to cope with people we just can't stand (ruthless mockery is the key, really, says Heather) or writing about the valuable life lesson to be learned from one of her childhood heroes: Mrs. Tittlemouse, the original domestic goddess. A candid reflection on the complicated state of our lives and our world today, viewed through the lens of Heather's inimitable wit and outlook on life, Cake or Death: The Excruciating Choices of Everyday Life will provoke and delight readers. "From the Hardcover edition."

Will the United Nations Fail in Its Role as Protector of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Heffelfinger, Ed, PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, The League of Nations failed because member states were unable to set aside their own self- interests. Following World War II, the victorious allies were determined to build an organization that would serve as a protector of world peace. The United Nations was born in San Francisco in , and for fifty years successfully faced the threat of nuclear devastation, the Cold War, the end of colonialism and the emerging power of the developing countries. The end of the Cold War brought about renewed optimism for the future of the United Nations. However, with the dawn of the new century the future of the United Nations remained uncertain. The future of the UN appeared to rest in the organizationas ability to address the threat of terrorism, world hunger and the need to restructure the United Nations to overcome the image of an organization that can accomplish little but talk.

Becoming a Critical Thinker

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ruggiero, Vincent Ryan, PUBLISHER: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Success depends on the ability to think critically. Training and practice turn this ability into a powerful skill. BECOMING A CRITICAL THINKER gives students the opportunity to develop this skill in a classroom environment while stressing its application to daily life. Students learn to solve everyday problems, maintain successful relationships, make career choices, and interpret the messages of advertising in a variety of media. Exercises throughout the text encourage them to practice what they read and to apply it to their own lives. BECOMING A CRITICAL THINKER breaks up critical thinking into a series of cumulative activities, a unique approach that has made this text a staple of many critical thinking courses.

Going to College: How Social, Economic, and Educational

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hossler, Don / Schmit, Jack / Vesper, Nick, PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press, Going to College tells the powerful story of how high school students make choices about postsecondary education. Drawing on their unprecedented nine-year study of high school students, the authors explore how students and their parents negotiate these important decisions. Family background, finances, education, information -- all influence students' plans after high school and the career paths they pursue, as do the more subtle messages delivered by parents and counselors which shape adolescents' self-expectations. For high school guidance counselors, college admissions counselors, parents and teachers, and public policy makers, this book is a valuable resource that explains the decision-making process and helps adults to help students make appropriate choices. The authors identify predisposition, search, and choice as the three stages in the student decision-making process. Predisposition refers to the plans students develop for education or work after they graduate from high school. The search stage involves students discovering and evaluating a variety of colleges and universities. In the choice stage, students choose a school to attend from among a list of institutions that are being seriously considered. Understanding exactly how students move through the predisposition, search, and choice stages of the college decision-making process can help students and parents prepare themselves for this process and consider a wider array of options. For education professionals, understanding this process can lead to new initiatives to guide students and families effectively -- by providing better incentives for college savings, for example, or devising more effective early informationprograms about postsecondary education. Going to Collegeis the first book to seriously study over an extended period the decisions that have a pervasive and lasting impact on individual careers, livelihoods, and lifestyles. The authors conclude with important recommendations for improving academic support, exploring various financial options, providing early encouragement -- in other words, for recognizing the factors that influence students' decisions, and knowing when to pay attention to them.

Morning's Refrain

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Peterson, Tracie, PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers, As dark family secrets threaten the tranquility of the life he's come to love, Dalton Lindquist must make difficult choices about the future. To complicate matters, Phoebe Robbins falls into his life quite literally when Dalton rescues her after she tumbles overboard in the Sitka Harbor. He quickly loses his heart. But Dalton is not the only one who decides to seek Phoebe's attention--his best friend, Yuri, decides to court her when Dalton must travel from Sitka. But when Dalton realizes the depth of his love for Phoebe and returns, the two friends find that their battle for Phoebe's admiration is only the start of the problems that face them.

Colorado Gardener's Guide

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Crett, John / Cretti, John L., PUBLISHER: Cool Springs Press, Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value. Book retailers are well aware that the trend in gardening books is to regional titles that provide credible information on the plants that perform well in specific regions. "Colorado?Gardener's Guide" is written by the highly popular gardening expert John Cretti. Contains easy to use advice on the top landscape plant choices (more than 160 entries) for Colorado. Recommends specific varieties and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for Colorado's best plants.

Poison Study

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Snyder, Maria V., PUBLISHER: Mira Books, About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace- and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Duste and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison. As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren't so clear--.

The Girls: Jewish Women of Brownsville, Brooklyn,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ford, Carole Bell, PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press, This book tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the s and s. Through in-depth interviews with more than forty women, Carole Bell Ford explores the choices these women made and the boundaries within which they made them, offering fresh insights into the culture and values of Jewish women in the postwar period. Not content to remain in the past, The Girls is also a story of women who live in the present, who lead fulfilling lives even as they struggle to adjust to changes in American society that conflict with their own values and that have profoundly affected the lives of their children and grandchildren.

Student Recruitment in Psychosocial Occupational Therapy:

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gibson, Diane / Haiman, Susan, PUBLISHER: Routledge, This volume addresses the problems the OT profession faces recruiting students into mental health as a practice specialty. The content reflects several efforts at engaging students in the exploration of the variety of available career paths in this area. Educators, supervisors, clinicians, and students facing career choices will be able to take a unique perspective on specialty selection after reviewing the thoughts, perspectives, theories, and philosophies of some of occupational therapy's foremost leaders in mental health. In addition, readers will get an "up close" opportunity to review one institution's efforts to educate and recruit level II fieldwork students through an all-day program designed to expose them to the widest possible range of practice opportunities.

Rich Dad's Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest In, That

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kiyosaki, Robert T. / Wheeler, Tim, PUBLISHER: Rich Dad on Brilliance Audio, Become the ultimate investor. End those fears that keep you up at night regarding the financial choices you make. By reading Rich Dad's basic rules of investing, you can reduce your investment risk and convert your earned income into passive and portfolio income. That means you keep more of your income-not the government. Rich Dad's Guide to Investing is just that - a guide. It offers no guarantees, just as Robert Kiyosaki's rich dad offered him no guarantees? only guidance. But if you?re interested in the inside look at an entrepreneur's financial plan to be rich, this is the book for you.

The Testimony of Taliesin Jones

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brook, Rhidian, PUBLISHER: Penguin Books, Everything in Taliesin Jones's small-town life in Wales has suddenly become uncertain. His mother has run off with her hairdresser. His father has taken to talking to the walls, but at least he's talking, as his brother has gone entirely mute. At school, Julie Dyer blows confusing smoke rings at him and Hoop the Mental says there is no God. When Taliesin tries to find this out for sure no one seems to have the answer-no one except Billy Evans, an old man with an exceptional and miraculous talent. "A beautiful meditation on childhood.... Brook's voice has been plucked from the babbling tongues of his country and made new."("The Times," London) "Very upright, very moral, very entertaining.... You'll find yourself seduced by the quiet power of the Welshman's prose, the subtlety of his narrative technique, with its onion-skin layers of meaning, sympathy, and revelation." ("Time Out")

Politics in Wired Nations

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Pool, Ithiel De Sola / De Sola Pool, Ithiel / Etheredge, Lloyd S., PUBLISHER: Transaction Publishers, Politics in Wired Nations presents Pool's pioneering work on the social and political impact of communication systems. Included are the first studies of trends in a global information society, and of social networks and the "small world" phenomenon that creates new relationships and routes of informal influence and political power, both domestic and international. Pool describes a nonviolent revolution in freedom and political control as the world changes from the era of one-way mass communications -- targeted to national audiences -- to a new era of abundant, high-capacity, low-cost, interactive, and user-controlled communications on a global scale. He discusses policy choices for freedom, the battlegrounds ahead, and the risks of government involvement in the regulation of new telecommunication technologies.

You Against Me

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Downham, Jenny, PUBLISHER: Doubleday Canada, An intense and riveting novel from the critically acclaimed author of Before I Die. If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge. If your brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him. When Mikey's sister claims a boy assaulted her, his world begins to fall apart. When Ellie's brother is charged with the offense, her world begins to unravel. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide. This is a brave and unflinching novel from the bestselling author of Before I Die. It's a book about loyalty and the choices that come with it. But above all, it's a book about love.

The Fifth Agenda

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Clements, Peter, PUBLISHER: G2 Rights, Now the cold war is over, why are the intelligence services of Britain, the United States and Israel so interested in locating and possibly 'eliminating' an elderly Russian scientist? Because he's one of the world's leading experts in biological warfare and he's heading for the Gulf, possibly en route to Iraq. But the action doesn't stop there. For some reason, two agents from the American anti-drug squad are also in hot pursuit. Then there's the group that calls itself Providence Two. Is this really a dangerous terrorist cell, and what is their interest in the runaway scientist? There's even the threat of war in the Middle East when an Israeli intelligence agent stumbles across a consignment of deadly missiles. The outcome is uncertain. Will the Russian scientist find safety, or will he fall victim to one of the hunters? In this tense and exhilarating thriller, you're not sure whose agenda will be the winning one until the final spectacular showdown.

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Shattered Dreams--Lonely Choices: Birthparents of Babies

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Finnegan, Joanne, PUBLISHER: J F Bergin & Garvey, Dreams of pregnancy include the expectation that nine months of waiting will end with a joyous event. But, each year, a "shattered dream" occurs for thousands of couples who receive the news that their child will have a disabling condition severe enough that they may question if they are the best parents for their child. Societal expectation is that parents will raise their child or, if the condition of the child is detected prenatally, abortion is offered as an alternative. Parents who explore other options face scrutiny and, sometimes, condemnation--"lonely choices." Joanne Finnegan shares her personal experience and that of several families she interviewed who, like herself, explored options other than raising their child with a disability. Parents express with candor the overwhelming pain they felt when receiving "the news," the frustration when searching for options, the "no-win" feeling of decision making, the resolve with a final decision, and finally, life after the decision. Parent quotes also address issues such as spiritual dilemmas and interactions with friends, family, their other children, and medical professionals. Words of advice for new parents include how to build support systems and gather information, how to search for an adoptive family, and arranging the details of communication between adoptive and birth parents. Interviews with adoptive parents, poetry, and extensive resource lists complete the book. Written as a gift for other parents to help them cope with the pain and loneliness of decision making, this book will also be a valuable resource for medical professionals, adoption and social workers, counselors and spiritual advisors, and friends and family of theparents. It is a helpful as well as a deeply therapeutic book, providing a strong lesson in how to manage during this stressful time, from receiving "the news" about the baby's condition and prognosis, to weighing the factors involved in the various decisions. Should one take the baby home from the hospital? If not home, then where? Foster care, respite care, guardianship, and other forms of substitute care are mentioned. The author also examines decisions about finances and support services, family issues, finalizing an adoption plan, living with the decision, regrets, and future pregnancies.

Holiday Miracles: A Christmas/Hanukkah Story

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bache, Ellyn, PUBLISHER: Banks Channel Books, This heartwarming novel is the first illustrated holiday gift book for adults that deals with an interfaith family celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah. Claire is Jewish; her husband, Paul, is a fallen-away Catholic. Claire takes their two children to a reform Jewish temple, but they observe the Christian holidays, too -- partly for Paul and partly for Paul's mother, Teresa, a devout Catholic who is Claire's dearest friend. Then, just as the holidays approach, Claire's five-year-old son gets sick. As the weeks pass and he doesn't recover, Claire is reminded of the uncertain diagnosis of her own mother's final illness. She wants to lean on Teresa -- but how can she, when their religious differences are so deep? Have her own religious decisions been a mistake? The moving conclusion offers encouragement to any interfaith family trying to incorporate both holiday traditions, and will touch anyone who has ever worried about the fate of a child.

Ultimate Guard Premium Comic Book Dividers Sand (25)

25 high quality dividers for golden, silver, regular and current-sized comic books.- New, optimized size (183 x 280 mm) for better visibility of the tabs and still perfectly sized to fit inside all standard-sized comic boxes.- Different colors available: More color choices for a better and more individual organizing of your comic collection.- Newly shaped, two-sided index tab: Write-on index tab on both sides with new shape and extra space for stickers- Rigid polypropylene: The high quality and rigid material keeps your dividers durable and strong, even after many uses.- Fits fully into comic boxes: Sized to be used with all standard-sized comic storage boxes. Fits inside the box, even when the lid is closed.- Acid free No PVC: This product is completely free of PVC and acidic materials and therefore ideal for protecting comics.

Fuelling Body, Mind and Spirit: A Balanced Approach to

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hoffer, Miriam, PUBLISHER: Sumach Press, Miriam Hoffer faces off with the diet industry in this clear-sighted look at food, eating and women's relationship with their weight. Fuelling Body, Mind and Spirit not only considers what women eat, but also when, why, and how they make the food choices that they do. After exposing the effects of 'triangle' eating, Hoffer offers nutritional alternatives, with ways to break down the barriers to healthy eating faced by many women.Drawing on her years of experience with Health Watch, a women's wellness clinic, Hoffer interweaves her liberating nutritional theories with insights on living well gleaned from her patients. With these women's words for inspiration and Hoffer's own practical advice, Fuelling Body, Mind and Spirit shows how, through balanced eating, we can respect our bodies, and reap the rewards of an energetic, healthy life.

Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Zinsser, William Knowlton, PUBLISHER: Marlowe & Company, In this inspiring new book, William Zinsser-author of the classic best-selling guide, On Writing Well-tells you how to write about the people and places in your life. His method is to take you on a memoir of his own, a journey full of surprises that roams across Africa, Asia and the South Seas, and describes such remembered pleasures as working for the legendary New York Herald Tribune, teaching at Yale, and appearing in a Woody Allen movie. Along the way he explains the technical decisions that went into telling these and other stories from his past. Written with high enjoyment, this unusual book gives you permission not only to write confidently about your life, but-by example-to make the bold choices that will free you to live your life as fully as possible.

Seeds of Earth (Humanity's Fire)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cobley, Michael, PUBLISHER: Orbit, Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable. The first intelligent species to encounter mankind attacked without warning. Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable. With little hope of halting the invasion, Earth's last roll of the dice was to dispatch three colony ships, seeds of Earth, to different parts of the galaxy. The human race would live on... somewhere. 150 years later, the planet Darien hosts a thriving human settlement, which enjoys a peaceful relationship with an indigenous race, the scholarly Uvovo. But there are secrets buried on Darien's forest moon. Secrets that go back to an apocalyptic battle fought between ancient races at the dawn of galactic civilization. Unknown to its colonists, Darien is about to become the focus of an intergalactic power struggle where the true stakes are beyond their comprehension. And what choices will the Uvovo make when their true nature is revealed and the skies grow dark with the enemy?

Birds of a Feather

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Calhoun, Jackie, PUBLISHER: Naiad Pr, Joan McKenzie is beginning to question her life's choices. Living alone and juggling two jobs to pay her mortgage aren't what she would have planned for herself. And that's exactly the problem. Because she never took charge of her life, her life took charge of her. Rather than finishing her education, she put all her energy into training dogs and showing horses. After she was dumped by the woman for whom she left her marriage, Joan just couldn't get into the dating scene. At times, she thought, the only things that kept her going were her dog, her love of the outdoors, and her long term relationship with her best friend, Diane. But just when she least expects it, not one, but two exciting new women walk into her life...and a dramatic change in Diane's situation will soon give Joan a chance for a brand new start.

Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Abu-Jamal, Mumia / West, Cornel / Wright, Julia, PUBLISHER: Plough Publishing House, When Mumia Abu-Jamal's first book, Live from Death Row, appeared in , its searing indictment of racism and political bias in the American judicial system fueled nationwide controversy. Now, in Death Blossoms, a new collection of short vignettes and reflections, Abu-Jamal moves deeper to examine the spiritual dimensions of existence. The result is a powerful and moving testament to the invincibility of the human spirit. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. Innocence and integrity... are his resource. (Mumia's) uncertain fate in no wise inhibits clarity of mind or pursuit of larger issues... From the state abbatoir he summons insight and wisdom. A rare spirit offers what his executioners cannot -- a word of hope. Jonathan Kozol Brilliant, powerful book by a prophetic writer. Mumia refuses to allow his spirit to be broken by the forces of injustice; his language glows with an affirming flame. Henry Louis Gates, Harvard University A brilliant, lucid meditation on the moral obligation of political commitment by a deeply ethical -- and deeply wronged -- human being. Mumia should be freed, now.

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