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Publication Date: August 8, 2008Vicente Cabrera Funes´s latest work of fiction, Dónde más si no en el Paraíso, consists of two novellas, "Dalia" and "Suana en el Paraíso."A major theme of the two is the clash of cultures, expertly portrayed by the author who himself was born in Latin America and has resided in the United States (el Paraíso) for many years.Cabrera's novellas will challenge his readers to discover the underlying irony and tragedy his characters encounter as they struggle to survive in a racially divided, violent and unjust "paradise."George R. McM...
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 | Country Boy: The Rise and Fall of a Southern legend (Volume 1)
Publication Date: July 13, 2012Country boy is a fast-paced, action packed urban drama set in the dirty south. The story takes you away from the bright lights of the big cities. Where drug deals take place on city blocks and Street corners, to the backwoods, dirt roads and trap houses of the south. Q a well known and respected hustler faces all the problems that come with the life. Torn between Van a childhood love who has been down from day one. And Tee the well educated and upscale women he believes he needs. He wished all he had to worry about was the law. Follow Q and his close knit team ...
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 | A New World: Return
Publication Date: December 6, 2011Safety is the dream.Nightmare is the reality. A nightmare where danger lurks around every corner.Jack Walker, journeyed half way around the world and completed his daring rescue. He must now return home, traversing a world filled with endless hordes of night runners; the genetically altered, ferocious species that now inhabit the dark recesses left over from the demise of mankind and now dominate the planet. The only things more dominate are the billions of corpses left to rot where they died.It is through this world that Jack must use his special forces tra...
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 | Vampire Vow: A Novel
Publication Date: July 1, 2001Michael Schiefelbein, after spending ten years studying for the priesthood, graduated from the University of Maryland with a doctorate in English. He is a professor of writing and literature in Memphis, TN.An interview with Michael Schiefelbein author of Vampire Vow"I wanted Jesus. That's how it started. Yes, the Jesus they built a religion on, the one they say rose from the dead."With this opening sentence, it becomes immediately clear that this is not a typical novel, and by the time you have raced through the remaining 213 blood-soaked, terrifying pages, it i...
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 | The Beautiful and Damned: A Twentieth Century Classic
Publication Date: March 4, 2010| ISBN-10: 1557420580 | ISBN-13: 978-1557420589"The Beautiful and Damned", first published in 1922, was F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), his relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. The novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Café Society. As with all of his other novels, it is a brilliant character study and is...
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 | Pasion De Nuestro Senor Jesucristo (Spanish Edition)
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 | James Clarence Mangan, Edward Walsh and Nineteenth-Century Irish in Literature in English (Studies in Irish Literature)
Publication Date: November 2000| ISBN-10: 0773474986 | ISBN-13: 978-0773474987This study highlights the fact that literary fame depends on ideological and cultural concerns and not solely on aesthetics. By appraising the achievements of the writers Mangan and Walsh, it shows how ideology in Ireland affected their reputations, leading to their marginalization. ...
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 | Grace Livingston Hill, Collection No.6 (4 Complete Novels including a novel by Isabella Alden, aunt to Grace Livingston Hill)
Publication Date: April 1, 2000Three classic Grace Livingston Hill novels, The Best Man, The Witness, and Lo, Michael -- with the added bonus of Isabella Alden's novel As in a Mirror. Each story is complete and updated for today's reader. ...
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 | Guess How Much I Love You All Year Round
Release Date: February 9, 2010| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Electricity (Experimenting With Science)
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 | Welcome to Afghanistan (Welcome to My Country)
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| Sir Alexander Mackenzie (Discovering Canada)
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 | Little Gas Station Sticker Activity Book (Dover Little Activity Books)
Publication Date: June 8, 1998| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
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 | Seek God First (First Place 4 Health Bible Study Series)
Publication Date: January 28, 2010| Series: First Place 4 Health Bible Study Series Seek God First is the new foundational study in the First Place 4 Health Bible study series. Based on Matthew 6:33, "Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well, "this study explores the importance of surrendering one's mind, body, emotions and soul to Jesus and truly giving Him first place in every area of life. Through daily study and prayer, readers will discover how to center their lives on Christ, overcome temptation and find true satisfaction in pleasi...
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 | Creating the Corporate Future: Plan or be Planned For
Publication Date: April 1, 1981| ISBN-10: 0471090093 | ISBN-13: 978-0471090090Here's why thousands of readers in business and management turn to Russell Ackoff for innovative and effective ideas: "Russell Ackoff has probably influenced more managers than any other living person.. Two of his books, Scientific Method (1962) and Redesigning the Future (1974), are the cornerstones of much of the theory and methods for systematic analysis of problems in management and planning." --APA Journal "Russell Ackoff is undoubtedly one of the great masters of this art." [of storytelling as a means of ...
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 | Simulation-based Algorithms for Markov Decision Processes (Communications and Control Engineering)
Publication Date: March 5, 2007| Series: Communications and Control Engineering Markov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, economics, computer science, and the social sciences. This book brings the state-of-the-art research together for the first time. It provides practical modeling methods for many real-world problems with high dimensionality or complexity which have not hitherto been treatable with Markov decision processes. ...
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 | Behind the Berkshire Hathaway Curtain: Lessons from Warren Buffett's Top Business Leaders
Publication Date: April 26, 2010Warren Buffett is a legend primarily for his investment philosophy. He isn’t concerned about the intricacies of the market, but instead focuses on the quality of the companies Berkshire Hathaway stands behind. Yet we know little about the leaders of the companies that Buffett handpicks.In Behind the Berkshire Hathaway Curtain: Lessons from Warren Buffett’s Top Business Leaders, author Ronald W. Chan — founder and CEO of Chartwell Capital — offers a behind-the-scenes look into the careers of Berkshire Hathaway executives who have bot...
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 | Volunteers: The Organizational Behavior of Unpaid Workers (People and Organizations)
Publication Date: October 5, 1993| ISBN-10: 0415094275 | ISBN-13: 978-0415094276| Edition: 1 Volunteers is the first comprehensive book on the organizational behavior of volunteer workers. It explores why people volunteer for organizational work, drawing upon original research and the existing scholarly work in this field. In her study, Jone L. Pearce looks at successful and unsuccessful organizations in areas such as the arts, social services and health care. She discussesthe implications of volunteers on general theories of organizational behavior, and also outlines the practical effec...
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 | The Great Reckoning: Protect Yourself in the Coming Depression
Publication Date: March 1993A guide to protecting assets against the coming Depressionfeatures hundreds of investment tips and forecasts and offers readersfifteen ways to build a solid financial foundation. 75,000 firstprinting. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour. ...
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 | Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress
Publication Date: August 30, 2009| ISBN-10: 1848447108 | ISBN-13: 978-1848447103`Within the law and development literature it is the most knowledgeable and comprehensive book on legal reform. I think that it will find a grateful readership among people working in development agencies, in humanitarian organizations and among scholars and students of development studies.'- Hans-Bernd Schäfer, University of Hamburg, Germany`By identifying the key politico-economic reasons why rule-of-law reforms in developing countries have faltered and drawing out the implications for future strategy,...
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