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The classic guide to bringing out the best in people at their worst?updated with even more can?t-standable people! Dealing with People You Can?t Stand has been helping good people deal with bad behavior in a positive, professional way for nearly two decades. Unfortunately, as the world becomes smaller and time more compressed, new difficult people are being made all the time. So Kirschner and Brinkman have updated their global bestseller to help you...
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5th January 1800. At the beginning of a new century, Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. Her father, Henry Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Kew Gardens. Alma's mother, a strict woman from an esteemed Dutch family, is conversant in five living languages (and two dead ones) and her knowledge of botany is equal to any man's. An independent girl...
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McMasters guide to homicide volume 1
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2023
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"Preparing you for an education you'll never forget, this introduction to The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of homicidal arts, follows students as they prepare for graduation by getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live"--
Who hasn't wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist?...
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Many students are coming to realize that traditional four-year colleges do not necessarily lead to gainful employment after graduation and, therefore, do not always make good financial sense. Vocational and technical education, on the other hand, provides practical skills training, real-world experience, professional certification and contacts, and a direct pathway to jobs and careers. Readers are introduced to the exciting and enriching learning...
7) Hard times
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 20
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Thomas Gradgrind destroys the spiritual and emotional lives of his children by denying the importance of human feelings.
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Early in the Great War, men left Britain's factories in droves to enlist. Struggling to keep up production, arsenals hired women to build the weapons the military urgently needed. "Be the Girl Behind the Man Behind the Gun," the recruitment posters beckoned. Thousands of women-cooks, maids, shopgirls, and housewives-answered their nation's call. These "munitionettes" worked grueling shifts often seven days a week, handling TNT and other explosives...
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Assemble, build, and put power in motion with Cool Engine & Motor Projects! Create a mini buzzing robot with a battery-powered engine, move a small ship with steam, and more! Each project includes easy-to-read, step-by step instructions paired with photographs. Learn to use tools of the trade to make one-of-a-kind creations! -- Publisher description.
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"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising...
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"On Prospect Hill, you can get nearly anything you want from the Fae--if you know how to ask and if you can pay the price. There is no magic on Prospect Hill--or anywhere else, for that matter. But just on the other side of the veil is the world of the Fae, and all their magic. Generations ago, the first farmers on Prospect Hill learned to bargain small trades to make their lives a little easier--a bit of glass to find something lost, a cup of milk...
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A powerful and persuasive discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, from today's brightest economist.
In this classic discussion, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our affluence undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington. This important analysis reveals what has gone wrong in America in the past and what is necessary for our economic...
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Pressure vessels are an integral part of many industrial processes, ranging from chemical processing to power generation. This book offers a general overview of pressure vessels. "Uses of Boiler and Pressure Vessels codes" is a comprehensive guide to the widely-used ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessels Codes, providing readers with a thorough understanding of the codes and their applications. The authors of "Uses of ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessels Codes"...
14) Factory robots
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"A photo-illustrated book for elementary readers about robots that work to make and package our goods. Describes the technological history that led to today's automated assembly machines. Explains their role today and possible future applications. Includes Q & A feature, glossary, index, and further resources"--
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"From the New York Times bestselling author behind the "joyful, warm, touching" (Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author) The Unhoneymooners comes a delightfully charming love story about what happens when two assistants tasked with keeping a rocky relationship from explosion start to feel sparks of their own"--
Carey Douglas has worked for home remodeling and design gurus Melissa and Rusty Tripp for nearly a decade. A country girl at...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Most products we use every day were made using manufacturing robots. Readers will be surprised to hear how common and important robots are in the manufacturing world. This book covers the history of manufacturing robots, as well as the newest robots that are used today.
17) White noise
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Now a Netflix film!
Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible...
Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible...
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Partiendo de la superación de una perspectiva espontánea y, en el mejor de los casos, funcional, que actualmente abunda en la creación de la forma objetual, esta investigación considera que el objeto es un constructo que revela las estructuras cognitivas del grupo que lo produce, y que la forma es un hecho social de convivencia. Así, este estudio se estructura en cuatro partes constitutivas: la primera de ellas plantea diversas hipótesis acerca...
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Tener un buen producto es grandioso pero, en el competitivo mundo de hoy, eso no es suficiente. El empaque, en cualquiera de sus múltiples presentaciones, asume el poderoso papel de puente e intérprete entre el productor y el consumidor y con un maravilloso juego de formas, tamaños, materiales y colores busca realizar esa natural comunicación. Este manual no trata de diseño gráfico sino que pretende señalar las pautas que hacen posible que...
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El presente trabajo registra la sistematización de una experiencia de diseño de producto, con el propósito de extraer aprendizajes que faciliten, en el aula, la comprensión y la explicación de las lógicas y las particularidades del proceso de diseño de producto. Este propósito, supone atender las pautas de la transposición didáctica, entendida como la necesaria transformación que sufre el saber especializado para poder ser enseñado, e...
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