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The Little Book of Hope (The Little Book of...)
By Helen Exley. 2019
This book is intended as a source of hope and encouragement. Here are well over a hundred thoughts of memorable…
writers like Victor Hugo and Louisa May Alcott and more memorable writers you may not have met like Pam Brown and DALTON EXLEY. Dolly Parton shares a page with William Shakespeare, something she may never have imagined to hope for. Here hope is a simile for raindrops, sunlight, a bulb, a bird, summer, and more obscure images which will be a delight to discover. Examples are given where hope is a lifeline in times of illness, poverty, imprisonment, catastrophe and more. Delve deeply into this book of short but powerful quotations from hundreds of years and several cultures which offers hope for all situations and all peopleStreusel Creme Killer (INNcredibly Sweet #5)
By Summer Prescott. 2016
If you loved the Frosted Love Series, you'll love the INNcredibly Sweet Series, which continues the ongoing adventures of Missy,…
Chas and the gang, after their move from LaChance, Louisiana, to the sleepy seaside town of Calgon, Florida. Missy and Echo return to Calgon, after an eventful visit to Louisiana. Trouble arises when the sweet bookstore owner, whose business is right next door to Echo's candle shop, discovers a body in her store. Newly appointed Medical Examiner, the enigmatic Timothy Eckels, makes a gruesome discovery that will have prominent citizens of Calgon shaking in their boots.Cheesecake Madness
By John J. Segreto. 1981
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
By Svetlana Alexievich. 2005
On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occurred in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three…
quarters of Europe. Although the Soviet government claims that only 31 people died as a result, the aftermath of the event is astounding. Over 485 villages are lost, and approximately 2.1 million people (including 700,000 children) live on contaminated land. There is no official record of how many thousands have died, but thousands of children have been born with catastrophic birth defects. Countless others suffer ongoing health problems resulting from their exposure to radiation. [Translated by Keith Gessen] Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Novel Prize for Literature.Nowhere Boy
By Katherine Marsh. 2018
Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed…
fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Aleppo, Syria, only to lose his father on the perilous journey to the shores of Europe. Now Ahmed’s struggling to get by on his own, but with no one left to trust and nowhere to go, he’s starting to lose hope. Then he meets Max, a thirteen-year-old American boy from Washington, D.C. Lonely and homesick, Max is struggling at his new school and just can’t seem to do anything right. But with one startling discovery, Max and Ahmed’s lives collide and a friendship begins to grow. Together, Max and Ahmed will defy the odds, learning from each other what it means to be brave and how hope can change your destiny. Set against the backdrop of the Syrian refugee crisis, award-winning author of Jepp, Who Defied the Stars Katherine Marsh delivers a gripping, heartwarming story of resilience, friendship and everyday heroes.Trail Guide to the Body: Student Workbook (Fourth Edition)
By Andrew Biel. 2010
Vanishing Acts (A Maggie Brooklyn Mystery)
By Leslie Margolis. 2012
Life is confusing for seventh-grader Maggie, who must track down a missing person and find out who is behind a…
string of dog eggings at the local dog run, while also dealing with issues involving her brother and two of her friends.Las metamorfosis del oro: El Tesoro de los Quimbayas
By Pablo Gamboa. 2020
La verdadera historia detrás del Tesoro de los Quimbayas En 1890, un grupo de guaqueros desenterraron sobre el río La…
Vieja, en el Quindío, un conjunto de piezas hechas en oro. Estatuillas de hombres y mujeres desnudos, cascos con figuras en relieve, poporos en forma de fruta e instrumentos musicales, eran parte de los deslumbrantes objetos. Habían sido puestos allí como ofrendas funerarias por el pueblo Quimbaya y luego de siglos bajo tierra volvían a brillar con la luz. A este grupo de piezas de admirable manufactura se le conoce como el Tesoro de los Quimbayas y este libro, del historiador del arte Pablo Gamboa Hinestrosa, reconoce el contexto cultural al momento de su extracción, traza su biografía y trata los asuntos artísticos de su orfebrería. Con las excepcionales fotografías de Juan Mayr, la historia del Tesoro conecta la obra de maestros orfebres precolombinos con el tiempo presente.Cartas a Antonia: Las conmovedoras reflexiones y enseñanzas de un abuelo a su nieta
By Alfredo Molano Bravo. 2020
“Muchas veces se le oyó hablar de este texto, lo hizo no como uno más de sus veinte y tantos…
libros, sino como el mejor regalo que le habría hecho a esa niña que tanto amó. De todos sus libros es el más profundo, autobiográfico y universal”. Alfredo Molano Jimeno Este es el libro inédito que Alfredo Molano Bravo le escribió a su nieta durante más de una década, en el que reúne sus historias y pensamientos más íntimos para explicarle el país en el que nació, y le relata muchos de los viajes que lo llevaron a recorrer casi 14.000 kilómetros del territorio colombiano, a pie, subido en sus Converse de colores. Este libro incluye el diario que Molano llevó hasta pocos días antes de morir, donde narra los detalles de su lucha contra el cáncer con la rigurosidad de cronista que lo caracterizó y que lo llevó a convertirse en uno de los escritores más destacados de la historia reciente del país. Un libro imperdible para entender a Colombia y convencerse de la importancia de vivir con intensidad. “Lo de los perros fue una metáfora que nos permitió volver a hablar de los miedos. Esos mismos que por la noche, cuando ya todo está en silencio y las luces se han apagado, saltan sobre mi cama y mi almohada, me cercan, me paralizan y se llevan mi sueño entre sus fauces. Al miedo, le decía yo a Antonia, hay que mirarle la cara. A los perros hay que mirarlos a los ojos, a la muerte también”. Alfredo Molano BravoFocus on Nursing Pharmacology (Coursepoint+)
By Amy M. Karch. 2020
Master the Principles of Effective Drug Therapy Current, concise, and optimized for today’s nursing practice, Focus on Nursing Pharmacology makes…
challenging concepts more approachable to establish a foundation for effective drug therapy throughout your nursing career. This updated 8th edition builds on your knowledge of physiology, chemistry and nursing fundamentals to help you conceptualize need-to-know information about each group of drugs, while engaging learning features cultivate your clinical application, critical thinking and patient education capabilities. NEW! Concept Mastery Alerts alert you to commonly misunderstood concepts. NEW! Unfolding case-based vignettes written by the National League for Nursing bring concepts to life through realistic clinical scenarios. Concise, streamlined approach emphasizes need-to-know information for efficient learning. Nursing Processes clarify the process for planning patient-centered care. Critical Thinking Scenarios guide you through the collection and application of data for commonly encountered clinical interactions. Nursing Considerations sections detail the rationale behind each nursing intervention to enhance your clinical decision-making capabilities. Drug Lists at the beginning of each chapter enable fast identification of prototype drugs for each class. Drugs in Focus tables provide at-a-glance reference for generic and trade names, usual dosage and indications for each drug within a class. Focus on Safe Medication Administration boxes help you ensure patient safety and increase the therapeutic effectiveness of drugs. Focus on the Evidence boxes identify the best nursing practices associated with specific drugs based on available evidence. Focus on Herbal and Alternative Therapies alert you to known interactions with specific herbs or alternative therapies that could affect drug actions. Focus on Calculations refine your calculation and measurement skills. Focus on Drug Therapy Across the Lifespan boxes provide quick access to drug class considerations for use with children, adults and the elderly. Focus on Gender Considerations and Focus on Cultural Considerations help you ensure effective, culturally sensitive drug therapy across diverse populations. Check Your Understanding sections equip you for your exams with NCLEX®-style review questions, including alternate-format questions. Watch and Learn videos available on thePoint® help you avoid medication errors in practice.TinyML: Machine Learning with TensorFlow Lite on Arduino and Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers
By Pete Warden, Daniel Situnayake. 2020
Deep learning networks are getting smaller. Much smaller. The Google Assistant team can detect words with a model just 14…
kilobytes in size—small enough to run on a microcontroller. With this practical book you’ll enter the field of TinyML, where deep learning and embedded systems combine to make astounding things possible with tiny devices.Pete Warden and Daniel Situnayake explain how you can train models small enough to fit into any environment. Ideal for software and hardware developers who want to build embedded systems using machine learning, this guide walks you through creating a series of TinyML projects, step-by-step. No machine learning or microcontroller experience is necessary.Build a speech recognizer, a camera that detects people, and a magic wand that responds to gesturesWork with Arduino and ultra-low-power microcontrollersLearn the essentials of ML and how to train your own modelsTrain models to understand audio, image, and accelerometer dataExplore TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers, Google’s toolkit for TinyMLDebug applications and provide safeguards for privacy and securityOptimize latency, energy usage, and model and binary sizeUn-American (Wesleyan Poetry)
By Hafizah Geter. 2020
Dancing between lyric and narrative, Hafizah Geter's debut collection moves readers through the fraught internal and external landscapes—linguistic, cultural, racial,…
familial—of those whose lives are shaped and transformed by immigration. The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist black man, Geter charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and the heartbreak of trying to feel at home in a country that does not recognize you. Through her mother's death and her father's illnesses, Geter weaves the natural world into the discourse of grief, human interactions, and socio-political discord. This collection thrums with authenticity and heart.SAMPLE POEMTestimony for Tamir Rice, 2002-2014Mr. President, After they shot me they tackled my sister.The sound of her knees hitting the sidewalk made my stomach ache. It was a bad pain. Like when you love someone and they lie to you. Or that time Mikaela cried all through science class and wouldn't tell anyone why. This isn't even my first letter to you,in the first one I told you about my room and my favorite basketball team and asked you to come visit me in Clevelandor send your autograph. In the second one I thanked you for your responsible citizenship. I hope you are proud of me too.Mom said you made being black beautiful againbut that was before someone killed Trayvon. After that came a sadness so big it made everyonelook the same. It was a long time before we couldgo outside again. Mr. President it took one whole dayfor me to die and even though I'm twelve and not afraid of the darkI didn't know there could be so much of itor so many other boys here.Informal documents and remains of material culture, when analyzed properly, offer a unique window into the daily lives and workings…
of ancient civilizations. Published here in their archaeological context and with any relevant artifacts, the documents and inscriptions excavated recently in Egypt's Western Desert represent a valuable addition to our meager documentation of the Bahriya Oasis in the first centuries CE. This is the first comprehensive treatment of an archaeological dataset from the archaeological exploration of Bir Shawish. Dating to around 400 CE, these primary historical sources include documentary texts written on ostraka, informal inscriptions on various ceramic objects, plus a group of incised lids. The core of the volume consists of an annotated edition and analytical indices. This is prefaced by the historical and archaeological context and is followed by a synthesis of selected issues inherent to the published material. The book includes appendices and pictures of all published objects. Doubling the number of texts and inscriptions published to date from the Small Oasis, this new corpus furthers our understanding of the economic, administrative, and social history of Late Antique Egypt.Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture (Dissident Feminisms #33)
By Simidele Dosekun. 2020
Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty. From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to…
high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of Africa but across an increasingly globalized world. Simidele Dosekun's interviews and critical analysis consider the female subjectivities these women are performing and desiring. She finds that the women embody the postfeminist idea that their unapologetically immaculate beauty signals—but also constitutes—feminine power. As empowered global consumers and media citizens, the women deny any need to critique their culture or to take part in feminism's collective political struggle. Throughout, Dosekun unearths evocative details around the practical challenges to attaining their style, examines the gap between how others view these women and how they view themselves, and engages with ideas about postfeminist self-fashioning and subjectivity across cultures and class. Intellectually provocative and rich with theory, Fashioning Postfeminism reveals why women choose to live, embody, and even suffer for a fascinating performative culture.Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story behind Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District (Disability Histories #12)
By David A. Gerber, Bruce J. Dierenfield. 2020
In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a…
taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school. The Catalina Foothills School District argued that providing a public resource for a private, religious school created an unlawful crossover between church and state. The Zobrests, however, claimed that the district had infringed on both their First Amendment right to freedom of religion and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber use the Zobrests' story to examine the complex history and jurisprudence of disability accommodation and educational mainstreaming. They look at the family's effort to acquire educational resources for their son starting in early childhood and the choices the Zobrests made to prepare him for life in the hearing world rather than the deaf community. Dierenfield and Gerber also analyze the thorny church-state issues and legal controversies that informed the case, its journey to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the impact of the high court's ruling on the course of disability accommodation and religious liberty.One Foundation, Sunlight to Our Souls
By Rev Kinosian, Jr. D. D.. 2020
This is a book regarding the Spiritual condition of our young Christians of today, and the bad influence that we…
are seeing in the Christians World and the Secular World of today. I wrote this to bring awareness surroundings in the churches and conference we go to. KJV: 2Tim. 2:15, 3:16. This Book is written for the Purpose of being aware of things that are infiltrate our Christians of today, and to prepare them with the full armor of God, and on a solid foundationPrecious Moments in Hell
By Charli. 2020
The world is full of tragedy. No one is exempt from having times when they feel like giving up on…
life because of pain and misery, “hell on earth.” Author and survivor Charli’s memoir reminds readers to never give up on themselves for the Lord is in the midst of tumultuous events. He is always present in the form of a Precious Moment.Charli is one of the many people who have lived through soul-crushing pain. Beginning when she was four years old, she witnessed the darker side of humanity firsthand, from a physically abusive father who abandoned the family to a neglectful mother. Living in foster care and enduring seven years of daily torture was no walk in the park for Charli and certainly didn’t lighten the burden she would have to bear later in life. Like never-ending torrential rain, Charli’s life threw one storm after another at her, namely the murder of her mother, the sexual victimization and abduction of her daughter, and the abuse from her husbands not unlike what her mother experienced decades prior.“There are valleys we each will walk through in this life. Some refer to them as hell on earth. Psalm 23 call them ‘valleys of shadows of death.’” This book is a testimony that can serve as a lamp onto your feet and a light onto your path.This book provides insight into research and development of key aerospace materials that have enabled some of the most exciting…
air and space technologies in recent years. The stories are shared with you by the women who experienced them, those engineers and scientists in the labs, on the shop floors, or on the design teams contributing to the realization of these technologies. Their work contributes to the world in the challenging and vital field of aerospace materials, and their stories seethe with a pride and a passion for the opportunity to make these important contributions. As an important part of the Women in Science and Engineering book series, the work highlights the contribution of women leaders in Aerospace Materials, inspiring women and men, girls and boys to enter and apply themselves to secure our future in an increasingly connected world.Vehicular Networking for Road Safety (Wireless Networks)
By Xuemin Shen, Minglu Li, Feng Lyu. 2020
The topics addressed in this book are crucial for both the academic community and industry, since the vehicular network has…
become an essential building block for intelligent transportation systems. The systematic principle of this book provides valuable guidance on the deployment and implementation of V2X-enabled road-safety applications. In addition, this book carries out structured technologies from the MAC layer to the link and network layer, which can provide a general introduction for interested readers with a comprehensive understanding of applying vehicular networks in enhancing road safety, and offers a systematized view for researchers and practitioners in the field of vehicular networks to help them optimize and improve the desired vehicular communication systems. Road safety has always been the first priority for daily commuters on the road. Vehicular networks can be an effective solution to enhance road safety, via which vehicles can exchange cooperative awareness messages rapidly, contributing to better situation awareness and maneuvering cooperation. However, with the fast-changing network topology, intermittent wireless link, and dynamic traffic density, it is challenging to achieve satisfying network performance. This book introduces the background of vehicular networks, provides a comprehensive overview of networking techniques in supporting road-safety applications, states the technical motivations per the MAC, link, and network layer, and proposes/designs vehicular networking technologies at the corresponding layer respectively to guarantee low-latency and reliable V2X communications for road-safety applications. By extending the proposed networking technologies to support all types of vehicular services, this book also outlines open issues and research directions in future 5G and beyond vehicular networks.Think Tanks sind in den USA bereits fester Bestandteil und machtvolle Institutionen zur Beeinflussung von Wirtschaft und Politik. Hierzu zählt…
zum Beispiel die Heritage Foundation, der nachgesagt wird, dass sie maßgeblich die US-Gesundheitsreform "Obama Care" beeinflusst hat. Ebenso gibt es in Deutschland zahlreiche Think Tanks, wie zum Beispiel parteinahe Stiftungen, die sich auch mit gesundheitspolitischen Fragestellungen befassen. Daneben gibt es diverse Stiftungen aus der Industrie mit Engagements im Bereich der Gesundheit, aber es steigen zunehmend auch junge Initiativen in den Ring um die besten Ideen für die Zukunft der Gesundheit. Sie alle wollen frische Impulse für ein eingefahrenes Gesundheitswesen liefern und suchen unter anderem in Form von Positionspapieren oder auf der Bühne der großen gesundheitswirtschaftlichen Kongresse den Dialog mit den etablierten Entscheidern des Gesundheitssystems. Dieses Buch gibt einen ersten Überblick über die wichtigsten Think Tanks in Deutschland und beantwortet diese Fragen: Welche Denkfabriken im Gesundheitswesen und in der Medizin gibt es? Welche Themen greifen diese auf und welche halten sie für dringend? Wer steckt hinter der Finanzierung derartiger Plattformen? Und welchen Einfluss haben diese Denkfabriken? Ein Nachschlagewerk für alle, die kompetente Gesprächspartner für gesundheitspolitische Diskussionen am Puls der Zeit suchen.