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Release 2.1

By: Esther Dyson

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A provocative and visionary look at our new digital society, from "the most powerful woman in the Net-erati" (The New York Times Magazine). Welcome to Release 2.1, Esther Dyson's fascinating exploration of life in our new digital society. In this provocative and timely book, Dyson--an entrepreneur, high-tech industry analyst, government adviser, and Net expert--examines the impact and implications of cyberspace, challenging us to think intelligently about its effect on every aspect of our private and public lives, from businesses to government to education. Written with an insider's knowledge and ready wit, and filled with anecdotes about the movers and shakers behind the products and politics of the computer industry, Release 2.1 presents us with a hard-hitting message: With the advent of the Internet, we all have both the opportunity and the obligation to shape the new rules we want to live by. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Crown Business

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0767999487

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9780767999489

Let the Story Do the Work

The Art of Storytelling for Business Success

By: Esther Choy

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Let the Story Do the Work

The Art of Storytelling for Business Success

By: Esther Choy

People forget facts, but they never forget a good story. Let the Story Do the Work shows how the art of storytelling is key for any business to achieve success. For most, there’s nothing easy about crafting a memorable story, let alone linking it to professional goals. However, material for stories and anecdotes that can be used for your professional success already surround you. To get people interested in and convinced by what you are saying, you need to tell an interesting story. As the Founder and Chief Story Facilitator at Leadership Story Lab, a company that helps executives unlock the persuasive power of storytelling, Esther Choy teaches you how to mine your experience for simple narratives that will achieve your goals. In Let the Story Do the Work, you can learn to: Capture attention Engage your audience Change minds Inspire action Pitch persuasively When you find the perfect hook, structure your story according to its strengths, and deliver it at the right time in the right way, you’ll see firsthand how easy it is to turn everyday communications into opportunities to connect, gain buy-in, and build lasting relationships.

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AMACOM

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0814438024

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9780814438022

The Multivoices of Kenyan Primary School Children Learning to Read and Write

By: Esther Mukewa Lisanza

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The Multivoices of Kenyan Primary School Children Learning to Read and Write

By: Esther Mukewa Lisanza

This book provides a rich and nuanced examination of children learning to read and write a second language in primary schools in Kenya, taught by teachers who themselves have often learned English as a second or third language. The author uses two case studies, of an urban and a rural school, to explore how different socioeconomic and cultural contexts can affect the enactment of language policies and their effect on literacy. This book contributes a unique perspective to studies in language and literacy education due to its distinctive exploration of young children learning to read and write in the English language in Kenya, and it will be of particular interest to students and scholars of applied linguistics, language education, bilingualism and language policy.

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Springer Nature

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3030381102

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9783030381103

Cyclodextrins in Chromatography

By: Tibor Cserháti,Esther Forgacs

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Cyclodextrins in Chromatography

By: Tibor Cserháti,Esther Forgacs

Cyclodextrins can form complexes with a wide variety of organic and inorganic compounds, a property which can prove useful when trying to separate complex mixtures. This book provides an up-to-date and critical evaluation of the application of cyclodextrins in many fields of chromatography (including thin layer, gas-liquid, high performance liquid and supercritical fluid chromatography; capillary electrophoresis; and isotacophoresis). Whilst mainly practical in nature, the book also looks briefly at the theoretical background for the various techniques. Any professional working with chromatography will welcome this unique book as both a practical compilation of methods and a source of reference to the literature regarding the use and impact of cyclodextrins in chromatography.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1847550673

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9781847550675

Making Sense of Leadership

Exploring the Five Key Roles Used by Effective Leaders

By: Esther Cameron,Mike Green

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Making Sense of Leadership

Exploring the Five Key Roles Used by Effective Leaders

By: Esther Cameron,Mike Green

Making Sense of Leadership identifies the five key roles used by effective leaders. A practical, accessible and solution-focused book, it helps entrepreneurs, managers and leaders develop their leadership skills. The authors examine successful leaders to determine the type of leadership roles which succeed. This allows them to present five distinct roles of leadership, which are used to promote positive change and innovation. The authors encourage the reader to play with these, recognizing and taking on those elements which most appropriately suit their situation. Discovering these roles offers an important guide to the new leader, in order for them to shape their own leadership approach. It also provides interesting challenges to the existing leader who wants to refresh their stance in order to tackle a new situation. The book is supported by exercises for both individuals and groups, so that the text can also be used as a learning and development resource and for team facilitation and one-to-one coaching.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749455586

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9780749455583

A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests

Administration, Norms, and Commentary

By: Otfried Spreen,Esther Strauss

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A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests

Administration, Norms, and Commentary

By: Otfried Spreen,Esther Strauss

In a survey of neuropsychologists published in The Clinical Neuropsychologist, the first edition of the Compendium was named as one of the eleven essential books in their field. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover new developments in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and psychological assessment. It includes new chapters on test selection, report writing and informing the client, executive functions, occupational interest and aptitude, and the assessment of functional complaints. In addition to updating research findings about the tests covered in the first edition, the book now contains almost twice as many tests.

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Oxford University Press

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0195100190

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9780195100198

Infibulation

Female Mutilation in Islamic Northeastern Africa

By: Esther K. Hicks

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Infibulation

Female Mutilation in Islamic Northeastern Africa

By: Esther K. Hicks

Infibulation is the most extreme form of female circumcision. It plays an important role in the Islamic societies of northeastern Africa. Until now, the social significance and function of this practice has been poorly understood. This has been no less true of Western commentators who have condemned the practice than of relevant governments that have attempted to curb it. In Infibulation, Esther K. Hicks analyzes female circumcision as a cultural trait embedded in a historically traditional milieu and shows why it cannot be treated in isolation as a single issue destined for elimination. In its brief history it has been recognized as a pioneering piece of research with enormous consequences. As Hicks demonstrates, much of the popular resistance to official efforts to eradicate infibulation has actually come from women. Circumcision constitutes a rite of passage for female children. It initiates them into womanhood and makes them eligible for marriage. Often, this is the only positive status position available to women in traditional Islamic societies. Hicks points out that although female circumcision predates the introduction of Islam into the region, the religious culture has successfully codified infibulation into the structural nexus of marriage, family, and social honor at all socioeconomic levels.

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Transaction Publishers

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1412826233

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Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Knowledge in East Africa

Swahili, Kikuyu, and Kamba

By: Esther Mukewa Lisanza,Catherine Mwihaki Ndungo

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Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Knowledge in East Africa

Swahili, Kikuyu, and Kamba

By: Esther Mukewa Lisanza,Catherine Mwihaki Ndungo

In Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Knowledge in East Africa: Swahili, Kikuyu, and Kamba, Esther Mukewa Lisanza and Catherine Mwihaki Ndungo argue that African languages and indigenous knowledge forms are the tools which have made African communities such as Swahili, Kikuyu, and Kamba thrive for generations. Using interviews and research data, this book investigates the following questions: what is the nature and role of multilingualism in East Africa?; what role do herbs and indigenous foods play in Swahili, Kamba, and Kikuyu communities?; how are the communities governed indigenously?; and what is the connection between indigenous languages and knowledge? The findings presented within this study have demonstrated that multilingualism is a great resource in East Africa as many have prided themselves on their multilingual abilities within their education, careers, and cultures. Although these languages have been identified as carriers of indigenous governance, judiciary, and herbal medicine that have survived for generations, Lisanza and Ndungo advocate for policies and education systems to recenter these indigenous languages and their accompanying indigenous knowledge forms and practices once the older generations have passed on.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666914215

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9781666914214

Subject Literacy in Culturally Diverse Secondary Schools

Supporting EAL Learners

By: Esther Daborn,Sally Zacharias,Hazel Crichton

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Subject Literacy in Culturally Diverse Secondary Schools

Supporting EAL Learners

By: Esther Daborn,Sally Zacharias,Hazel Crichton

This book supports teachers of all subject specialisms to consolidate their existing knowledge of language and shows them how to develop skills to use language to build subject knowledge at secondary level. Tasks guide the reader to think about the language we use for different purposes, and how we use it to describe, explain and learn about our world. This paves an accessible way for subject-related language to become more visible and enables readers to use accessible terminology to confidently talk about it, as well as modelling it and guiding the development of its use with all learners, including those with English as an Additional Language (EAL). Starting from basic educational principles, the book asks readers to consider the processes of learning and why every good teacher needs knowledge about language to support this, addressing a range of questions including: Who are the EAL learners? What are the processes of language development? How is language used to present and discuss knowledge in my subject? Why does every good teacher need knowledge about language to support subject literacy? The authors provide examples, discovery tasks, reflections and templates for activities, to help the reader identify the tools they need to set up a framework for scaffolding pupils' language development. With a progression plan, directed tasks, and formative feedback, this framework provides a template for classroom practice and further professional development.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350073946

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Double Helix Omnibus

By: Peter David,Esther Friesner,Diane Carey,Dean Wesley Smith,Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Christie Golden,Michael Jan Friedman,John Gregory Betancourt

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Double Helix Omnibus

By: Peter David,Esther Friesner,Diane Carey,Dean Wesley Smith,Kristine Kathryn Rusch,Christie Golden,Michael Jan Friedman,John Gregory Betancourt

Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the Alpha Quadrant, even as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history. This special omnibus volume contains the entire bestselling saga-by some of Star Trek's most popular authors: Book One: Infection John Gregory Betancourt Deanna Troi's life is endangered by a mysterious plague that threatens to spread throughout the Federation and beyond! Book Two: Vectors Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch On the Cardassian space station known as Terok Nor, Dr. Katherine Pulaski struggles to heal the planet Bajor! Book Three: Red Sector Diane Carey An elderly Dr. McCoy reunites with Ambassador Spock to save the Romulan royal family-and a new generation! Book Four: Quarantine John Vornholt Lieutenant Tom Riker joins forces with the outlaw Maquis to rescue a world in peril! Book Five: Double or Nothing Peter David Along with Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the Starship Excalibur, Jean-Luc Picard tracks the deadly contagion to its source! Book Six: The First Virtue Michael Jan Friedman & Christie Golden Years before commanding the U.S.S. Enterprise™, a young Picard must prevent a war -- and witness the secret origin of a diabolical threat that would someday menace all he cares for!

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Simon and Schuster

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0743473930

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9780743473934

Emotional Justice

A Roadmap for Racial Healing

By: Esther Armah

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Emotional Justice

A Roadmap for Racial Healing

By: Esther Armah

It is time for an emotional reckoning on our path to racial healing, sustainable equity, and the future of DEI. Here's the tool to help us navigate it. In this groundbreaking book, Esther Armah argues that the crucial missing piece to racial healing and sustainable equity is emotional justice-a new racial healing language to help us do our emotional work. This work is part of the emotional reckoning we must navigate if racial healing is to be more than a dream. We all-white, Black, Brown-have our emotional work that we need to do. But that work is not the same for all of us. This emotional work means unlearning the language of whiteness, a narrative that centers white people, particularly white men, no matter the deadly cost and consequence to all women and to global Black and Brown people. That's why a new racial healing language is crucial. Emotional Justice grapples with how a legacy of untreated trauma from oppressive systems has created and sustained dual deadly fictions: white superiority and Black inferiority that shape-and wound-all of us. These systems must be dismantled to build a future that serves justice to everyone, not just some of us. We are the dismantlers we have been waiting for, and emotional justice is the game changer for a just future that benefits all of us.

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523003383

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Warchild

By: Esther Friesner

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Warchild

By: Esther Friesner

A message left behind by the Kai Opaka gives Commander Benjamin Sisko a fateful mission: find a young Bajoran girl destined to be a great healer who could bring together the warring factions of Bajor. While Lt. Dax tries to find the healer, Dr. Bashir goes planetside to treat a rare disease that is killing the children in Bajor's resettlement camps. Surrounded by thousands of dying children, Bashir goes A.W.O.L. from Deep Space Nine TM, vowing not to return until the plague has been stopped. But by the time Dax finds the girl from the Kai's prophecy the child has fallen victim to the plague. Now, with the fate of the entire planet at stake, Commander Sisko must find Dr. Bashir in time to save the child who may be Bajor's last chance for peace.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743420381

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9780743420389

Neo-Nazi Postmodern

Right-Wing Terror Tactics, the Intellectual New Right, and the Destabilization of Memory in Germany since 1989

By: Esther Elizabeth Adaire

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Neo-Nazi Postmodern

Right-Wing Terror Tactics, the Intellectual New Right, and the Destabilization of Memory in Germany since 1989

By: Esther Elizabeth Adaire

From the violent skinhead protests of the early 1990s to the National Socialist Underground murder spree of the 2000s and the KSK (Kommando Spezialkräfte) scandal of 2020, this book traces Germany's long struggle to suppress a resurgent and ever more terroristic far-right scene. Esther Elizabeth Adaire analyses the electoral success of the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) party in 2017, the growing presence of PEGIDA on German streets, and the anti-COVID lockdown protests led by conspiracy theorist groups such as Querdenken which have taken aback liberal onlookers for whom Germany's robust culture of Holocaust consciousness is supposed to provide a panacea against neo-Nazism. Adaire examines how, since unification, the intellectual Neue Rechte has increasingly destabilized the foundations of historical memory and lesson-learning in Germany, often doing so in the pages of mainstream conservative publications. Neo-Nazi Postmodern convincingly contends that far-right intellectuals – joined by notable left-wing apostates who brought with them an anti-establishment critique borrowed from the language of postmodernism – have since the early 1990s excused and justified an increasingly violent far-right youth scene, even becoming leaders of this scene themselves. The book therefore traces the development of today's German far-right throughout several stages, notable scandals, and the ongoing destabilization of memory and truth from unification onwards, showing how previously disparate groups such as neo-Nazis, Neue Rechte intellectuals, and political fringe parties merged over time. This far-right scene, Adaire adeptly demonstrates, has come to embody what the historian Walter Laqueur once dubbed 'Postmodern Terrorism': a mixture of cell-based terror structures, reliance on Internet technologies for organizational purposes, and the sowing of epistemic chaos via informational warfare.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350417157

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Love Found Love Lost

The Adventures of a Love Struck Girl

By: Esther Jane Berman

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Love Found Love Lost

The Adventures of a Love Struck Girl

By: Esther Jane Berman

This fun and helpful book is one's girl's autobiography. She grew with many of life's experiences meeting all kinds of people from all walks of life. Learn how to keep the love of friendship strong and well in spite of the odds. Learn how to experience nature and reap its benfits. Learn the nature of true love. The main reason we lose love is because it was not true love to begin with. Then there are people who come into our lives to give us temporary help. They serve a good pupose, but these relationships usually fade when the help is no longer needed. Her first husband claimed to love her, but he did not show it. He was seldom home. The heroine shows how to get what you want when you want something so badly. She reaches her goals against all odds. Nothing stops her from getting an education. Her love for the French language came to her quite by chance. She seized the opportunity to learn French and fell in love with it. The heroine's son also learned how to cope with life's problems. Like his mother, he beat the bullies without lifting a finger. He has the gift of gab. His mother has the gift of writing. He can talk to anyone anytime about anything. His mother will write down every happening. She is also his confindant and ally against a sometimes cruel world. He is an only child, but he is not spoiled. As you will see, he is quite an actor. You will laugh through the book. At times, you may cry, but not for long. The book is up beat with a little drama as lfe unfolds. So hold onto your seat for the ride of your life.

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iUniverse

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1475962274

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9781475962277

Theology for International Law

By: Esther D. Reed

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Theology for International Law

By: Esther D. Reed

Whilst Christian theology is familiar with questions about the relation of church and state, divine and human law, little attention has been devoted to questions of international law. Esther D. Reed offers a systematic engagement with contemporary issues of international law and its relevance for modern theology. Reed discusses numerous issue driven topics, including: challenges to classic just-war thinking from so-called fourth generation warfare, peoples and nationhood within divine providence, the ethics of territorial borders and the militarization of human intervention. By discussing selected biblical texts Reed helps to move the issues of international law higher up the agenda of Christian theology, ethics and moral reasoning.

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A&C Black

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0567400654

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9780567400659

Infibulation

Female Mutilation in Islamic Northeastern Africa

By: Esther Hicks

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Infibulation

Female Mutilation in Islamic Northeastern Africa

By: Esther Hicks

Infibulation is the most extreme form of female circumci- sion. It plays an important role in the Islamic societies of northeastern Africa. Until now, the social significance and function of this practice has been poorly understood. In this volume, Hicks analyzes female circumcision as a cultural trait embedded in a historically traditional milieu and shows why it cannot be treated in isolation as a single issue destined for elimination.

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Routledge

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1351294504

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Vanadium

Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Practical Applications

By: Alan S. Tracey,Gail R. Willsky,Esther S. Takeuchi

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Vanadium

Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Practical Applications

By: Alan S. Tracey,Gail R. Willsky,Esther S. Takeuchi

The first comprehensive resource on the chemistry of vanadium, Vanadium: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, and Practical Applications has evolved from over a quarter century of research that concentrated on delineating the aqueous coordination reactions that characterize the vanadium(V) oxidation state. The authors distill information o

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CRC Press

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1420046144

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The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia

A Study in the Ecology of Belief

By: Esther Jacobson

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The Deer Goddess of Ancient Siberia

A Study in the Ecology of Belief

By: Esther Jacobson

Central to this study is the image of the deer within the iconography of the Early Nomads of South Siberia. By examining the symbolic structures revealed in the art and archaeology of the Early Nomads, the author challenges existing theories regarding Early Nomadic cosmology. The reconstruction of meanings embedded in the deer image carries the investigation back to rock carvings, paintings, and monolithic stelae of South Siberia and northern Central Asia, from the Neolithic period down through the early Iron Age. The succession of images dominating that artistic tradition is considered against the background of cultures — including the Baykal Neolithic Afanasevo, Okunev, Andronovo, and Karasuk — evolving from a hunting-fishing dependency to a dependency on livestock. The archaic mythic traditions of specific Siberian groups are also found to lend critical detail to the changing symbolic systems of South Siberia.

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BRILL

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9004378782

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9789004378780

To Storm Heaven

By: Esther Friesner

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To Storm Heaven

By: Esther Friesner

When Lelys, ambassador of the plague-ridden colony planet of Orakisa, approaches the Federation seeking help for her dying world, the U.S.S. Enterprise speeds to the rescue. Captain Picard and his crew escort the Orakisan delegation to its long-lost sister-world, Ne'elat, where the ambassador and the Away Team are initially welcomed, but then endangered. As the Enterprise officers make their way through a web of planet-wide intrigue, time is running out the people of Orakisa and the inhabitants of their sister-worlds as well.

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Simon and Schuster

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1471109070

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9781471109072

Where Do I Go from Here?

Getting a Life After High School

By: Esther Drill,Heather McDonald,Rebecca Odes

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Where Do I Go from Here?

Getting a Life After High School

By: Esther Drill,Heather McDonald,Rebecca Odes

The founders of gURL.com ("Deal With It!") are back with a fun and informative resource that takes a look at the human side of college life. With their trademark bold and colorful graphics, candid and humorous text, and personal stories, the gURLs give young women a clear sense of what life is really like after high school.

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0142002143

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