Gary Wicks's Books

Easy-to-Make Candles

By: Gary V. Guy

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You can make attractive decorative candles yourself, and this book shows you how. Make block, layer, and mottled candles; hurricane, abstract and glow-through candles; sand, taper, and applique candles; water candles, many more. Easy-to-follow instructions guide you every step of the way. 82 illustrations visualize important points. Glossary. Index.

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0486238814

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State of the World 2008

Innovations for a Sustainable Economy

By: Gary T. Gardner,Worldwatch Institute

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State of the World 2008

Innovations for a Sustainable Economy

By: Gary T. Gardner,Worldwatch Institute

Examines new technologies and advances from around the world that show promise as a means to create a sustainable global economy and stop the depletion of natural resources and the environment.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393330311

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9780393330311

One-Shot Harry

By: Gary Phillips

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One-Shot Harry

By: Gary Phillips

Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting mystery about an African American crime scene photographer seeking justice for a friend—perfect for fans of Walter Mosley, James Ellroy, and George Pelecanos. LOS ANGELES, 1963: Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King’s Freedom Rally, Ingram risks becoming a victim at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears about a deadly automobile accident on his police scanner, he recognizes the vehicle described as belonging to his good friend and old army buddy, a white jazz trumpeter. The LAPD declares the car crash an accident, but when Ingram develops his photos, he sees signs of foul play. Ingram feels compelled to play detective, even if it means putting his own life on the line. Armed with his wits, his camera, and occasionally his Colt .45, “One-Shot” Harry plunges headfirst into the seamy underbelly of LA society, tangling with racists, leftists, gangsters, zealots, and lovers as he attempts to solve the mystery. Master storyteller and crime fiction legend Gary Phillips has filled the pages of One-Shot Harry with fascinating historical cameos, wise-cracks, tenderness, and an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride of a plot with consequences far beyond one dead body.

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Soho Press

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164129292X

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9781641292924

Managing Ethics in Business Organizations

Social Scientific Perspectives

By: Linda Klebe Treviño,Gary Richard Weaver

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Managing Ethics in Business Organizations

Social Scientific Perspectives

By: Linda Klebe Treviño,Gary Richard Weaver

Aimed both at broadening the range of theoretically-informed empirical research on business ethics and at addressing the underlying questions regarding the nature of business ethics research, this is a comprehensive state-of-the-art portrait of the role of ethics in organizations.

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Stanford University Press

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0804743762

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9780804743761

Extinction Game

The Apocalypse Duology: Book One

By: Gary Gibson

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Extinction Game

The Apocalypse Duology: Book One

By: Gary Gibson

Extinction Game is a riveting, action-packed post-apocalyptic survival story from master of SF, Gary Gibson. When your life is based on lies, how do you hunt down the truth? Jerry Beche should be dead. Instead, he's rescued from a desolate Earth where he was the last man alive. He's then trained for the toughest conditions imaginable and placed with a crack team of specialists on an isolated island. Every one of them is a survivor, as each withstood the violent ending of their own alternate Earth. And their new specialism? To retrieve weapons and data in missions to other apocalyptic versions of our world. But what is 'the Authority', the shadowy organization that rescued Beche and his fellow survivors? How does it access timelines to find other Earths? And why does it need these instruments of death? As Jerry struggles to obey his new masters, he begins to distrust his new companions. A strange bunch, their motivations are less than clear, and accidents start plaguing their missions. Jerry suspects the Authority is feeding them lies, and team members are spying on him. As a dangerous situation spirals into catastrophe, is there anybody he can trust?

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Pan Macmillan

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0230772714

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9780230772717

Necessary Evil

By: Gary Thurmer

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Necessary Evil

By: Gary Thurmer

Murder is committed in the rural community surrounding Lake Mille Lacs in Minnesota. Brian and his friend Mike, the Aitkin County Sheriff, are trying to figure out who murdered Harold Williams, a billionaire, on Mille Lacs Lake. Brian, befriending Harold's only daughter Jamie, uses the skills he learned in the U.S. Marine Corps to save her life from mercenaries who believe they have uncovered what Harold found. As the events unfold, they uncover a conspiracy within Harold's company that could ultimately destroy the business and get them killed.

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Lulu.com

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1329346939

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9781329346932

The Ionia Sanction

A Mystery

By: Gary Corby

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The Ionia Sanction

A Mystery

By: Gary Corby

Pericles dispatches his protégé Nicolaos to investigate a suspicious suicide in this “lively” historical mystery set in Ancient Greece (Kirkus Reviews). Athens, 460 B.C. Life’s tough for Nicolaos, the only investigating agent in ancient Athens. His girlfriend has left him, and his boss wants to fire him. But when an Athenian official is murdered, the brilliant statesman Pericles has no choice but to put Nico on the job. The case takes Nico, in the company of a beautiful slave girl, to the land of Ionia within the Persian Empire. The Persians will execute him on the spot if they think he’s a spy. Beyond that, there are only a few minor problems. He’s being chased by brigands who are only waiting for the right price before they kill him. Somehow he has to placate his girlfriend, who is very angry about that slave girl. He must meet Themistocles, the military genius who saved Greece during the Persian Wars, and then defected to the hated enemy. And to solve the crime, Nico must uncover a secret that could not only destroy Athens, but will force him to choose between love, and ambition, and his own life. Praise for The Ionia Sanction “The action is solidly paced and engaging throughout, while Nico’s noir-ish patter makes the history highly accessible. . . . Corby weaves in most of these historical nuggets skillfully. . . . [Nico’s] worth reading.” —Historical Novel Society

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429979151

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Child and Adolescent Development

A Behavioral Systems Approach

By: Gary Novak

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Child and Adolescent Development

A Behavioral Systems Approach

By: Gary Novak

Child and Adolescent Development: A Behavioral Systems Approach integrates the views of dynamical systems concepts with a behavioral view of development. This combination of perspectives is unique and from it something new emerges – a "behavioral systems approach" to development. It is an approach that incorporates both personal and environmental influences and the constant reciprocal interactions between nature and nurture. The book emphasizes learning as the major process for change in development and the integration of environmental influences with genetic and historical factors. Authors Gary Novak and Martha Pelaez provide a coherent understanding of the learning process in childhood and adolescence and present successful interventions to minimize typical problematic behavior during this period.

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SAGE

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0761926984

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9780761926986

Rough Beast

By: Gary Braver

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Rough Beast

By: Gary Braver

e;And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"e;It is from these famous lines of William Butler Yeats' "e;The Second Coming"e; that Gary Goshgarian [Gary Braver] derives his title for this provocative novel.Rough Beast, set in a small town in Massachusetts, is a thriller in the tradition of Stephen King and Dean Koontz, combined with the scientific underpinnings of Michael Crichton. The elements of horror and suspense and intrigue reinforce one another in a many layered tale that ultimately brings the boundaries of nature into question. Gary Goshgarian [Gary Braver] has crafted a novel that plumbs the depths of genetic engineering, a powerful force that can be used for good or evil. Rough Beast explores the consequences of a genocidal experiment gone wrong and its effects on as normal, unsuspecting American family-especially on its twelve-year-old son, Matty. Praise for Rough Beast:"e;[Treads] territory staked out by John Saul and Dean Koontz. . . sharp characterizations. . . a solid and suspenseful cautionary tale that expertly blends political intrigue and domestic drama"e; --Publishers Weekly"e;Watch out, Stephen King! Gary Goshgarian [Gary Braver] has taken your incredibly successful formula and made it work as skilfully for him as it does for you. Goshgarian is an excellent writer of suspense. . . Rough Beast is explosive, gripping and truly scary!"e; -The Roanoke Times"e;Various mayhem, strange animal behaviors, a shadowy hit-man, and a secret Vietnam-era project are thrown into the cauldron. It's all fun, and Goshgarian can propel the plot and reader forward."e; -The Washington Post"e;The prose here sings and the characters are multi-dimensional. . . This cunning, deft novel keeps the pages turning without sacrificing style for story."e; --The Tab Community Newspapers"e;The season's scariest novel. . . Horror writer Stephen King could not have conceived a more chilling plot. . . The blending of political intrigue, the characterizations and the realistic drama reflect writing both original and masterful."e; --The Cape Codder"e;Rough Beast is full of nail-biting tension. The book is fascinating and sparks curiosity. You'll want to read every word."e; --The Tulsa World

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eBook Partnership

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190927027X

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Free Wind Home

A Childhood Memoir, 1935-1948

By: Gary Saunders

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Free Wind Home

A Childhood Memoir, 1935-1948

By: Gary Saunders

Free Wind Home carries the reader full circle through a childhood rooted in a sleepy Newfoundland outport with nineteenth century traditions, existing in a twentieth century world of war and uncertain politics. It is a visceral tale full of the tangible wonders of discovery and play, the fulfilling simplicity of nature, and the sometimes frightening shifts and changes life holds in store.

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Breakwater Books

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1550812319

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Healthy Weight Loss

By: Gary Smalley

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Healthy Weight Loss

By: Gary Smalley

How foods affect your relationships, how relationships affect your health, finding the strength to love and eat better"--Jacket.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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0842355227

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9780842355223

Teaching Physical Education

Contemporary Issues for Teachers, Educators and Students

By: Gary Stidder

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Teaching Physical Education

Contemporary Issues for Teachers, Educators and Students

By: Gary Stidder

This book assesses the landscape of physical education today and the issues that shape it as a curriculum subject, particularly in the era of COVID-19. It explores the processes of transformation and change that follow government policy and considers what this means for physical education practitioners in schools. The book covers a wide range of important issues, across (micro-)political, social-cultural, historical and post-modernist categories. Bringing together current research with autobiographical and anecdotal reflections on the realities of PE teaching, it considers the significance of issues such as the emphasis on competitive sport in schools, the socialization of teachers, the influence of politics and policy on the classroom, colonization and decolonization of the curriculum, digital technologies, the health and well-being agenda and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Offering a unique set of critical perspectives on physical education today, this book is essential reading for any physical education course, for all teacher training programmes with a PE track and for all practising teachers, teacher educators or policy-makers with a professional interest in PE.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000772705

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9781000772708

Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction

By: Gary Westfahl

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Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction

By: Gary Westfahl

An examination of science fiction editor and author Hugo Gernsback's career, this critical study explores the many ways in which his work influenced the genre. It summarizes the science fiction theories of Gernsback and his successors, considers his efforts to define science fiction both verbally and visually, and for the first time offers detailed studies of his rarest periodicals, including Technocracy Review, Superworld Comics, and Science-Fiction Plus. An analysis of his ground-breaking novel, Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660, and its influences on a variety of science fiction novels, films and television programs is also offered.

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McFarland

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0786430796

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Structural Foundation Designers' Manual

By: W. G. Curtin,Gerry Shaw,Gary Parkinson,J. Golding,Norman Seward

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Structural Foundation Designers' Manual

By: W. G. Curtin,Gerry Shaw,Gary Parkinson,J. Golding,Norman Seward

This manual for civil and structural engineers aims to simplify as much as possible a complex subject which is often treated too theoretically, by explaining in a practical way how to provide uncomplicated, buildable and economical foundations. It explains simply, clearly and with numerous worked examples how economic foundation design is achieved. It deals with both straightforward and difficult sites, following the process through site investigation, foundation selection and, finally, design. The book: includes chapters on many aspects of foundation engineering that most other books avoid including filled and contaminated sites mining and other man-made conditions features a step-by-step procedure for the design of lightweight and flexible rafts, to fill the gap in guidance in this much neglected, yet extremely economical foundation solution concentrates on foundations for building structures rather than the larger civil engineering foundations includes many innovative and economic solutions developed and used by the authors’ practice but not often covered in other publications provides an extensive series of appendices as a valuable reference source. For the Second Edition the chapter on contaminated and derelict sites has been updated to take account of the latest guidelines on the subject, including BS 10175. Elsewhere, throughout the book, references have been updated to take account of the latest technical publications and relevant British Standards.

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John Wiley & Sons

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140513044X

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9781405130448

Discrete Mathematics

By: Gary Chartrand,Ping Zhang

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Discrete Mathematics

By: Gary Chartrand,Ping Zhang

Chartrand and Zhangs Discrete Mathematics presents a clearly written, student-friendly introduction to discrete mathematics. The authors draw from their background as researchers and educators to offer lucid discussions and descriptions fundamental to the subject of discrete mathematics. Unique among discrete mathematics textbooks for its treatment of proof techniques and graph theory, topics discussed also include logic, relations and functions (especially equivalence relations and bijective functions), algorithms and analysis of algorithms, introduction to number theory, combinatorics (counting, the Pascal triangle, and the binomial theorem), discrete probability, partially ordered sets, lattices and Boolean algebras, cryptography, and finite-state machines. This highly versatile text provides mathematical background used in a wide variety of disciplines, including mathematics and mathematics education, computer science, biology, chemistry, engineering, communications, and business. Some of the major features and strengths of this textbook Numerous, carefully explained examples and applications facilitate learning. More than 1,600 exercises, ranging from elementary to challenging, are included with hints/answers to all odd-numbered exercises. Descriptions of proof techniques are accessible and lively. Students benefit from the historical discussions throughout the textbook.

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Waveland Press

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1478608323

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9781478608325

Food and Love

The Amazing Connection Between ...

By: Gary Smalley

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Food and Love

The Amazing Connection Between ...

By: Gary Smalley

How foods affect your relationships, how relationships affect your health, finding the strength to love and eat better"--Jacket.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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0842355200

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Mustangs and Wild Cows

By: Gary Tietjen

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Mustangs and Wild Cows

By: Gary Tietjen

This is a book about cattle ranching in the Zuni Mountains and Datil Mountains in McKinley and Catron counties in New Mexico in 19301960. It is autobiographical and is meant to be informative and entertaining.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543424465

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Painting and Finishing Techniques

By: Gary Edmundson

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Painting and Finishing Techniques

By: Gary Edmundson

Although many modellers can master the basic techniques of construction, it is with the painting and finishing of their kits that many begin to struggle. It is this skill that gives the model its distinctive look and feel and separates the good model form the truly great one. This title presents a detailed, step-by-step approach to addressing the difficulties involved in creating realistic, colourful finishes to armour and aviation models using a variety of different media and techniques. Aimed at both the beginner and the intermediate modeller looking to improve their skills, this chapter-by-chapter guide offers something for everyone.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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184908274X

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Are Schools Really Like This?

Factors Affecting Teacher Attitude Toward School Improvement

By: J. Gary Lilyquist

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Are Schools Really Like This?

Factors Affecting Teacher Attitude Toward School Improvement

By: J. Gary Lilyquist

J. Gary Lilyquist synthesizes such innovative concepts as, systems thinking, mental models, effective school research, and Deming's theories of management to propose the new Balance Alignment Model, a wide-ranging approach for fostering school improvement. Three case studies demonstrate why schools are not improving and how Lilyquist's model can facilitate student learning.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1475792824

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9781475792829

A Day in a Working Life [3 volumes]

300 Trades and Professions through History [3 volumes]

By: Gary Westfahl

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A Day in a Working Life [3 volumes]

300 Trades and Professions through History [3 volumes]

By: Gary Westfahl

Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have held, from ancient times to the 21st century. This unique book provides detailed studies of more than 300 occupations as they were practiced in 21 historical time periods, ranging from prehistory to the present day. Each profession is examined in a compelling essay that is specifically written to inform readers about career choices in different times and cultures, and is accompanied by a bibliography of additional sources of information, sidebars that relate historical issues to present-day concerns, as well as related historical documents. Readers of this work will learn what each profession entailed or entails on a daily basis, how one gained entry to the vocation, training methods, and typical compensation levels for the job. The book provides sufficient specific detail to convey a comprehensive understanding of the experiences, benefits, and downsides of a given profession. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering honest testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216071990

The Revenge of the Elves

By: Gary Alan Wassner

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The Revenge of the Elves

By: Gary Alan Wassner

As war rages across the world, a dangerous new entity makes it fearsome presence known in the climactic finale of this epic quest fantasy series. As the Twins continue on their separate journeys to retrieve the Gem of Eternity, the evil Colton continues to wage war on the scattered forces of resistance. But an even more powerful threat is emerging—the Darkening, a terrifying void that encroaches upon the very heart of the land. Stealing memories and thoughts, it threatens life itself. Determined to complete his conquest, Colton sends three abominations to the three Elfin kingdoms, exact replicas of the Elfin sons of the royal families. As they sow the seeds of catastrophe and murder, faith and trust are undermined, and doubt takes root across the world. And all the while, the Darkening gains power none yet understand. The sacred trees are dying. But when another is born, a powerful light illuminates the sky, offering a spark of hope . . .

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Open Road Media

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1480495646

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Remote Sensing for Geologists

A Guide to Image Interpretation

By: Gary L. Prost

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Remote Sensing for Geologists

A Guide to Image Interpretation

By: Gary L. Prost

A guide to image interpretation, this book contains detailed color plates and tables that compare satellite imaging systems, list remote sensing web sites, and detail photointerpretation equipment. It includes case histories of the search for petroleum and mineral deposits and examines engineering uses of remote sensing. The volume comprises four sections: project initiation; exploration techniques; exploitation and engineering remote sensing; and environmental concerns. They combine to provide readers with a solid foundation of what image interpretation is and enables them to recognize features of interest and effectively use imagery in projects for the petroleum, mining, or groundwater industries.

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CRC Press

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9057026295

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Alida's Song

By: Gary Paulsen

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Alida's Song

By: Gary Paulsen

A remarkable novel about one of the most important, and loving, relationships in Gary Paulsen's life. The wonderful grandmother seen through the eyes of a young boy in The Cookcamp reaches out to him at 14, offering him a haven from his harsh and painful family life. She arranges a summer job for him on the farm where she is a cook for Gunnar and Olaf, elderly brothers. Farm life offers the camaraderie and routine of hard work, good food, peaceful evenings spent making music together, even learning to dance. Life with Alicia gives the boy strength and faith in himself, drawing him away from the edge and into the center of life.

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0440414741

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Intelligence Collection

How to Plan and Execute Intelligence Collection in Complex Environments

By: Wayne Michael Hall,Gary Citrenbaum

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Intelligence Collection

How to Plan and Execute Intelligence Collection in Complex Environments

By: Wayne Michael Hall,Gary Citrenbaum

This book examines the theoretical and conceptual foundation of effective modern intelligence collection—the strategies required to support intelligence analysis of the modern, complex operational environments of today's military conflicts or competitive civilian situations such as business. Just as the old rules of conventional warfare and intelligence analysis do not apply fully in the 21st-century environment, neither does the traditional methodology of collecting intelligence on these elusive, adapting foes operating as complex adaptive systems (CAS)—adversaries that excel in today's complex contexts. Intelligence Collection: How To Plan and Execute Intelligence Collection In Complex Environments proposes substantive improvements in the way the U.S. national security system collects intelligence and supports intelligence analysis. The work draws on the groundbreaking work of a diverge group of theorists ranging from Carl von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu to M. Mitchell Waldrop, General David Petraeus, and Orson Scott Card, communicating a unifying theory and ontology of thought for how America's intelligence collection professionals must learn to collect data as our country faces elusive, determined, and smart adversaries in nonlinear, dynamic environments. The new ideas presented will help the nation's intelligence collection specialists to amass a formidable, cumulative intelligence power, regardless of the level of war or the type of operational environment.

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The Carry Home

Lessons From the American Wilderness

By: Gary Ferguson

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The Carry Home

Lessons From the American Wilderness

By: Gary Ferguson

The nature writing of Gary Ferguson arises out of intimate experience. He trekked 500 miles through Yellowstone to write Walking Down the Wild and spent a season in the field at a wilderness therapy program for Shouting at the Sky. He journeyed 250 miles on foot for Hawks Rest and followed through the seasons the first fourteen wolves released into Yellowstone National Park for The Yellowstone Wolves. But nothing could prepare him for the experience he details in his new book. The Carry Home is both a moving celebration of the outdoor life shared between Ferguson and his wife Jane, who died tragically in a canoeing accident in northern Ontario in 2005, and a chronicle of the mending, uplifting power of nature. Confronting his unthinkable loss, Ferguson set out to fulfill Jane's final wish: the scattering of her ashes in five remote, wild locations they loved and shared. The act of the carry home allows Ferguson the opportunity to ruminate on their life together as well as explore deeply the impactful presence of nature in all of our lives. Theirs was a love borne of wild places, and The Carry Home offers a powerful glimpse into how the natural world can be a critical prompt for moving through cycles of immeasurable grief, how bereavement can turn to wonder, and how one man rediscovered himself in the process of saying goodbye.

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Catapult

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1619024020

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Paying Attention

Focusing Your Congregation on What Matters

By: Gary Peluso-Verdend

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Paying Attention

Focusing Your Congregation on What Matters

By: Gary Peluso-Verdend

In a culture marked by what many call “attention-deficit disorder,” congregations and their leaders are subject to distractions that detract from their mission and lead them in directions that have little to do with their reason for existence. Size concerns, building preservation, situational conflicts, the lure of technology, and the so-called worship wars all threaten to distract congregations from what matters most. Thus, churches can become part of the problem rather than a positive influence in the lives of their people and their communities. In this inspiring volume, Gary Peluso-Verdend issues a clarion call to congregational leaders to refocus their church’s attention on the core matters of Christian faith—the Word, the example of Christ, and an intentional embrace of theology and spiritual practice—to renew the congregation’s vision and to center itself again on God’s call. Paying Attention takes on obsession and anxiety, the two “vampires of attention,” that focus on the unfixable past and the uncontrollable future, wasting and dissipating attention. True Christian attention is focused on the now, and this book calls on congregations to be present to the persons and issues that God has entrusted to them. As Jesus of Nazareth’s ability to be fully attentive and present to people was remarkable, congregations should look to his example and attend as he attended. Paying Attention urges congregations to develop their theology of attention and to engage in the Christian practice of attending lovingly to God and to neighbor so that they may participate fully in the kingdom of God. With study questions at the end of each chapter and an imagined conversation between people practicing theology in their congregation, Paying Attention provides an invaluable companion in a congregation’s journey toward purposeful, attentive faithfulness.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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156699599X

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9781566995993

The Gospel Truth: How We Can Know What Christ Taught

By: Gary Michuta

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The Gospel Truth: How We Can Know What Christ Taught

By: Gary Michuta

Hundreds of books have been written to vindicate the Gospels by noting that they were written closer to the events they record than any other ancient history. But how do we know that they accurately recorded what Jesus said and did? How do we know they didn’t fabricate their contents? That Jesus really did work the miracles reported in the Gospels? Most important of all, how do we know what is the authentic interpretation of his words and deeds? Christian apologists have largely neglected to answer these significant questions because they have focused instead on vindicating the Gospels apart from the community that wrote them. The Gospel Truth fills in this gap by demonstrating that a concerted and sophisticated effort was made to ensure that what Jesus taught and did was accurately retained, recorded, verified, and passed on to future believers. It also shows how we can know whether our copies of Scripture reflect the original, whether the books in our Bible really belong there, and ways to know how to correctly understand them.

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1645852989

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Understanding Project Management

Skills and Insights for Successful Project Delivery

By: Gary Straw

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Understanding Project Management

Skills and Insights for Successful Project Delivery

By: Gary Straw

Understanding Project Management takes an applied approach to the study of project management, carefully balancing reflective practice and methodology necessary for successful deployment of tools and techniques in the real world. Including plenty of practical examples as well as contemporary real-world case studies, it takes a unique approach to the study of project management with an emphasis on international aspects and dilemmas that are increasingly common in the contemporary world. With a host of features to encourage reflection and reinforce learning, it is the ideal complement for independent or classroom study on a range of business courses. Understanding Project Management helps managers understand project management, develop perspectives in application, and, through reflection, enables them to develop a project management capability, at an individual, organization or project level. The content throughout is guided by practice, making this an essential read for anyone wishing to make a success of the project management role. Online supporting resources include lecture slides and an instructor's manual.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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0749470569

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Faith and the Presidency From George Washington to George W. Bush

By: Gary Scott Smith

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Faith and the Presidency From George Washington to George W. Bush

By: Gary Scott Smith

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Oxford University Press

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0195300602

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Handbook of Compound Semiconductors

Growth, Processing, Characterization, and Devices

By: Paul H. Holloway,Gary E. McGuire

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Handbook of Compound Semiconductors

Growth, Processing, Characterization, and Devices

By: Paul H. Holloway,Gary E. McGuire

This book reviews the recent advances and current technologies used to produce microelectronic and optoelectronic devices from compound semiconductors. It provides a complete overview of the technologies necessary to grow bulk single-crystal substrates, grow hetero-or homoepitaxial films, and process advanced devices such as HBT's, QW diode lasers, etc.

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Cambridge University Press

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0080946143

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day

By: Gary E. Moulton

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day

By: Gary E. Moulton

In May 1804, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their Corps of Discovery set out on a journey of a lifetime to explore and interpret the American West. The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day follows this exploration with a daily narrative of their journey, from its starting point in Illinois in 1804 to its successful return to St. Louis in September 1806. This accessible chronicle, presented by Lewis and Clark historian Gary E. Moulton, depicts each riveting day of the Corps of Discovery’s journey. Drawn from the journals of the two captains and four enlisted men, this volume recounts personal stories, scientific pursuits, and geographic challenges, along with vivid descriptions of encounters with Native peoples and unknown lands and discoveries of new species of flora and fauna. This modern reference brings the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition to life in a new way, from the first hoisting of the sail to the final celebratory dinner.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496203380

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Patriot Hearts

Inside the Olympics that Changed a Country

By: John Furlong,Gary Mason

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Patriot Hearts

Inside the Olympics that Changed a Country

By: John Furlong,Gary Mason

When John Furlong and his family emigrated from Ireland in 1974, the customs officer greeted them with "Welcome to Canada. Make us better," an imperative that has defined Furlong's life ever since. A passionate athlete with a track record of community service, he was roped into acting as spokesperson for Vancouver's incipient Olympic bid movement back in 1996, and then spent the next fourteen years living and breathing the Olympics. Furlong and his organizing team, including some 25,000 volunteers, orchestrated a remarkable Winter Games. Patriot Hearts is the story of how they did it.

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Douglas & McIntyre

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1553657942

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