The boys are back! It's 1970 Detroit: Tucker Knox and Willie Hoyt are still cruising Woodward Ave. in the GTO and Duster 340 - but their evil nemesis is back! Kent Rager has a new Mustang Boss 429 and a new sidekick with a Challenger R/T. Together, they're hell-bent on winning back the crown as the fastest ride on Woodward.
The Sociology of the Professions is essential reading for any student of this increasingly important area of study. Lucid, clearly written and argued, Keith M. Macdonald has written an essential primer on sociology and the professions. "Keith M. Macdonald's work is richly nuanced, eminently comparative, and singularly suggestive--and thoroughly engrossing, to boot. It begins with the assertion that the currently regnant framework for dealing with professions is considerably less illuminating than that provided by scholars in the symbolic interactionist tradition, i.e., the 'collective mobility project' of the drive of occupations toward professional status. For Macdonald, this is 'the professional project' whose components he describes.
Get your students involved in Christmas customs around the world. Countdown the days until Christmas with the German custom of an advent calendar. Celebrate the Netherland's St. Nicholas Day on December 6. December 13 is St. Lucia's Day in Sweden. Celebrate animals with a Scandinavian dinner hung on a tree.
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with shamrocks, spuds and shillelaghs. This unit focuses on developing skills in the following subjects: Phonics, Word Study, Reading, Research, Brainstorming, Creative Writing, Mathematics, Printing and Writing.
It's a long way from a corral on a large ranch out west to a school classroom of dudes and tenderfoots, but with your guidance and enthusiasm, you and your students can experience the fascinating world of the cowboy. After some brainstorming and preliminary group discussion about cowboys, the following activity centres could be set up: 1. Research, 2. Word Roundup, 3. Phonics, 4. Creative Writing, and 5. Art.
This package is intended to help students learn about eggs firsthand, using simple experiments. As they proceed, the students will learn there's more to the egg than they think! Included with the science activities are a number of suggestions for 'egg crafts' and fun games, which can be played using eggs. A checklist has been included as well as a word find, word scramble, and blank activity cards. Hope you have many exciting 'eggs'periences learning about eggs!
Whatever your political bent---firmly entrenched in an existing party or searching for something new---Rude Awakenings will get you thinking. . .what if? This latest novel by Keith M. Donaldson describes a country in upheaval, desperate for new ideas. In a nation fleeced by selfish politicians and bereft of pride and purpose, the American voters turn to a new party for presidential representation: Mike Macdonald of the Centrist Party. The smoke-filled back rooms of American politics feel the winds of change as the Centrists won enough seats in the Senate and House to create a three party system, with no single party holding a majority. They and President Macdonald were focused on financial and social renewal. However, the nuclear bombing of an American city and a diabolical foreign plot to strip the US dollar to third-world status forces Macdonald to put on his poker face and set up an international bluff that has to work. Rude Awakenings is resplendent in vivid characters, compelling relationships, and financial, military, and Intelligence strategies. The story will invoke your courage, sense of romance, and fervor for outwitting the bad guys.
For warehouses, distribution centers and plant stores ■ Many descriptions of material handling equipment ■ Combining of various equipment types into systems ■ Selecting a preferred system for an existing building ■ Configuring of a new building. The authors have a combined total of over 60 years of hands-on experience in the field of material handling equipment and applications. Some of the material, comments and dimensioning suggestions were learned the hard way. Safety hints, some of which seem to be little known or understood, are sprinkled throughout the book. This manual can save you many times its’ price while increasing safety and reducing unexpected problems to a minimum. NOTE: Conveyers are not discussed in any detail. These and advanced automation are subjects which require their own manuals.
There is no other group of animals as large in number and species or as diverse as insects. No other animal group has had as much impact economically and medically on man. Of all known animals, 70% to 80% are insects. They are all around us, yet most members of this group go unnoticed. It is hoped this unit will help initiate your students to a fascinating study of insects and their world. To help you get started, this unit includes: Insect Order Information Sheets, an Insect booklet and forty-eight research, language and creative activities. Although this unit was produced to be as informative on insects as possible, in no way is it intended to be used as the sole resource for a unit on insects. Its intent is to supplement an existing unit or to make available more ideas and materials to the teacher.
Tucker Knox has already seen the worst that life can offer as he heads home to Michigan after a tour in Vietnam, but there's a new kind of war raging on the streets around Detroit in 1970. Tucker soon discovers a whole new subculture of street racing in the flashy, high-horsepowered machines that "make the scene" on and around the legendary Woodward Avenue. From Detroit's, 8-Mile to the Pontiac Loop, along Gratiot Avenue and along I-75 and its side strips, the throngs of 60s and 70s musclecars square-off for nightly duels. With the threat of a dismal life on a Detroit assembly line looming, Tucker must reach for street racing glory and only Kent Rager and his nasty 429 Boss Mustang stand in his way. If you long for the days when gas was twenty-five cents per gallon and cars possessed as much character as they did horsepower, let Woodward Avenue take you back in time!
Let your students research Christmas customs and compare our contemporary Christmas to the Christmas celebrations of the early days. The activities focus on these areas: Brainstorming, Research, A Pioneer Christmas, Word and Language Skills, Poetry and Story Writing.
The original muscle car, the Royal Bobcat GTO was the baby of a burgeoning Detroit subculture, one not sanctioned by the big automakers of the early 1960s. In a post-World War II America hungry for chrome, flash and speed, Royal Pontiac in Royal Oak, Michigan, modified and sold its souped-up versions of GTOs to customers, and in the process created a demand for custom street racers in America. Founded by Ace Wilson, the Royal name became synonymous with speed. This book outlines the history of the Royal Bobcat GTO, from the people--including Milt Schornack, the mechanic who raced for Royal Pontiac and was responsible for the custom Bobcats--to the fabled midnight test runs on northern Detroit's famous Woodward Avenue. Fourteen chapters, illustrated with 25 photographs of vintage GTOs, the infamous Car & Driver road test photos against a Ferrari GTO, and more, chronicle the history of a car that changed the focus of the Detroit auto industry for the next decade. Former editor-in-chief of Hot Rod Magazine Ro McGonegal contributes a foreword.
From Apple's iPhone to Uber's ride-sharing service to ChatGPT, over recent decades we’ve seen ‘big ideas’ turn the world on its head. Yet what about those big, everyday ideas that can give your business an edge? Those little hinges that swing big doors, each of which can be worth thousands to business owners? You’ll find 7 of these ideas inside "The Big Ideas Book," which is based on the three legs of a stool every business needs to thrive: lead generation, systematisation/automation, and sales. Each chapter is a masterclass in its own right, from seasoned experts who are masters of their specialised fields. : Chapter 1: Scott Bywater reveals how to book your calendar solid with speed emails written by AI (and actually turn those emails into booked appointments with highly qualified prospects). Chapter 2: John North illustrates why thinking like a media company is the 21st-century blueprint for building trust and enhancing visibility. Chapter 3: Alan Carniol teaches you to apply Pareto’s 80/20 principle to attract and retain top-tier customers while avoiding time-wasters. Chapter 4: Peter Butler shares his strategies for working 'on' the business, not 'in' it, emphasizing the power of effective systems for scalability. Chapter 5: Melanie MacDonald dives into how cutting-edge AI and technology can streamline operations without overwhelming your mental bandwidth. Chapter 6: Keith Banfield debunks the myth of the ‘born salesperson’ and introduces the M.A.N roadmap for focusing on high-conversion prospects. Chapter 7: Ari Galper (the world’s leading authority on trust-based selling) challenges aggressive sales tactics that prioritise closing deals over building genuine relationships. Why should this book be your next read? Because within these pages, one idea, one strategy, and even one shifted perspective could be the catalyst that helps your business achieve a breakthrough. For instance, you’ll be introduced to… Game Changing Marketing Strategies: Each chapter is a deep dive into actionable tactics tested in the trenches of modern marketing. From email marketing to trust-based selling and strategic publishing, these aren’t just theories but practical, scalable strategies. Tailored Advice to Scale Your Business: Whether you're a startup entrepreneur, a small business owner, or a seasoned marketing professional, this book provides tailored advice on scaling your operations, boosting your sales conversion, and maximising your marketing ROI. Learn how to leverage AI in email campaigns, build customer trust at scale, and automate your marketing processes to maximise efficiency. Practical Implementation: Every chapter concludes with clear, actionable steps you can implement immediately. This hands-on approach ensures you can directly apply what you learn, and see real results quickly. Future-Proof Your Marketing: Stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital landscape. "The Big Ideas Book" equips you with cutting-edge knowledge to not only keep pace with technological advancements like AI but to harness them to your advantage. Derived from the collective wisdom of the Elite Marketers tribe, “The Big Ideas Book” is packed with outside-the-box strategies you can implement into your business right away. Implement just one of the strategies inside, and you'll see firsthand the transformative power of a great idea in action. Why not start today?
Estuaries and Wetlands are important coastal resources which are subject to a great deal of environmental stress. Dredging, construction, creation of intertidal wetlands, regulation of fresh water flow, and pollution are just a few of the activities which affect these coastal systems. The need to predict the effects of these perturbations upon ecosystem dynamics, particularly estuarine fisheries, as well as on physical effects, such as sedimentation and salt intrusion, is of paramount importance. Prediction requires the use of models, but no model is likely to be satisfactory unless fundamental physical, chemical, sedimentological, and biological processes are quantitatively understood, and the appropriate time and space scales known. With these considerations in mind, the Environmental Laboratory, U. S. Army Engineer Haterways Experiment Station,* Vicksburg, Mississippi, sponsored a workshop on "Estuarine and Wetland Processes and Water Quality Modeling" held in New Orleans, June 1979. The contents of this volume have been selected from the workshop papers. The resulting book, perhaps more than any other symposium proceed ings on estuaries and wetlands, attempts to review important pro cesses and place them in a modeling context. There is also a distinct applied tinge to a number of the contributions since some of the research studies were motivated by environmental assessments. The difference in title between this volume and the workshop re flects more accurately the contents of the published papers.
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