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A Big Gospel in Small Places

Why Ministry in Forgotten Communities Matters

By: Stephen Witmer

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A Big Gospel in Small Places

Why Ministry in Forgotten Communities Matters

By: Stephen Witmer

Christian ministries increasingly prioritize urban areas—big cities and suburbs are considered more strategic, more influential, and more desirable places to live and work. As a ministry strategy, focusing on big places makes sense. But the gospel of Jesus is often unstrategic. Pastor Stephen Witmer, using helpful stories and practical advice, lays out an integrated theological vision for small-place ministry today.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830855491

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9780830855490

The Greater San Rafael Swell

Honoring Tradition and Preserving Storied Lands

By: Stephen E. Strom,Jonathan Bailey

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The Greater San Rafael Swell

Honoring Tradition and Preserving Storied Lands

By: Stephen E. Strom,Jonathan Bailey

This book offers the story of how citizens of a small county in the rural West - Emery County, Utah--resolved perhaps the most volatile issue in the region - the future of public lands.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816543925

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The Big Win

Learning from the Legends to Become a More Successful Investor

By: Stephen L. Weiss

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The Big Win

Learning from the Legends to Become a More Successful Investor

By: Stephen L. Weiss

A rousing and practical look at the extremely successful investments of top investors In his first book, The Billion Dollar Mistake, author Stephen L. Weiss showcased the biggest blunders of some of the world's legendary investors—which lost them billions of dollars on a single investment. Incredibly, the mistakes they made were the same mistakes made by everyday investors but for the magnitude of the loss. Weiss's second book, The Big Win: Learning from the Legends to Become a More Successful Investor, highlights financial successes, explaining how the world's most successful investors make a fortune and how you can do the same. As with the missteps Weiss profiled in his first book, the strategies used by these legendary investors are available to all, regardless of size or sophistication. Profiles legendary investors and highlights their investment strategies—from finding the right investment to researching to making a move Probes each investor's personality and questions their investment thinking Identifies and describes each investor's "big win" and why it became their most successful investment The Big Win is a primer on successful investing the way it is really done by the people who do it for a living—passionately and with extraordinary success. The Billion Dollar Mistake told readers what not to do to get rich; The Big Win shows readers how to do it right for the payoff of their lives.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118233581

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9781118233580

Small Towns and Big Business

Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores

By: Stephen Halebsky

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Small Towns and Big Business

Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores

By: Stephen Halebsky

During the 1990s, a new type of controversy began occurring across the United States: controversies over the siting of superstores, also known as big box stores. In these disputes, which often involved Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, local citizens mounted organized opposition to the proposed siting of a superstores in their town or neighborhood. Opponents criticized Wal-Mart superstores for putting local independent merchants out of business, siphoning money from the local economy, providing substandard jobs, disrupting residential neighborhoods, contributing to the "McDonaldization" of society, inducing sprawl, destroying downtowns and Main Streets, and undermining local uniqueness and small town charm. More generally, these David-and-Goliath controversies represented particularly stark examples of the conflict of interests between local communities and large corporations that have become common in contemporary society. Small Towns and Big Business uses fieldwork and archival sources to comprehensively examine these controversies and the underlying issues. While Wal-Mart is usually able to site its stores at its preferred locations, in some cases local opponents have been able to thwart its plans. Using detailed case studies of anti-superstore controversies in six small cities in five states, Halebsky employs a comparative-historical approach to construct an explanation of how some of these local social movements managed to prevail against Wal-Mart. This explanation is then extended to provide the basis for a model of the general conditions under which local communities may be able to constrain unwanted corporate action. Thus, this is both a study of social movement outcomes and an investigation of community-corporate conflict. Small Towns and Big Business provides insight into the potential of the local state to control large corporations, the inherently problematic nature of corporate retailing, the possibilities for resisting McDonaldization, and the fate of local anti-corporation activism. Book jacket.

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Lexington Books

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0739122401

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The Big Book of American Trivia

By: J. Stephen Lang

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The Big Book of American Trivia

By: J. Stephen Lang

Presents over three thousand questions and answers about American subjects, covering such topics as geography, history, entertainment, people, and culture.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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0842383131

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Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes

By: Stephen Hawking

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Hawking on the Big Bang and Black Holes

By: Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has made important theoretical contributions to gravitational theory and has played a major role in the development of cosmology and black hole physics. Hawking's early work, partly in collaboration with Roger Penrose, showed the significance of spacetime singularities for the big bang and black holes. His later work has been concerned with a deeper understanding of these two issues. The work required extensive use of the two great intellectual achievements of the first half of the Twentieth Century: general relativity and quantum mechanics; and these are reflected in the reprinted articles. Hawking's key contributions on black hole radiation and the no-boundary condition on the origin of the universe are included. The present compilation of Stephen Hawking's most important work also includes an introduction by him, which guides the reader though the major highlights of the volume. This volume is thus an essential item in any library and will be an important reference source for those interested in theoretical physics and applied mathematics.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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981310337X

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9789813103375

Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 5

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edith Wharton,Stephen Crane,Susan Glaspell,Kate Chopin,Laura E. Richards,Alice Dunbar-Nelson,Louisa May Alcott,Hans Christian Andersen,Charles Dickens

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Big Book of Best Short Stories: Volume 5

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edith Wharton,Stephen Crane,Susan Glaspell,Kate Chopin,Laura E. Richards,Alice Dunbar-Nelson,Louisa May Alcott,Hans Christian Andersen,Charles Dickens

This book contains 70 short stories from 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Diamond as Big as the Ritz The Jelly-Bean May Day The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Bernice Bobs Her Hair Head and Shoulders The Cut-Glass Bowl - Edith Wharton:The Triumph of Night The Pelican The Fullness Of Life April Showers A Journey Afterward Xingu - Stephen Crane:A Dark Brown Dog An Experiment in Misery The Veteran Four Men in a Cave A Tent in Agony The Snake Upturned Face - Susan Glaspell:His Smile "Government Goat" A Jury of Her Peers The Anarchist: His Dog "One of Those Impossible Americans" At Twilight From A to Z - Kate Chopin:A Respectable Woman A Pair of Silk Stockings A Matter of Prejudice A December Day in Dixie At the 'Cadian Ball The Storm Désirée's Baby - Laura E. Richards :Maine to the Rescue The Coming of the King The Golden Windows The Shed Chamber The Green Satin Gown The Scarlet Leaves Don Alonzo - Alice Dunbar Nelson:A Carnival Jangle Little Miss Sophie La Juanita The Praline Woman Sister Josepha Mr. Baptiste M'sieu Fortier's Violin - Louisa May Alcott:A Modern Cinderella My Red Cap A Christmas Dream, and How it Came to Be True An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Aunt Kipp Rosy's Journey The Brothers - Hans Christian Andersen:The Little Mermaid Brave Tin Soldier The Princess and the Pea The Goloshes of Fortune The Emperor's New Clothes The Last Dream of Old Oak Little Tiny or Thumbelina - Charles Dickens:A Child's Dream of a Star Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn Nobody's Story The Child's Story The Magic Fishbone What Christmas is As We Grow Older The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

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Tacet Books

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8577770567

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Big Leagues

Professional Baseball, Football, and Basketball in National Memory

By: Stephen R. Fox

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Big Leagues

Professional Baseball, Football, and Basketball in National Memory

By: Stephen R. Fox

Discusses the evolution of baseball, football, and basketball and offers new perspectives on established legends

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803268963

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9780803268968

A Cause Greater than Self

The Journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor Recipient

By: Stephen J. Ochs

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A Cause Greater than Self

The Journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor Recipient

By: Stephen J. Ochs

A privileged, hell-raising youth who had greatly embarrassed his family—and especially his war-hero father—by being dismissed from West Point, Michael J. Daly would go on to display selfless courage and heroic leadership on the battlefields of Europe during World War II. Starting as an enlisted man and rising through the ranks to become a captain and company commander, Daly’s devotion to his men and his determination to live up to the ideals taught to him by his father led him to extraordinary acts of bravery on behalf of others, resulting in three Silver Stars, a Bronze Star with “V” attachment for valor, two Purple Hearts, and finally, the Medal of Honor. Historian Stephen J. Ochs mined archives and special collections and conducted numerous personal interviews with Daly, his family and friends, and the men whom he commanded and with whom he served. The result is a carefully constructed, in-depth portrait of a warrior-hero who found his life’s deepest purpose, both during and after the war, in selfless service to others. After a period of post-war drift, Daly finally escaped the “hero’s cage” and found renewed purpose through family and service. He became a board member at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he again assumed the role of defender and guardian by championing the cause of the indigent poor and the terminally ill, earning the sobriquet, “conscience of the hospital.” A Cause Greater than Self: The Journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor Recipient is at once a unique, father-son wartime saga, a coming-of-age narrative, and the tale of a heroic man’s struggle to forge a new and meaningful postwar life. Daly’s story also highlights the crucial role played by platoon and company infantry officers in winning both major battles like those on D-Day and in lesser-known campaigns such as those of the Colmar Pocket and in south-central Germany, further reinforcing the debt that Americans owe to them—especially those whose selfless courage merited the Medal of Honor.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603448039

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In the Shadows of the Big House

Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana

By: Stephen Small

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In the Shadows of the Big House

Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana

By: Stephen Small

In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical sites currently comprise a tourist infrastructure of the southern heritage industry. Louisiana, one of the most prominent and frequently visited states that benefit from this tourism, has more than sixty heritage sites housed in former slave plantations. These sites contain the remains, restorations, reconstructions, and replicas of antebellum slave cabins and slave quarters. In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana is the first book to tackle the role, treatment, and representation of slave cabins at plantation museum sites in contemporary heritage tourism. In this volume, author Stephen Small describes and analyzes sixteen twenty-first-century antebellum slave cabins currently located on three plantation museum sites in Natchitoches, Louisiana: Oakland Plantation, Magnolia Plantation Complex, and Melrose Plantation. Small traces the historical trajectory of plantations and slave cabins since the Civil War and explores what representations of slavery and slave cabins in these sites convey about the reconfiguration of the past and the rearticulation of history in the present. Considering such themes as the role of white ethnic identity in representations of elite whites and the extent and significance of Black voices and Black visions of representations of these plantations, Small asks what these sites reveal about social forgetting and social remembering throughout Louisiana and the South. He further explores the ways that gender structures the social organization of current sites and the role and influence of the state in the social organization and representations that prevail today.

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1496845579

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Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 7

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,O. Henry,William Dean Howells,T. S. Arthur,Stephen Leacock,Sherwood Anderson,Robert Barr,Lafcadio Hearn,Giovanni Verga,Hamlin Garland,August Nemo

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Big Book of Best Short Stories - Volume 7

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman,O. Henry,William Dean Howells,T. S. Arthur,Stephen Leacock,Sherwood Anderson,Robert Barr,Lafcadio Hearn,Giovanni Verga,Hamlin Garland,August Nemo

This book contains70 short storiesfrom 10 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the criticAugust Nemo, in a collection that will please theliterature lovers. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman:A New England Nun Ann Mary; Her Two Thanksgivings Luella Miller Little-Girl-Afraid-of-a-Dog Jimmy Scarecrow's Christmas The Gospel According To Joan The Revolt of "Mother" - O. HenryThe Gift of the Magi The Cop and the Anthem A Retrieved Reformation The Ransom of Red Chief Springtime a la Carte The Count and the Wedding Guest Witches' Loaves - William Dean HowellsChristmas Every Day The Pumpkin-Glory Butterflyflutterby and Flutterbybutterfly City and Country in the Fall, A Long-distance Eclogue A Case Of Metaphantasmia An Experience A Pair Of Patient Lovers - T. S. ArthurAn Angel in Disguise Amy's Question Dressed for a Party The Two Husbands The Brilliant and the Commonplace Other People's Eyes The Fatal Error - Stephen LeacockMy Financial Career Merry Christmas How to Make a Million Dollars How to Live to be 200 How to Avoid Getting Married Aristocratic Education Self-Made Men - Sherwood AndersonA Man of Ideas An Awakening An Apology for Crudity Hands The Egg The Man In The Brown Coat The Other Woman - Robert BarrAn Alpine Divorce "And the Rigour of the Game" Gentlemen: The King! The Hour and the Man The Man Who was not on the Passenger List Which Was the Murderer? Not According to the Code - Lafcadio HearnYuki-Onna The Story of Ming-Y A Ghost A Dead Secret Chin Chin Kobokama The Cedar Closet A Ghost Story - Giovanni VergaRosso Malpello Rustic Chivalry How Peppa Loved Gramigna Jeli, the Shepherd La Lupa The Story of St. Joseph's Ass The Bereaved - Hamlin GarlandUnder the Lion's Paw A Branch Road A "Good Fellow's Wife" A Night Raid at Eagle River Uncle Ethan Ripley Mrs. Ripley's Trip A Day's Pleasure

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396799399X

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Word Aware 2

Teaching Vocabulary in the Early Years

By: Stephen Parsons,Anna Branagan

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Word Aware 2

Teaching Vocabulary in the Early Years

By: Stephen Parsons,Anna Branagan

This is a highly practical, comprehensive resource designed to support Early Years practitioners in the provision of effective vocabulary development in preschool children of all abilities. It is based on the same theory as the existing 'Word Aware' resource (9780863889554) but is adapted for Early Years. This rigorously tried and tested approach is an outstanding resource that will be an essential addition to any early years' setting or preschool classroom. It is also an important addition to the materials used by speech and language therapists.

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Routledge

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1351698486

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9781351698481

Teaching Children Dance

By: Theresa Purcell Cone,Stephen Leonard Cone

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Teaching Children Dance

By: Theresa Purcell Cone,Stephen Leonard Cone

Teaching Children Dance, Third Edition, presents 31 ready-to-use lessons that bring fun and challenging dance experiences to elementary-aged children of all ability levels. The updated third edition includes 13 new learning experiences and two new chapters on teaching children with disabilities and making interdisciplinary connections.

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Human Kinetics

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1450402534

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Teaching Children Dance

By: Susan M. Flynn,Emily Enloe,Theresa Purcell Cone,Stephen L. Cone

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Teaching Children Dance

By: Susan M. Flynn,Emily Enloe,Theresa Purcell Cone,Stephen L. Cone

Thirty-two new dance learning experiences for K-12 students of all ability levels. Wide variety of dance styles. Instructional videos and online resources to make teaching effective and smooth. Strategies in developing learning experiences and planning lessons and units.

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Human Kinetics

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1718213158

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Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation

A Post-Dialectical Theory of Value

By: Stephen Petro

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Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation

A Post-Dialectical Theory of Value

By: Stephen Petro

This book explores the overlooked but vital theoretical relationships between R. M. Hare, Alan Gewirth, and Jürgen Habermas. The author claims their accounts of value, while failing to address classic virtue-theoretical critiques, bear the seeds of a resolution to the ultimate question “What is most valuable?” These dialectical approaches, as claimed, justify a reinterpretation of value and value judgment according to the Carnapian conception of an empirical-linguistic framework or grammar. Through a further synthesis with the work of Philippa Foot and Thomas Magnell, the author shows that “value” would be literally meaningless without four fundamental phenomena which constitute such a framework: Logical Judgment, Conceptual Synthesis, Conceptual Abstraction, and Freedom. As part of the 'grammar of goodness,' the excellence of these phenomena, in a highly concrete way, constitute the essence of the greatest good, as this book explains.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319022857

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Something Happens Here

Reclaiming the Distinctiveness of Wesley’s Communion Spirituality in Times of Divisiveness

By: Stephen P. West

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Something Happens Here

Reclaiming the Distinctiveness of Wesley’s Communion Spirituality in Times of Divisiveness

By: Stephen P. West

The United Methodist Church is at a crossroads, and nothing is more important than reclaiming our sacramental distinctiveness in times of great divisiveness. This book takes a fresh look at Wesley's core teachings on the Lord's Supper, letting each unique feature of Wesley's communion theology become a lens to navigate troubled waters. The author explores the historical background of each characteristic, finds evidence in writings of John and Charles Wesley, and applies them to the struggles of present-day United Methodism. He concludes with signs of life emerging in divisive and uncertain times, as people come back to the table to move forward into the future.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666799939

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David and Michelangelo

Heart and Stone

By: Dr. Stephen Harrison

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David and Michelangelo

Heart and Stone

By: Dr. Stephen Harrison

The artist Michelangelo immortalized the image of David, using everyday tools to depict this man after God’s own heart. Yet while Michelangelo’s David offers us a full view of David the man, the scriptures offer us a full image of his heart and soul. So can David match the image depicted by Michelangelo? Can David match our own image of him? And can David match the heart of God? In David and Michelangelo: Heart and Stone, authors Dr. Stephen Harrison and Richard Huizinga seek to identify the traits that justify the “heart of God” as an early descriptor of David. By exploring the life and trials of David—his successes as well as his failures—we can get a complete picture of this man after God’s own heart, learning in the process how we too can always seek God despite our imperfections. The heart after God’s own is that portion of ourselves that remains attracted to God despite our flaws. By exploring the enduring image and character of David, we can begin to chip away at the image we had in order to find that heart of David that is man after God’s own heart.

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WestBow Press

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1973646560

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Game Theory in Action

An Introduction to Classical and Evolutionary Models

By: Stephen Schecter,Herbert Gintis

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Game Theory in Action

An Introduction to Classical and Evolutionary Models

By: Stephen Schecter,Herbert Gintis

The essential textbook for learning game theory strategies Game Theory in Action is a textbook about using game theory across a range of real-life scenarios. From traffic accidents to the sex lives of lizards, Stephen Schecter and Herbert Gintis show students how game theory can be applied in diverse areas including animal behavior, political science, and economics. The book's examples and problems look at such fascinating topics as crime-control strategies, climate-change negotiations, and the power of the Oracle at Delphi. The text includes a substantial treatment of evolutionary game theory, where strategies are not chosen through rational analysis, but emerge by virtue of being successful. This is the side of game theory that is most relevant to biology; it also helps to explain how human societies evolve. Aimed at students who have studied basic calculus and some differential equations, Game Theory in Action is the perfect way to learn the concepts and practical tools of game theory. Aimed at students who have studied calculus and some differential equations Examples are drawn from diverse scenarios, ranging from traffic accidents to the sex lives of lizards A substantial treatment of evolutionary game theory Useful problem sets at the end of each chapter

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Princeton University Press

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1400880882

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Best Practices for Environmental Project Teams

By: Stephen Massey

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Best Practices for Environmental Project Teams

By: Stephen Massey

Best Practices for Environmental Project Teams" provides project managers and their teams, government managers, and regulatory agencies with practical guidelines for continuously improving performance. Project managers and team members can pick from a variety of chapter topics, stated as Actions, to address existing skill gaps with practical tools and guidelines.

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044453721X

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We AinÕt What We Ought To Be

The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama

By: Stephen Tuck

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We AinÕt What We Ought To Be

The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama

By: Stephen Tuck

In this exciting revisionist history, Stephen Tuck traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to President ObamaÕs inauguration. As it moves from popular culture to high politics, from the Deep South to New England, the West Coast, and abroad, Tuck weaves gripping stories of ordinary black peopleÑas well as celebrated figuresÑinto the sweep of racial protest and social change. The drama unfolds from an armed march of longshoremen in postÐCivil War Baltimore to Booker T. WashingtonÕs founding of Tuskegee Institute; from the race riots following Jack JohnsonÕs Òfight of the centuryÓ to Rosa ParksÕ refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus; and from the rise of hip hop to the journey of a black Louisiana grandmother to plead with the Tokyo directors of a multinational company to stop the dumping of toxic waste near her home. We AinÕt What We Ought To Be rejects the traditional narrative that identifies the Southern non-violent civil rights movement as the focal point of the black freedom struggle. Instead, it explores the dynamic relationships between those seeking new freedoms and those looking to preserve racial hierarchies, and between grassroots activists and national leaders. As Tuck shows, strategies were ultimately contingent on the power of activists to protest amidst shifting economic and political circumstances in the U.S. and abroad. This book captures an extraordinary journey that speaks to all AmericansÑboth past and future.

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Harvard University Press

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0674062299

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9780674062290

Genre and Hollywood

By: Stephen Neale

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Genre and Hollywood

By: Stephen Neale

Steve Neale here discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western.

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Psychology Press

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0415026067

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Knowledge under Construction

The Importance of Play in Developing Children's Spatial and Geometric Thinking

By: Daniel Ness,Stephen J. Farenga

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Knowledge under Construction

The Importance of Play in Developing Children's Spatial and Geometric Thinking

By: Daniel Ness,Stephen J. Farenga

Knowledge under Construction investigates how young children develop spatial, geometric, and scientific thinking skills-particularly those associated with architecture. Based on original research and analysis of videotapes of children's play with blocks, the authors' findings suggest that such play is anything but pointless. Their conclusions fill in gaps in our current understanding of how children learn to think spatially and scientifically even while challenging portions of that understanding, including some of Piaget's thesis about the primacy of topological space in children's learning. A system of measurement developed to identify and categorize children's spontaneous behavior at play allows adults to observe patterns of behavior as children play and record the development of process skills and cognitive abilities, enhancing our understanding of how children begin to learn about space and architectural relationships. The book also examines the educational implications of our enhanced understanding. One possible development is a new, alternative way to measure cognitive abilities and development in children based on their work with blocks.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461638534

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Absolute Expert: Dinosaurs

By: Lela Nargi,Stephen Brusatte

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Absolute Expert: Dinosaurs

By: Lela Nargi,Stephen Brusatte

A guide to dinosaurs reveals some of the latest finds from the field, along with information on such favorites as Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops.

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National Geographic Books

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1426331401

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The Fiction of Postmodernity

By: Stephen Baker

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The Fiction of Postmodernity

By: Stephen Baker

The Fiction of Postmodernity is a significant and accessible study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodern. Contemporary works of fiction by novelists such as Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Pynchon, and Martin Amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the "culture industry," analyses of the "postmodern condition," and theories of simulacra. The work of influential theorists of the postmodern--such as Theodor Adorno, Jean-François Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Jean Baudrillard--is explained and compared. The book offers descriptions of the postmodern from both the Marxist critical tradition and from the perspective of postmarxism. Key features in both these definitions are explained in relation to modernist and postmodern works of fiction. Issues relating to the postmodern representation of history and the development of a postmodern politics are also addressed in relation to works of contemporary fiction.

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074250199X

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Saucer: Savage Planet

A Novel

By: Stephen Coonts

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Saucer: Savage Planet

A Novel

By: Stephen Coonts

Full of UFO's, futuristic technology, edge-of-your-seat flying scenes and unforgettable characters, human and otherwise, Stephen Coonts' Savage Planet is classic storytelling at its best . . . and pure, unadulterated fun. Aliens are coming! A year after young engineering student Rip Cantrell discovered the first flying saucer buried deep in the sands of the Sahara, another saucer is brought up from the bottom of the Atlantic. The recovery is funded by a pharmaceutical executive who believes that the saucer holds the key to an anti-aging drug formula that space travelers would need to voyage between galaxies. But one of his technicians, Adam Solo, an alien marooned on Earth for a thousand years, steals the saucer, hoping to summon a starship to rescue him. Unfortunately, the stolen saucer has damaged communications gear. Solo goes to Rip Cantrell and his partner, ex-Air Force test pilot Charlotte "Charley" Pine, and Rip's uncle Egg, for help in summoning a starship. Meanwhile, as a terrified world fearful of space invaders approaches meltdown, big pharma moguls and their thugs are hot on the trail of the foursome. In a world turned upside down, it may be the arriving aliens who offer limitless possibilities. Rip and Charley face an incredible decision: Do they dare leave the safety of earth to travel into the great wilderness of the universe?

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True to Life Elementary Class Book

English for Adult Learners

By: Joanne Collie,Stephen Slater

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English for Adult Learners

By: Joanne Collie,Stephen Slater

True to Life is a five level course designed specifically for adult learners.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521421403

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Animal Farm Usa

A Cautionary Tale

By: Stephen Kloepfer

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Animal Farm Usa

A Cautionary Tale

By: Stephen Kloepfer

A noble experiment in animal self-rule has ended badly. After the animals rebelled and overthrew the owner of a small farm in England, the pigs seized all power at the farm and terrorized the other animals more harshly than their human owner ever had. Snowball, the brave Gloucester boar who helped plan and execute the Rebellion, escapes assassination and plots a counter-rebellion that will rekindle the dream of a farm run solely for the benefit of the animals–and where no pig or human will rule over them. Snowball has a big job ahead of him. Not only must he enlist his animal comrades to join the counter-rebellion; he must also negotiate with human leaders to establish animal-led communities in the United States and elsewhere. After many years of hard-won progress, the citizens of Animal Farm USA elect their first pig president and history repeats itself, both as tragedy and farce. The citizens of Animal Farm USA learn hard lessons about how even a mature democracy can be subverted by malign forces from within and without. Animal Farm USA is in the long tradition of political satires embodying Lord Acton’s timeless truth: power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Archway Publishing

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1480890081

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Eisenhower Volume II

The President

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

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Eisenhower Volume II

The President

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen E. Ambrose draws upon extensive sources, an unprecedented degree of scholarship, and numerous interviews with Dwight D. Eisenhower himself to offer the fullest, richest, and most objective rendering yet of the soldier who became president. Eisenhower: The President, the second and concluding volume of Stephen Ambrose's brilliant biography, is the first assessment of a postwar President based on access to the entire record. It covers a wide range of subjects, including Eisenhower's rejection of the near-unanimous advice he received as President to use atomic weapons; his thinking on defense policy and the Cold War; his handling of a multitude of foreign-affairs crises; his attitudes and actions on civil rights; his views on Joseph McCarthy and on communism. Also illuminated are Eisenhower's relations with Nixon, Truman, Khrushchev, de Gaulle, and other world leaders. Ambrose provides us with an extraordinary portrait—fairminded and enormously well-informed—of the man, both decent and complex, who is increasingly regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest Presidents.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476745870

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True to Life Elementary Teacher's Book

English for Adult Learners

By: Joanne Collie,Stephen Slater

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English for Adult Learners

By: Joanne Collie,Stephen Slater

True to Life is a five level course designed specifically for adult learners.

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052142142X

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Viv "and the Geordie Mafia"

By: Stephen Richards

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Viv "and the Geordie Mafia"

By: Stephen Richards

Featuring interviews with those close to the Geordie Godfather who was gunned down in a gangland hit, this book is the follow up to Viv (Graham) - 'Simply the Best'. It reveals stories of Graham's life and of his murder, and includes a comparison between nightclubs in Liverpool and Newcastle.

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Mirage Publishing

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1902578015

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Today’s Prayer

Praying Through the Scriptures

By: Stephen Kyeyune

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Today’s Prayer

Praying Through the Scriptures

By: Stephen Kyeyune

This book is written to all kinds of people because all of us need to pray. Praying means asking. None of us is exempted from praying because we are all dependants in one way or another. Everything that is not God depends on God. We are inadequate because there is no time we don’t have expectations to meet. We have shared human desires. For example, everyone needs to be loved. We are all exclusively dependants on God because the desires of the human heart can only be found in the Lord. Trying to fix things apart from God is the recipe of failure. Praying is the greatest fellowship with God. We pray to the ‘all-sufficient’ God because we are insufficient by ourselves. Humanity with all human resources cannot save or fulfill itself. Our desires are endless and are constantly changing. For example, our eyes are never satisfied with seeing; we always want to see something new. Our ears are never satisfied with hearing; we always want to hear the current news. Likewise, the soul is never tired of yearning for the transcendent. People take different avenues when seeking for fulfillment but only those who have discovered the power of prayer experience true fulfillment. We are called to pray unceasingly because there is constantly a feeling of emptiness when we do not communicate with God. Emptiness is the reality of the void that colonized the heart, which was once a sacred space occupied by the Divine. Praying is to be intimate with God; it is having God’s ear and eye in order to see the earthly things from the heavenly perspective.

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AuthorHouse

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1728312698

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One on One: The Best Monologues for Mature Actors

By: Stephen Fife

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One on One: The Best Monologues for Mature Actors

By: Stephen Fife

(Applause Acting Series). While contemporary culture may be fixated on youthful sex appeal, the most complex and interesting characters in dramatic literature have been (and still are) those over 40 years old. Whether it's Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman , Gorgeous Teitelbaum in Wendy Wasserstein's Sisters Rosenzweig , or Troy the former big leaguer in August Wilson's Fences , these characters have a texture and a gravitas that can't be found in younger roles. This volume selects from classical sources like Euripides' Medea and Shakespeare's King Lear , as well as contemporary ones like Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage , Christopher Durang's Vonya and Sonia and Masha and Spike , and David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People , to provide a challenging and enriching experience for both the dedicated professional and the inquisitive amateur.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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1480397156

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George and the Big Bang

By: Stephen Hawking,Lucy Hawking

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George and the Big Bang

By: Stephen Hawking,Lucy Hawking

Explore how the universe began—and thwart evil along the way—in this cosmic adventure from Stephen and Lucy Hawking that includes a graphic novel. George has problems. He has twin baby sisters at home who demand his parents’ attention. His beloved pig Freddy has been exiled to a farm, where he’s miserable. And worst of all, his best friend, Annie, has made a new friend whom she seems to like more than George. So George jumps at the chance to help Eric with his plans to run a big experiment in Switzerland that seeks to explore the earliest moment of the universe. But there is a conspiracy afoot, and a group of evildoers is planning to sabotage the experiment. Can George repair his friendship with Annie and piece together the clues before Eric’s experiment is destroyed forever? This engaging adventure features essays by Professor Stephen Hawking and other eminent physicists about the origins of the universe and ends with a twenty-page graphic novel that explains how the Big Bang happened—in reverse!

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Simon and Schuster

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1442440074

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Here Comes Another Lesson

Stories

By: Stephen O'Connor

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Here Comes Another Lesson

Stories

By: Stephen O'Connor

STEPHEN O’CONNOR IS ONE OF TODAY’S MOST GIFTED AND ORIGINAL WRITERS. In Here Comes Another Lesson, O’Connor, whose stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, and many other places, fearlessly depicts a world that no longer quite makes sense. Ranging from the wildly inventive to the vividly realistic, these brilliant stories offer tender portraits of idealists who cannot live according to their own ideals and of lovers baffled by the realities of love. The story lines are unforgettable: A son is followed home from work by his dead father. God instructs a professor of atheism to disseminate updated Commandments. The Minotaur is awakened to his own humanity by the computer-game-playing "new girl" who has been brought to him for supper. A recently returned veteran longs for the utterly ordinary life he led as a husband and father before being sent to Iraq. An ornithologist, forewarned by a cormorant of the exact minute of his death, struggles to remain alert to beauty and joy. As playful as it is lyrical, Here Comes Another Lesson celebrates human hopefulness and laments a sane and gentle world that cannot exist.

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1439195005

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Delphi Complete Works of Stephen Leacock (Illustrated)

By: Stephen Leacock

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Delphi Complete Works of Stephen Leacock (Illustrated)

By: Stephen Leacock

The internationally acclaimed Canadian humorist, Stephen Leacock produced over thirty books of light-hearted sketches and essays. The beguiling fantasies and hilarious tales of ‘Literary Lapses’ (1910), ‘Nonsense Novels’ (1911) and ‘Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town’ (1912) helped launch Leacock’s career as a master writer of humour. He also produced learned and well-researched non-fiction books, including important historical works on his beloved home of Canada and reviews of literary figures. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Leacock’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Leacock’s life and works * All 27 short story collections, with individual contents tables * Features rare books appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including ‘Hellements of Hickonomics’ * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare non-fiction works available in no other collection, including ‘How to Write’ and ‘Our British Empire’ * Includes Leacock’s play and autobiography * Features Peter McArthur’s seminal biography – discover Leacock’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Fiction Literary Lapses Nonsense Novels Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Behind the Beyond Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy Further Foolishness Essays and Literary Studies Frenzied Fiction The Hohenzollerns in America Winsome Winnie My Discovery of England College Days Over the Footlights The Garden of Folly Winnowed Wisdom Short Circuits The Iron Man and the Tin Woman Laugh with Leacock The Dry Pickwick Afternoons in Utopia Hellements of Hickonomics in Hiccoughs of Verse Done in Our Social Planning Mill Model Memoirs Too Much College My Remarkable Uncle Happy Stories Last Leaves The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Play “Q”: A Farce in One Act The Non-Fiction Elements of Political Science Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks: Responsible Government Adventurers of the Far North The Dawn of Canadian History The Mariner of St. Malo The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice Mackenzie, Baldwin, Lafontaine, Hincks Economic Prosperity in the British Empire Mark Twain Charles Dickens: His Life and Work Humor: Its Theory and Technique, with Examples and Samples The Greatest Pages of American Humor Humor and Humanity Here Are My Lectures My Discovery of the West Our British Empire Canada: The Foundations of Its Future Our Heritage of Liberty Montreal: Seaport and City Canada and the Sea While There is Time How to Write The Autobiography The Boy I Left Behind Me The Biography Stephen Leacock by Peter McArthur Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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1786564068

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GED®Test, REA's Total Solution for the GED® Test, 2nd Edition

By: Laurie Callihan,Lisa Mullins,Stacey A. Kiggins ,Stephen Reiss

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GED®Test, REA's Total Solution for the GED® Test, 2nd Edition

By: Laurie Callihan,Lisa Mullins,Stacey A. Kiggins ,Stephen Reiss

Comprehensive GED study guide that includes online diagnostic tests for each subject, comprehensive review, and two full-length practice tests. -- Adapted from back cover.

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Research & Education Assoc.

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0738612170

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9780738612171

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