Anything you need to know? Just ask me. I'm Marcy!"In Award Winners, Marcy and Bella have been busy. An unexpected letter arrives, followed by Senior Reporter Fred Hound. Are Marcy and Bella in trouble or are they going to be pleasantly surprised?Marcy, the lead female character from the Toocool books, now has her own series due to student and teacher demand. Marcy has a go at everything - there is no challenge too large! Marcy's positive attitude, self-confidence and candid humour are contagious. With best friend Bella in tow, Marcy's adventures will capture the imagination of young readers.
Global lawmaking by international organizations holds the potential for enormous influence over world trade and national economies. Representatives from states, industries, and professions produce laws for worldwide adoption in an effort to alter state lawmaking and commercial behaviors, whether of giant multi-national corporations or micro, small and medium-sized businesses. Who makes that law and who benefits affects all states and all market players. Global Lawmakers offers the first extensive empirical study of commercial lawmaking within the United Nations. It shows who makes law for the world, how they make it, and who comes out ahead. Using extensive and unique data, the book investigates three episodes of lawmaking between the late 1990s and 2012. Through its original socio-legal orientation, it reveals dynamics of competition, cooperation and competitive cooperation within and between international organizations, including the UN, World Bank, IMF and UNIDROIT, as these IOs craft international laws. Global Lawmakers proposes an original theory of international organizations that seek to construct transnational legal orders within social ecologies of lawmaking. The book concludes with an appraisal of creative global governance by the UN in international commerce over the past fifty years and examines prospective challenges for the twenty-first century.
When Marcy challenges Principal Polly Parrott to a netball match on the last day of term, Marcy is sure the students will win. But the teachers are confident. Marcy and her team are nervous as they head off to school for a day to remember. Anything you need to know? Just ask me. I'm Marcy!
Cold toast, late for school, unexpected visitors in the classroom, soccer game disaster with Mr Wexford, stuck in the classroom with Toocool and Spike -- could Marcy's day get any worse?
Anything you need to know? Just ask me. I'm Marcy!"In Quiz Champs, the class has been divided into two teams and Marcy is the Captain of the Girls' Team. Having collected facts all week it's boys versus girls. Who will win the class quiz?Marcy, the lead female character from the Toocool books, now has her own series due to student and teacher demand. Marcy has a go at everything - there is no challenge too large! Marcy's positive attitude, self-confidence and candid humour are contagious. With best friend Bella in tow, Marcy's adventures will capture the imagination of young readers.
Marcy's tea, takes on the Rough Heads in the softball challenge at the park. The scores are level and the bases are loaded. Can Marcy bat Purple Kaos to victory?
Anything you need to know? Just ask me. I'm Marcy!"As a new Dog Squad member, Marcy is keen to find every lost dog a new home. But the new homes have to come with new owners, and they have to answer all of Marcy's important questions.Marcy, the lead female character from the Toocool books, now has her own series due to student and teacher demand. Marcy has a go at everything - there is no challenge too large! Marcy's positive attitude, self-confidence and candid humour are contagious. With best friend Bella in tow, Marcy's adventures will capture the imagination of young readers.
True love, freedom, money, danger... Dreams and desires of the ordinary woman, or man. From a battered woman rediscovering freedom to an actress finding more on a set than expected to a treasure seeker stumbling upon something else to a taxi driver in search of danger, this collection of nineteen stories celebrates the attainment of all one can dream or desire. Which one do you secretly yearn for? By purchasing this collection, you can help turn someone's nightmare into the pursuit of dreams. Every year, four million women are assaulted by their partners. At Freya's Bower, we want to do our part to bring this statistic down to zero. To this end, all net proceeds from every Dreams and Desire anthology purchased will go to a battered woman's shelter. Through education and support, we can make a difference. Authors (in alphabetical order of last name): C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp, Jenna Bayley-Burke, Amanda Brice, Shannon Canard, Sela Carsen, Rachelle Chase, M.E. Ellis, Jenny Gardiner, Gemma Halliday, Candace Havens, Zinnia Hope, Babe King, Susan Lyons, Sarah Salway, Rhonda Stapleton, Bebe Thomas, Emily Veinglory, Lois Winston, and Shaunna Wolf.
True love, freedom, money, knowledge, revenge... Dreams and desires of the ordinary woman, or man. From best friends who discover love to a bank teller who exacts revenge to a succubus who loves art more than men, this collection of nineteen stories celebrates the attainment of all one can dream or desire. Which one do you secretly yearn for? By purchasing this collection, you can help turn someone's nightmare into the pursuit of dreams. Every year, four million women are assaulted by their partners. At Freya's Bower, we want to do our part to bring this statistic down to zero. To this end, all net proceeds from every Dreams and Desire anthology purchased will go to a battered woman's shelter. Through education and support, we can make a difference.
Anything you need to know? Just ask me. I'm Marcy!"In Thirteen Dolphins, Marcy and Bella watch the dolphins play in the surf, unaware that they are soon to make a discovery that will shock everyone, and save a life.Marcy, the lead female character from the Toocool books, now has her own series due to student and teacher demand. Marcy has a go at everything - there is no challenge too large! Marcy's positive attitude, self-confidence and candid humour are contagious. With best friend Bella in tow, Marcy's adventures will capture the imagination of young readers.
Marcy and her friends collect tadpoles for the new frog pond at the park. One month later, the frogs are making more noise than Toocool's band. Can Marcy find out why?
Cold toast, late for school, unexpected visitors in the classroom, soccer game disaster with Mr Wexford, stuck in the classroom with Toocool and Spike -- could Marcy's day get any worse?
When Marcy challenges Principal Polly Parrott to a netball match on the last day of term, Marcy is sure the students will win. But the teachers are confident. Marcy and her team are nervous as they head off to school for a day to remember. Anything you need to know? Just ask me. I'm Marcy!
Our Bodies, Ourselves, first published by a mainstream press in 1973, is now in its eighth major edition. It has been translated into twenty-nine languages, has generated a number of related projects, and, with over four million copies sold, is as popular as ever. This study tells the story of the first two decades of the pioneering best-seller—a collectively produced guide to women's health—from its earliest, most experimental and revolutionary years, when it sought to construct a new, female public sphere, to its 1984 revision, when some of the problems it first posed were resolved and the book took the form it has held to this day. Wells undertakes a rhetorical and sociological analysis of the best-seller and of the work of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective that produced it. In the 1960s and 1970s, as social movements were on the rise and many women entered higher education, new writing practices came into existence. In the pages of Our Bodies, Ourselves, matters that had been private became public. Readers, encouraged to trust their own experiences, began to participate in a conversation about health and medicine. The writers of Our Bodies, Ourselves researched medical texts and presented them in colloquial language. Drafting and revising in groups, they invented new ways of organizing the task of writing. Above all, they presented medical information by telling stories. We learn here how these stories were organized, and how the writers drew readers into investigating both their own bodies and the global organization of medical care. Extensive archival research and interviews with the members of the authorial collective shed light on a grassroots undertaking that revolutionized the writing of health books and forever changed the relationship between health experts and ordinary women.
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