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A Taste of Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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A Taste of Chicken Soup for the Christian Soul

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

Did you ever have a moment when you felt like you were an instrument for a higher purpose? Like someone else was giving you the strength and courage to get through tough times or find a creative way to help someone in need? That's how we felt putting this book together, and our most fervent hope is that you receive as much from reading it as we did creating it. These stories are sure to inspire and amaze, to touch the heart and warm the soul.

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1453279423

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A Taste of Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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A Taste of Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

A true labor of love, this pockte-sized collection holds stories about people who chose hope over hopelessness, who extended a hand to someone in need, and who held fast to their faith when the odds were against them. We are confident that these inspiring stories will remind you about what's important in life—faith, kindness, compassion, and forgiveness—and encourage you to remember you are never alone.

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1453279261

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Crop Physiology

Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy

By: Victor Sadras,Daniel Calderini

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Crop Physiology

Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy

By: Victor Sadras,Daniel Calderini

From climate change to farming systems to genetic modification of organisms, Crop Physiology, Second Edition provides a practical tool for understanding the relationships and challenges of successful cropping. With a focus on genetic improvement and agronomy, this book addresses the challenges of environmentally sound production of bulk and quality food, fodder, fiber, and energy which are of ongoing international concern. The second edition of Crop Physiology continues to provide a unique analysis of these topics while reflecting important changes and advances in the relevant science and implementation systems. Contemporary agriculture confronts the challenge of increasing demand in terms of quantitative and qualitative production targets. These targets have to be achieved against the background of soil and water scarcity, worldwide and regional shifts in the patterns of land use driven by both climate change and the need to develop crop-based sources of energy, and the environmental and social aspects of agricultural sustainability. - Provides a view of crop physiology as an active source of methods, theories, ideas, and tools for application in genetic improvement and agronomy - Written by leading scientists from around the world - Combines environment-specific cropping systems and general principles of crop science to appeal to advanced students, and scientists in agriculture-related disciplines, from molecular sciences to natural resources management

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0124169791

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Analytical Techniques of Celestial Mechanics

By: Victor A. Brumberg

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Analytical Techniques of Celestial Mechanics

By: Victor A. Brumberg

The aim of this book is to describe contemporary analytical and semi analytical techniques for solving typical celestial-mechanics problems. The word "techniques" is used here as a term intermediate between "methods" and "recipes". One often conceives some method of solution of a problem as a general mathematical tool, while not taking much care with its computa tional realization. On the other hand, the word "recipes" may nowadays be understood in the sense of the well-known book Numerical Recipes (Press et al. , 1992), where it means both algorithms and their specific program realiza tion in Fortran, C or Pascal. Analytical recipes imply the use of some general or specialized computer algebra system (CAS). The number of different CAS currently employed in celestial mechanics is too large to specify just a few of the most preferable systems. Besides, it seems reasonable not to mix the essence of any algorithm with its particular program implementation. For these reasons, the analytical techniques of this book are to be regarded as algorithms to be implemented in different ways depending on the hardware and software available. The book was preceded by Analytical Algorithms of Celestial Mechanics by the same author, published in Russian in 1980. In spite of there being much common between these books, the present one is in fact a new mono graph.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642794548

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Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs

By: Ruben Vardanyan,Victor Hruby

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Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs

By: Ruben Vardanyan,Victor Hruby

Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs is a key reference guide for all those involved with the design, development, and use of the best-selling drugs. Designed for ease of use, this book provides detailed information on the most popular drugs, using a practical layout arranged according to drug type. Each chapter reviews the main drugs in each of nearly 40 key therapeutic areas, also examining their classification, novel structural features, models of action, and synthesis. Of high interest to all those who work in the captivating areas of biologically active compounds and medicinal drug synthesis, in particular medicinal chemists, biochemists, and pharmacologists, the book aims to support current research efforts, while also encouraging future developments in this important field. - Describes methods of synthesis, bioactivity and related drugs in key therapeutic areas - Reviews the main drugs in each of nearly 40 key therapeutic areas, also examining their classification, novel structural features, models of action, and more - Presents a practical layout designed for use as a quick reference tool by those working in drug design, development and implementation

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Academic Press

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0124115241

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Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

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By: Paul Tornetta III,William M. Ricci,Robert F. Ostrum,Michael D. McKee,Benjamin J. Ollivere,Victor A. de Ridder

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Rockwood and Green's Fractures in Adults

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By: Paul Tornetta III,William M. Ricci,Robert F. Ostrum,Michael D. McKee,Benjamin J. Ollivere,Victor A. de Ridder

Since its first edition over 60 years ago, Rockwood and Green’s Fractures in Adults has been the go-to reference for treating a wide range of fractures in adult patients. The landmark, two-volume tenth edition continues this tradition with two new international editors, a refreshed mix of contributors, and revised content throughout, bringing you fully up to date with today’s techniques and technologies for treating fractures in orthopaedics. Drs. Paul Tornetta III, William M. Ricci, Robert F. Ostrum, Michael D. McKee, Benjamin J. Ollivere, and Victor A. de Ridder lead a team of experts who ensure that the most up-to-date information is presented in a comprehensive yet easy to digest manner.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975211618

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9781975211615

Global Warming Gridlock

Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet

By: David G. Victor

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Global Warming Gridlock

Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet

By: David G. Victor

Global warming is one of today's greatest challenges. The science of climate change leaves no doubt that policies to cut emissions are overdue. Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this. David G. Victor argues that such gridlock has arisen because international talks have drifted away from the reality of what countries are willing and able to implement at home. Most of the lessons that policy makers have drawn from the history of other international environmental problems won't actually work on the problem of global warming. Victor argues that a radical rethinking of global warming policy is required and shows how to make international law on global warming more effective. This book provides a roadmap to a lower carbon future based on encouraging bottom-up initiatives at national, regional and global levels, leveraging national self-interest rather than wishful thinking.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139496824

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Keith Richards: The Unauthorised Biography

By: Victor Bockris

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Keith Richards: The Unauthorised Biography

By: Victor Bockris

Victor Bockris’s much admired biography of Keith Richards has been constantly revised since its original publication, now with an additional 12,000 words for a new edition of the Omnibus Press paperback that brings the story up to the present day. First published in eight countries in 1992, at that time Keith Richrds had stood in the shadow of Mick Jagger for thirty years. Then, as a result of Victor Bockris biography, Richards was put in the spotlight and emerged as the power behind the throne, the creator, the backbone, and the soul of the Rolling Stones. Here are the true facts behind Richards’ battles with his demons: the women, the drugs and the love-hate-relationship with Jagger. His struggle with heroin and his status as the rock star most likely to die in the 1970s. His scarcely believable rebirth as a family man in the 1980s. Illuminated with revealing quotes and thoughtful insights into the man behind the band that goes on forever.

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0857128469

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Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change

By: Sam J. Purkis,Victor V. Klemas

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Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change

By: Sam J. Purkis,Victor V. Klemas

Remote Sensing plays a key role in monitoring the various manifestations of global climate change. It is used routinely in the assessment and mapping of biodiversity over large areas, in the monitoring of changes to the physical environment, in assessing threats to various components of natural systems, and in the identification of priority areas for conservation. This book presents the fundamentals of remote sensing technology, but rather than containing lengthy explanations of sensor specifications and operation, it concentrates instead on the application of the technology to key environmental systems. Each system forms the basis of a separate chapter, and each is illustrated by real world case studies and examples. Readership The book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in earth science, environmental science, or physical geography taking a course in environmental remote sensing. It will also be an invaluable reference for environmental scientists and managers who require an overview of the use of remote sensing in monitoring and mapping environmental change at regional and global scales. Additional resources for this book can be found at: http://www.wiley.com/go/purkis/remote.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444339354

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Notebooks: 1936-1947

By: Victor Serge

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Notebooks: 1936-1947

By: Victor Serge

Available for the first time, Victor Serge's intimate account of the last decade of his life gives a vivid look into the Franco-Russian revolutionary's life, from his liberation from Stalin's Russia to his "Mexico Years," when he wrote his greatest works. In 1936, Victor Serge—poet, novelist, and revolutionary—left the Soviet Union for Paris, the rare opponent of Stalin to escape the Terror. In 1940, after the Nazis marched into Paris, Serge fled France for Mexico, where he would spend the rest of his life. His years in Mexico were marked by isolation, poverty, peril, and grief; his Notebooks, however, brim with resilience, curiosity, outrage, a passionate love of life, and superb writing. Serge paints haunting portraits of Osip Mandelstam, Stefan Zweig, and “the Old Man” Trotsky; argues with André Breton; and, awaiting his wife’s delayed arrival from Europe, writes her passionate love letters. He describes the sweep of the Mexican landscape, visits an erupting volcano, and immerses himself in the country’s history and culture. He looks back on his life and the fate of the Revolution. He broods on the course of the war and the world to come after. In the darkest of circumstances, he responds imaginatively, thinks critically, feels deeply, and finds reason to hope. Serge’s Notebooks were discovered in 2010 and appear here for the first time in their entirety in English. They are a a message in a bottle from one of the great spirits, and great writers, of our shipwrecked time.

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New York Review of Books

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1681372703

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The Lord of Uraniborg

A Biography of Tycho Brahe

By: Victor E. Thoren,John Robert Christianson

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The Lord of Uraniborg

A Biography of Tycho Brahe

By: Victor E. Thoren,John Robert Christianson

The Lord of Uraniborg is a comprehensive biography of Tycho Brahe, father of modern astronomy, famed alchemist and littérateur of the sixteenth-century Danish Renaissance. Written in a lively and engaging style, Victor Thoren's biography offers interesting perspectives on Tycho's life and presents alternative analyses of virtually every aspect of his scientific work. A range of readers interested in astronomy, history of astronomy and the history of science will find this book fascinating.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521351588

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Children, Adolescents, and the Media

By: Victor C. Strasburger,Barbara J. Wilson,Amy B. Jordan

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Children, Adolescents, and the Media

By: Victor C. Strasburger,Barbara J. Wilson,Amy B. Jordan

Up-to-date and case-study laden analysis of how children and adolescents interact with the media.

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SAGE

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1412944678

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Spectroscopy of Rubbers and Rubbery Materials

By: Victor M. Litvinov,Prajna P. De

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Spectroscopy of Rubbers and Rubbery Materials

By: Victor M. Litvinov,Prajna P. De

This book deals with the application of spectroscopic techniques for characterisation of chemical and physical structures in viscoelastic materials, such as unvulcanised elastomers and their vulcanisates, various rubbery materials and some plastics, which when blended with particular additives (plasticisers) behave like rubbers. Analysis of the rubbery materials is complicated by the fact that rubbery products, such as tyres, tubes, seals, V-belts and hoses, contain in the rubbery matrix a significant amount of various compounds, i.e., fillers, vulcanising agents, antioxidants and plasticisers. Due to the complex composition, no single technique can provide a good understanding of the effect of chemical and physical structures on the functional properties of rubbery materials. Thus spectroscopy has become a powerful tool for the determination of polymer structures. The most comprehensive information on chemical and physical structures in relation to material properties can be obtained by using a combination of macroscopic techniques and methods that provide information on the molecular level. frequently used for analysis of rubbery materials, i.e., various methods of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and optical spectroscopy. The main objective of this present book is to discuss a wide range of applications of the spectroscopic techniques for the analysis of rubbery materials. The book brings together the various spectroscopic techniques for obtaining the following information: chemical structure of rubbery materials, network structure analysis, heterogeneity of rubbery materials, physical properties of rubbery materials, functional properties and stability of rubbery materials, processing of rubbery materials and quality control. The contents of this book are of interest to chemists, physicists, material scientists and technologists who seek a better understanding of rubbery materials.

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iSmithers Rapra Publishing

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1859572804

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The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy

We're All Dead

By: Victor V. Claar,Greg Forster

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The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy

We're All Dead

By: Victor V. Claar,Greg Forster

This book considers the cultural legacy of the Keynesian Revolution in economics. It assesses the impact of Keynes and Keynesian thinking upon economics and policy, as well as the response of the Chicago and Austrian schools, and the legacy of all three in shaping economic life. The book is a call to restore economics to its roots in moral and cultural knowledge, reminding us that human beings are more than consumers. The Keynesian Revolution taught us that we should be happy if we are prosperous, but instead we feel hollow and morally anxious – our economy feels empty. Drawing on paradigms from earlier historical periods while affirming modern market systems, this book encourages a return to a view of human beings as persons with the right and responsibility to discover, and do, the things in life that are intrinsically good and enduring. Because in the long run, the legacy of our choices will continue long after “we’re all dead.”

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303015808X

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Chicken Soup for the Military Wife's Soul

101 Stories to Touch the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Military Wife's Soul

101 Stories to Touch the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

A tribute to the women who uphold the written and unwritten oaths of service and of marriage.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453276424

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Keith Richards

The Biography

By: Victor Bockris

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Keith Richards

The Biography

By: Victor Bockris

In 1992, Victor Bockris's celebrated biography was the first to recognize Richards's pivotal role in the Stones' legend. Now that book on rock's most incredible survivor has been expanded to accommodate ten more years of his storied life.

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Da Capo Press

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0786740906

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The Other Greeks

The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization

By: Victor Davis Hanson

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The Other Greeks

The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization

By: Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Hanson shows that the "Greek revolution" was not the rise of a free and democratic urban culture, but rather the historic innovation of the independent family farm."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ of California Press

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0520209354

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9780520209350

Vascular Medicine

A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease

By: Mark A. Creager

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Vascular Medicine

A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease

By: Mark A. Creager

Integrates the understanding of vascular biology with reviews of pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. This comprehensive and clinically oriented coverage equips you to evaluate patients with a range of vascular diseases, and to implement the appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic strategies available.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0721602843

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Chicken Soup for the Woman Golfer's Soul

Stories About Trailblazing Women Who've Changed the Game Forever

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Woman Golfer's Soul

Stories About Trailblazing Women Who've Changed the Game Forever

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

A celebration of the exciting future and explosive growth taking place in women's golf-a powerful mix of hope, perspective, insight and humor for the fastest-growing segment of the game.

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Simon and Schuster

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1453274820

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Mendelian Inheritance in Man

Catalogs of Autosomal Dominant, Autosomal Recessive, and X-Linked Phenotypes

By: Victor A. McKusick

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Mendelian Inheritance in Man

Catalogs of Autosomal Dominant, Autosomal Recessive, and X-Linked Phenotypes

By: Victor A. McKusick

Mendelian Inheritance in Man: Catalogs of Autosomal Dominant, Autosomal Recessives, and X-Linked Phenotypes presents catalogs in connection with the genetics of the X chromosome. This book provides a catalog of dominant phenotypes and covers other entries, including anomalous hemoglobin, red cell antigenic types, leukocyte types, and serum protein types. This book begins with an overview of how to use the catalogs wherein two classes of entries have been made in each of the catalogs. This text then explains that each entry consists of three parts, namely, the preferred designation, a brief description of the phenotype with genetic information, and key references. This book discusses as well that in the case of recessives, manifestations in heterozygotes are usually listed. The reader is also introduced to the definition of dominant and recessive used in the preparation of the catalogs. This book is a valuable resource for experimental geneticists, physicians, and research workers.

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Elsevier

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1483194272

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Chicken Soup for the Nature Lover's Soul

Inspiring Stories of Joy, Insight and Adventure in the Great Outdoors

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Nature Lover's Soul

Inspiring Stories of Joy, Insight and Adventure in the Great Outdoors

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

For anyone who enjoys spending time in the great outdoors: hikers, mountain climbers, snowboarders, kayakers, campers, beach-lovers, tree-huggers and more.

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1453279377

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Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal Friends

Best, Worst, Old, New, Lost, False, True and More

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal Friends

Best, Worst, Old, New, Lost, False, True and More

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

Friends. You gotta have 'em, but sometimes they drive you crazy. You love 'em, but sometimes they make you mad. They'll help you through a crisis...unless they are the crisis. So What's the Deal? Friends are more than just the people you hang out with. They make you laugh, they keep your secrets, they offer advice (some good, some bad), they give you a shoulder to cry on. Sometimes they move away, or betray your trust, or flake out, but mostly they are the people who are always there for you. And they know you'll be there when they need you most. Because that's what it means to be a friend. Sometimes friendship is overwhelming, sometimes it's confusing, sometimes you feel like you don't have a friend in the world, but don't worry, it's like that for everyone. That's what the stories in this book are all about. They're from real teens, and they're about the bizarre, difficult and wonderful things that really happened to them and their friends. Put that together with weird facts, cool graphics, fun advice and quizzes designed to help you figure out what you and your friends are all about, and you've got the real deal on friendship!

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1453279598

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A Taste of Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

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A Taste of Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul

By: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen

Love is a many-splendored thing, a force so powerful that it can cut through time and distance to unite people as if with one heart. Everyone dreams of finding their One True Love, a soul mate with whome to share all of life's ups and down. And whether it's a love that stands the test of time or a love that burns like a candle but only for a little while, once touched by it we are never the same. Like love itself, these stories can make you laugh, make you cry, and make you hold your breath wondering what will happen next. We hope they touch you as deeply as they've touched us. And may your life always be blessed with love.

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1453279474

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Capitalizing a Cure

How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines

By: Victor Roy

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Capitalizing a Cure

How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines

By: Victor Roy

Capitalizing a Cure takes us into the struggle over accessing a medical breakthrough to investigate the power of finance over business, biomedicine, and public health. When sofosbuvir-based medicines launched in 2013, they promised a cure for millions of patients worldwide with hepatitis C. But their sticker shock-the drug was dubbed "the $1,000-a-day pill"-intensified a global debate over the pricing of new medicines. Weaving extensive historical research with insights from political economy and science and technology studies, Victor Roy demystifies an oft-missed dynamic in this debate: the reach of financialized capitalism into how medicines are made, priced, and valued. His account travels between public and private labs, Wall Street and corporate boardrooms, public health meetings and health centers to trace the ways sofosbuvir-based medicines became financial assets dominated by strategies of speculation and extraction at the expense of access and care. Provocative and sobering, this book illuminates the harmful impact of allowing financial markets to supersede democracy and human health and points to the necessary work of building more equitable futures"--

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0520388712

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From Solon to Socrates

Greek History and Civilization During the 6th and 5th Centuries BC

By: Victor Ehrenberg

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From Solon to Socrates

Greek History and Civilization During the 6th and 5th Centuries BC

By: Victor Ehrenberg

From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse range of political, economic, military and cultural issues in the Greek world, from the early history of the Greeks, including early Sparta and the wars with Persia, to the ascendancy of Athens and the Peloponnesian War.

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Routledge

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1136922539

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Aikido in Everyday Life

Giving in to Get Your Way

By: Terry Dobson,Victor Miller

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Aikido in Everyday Life

Giving in to Get Your Way

By: Terry Dobson,Victor Miller

Conflict is an unavoidable aspect of living. The late renowned aikido master Terry Dobson, together with Victor Miller, present aikido as a basis for conflict resolution. "Attack-tics" is a system of conflict resolution based on the principles of aikido, the non-violent martial art Morihei Ueshiba created after World War II. Not all conflicts are contests, say Dobson and Miller, and not all conflicts are equally threatening.

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North Atlantic Books

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1556431511

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Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours

By: Victor H Mair,Liam Kelley

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Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours

By: Victor H Mair,Liam Kelley

At a time when China–Southeast Asia relationships are undergoing profound changes, it is pleasing to have a volume which examines the interactions between China and the polities and societies to the south through time. With multiple aims of exploring the relations between northern Chinese cultures and those of the south, examining the cultural plurality of areas which are today parts of Southern China, and illuminating the relations between Sinitic and non-Sinitic societies, the volume is broad in concept and content. Within these extensive rubrics, this edited collection further interrogates the nature of Asian polities and their historiography, the constitution of Chineseness, imperial China’s southern expansions, cultural hybridity, economic relations, regional systems and ethnic interactions across East Asia. The editors Victor H. Mair and Liam C. Kelley are to be congratulated for bringing together such a wealth of contributions offering nascent interpretations and broad overviews, set within the overarching historical and contemporary contexts provided through Wang Gungwu’s introduction." -- Dr Geoffrey Wade, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University

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981462053X

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Second-Generation Fiscal Rules

Balancing Simplicity, Flexibility, and Enforceability

By: Luc Eyraud,Mr.Xavier Debrun,Andrew Hodge,Victor Duarte Lledo,Ms.Catherine A Pattillo

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Second-Generation Fiscal Rules

Balancing Simplicity, Flexibility, and Enforceability

By: Luc Eyraud,Mr.Xavier Debrun,Andrew Hodge,Victor Duarte Lledo,Ms.Catherine A Pattillo

Fiscal rule frameworks have evolved significantly in response to the global financial crisis. Many countries have reformed their fiscal rules or introduced new ones with a view to enhancing the credibility of fiscal policy and providing a medium-term anchor. Enforcement and monitoring mechanisms have also been upgraded. However, these innovations have made the systems of rules more complicated to operate, while compliance has not improved. The SDN takes stock of past experiences, reviews recent reforms, and presents new research on the effectiveness of rules. It also proposes guiding principles for future reforms to strike a better balance between simplicity, flexibility, and enforceability. Read the blog

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International Monetary Fund

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1484350936

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Savage Ecology

War and Geopolitics at the End of the World

By: Jairus Victor Grove

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Savage Ecology

War and Geopolitics at the End of the World

By: Jairus Victor Grove

Jairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that argues that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of international politics. Infusing international relations with the theoretical interventions of fields ranging from new materialism to political theory, Grove shows how political violence is the principal force behind climate change, mass extinction, slavery, genocide, extractive capitalism, and other catastrophes. Grove analyzes a variety of subjects—from improvised explosive devices and drones to artificial intelligence and brain science—to outline how geopolitics is the violent pursuit of a way of living that comes at the expense of others. Pointing out that much of the damage being done to the earth and its inhabitants stems from colonialism, Grove suggests that the Anthropocene may be better described by the term Eurocene. The key to changing the planet's trajectory, Grove proposes, begins by acknowledging both the earth-shaping force of geopolitical violence and the demands apocalypses make for fashioning new ways of living.

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Duke University Press

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1478005254

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Do Subnational Fiscal Rules Foster Fiscal Discipline? New Empirical Evidence from Europe

By: Ananya Kotia,Victor Duarte Lledo

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Do Subnational Fiscal Rules Foster Fiscal Discipline? New Empirical Evidence from Europe

By: Ananya Kotia,Victor Duarte Lledo

This paper studies how fiscal rules interact with the intergovernmental fiscal framework to foster fiscal discipline among European subnational governments. We use political variables describing the fiscal attitudes of the central government as instruments to obtain consistent estimates of the impact of subnational fiscal rules on fiscal balances. The results suggest that the discipline-enhancing effect of fiscal rules is weaker when there are large “vertical fiscal imbalances” that is, large differences in revenue and spending assignments across the different levels of government. These findings imply that separate reforms to reduce excessive vertical fiscal imbalances complement a rules-based fiscal framework that is aimed at fostering fiscal discipline.

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