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Whether they are triumphing in The Worm Olympics Game or convincing all of the others that chickens can do more than chickens have ever done before, Gracie and Bessie are inseparable. But when the other chickens begin to move away to new homes, Gracie and Bessie are left with only each other. Who will be next? What if they are separated? Can they ever find new friends?And what will they do when one of their new friends is a chicken named Pearl...

¿¿¿The Sewer Rat had been tormenting the chickens for days and days. He had become The Biggest Scary Thing for Gracie. Even though she has faced The Big Scary Thing and the Bigger Scary Thing, she is not sure what to do about The Biggest Scary Thing. But Gracie is the new leader of her flock, and she has to do something. She devises The Best Plan Ever that includes an ingenious invention called The Sewer Rat Eradicator. Will it prove that chic...

Whether it was triumphing in The Worm Olympics Game or convincing all of the others that chickens could do more kinds of dancing than chickens had always done, Gracie and Bessie were inseparable. When Bessie became the leader of their little flock, Gracie thought life could never be any better for them. Bessie would make sure they were safe, and Gracie would devote her time to dancing and learning all she could from The Living Library. But whe...

Whether it was triumphing in The Worm Olympics Game or convincing all of the others that chickens could do more kinds of dancing than chickens had always done, Gracie and Bessie were inseparable. When Bessie became the leader of their little flock, Gracie thought life could never be any better for them. Bessie would make sure they were safe, and Gracie would devote her time to dancing and learning all she could from The Living Library. But whe...

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Pearl simply could not figure out how to be a good normal chicken. Blanche was her best and only friend who would tell her, "You just have a heaping helping of what makes a chicken a chicken. That's all." After losing Blanche, Pearl's unstoppable curiosity leads her to explore her neighborhood to find out what Christmas is all about. She finds The Bottle Cap Lady's house which has more lights and decorations than any other in the neighborhood,...

John H. Spiers is Manager of Faculty Services, Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

This is a detective story about what happened next in the past. It prompts us to ask how we might know what we don't know we don't know. It is illustrated with 150 illustrations in colour. The work is focused on people and their inclinations, as book buyers and not only as book borrowers.

This is the innovative, trail-blazing enquiry into the importance, range, and history of the publishers' series in America and in Britain, by the leading expert in this field.

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Late-Victorian England ushered in a new phenomenon, a `mass' reading and book buying public. But it was a long time coming. How and when did this public ultimately emerge, and who reached it? Whose ambitions were achieved, and whose frustrated? What worked, and what didn't? How were the most popular publications created, marketed, and sold?

This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries.

This volume explores problems concerning the series, national development and the national canon in a range of countries and their international book-trade relationships. Studies focus on issues such as the fabrication of a national canon, and on the book in war-time, the evolution of Catholic literature, imperial traditions and colonial libraries.

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Late-Victorian England ushered in a new phenomenon, a 'mass' reading and book buying public. But it was a long time coming. How and when did this public ultimately emerge, and who reached it? Whose ambitions were achieved, and whose frustrated? What worked, and what didn't? How were the most popular publications created, marketed, and sold?

The critical challenges to the British NHS are the consequences of us all living longer, having to manage chronic conditions over time, expecting and demanding more, and being denied many innovative new drugs (notably, for cancer) which cannot be afforded at present by the too narrowly funded NHS. This needs to be changed, in line with more successful funding systems in Europe, Australia, and the Far East, where outcomes are much better than i...

Australia is a vast country in whose development transport played a vital role. At the end of World WarII Australia's road & rail transport systems remained slow, poorly equipped and inefficient due to legislation, air travel was in its infancy & expensive. In 1945 the privately owned coastal shipping industry providing passenger & cargo services to major cities around Australia's long coastline expected to resume its dominant transport role. ...

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