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Biscuit doesn't want to play fetch the ball—until the ball lands in a mud puddle. Then Biscuit can't wait to show off his new trick!

Now reissued, this essential volume enables Tolkien fans to find their way through every part of his great creation. Includes hundreds of 2-color maps that show the battles, castles, landforms, climate, vegetation, and population of Tolkien's vivid landscape.

With winds that can reach speeds of three hundred miles an hour and funnel clouds that can measure a mile in diameter, tornadoes leave enormous damage in their wake. Now award-winning author Seymour Simon examines these twisting columns of air and destruction. With the clear, concise style he is noted for, Simon explains how tornadoes are formed, why and when they are most likely to occur, how scientists classify and track them -- and what to ...

No metropolis in America has more pure baseball spirit than St. Louis, Missouri. It's a love affair that began in 1874, when a band of local boosters raised $20, 000 to start a professional ball club, and the honeymoon still isn't over. Now Peter Golenbock, the bestselling author and master of baseball oral history, has written another remarkable saga enriched by extensive and incomparable remembrances from the scores of players, managers, and...

Protecting our beauty begins in our youth and continues throughout every age and stage of life", says Anne Louise Gittleman. This protection, according to her book, lies in nutrition, internal cleansing, and hormonal harmony. Her Living Beauty regimen is based on seven of these "beauty fundamentals". Illustrations. print features.

Everything good that happens in my house happens in my momma's kitchen".From the Saturdays when the aunts gather to make the biggest pot of soup in town to gathering round Gran Lee's stove on a cold winter afternoon, all kinds of fun and warm memories are cooked up in Momma's kitchen. Award-winning author Jerdine Nolen invites young readers to share in the joy of this most heartwarming of places. With glowing illustrations by Colin Bootman, In...

Even before you were born, I was your grandma and I loved you." A loving grandmother eagerly awaits the arrival of her grandchild. She dreams of the baby's soft sighs, sweet smells, and tiny toes, and imagines the infant smiling, rolling over, and crawling for the first time. Finally, the baby arrives and Grandma is ready with a very special message.Tender and touching, Anne Bowen's I Loved You Before You Were Born perfectly conveys the magica...

The chief Olympics correspondent for the "New York Times" takes a compelling look at the women who won the World Cup Soccer Match in 1999. He places the victory in its athletic, cultural and historical context. Photos.

Wizard Derk's world has been devastated for 40 years by Mr. Chesney's Pilgrim Parties--packaged excursions for tourists from the next universe. When Derk is chosen to play the Dark Lord this year, Chesney forces Derk to turn his estate in a labyrinthine castle and manifest himself into a nine-foot shadow. Can Derk find a way to put an end to Chesney and his parties?

At four in the morning on April 19, 1975, a line of British soldiers stared across the village green of Lexington, Massachusetts, at a crowd of seventy-seven Amercican militiamen. A shot rang out, and the Redcoats replied with a devastating volley.But the day that started so well for the king's troops would end in catastrophe: seventy-three British soldiers dead, two hundred wounded, and the survivors chased back into Boston by the angry colon...

In his bestselling "The Divine Conspiracy", Willard mapped out a transformational path for Christians to experience and know God as part of the here and now. Now this reader's guide provides a series of brief essays that expand on the discussion begun in the original book.

Stevenson's unforgettable, cherished adventure of pirates and buried treasure.

A discussion of the work in rocketry and space research carried out in the UK in the 1950s and 1960s. The projects covered include rocket-propelled aircraft, large military missiles such as the medium range ballistic missile "Blue Streak", and the satellite launcher "Black Arrow".

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The style of the book is didactic, with questions and short answers. The short answers are designed to be repetitive so as to enhance memory. The answer includes a model opening statement, followed usually by a classification system to aid organization of facts and then by the bulk of the answer in concise notes. Exam Tips are inserted to provide insight into how to answer different types of questions and, when appropriate, a Clinical Approach...

The 5th Experimental Chaos Conference was a gathering of scientists and engineers who work on real-world systems that behave in a nonlinear and, often, chaotic fashion. The proceedings present discoveries of chaotic behavior, explanation of nonlinear phenomena in the laboratory, and applications of nonlinear and chaotic effects to devices and techniques for improving performance and surmounting technical obstacles. Experimental work is present...

Inhaltsangabe:Nach den starken Kursverlusten zum Ende des letzten und zu Beginn des neuen Jahrtausends wird den Investoren einmal mehr vor Augen geführt, dass die Börse keine Einbahnstrasse mit ständig steigenden Kursen ist. Insbesondere deutsche Kleinanleger ist dies die erste Baisse, die sie hautnah miterleben. Nichtsdestotrotz wird die Aktienkultur in Deutschland immer mehr an Einfluss gewinnen. Bereits Ende 1999 waren nach Angaben des Bund...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Zu Beginn der Arbeit werden zunächst die Grundlagen wie Begriffsdefinition der Investor Relation (IR), Abgrenzung des Emissionsgeschäfts und theoretischer Hintergrund erarbeitet, um die Ausgangsbasis für eine Antwort auf die Frage nach der Bedeutung der Information bei Aktienemissionen zu schaffen. Die Bedeutung der Information wird zunächst informationsökonomisch durchdrungen, und danach aus Emittenten-, ...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Die Arbeit mit dem Titel ¿Analyse der Media-Daten von Publikumszeitschriften im Hinblick auf die Zielgruppe der Singles¿ beinhaltet die Auswertung der Leserschaftsstrukturen und redaktionellen Konzepte von Publikumszeitschriften. Zunächst stellte sich die Frage, durch welches Medium diese Zielgruppe am besten zu erreichen ist. Nachdem die Vorteile der Print- gegenüber anderen Medien betrachtet wurden, fol...

Inhaltsangabe:Problemstellung: Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt die Ergebnisse meiner Nachforschungen über das Thema ¿Sozialpädagogische Handlungsfelder in einer Polizeibehörde am Beispiel des Bundesgrenzschutzes¿ dar, leistet also die Untersuchung und Bewertung einer Behörde, mit der Deutsche und Ausländer in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland täglich ¿ und oft in Grenzsituationen - in Berührung kommen (können), beispielsweise an Flughäfen, Bahnhöf...