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The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a competition for high school students. China has taken part in IMO twenty times since 1985 and has won the top ranking for countries thirteen times, with a multitude of golds for individual students. The 6 students China sent every year were selected from 20 to 30 students among approximately 130 students who take part in the China Mathematical Competition during the winter months. This volume ...

Sparkling with a bright array of characters and a shrewd inventiveness, each story in this seven-story collection looks deep into the heart of the relationships that shape our very humanity. Whether it be the love between a mother and her children, the anxiety of wanting to impress the 'in-laws', or the sudden discovery of long-lost relations, the follies and triumphs of life are poignantly explored. In a patois of hope and well-being, BC ...

More than just a Messianic Bible Study, this book digs deep down into your innermost being to discover the disciple in you. As believers in Messiah, we are called to practically and actually live our lives like the Master. But many times it is a daily struggle for us to walk in the ways we know we should go. "Being a Disciple of Messiah" will help strengthen and build you up for a greater, more effective walk in Yeshua. Contains eight two-week...

Author Veronique Renard omitted something critical in her popular 2003 memoir Pantau in India. As if leaving behind Dutch corporate life, converting to Buddhism, and living among Tibetan refugees in the Himalayas was not amazing enough, Veronique transitioned from male to female 25 years ago and has never mentioned it since. Until now. In her remarkable follow-up memoir Pholomolo, Veronique opens up for the first time. Laugh-out-loud moments p...

This easy to understand and follow weight-loss method utilises amazing mind-programming techniques that can help you begin to lose weight from the word go. It will help you feel good about yourself as you achieve your ideal weight and shape in the shortest possible time compatible with your vibrant good health. It will help you overcome cravings, take control of your eating habits and lose weight permanently. Explained in straightforward la...

Examining the crucial topic of race relations, this book explores the economic and social environments that play a significant role in determining economic outcomes and why racial disparities persist. With contributions from a range of international contributors including Edward Wolff and Catherine Weinberger, the book compares how various racial groups fare and are affected in different ways by economic and social institution. Themes covered ...

As part of the Physics 2010 decadal survey project, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation requested that the National Research Council assess the opportunities, over roughly the next decade, in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science and technology. In particular, the National Research Council was asked to cover the state of AMO science, emphasizing recent accomplishments and identifying new and compelling scientifi...

Please Leave Me, Don't..., recounts the psychological and physical struggles a wife endured as caregiver to her husband's prolonged, and devastating illness, and how she overcame her fears. The book provides a new concept of hope for others involved in similar catastrophic situations. They will finish the book knowing there is a full life ahead.

Students naturally love the thrill of solving crimes and cracking mysteries. Why not allow them to learn to write their own suspenseful stories? "Writing Mysteries in the Classroom" takes students step-by-step through the process of creating a good mystery story. Lessons include creating believable settings, writing suspenseful plots, detailing a crime scene, implementing mysterious tones and moods, describing suspicious characters, and writi...

Instructional coaching focuses on research-based instructional strategies that can have the biggest impact in improving a teacherÆs practice. Jim Knight has worked as a trainer, developer, and researcher in instructional coaching for many years and has broad experience not only training coaches but also collecting data about the effects of his coaching program. In this book, the author explains the essential coaching skills that instructional ...

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Sylvia finds love at the arms of Patrick... but life takes a different turn when she discovers that what seemed so real was not real after all.

The development of a bio-engineered pacemaker is of substantial clinical and also scientific interest because it promises to overcome several limitations of electronic pacemakers. Moreover it may answer the longstanding question of whether the complex structure of the sinus node is indeed a prerequisite for reliable pacemaking, or simpler structures might work as well. This book gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art of creating a b...

One of the most ambitious dramatic poems ever written, Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound tells the story of the Titan Prometheus who gave mankind the secret of fire in open defiance to the decrees of Zeus, and who, as punishment for this generosity, was chained to the Caucasus Mountains and exposed to horrible tortures. Inspired by the Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus, Shelley's play serves as a sort of sequel, matching its Greek predeces...

Ever wonder what goes on inside the head of that brilliant yet quiet person you may think you know? Me and Mr. C is, among other things, a unique look, in first-person narrative, from the inside of just such a head. (as best such a phenomenon can be captured, anyway) It is also an example of the vast difference that can be made in a life of misunderstood or tortured genius when there exists a mentor possessed of sufficient wisdom to provide th...

In this second volume of a groundbreaking series, Olson leaves no stone unturned as he guides the reader along a path explaining how and why Wesleys most beloved doctrine took the shape it did. (Christian)

Come on a journey through the many stages of love. In this special collection you'll find poems for: First love, Blossoming love, Undying love, Engagements and weddings, Romance and passion, Unrequited love, Lost love. Written in the simple, sensitive, heartfelt way that Faye Kilday has become known and loved for. This is a book that lovers everywhere will relate to and treasure!

....The year of a strange man living by the sea with his beloved wife who is "falling".... ...To save her O. does many things, but mostly confronts his unconscious anima "Pandora".... ....This war with his own self, him already a "King" ends in another Parallel, and the evocation of a being like Ted Hughes' "Crow".... Stanley MARTIN is a theorist and ex-media teacher, and expert on "myth"....

When your career success outweighs your life options, you know something's gotta give! "The Career That Ate My Life" takes you on a roller coaster ride into the world of the single career woman, in her quest for the elusive family life she always believed would be her destiny. This refreshingly frank and insightful book pulls no punches as it challenges our perceptions of career and explores the growing phenomenon of the single woman who conce...

We can't change the world by waving a magic wand, but there is magic out there in the world and in our lives. Surrounded as we are by the rush of everyday life, it's hard for many of us to take the time to evaluate our world and our values. Bungay and Edward's invaluable guide sets us on the path to doing so, by providing a commentary on the world around (and within) us, some step-by-step meditation techniques and a series of poems that c...