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Designed to help librarians connect new adult readers with books and to acquaint literacy teachers with materials generally available in their public library. This book outlines the library's role in fostering adult literacy and shows how popular library materials can be used by librarians and teachers in new and innovative ways.

Basil Davidson's Black Star remains one of the most thoughtful and insightful views into the life and times of Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972)'.- Emmanuel Akyeampong, from the book's new Foreword

James Murton is an associate professor of history at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario.

An oligopoly (from the Greek, few sellers) is a market that is dominated by a few large and powerful players. As Steve Hannaford documents with numerous examples, virtually every industry today-from medical equipment to airlines, toy retailing to oil-is trending in this direction, in the greatest movement toward industry consolidation since the turn of the 20th century. Charting the course of this trend around the world, Hannaford examines the...

Philip K Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining authors of the last half of the 20th century, and the increasing respect and interest that his fiction and films have generated necessitates a comprehensive assessment of these films. This work examines the cinematic adaptations of Dick's work.

Understanding children's problem behaviours in school - seeing beyond the surface actions to reveal and name the root needs fuelling those actions - is vital to help the child. This book shows us how to observe, question and think about problem behaviours so we can understand what is motivating the children to act as they do.

How should we confront hate? This book argues that, as a close look at the history of applying law to incidents of hate and violence illustrates, the courtroom proves to be an excellent place to demonstrate the virtues of applying the tools of reason to the grave injustices of the world.

Both law and weather affect us every day of our modern lives, yet most people do not know how the weather has affected developments in the law, nor are they aware of how the law has attempted to develop ways to affect the weather.

Takes the reader on an odyssey including sixteenth-century England, the ancient hills of Spain, a Renoir painting in Ft Worth, a precarious cliffside inn on California's Highway One, a rare-book library in the heart of Houston, a high-school gym in Georgia, an East Texas pine forest, and the violet crowned hills of Austin.

This is a practical guide to working with the Oracle 10g v10.2 database from Visual Studio .NET 2005, using Oracle Data Provider for .NET and Oracle Developer Tools. ODP.NET optimizes Oracle database access from a .NET environment, allowing developers to leverage advanced Oracle database functionality, including Real Application Clusters, XML DB, and advanced security, using VB.NET, C#, or any .NET language. With many hands-on examples the boo...

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Utopia has updated and expanded its 2nd Edition of the first ever travel guide to gay and lesbian life in Indonesia. Explore 43 cities including Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Surabaya and the islands of Bali and Lombak. Listings include organizations, bars, discos, accommodations, spas, restaurants, and more. A special section of the book highlights groups, clubs, and businesses that are especially welcoming for women. Enjoy dozens of savvy comments an...

Este poemario es el resultado de muchos años de experiencias, conocimientos y desilusiones. Funciona para todo aquél que quiera buscar algo del amor que ha dejado sin caer en el lugar común, con un lenguaje que busca el sentido en el revoloteo de las palabras al viento. Disponible en tapa Dura.

THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK IS TO HELP YOU TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR CREATOR, AND HELP YOU FIND OUT WHICH GOD ARE YOU SERVING? ALSO LET YOU KNOW HOW YOU FIT INTO THIS SPIRITUAL AGE. THIS BOOK WILL SHOW AND PROVE TO YOU HOW WE ARE ONE WITH THE FATHER: BASED ON THE BIBLE.

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When I was in 5th grade and went to the school social worker for depression. The social worker pointed out to me a little nick-knack on her desk that said "When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade". As if saying, I just needed to make the best of a bad situation. Still sounds like a load of crap today. When you are given Tequila at a bar, you can ask the bartender for training wheels (lemon and salt). If you lick the salt, squeeze a drop of l...

Fate and Fortune in Rural China is a major contribution to the study of both the social and population history of late traditional China, and that of historical demography in general. Lee and Campbell use the example of Liaoning to demonstrate the interaction between demographic and other social pressures, and to illustrate graphically the nature of social mobility and social organisation in rural China over the course of the century from 1774...

From a human viewpoint, the cold waters of deep sea and polar marine regions present an inhospitable and harsh environment for life. The study of organisms which have exploited this seemingly hostile ecological niche has revealed intriguing physiological adaptations. This volume summarises the most recent information on the adaptations exhibited by representatives of the main groups of polar animals, including marine invertebrates, fish, mamma...

In Darwinism’, s Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. He begins by examining the different forms taken by the hypothesis of natural selection in the nineteenth century (Darwin, Wallace, Galton) and the major difficulties which it encountered, particularly with regard to its compatibility with the theory of heredity. He then shows how these difficulties were overcom...

This book examines fiction and ethnography as related forms for analysing and exhibiting social life. Focusing on the novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Edith Wharton, the study argues that novels and ethnographies collaborated to produce an unstable but powerful master discourse of ‘, culture’, , a discourse that allowed writers to turn new social energies and fears into particular kinds of authorial expertise. Crossing...