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The book is an inspirational, motivational and biographical account of an African American girl seeking to compete at elite levels of competitive swimming. It begins with her first experience in summer league competition and ends with her competing at the Division I level of NCAA Swimming Championships and the U.S.A. Olympic Trials. The story is a journey through early schooling intertwined with competitive experiences. The twist and turns, up...

If He's "Hooked On P__ __ __ __" Buy Him A Cat! The Spiritual Rules For Dating, Relating, and Mating is both passionately and poignantly designed to help women, in particular, fine-tune their Xtrasensory perceptions and Xuberantly pucker, with pleasure, with every tantalizing and fool-proof morsel of information, methodically created and produced to simultaneously embrace their spirits and tickle their funny bones. This is, without a doubt, on...

This is simply a bag full of menopausal moodswings, " laughs the author. "Simply a smorgasbord of emotion that goes from zero to sixty in one- half second!" Vaughan- Sharpe is cotton candy one minute, granite the next. Her poetry is ageless. Virtually anyone can identify with something expressed in her poignant writings. Frustration, humor, authenticity, and inspiration are just a few of the items packed away in her luggage. Immerse yourself i...

The Country Sampler is a collection of memories growing up in the country in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It takes place during the l950's and l960's, when days were moving at a much slower pace. Included are many family pictures and humorous stories depicting life in a rural setting with a Scandinavian background

This treatise introduces the figures of shareholder, stakeholder, index tracker, bondholder and options trader as cosmopolitan financial actors in order to describe and explain the development of global capitalism with regard to a series of more or less different capitalisms. The terms shareholder and bondholder are generally known. Stakeholders appear less frequently although the economic players have taken over the role of stakeholder mostly...

This treatise introduces the figures of shareholder, stakeholder, index tracker, bondholder and options trader as cosmopolitan financial actors in order to describe and explain the development of global capitalism with regard to a series of more or less different capitalisms. The terms shareholder and bondholder are generally known. Stakeholders appear less frequently although the economic players have taken over the role of stakeholder mostly...

HE LAY IN A COMA. I STARTED MY BEDSIDE VIGIL. THIS IS NOT A STORY OF DOOM AND GLOOM BUT OF TRIUMPH. THERE ARE FLASHBACKS. PLACES WE VISITED TO HELP HIS MEMORY NEW CHALLENGES. IN FACT. WE PLAYED THE WAITING GAME AS A TEAM AND WE WON.

This book was written with the intention of promoting awareness of intellectual disabilities and Special Olympics. Intellectual disabilities affects many lives and it is the author's hope that by using this easy-to-read picture-book format she will acquaint children with other children who have physical or mental handicaps that make them appear different. She wants to make children's early experiences with the handicapped good ones, so that th...

Inseperable is a work of fiction by author, John Davies. It tells the moving story of a young Jewish girl's undying love for a disciple of the evil Al Qaeda terrorist war lord, Osama Bin Laden.

Jason Love has a special gift, and it is one that will stay in his life forever. Since the death of a family member, it has given him nothing but trouble. Jason, like any fatherless child at some point in their life, decides it's about time he knew the truth about his father's death. Turns out it's a little easier said than done seeing as every question answered seems to only raise more questions. In search for some fixed answers, our young he...

An Endangered WestSlippery Wind is a collection of poems celebrating the hard-edged people and places in what the author considers to be one of the last relatively undeveloped areas of world class desert and canyon country in the continental United States. Unfortunately, it is also an area suspected to be rich in oil and gas deposits. Despite the unique, primitive, scenic, and archeological wonders that abound throughout Northwest Colorado and...

Any dream, no matter how difficult, can be pursued.His is an unsung or perhaps a "quietly" sung life of enduring moments and of sincere commitment, as he moved in the direction of his dream. His is a symbol for the African-American community, or any community, but for Chicagoans in particular, and for all young people everywhere.

From the Foreword by Riane Eisler: "Griffith's narrative moves like a searchlight over each phase of church history, illuminating the visions, options, and choices behind events. He traces the rise of a dominator version of Christianity, in which the primary concern was a chain of command to be followed, with rewards or punishments according to the degree of obedience. And beside this he illuminates another face of Christianity, concerned with...

Poetry, colorful words grace the letters of my nameIn this book, the reader will find various types of poems where the writer has expressed her unique forms of poetry. "They Call Me Poetry" For I am old, I am youngI am boy, I am girl, I am woman, and I am man, Poetry, I am called Colorful words grace the letters of my nameBroad is my substanceFor those who recite me have much to gainI stand erect, I stand for allFor I am poetry, a friend, and ...

Sollte ein Vorstandsmitglied nach seinem Ausscheiden unmittelbar in den Aufsichtsrat desselben Unternehmens wechseln können? Sind die Arbeitnehmervertreter überhaupt ausreichend für ein solches Amt qualifiziert? Welche Anforderungen stellt die Tätigkeit in einem Überwachungsorgan überhaupt an seine Akteure? Auf diese und andere interessante Fragestellungen versucht das Buch Antworten zu geben.Der Leser wird dabei mit einem historischen Abriss ...

Rumänien, 1989. Die Zeiten sind im Umbruch: ein Hobbychirurg führt in den abgeschiedenen Wäldern von Transsylvanien makabre Experimente an Toten und Lebenden durch, um den Traum vom ewigen Leben zu realisieren. Der Erfinder des transsylvanischen Boxermotors wird posthum als Gehirnspender mißbraucht... Die spätere Abenteuerlegende Mara Moft, noch blutjunge Studentin, gerät als Praktikantin zwischen die Mühlsteine: die ehrgeizig-eiskalte Parteia...

Beloved illustrator Tomie dePaola brings the New Testament to life as he recounts the miracles performed by Jesus, including his calming of a storm, walking on water, and raising the dead to life. Full color.

Gold Plus is the updated edition of Gold, the trusted exam preparation course for adult and young adult learners. CAE Gold Plus corresponds to level C1 of the Common European Framework.

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In the context of increasing international concern for food and environmental quality, use of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) for reducing chemical inputs in agriculture is a potentially important issue. PGPR are root-colonizing bacteria that exert beneficial effects on plant growth and development, but they can be also employed in the control of plant pathogens, for enhancing the efficiency of fertilizers, and for degrading xenobi...