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This is the story of two men who followed their dream of crossing an ocean and discovered the adventure of a lifetime. Former army officer, mountaineer and film stuntsman Mike Noel-Smith couldn't resist when his friend Rob Abernethy called him up one day and suggested the ultimate challenge - becoming the first Britons to row the Indian Ocean. The pair took advice from expert seamen, studied weather charts, trained for months, and planned the ...

The standard cost-benefit analysis of transport infrastructure investment projects weighs a project's costs against users' benefits. This approach has been challenged on the grounds that it ignores wider economic impacts of such projects. Since there is empirical evidence that these effects can be substantial, relying on the standard approach potentially produces misleading results.At the International Transport Forum Round Table, leading acad...

Offering an understanding and critique of the standards movement, this book shows how the strengths and weaknesses of the reform movement are rooted in a set of American cultural beliefs about individual possibility and responsibility, about opportunity and merit, and about the role of schooling in creating social change.

THE WINDOW is an extraordinary work which includes in itself the book of the author the book of the main female character and the book of the reader. Each left page which is blank provides free space for the reader to describe their spontaneous reactions or to turn the work into a unique work of their own life philosophy! SILVIA'S DIAMONT is the first part of The Window where main character was born. Silvia is innocent full of energy and ready...

This is the story of two men who followed their dream of crossing an ocean and discovered the adventure of a lifetime. Former army officer, mountaineer and film stuntsman Mike Noel-Smith couldn't resist when his friend Rob Abernethy called him up one day and suggested the ultimate challenge - becoming the first Britons to row the Indian Ocean. The pair took advice from expert seamen, studied weather charts, trained for months, and planned the ...

United States Marshal Preston Flynn, the mysterious young man who became a deputy marshal at age sixteen, displays his power of concentration and awesome physical strength that exceeds the bounds of human ability, defying the impossible. He agrees to help the small ranchers fight for survival against the cutthroat cattle buyers, being instrumental in forming a union that guarantees its members fair prices for their beef. The union president is...

Almost Too Perfect is the story of a woman hanging herself in her living room under unknown circumstances. Her husband and kids plan a quick funeral, and decide to find out what made her choose to do such a thing. With many more suicides taking place they must quickly figure out what is going on and put a stop to all the madness. He quickly discovers that the reasons for the mass suicides are darker than he could have ever imagined.

The Call of Angels, Durkin's second novel, continues the story about his main character, Robert Hamlin's, single term in office and a second presidential campaign. This second novel is much more unpredictable in describing the character and events presented in the story. Due to the success of his one term in office, his integrity of keeping his word is put to the test. With the loss of various friends and loved ones in his life, Hamlin's relig...

HAVE NOTICED THAT SOME LOCATIONS ARE MORE PROSPEROUS THAN OTHERS? DID YOU NOTICE THAT CERTAIN HOMES FEEL DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS? WHY SOME PEOPLE ENJOY VISITING A LOCATION MORE THAN ANOTHER ONE? THIS BOOK ANSWERS THESE QUESTIONS.... People who have been on both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres know that the water runs down a drain in counter-clockwise direction south of the equator and clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. Hurricanes, torna...

Have you ever wondered, "How does a psychic know things that no human being could know." Are you the least bit concerned with, "How does the psychic and medium do what they do?" Exposé: the search into the secret, shadowy world of psychics and necromancers answers these questions and others, questions such as what happens when the dead no longer sleep, or do fortune tellers and prophets operate under the same umbrella. This author also looks a...

Matthew 19:26, With God All Things Are Possible. This book is about life experiences, life expectations, faith, love and hope. Hope is nothing other than the experience of those things which faith has believed to be truly promised by God. We should not allow the vision of our expectations to be stunted by hypocrisy and settle for status quo as being tolerable. In most instances, no expectation can narrow your horizons and stifle your accomplis...

Reference for graduate students and researchers in particle physics, gravitation, cosmology, atomic-optical and condensed matter physics.

Dubois' oratorio was given its premiere on Good Friday (April 19), 1867 at Église de la Madeleine in Paris under the composer's direction. Although first published in 1886 by Georges Hartmann of Paris, the vocal score presented here is a digitally enhanced reprint of the one first produced in 1899 by G. Schirmer of New York, with an English translation beneath the original Latin text by Theodore Baker (1851-1934). This score has been carefully...

Schubert composed his sixth and final mass in the summer of 1828, it was premiered posthumously, on October 4, 1829, in the Viennese Parish Church of the Holy Trinity under the direction of the composer's brother, Ferdinand. In addition to five vocal soloists and chorus, the work is scored for pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns and trumpets, three trombones, timpani, and strings. Unabridged digitally enhanced reprint of the vocal score...

Berlioz composed his Grand Messe des Morts, or Requiem, in 1837 for a huge orchestra with four brass choirs plus the usual vocal soli and chorus. The vocal score presented here was prepared by the Polish pianist and composer Philipp Scharwenka (1847-1917) to coincide with the issue of the full score issued as part of the Berlioz Complete Works published by Breitkopf & Härtel in the first decade of the 20th century. This digitally-enhanced repr...

Mendelssohn's first great excursion into the genre of oratorio was first performed in 1836 in Düsseldorf at a festival. Set to a libretto by Julius Schubring based on the Bible, it soon gained considerable popularity in England, which resulted in his famous second oratorio, Elijah. The definitive vocal score reprinted here, edited by the German musicologist Alfred Dörffel, with a piano reduction prepared by the composer's student August Horn, ...

This is a story of two totally identical twin women. Living separate lives in different towns. One married to future hopeful president. After 15 years both twins get together at Senator's house. Where later on one twin is found dead. Other twin has to go through hell after that.

This book is about a man who was born with alot of Artistic talent.He thought had no real value, until he got the calling from god.That turned his world upside down.Reading this book can change your life forever..!

Advance praise for "Murder at The Grove" Fans of mysteries, especially West Coast-centric mysteries, rejoice! The irrepressible and irresistible teenage sleuth Adriana Hofstetter is back, with funny-snarky attitude, 40s wardrobe, hippy-dip but caring mom and BFF Billy Feldman intact, and a puzzling new murder to occupy her summer vacation. This time the scene is L.A.'s super mall, The Grove, with Adriana forced to deal with such alien (to her)...

Advance praise for "Murder at The Grove" Fans of mysteries, especially West Coast-centric mysteries, rejoice! The irrepressible and irresistible teenage sleuth Adriana Hofstetter is back, with funny-snarky attitude, 40s wardrobe, hippy-dip but caring mom and BFF Billy Feldman intact, and a puzzling new murder to occupy her summer vacation. This time the scene is L.A.'s super mall, The Grove, with Adriana forced to deal with such alien (to her)...