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On a winter night in 2009, Niles Goodman risked his life to try and save a woman and her newborn infant from a terrible car accident, seriously burning his hands in the attempt. The injuries left him unable to work and the financial strain is taking a heavy toll on his marriage. Enter Cody Larson and the promise of 1.5 million dollars if Niles chauffeurs him to Seattle to retrieve a dead drug dealer's buried cash and narcotics. What entails is...

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When a young dancer dies mysteriously in her hotel room on the eve of a prestigious dance competition, the cause of her death is initially attributed to some unknown health concern. But is that really what happened? Sylvia Trent, a longtime friend of the dead girl and a dancer herself, doesn't think so. She and her husband, Homicide Detective Anthony James, set out to find the real reason behind the girl's death, but neither is prepared for wh...

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NEW YORK FOLKS narrates the saga of Sure-Lite Brands Corporation, a producer of matches founded in 1893 by Hiram Ryder, a blacksmith's apprentice. Sure-Lite evolves, after a public offering in 1965, into a Fortune 200 NYSE listed corporation with CARSON'S a high growth retailer in the Home Center industry developing into Sure-Lite's principal business. A major power struggle erupts between the Ryder brothers for control of the company. Their s...

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Ever wondered how we got where we are? How did the workplace change, why was it not noticed before? Should you have seen these changes before it all happened? The jobs went away, bonuses went up, there was more work do to, and yet the worker was appreciated less, not more. Legacy is gone. Loyalty to employees is gone. A fair days wage for a fair days pay has been replaced by the part time job. The rules all changed. The America we grew up with...

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This book contains information about Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum and various medical terminology that goes along with this condition. It is a beneficial tool for those who have this disease or for anyone who wants to learn about it.

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In this latest installment of the exciting Misha series, Tennessee, Angelis, Quintin and Misha are living happily on their secluded island, training new 'stars': people who Misha hopes will lead the world to a better future. Unbeknownst to them, however, a young girl named Alma, possessed by a sinister entity, is plotting to shatter his dreams. A ravaged half man, half beast is cutting a murderous path across the Earth, a boy invents an astoun...

The volume draws from Charles S. Peirce's pragmatic philosophy, as well as from diverse areas in contemporary arts and sciences, and certain facets of Buddhist philosophyespecially regarding notions of interconnectedness, self-organization, and co-participation of the knowing subject with her inner world, her socio-cultural world, and her physical environment. Contradictory, complementary, and coalescence are also fundamental watchwords, in ad...

The volume explores the semantics of nominalizations from different theoretical points of view: formal and lexical semantics, cognitive-functional grammar, lexical-functional grammar, discourse representation theory. Data from a variety of languages are taken into account, including Hungarian, Italian, French, German and English. The papers discuss the semantics of distinct readings of nominalizations and meaning differences observed between c...

Das Thema der Interaktion zwischen der Jugend und dem Strafrecht scheint heute von wachsendem öffentlichem Interesse zu sein, ist aber oft mit vorgefertigten Vorstellungen beladen. Im folgenden Werk werden neben einer quantitativen Analyse der Situation in dieser Thematik ebenso die soziologischen Aspekte, die Ursachen der Jugendkriminalität und die Reaktionen aus der Justiz, qualitativ und quantitativ, angegangen. La thématique complexe de...

Crisp, juicy, sweet-tart apples. The world's most storied fruit is also among the most amazingly versatile cooking of ingredients. Writer and NPR contributor Frank Browning delves into the apple's ancient history and his own upbringing on a Kentucky apple orchard, food writer Sharon Silva draws upon her childhood on a Sonoma family farm. Together, they pay homage to the ancient fruit of temptation in this charming illustrated companion to appl...

Written in a conversational tone, this book familiarizes readers with the basic mechanics of the major environmental statutes, including, among others, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Endangered Species Act. It also includes a chapter on how environmental statutes are enforced by the government and through citizen suits.