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Golden Chinese: A Golden Key for Entry" is an intensive study in Chinese Mandarin with practical and interesting anecdotes in conversations. It contains simple and clear grammatical explanations, step-by-step exercises with answers, moreover, it provides unique cultural and historical introduction in each lesson. This book is for complete beginners and for those who have learned the language years before wanting to have a good review of basic ...

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John Hope Bryant, successful self - made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re - energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration, he argues, they will be able to lift themselves up into the middle class and become a new generation of customers and entrepreneurs. Raised in ...

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Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people's - and their own - capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. Here leading scholars - including Adam Grant, author of the bestselling Give and Take, positive organizational scholarship movement cofounders Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn, and thirteen more - describe how this is being done at companies such as Wells Fargo, F...

Social enterprise is an up and coming phenomenon around the world. Businesseswith the primary aim of bettering the world. Social enterprises are claiming a distinct place amongst commercial enterprises, charities, and public sector organizations.This book paints an inspiring picture of the social enterprise, what it is and what it is not. How it works and what the challenges are. With a wide range of examples from the Netherlands, most of whic...

I likes to do fer a man. An' I must say I kinda likes the menfolks, despite all their unfortunate faults of design." So declares irrepressible Myrtle Flowers after arriving uninvited, one cold January afternoon, in the Iowa farm kitchen of shy widower Abner Holmes. "I Likes To Talk" covers a year in the life of Myrtle Flowers, a 78-year-old divorced farm wife, all from her ribald, fun-loving, and colloquial point of view. She tells it as she l...

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Law school student Vivian Lynn Alexander could no longer fight the undeniable truth that she had to end her three-year love affair with her college sweetheart, Carlton Andrews, to have the career she dreamed about in law. Nor could she deny a growing interracial passion that she felt for former basketball icon Chuck Montgomery-that is, until she met his best friend, Derrick "Dunk and Jam" Jackson, who was an even bigger star than Chuck. Both m...

He was the son of Pawnee Killer, the last in a line of mystic warriors of the Great American Plains Indian tribes. When his father fled to Canada with Sitting Bull, after the battle of Little Big Horn, after the best and the strongest of the Sioux were gone, Running Elk stood unwittingly at the crossroads of history.Running Elk tried to run away from the reservation to find his father-but he didn't get far. He'd hardly begun his journey when t...

Karen Lee Oliver was born in Poughkeepsie , New York on October 1, 1959. She furthered a potential career in ballet by moving to N.Y.C. in 1973 where she studied on scholarship with American Ballet Th eater. Ms. Oliver graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a B.A. degree in English Literature Major/ Th eater Arts Major in 1981. She has since published three books with Xlibris: Pergola, 2002-2005, Tales From the Mirwood ...

Karen Lee Oliver was born in Poughkeepsie , New York on October 1, 1959. She furthered a potential career in ballet by moving to N.Y.C. in 1973 where she studied on scholarship with American Ballet Th eater. Ms. Oliver graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a B.A. degree in English Literature Major/ Th eater Arts Major in 1981. She has since published three books with Xlibris: Pergola, 2002-2005, Tales From the Mirwood ...

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In this eighteenth volume of Diane Marquart Moore's poetry, she explores the lives and departures of loved ones--the many family passings... writing: "their points of departure felt...the faces appearing often enough...[leaving] enough of themselves with me." Among the faces are departed teachers and musicians, including jazz musician "Bird" Parker and Amédé Ardoin, Cajun singer and accordionist. The poignant, sometimes sardonic poems portray ...

Engrossing work of character and psychologically driven literary fiction set in 'anywhere-ville' USA. The inhabitants of SHARONVILLE are forced to re-examine the truths they have lived by while a precious member of their community is lying in a coma.

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