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To view Brazil's struggle over land through the life and death of a man like Padre Josimo Morais Tavares is a privilege". -- Joseph Nangle, Franciscan Mission Service of North America"Why are hundreds of people killing each other each month in the Brazilian amazon while the authorities look the other may? Le Breton reveals, through the words of the people who represent them, the man forces at play in the land wars that threaten the survival of...

In this story of spiritual adventure from the author and illustrator of Crow and Weasel, a young man journeys through the arctic wilderness to find a family of wolverine and learn more about their mysterious power. At the time the story opens the narrator is working as an airplane mechanic in northeast Alaska. Long sensitive to wild animals, he feels drawn to wolverines through his dreams. One day his work takes him to the riverside village of...

Gould's story personifies the struggles that women still face in combining careers with family life.

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This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Pinsky employs slant rhyme and near rhyme to preserve Dante's "terza rima" form without distorting the flow of English idiom. The result is a clear and vigorous translation that is a...

Mastering PowerPoint 97 tells you everything you need to know to take advantage of this powerful tool and dramatically expands the ways you can get your message across. This comprehensive guide, written for beginners and experts alike, will help you with every facet of building and showing a first-class presentation. This book tells you more than simply how to use PowerPoint. Find out what makes a presentation truly exceptional, including care...

With canny insight and bone-dry wit, John Alcock, a specialist in the ecology of the American Southwest, introduces us to the lives and loves of desert insects as they forage through his backyard oasis. Creating his own desert garden behind his suburban home in Tempe, Arizona, Alcock scrutinizes every square inch of soil detailing the exotic plant life he finds and offering tips on its peccadilloes and preservation. The true heroes of this st...

This comprehensive resource guides students step-by-step through the product development process, from concept through launch in the marketplace. Case histories profile successful new product introductions in a changing marketplace. This text details the best ways to: * Identify and respond to the real needs of consumers. * Plan for products that fit the company's charter and win top management commitment. * Test new products to spot and cure ...

Solid information on what you need to inspect: building sites and landscaping, foundations, structures, roofing, chimneys and flues, interior and exterior finishes, electrical systems, HVAC systems, and plumbing systems.

Titles are: Line 'Em Up * Enough to Be on Your Way * Little More Time with You * Gaia * Ananas * Jump Up Behind Me * Another Day * Up Er Mei * Up from Your Life * Yellow and Rose * Boatman * Walking My Baby Back Home, plus the arrangement of the album's hidden track.

The HOCKEY COACHES MANUAL presents a winning formula for the hockey season. Complete with step-by-step diagrams, it helps coaches set up a season-long program of training.

fateful month that gave rise to the most destructive leader of the twentieth century. Providing vivid portraits of the main players of the drama of January 1933, and using newly available documents, Turner masterfully recreates the bewildering circumstances surrounding Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany. "A gripping, foreboding narrative".--"Booklist". Photos.

Since the end of the Cold War, the United States Army has been reengineered and downsized more thoroughly than any other business. In the early 1990s, General Sullivan, army chief of staff, and Colonel Harper, his key strategic planner, took the post-Cold War army into the Information Age. Faced with a 40 percent reduction in staff and funding, they focused on new peacetime missions, dismantled a cumbersome bureaucracy, reinvented procedures, ...

A theoretical work on how democracy can be improved when people are disenchanted with government. It summarizes four current approaches to policy theory - pluralism, policy sciences, public choice, and critical theory - and shows how none offer more than a partial view of policy design.

In this gift-size book, Cameron shares beautiful prayers of empowerment followed by potent declarations on the nature of creativity that extend beyond affirmations to facilitate a powerful awakening of the artistic child within and revitalize fading dreams, while lending encouragement and compelling reminders that we can all tap into the creative spirit. Heart Steps is certain to ignite the creative spark, drawing readers inward toward the fir...

This volume marks the continuation of a distinguished series from Pushcart Press in association with Publishers Weekly. PW's Sybil Steinberg culls the best author interviews from hundreds of her recent columns. Her first two volumes have gone into several editions and multiple printings. This third volume features interviews with such celebrated authors as John Updike, Michael Chabon, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Keneally, Winston Groom, Kazuo Ishig...

On her eighth birthday Jamaica receives paints which she uses to surprise her grandmother and to brighten the subway station where Grammy works.

Full of vivid, real-life examples, "High Flyers" explains how to link a firm's business strategy with the kinds of experiences people need if they are to lead a company in fulfilling its mission. This revealing guide is designed for anyone in the organization who has responsibility for developing people as well as for aspiring managers who want to learn what it takes to make it to the corner office.

These stories explore lost moments in time with intensity, emotion, and an eye to the past. In "Uncle High Lonesome", a young man recalls his Uncle Peter, whose even temper was marred only by his drinking binges, which would unleash moments of rage hinting at his much deeper distress. Fishing is transformed into a life-altering, almost mystical event in" A Creature in the Bay of St. Louis", when a huge fish caught on a line threatens to pull a...

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