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In 1955 Walt Disney presented the world's first theme park. Disneyland opened with just 18 rides and attractions. Today there are eleven Disney parks around the globe. Visitors can spend weeks at a time in these resorts, often staying in one of Disney's own hotel rooms. But in the last fifty years the Disney Imagineers have designed thousands of rides, attractions, hotels, and even entire theme parks that have never been built. Many of these c...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's first love relives their six-year journey during his explosive first years in America. While she watches Arnold surpass his dreams, Barbara learns to transform hers -- from desiring what cannot be to cherishing what is so. As a woman who spends her adult life trying to get out from under Arnold's shadow, Barbara Baker learns about the shifting direction of life's journey. She hopes for normalcy during and after living w...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's first love relives their six-year journey during his explosive first years in America. While she watches Arnold surpass his dreams, Barbara learns to transform hers -- from desiring what cannot be to cherishing what is so. As a woman who spends her adult life trying to get out from under Arnold's shadow, Barbara Baker learns about the shifting direction of life's journey. She hopes for normalcy during and after living w...

Brain Power Enrichment Programs aim to develop problem-solving abilities in students who wish to improve their skills. Additionally, the programs may provide challenging, stimulating and inspirational learning experiences through engagement with problem solving for gifted students. This book accompanies a Level One student through his/her first semester of the problem solving program (or it may be used independently as a problem solving workbo...

This provocative and compelling book contends that the explosive growth of new political states is finally coming to an end. Examining the forces that determine the emergence of new nation-states, the distinguished contributors consider a rich array of sp

When the police visit Abbye Marion to tell her about her husband's car accident, her whole life changes. To recover and regroup, Abbye returns to her parent's home in Abaton to regroup and plan her life. But fate interrupts her plans. While hiding and recovering at her parent's farm, she unexpectedly meets a handsome man who could change everything she believes in. While exploring a budding romance and settling her husband's estate, Abbye suff...

Laurel Brodsley was a lecturer in English literature at a major university. One day at a familiar intersection, she briefly lost her sense of direction. As she immediately suspected, this was the first symptom of early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, which she tried to delay by every strategy she could find. Five years later, after finally having to give up work, she started to write poetry about her experience. Over the following six years these p...

This is a story about a seventeen-year-old teenager named Sharon Knowles, a senior in high school, who has an eighteen-year-old boyfriend named Andrew Stipes, also a senior in high school. During an uncommon moment of passion between the two, Sharon becomes pregnant, and this pregnancy becomes the defining moment in her young life. Three weeks later Andrew is killed in a snowboarding accident along the Rocky Mountain Continental Divide and Sha...

A concert guitarist, Bruce Michael MacFarland has played in back-alley bistros and nightclubs across America. After playing at the Kennedy Center for the first time, he comes home to Georgia and finds his pregnant wife, Callie, in bed with a stranger. In a fit of rage, he shoots them both. He escapes from a Florida prison, makes his way through the Everglades, and arrives at his cabin in the mountains of Colorado. There he meets and falls in l...

While exploring the cosmos, humans sometimes encounter intelligent beings very different from themselves. Dealing with these beings requires learning to understand them. Yet acquiring the knowledge needed to do that is not easy, as the people in these five stories discover. In The Home Song, a pair of ship wrecked space travelers must learn how to get the cooperation of a being whose nature they can hardly imagine. In Survival City, the surviv...

In the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast the Hunt family symbolizes one thing-timber. Hundreds of thousands of acres of timber holdings, the foundation of the Hunt wealth, all controlled by one man, Marvin Hunt. The silver-maned man is the much-despised patriarch of the Hunt family, which consists of six sisters, each a beauty in their own right, and a baby brother with John Kennedy-like good looks and style. But Marvin, through his callous ...

More than ever before, urban school districts are changing leaders at an alarming rate which makes it difficult for city schools to find stability. Turnover at the Top examines both the reasons for this turnover and its ramifications.

This volume considers recent theoretical and observational developments in astronomy and astrophysics with contributions on solar system bodies, extrasolar planets, star formation, galaxy evolution and cosmology. A special section is dedicated to the history of astronomy including papers on the history of the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon, time service and legal time, the 1870 solar eclipse expedition, and a comparison between Monteiro da...

In "Erlebniswelt Fechten": Spiel- und Übungsformen für das Kinder- und Jugendtraining sind mehr als 600 Spiel- und Bewegungsmöglichkeiten aufgeführt. Sie sind konzipiert für verschiedene Altersgruppen und variabel einsetzbar von der Anfängerschulung bis zum leistungsorientierten Fechten. In dieser Sammlung von Spiel- und Übungsformen werden schwerpunktmäßig bei der Umsetzung von Übungen fechtspezifische und alternative Alltagsmaterialien einge...

Die Diskrete Mathematik ist die Mathematik der endlichen Mengen. Sie spielt im aufkommenden digitalen Zeitalter eine immer stärkere Rolle. Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine systematische Einführung in die Diskrete Mathematik und behandelt eine ganze Reihe weiterführender Themen, deren Kenntnis heute von jedem Informatiker und Mathematiker erwartet wird. Dieses Lehrbuch wendet sich an Studierende der Informatik und Mathematik erster und mittlerer Sem...

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Larischs Buch dient als umfassendes Nachschlagewerk zu allen Möglichkeiten und Leistungsmerkmalen von Netware 4.x/IntranetWare, den Standard-Leistungsmerkmalen ebenso wie den neuen Internet- und Intranet-Funktionalitäten. Dabei wird die Handhabung des Netzbetriebssystems vor allem aus der Sicht des Netzwerkpraktikers (Systemverwalters oder avancierten Benutzers) dargestellt. Aus dem Inhalt Systemverwaltung und Objektverwaltung Zugriffsmöglic...

Try counting how many different types of texts you read each day. Now count how few your students read in class. Michael Opitz, Michael Ford, and Matthew Zbaracki argue that if we want children to meet our literacy expectations, we must do more than supplement basal reading or anthologies with a few books here and there. What kids need to grow into lifelong readers is true variety in a print-rich classroom, teaching that values their out-of-sc...

This book explores the historical origins of the court and provides and examination of the basic structure and functioning of the court. Rothe and Mullins offer a detailed critique of procedural, conceptual, and practical elements of the ICC through the lens of critical criminological theory and research and identify several problems with the design and proposed implementation of the ICC.

Available for the first time in English, Li Zehou's philosophical aesthetics interpret the historical origins and evolution of aesthetic experience and their significance to the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth of human beings. Although LI's ideas have been debated in China for more than two decades, his conversations with Jane Cauvel will now allow Western students and philosophers to re-encounter Chinese and Western conceptions ...