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Behind The Velvet Curtain signifies why mankind continues to search for the purpose of life. We struggle to find our own identity. We consistently choose paths that may or may not lead to our desires, or our successes. More often than not, we become too comfortable with our failures and never try to move forward with a new attitude of determination. We become our own crucible by sending our feelings of failure on a downward spiral toward hopel...

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In this highly original and instructive test yourself book Chris Ward invites readers to solve a selection of carefully chosen puzzles. In this, the second book in the 'It's Your Move' series, the positions are aimed at improving players, specifically the low level club players who are looking to hone their skills in order to climb further up the chess ladder. The reader is given a choice of five plausible plans for each position and has to de...

Provides a description of legal requirements for North Carolina local government contracts in a question-and-answer format. This second edition has been revised to include legal requirements for local school units which are now subject to the procedures explained in the book. The book contains updates, which incorporate recent legislative changes, and a revised Dollar Thresholds Chart.

Full-colour A4 Story Cards to accompany Cheeky Monkey 1. Help to tell stories in a classroom setting and prove to be a flexible teaching aid.

38 full-colour flashcards to accompany the Cheeky Monkey 1 course.

This book looks at the changing of the guard in 2006 and speculates on where the system was heading in 2008. It provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which candidates, interest groups, and parties perceived their opportunities and allocated their campaign resources during the midterm elections. The role of money, which was influenced by campaign finance reform, is a special focus in this book. Political scandal figured into electoral...

This book provides the reader with a selection of puzzles to solve. However, unlike other books of the White to play and mate in three' variety, it simulates real game scenarios, offering readers a choice of tempting alternatives and requiring them to pick the best.

Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell presents critical introductions to two of the most significant American dramatists of the early twentieth century. Glaspell and Treadwell led American Theatre from outdated melodrama to the experimentation of great European playwrights like Ibsen, Strindberg and Shaw. This is the first book to deal with Glaspell and Treadwell 's plays from a theatrical, rather than literary, perspective, and presents a compr...

Policy makers in Australia have been forced to acknowledge that it is not possible to perpetually supply more water at a low cost. This book provides insight into the challenges of institutional change, as well as lessons on the design of property rights for complex resources.

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This book examines the surging national interest in bike-friendly public policies and argues that this growth is likely to escalate.

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Featuring Immanuel Wallerstein, Joseph Massad, Marnia Lazreg, and other well-known and emerging new authors, this book seeks a more accurate understanding of Islam and Islamic societies role and relations to global cultural and economic realities. The book confronts a trend today of analyzing Islam as a cultural system that stands outside of, and even predates, modernity. The authors see this trend as part of a racist discourse unaware of the ...

Teaches optical design and engineering. This book is suitable for various people from program managers to seasoned optical designers and engineers, mechanical engineers, and electrical engineers.

We live and thrive in a global society and economy where education and training is essential to a nation's competitiveness and to the standard of living of its people. Opening the doors of higher or further education beyond the enrollments in elite or select universities has become a greater necessity. This has spawned a movement to develop or expand institutions that are more affordable, accessible, flexible, and tied to business and industry...

This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition Scratches on the Face: Antiquity and Contemporaneity in South African Art. The marking of the 'face of the country' is so much a part of the human project in southern Africa. In pre-colonial times it took the form of ancient rock engravings, at another it articulated boundaries where people could or could not live because of their skin colour, it resulted in the deepest and most invasi...

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Explains the scientific principles and the clinical applications of high-speed anterior segment optical coherence tomography. This volume includes images to assist in the pre- and postoperative assessment of various anterior segment disorders.

Argues that technology can and will play a central role in efforts to achieve crucial education goals, and that it will be an essential component of further improvement and transformation of schools. Andrew A. Zucker develops his arguments by drawing on the most up-to-the-minute information about digital technologies and what we know about how they affect teaching and learning in real schools.