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Great Writing bridges the gap from ESL writers to mainstream writers!The Great Writing series uses clear explanations and extensive practical activities to help students write great sentences, paragraphs, and essays. Each book contains a wide variety of writing models in carefully selected rhetorical styles that provide practice in working with the writing process to develop a final piece of writing. ¿An all-new level, Great Writing Foundation...

A design study of adaptive reuse of three buildings located in the downtown business district of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The buildings in this design study have been abandoned at various intervals of time and left to vandalism and decay. The three buildings include a former church, a nineteen forties car dealership and a filling station. By readapting these buildings the city of Bowling Green could bring new life to an economically depressed ...

One of the major problems faced by ESL or non-native speakers of English throughout the world is that when they go to high school, college or university, they often find themselves without sufficient academic literacy skills to enable them to navigate their learning successfully, such as the ability to select important information and be able to summarize it concisely in continuous prose. Using ESL first year science students at the University...

You're Never Too Old to Dream Dare Dance! is a feast for women over 30 who may have put their dreams on the back burner, lost sight of their dreams, or need brand new ones. Through personal down-to-earth stories of women aspiring to reach their dreams, having the courage to take risks sometimes necessary to get there and finding ways to dance to their finish lines, you will be inspired to follow your dreams. This insightful book will no doubt ...

Heart-rending and sometimes erotic poetry weaves its achingly beautiful spell in Gustavo Lapis Ahumada's sensual collection, Love Has Fallen: Luscious Words for Modern Day Romantics. This dark and alluring collection of poems celebrate the heated passion of love lost. Drawing from his own experiences, Ahumada adds a lyrical note, due to his background as a musician. He says, "All of my music and writing are derived from every laugh, tear and b...

London, 1847. Having fallen from the comforts of wealth and luxury, John Charlesworth and his wife, Catherine, are struggling to support their family through the dark times of poverty and rampant illness. After losing his job and seeking desperately for a way out of their destitution, John reluctantly indentures himself and his family to a wealthy squatter in the distant town of Port Philip, Australia. But their journey is not without its shar...

Herramientas modernas para la gestion organizacional: controles internos y gestion por procesos presenta un conjunto de herramientas de aplicacion en el ambito de las finanzas y la administracion, centrados en la gestion de procesos y en los controles internos. Se trata de un material con orientacion eminentemente practica, que brinda ejemplos y casos reales de aplicacion en America Latina para ambas tematicas.Desarrolla conceptos relacionados...

French writer Charles Desnoyer provides a striking interpretation of the life of Joan of Arc, who singlehandedly saves the French state at the cost of her own life. Joan leaves her native village over the objections of her father to see King Charles VII, who has yet to be crowned. She convinces the monarch to back her God-given visions and, with an army at her side, defeats the invading English and allows the king to be anointed as the true ru...

This book builds the case for a comprehensive social security system to be developed in all countries - to eliminate desperate conditions of poverty, reverse growing inequality and sustain economic growth. It gives the history of the rich countries in meeting poverty and shows how the strategies in the poor countries can be greatly improved.

With banks closed and jobs and homes lost, all America is in chaos. It is the post depression era, as the country struggles to rise up from the Great Depression.On a farm near Ithaca, Michigan, a family of seven is determined to survive. There is no running water, no electricity, no bathroom, no icebox in the two bedroom home-nothing much except for love and a will to overcome the obstacles before themThese stories, recounted by one of the dau...

Die Chancen- und Risikenvielfalt der modernen Gesellschaften fordert ein immer höheres Maß an Qualifikationen und Fertigkeiten, bringt aber auch neue Entwicklungs- und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten. Deren erfolgreiche Umsetzung steht allerdings in zunehmend enger Verbindung mit einer aktiven Partizipation an den neuen Medientechnologien. An Bedeutung gewinnt auch ein kritisches Verständnis um teilweise noch schwer einschätzbare Risiken der Strömung...

The volume contains a collection of research articles by leading experts in group theory, and reports of several accessible surveys of recent research in the area. The compilation provide an overview of the diversity of themes and applications that interest today's group theorists. The topics covered in this volume include: character theory, combinatorial group theory, varieties of groups, conjugacy classes, profinite groups, graphs connected ...

A fictional account of the day a whale swam up the Thames, in which the whale makes an environmental plea to the boy who first sees him.

Revealing the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary situations, Public Image: Stories and Poems presents 24 short stories and 27 poems that examine the human experience in locations including Russia, India, and the author's hometown of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Bald, weak, and depressed from 7 failed treatments, in constant fear of bleeding to death, Joan forged her way to an enduring recovery.The information she found and the lessons she learned are an inspiration to all who have a serious illness and seek new options to regain their health.

The effective field theory vNRQCD allows to describe among others the production of top-antitop pairs in electron-positron collisions at threshold, i.e. with very small relative velocity of the quarks. Potentially large logarithms of the velocity are systematically summed up and lead to a scale dependence of the Wilson coefficients of the theory. The missing contributions to the cross section for top-antitop production in the resonance region ...

The Erice International Seminars are multidisciplinary seminars attended by over 100 eminent participants from all fields of science. Each year, a few scientific issues are selected and experts are invited to present contrasting views during the plenary multidisciplinary sessions of the seminar. General debates soon follow. These sessions offer a unique opportunity for specialists to broaden their perspectives after being confronted with ideas...

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