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Heart Wrenching, emotionally provoking, stories of women's experiences about giving birth. Premiered 2011.

Storytelling like you never heard. Courageous voices of women who broke the rule of don't tell. Horrendous reports of cruelty in maternity wards.

Contemporary romance about a woman who uncovers a mysterious and powerful treasure-and to protect it, she'll need the help of the man she can't have

The United States is richly endowed with forests, and their care and conservation have been a national concern for more than half a century. This book provides data and analysis aimed at addressing this concern by enhancing dialogue and decisions in pursuit of the goal of forest sustainability. On the whole, no evidence suggests that we are "using up" our forests. In fact, the total area of forests has been stable, and the volume of wood found...

Our money system is the 'Missing Link'. We assume that we must have a single, monopolistic currency, funded through bank debt, enforced by a central bank. In fact, the present system is outdated, brittle and unfit for purpose (witness the eurozone crisis).It's profitable at first but ultimately a recipe for economic environmental disasaster.

Organic and Fairtrade certified coffees have become very popular among socially, environmentally and health conscious consumers in recent years. As consumers pay higher prices for these certified coffees, it is commonly assumed that, compared to conventional coffee, better producer prices are paid and that higher shares of the added value in consuming countries trickle down to the producers. Coffee certifications are thus supposed to benefit t...

Das virtuelle Fahrerplatzmodell ist ein immersives VR-Werkzeug zur ergonomischen Konzipierung eines Fahrzeuginterieurs. Es stellt die Kombination einer visuellen Simulation mit einer ausgeprägten haptischen Rückmeldung in Form eines variablen Fahrerplatzmodells dar. Neben dem Ersatz realer physischer Modelle erweitert das virtuelle Fahrerplatzmodell die Untersuchungsumfänge konventioneller CAD-Methoden. Inhalt der Arbeit sind Aufbau, Evaluieru...

This book tells the story of a little girl's search for the truth about the word huh.

It seems laughably inadequate to call Julia Fehrenbacher's On the Other Side of Fear a collection of poetry. It is that, of course-graceful, lyrical, wise poems about life, love, doubt, faith and the sweet, simple anatomy of a moment. But it's more than that. On the Other Side of Fear is an invitation to shed the weight of your past, get naked and real and 'wide-eyed awake to the undeniable poetry of it all.' "Reading Julia is like waking up t...

A comprehensive account of the famous raid.

Shows how teachers can provide the type of differentiated instruction that struggling readers need by drawing on students' individual and cultural backgrounds, as well as the results of classroom-based diagnostic and progress-monitoring assessment measures. The authors include examples and case studies from diverse primary and intermediate/middle school classrooms to show how instruction can be implemented and adjusted to accommodate students'...

This book is divided into two parts. In the first, the author argues that military power and its relationship to legitimate civil rule were topics of particular interest to intellectuals and statesmen from the fourth through first centuries. In the second part is the first detailed study and translation of a portion of the Yizhou shu in a western language and the first study of any kind of the military portions of the text in any language.

The authors explore three ways of conducting causal analysis in case studies. They draw on established practices as well as on recent innovations in case study methodology and integrate these insights into coherent approaches. They highlight the core features of each approach and provide advice on each step of the research process.

It's all about the memories. Between the pages of this book lie the memories of the good, the bad, and the ugly - the laughter, the tears, and the unsightly person looking back in the mirror after experimenting with makeup for the very first time! Our Mama, Our Daddy, We Remember When..., is filled with stories from my childhood and those of my siblings'. There are also shared memories from nieces, nephews, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, ...

What are you seeking - love, happiness, peace, abundance? We are all seeking a better life for ourselves. However, all outward seeking is a reflection of something far more important - the inner seeking of our soul. Our soul has an inner purpose that is common to every human being on the planet. This purpose has been given several names - the shift, spiritual change, awakening, enlightenment, unity consciousness and ascension. Knowingly or unk...

Armed with real-world examples and out-of-the-box ideas, this challenges conventional thinking about school budgeting and offers a compelling way forward for school superintendents, central office leaders, building principals, and school board members.

Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, Jim Tranquada and John King tell the surprising story of how an obscure four-string folk guitar from Portugal became the national instrument of Hawai'i, of its subsequent rise and fall from international cultural phenomenon to 'the Dangerfield of instruments', and of the resurgence in popularity (and respect) it is currently enjoying among musicians from Thailand to Finland.

Lon Chaney is one of America's most important actors and Philip J. Riley's books on Chaney become instant classics in cinema literature" - John Landis "Philip J. Riley is setting the Industry standard for preserving the great silent film history in book form" - Kevin Brownlow Foreword by Patsy Ruth Miller (Co-star) Introduction by George Turner

The most complete work on officer of the watch telescopes ever written with over two hundred color photos, lists of manufacturers, retailers and research resources. This book also includes information on American officer of the deck telescopes and German officer of the watch style telescopes retailed in the United Kingdom

One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises. Tradition tended to be handed down by example and by word of mouth, and apprenticeships could last for decades. Fortunately, however, occasional treatises do exist.