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How did this once successful independent businessman and highly respected member of the mercenary community fall so low? Through a series of exciting and entertaining flashbacks, the reader learns of the events that led to the "hero's" fall from grace, which revolve around an unpredictable union between two families-- Jewish American from New York and Catholic Latin-American from El Salvador.

86 writers rue bad decisions ... poetry, stories and essays from around the world ...

It was just a singing competition, aired to thousands of people live on television. It was just a choice. One between the boy who has always supported her and the teen rock star who was paid to judge her.It was just a fantasy world. Filled with moments of fear, euphoria and jealousy. It was a childish dream. One that she was willing to fight for.

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Ekphrasis poetry on Peter Doig. An important Scottish contemporary painter. The poems add words narrative and interweave stories on the visual paintings.

The goal of this book is to provide the skills for science and engineer-ing to meet the challenges of their future careers, whether they be in academia, industry, or as an entrepreneur. Irrespective of your future career in science and engineering you will be involved in projects and an awareness of the factors that enable a successful project is important for all team members. It should be recog-nized that the topics included in the book are ...

The main group elements represent the most prevalent elements in the Earth's crust, as well as most of the key elements of life, and have enormous industrial, economic, and environmental importance. In this regard an understanding of the chemistry of the main group elements is vital for students within science, engineering, and medicine, however, it is hoped that those who make political and economic decisions would make better ones (or at lea...

Define your destiny and discover a closer relationship with God. Grow in your faith and adapt eight simple concepts that will stick with you for life!

When Babaroo the alien visits planet Earth for the first time, he feels so hungry that he starts trying everything he sees and gets into trouble! Will he be able to find good food on our planet?In the first book of the series of comedic stories for little kids, Babaroo begins his exciting adventures by getting familiar with junk food, sweets, vegetables and fruits, all to discover the magic of healthy food in the end!Hilarious illustrations of...

Game rules for small scale battles played with historical miniatures set in the Dark Ages.

With the death of his wife, Terry, after almost 49 years together, Pastor Michael Hall found himself devastated and grieving over his loss. In struggling to find his way out of the pain that hung over him like a dark cloud of sorrow, he started texting her phone daily. It seemed a little odd at first, but each day it slowly eased the pain. With each text, memories of their extraordinary love, and life together for so many years resurfaced in h...

Saving the world may have doomed them all.Keplan reels in the wake of grief and guilt at the blood on his hands. Outside the city walls, however, winter grows fiercer and droughts longer. Alea reforged the fractured world twenty years before--so why is it withering before his eyes? Then, just as he masters being a monarch, a prophet arrives spouting scripture about a One True God. Keplan's own mother killed the last gods, yet this one matches ...

Unsure of what this new life will hold, Burnett and Eliza ride out in hopes of finding peace and freedom in their own home place. Post Civil War Ohio is a liminal time and place where change is slow to root. For some, accepting change is as natural as following the heart and staying the course. With the help of an old friend, Burnett and Eliza hope to do just that.

Beautiful Notebook for crafting handwriting and note-taking to meet satisfying needs. This notebook is used for different activities in and outside the classroom, office, or at home for note-taking, creative writing, and journaling. It is an incredible resource for note-taking and self-help as you use it to craft your beautiful handwriting. I hope it inspires you to write more while you enjoy your beautiful hand-writing.

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Now you see them, now you don't. How do some creatures seem to just "disappear?" How does a cricket hide from hungry birds? Why does the arctic hare's fur turn white in winter? Discover how animals blend in with their backgrounds as you play hide-and-seek with them.About¿The¿Bank¿Street Ready-To-Read SeriesMore than seventy years of educational research and innovative teaching have given the Bank Street College of Education the reputation as A...

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Through the uneven life of Sun Qian, a play writer, the book reveals the politics and ideology of the Party campaigns - Reevaluation of Cadres in Yanan, Criticizing Wu Sun, Criticizing Hu Feng, Anti-Rightists, Learning Dazhai, Cultural Revolution, and Reform. The first anti-corruption film in Mainland China written by him was stifled before its debut. He was criminalized for his words and had to escape from Beijing to Shanxi Province. Regretfu...

The Gospel of Thomas and The Acts of Thomas are two classic Christian texts. First discovered in Egypt in 1945, The Gospel of Thomas is a record of Jesus' original words, according to his disciple Thomas. Their various translations are now complied and presented in Chinese for the first time. A series of comments are also supplied to help readers better understand the similarities between Jesus' teachings and various Oriental and Western philo...

Whether arms should be entrusted to a "standing army" (that is, a body of soldiers kept permanently available for the service of the supreme magistrate and financed out of public funds), or whether they should rather be reserved to a citizen militia, is a central theme in a political tradition that descends from Machiavelli. Writings on Standing Armies is a newly collected, authoritative edition of the most important late-seventeenth- and earl...