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  • Beneath the Scar
    Dr. Samone Brown
                                               The Inspiration for the Beneath the Scar Movie!Samantha Nicole Allen is the beautiful Mississippi debutante and daughter of one of the town's most notable preachers. Who would ever think that she would find herself entangled in a trap that has the potential to cause her to lose her confidence, beauty, and more tragically, her life?...
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    16,23 €

  • Awe in Action
    Kevin Mr Long
    This message is concerned with approaches to pupil engagement and learning that stem from connected and relevant use of Outdoor Adventurous learning interventions. First and foremost, this collection of essays is concerned with values, specifically encouraging prosocial and humanitarian values in learning. By enabling students to find a greater connection we allow them to embra...
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    30,25 €

  • DOUBLE GENEALOGY
    Marilee Wein
    Surprise adoptee, Grandfather was a coal picker in Scotland, at 29, and Chief Inspector of Mines for British Columbia, at 43. He had shared his date and place of birth, or so, it seemed. This genealogy embraces late 18th to early 20th Century, Scotland, with US implications. His family is lovingly presented in “who done it”, under evaluation, as his potential birth parents. His...
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    20,57 €

  • Systems Education for a Sustainable Planet
    The issues facing humanity have become increasingly complex due to the fact they are embedded in a global web of ecological, economic, social, cultural and political processes that are dynamically interlinked. The capacity to conceptualise and redesign solutions, in systems and sustainability terms, will increasingly be what society and employers expect. This “expectation” is g...
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    59,87 €

  • Project Management (PjM) ARE 5.0 Mock Exam (Architect Registration Examination)
    Gang Chen
    A Practical Guide & Mock Exam for the ARE 5.0 Project Management (PjM) Division!    NCARB launched ARE 5.0 on November 1, 2016. We always incorporate the latest information into our books. To become a licensed architect, you need to have a proper combination of education and/or experience, meet your Board of Architecture’s special requirements, and pass the ARE exams. This ...
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    87,52 €

  • Close to Forever
    Victoria D. Loggins / Victoria DLoggins
    Alexis had known since she was a young girl that if she wanted something she would have to work for it.  Not born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she knew the road to success and having it all would be a challenging and sometimes difficult path to take.  What Alexis didn't see coming was Oliver, the man who would take her heart almost from the second she met him.  Almost ...
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    21,13 €

  • How to navigate the election process and select your candidates
    Mary Meeks
    Tired of the emotional whirlwinds surrounding political campaigns? Weary of wading through mudslinging ads? In an effort to encourage citizens to bypass the ugly drama so prevalent in most political campaigns, the author offers her insights on how to uncover little noticed facts on candidates. It takes some digging, yet the cost is mostly in your time spent. The process is simp...
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    8,95 €

  • Uneasy Money
    Edward H. Faulkner / Edward HFaulkner
    Uneasy Money was written for the countless Americans after World War II who were confused by the most pressing economic problem of that day: whether the inflated prices and values created by the war could be carried over into the era of peace, with the promise of economic security for all. But Edward H. Faulkner’s assessments will seem timely today, as well, as he tackles the p...
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    28,66 €

  • Somerset
    Daniel Donaghy
    Somerset is an elegy for the Kensington section of Philadelphia in which the author was raised. Using a variety of styles and forms, it remembers people and cultures struggling to survive in the aftermath of deindustrialization and, now, an opioid epidemic. It is also a study in how our past continually informs our present, how we never fully leave those places in which our you...
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    15,52 €

  • A Comedic Guide to Money
    Colin Ryan
    Your ability to manage your money directly affects your ability to build the life you want.Reading this introductory book on personal finance will teach you the skills that have changed not only my life, but the lives of hundreds of thousands of people over the course of my career.To keep it enjoyable even to those of us who would not be interested in reading a finance book, I’...
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    15,95 €

  • Finding Hope and Faith in the Face of Death
    Stephen A. Karol / Stephen AKarol
    This book is about giving people hope and faith, comfort and inspiration when a death occurs. It is based on my experiences throughout my forty-year career as a rabbi in helping my congregants deal with the emotions and thoughts that occur when a loved one dies. I have grown to understand, and have taught about, the importance of community when we are mourners, and of the absol...
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    15,05 €

  • The Varieties of Religious Experience
    William James
    First published in 1902, “The Varieties of Religious Experience” is William James’ philosophical and psychological examination of the nature of religion in human civilization. Based on James’s own Gifford Lectures given at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland between 1901 and 1902, James argues that “Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious e...
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    15,59 €

  • Negotiating the NWT Devolution of Lands & Resources
    Hal J. Gerein / Hal JGerein
    In this story, the author is the GNWT's Chief Negotiator for the devolution of lands and resources from Canada. Devolution means the transfer of authority from a senior level of government to a junior level. Many national governments today areinvolved with devolution as a means to "subsidiarity", the principle that politicalpower should be exercised by the least central or ...
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    44,75 €

  • It’s the Economy, Stupid
    Christos A Djonis
    Since the end of World War II, most people around the world regarded the United States as the land of opportunity. The baby boomers and Generation X knew it best as 'the land of milk and honey.' It was a place where people could easily raise a family and with hard work could achieve anything they set their mind to. The American Dream, a dream of a land where life is better, ric...
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    16,54 €

  • ’Dignity of Labour’ for African Leaders
    Shoko Yamada
    From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. This richly researched book untangles the discourse on education for African leaders, which involved diverse actors such as colonial officials, missionaries, European and American educationists or ideologues in Africa and diaspora. The analysis is prese...
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    57,01 €

  • On War (Complete edition translated by J. J. Graham)
    Carl von Clausewitz / J. J. Graham / JJGraham
    Carl von Clausewitz entered the Prussian military at the age of twelve as a Lance-Corporal and would go on to obtain the rank of Major-General. In “On War”, Clausewitz draws upon his experiences fighting in the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, as well as his military studies at the “Kriegsakademie”, or Prussian War Academy, which he would eventually become director of. Cl...
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    24,61 €

  • We Are Starving
    Dr. Danny McDermott / DrDanny McDermott
    There are two ways to be starving. One is to be lacking food. The other is to go without love, respect, recognition, support, and someone to care for and challenge you. When Danny McDermott came to Harriet Tubman School in Chicago as a teacher in 1994, he encountered children who were hungry for all these things. Coming from a background of teaching in privileged schools, he fe...
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    14,40 €

  • LIFEBLOCKERS
    Lillian Nejad
    LIFEBLOCKERS are the obstacles that prevent you from living the life you want for yourself. LIFEBLOCKERS include emotions, thoughts, behaviors, relationships and circumstances that interfere with pursuing your true goals and desires.LIFEBLOCKERS: The Sleep Edition is the first book in the LIFEBLOCKERS series and aims to help you address your difficulties related to insomnia. In...
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    3,53 €

  • ACOMPAÑAMIENTO TERAPÉUTICO Y CLÍNICA DE LO COTIDIANO 2ª edición
    Leonel Dozza de Mendoça
    El Acompañamiento Terapéutico es un método de intervención que tiene lugar en los contextos comunitario y doméstico, lo cual impone la necesidad de conceptualizar acerca de las especificidades que conforman la estructura de su clínica. Si se compara con otras prácticas de tratamiento y rehabilitación, no sería equi¬vocado decir que el Acompañamiento Terapéutico se asienta en un...
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    31,93 €

  • Effective Psychotherapy
    Hellmuth Kaiser
    One of the most creative, inspired, and inspiring books in its field, this work offers extended reflections on what makes for effective psychotherapy. The author, Hellmuth Kaiser, trained at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute in the 1920s, where his analyst was Gustav Bally and his supervisors were Karen Horney, Sándor Radó, Wilhelm Reich, and Hanns Sachs. He then continued wi...
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    42,86 €

  • Extraordinary Leadership
    Cher Holton
    This transformational leadership book, grounded in state-of-the-art research and proven by real-life application in the trenches, moves beyond traditional leadership theories to introduce you to seven incredible Core Abilities and shows you how to connect with them to become an Extraordinary Leader who can bring out the very best in your people.All the techniques in the world w...
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    23,85 €

  • ALL ABOUT ILYAS
    APRIL MARTIN
    I wonder what it would feel like to meet your family – your parents, siblings, aunts and uncles for the first time in the middle of your childhood? At a time when making friends, and being accepted is anxiety ridden and tenuous. What if you were damaged, fragile and angry? What if this was your last chance to be part of a family before being sent permanently to a group home for...
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    20,01 €

  • Preparing to Lead in a Crisis
    Peter Dunn
    The frequency of crises is increasing.What areas do senior leaders need to focus on to achieve the best possible outcome from the response they are leading? How do they prepare themselves? Based on over 15 years of work identifying the causes of poor responses to crises, four themes have emerged: poor planning, inadequate use of information and intelligence, ineffective resourc...
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    22,41 €

  • Building Bridges
    Helen K Gediman
    I have, in this collection, placed 20 of my articles that have been previously published separately in refereed psychoanalytic journals or as chapters in psychoanalytic books. The papers are ordered in six “Parts,” not chronologically but according to subject matter that fits together by topic or area of interest. Each part involves a topic that had customarily been thought of ...
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    25,53 €

  • Be the One for Kids
    Ryan Sheehy
    One person can make a difference.That person can be you. “I want to show others that one person can make the difference in a child’s life. I want all educators, parents, coaches, and everyone in between to know they have power to Be the One for Kids.” —Ryan Sheehy If you ever feel like you’re all alone or think that no one gets you, just imagine how your students feel. Kids wan...
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    27,99 €

  • All 4s and 5s
    Andrew Sharos
    Passing “the test” is only one part of this story.When Andrew Sharos began teaching Advanced Placement US History (APUSH), the school’s track record on AP exams left something to be desired. The school scores averaged a 2.7 out of 5, and only 18 percent of the APUSH students passed the exam the year before. In his first year of teaching APUSH, 92 percent of his students passed ...
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    27,96 €

  • Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy
    Davydd J Greenwood / Morten Levin
    Public universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are abundant, but analyses of the causes and proposals to re-create public universities are not. Based on extensive experience with Action Research-based organizational change in universities and private sector organizations, Levin and Greenwood analyze the...
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    38,08 €

  • Shadow Work
    Tavius Dyer
    Tavius Dyer looks at the parts of himself he hasn't wanted to look at--those hiding in the shadows--and brings them into the open for re-integration. The poems move from darkness to recovery by creatively exploring a self sometimes reluctant to step into the light. Near-death experiences, incarceration, divorce, and the loss of an only child are motivations to finding the o...
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    8,83 €

  • Almost a Mother
    Christy Wopat
    "After my infant twins died, I couldn’t find anything on the shelves at the bookstore that was actually honest."I found books about grief, sure. Books written by psychologists on the stages of grief and books that assured me that I would find my answers in prayer. This isn’t meant to replace those. Those books are necessary, but in the raw, emotional weeks and months after losi...
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    19,83 €

  • Tu tipo de personalidad - Presentador (ESFP)
    Jaroslaw Jankowski
    «Tu tipo de personalidad: Presentador (ESFP)» es un extraordinario compendio de conocimiento acerca del presentador, uno de los 16 tipos de personalidad ID16. Esta guía es parte de la serie ID16, formada por 16 libros dedicados a los diferentes tipos de personalidad. De forma exhaustiva y clara responden a las siguientes preguntas: ¿Qué piensan y sienten las personas que pert...
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    9,31 €