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"Ally Within Attitude" is an extraordinary manual that digs into the significant effect of one's demeanor on each part of life. Grounded in the guideline of the Pattern of good following good, this book enlightens how tackling the force of an uplifting outlook can make one ready for self-improvement, achievement, and satisfaction.Figuring out the Pattern of energy attracting similar energy: Investigate the central idea that what you emanate into the...
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How do metropolitan regions remain prosperous and competitive in a rapidly changing economy? Using hard data, Matthew Drennan shows that those regions that have invested heavily in the information economy have done much better than those that continue to rely on manufacturing and industry as their base. Moreover, he contends, the benefits of that growth reach the urban working poor, earlier reports to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Supposedly controversial politician Godfrey Bloom has created an autobiography in a whimsical style with some homespun and sometimes trenchant views. It will come as no surprise that it is not politically correct. What might be a surprise is it is full of common sense, a commodity so sadly lacking in most modern day politicians. Born in 1949 it covers a fascinating post war period from rationing to obesity. Like most Brits of a certain age he does...
4) Just Deserts
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The extraordinary challenges facing our well-established character now known as 'Bill Pascal' are all too evident as William Forester seeks to remain invisible to the outside world.
A chance encounter leaves him feeling vulnerable once more and he steps up his efforts to discredit and bankrupt the man he holds responsible for the years of struggle he has encountered.
Notwithstanding the fortune he has amassed and the now comfortable lifestyle he...
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This is the first book about the politics of party switching, or floor crossing, better known as "kalanterism" in Israeli politics. The Israeli parliament adopted legislation in 1991 that imposed penalties on parliamentary defectors. However, as the book documents, the effect of this legislation was extremely puzzling: the frequency of party switches has increased over time, and most switches have taken the form of party splits making Israeli legislative...
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A different kind of home invasion...When Adam Tyler's sister announced she was pregnant, Adam decided to move from Portland, Oregon, to Phoenix, Arizona, to fully embrace the uncle experience. However, he didn't count on the move being delayed until three days before Christmas--and three days before his sister's due date. And he definitely didn't count on finding a scorpion in his bedroom. Cue the panicked calls to exterminators.A different kind of...
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History is not linear, the fabric of history is adorned with confusing and sometimes confounding patterns. Notwithstanding, throughout the ages, through myth, allegory, parables, iconography and symbolism, the fragmented remains of key aspects of true history have been perserved down to the present day. What is needed is an effort to weave these various threads into a coherent, prismatic tapestry, revealing the reconciled truth of global history....
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"Life moves from one moment to another. The duration of every moment may, however, vary. Sometimes, a moment feels like a decade, but sometimes, it flies in a split second. Some moments are to be cherished lifelong, whereas some moments are best forgotten. Just one movement of love can make the whole life well-lived. However, a moment of anger can render years of good relationships futile. But nothing is stays forever. Change is the only constant...
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In 1860, James Bruce (1811-63), the eighth Earl of Elgin, embarked upon a second embassy to China which aimed to obtain ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin and finally conclude the Second Opium War on terms favourable to the British. Accompanying Elgin as his private secretary was the enterprising army officer Henry Brougham Loch (1827-1900). Originally published in 1869, Loch's first-hand account of the mission reflects sustained concern over...
10) Unstoppable
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Limitless With Autism
Matthew Kenslow never gave Autism the prerogative to stop him from achieving what would bring him joy in life-spreading acceptance of others' disabilities and teaching classrooms of students. Notwithstanding, life has brought him a world of setbacks and standstills, causing him to put in extra effort to prove his competence and helping him learn how to go through things rather than around them.
Unstoppable will take...
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Putins Friend - Democracies Enemy.Trump 2024 - The ultimate nightmare. That's what some are calling the prospect of another four years of Donald Trump as President.
Certainly, whichever side of the political spectrum you're on, it's clear,his opinion notwithstanding,that Trumps statements and actions,rather than "making America great", are dividing it.
And favoring certain segments of the population over others.
Then there are the dark clouds...
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The book begins with the description of the family history of Claytons, which serves as the foundation. Then the book follows it up through its various changes to the present time. It gives an account of how Rollo made peace with the King of France, and Dukedon of Normandy was confirmed. It tells about the details of that settlement after a thirty-year war. From that time, Normandy began to flourish, and during the time of its first six Dukes, it...
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The Classic Bestseller That has Changed the Lives of Millions
Transactional analysis delineates three ego-states (Parent, Adult and Child) as the basis for the content and quality of interpersonal communication. "Happy childhood" notwithstanding, says Harris, most of us are living out the not OK feelings of a defenseless child wholly dependent on others (parents) for stroking and caring. At some stage early in our lives we adopt a "position" about...
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The Secret Lives of Fishermen is Jim Dean's second book of essays celebrating wild places, rural traditions, and the pleasures and often humorous frustrations of fishing, hunting, hiking, and camping--or, as Dean might put it, "messing around" outdoors. It combines essays originally published in his monthly "Our Natural Heritage" column in Wildlife in North Carolina with longer pieces that appeared in other magazines. These forty-six engaging essays...
15) The Mighty 'Bras
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When Matildas star Sam Kerr was just a kid, when the inaugural A-League Women's season was still years away, and when a World Cup on Australian soil was a fanciful idea, a mob of mature Melbourne women threw caution, asthma inhalers and orthopaedic inserts to the wind and formed a team to play in the lowest division of the metropolitan league.
Were the Mighty 'Bras, as this Brunswick Zebras team became known, the unheralded catalyst for the...
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On the night of 9-10 July 1943, an Allied armada launched the invasion of Sicily, a larger operation than the Normandy landings the following year. Over the next thirty-eight days, half a million Allied servicemen fought the Germans and Italians for control of this rocky island, which was to become the first part of Axis homeland to fall during World War II.Despite their success in capturing the island, inter-Allied and inter-service divisions and...
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"To Becoming; My Own Captain" To becoming; my own captain is based on the author's personal exploration following events that disrupted her happy go lucky life's journey, leaving her feeling shipwrecked. A personal quest to rediscover what life was about, all the while facing a desert experience. The journey inward reveals issues that may have led to her making a wrong turn and while at it discovers, she did not have a plan after all. No GPS. She...
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Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly from 500 c.e. to 1250 a.d., it features original translations and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems from a variety of genres. The poems are presented chronologically, each situated within a specific historical and literary context. Together, the selected...
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After a terrible day at her awful job, the last thing Mia Hammond expects is to see her ex at happy hour. On the floor. Unconscious, after falling over at the sight of her. They always did make a disastrous pairing. Aaron Stanek is humiliated to discover not only did he suffer a concussion, he wasn't even on the ice when it happened. Worse, Mia-freaking-Hammond, aka the love of his life who blames him for tanking her sports agenting career, is at...
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When you griped of having a foggy vision, the main arrangement could you imagine is to go to the ophthalmologist and get remedy eyeglasses. However, consider the possibility that I let you know that there is a characteristic and powerful method for working on your vision. Indeed, this is through eye muscle works out. Performing eye practices consistently can spread the word about your eye muscles being more grounded and it additionally eases eye issues...