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1) Trajectory
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"In this pair of novellas and two stories, Russo's characters bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from most of his novels. In "Horseman," a tenured professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses asthe Thanksgiving holiday approaches--"And after that, who knew?" In "Intervention," a realtor facing an ominous medical prognosis finds himself in his father's shadow while he presses forward, or not....
2) Trajectory
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As the United States enters World War II, seventeen-year-old Eleanor wants to do something to help her Jewish relatives in Poland, so she puts her brilliant math skills to work for the US army to fine-tune a top-secret weapon that will help defeat the enemy.
3) Trajectory
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Disney Educational Productions
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c2008
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What scientific principle keeps coming up and up when designing Disney's theme park attractions? Trajectory! The Imagineers demonstrate how forces and motion play a leading role in creating rides like California Adventure's California Screamin' and Toy Story Midway Mania. Learn the definitions of projectile and Trajectory, see how Newton's First Law of Motion relates to these principles, and how to apply the physics of motion to predict and control...
4) Trajectory
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The study devotional, Trajectory is designed to help athletes, coaches, and the like encounter a deeper look of knowing more truly who they are in Christ beyond what they do in sport. Jesus prayed specifically for you in John 17, asking His Father for all of us to come to truly know Him. This knowing is on the face to face level of knowing someone like you would through conversation and exchange of story. There are many pathways in life, the question...
5) Trajectory
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THE PREQUEL to the #1 International Bestseller, Pendomus... In order to be nudged toward their ultimate destinies-Runa Cophem and Traeton Revasco had to break ranks from what they already knew. Set a year before the international bestseller, Pendomus, this prequel grounds you in the world of Pendomus, while setting you up for the wild ride ahead. (Best to read after finishing the trilogy, as to not spoil some of the twists on the road ahead.) Start...
6) Trajectory
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When the moon falls, heroes rise...
In Trajectory, danger lurks at every turn as Callisto, one of Mars's moons joins
Earth's orbit, causing catastrophic consequences. As the world is plunged into
darkness and chaos, a former astronaut, firefighter turned cop, airline pilot,
prisoner, and a space shuttle enthusiast must come together to face an impossible
task. With time running out, the team races against the clock to save humanity
from the...
7) Trajectory
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Brad Soames (or is it Brod Sloan?) completes twenty years in the infantry, serving in every US overseas adventure. He returns home to retire; angry, bitter, suffering from PTSD. The wars have changed Brad. He begins assassinating those he regards as criminals: Wall Street CEOs, former government officials and lobbyists, and other prominent people he sees as evil and unpatriotic. He believes that their pursuit of money and power is destroying the nation....
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This essay addresses the issue of the future of humankind and of the Earth our home. It acknowledges the problems we face from poverty to pollution and from generic anxiety to species loss. Humankind has replaced natural evolution with social and technological evolution, and if we are to survive we must take control of the process. I write, not as an expert, but as a generalist encouraged by the emergence of thought from multiple disciplines and...
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Career success has never happened overnight. Whether the economy is blossoming and filled with hope and potential or fragile and inducing worldwide trepidation, you can still be confident in your big-picture path to success. Trust the trajectory that has been laid out just for you!
Too often, people focus on the short term-mere survival--because they remain caught between a fear of failure and a desire for instant success, which results in their...
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People often spend years on working on startup ideas that fail-and they could have known long before, had they asked the hard questions earlier. Five-time tech founder Dave Parker has been there, and in Trajectory: Startup he offers a path to get you from ideation to launch and revenue in just six months.
With a track record of starting companies from scratch, raising both angel and venture capital, and participating in eight exits as founder, operator,...
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When the economy's difficult and jobs aren't secure, people tend to focus on the short term...on survival. But what they don't grasp is how their current position could be a springboard to their next position--or even the one after that. Caught between a fear of failure and a desire for instant success, they limit the risks they take, unwittingly limiting their opportunities. As much as they want to get ahead, they simply can't see how to get there.Trajectory...
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This workbook is designed to assist the Crime Scene Analyst, Technician or Investigator in documenting any bullet holes and or indentations that may be present at the crime scene. This documentation could be accomplished with overall, midrange and close-up photographs, rough sketches with the required measurement and notes. The workbook is also designed to assist the Crime Scene Analyst, Technician or Investigator in understanding the different ways...
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In The American Trajectory: Divine or Demonic? David Ray Griffin traces the trajectory of the American empire from its founding through to the end of the twentieth century. A prequel to Griffin's Bush and Cheney, this book demonstrates with many examples the falsity of the claim for American exceptionalism, a secular version of the old idea that America has been divinely founded and guided. The introduction illustrates the claims for divine providence...
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Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied, output of those, who came before us, understand, the unity and the diversity of their thinking? How do we make sense of our own thought in light of theirs?
The Christian Understandings series is an exciting new series that seeks to illuminate...
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Seeing the contours of Christian thought about Christ
Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those, who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their thinking? How do we make sense of our own thought in light of theirs? The Christian Understandings...
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Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their thinking? How do we make sense of our own thought in light of theirs? The Christian Understandings series offers to help. In this exciting volume, Charlene...
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Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those, who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their thinking? How do we make sense of our own thought in light of theirs? The Christian Understandings series offers to help. In this crisp and engaging...