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Robb White knows everything there is to know about getting on the water and staying there as long as you possibly can. While still a young boy, he built his first boat, hewn from the tin roof of an abandoned chicken coop. In How to Build a Tin Canoe, this Southern raconteur and self-taught, expert wooden-boat builder offers a wryly humorous journey through a life lived on the water and the lessons learned along the way.
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No matter who you are, part of your job is to be a disruptor. Disruption: radical change that shatters the status quo. We all face a future that is nothing like our past. We can struggle with disruption or we can dance with it. We can each be a disruptor, creating the future one step at a time. Over the past twenty-five years, superstar coach Mike Lipkin has studied and worked with thousands of disruptors around the world. In Dancing with Disruption,...
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We are bombarded every day by reports of bad behaviour: from sexual harassment to political corruption, from bullying to corporate greed. We believe these things are wrong or even evil, but in practice few of us choose to intercede. draws on the latest developments in psychology and neuroscience to explain why we act differently in groups than when we are alone; how slippery slopes begin and prosper; and where the dissonance lies between good intentions...
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To go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep connectedness, a realm where we finally find life's meaning - experiences for which all spiritual seekers seek. Dr Rupert Sheldrake – best-selling author of "Morphic Resonance" – examines seven areas of spiritual practice that are personally transformative and have scientifically measurable effects. He combines his extensive...
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Your Child Is Smarter Than You Think! bridges the gap between how children think and learn and how they feel and behave. Dr. Wanda Draper discusses a whole-child approach to articulate the child's development and its relationship to behavior and learning from infancy through adolescence. Based on thirty years of experience with thousands of children of all ages, and their parents and teachers, she suggests simple yet powerful ways to help children...
46) Entre deux gares
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Fils aîné d'une famille de jeunes ruraux, le jeune Sébastien Samson ne connait que le périmètre de son petit village et du chemin de fer qui le traverse comme une veine et rythme les journées de sa maman, garde-barrière.
Enfant, il se construit dans ce monde clos, dans lequel la naïveté et l'ignorance du monde favorisent les rêves, en même temps qu'elles tendent à les rendre caduques. Pourtant, Sébastien sent déjà que sa vie ne se...
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Depuis dix ans, la République centrafricaine enchaîne guerres civiles et coups d'Etat.
Tant et si bien que les médias occidentaux finissent par oublier ses citoyens qui n'ont souvent que leurs jambes pour courir. Ceci jusqu'au conflit le plus violent et le plus meurtrier de cette dernière décennie: celui des rebelles de la SELEKA contre le président Bozizé, en 2013.
Dans ce paysage chaotique, avant l'intervention des forces françaises, Didier...
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Activistes et membres des Black Panthers, Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox et Herman Wallace se sont engagés pour la défense des droits humains au sein même de leur centre de détention, en Louisiane. Ils furent tous les trois placés à l'isolement en 1972 après avoir été – a priori – injustement accusés du meurtre d'un gardien ; le plus « chanceux » des trois, Robert King a été libéré en 2001. Herman Wallace aura, lui, peu profité...
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This is a comprehensive guide for quality school admissions including the Ivy League. It is also a parenting method in direct contrast with the tiger mother, point for point. I have detailed information regarding test prep, extra-curricular activities, how to choose schools, counselors, high schools, and much more. It has 375 references, a full resource guide that will save the listener hundreds of hours, an index, illustrations, tables, charts, etc....
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D'essais infructueux en échecs répétés, les deux jeunes mariés se heurtent à la stérilité. Rude épreuve pour Guillaume lorsqu'il découvre, après les tests, qu'il est celui qui pose problème.
Mais qu'à cela ne tienne, ils l'auront, cet enfant !
Ensemble, ils se lancent alors dans les déroutantes démarches de la fécondation in vitro. Hanté par les hyperboles de doctissimo et la culpabilité de l'infertilité, Guillaume éprouve le...
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From rejection to personal power
Growing up, rejected by her father and losing members of her family, Courtney believed she had a purpose for her life. That purpose would not come without a price. From her earliest years, she knew she was different sexually. Confused, depressed, and afraid of a world that did not welcome her, Courtney lived through depression, disappointment, racism, and sexuality.
Building up courage, strength, and trust in others,...
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Listen to the key words and phrases in Spanish, then repeat, practice and refine! A relaxing way to pick up the language. All essential words and phrases for modern life in Spain are here with topics covering home life, work and school environments, shopping, food and drink, sport and leisure, transport, technology, and the environment. Great care has been given to represent modern Spanish culture and enhance your experience of Spain and its people,...
53) Edith Wharton
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Selected Shorts has toured The Mount, the stately and elegant home of the great American writer Edith Wharton, for the last several summers, presenting Broadway and Hollywood actors reading stories by Wharton and others. Selected Shorts now presents a collection of four of Edith Wharton's short stories, recorded live at the Mount, and featuring acclaimed actresses Kathleen Chalfant, Christina Pickles, Maria Tucci, and Brenda Wehle.
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The UK's bestselling audio series for learning a language The Easy Learning Japanese course is the perfect language learning course for holidays and business trips abroad. • Easy to use – learn Japanese quickly and with confidence• Easy to follow – listen, speak Japanese and learn• Easy to learn – Japanese grammar made simple Easy Learning Japanese teaches you key words for the most important situations and lets you expand your language...
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If just one step could change your life, would you take it? In The Labyrinth Influence: Awaken The Wisdom Within, we meet a woman searching for answers. After overcoming myriad challenges in work and life-a round of layoffs, her husband's serious illness, and health issues of her own-the Woman finds herself at the mouth of a labyrinth, unsure of her next move. Should she pursue the road less traveled and the potential to make a difference, or stick...
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Take your Mandarin Chinese to the next level with Paul's tried and tested method guaranteed to deepen your understanding of the language with his easy-to-follow approach. Next Steps is an intermediate course, for non-beginners, which follows on from the Complete Mandarin Chinese Beginner's course. Building on your existing knowledge, Next Steps is designed to teach you the essential tenses and grammar you need to independently construct sentences,...
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Have you ever discovered that going to church and loving Jesus can be two very different things? This book is for those who want more but are dissatisfied with their spiritual status quo. In every church there is a small minority of people who yearn for Jesus' healing presence but have yet to discover the fullness of the Spirit life. Yet to be experienced is a Heavenly Father who wants to show you more in highly personal and unfathomable ways. Through...
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Take your French to the next level with Paul's tried and tested method guaranteed to deepen your understanding of the language with his easy-to-follow approach. Next Steps is an intermediate course, for non-beginners, which follows on from the Complete French Beginner's course. Building on your existing knowledge, Next Steps is designed to teach you the essential tenses and grammar you need to independently construct sentences, in a simple and logical...
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Collins makes language learning fun, fast and flexible. Pick up the essentials of the Polish language with this easy-to-use audio introduction. Covering everything from finding your way to talking about yourself, Collins 40-minute audio can help you learn short and simple phrases quickly by just listening and repeating. Essential words, Asking for things, Numbers, I'd like..., At the café, In a shop, Basic foodstuffs, Quantities, Tickets, Where is...?...
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Dans la nuit, une jeune fille court pour attraper son train. Elle désire partir au plus vite. Mettre des kilomètres entre elle et cette secte o elle vient de passer plusieurs mois.
Dans la tranquillité du train qui file vers Paris, Marion se souvient de l'itinéraire qui l'a amenée jusqu'ici : publicitaire aux soirées aussi remplies que les jours, en rupture amoureuse et familiale, elle suit les conseils d'un ami qui lui propose de venir se...
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