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Marmaduke/Firehouse Dog (DVD)
Owen Wilson, Emma Stone, George Lopez, William H. Macy, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, …
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Double bill of children's features. 'Marmaduke' (2010) is a part
live action, part CGI-animated family comedy based on the
long-running comic strip. When the Winslow family moves from Kansas
to Orange County, California with their goofy, accident-prone Great
Dane, Marmaduke (voiced by Owen Wilson), the big dog experiences
all kinds of trouble fitting in with his new canine neighbours. The
film also features the voice talents of Emma Stone, William H.
Macy, Sam Elliott, Steve Coogan and Kiefer Sutherland. 'Firehouse
Dog' (2007) follows Rex, Hollywood's top-grossing canine known for
his extreme athletic abilities and diva-like demeanour. His perks
package, rivalling that of any A-list celebrity, includes Kobe
beef, a poodle harem and a diamond collar. Unfortunately an
accident that occurs while Rex is shooting a commercial leads his
handlers to presume he's dead. But Rex is merely lost. Alone,
filthy and unrecognisable in an unfamiliar city, how will Rex deal
with a scenario much more common to dogs than his previous pampered
existence?
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Fred & Mavis (Hardcover)
Kurt W Becker; Illustrated by Joana Felix Mink
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Navajo Boy (Hardcover)
Maureen Mink
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Learning is important no matter where you are. But some classrooms
are very different than others. Discover all types of schools
around the world in this fun, engaging series that develops kids'
understanding of our diverse global community and their place in
it.
The Piano Tuner, Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits
us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit
a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and
in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and
regrets. Often in these stories, what seems a safe, comfortable
environment turns suddenly threatening. In the title story, a
writer's quiet existence amid his antiques and books is dismantled,
piece by piece, by a demonic, beer-bellied piano tuner. In "The
Ponoes," a man recalls how, as a young boy living in Brooklyn
during World War II, he became a collaborationist in the brutal
pranks of two Irish bullies. In "The Twisted River," the sedate
collegiality of a Polish university is disrupted when an American
on a Fulbright grant attempts to blackmail two faculty members. And
in "The Bracelet," a young anthropology student doing field work in
Africa finds herself drawn further and further into the role of a
priestess of Oshun, into a life dictated by the configuration of
cowry shells cast upon the floor. Meinke writes of a world where
our control over our lives seldom exists across a border, and often
extends no further than our fingertips. Attempts to bridge two
cultures, two lives are sometimes successful, as when an actor
finds love in the arms of a tough-talking barmaid, but more usually
lead to disillusionment, as when a hard-drinking salesman's career
is shattered after he is drunk under the table one night by a
Polish engineer, or when an English father struggles to find common
ground with his American son. Riveting, almost terrifying, the
stories in The Piano Tuner tell of decent men and women caught in
events that they could never have predicted, would never have
chosen.
This is the first book on the theory of multiple zeta values since
its birth around 1994. Readers will find that the shuffle products
of multiple zeta values are applied to complicated counting
problems in combinatorics, and numerous interesting identities are
produced that are ready to be used. This will provide a powerful
tool to deal with problems in multiple zeta values, both in
evaluations and shuffle relations. The volume will benefit graduate
students doing research in number theory.
Learning is important no matter where you are. But some classrooms
are very different than others. Discover all types of schools
around the world in this fun, engaging series that develops kids'
understanding of our diverse global community and their place in
it.
Some people's wardrobes are full of jeans and T-shirts. Some wear
traditional outfits. It all depends on your custom! Explore what
people in different parts of the world wear in this fun, engaging
series that develops kids' understanding of our diverse global
community and their place in it.
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The Fruits of Grace (Hardcover)
Minke De Vries; Translated by Nancy S Gower; Foreword by Thomas F. Best
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Happy birthday! Let's celebrate! All around the world people are
becoming another year older. What are some ways birthdays are
celebrated in Asia? Or in South America? Discover the ways people
celebrate birthdays in this engaging series that develops kids'
understanding of our diverse global community and their place in
it.
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Dentists (Paperback)
Mary Meinking
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Open wide! Dentists care for people's teeth. Give readers the
inside scoop on what it's like to be a dentist. Readers will learn
what dentists do, the tools they use, and how people get this
exciting job.
Welcome to Nigeria! See the sites. Enjoy the food. Hear the
language. Discover this country's land, people and traditions.
Twenty years after the end of communism, history still sparks
intense discussions in the former Soviet bloc, as contested
memories, primarily about communism and WWII, are constantly
reactivated. Much of what is currently known about memory issues in
post-communist countries is limited to state-centered approaches.
This volume goes further and highlights two interrelated factors
that account for the recent proliferation of memory games in
Central and Eastern Europe: the growing number of political and
social actors who try to elaborate and impose new memory norms into
society, thereby challenging traditional narratives about the past;
the 'internationalization' of conflicted memories through the
multiplication of arenas for engaging in remembrance politics and
devising memory policies, in accordance with norms produced by
European organizations. In contrast to a narrow understanding of
'transitional justice', this collection of fourteen case studies
situates conflicts around painful histories within the 'ordinary'
operating of post-communist societies, concentrating on games
played by political and administrative elites, activists and
professional groups in various local, national and European
venues.
Happy birthday! Let's celebrate! All around the world people are
becoming another year older. What are some ways birthdays are
celebrated in Asia? Or in South America? Discover the ways people
celebrate birthdays in this engaging series that develops kids'
understanding of our diverse global community and their place in
it.
This book describes official statistics as a tool to hold up a
mirror to society - but also as an instrument for those who can
manipulate this mirror. It addresses the precarious interaction of
politics, official statistics, and ethical principles. Three sets
of themes can be derived from this relationship, which are the
focus of this book: Political systems and guiding principles,
official statistics as a science of the state, and ethical issues
arising from them. Ultimately, the determining factor is the
political system that exists in each case. The book contains eleven
chapters. The first three focus on the key concepts of the book:
power and morality, official statistics and policy making, and
ethical principles for statistical work. Three further chapters
focus on episodes that illustrate, as "drastic" examples, the
misuse of official statistics over the past hundred years, covering
the situation in the Soviet Union, the Third Reich and Greece. The
remaining five chapters take up current topics that pose particular
challenges to official statistics. These are the phenomena
paraphrased by digitalisation, globalisation, happiness research,
overpopulation, migration, the Covid-19 pandemic and climate
change. The book is primarily aimed at statisticians working in
national and international statistical institutions, but also at
readers interested in statistics, national accounts, economic and
statistics history, and ethical issues.
This book contains the proceedings of the "First International
Symposium on Insect Pheromones," which was held at Wageningen, The
Netherlands, from March 6 to March 11, 1994. Eighty participants
from 17 countries attended the symposium, which turned out to be a
unique forum for the exchange of the latest worldwide findings on
insect pheromones, an opportunity to discuss and debate unsettled
issues, and a mechanism to define new directions in pheromone
research and foster interdisciplinary collaborations. The meeting
comprised five sessions representing the breadth of disciplinary
interest in pheromones, a typical charac teristic of this research
area. In the sessions the following topics were presented: (1)
control of pheromone production (organized by W. L. Roelofs), (2)
sensory processing of pheromone signals (T. L. Payne), (3)
neuroethology of pheromone mediated responses (T. C. Baker), (4)
use of pheromones in direct control (A. K. Minks and R. T. Card6),
and (5) evolution of pheromone communication (c. LOfstedt). All
sessions started with a series of 30-minute lectures, after which
ample time was reserved for discussion. In each session some
participants were asked to serve as discussants and to initiate and
stimulate discussion, and a rapporteur was recruited to make notes
of these discussions and to summarize the general trends emerging
from the session. The general program ming of the symposium was in
the hands of R. T. Carde, A. K. Minks, and T. L. Payne."
CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND HER AND GOLDIE WILL USE ANYTHING TO
GET IT. . . .
In the hood every day is about struggle and survival, and no one
understands that more than twenty-two-year-old Kaeyla "Goldie"
Dennis. So when the affair she's been having with a wealthy married
man comes crashing to an end, Goldie doesn't waste any time getting
back on her grind. Her new hustle? Running a strip club where she
also happens to be the main attraction. Pretty soon she's knee-deep
in the skin game with more money than she ever imagined. Enough to
bring more girls on and even hire a security detail. But as the
saying goes, "More money, more problems." When one of her dancers
becomes the victim of a vicious assault, Goldie must decide whether
to remain silent and continue her lucrative business or tell the
truth and lose everything she's worked for. Her decision will test
her devotion to the motto she seems to live by: "Get Rich or Die
Trying ." . .
"Real Wifeys "is the first installment of a fierce and gritty new
series by the coauthor of one of the classics of street fiction,
"Desperate Hoodwives."
Before Taize, there was Grandchamp. The lesser-known Protestant
women's community,initiated in 1936, grew out of generations of
women's groups in French-speaking Switzerland. It was heavily
influenced by Wilfred Monod, the Student Christian Movement, Swiss
Reformed efforts at liturgical renewal, and Bonhoeffer's Life
Together. It was so deeply affected by the angst generated by World
War II and the search by European Christians for new ways to be
Christian. The Fruits of Grace, authored by the third prioress of
the Community of Grandchamp in Switzerland, reflects on the origins
of the community, the sources and development of its spirituality,
and on its ministries. Foci include the involvement of the
community in the ecumenical movement and in mission around the
world. There is also important new information about its
interaction with Taize, Roman Catholic religious communities, and
the women themselves, as individuals and as a community. Sister
Minke de Vries provides an intimate view into the inner workings of
a women's community and the structures of the spiritual practices
of the Community of Grandchamp. It is a powerful analysis of a
European Protestant women's monastic community.
This textbook provides an introduction to abstract algebra for
advanced undergraduate students. Based on the authors' notes at the
Department of Mathematics, National Chung Cheng University, it
contains material sufficient for three semesters of study. It
begins with a description of the algebraic structures of the ring
of integers and the field of rational numbers. Abstract groups are
then introduced. Technical results such as Lagrange's theorem and
Sylow's theorems follow as applications of group theory. The theory
of rings and ideals forms the second part of this textbook, with
the ring of integers, the polynomial rings and matrix rings as
basic examples. Emphasis will be on factorization in a factorial
domain. The final part of the book focuses on field extensions and
Galois theory to illustrate the correspondence between Galois
groups and splitting fields of separable polynomials.Three whole
new chapters are added to this second edition. Group action is
introduced to give a more in-depth discussion on Sylow's theorems.
We also provide a formula in solving combinatorial problems as an
application. We devote two chapters to module theory, which is a
natural generalization of the theory of the vector spaces. Readers
will see the similarity and subtle differences between the two. In
particular, determinant is formally defined and its properties
rigorously proved.The textbook is more accessible and less
ambitious than most existing books covering the same subject.
Readers will also find the pedagogical material very useful in
enhancing the teaching and learning of abstract algebra.
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