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Who Moved My Cheese? For Kids
: :Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese? is a bestselling book that has helped millions of people around the world adapt and succeed in changing times. Now Dr. Johnson has adapted his story for the picture book audience so that, starting from the earliest age, children can view change as a positive thing that can lead to new opportunity. Young readers will enjoy following the story of the four little characters, Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw, who make their way through a maze looking for the 'Magical Cheese' that makes them ...
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Rising Stars Compendium (Rising Stars)
: :Launched in 1999, Rising Stars is about a group of people who are born with special abilities after a mysterious light appears in the sky. Parallels have been drawn between this series and The 4400 TV series on USA Network and Heroes on NBC. This new collection includes all 24 issues of J. Michael Straczynski's run on Rising Stars, as well as all three spin-off mini-series written by his protege, Fiona Avery.
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Mastering Collateral Management and Documentation: A Practical Guide for Negotiators
: :In response to the continuing and growing use of collateral by banks and other financial institutions, this is the first comprehensive book on the subject. This practical guide provides negotiators with a clear, concise explanation of the topic, from an operational perspective and with particular focus on the five ISDA Credit Support Documents. Collateral is now big business. In January 2001 the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) calculated that between US$175-200 billion was pledged as collateral to protect credit exposure in the derivatives market. The authors estimate that ...
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Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory: A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments
: :Argumentation theory is a distinctly multidisciplinary field of inquiry. It draws its data, assumptions and methods from disciplines as disparate as formal logic and discourse analysis, linguistics and forensic science, philosophy and psychology, political science and education, sociology and law, and rhetoric and artificial intelligence. This presents the growing group of interested scholars and students with a problem of access, since it is even for those active in the field not common to have acquired a familiarity with relevant aspects of each discipline that enters into this multidisciplinary matrix. This ...
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The Ugly Duckling
: :One of Andersen’s best-loved tales in a glorious retelling with lush, atmospheric paintings and an engaging narrationOnce upon a time, there was a maligned misfit who grew into the most glorious creature of them all. Never has such a fairy tale transformation touched more hearts than the one in 'The Ugly Duckling,' one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most familiar and cherished stories. Now, in the hands of esteemed translator Stephen Mitchell, an iconographic fable regains all the humor and pathos of its very first telling. And with their vivid, arresting ...
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The Hazeley Family (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)
: :The writings of Afro-American women in the 19th century have remained buried in obscurity, accessible only in research libraries or in expensive and hard-to-find reprints. Many of these books have never been reprinted at all: in some instances only one or two copies are extant. Oxford University Press, in collaboration with the Schomburg Library, is publishing thirty volumes of these compelling and rare works of fiction, poetry, autobiography, biography, essays, and journalism. Each volume contains an introduction written by an expert in the field, including such well-known scholars as Mary ...
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Thumbelina
: :Actress Kelly McGillis narrates the classic Andersen tale about a tiny girl who finds true love with a handsome fairy prince, in a dramatic version featuring original music by Mark Isham.
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The Ugly Duckling
: :One glorious spring morning, a mother duck watches her ducklings hatch. Each one is small and pretty, exactly what a duckling should be - except for one very large and very ugly duckling. The other animals cast him out of the farmyard and the ugly duckling sets off on a lonely, hard journey to find somewhere he will fit in. When he's about to give up, he makes a surprising discovery and realizes that being different isn't such a bad thing after all!
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Buruli ulcer distribution in Benin.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor): An article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
: :This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 942 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Buruli ulcer distribution in Benin.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)Author: Roch Christian JohnsonPublication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Refereed)Date: March 1, 2005Publisher: U.S. National Center ...
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Buruli ulcer surveillance, Benin, 2003-2005.(DISPATCHES)(Clinical report): An article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases
: :This digital document is an article from Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2007. The length of the article is 2157 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Buruli ulcer surveillance, Benin, 2003-2005.(DISPATCHES)(Clinical report)Author: Ghislain Emmanuel SopohPublication: Emerging Infectious Diseases (Magazine/Journal)Date: September 1, 2007Publisher: Thomson GaleVolume: 13 Issue: 9 Page: 1374(3)Article Type: Clinical ...
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