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Learning Outside The Lines: Two Ivy League Students With Learning Disabilities And ADHD Give You The Tools
: :Learning with YOUR purpose in mind -- not your parents', not your teacher's, not your school'sEvery day, your school, your teachers, and even your peers draw lines to measure and standardize intelligence. They decide what criteria make one person smart and another person stupid. They decide who will succeed and who will just get by. Perhaps you find yourself outside the norm, because you learn differently -- but, unlike your classmates, you have no system in place that consistently supports your ability and desire to learn. Simply put, you are ...
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Java Swing, Second Edition
: :Swing is a fully-featured user interface development kit for Java applications. Building on the foundations of the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing enables cross-platform applications to use any of several pluggable look-and-feels. Swing developers can take advantage of its rich, flexible features and modular components, building elegant user interfaces with very little code. This second edition of Java Swing thoroughly covers all the features available in Java 2 SDK 1.3 and 1.4. More than simply a reference, this new edition takes a practical approach. It is a book by developers ...
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The Complete Guide to Book Marketing
: :With this book marketing guide, small-to medium-sized book publishers, authors, self-publishers and publishing staff can develop the versatile strategies needed to succeed in today's dynamic book market. This companion features systematic and result-oriented approaches to reaching the largest possible markets while staying cost-effective. Chapters cover: building a publishing identity; knowing your audience and cultivating feedback from them; creating an attractive book package; distributor partnerships; marketing to libraries; selling on the Internet and other non-bookstore sales; developing a strong public relations strategy; implementing an effective publicity campaign; and a new section ...
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Ronning Guide to Modern Stage Hypnosis
: :Improve Your Performance, Boost Your Bookings & Income You hold in your hands a key to your success. One that unlocks your stage hypnosis potential and propels you into being better at what you do. The Ronning Guide To Modern Stage Hypnosis delivers practical insights into both the on-stage and business aspects of your career. In addition, it clearly outlines a formula for success you can adapt to your own individual style. Geoffrey Ronning's personal experiences make it fascinating and his enthusiasm and confidence are absolutely contagious. Ronning breaks down ...
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No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System
: :Now in paperback, a devastating critique of race- and class-based inconsistencies in the American criminal justice system. In a hard-hitting study hailed by Publishers Weekly as 'well-argued' and 'passionate,' leading constitutional scholar David Cole reveals that, despite a veneer of neutrality, race- and class-based double standards operate in virtually every criminal justice setting, from police behavior, to jury selection, to sentencing. These double standards allow the privileged to enjoy constitutional protections from police power without paying the costs associated with extending those protections across the board to minorities and the ...
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Engaging with the Holy Spirit: Real Questions, Practical Answers
: :Despite the growth of the charismatic movement and Pentecostal churches, people still have questions—and even troubling concerns—about the person and work of the Holy Spirit. These real questions are the burden of this book, which seeks to sequentially address from throughout Scripture six crucial questions that affect a person’s relationship to the Spirit: What is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? How does a person resist him? Ought we to pray to the Spirit? How do we quench the Spirit? How do we grieve the Spirit? and How does he fill ...
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Dragonlance Legends Volume 1: Time of the Twins (Dragonlance Chronicles)
: :Despite his considerable physical decline, Caramon undertakes a quest to save Raistlin from evil. Can Caramon even hope to save his twin brother? At the same time, the beautiful cleric Crysania has undergone a mission to redeem Raistin. Will she meet success or be drawn into evil as well? Can a reunion of the Companions be far behind?
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Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History
: :The Definitive Reference Work on the Civil War, this thorough and wide-ranging volume, rich with over 500 illustrations, 75 maps, and 250 primary source documents, offers more than 1,600 entries that chart the war's strategic aims, analyze diplomatic and political maneuvering, describe key military actions, sketch important participants, assess developments in military science, and discuss the social and financial impact of the conflict. Written by today's leading Civil War scholars, the essays are authoritative and easily accessible to anyone with a passion for American history.
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Knock, Knock
from: Dial
: :The knock-knock joke: a kid classic. So many funny, punny punchlines. It was just screaming for its own book. To do this classic joke justice, we decided to gather fourteen of the best-known and most talented children’s book artists to illustrate their favorite punchlines. The results are wacky, zany, and absolutely hilarious. If you knock on Tomie dePaola’s door, beware! Is that a girl or a gorilla? Who’s knocking at Saxton Freymann’s door? Just a couple of talking lettuces. Talking lettuces?! One impatient cow can hardly wait to get through ...
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Falling Down (Laura Winslow Mysteries)
: :Part Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow investigates a shocking web of drugs, murder, and smuggling in this gorgeously–written seventh installment in she Shamus–nominated series. Part Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow hasn't shed the sense of Koyanisquaatsi––the Hopi word for World Out of Balance, or, for Laura, the feeling that society is falling down. She's just been offered another hacker job by an anonymous client, work that would be illegal and probably unethical; her romance with policeman Nathan Brittles has lately been rocky; and her daughter has just come home with ...
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