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As Sarah's family prepares for Passover, Sarah makes sure to save a chair at the table for the prophet Elijah who is said to visit every seder. But when the electricity goes out in the buildings across the street and the neighbors start arriving at Sarah's apartment, her parents invite each visitor to join the seder. Sarah adds another place setting for Elijah, and then another, but soon the table is full with people from her neighborhood and there...
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Crown
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2010
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This is a book for dedicated academics who consider spending years masochistically overworked and underappreciated as a laudable goal. They lead the lives of the impoverished, grade the exams of whiny undergrads, and spend lonely nights in the library or laboratory pursuing a transcendent truth that only six or seven people will ever care about. These suffering, unshaven sad sacks are grad students, and their salvation has arrived in this witty look...
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EMU club adventures volume 1
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My name is Stuart Tennemeier, and I'm the President of the EMU Club (short for Exploration-Mystery-Unbelievable Club). This is my report for our first mission. Did you ever want to start a club with a friend, but you didn't even know how to find a mystery to solve? Like, how would you even know there was a jewel heist or a haunted shack somewhere in your town? And how could you even begin to investigate it if you did? What if you started a club to...
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James' need to escape from home has reached its breaking point. Physically, he couldn't go far, but his imagination allowed him to travel miles away. He escapes through every stroke of the pen into his notebook. His writing gives him the ability to be an escape artist. In his every changing life, one day he's being abused and the next day he's caring for his abuser. Change can happen in the snap of a finger or a slip of a word.
Vying for a position...
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Pinball's history is America's history, from gambling and war-themed machines to the arcade revolution and, ultimately, the decline of the need to leave your house. The strangest thing about pinball is that it persists, and not just as nostalgia. And pinball didn't just stick around-it grew and continues to evolve with the times, reflecting the zeitgeist of every era it passes through. Somehow, in today's iPhone world, a 300-pound monstrosity of wood...
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Ruben Lee is CEO of Oxford Finance Group. He was a fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and worked for Salomon Brothers International. He is the author of What is an Exchange?
The efficiency, safety, and soundness of financial markets depend on the operation of core infrastructure--exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories. How these institutions are governed critically affects their performance. Yet, despite...
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El viento posee una carga simbólica que evoca el espíritu, las esencias activas, la orientación. Los "Vientos Verdes" son por lo tanto los espíritus, los sentimientos, las orientaciones verdes. En conformidad con la naturaleza primitiva del viento, vivifica el espíritu, estimula, excita e inspira. Estos textos no describen cosas, sino que invitan a hacer cosas, y a hacerlas juntos. Son argumentos urbanos los que trata y, precisamente, presuponen...
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EMU club adventures volume 2
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My name is Stuart Tennemeier, and I'm the President of the EMU Club (Exploration-Mystery-Unbelievable Club). This is my report of our second mission. Once you've solved one great mystery involving alien cats and a robotic dog, how do you find a second one that is just as awesome to solve? Not huge crimes or weird stuff, but everyday mysteries that happen to everyone, like why does time seem to pass more slowly right before school ends? And at other...
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Este libro plantea la importancia de la industria de la construcción en la economía y su significación política, en particular la construcción de vivienda social. Se analizan los efectos de la acción estatal en este campo tanto a nivel nacional como regional y provincial teniendo en cuenta los períodos presidenciales posteriores a 1983. El comportamiento del submercado de alquileres se describe a partir de las diversas medidas gubernamentales...
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En Las enigmáticas parábolas de Jesús, Ruben Zimmermann explorara la dinámica de las parábolas en su rica complejidad. Aborda los enfoques históricos, de los literarios y de los orientados al lector. Luego expone una hermenéutica posmoderna que analiza los elementos narrativos y el context.
Los estudiosos modernos de las parábolas se han preocupado durante mucho tiempo de preguntar qué dijo Jesús y qué pretendía con sus parábolas. Ruben...
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Barrio Walk: Stepping into Wisdom is about life during the late 1950's and beyond in Phoenix, AZ. It is a chronological sequence of the author's experiences that shows his simple life during his early school years. There is description of the multi-racial school environment and the interaction among students. He experiences the wrong end of a bullying incident on the school playground. He is devastated when none of his friends come to his aid. He...
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This is a very visual book with more than 750 illustrations and screenshots, never leaving any intermediate steps out from the tutorials. It contains precise tutorials that explain the various tools, how to use them, and the visual results. The examples used in the book are an excellent starting point for your own diagrams, both as ideas and as true diagrams, all the diagrams in the book can be downloaded for your own use. This book is written for...
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Four-time Olympian, bestselling author and award-winning keynote speaker Ruben Gonzalez shares what he had to do to make it to the Olympics and how following those success principles will help you realize your goals and dreams. Take control of your life with the success principles of a four-time Olympian.
As a four-time Olympian, peak-performance expert Ruben Gonzalez knows how to achieve success again and again. Now you can learn the keys to success...
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So, where are missionaries born? Where do they come from? What do they do? Why do they do what they do? Missionaries come from Jerusalem, and go to Judea, Samaria, and the whole world, don't they?
But, for Ruebem Amores, Jesus's command to "Go!" doesn't mean you can't stay in Jerusalem, the city where you are born, and being a missionary is not really just a question of geography. All Are Called: Missionary Strategies for Home points toward, a broader...
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At eighteen months, Ashley Ruben still didnt talk. She wouldnt respond when her name was called; she didnt appear to hear either. She fixated on tiny pieces of dirt and ate only crunchy foods. She was enveloped in a thick fogimpenetrable by everyone except Barney the Dinosaur. She worked puzzles like a kindergartener and was computer-savvy before she was two years old. Her mothers late-night searches on the Internet hinted at a reason for her lack...
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A five-year trip around the world through 145 countries and many other places that aren't recognized as such by the United Nations. Hundreds of anecdotes that include deportations, time travel, rituals, nights spent at the police station, military escorts and encounters with wild animals and curious people. A chant dedicated to life, where you will also find lots of advice about transport, visas, accommodation, insurance, vaccines, safety and what...
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The Data Mirage: Why Companies Fail to Actually Use Their Data is a business book for executives and leaders who want to unlock more insights from their data and make better decisions.The importance of data doesn't need an introduction or a fancy pitch deck. Data plays a critical role in helping companies to better understand their users, beat out their competitors, and breakthrough their growth targets.
However, despite significant investments in...