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Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal pangram,* “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Now Ella finds herself acting to save her friends, family, and fellow citizens from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island’s Council, which has banned

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Long before anyone on this side of the Atlantic was devoted to eating seasonally and locally, the French were doing precisely that, just as they had been for centuries. Although the high-end haute cuisine of Paris exported itself far and wide many decades ago, the varied regional cooking styles of France continue to reveal themselves to the world and dazzle those fortunate enough to experience the

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Tania Aebe was an eighteen-year-old dropout and barfly. She was going nowhere until her father offered her a challenge. He would offer her either a college education or a twenty-six-foot sloop in which she had to sail around the world alone. She chose the boat and for two years it was her home, as she negotiated weather, illness, fear, and ultimately, a spiritual quest that brought her home to her

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Fom the author of HANDS OF LIGHT, comes a new book that continues the exploration of the human-energy field, or aura - the source of our experience of health or illness. With a unique approach that encourages a co-operative effort among healer, patient, and other health-care providers, LIGHT EMERGING explains what the healer perceives visually, audibly, and kinesthetically and how each of us can p

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Timeless business wisdom from the brilliant strategists of ancient Greece and Rome

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The development of the horror genre in childrens literature has been a startling phenomenon one that has provoked strong, but mixed, reactions. Frightening Fiction provides a lucid and lively guide to that genre, ranging from analyses of such popular series as Point Horror, Goosebumps, the X Files and the Buffy Stories, to the work of individual authors such as Robert Westall, David Almond, Philip

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Much of the most interesting and controversial work in analyzing democratic institutions over the recent past has its intellectual origins in public choice economics. The analytical apparatus derived for the study of human behavior in markets is applied to a political setting. The electoral process is viewed as a kind of market in which the currency is votes and party competition is the primary me

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The authors approach this complex but critical subject from a variety of perspectives, including the following: - the role of CSR in corporate governance; - the legal enforceability of CSR rules; - the impact of international human rights standards; - CSR as part of "corporate DNA"; - Choice of CSR strategy - defensive or offensive; - the need for fair competition between developing country

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A Sidney Chronology: 1554-1654offers a comprehensive chronological survey of the literary, political and personal history of the Sidney family of Penshurst Place, Kent. As royal servants, courtiers, diplomats, soldiers, writers and patrons of numerous other authors, the Sidneys occupied a central position in the development of early-Modern English literature. Particular attention is paid to the li

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Far more than an anthology, FOR KING AND COUNTRY is Brian MacArthur's attempt to write a history of the First World War by drawing on the writings of those who were present at the events they describe. Those writings will be drawn from a broad range of sources: from, most obviously, the officers and men who served on the western front at the Somme and elsewhere, accounts of fear and tedium, horror

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This work is an examination of the British intended and actual obstruction to imported goods represented by quotas, and the political and financial ramifications beyond the statistics.

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THREE GRIPPING TALESFROM TODAY'S BRIGHTEST STARSOF DANGER AND SEDUCTION Allison Brennan Demonologist Anthony Zaccardi can't save the twelve priests brutally slaughtered at a California mission, but he's determined to send the killer -- an ancient demon -- back to hell. And when tough, sexy local sheriff Skye McPherson refuses to believe something supernatural is at work, Anthony realizes that to "

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Do voters in large scale democracies reliably vote for the electoral outcomes most in their interest? Much of the literature on voting predicts that they do, but this book argues that fully rational voters will not, in fact, consistently vote for the political outcomes they prefer. The authors offer a theory of voting which they term an

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The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the skepti

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Aims to rescue a usable interpretation of the vocational theory in higher education by describing the historical and policy frameworks of the debate.

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The authors of New Rules tell the story of regulation in the health care industry. They outline the evolution of health care regulation over the last quarter century, and describe ways to convert the system into one that can help practitioners provide better care. Finally, they offer helpful ?prescriptions? for change in specific arenas of regulation.