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A Grave Business is a mystery set in The French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Xavier and Lincoln are teenage street entertainers, tap dancing for tourists to earn extra cash in the school holidays. When Xavier's dad is accidentally sent an email that contains a cryptic code, the boys set out to unravel the mystery. They uncover a series of clues leading them across the famous Mississippi River to the local cemetery where they suspect a major crime is about to take place. The teenage detectives soon attract the attention of the notorious Neville brothers who do their best to scare them off, but Xav and Linc are determined to solve the case. The story has some mildly creepy moments with references to voodoo and midnight adventures amongst the crypts and graves. Xav's habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time puts them in danger on more than one occasion, and almost reveals their investigations to the crooks behind the scam. Can the boys figure out the connection betw

Mega-mogul Bill Gates is quite simply the richest and most successful businessman of all time. His remarkable vision and obsessive desire to win have created a leadership style radically different to anything the business world has seen before. The Unauthorized Guide to Doing Business the Bill Gates Way draws out the universal lessons from Bill Gates' phenomenal success and identifies 10 secret leadership strategies that can be applied to any business or career: Be in the right place at the right time Fall in love with technology Take no prisoners Hire very smart people Learn to survive Don't expect any thanks Assume the visionary position Cover all the bases Build a byte-sized business Never ever take your eye off the ball Want to be the best? The secrets of phenomenal success are in your hands. Check out the other Unauthorized Guides in this series: Richard Branson; Jamie Oliver; Duncan Bannatyne; Alan Sugar; and Philip Green .

In 1944, when New York City native Harriet Keyserling arrived in the small South Carolina town of Beaufort, she found herself in an environment that seemed foreign to her. Coming to Beaufort with her husband - a native son and local physician - she was a liberal northerner in the conservative South and a Jew in a predominantly Christian world. These religious and political differences only intensified her feelings of being an outsider - a thread that would run through much of her life and career. After successfully raising four children and ""professionally"" volunteering for most of her adult life, Keyserling became involved in state and local politics. Driven by passion for the causes she supports, she organized a chapter of the League of Women Voters, became the first woman to serve on the Beaufort County Council, and, at the age of fifty-four, was elected to the state General Assembly. She served for sixteen years before retiring in 1992, when the growing rancor

Flutter is Google's UI toolkit for creating beautiful and native applications for mobile, desktop and web from a single Dart codebase. In this book we cover in detail the Dart programming language (version 2.10, with null safety support) and the Flutter framework (version 1.20). While reading the chapters, you'll find a lot of good practices, tips and performance advices to build high quality products. The book is divided in 3 parts. PART 1: It's about the Dart programming language (classes, exceptions, inheritance, null safety, streams, SOLID principles...). PART 2. It's about the Flutter framework (localization, routing, state management with Bloc and Provider, testing, performances with DevTools, animations...). PART 3. It's a long collection of examples (using Firestore, monetizing apps, using gestures, networking, publishing packages at pub.dev, race recognition with ML kits, playing audio and video...). The official website of the book contains the complete so

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Pacifist Invasions is about what happens to the francophone lyric in the translingual Franco-Arabic context. Drawing on lyric theory, comparative poetics, and linguistics, it demonstrates how Arabic literature and Islamic scripture pacifically invade French in the poetry of Habib Tengour (Algeria), Edmond Jabes (Egypt), Salah Stetie (Lebanon), Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia), and Ryoko Sekiguchi (Japan). Pacifist Invasions deploys side-by-side comparisons of classical Arabic literature, Islamic scripture, and the Arabic commentary traditions in the original language against the landscapes of modern and contemporary French and francophone literature, poetry, and poetics. Detailed close readings reveal three generic modes of translating Arabic poetics into the French lyric, and the mechanisms by which poets foreignize French, as they engage in a translational and intertextual relationship with the history and world of Arabic literature. Through fine-grained analyses of poetry, translations,

Since 2010 Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history. Economic changes may be happening more rapidly and be more visible than the cultural effects of the crisis which are likely to take longer to become visible, however in recent times, both at home and abroad, the Greek arts scene has been discussed mainly in terms of the crisis. While there is no shortage of accounts of Greece's economic crisis by financial and political analysts, the cultural impact of austerity has yet to be properly addressed. This book analyses hitherto uncharted cultural aspects of the Greek economic crisis by exploring the connections between austerity and culture. Covering literary, artistic and visual representations of the crisis, it includes a range of chapters focusing on different aspects of the cultural politics of austerity such as the uses of history and archaeology, the brain drain and the Greek diaspora, Greek cinema, museums, music f

Gunther Schmidt gilt als einer der maßgeblichen Pioniere für die Integration systemischer Modelle und ericksonscher Hypnosetherapie zu einem ganzheitlich-lösungsfokussierenden Konzept. Im Zentrum seines Beratungsansatzes stehen die Orientierung auf Kompetenzen, Ressourcen und Lösungen und die vielfältigen Anwendungsbereiche in Therapie und Beratung. In diesem ersten umfassenden Buch zur hypnosystemischen Therapie und Beratung lässt Gunther Schmidt den Leser an dieser erfolgreichen Vorgehensweise teilhaben und gibt zugleich viele Anregungen für die tägliche Praxis, u. a. in den Bereichen: Familien- und Paartherapie - Sucht- und Traumatherapie - stationär-klinische Psychosomatik - Psychosen - Depression - Team- und Organisationsentwicklung - Coaching - Supervision u. a. m. Product details Format

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award 'Gaia Vince's new book should be read not just by every politician, but by every person on the planet' Observer An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where - and how - we live We are facing a species emergency. With every degree of temperature rise, a billion people will be displaced from the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years. While we must do everything we can to mitigate the impact of climate change, the brutal truth is that huge swathes of the world are becoming uninhabitable. From Bangladesh to Sudan to the western United States, and in cities from Cardiff to New Orleans to Shanghai, the quadruple threat of drought, heat, wildfires and flooding will utterly reshape Earth's human geography in the coming decades. In this rousing call to arms, Royal Society Science Book Prize-winning author Gaia Vince

Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung ist die spezifische Ausprägung des Stimmhaftigkeitskontrastes deutscher Plosive beim Flüstern als einem Sprechmodus, der durch das Fehlen von Stimmton gekennzeichnet ist. Anhand akustischer Daten sieben deutscher Sprecher werden temporale Korrelate des Stimmhaftigkeitskontrastes - Aspirationsdauer, Verschlussdauer und Dauer des vorangehenden Vokals - vergleichend für geflüsterte und normal gesprochene Plosive untersucht. Es kann gezeigt werden, dass die Ausprägung dieser Korrelate weder durch den Stimmtonverlust beim Flüstern beeinträchtigt noch im Sinne einer flüsterspezifischen Kompensationsstrategie programmatisch verstärkt wird. Dieses Ergebnis geht konform mit den für das Deutsche spezifizierten phonologischen Konzeptionen des Stimmhaftigkeitskontrastes als einer Gespanntheitsopposition. Product details

The step-by-step grammar presentations in Grammar Friends introduce form, use and meaning in a way that even young beginner learners can understand and remember. The series was written to support the syllabus of Family and Friends but is an ideal supplement to any elementary general English course. There are lots of controlled activities to help children improve their written grammar and the fun interactive activities on the Grammar Friends Student Website to really encourage them to learn by themselves. Product details Format Paperback | 80 pages Dimensions

Bestselling authors Brittainy C. Cherry and Kandi Steiner come together for the first time in an emotional compilation of poetry and prose. Written and collected over the course of more than two years, A Love Letter from the Girls Who Feel Everything is an intimate, honest, and raw assemblage of two women's feelings in a modern world that often quiets any kind of emotion past indifference. Discussing themes of love, worth, loss and hope, A Love Letter from the Girls Who Feel Everything is a journey of discovery and healing. "We are the girls who feel everything. And this is our love letter. To you, to them, to us, to the world, to no one at all. Whether it's the brightest, sunniest day where everything is perfect, or the darkest, dreariest night of rain where life seems unbearable -- we have lived it, we have survived it, and we have felt every, blissful, aching second. Here's to embracing the feels, to the brave souls that listen to the way their hearts beat and aren&

This guide is a perfect overview for the topics covered in introductory statistics courses. Product details Format Fold-out book or chart | 6 pages Dimensions 4 x 279 x 215mm | 66g Publication date 02 Feb 2021

La Web Semántica dispone de un conjunto razonable de estándares tecnológicos, ontologías, y datos semánticos. Sin embargo, diez años después de la creación de la primera de las especificaciones tecnológicas en las que se basa, aún no se ha popularizado, sobre todo si se compara con la velocidad a la que se popularizó la Web. En esta tesis se incide en la necesidad de acercar dos perfiles de usuario con conocimientos muy diferentes. De una parte se encuentran los desarrolladores de aplicaciones web y de otra se encuentran los expertos en tecnologías de la Web Semántica. Para un desarrollador de aplicaciones web es muy difícil utilizar datos semánticos. Para un experto en tecnologías de la Web Semántica es muy difícil crear aplicaciones web atractivas, robustas, y que cumplan unos requisitos básicos de calidad. Por tanto, los desarrolladores de aplicaciones web que utilicen datos semánticos (aplicaciones web semánticas) deben tener unos conocimientos fuera de lo común.

This volume, originally published in 1997, examines the combined effect of financial instability and industrial restructuring on postwar economic growth and recession in the US. It sheds light on the fundamental question of whether or not these trends are positive for the economy as a whole. To explain the cyclical nature of investment and finance, institutional theory regarding financial instability is examined in depth and related to Minsky's analysis of investment behaviour. The author has created an empirical model of this behaviour which, he claims, accurately predicts historical consumption investment and GDP cycles. Product details Format Hardback | 238 pages

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Product details Format Hardback | 322 pages Dimensions