How to Write & Give a Speech

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9781250041074

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224 p. : 21 cm.

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808.51 DET h

Simple : conquering the crisis of complexity

Draws on simplicity strategies to explain how to promote clarity and transparency in political and business organizations, citing the best and worst practices in companies worldwide.

Starting Your Career as a Freelance Editor : a guide to working with authors,…

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9781581158908

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231 p. : 23 cm.

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808.027023 EMB s

Wild Flowers

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ISBN/ISSN

9780746073537

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64 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.

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582.13 HUM w

Book of Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings

A stupendous collection of quotes, quips, epigrams, witticisms, and humorous comments. For personal enjoyment and ready reference.

The Last Year of the War : a novel

Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including …

Refugee

Josef is a Jewish boy in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world… Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety and freedom in America… Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by…

The Breadwinner : a graphic novel

This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan.

The Name of This Book is Secret

Warning: this description has not been authorized by Pseudonymous Bosch. As much as he'd love to sing the praises of his book (he is very vain), he wouldn't want you to hear about his brave 11-year old heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest. Or about how a mysterious box of vials, the Symphony of Smells, sends them on the trail of a magician who has vanished under strange (and stinky) circumstances. And h…

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down : how to be calm in a busy world

The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with rest and relationships, in a beautiful book combining his teachings with calming full-colour illustrations

All the Ever Afters : the untold story of Cinderella's stepmother

In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella’s "evil" stepmother.

Origin

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a …

The Hazel Wood

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice's life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice's grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away--by a figure who claims to com…

The Witch's Daughter

Part historical romance, part modern fantasy, The Witch’s Daughter is a fresh, compelling take on the magical, yet dangerous world of Witches. Readers will long remember the fiercely independent heroine who survives plagues, wars, and the heartbreak that comes with immortality to remain true to herself, and protect the protégé she comes to love

The Heaven Shop

The Heaven Shop, is a contemporary novel that puts a very real face on the African AIDS pandemic, which to-date has orphaned more than 11 million African children. Inspired by a young radio performer the author met during her research visit to Malawi, Binti Phiri is a compelling character that readers will never forget

Norwegian Wood

A poignant story of one college students romantic coming-of-age, Norwegian Wood takes us to that distant place of a young man's first, hopeless, and heroic love

Corona Victus : conquering the virus fear

Corona Victus can be used for becoming victorious over a season of fear, but this book can also be used for every other season in your life

Raffles and the British Invasion of Java

The Book features the dramatic battle of Batavia, the sinister British expedition to Palembang, the 1812 sacking and looting of Yogyakarta, and various fights between soldiers and civilians, buffaloes and tigers, and Englishmen and Javanese

Invasive Species : what everyone needs to know

The Book confronts controversial issues surrounding invasive species and is essential for everyone interested in this fascinating and important topic

Energy : what everyone needs to know

The Book sheds light on the role of population growth in energy consumption, renewable energy resources, the amount of available energy reserves (and why they will run out).

Running Dry : essays on energy, water, and environmental crisis

This book explores how modern society's unquenchable thirst for carbon-based energy is endangering the environment broadly, as well as the historical roots of this threat

The Tattooist of Auschwitz : based on the powerful true story of Lale Sokolov

One of the most life-affirming, courageous, unforgettable and human stories of the Holocaust : the love story of the Tattooist of Auschwitz

The Black Death

A Series of disasters in the Orient during the fourteenth century brought about the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history

Political Reform in Indonesia After Soeharto

Three decades of authoritarian rule in Indonesia came to a sudden and in 1998. This book asks how political reform cpuld proceed despite such unpromising circumstances

Pandemics : what everyone needs to know

This book guides us through one of the truly life-or-death issues of our age. Pandemics refers not to a disease's severity but to its ability to spread

Great Depression : depression begins

The Great Depression began in August of 1929, when the Unites States economy first went into an economic recession.

Appropriating Kartini : colonial, national and transnational memories of an I…

This rich collections of essays on the appropriation of indonesian national heroes and international feminist icon Kartini provides an incisive insight into the multiple ways of her briliant letters have been read, interpreted and used.

Extreme Politics : nationalism, violence, and the end of Eastern Europe

This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual transformation of Europe and Eurasia over the last two decades

Ring of Fire : an Indonesian odyssey

10-year sojourn through the world's largest and least-known archipelago -the island of Indonesia

Breakout at Stalingrad

Breakout at Stalingrad is a stark and terrifying portrait of the horrors of war, and a profoundly humane depiction of comradeship in adversity