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Are you ready to transform your entrepreneurial dreams into a thriving reality? In "Business Strategies for Your First Business," we provide you with a comprehensive roadmap to navigate the exciting but challenging world of business ownership. Starting your first business can be a daunting endeavor, but armed with the right strategies and insights, you can turn your vision into a profitable venture. This book is your trusted companion on your entrepreneurial...
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From Bubble Wrap to Bubblegum, from Men-on-the-Moon to Monopoly, from Kidney Transplants to Kool-Aid, to microwave ovens to M & M's, America has been at the forefront of the main advances of the human race for the last two centuries. America has given birth to more new products, devices, medicines, leisure pursuits, sports, religions, music and vehicles than any other country, ancient or modern. Born in the USA celebrates that great pioneering drive...
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"Army Boys in France; or, From Training Camp to Trenches" by Homer Randall. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices....
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Thrill young astronomers with a journey through our Solar System. Our resource presents science concepts in a way that makes them accessible to students and easier to understand. Introduce students to the solar system. Explain how it is made up of planets, moons and asteroids. Then, travel to each of the inner and outer planets. Build a scale model of the solar system, and plan your trip to one of its planets. Your next stop, the moon. Learn the different...
65) Evelio's Garden
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Evelio's Garden is a lyrical meditation on cultural values, friendship, aging, loss, and, ultimately, the healing power of the natural world.
"The conversational prose is rich in detail about the wide variety of trees, flowers, fruits, and vegetables that blanket the area, and there are some wonderful stories about various wildlife that Homer has encountered. . . .A remembrance that effectively captures one woman's connection with nature in Central...
66) Buddhism for Beginners: How Buddhist Teachings Bring Happiness, Mindfulness, Peacefulness, Energy, a
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You may be surprised to hear that there is a strong link between Buddhism and true happiness. InBuddhist teachings the central theme is based upon happiness. This religion encourages its followers to show love, kindness and compassion, which in turn provides a happy and positive feeling. Unfortunately we are only human, and therefore we are not capable of being happy twenty four hours a day for the rest of our lives. However, we can try to remain...
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Homer Hudelson spent 30 years in the San Francisco Police Department and experienced some extraordinary events firsthand, such as the Dan White Riots, the SF State Civil Rights Demonstrations, and the search for the Zodiac killer. In addition to his role as a police officer, primarily on a motorcycle in the Traffic Division (and eventually a sergeant and lieutenant), Homer shares trials and tribulations from his childhood in the Outer Sunset of what...
68) Bird of Fire
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Theophilus (Theo) Parks is headed for superstardom when he receives a piece of "fan" mail from someone who is hell-bent on making sure he never gets there. He questions the intentions of everyone around him, including his close circle of friends. He eventually tucks his anonymous admirer into the back corner of his mind and continues full speed ahead on his journey to fortune and fame. That is, of course, until his biggest fan starts making good on...
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What People Are Saying About This Book Before April 1, 2002 and the First Edition, these six comments had been made by people who had been reading bits, parts and the whole manuscript. Excellent book. Maybe even a great one. Mark Wright, Salesman Couldnt put it down. Gary Hanus, Farmer Excellent. Excellent. Less Harper, Farrier at Prairie Meadows Excellent. Excellent book. Mrs. Dean Eslinger, Housewife It is a good family story. It is easy to read...
70) Alliance
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They. Are. Here.
Just when things had settled down, the reappearance of Drayton has set everyone on edge, especially as he came with a fierce warning of the Greys.
The harder Eliza and Jack try to keep things on an even keel, the faster they seem to spiral out of control. And then, events take a horrifying turn no one saw coming.
Their only chance is, to join forces with past enemies, but can the alliance last long enough, to defeat the Greys?
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The Baby Reflux Lady's Survival Guide Second Edition addresses the desperate need in the parent community for more easily accessible and accurate information about infant reflux, its causes and management. It is the essential book for any family with an unsettled baby, who has colic, reflux, and food intolerances or allergies including CMPA.
The Baby Reflux Lady's Survival Guide offers information on the causes of reflux, strategies for management...
72) How to Live in the Woods: Expert Advice on Planning, Outfitting, and Managing a Camping Expedition
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"You may take to the woods to dodge the sheriff or hunt buried treasure, for all I care; my interest is in your preparation for the excursion," declares Homer Halsted, author of this compact guide to camping. With Halsted as your advisor, you'll have everything you need for a successful expedition, whether it's an overnight hike or an extended outing that involves travel by canoe or even dog sled.
Halsted outlines all the essentials, from preparing...
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This is a summary of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. Meditations is essentially a scrapbook of thoughts written over a 19-year period, it's not ordered and it repeats itself frequently as ideas reoccurred to the author at different times. For this reason, it can be hard for a casual reader to extract the myriad messages contained within. This summary helps in that by interpreting Meditations and reducing it from around 50,000 words down to 4,400. While...
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The definitive collection of rare, secret, and arcane tarot knowledge
The Tarot: The Original Teachings Revealed is the ultimate guide to the untold mysteries and lost knowledge of the tarot. This single volume includes eight full books along with excerpts from several more, all from tarot masters of the 19th and 20th century. Many of these critical texts have been forgotten, fallen out of print, or are impossible to acquire. The Tarot reintroduces...
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Big Fish meets The Notebook in this emotionally evocative story about a man, a woman, and an alligator that is a moving tribute to love, from the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning memoir Rocket Boys—the basis of the movie October Sky.
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked
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Norman influence pervaded Europe in the early Middle Ages. Haskins traces that influence using meticulous research and his insightful analysis in The Normans in European History (1915), to show how the modern nation-state is in many ways the heir of Norman culture and civilization.
78) A Macat Analysis of David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
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American lawyer-turned-sociologist David Riesman published his first book, The Lonely Crowd, in 1950. Aimed at academics, it nonetheless gained a large popular audience. In it, Riesman explores the links between social character-the ways in which members of a society are similar to one another-and social structures. He argues that as the United States became predominantly consumer-driven, rather than production-driven-particularly after World War...
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Stop worrying about taking notes, losing track of what you've learned or working out what to learn next. This course guides you through the Mandarin language step by step.
Each new question adds a tiny building block to what you already know rather than introducing entirely new sentences and telling you to memorize them. Instead you can intuitively build up an understanding of the language through incremental logical steps.
Each word introduced...
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After World War II ended in 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States began a decades-long confrontation that would become known as the Cold War. American foreign policy focused on "containment"-preventing the communist USSR from gaining more ground-and many people looked at the geographical and political implications of this policy. Others, meanwhile, explored American domestic life in that same period. But historian Elaine Tyler May became the...