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The Master
Gameshouse Novella 3
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The Gameshouse is an unusual institution.
Many know it as the place where fortunes can be made and lost though games of chess, backgammon - every game under the sun.
But a select few, who are picked to compete in the higher league, know that some games are played for higher stakes -...
Mission Compromised
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
The first of a three-novel series, Mission Compromised introduces Major Peter J. Newman, a U.S. marine assigned to fill a top-secret White House National Security Council staff position. In these novels, Newman discovers secrets such as how covert missions are being compromised, why high-ranking FBI...
Run, Run, Run!
The 1941 Diary of a Deaf Long Island Teenager
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
RUN, RUN, RUN!
is the unedited diary of a deaf Long Island teenager who defied doctors orders painful trick knee and ran all winter from 1940-1941 on his own, making the high school track team in spring and challenging for the county championship which he won
But the diary covers much...
by Will North
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Every summer for generations, three families intertwined by history, marriage, and career have spent "the season" at their beach cottages on an island in Puget Sound. Today, Martha "Pete" Petersen, married to Tyler Strong, is the lynchpin of the summer people. In childhood, she was the tomboy every...
by Paul North
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. This book corrects this lack...
CultureShock! Cambodia
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
CultureShock! Cambodia provides all the essential information one needs to make settling into this once war-torn country as painless as possible. Benefit from the practical advice provided including how to find accommodation and employment, which schools to put your children in as well as the documentation...
Scared to Death
From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Modern society has regularly, in recent years, been gripped by a series of headline making "scares" - from mad cow disease to SARS -- which have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. This book is the first to tell the inside story of each of the major...
The Serpent
Gameshouse Novella 1
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In 17th Century Venice exists a mysterious establishment known only as the Gameshouse.
There, fortunes are made and fortunes are broken over games of chess, backgammon and every other game under the sun.
But those whom fortune favours may be invited to compete in the higher league ....
by Rosemary A. Cunliffe North
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2008
Gambling like any other addiction is overpowering, it can and will drive you to insanity. If you have not succumbed to insanity it just might cause you to consider committing a crime to obtain finances so you may continue with your addiction to gamble; thus leading you closer to the gates of prison...
Three Prayers
The Three Most Powerful Prayers That Every Christian Should Be Praying
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Three Prayers is a most necessary and critical tool for strengthening our relationship with the Lord. Our future is at stake. Our well-being is in jeopardy.
The supernatural tools and abilities we need are in our grasp. Knowing what to pray and how to pray can make all the difference in the...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Local Money
How to Make It Happen in Your Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In past recessions and depressions across the world, communities have reclaimed the power that the bankers hold by creating their own forms of money and Local Money shows how this is possible. This book is an inspiring guide that helps you understand what money is and how you can create money that...
Common Sense Questions about School Administration
The Answers Can Provide Essential Steps to Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Parents have questions for school administrators. They want to know how they hire teachers, erect facilities, select learning materials, protect students, allocate budgets, use data, make forecasts, measure progress, and compete with for-profit schools. This book examines the questions they pose,...
Managing Employee Performance and Reward
Concepts, Practices, Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Now in its second edition, Managing Employee Performance and Reward continues to offer comprehensive coverage of employee performance and reward, presenting the material in a conceptually integrated way. This new edition has been substantially updated and revised by a team of specialist contributors,...