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1) The deep
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"A strange plague called the 'Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget--small things at first, like where they left their keys...then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily...and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as "ambrosia"...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
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A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.
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Alex Carter novels volume 2
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Fresh off her wolverine study in Montana, wildlife biologist Alex Carter lands a job studying a threatened population of polar bears in the Canadian Arctic. Embedded with a small team of Arctic researchers, she tracks the majestic bears by air, following them over vast, snowy terrain, spending days leaning precariously out of a helicopter with a tranquilizer gun, until she can get down on the ice to examine them up close. But as her study progresses,...
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Dealers of Lightning is the riveting story of the legendary Xerox PARC'a collection of eccentric young inventors brought together by Xerox Corporation at a facility in Palo Alto, California, during the mind-blowing intellectual ferment of the seventies and eighties. Here for the first time is revealed in piercing detail the true story of the extraordinary group that aimed to bring about a technological dawn that would change the world'and succeeded....
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"Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future. What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon's case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject's perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience the intimacy...
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"A neurologist regales readers with extraordinary stories of the brain under siege. Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: The very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss of inhibitions to florid psychosis to compulsive lying. Cognitive neurologist Sara Manning Peskin demystifies...
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Get the Summary of Frances Mayes's A Place in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Place in the World" by Frances Mayes is a rich tapestry of personal reflections on home, history, and the deep connections to place. Mayes recounts her experiences with Chatwood, a farmhouse in North Carolina, and its transformation over time. She delves into the history of the land, the surrounding community of Hillsborough,...
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
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In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...
11) The green trap
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Investigating the murder of his microbiologist brother, Paul Cochrane follows the trail from California to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to investigate his brother's work on a process that could produce a limitless supply of free energy to power the world.
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What has been done to achieve fairer and more efficient education systems, and what more can be done in the future? Stephen Gorard provides a comprehensive examination of crucial policy areas for education, such as differential outcomes, the poverty gradient, and the allocation of resources to education, to identify likely causes of educational disadvantage among students and lifelong learners. This analysis is supported by 20 years of extensive research,...
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This book is the first in a series. It focuses on how people can fulfil their responsibility to live as fully as possible the values that give their lives and work meaning and purpose, and that contribute to the flourishing of humanity and their own development. The importance of researching one's own practice to improve it is highlighted in terms of sharing and creating the individual s values based explanations for their educational influences in...
14) Desarrollo De Competencias Comunicacionales Con El Modelo De Programación Neurolingüistica Para L
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La comunicacin constituye una estrategia clave para optimizar el aprendizaje y representa la va para relacionarse con otras personas. Actualmente se considera que la calidad educativa est circunscrita a la transformacin de los paradigmas pedaggicos utilizados por los docentes con respecto a las estrategias metodolgicas. Los docentes deben concebirse como protagonistas de la transformacin educativa, ser gestores de sus investigaciones para as solventar...
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10 règles, plus 1 nouvelle règle d'or sur l'importance d'agir en toute intégrité. Toutes ces règles s'appuient sur de nombreuses références, sur l'opinion de plusieurs rédacteurs en chef de revues prestigieuses ainsi que sur l'expérience personnelle de l'auteur, lui-même chercheur et évaluateur.
Ces règles aideront le chercheur à élaborer un projet de recherche et à rédiger le texte rendant compte de sa réalisation de façon à persuader...
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When pursuing a career in commercial real estate, it's important to narrow your field of interest as soon as possible. You'll have a head start if you can build your college coursework around the discipline. And as you interview with prospective employers, you'll stand out if you have a clear focus and thoughtful plan. The product types we will discuss in this book are: land, office, industrial, data centers, retail, hospitality, healthcare and multifamily....
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#1 A good sex scene is a dialogue scene with physical details. It should be a sensual detail rather than a overtly sexual one. The Rule of Three can help you make a scene vivid and three-dimensional: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional.
#2 When he came to her, he found that she didn't want gentleness or courting....
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Una de las inquietudes ms acentuadas en el siglo XXI gira en torno a los modelos de formación por competencias que permean en los planes de estudio de los diversos niveles educativos de algunos pases de Latinoamérica. Está por demás decir que la necesidad de profesionalizar al profesorado en este tema versa como punto nodal en la mayoría de las agendas de gobierno. Se pretende conseguir que, frente a las preceptivas y las recomendaciones oficiales...
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#1 I biked from Mexico to Canada and back with the migrating monarch butterflies.
#2 The monarch butterfly is an ectothermic animal that matches its environment temperature. As temperatures drop, they become unable to move and can't seek out microclimates such as tree trunks.
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The Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina quickly achieved a national reputation for its contribution to pure research, university teaching, and public affairs. From its inception in 1924, it addressed touchy issues such as race relations, industrial inequities, and political inefficiency in the South. Despite worries about academic acceptance and funding, the institute's scholars produced research and publications...
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