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Homeschooling
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Subject(s): Home schooling -- Juvenile literature -- United States Summary: This volume explores the topics relating to homeschooling by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these issues. Homeschooling is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather

Working Toward Sustainability : Ethical Decision Making in a Technological World
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Subject(s): Sustainable development | Environmental ethics | Environmental economics | Sustainable development -- Case studies | Environmental ethics -- Case studies | Environmental economics -- Case studies Summary: "Because sustainability ultimately rests on ethics, this groundbreaking book is a crucial link in extending sustainability fr

Presentation Skills for Students
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Subject(s): Public speaking | Interpersonal communication Summary: "Presentation Skills for Students is a practical, accessible guide for all students in further or higher education. It discusses speaking effectively in seminars, tutorials and formal presentations and helps with career research including a practical step-by-step guide to a

The Sustainable Sites Handbook
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Subject(s): Sustainable Sites Initiative | Landscape ecology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Sustainable development -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Evaluation | Environmental management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Evaluation Summary: "This official reference guide to the Sustainable Sites Initiative Rating System contains information on pri

self-Management : Using Behavioral and Cognitive Principles to Manage your Life
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Subject(s): Behavior modification | Self-management (Psychology) Summary: "Sarafino presents concepts in a way that enables psychologists to analyze their own specific behaviors in terms of the factors that cause and maintain them and ways to manage those factors to improve the behaviors. The book draws on research, theory, and the author&#

The Orchid Affair
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Subject(s): Women spies -- Fiction | Governesses -- Fiction Summary: Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School and her first assignment is serving as governess for the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. Jaouen and his arch rival, Gaston Delaroche, are investigating a suspected Roy

Children and the Entertainment Industry
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Subject(s): Television and children | Child actors | Performing arts Summary: From the Publisher's Website: For over 25 years, the Greenhaven Press Opposing Viewpoints Series has developed and set the standard for current-issue studies. With more than 90 volumes covering nearly every controversial contemporary topic, Opposing Viewpoints is

China as a Leader of the World Economy
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Subject(s): International economic relations | China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- | China -- Economic policy -- 2000- | China -- Foreign economic relations Summary: "After the 1978 economic reform, China's economic development has been on a fast track ever since. Later on, the successful accession into the WTO in 2001 accelerated Chi

al-Qushayri's Epistle on Sufism : al-Risala al-Qushayriyya Fi 'ilm al-Tasawwuf
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Subject(s): Sufism -- Early works to 1800 Review: "The author of the Epistle on Sufism, Abu 'l-Qasim al-Qushayri (376/986-465/1074), was a famous Sunni scholar and mystic (Sufi) from Khurasan in Iran. His Epistle is probably the most popular Sufi manual ever." "Written in 437/1045, it has served as a primary textbook for many ge

Graphic Standards Field Guide to Residential Construction
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Subject(s): Building -- Handbooks, manuals, etc -- Details Drawings | Building -- Details Drawings Standards | Dwellings -- Designs and plans Handbooks, manuals, etc Summary: "Graphic Standards Field Guide to Residential Construction is the reference for the on-the-go professional from a name they've grown to trust. The perfect companio

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