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Click on the Google Preview image above to read some pages of this book! "You're a strong skater, Piet, and you have a quick mind. This is why I know you'll succeed in this important task. I wouldn't ask you to do this if I didn't know it could be done."In 1941 Piet, a young Dutch boy from Sluis, gets the assignment of a lifetime: He must skate along the frozen canals of the Netherlands and across the Belgian border, in order to guide two neighborhood children to their aunt's house in Brugge, where...

Annotation Provides mathematicians with the background they need to work in radar imaging. Publisher Description Radar imaging is a mathematically rich subject with many interesting applications and a large variety of challenging, mathematical open problems. The goal of this book is to provide mathematicians with the background they need to work in the field, building on the foundation of the underlying partial differential equations. The focus is on showing the connection between the physics...

This book explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities around the world. A richly illustrated cultural history, drawing on social and urban history, art, literature and music, Drive explores in particular how car driving is portrayed in cinema and other moving images, from America to Europe and Asia, and from Hollywood to the avant-garde. Drive is about dynamic journeys, experiences and speeds, rooted in specific places and roads, and expanded into the realm...

$27.99 We are constantly told that happiness should be our goal, but how can we achieve it? Does the advice of happiness experts really work? That is what Sophie Scott decides to find out. Exploring the science of happiness, the ABCs award-winning medical reporter gets inside the ideas of leading happiness experts, including Buddhist monk Mathieu Ricard (the worlds happiest man ), psychologist Dr Tim Sharp (aka Dr Happy) from the Happiness Institute, and Assistant Professor Alice Domar from the...

Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the present day and shows how skateboarders experience...

Deciding where your child should play (AYSO or USSF program, recreational or travel team, etc.). What equipment is needed for games and practices. Rules of the game and overview of the playing field. Player positions and how they vary with age. Dribbling techniques, skills, drills, and games. Passing techniques, skills, drills, and games. Shooting techniques, skills, drills, and games. Defensive techniques, skills, drills, and games. Goalie techniques, skills, drills, and games. Player formations...

Click on the Google Preview image above to read some pages of this book! In "Beyond Mammoth Cave: A Tale of Obsession in the World's Longest Cave," James D. Borden and Roger W. Brucker provide gripping first-person accounts of the discoveries, including Roppel Cave, that made Kentucky's Mammoth Cave three times longer than any other cave in the world. Borden, a relative newcomer, and Brucker, a veteran explorer, bring a personal and sometimes conflicting view of their roles as adversaries in a race...

Description Lex Luger, wrestling megasensation and three-time world heavyweight champion, ruled the ring for years as "The Total Package." Whether he was making a dramatic entrance from a helicopter, defeating champ Hulk Hogan, or sculpting a near-perfect physique, Lex was on top of his game. Yet backstage, he was wrestling with addictions to sex, drugs, and alcohol--things he clung to even when his mistress died suddenly of a drug overdose and Lex went to jail. There, Lex faced the truth: he was...

In the 1930's, a First World War flying ace named Roger Schumann is reduced to making appearances on the crash-and-burn circuit of stunt aerobatics. His family are forced to live like dogs while Shumann pursues his only true love, the airplane. When Burke Devlin, a reporter, shows up on the scene to do a "whatever happened to" story on Shumann, he is repulsed by the war hero's diminished circumstances and, conversely, drawn to his stunning wife, LaVerne.

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Smart Luck & the Seven Other Qualities of Great Entrepreneurs

The Everything Baby's First Year Book: The Advice You Need to Get You and Baby Through the First Twelve Months Marian Edelman Borden , Alison D. Schonwald, MD, FAAP 9781605503684 Adams Media Corporation Pregnancy, birth & baby care Paperback 304 pages

"The all too brief career of film star Olive Borden (1906-1947) is chronicled in this definitive biography. Apprenticing in short slapstick silent comedies, the vivacious Virginia-born actress rose to stardom after signing with Fox in 1925, enlivening such films as John Ford's Three Bad Men (1926). Borden's career declined after she severed her ties with Fox, and by the early 1930s she was finished in Hollywood. Alcoholism and a devastating series of personal setbacks hastened her death at age forty...

Each member of a first grade class, as well as their teacher, principal, and a bus driver, expresses excitement, worry, or hope as the first day of school begins in alphabetical order.

Click on the Google Preview image above to read some pages of this book! "For hundreds of years ships had been sailing to places far and near "without really knowing where they were ""Sailors knew how to measure latitude, their location north or south of the equator, but they could not measure longitude, their location east or west of their home port. Because of this, many lives were lost worldwide. The key to solving this problem lay in devising a clock that could keep absolutely accurate time while...

Describes how a flotilla of small boats crossed the English Channel in May 1940 to rescue thousands of British and French soldiers trapped on the French coast near Dunkirk by the invading forces of Nazi Germany.

Advises veterans on how and where to claim benefits from the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) such as health care and job benefits.

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'Geary returns with another typically superlative work...Artfully precise reconstruction...A Delight!' - Publisher's Weekly starred review. The infamous story of the Lizzy Borden murders reproduced here in Geary's distinctive style.

Functioning as the sheriff of a small and violent town in order to support his family, ex-rancher Borden Chantry investigates a series of murders and comes face-to-face with an outlaw who harbors a desperate need for revenge. Reissue.

This book takes readers inside the minds, bodies, and feelings of anorexic patients and tells the stories of those who have successfully fought back from this disease. Through first-person narratives, readers get a rarely seen look inside this disease. Anyone who has suffered from anorexia/bulimia, or who has had a loved one struggle with it, will benefit from the insights in this book.