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Did your last flight leave you annoyed, disappointed? Pay too much for your ticket? Difficulty sleeping? Exasperated negotiating that new airport? There are many ways a flight can turn into a tiresome ordeal. Thankfully, Hack Your Flights reveals ways to make the next flight your smoothest, most enjoyable flying experience ever - while introducing you to new innovations like in-flight child-free zone (for those without kids), in-flight sleeping pods...
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Updated April 2017) The Must Have guide for anyone traveling to China. This guide discusses the private personal details that others are too embarrassed to discussed. This information will make your trip much more comfortable and enjoyable. Also, includes detailed travel guides to Beijing and Sichuan Province.
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Secure your twelve and twenty-four-word seed phrase from prying eyes.Self-custody is the goal.The problem is that private keys are compromised when seen by unauthorized eyes.The solution?Obfuscate the seed so that only the owner or a trusted party knows how to decipher the seed.Check out some of our solutions at bitcoin seed book dot comSecure your twelve and twenty-four-word seed phrase from prying eyes.Self-custody is the goal.The problem is that...
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Love Quotes - World's Best Collection "If a thing loves, it is infinite…" - William Blake Love, the miraculous emotion that touches us, and makes us feel amazing. Do you want the largest collection of beautiful quotes all about this incredible emotion? A collection that can make you feel the wonderful emotion that is love? The Biggest Collection Available We all know the beauty of love and all want to feel it, whether it is romance, between friends,...
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Take a journey through the 50 nifty states of the United States of America. This engaging illustrated atlas feature the unique foods, wildlife, and traditions of each state using colorful pictographs on illustrated maps. Find out which state is known as the "Peace Garden State," and learn what makes Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico special. Are you ready to discover this great country from sea to shining sea? A special section at the end details facts...
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"A new era in the scientific community has arrived, and it is an era of multinationalism and cooperative reach. Globalization, the Internet, and digital technology all play a role in making this new era possible, but something more fundamental is also at work. In all scientific endeavors lies an ancient drive for sharing ideas and knowledge. Communication serves as the driving force behind turning brilliant ideas into world-changing realities. Yet,...
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The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms-such as "the implied author," "the postulated reader," and "the unreliable narrator"-have become...
8) Memento Mori
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La raccolta di racconti di Daniel King attraversa gli indistinti paesaggi della morte, delle relazioni inasprite dalla vita, dei lati instabili della natura umana, anche dell'attrazione contemporanea della chirurgia plastica spinta ad un sorprendente estremo.
Filosoficamente acuti e dotati di un gusto per il surreale, i personaggi di questi racconti combattono con l'esistenza e con l'un l'altro mentre profonde domande li fanno volare qua e là....
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The Positional Astronomy is the science describing the position of an object in the sky and its movement in the celestial sphere.In this book the argument is treated in a plain but exhaustive and rigorous way, allowing also the beginners to easily approach this subject.Each chapter of the book deals with a specific matter, such as the definition of the geocentric sphere and the system of coordinates to be adopted, the movements of the celestial bodies...
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Durante la fase final de la Guerra de los Cien Años, que enfrentó a los reinos de Francia e Inglaterra entre los años 1337 y 1453, probablemente no exista ningún personaje sobre el que estemos mejor y más documentados que sobre Juana de Arco. Esta breve biografía está compuesta casi en su totalidad por testimonios de la época. Permite precisar los marcos personales, políticos, militares, jurídicos, religiosos y literarios en los que se sitúa...
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Every freakin' winter the flu hits us hard. So we developed this flu-routine aka 'flutine.' This routine helps our family get through it. We still get sick from time to time but it is better than the winter when the whole house went down. After all, a ounce of prevention...Newly updated guide to dealing with coronaviruses with tips for Long Haulers, prevention, smoother recovery, preserving your marriage and keeping your kids busy during a lockdown....
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Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory-giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices.
These six new chapters are "Popular Culture,"...
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Throughout the Ages man has been using magic. The majority of religions recognize that magic exists; many of them have gone so far as to forbid its use.What is magic? Does magic actually work? How many different kinds of magic are there? Is magic an exact science, or is it only available to those that have been gifted?In this book, you will surely find a way for any character to use magic without detracting too much from their personality.
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People have more access to medical information than ever before, and yet we still believe "facts" about our bodies and health that are just plain wrong. DON'T SWALLOW YOUR GUM! takes on these myths and misconceptions, and exposes the truth behind some of those weird and worrisome things we think about our bodies. Entries dispel the following myths and more:
- You need to drink 8 glasses of water a day
- Chewing gum stays in your stomach for seven...
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I Remember, one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs-each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths about French society during the 1940s and 50s.
Taking Perec's book as its cue, Telling About Society explores the unconventional ways we communicate what we...
16) Papers on Accounting, Business, Economics, Politics, and Psychology: College Papers Plus 2019-2019
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Papers on accounting, business, economics, finance, and related topics.
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Dino's Space Atlas for Kids consists of hundreds of beautiful hand drawn illustrations. It takes your child to a journey through the whole known universe in space and time: from our Earth and Solar System to the farest galaxies and from the Big Bang to the future of the universe. In Space Atlas you can pursue devolpment of the human knowledge about space, from observing night sky with naked eye and telescopes to direct exploration with spacecrafts...
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Drawing on more than four decades of experience as a researcher and teacher, Howard Becker now brings to students and researchers the many valuable techniques he has learned. Tricks of the Trade will help students learn how to think about research projects. Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students can make better sense of their research and simultaneously generate fresh ideas on where to look next for new data. The tricks cover four broad areas...
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Collaboration between ethnographers and subjects has long been a product of the close, intimate relationships that define ethnographic research. But increasingly, collaboration is no longer viewed as merely a consequence of fieldwork; instead collaboration now preconditions and shapes research design as well as its dissemination. As a result, ethnographic subjects are shifting from being informants to being consultants. The emergence of collaborative...
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Lonely Planet's Pocket Bordeaux is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Discover artists at Musee des Beaux Arts, spend a day boutique shopping, and marvel at elegant Place de la Bourse; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Bordeaux and make the most of your trip!
Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Bordeaux:
Full-colour maps and travel photography throughout
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