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1) Payback
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Masterminds trilogy volume 3
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After a serious betrayal from one of their former friends, the clones of Project Osiris are fighting to survive in the real world. To prove the existence of Project Osiris, Amber and Malik turn to the notorious mob boss Gus Alabaster, also known as Malik's DNA donor. Meanwhile, Eli and Tori get sucked into even bigger conspiracies as they hunt down where Eli's DNA comes from. Can they eventually end the Project Osiris?
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Media is showing us that self-managing organizations, like Zappos, unleash human potential in ways we couldn't have imagined, but so often when we try to transition to a self managed organization, we get stuck. The task seems overwhelming and many organizations just give up. We find ourselves caught between the inspirational stories of these self-organizing companies and the deeply entrenched habits. It can be overwhelming to have such a sense of...
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Un libro necesario para entender un conflicto de alcance mundial que dura más de seis décadas y en que el autor ha pretendido: "meter los pies en el barro para que israelíes y palestinos vivan juntos, entremezclados y en paz".
Este nuevo libro no es un libro teórico sobre el conflicto palestino-israelí sino el fruto de numerosos diálogos mantenidos durante años con las personas que se me acercan y buscan respuestas a tantas preguntas, desde...
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The Protestant ethic - a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one's life in the service of God - was made famous by sociologist and political economist Max Weber. In this brilliant study (his best-known and most controversial), he opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through "the struggle of opposites." Instead, he relates the rise of a capitalist economy...
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Learn to solve problems together with this nonfiction book. Ideal for young readers, the book includes a fiction story related to the topic, a connected project, glossary, useful text features, and engaging sidebars. This 28-page full-color book explores real-world problems and how individuals have come together to find solutions. It also covers key topics like creative problem-solving and brainstorming, and includes an extension activity for grade...
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This essential presents the state of urban research on gentrification in a condensed form. This term, which has been used in the scientific community since the 1960s, has now also become established in the public debate. It describes how rising rents in the cities and the lack of affordable housing lead to poorer residents being driven out of their neighbourhoods. It becomes clear in what way gentrification is a general principle of urban development...
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Applied Psychology: Practical Guide to the Human Mind, Step-by-Step Advice to the Understandings of Psychology
What people are saying: This is a surprisingly fascinating book. Well written in an easy to understand style and well researched. Applied Psychology: Practical Guide to the Human Mind, Step-by-Step Advice to the Understandings of Psychology (Positive Psychology) by Jonny Bell gives you a great overview of psychology and the workings of the...
8) High Drama
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Dessa's friend Kat has started dating a girl and wants to keep it quiet. When Dessa accidentally reveals Kat's secret, a bully makes Kat a target. Dessa tries to defend her friend, but ends up suspended in the process.
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We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside the community. We have become consumers and clients, not citizens and neighbors. John McKnight and Peter Block...
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El municipio de Villa de Leyva es conocido en el mundo del turismo por su centro histórico, el cual da cuenta de su pasado colonial: plaza central, iglesias, conventos y otras edificaciones emblemáticas bien conservadas, que conforman este lugar. Desde su declaratoria como monumento nacional en 1954, muchas de estas construcciones han sido transformadas en museos, boutiques, restaurantes y hoteles, para atender una demanda turística cada vez más...
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Social organism (MEMES) surround us - Families, corporations, religions, nations. One of the specific tasks of our memes is to captivate each of us into surrendering to our role in the Meme thus abandoning our own soulful self. This is why as you read news accounts of a happening you respond "How could he do such a thing?" in the past our answer was "The devil made me," or "God did it." BUT it's not so, the Meme demanded it and we respond - ITS MEME...
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#1 When I was 11, my father was forced to retire from the Navy after 25 years, and we moved to La Grange, North Carolina. My father began drinking heavily, and he took his rage and frustration out on my mother. We never knew when he was going to explode in anger and bitterness.
#2 I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, with my mother and two brothers after my father died....
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Los avatares de las formas discursivas aludidas, serán abordados bajo unos interrogantes problematizadores que controvierten algunas de las formas en prejuicio racial hacia los y las afrodescendientes y sus reivindicaciones políticas y culturales. En lo que se refiere a la invención del negro(a), esta será abordada desde dos interrogantes: 1) hablar de negro(a), en cuanto forma discursiva bajo la que se ha definido a un ser humano, ¿nace con...
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In challenging social science's established orthodoxies, this first in a series of books is a call for its disciplines to embrace new theoretical paradigms and research methods to better, understand the reality of life in a post-COVID world. By offering a detailed insight into the harmful effects of neoliberalism before the pandemic, as well as the intervallic period the world is currently living through, the authors show how it is more important...
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An era of vibrant diversity is rewriting our culture, schools, workplaces and history. But more than a decade into the twenty-first century, talent of color are not breaking into the top executive ranks in numbers proportionate to their achievements and demographic mass. To move past lingering bias and subtle exclusion, people of color need the powerful advocacy of sponsorship. This robust relationship capital drives engagement and retention, fostering...
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#1 The English Civil War was a conflict between the Parliamentarians and the Cavaliers. The Parliamentarians were loyal to King and Parliament, while the Cavaliers were loyal to Charles I. The conflict ended when Cromwell died in 1658, and a Parliament was created that restored Charles II to the throne.
#2 The English Civil War was the result of a system of government...
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Los autores de este libro, por ejemplo, investigan y analizan el concepto de cuidado y sus dinámicas al interior de la familia, la percepción masculina del cuidado doméstico; cómo se perciben e interiorizan los términos educación y ciudadanía en la vida cotidiana; qué significa la discapacidad y cómo funcionan las familias con integrantes discapacitados. Y así como se tocan temas que, por su carácter doméstico y corriente, afectan la balanza...
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Methlahoma explains how the methamphetamine epidemic has adversely affected various people in Oklahoma. The opioid crisis has been well covered but the meth crisis may be worse. To better understand how a man-made drug like meth is destroying communities Methlahoma describes the history of the drug trade and how the United States uses the criminal justice system to fight the "war on drugs." Methlahoma describes how modern narcotics trafficking is...
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Este es un extenso estudio sobre las diversas juventudes que habitan y transitan amplios conglomerados urbanos y rurales, dividido en dos volúmenes: el primero se concentra en una muestra de las y los jóvenes de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México (ZMVM); el segundo, abarca a otra muestra de jóvenes, mujeres y hombres que serían afectados por la construcción de un megaproyecto, a saber, el Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de México (NAIM)....
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Conflicto y armonías de las razas en América es, quizá, el libro más controvertido de Sarmiento. En él declara que los indios no piensan porque no están preparados para ello, y los blancos españoles habían perdido el hábito de ejercitar el cerebro como órgano. Por el contrario, describe a un pueblo estadounidense exento de toda mezcla con razas inferiores en energía, conservadas sus tradiciones políticas, sin que se degraden con la adopción...
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