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1) The bookshop
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In 1959, Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop--the only bookshop--in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted....
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Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050, at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, this book discovers how in country...
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For decades, environmentalists have told us that using fossil fuels is a self-destructive addiction that will destroy our planet. Yet by every measure of human well-being, from life expectancy to clean water to climate safety, life has been getting better and better. How can this be? The explanation is that we usually hear only one side of the story. We're taught to think only of the negatives of fossil fuels, their risks and side effects, but not...
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Everything you need to know to run a profitable and satisfying craft business from your home. From business and financial planning to marketing your business both online and through traditional outlets, this comprehensive guide provides practical solutions and solid advice on how to tap your creative skills to earn a living. Learn all about business plans, finding supplies on the Internet, publicity, zoning ordinances, and much more. Whatever your...
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China has 130 million migrant workers-the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China's Pearl River Delta.As she tracks their lives, Chang paints...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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Something strange happened on an unremarkable day just before the season changed. beautiful book that describes the impact of COVID-19 on communities and why some essential workers could not quarantine. Everybody who was outside . . . went inside. Outside, it was quieter, wilder, and different. Inside, we laughed, we cried, and we grew. We remembered to protect the ones we love and love the ones who protect us. While the world changed outside, we...
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Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple—once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom—have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power.
Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that...
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#1 In the fall of 1981, BYU was ranked #1 in the country in football. The roar of the crowd echoed across campus every time BYU scored a touchdown. Leach was a fan of BYU's head coach, LaVell Edwards, and his innovative offensive system.
#2 Mike Leach was a big fan of BYU football, and when he and Sharon married in 1982, they moved to Southern California so he...
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#1 I was born in Scotland and grew up enjoying the outdoors. I loved to go camping, hiking, and skiing. My parents were always gracious and calm, and had a great deal of integrity. Their outlook on life was guided by asking what they could do for others.
#2 I began as a receptionist in the front office of the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. I was promoted to assistant...
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Aplicar las técnicas de preparación de las materias primas, operando con seguridad los equipos necesarios para conseguir la calidad requerida en la almazara. Realizar operaciones de preparación y mantenimiento de primer nivel de los equipos de producción de una almazara, para la elaboración de aceites de oliva vírgenes, Identificando las infraestructuras y las etapas de procesado. Realizar las operaciones de procesado del aceite de oliva en...
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#1 The classic experiment done by Darley and Batson in 1973 proved how seemingly incidental contextual factors have a significant, but under-appreciated, influence on behavior. The situation, not the person, determines the behavior.
#2 The truth is that consumers have not changed at all since 1973. The more agencies try to convince us that everything is changing, and...
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A leading social critic goes inside the billion-dollar baby business to expose the marketing and the myths, helping parents determine what's worth their money-and what's a waste
Parenting coaches, ergonomic strollers, music classes, sleep consultants, luxury diaper creams, a never-ending rotation of DVDs that will make a baby smarter, socially adept, and bilingual before age three. Time-strapped, anxious parents hoping to provide the best for their...
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#1 This book is for consultants and professional services providers who want to understand how clients buy consulting and professional services. We see lots of thorny problems that need solving, and we see lots of smart people ready to help.
#2 The most important thing in private practice is how to get clients, and yet we are taught nothing about selling. It's hard to...
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#1 The oil industry was the result of a big bang that occurred in 1859 when Edwin Drake and his hired man, Uncle Billy Smith, pulled the equivalent of maybe twenty forty-two-gallon barrels of crude oil from the ground on a good day. The first commercially viable gas-powered engine, and the ensuing addiction, were still a few generations away.
#2 By 1875, Rockefeller...
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#1 The elder Zanuck, Darryl, was chairman of the board of directors of the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and the Studio's Los Angeles-based executive vice president in charge of world-wide production. He was also wearing sunglasses and smoking a large black cigar.
#2 The turnaround of the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation interested me, as it seemed to...
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#1 I have always been drawn to risk, and I've taken it at every point in my life. I was born in 1928 in a railroad town in eastern Oklahoma, and grew up with a family that was hardworking, self-sufficient, and honest.
#2 I had to learn to sit on my bottom, as my grandmother often told me. I had to give back a dollar I had found on the street because my mother, grandmother,...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "IMAI0108 - OPERACIONES DE FONTANERÍA Y CALEFACCIÓN-CLIMATIZACIÓN DOMÉSTICA". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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