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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"Global humanitarian Eddie Ndopu's rousing memoir about being both profoundly disabled and profoundly successful without trading one for the other. Eddie Ndopu grew up loving pop music and reruns of The Bold and the Beautiful, and as an adult he would become a globe-trotting disability activist. By his early twenties, he had rocketed through every boundary put in front of him-a queer, Black wheelchair user-challenging bias at the highest echelons...
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Duke Classics
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English
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The Game of Life and How to Play It is a short work of metaphysics by American artist, illustrator, and New Thought teacher Florence Scovel Shinn. Published in 1925, this book explores the foundations of Shinn's philosophy - that what one puts out into the world is what one receives back.
Shinn began her career as an artist and illustrator, drawing for Harper's magazine and several popular novels. After her marriage to artist Everett Shinn ended...
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New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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When the going gets tough, it's time to get gritty. Written by a clinical-child and school psychologist and based in the latest research, The Grit Guide for Teens will help you build perseverance, resilience, self-control, and stamina.
As a teen, setting and reaching goals is an important part of growing up. Whether you want to do well in school, get into a good college, make friends, excel in sports, or master the fine arts
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English
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In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of an abusive relationship.
He says he loves you. So...why does he do that?
You’ve asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance...
He says he loves you. So...why does he do that?
You’ve asked yourself this question again and again. Now you have the chance...
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Palgrave Macmillan US
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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This book explores the possibilities and limitations re-theorizing disability using historical materialism in the interdisciplinary contexts of social theory, cultural studies, social and education policy, feminist ethics, and theories of citizenship.
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Publisher
Diana Editorial
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
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La edición especial que tienes en tus manos incluye un poderoso curso en 11 lecciones para poner en práctica el cambio y mejorar tus hábitos en solo 30 días, una guía simple y paso a paso para crear y construir hábitos duraderos. Con el contenido adicional de esta nueva edición del libro conseguirás pasar a la acción, eliminar la incertidumbre en la construcción de tus hábitos y sabrás exactamente qué hacer a cada momento. Incluye un...
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DK
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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A powerful, eye-opening insight into navigating the world as a disabled young woman
Women's lives are shaped by sexism and expectations. Disabled people's lives are shaped by ableism and a complete lack of expectations. But what happens when you're subjected to both sets of rules?
This powerful, honest, hilarious, and furious memoir from journalist and advocate Lucy Webster looks at life at the intersection: the struggles, the...
Women's lives are shaped by sexism and expectations. Disabled people's lives are shaped by ableism and a complete lack of expectations. But what happens when you're subjected to both sets of rules?
This powerful, honest, hilarious, and furious memoir from journalist and advocate Lucy Webster looks at life at the intersection: the struggles, the...
10) Ezra Exposed
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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It started as a joke-but it's not funny anymore.
Even though Ezra's got good friends and can make everyone laugh, he feels like he's invisible, both at home and at school. To make things worse, he's the only kid in his group without a phone-left out of plans and shared jokes and games. Finally, at the end of fifth grade, his parents come through.
The phone changes everything. Ezra texts his friends all the time, can instantly keep up with his favorite...
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Language Story
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
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Explore the world with Pete and Carmen! Join them as they take you on an exciting journey of discovery. And while you're at it, pick up some Spanish along the way - our seven short stories will provide a fun and efficient way to gain invaluable language skills.
Learning a new language can be difficult and frustrating. Most people give up before they ever really get started learning a new language.They never reach
...12) Set me free
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only...
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Publisher
Juan Luis Heredia Navas
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
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Con este tutorial de fácil comprensión con el que aprenderás a marcar el compás de los principales palos del flamenco: fandangos, tangos, seguiriyas, tientos, soleá y cantiñas. Conocerás una pincelada su historia, de cómo se convirtió en arte, veremos la técnica, el árbol genealógico de los cantes, un breve repaso de las letras que se cantan en cada estilo. Cuando alcances este conocimiento, tendrás una base bastante buena y te sentirás
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Wiley
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Learn how the disruptive AI chatbot is going to change school, work, and beyond
ChatGPT For Dummies demystifies the artificial intelligence tool that can answer questions, write essays, and generate just about any kind of text it's asked for. This powerful example of generative AI is widely predicted to upend education and business. In this book, you'll learn how ChatGPT works and how you can operate it in a way that yields
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing' SIMON WINCHESTER 'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing ... a fantastic story of a truly Odyssean journey across all the world's great oceans – but is also the inspiring story of the developing...
17) Pimsleur Japanese Level 2: Learn to Speak and Understand Japanese with Pimsleur Language Programs
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Series
Publisher
PIMSLEUR
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Japanese
With Pimsleur you'll become conversational in Japanese — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You'll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you've learned, so you can put it into action.
Why Pimsleur?
Quick + Easy – Only ...
With Pimsleur you'll become conversational in Japanese — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You'll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you've learned, so you can put it into action.
Why Pimsleur?
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Series
Publisher
PIMSLEUR
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Tagalog
With Pimsleur you'll become conversational in Tagalog — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You'll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you've learned, so you can put it into action.
Why Pimsleur?
• Quick + Easy – Only...
With Pimsleur you'll become conversational in Tagalog — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You'll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you've learned, so you can put it into action.
Why Pimsleur?
• Quick + Easy – Only...
19) As you like it
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Publisher
Duke Classics
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English
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"As You Like It, Shakespeare's most lighthearted comedy and one of the best-loved and most performed of all his plays, was probably written in 1599 or 1600, though it was not printed until the First Folio of 1623. As its witty heroine is Shakespeare's longest female role, the play's performance history is marked by notable Rosalinds, from Hannah Pritchard and Margaret Woffington (giving rival performances in 1741), to Helen Faucit, Ada Rehan, Peggy...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries'...