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Exams can be very difficult in the field of medicine. Having a study guide pamphlet can really help when studying medical abbreviations. This pamphlet make its much easier for the student to study at any time or place. This helps because if the material is easily accessible, the student will review it more times a day than the average student. Abbreviations are learned easier because they are viewed more frequently. The more times the student sees...
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Encourage your sixth grader to demonstrate increased vocabulary as well as enhanced language competency every chance you get. This time, the focus is on acronyms. This book has been designed to help your child become familiar with acronyms like sonar, laser, radar, scuba. Yes, these words are acronyms! Have fun discovering!
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As Socrates said, "Wisdom begins with the definition of terms." “The Dictionary of Human Resources and Employment Law Acronyms”, "cracks the code" on thousands of human resources and employment law acronyms. All too often we see acronyms without their meanings clearly explained. We ask ourselves, "What do those letters mean?" It is an all-too-frequent question in today's labyrinth of acronyms, which seem to grow on a daily basis. This has never...
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If you are a pilot, a mechanic, an avionics engineer, a controller, a dispatcher or any of the many professions the aeronautical world has, it is a fact you've been in the "What does those letters stand for?" situation more than once. A compilation of over 10,000 aeronautical abbreviations and acronyms have been gathered from different sources including Jeppesen, ICAO, IATA, METAR, NOTAM, TAF, AIRBUS, BOEING, just to mention some of many other. All...
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A handy work of art and inspirational wisdom that focuses the Scriptures into a new vision of beauty as you engage with Harold Sweet's ingenious proverbs, poems, and acronym inventions that are meant to rightly define and magnify for today's Christian reader the overall meaning of the word being expressed. Whether you are a seeker, new believer, or seasoned saint, as you lay hold of this book, it will lay hold of you. Sweet is absolutely brilliant...
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Through quotes, acronyms, and words of wisdom, the seven dimensions of human endeavors addresses the key challenges that we all face on a daily basis. If we want to live wisely, we must learn to function successfully in each of the seven dimensions of human endeavors, which include the spiritual, physical, nutritional, social, emotional, intellectual, and the financial.
Although these seven dimensions of human endeavors are listed separately, they...
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354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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"In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years. Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it...
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319 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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NASA's space shuttle was the world's first reusable spacecraft, accomplishing many firsts and inspiring generations across its 30-year lifespan as America's iconic spaceship. In Space Shuttle Stories, shuttle astronaut Tom Jones interviewed more than 130 fellow astronauts for personal vignettes from each mission, complemented by their written accounts for all 135 space shuttle missions, from Columbia's maiden flight in 1981 to the final launch of...
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"A fun and informative illustrated kids' guide to safely and productively navigating the digital landscape. Cellphones have become a fact of life, with children as young as eight (yes, eight!) getting their very own "devices." Such boundless access means our kids are in nearly constant contact with technology that was designed specifically for adults. And they're doing so without any type of road map. Enter First Phone: the essential book that apprehensive...
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"You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from wood pulp. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra-virgin olive oil that isn't. So many fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets that it's hard to know what we're eating anymore. In Real Food/Fake Food, award-winning journalist Larry Olmsted convinces us why real food matters and empowers consumers to make smarter choices. Olmsted brings readers into...
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347 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Our national leaders have drifted into treating the pandemic as though it were an unavoidable natural catastrophe, repeating a depressing cycle of panic followed by neglect. So a remarkable group of practitioners and scholars from many backgrounds came together determined to discover and learn lessons from this latest world war.
"Lessons from the Covid War is plain-spoken and clear sighted. It cuts through the enormous jumble of information to make...
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viii, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color), maps ; 22 cm
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From the Publisher: Two thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar was likely uninhabited. Its unique flora and fauna had gone totally undisturbed by human contact until the first navigators landed on its shores. No one knows where those first inhabitants hailed from, but over the centuries Madagascar developed its own distinctive language and cultural systems. The only recent history of its kind in English, Madagascar, traces two millennia of human...
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Multiple individuals who have successfully installed solar power in their homes have been interviewed and their experiences included in this guide to help you learn what others went through and how they completed their solar power projects. Learn how the installation process works and how it can be done in your landscape, in small projects, for heating and purifying water, swimming pool heating, and other similar projects. Learn about how you can...
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2 volumes (xiii, 977, 34 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm.
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Book Description: Encyclopedia of Pollution is a new, two-volume color set designed to address all aspects of pollution and the global impact on the environment in a single source. Containing more than 300 entries and essays interspersed throughout, it uses the most current scientific data to explain the different types of pollutants including properties, production, uses, environmental release and fate, adverse health response to exposure, and...
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Compiled by a finance professional with real-world experience on three continents, it is a highly practical reference book containing the essential terminology of today's international financial marketplace. It gives concise and clear definitions of well over 5,000 terms commonly used in the industry, covering the disciplines of accounting, banking, corporate finance, investment management and insurance. This dictionary includes: New terminology,...
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For more than a century, Black's Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. This edition contains more than 50,000 terms, including more than 7,500 terms new to this edition. It also features expanded bibliographic coverage, definitions of more than 1,000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms, and reviewed and edited Latin maxims.
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