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372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"We've all had great teachers who opened new worlds, maybe even changed our lives. What made them so great? Everyone agrees that a great teacher can have an enormous impact. Yet we still don't know what, precisely, makes a teacher great. Is it a matter of natural-born charisma? Or does exceptional teaching require something more? Building a Better Teacher introduces a new generation of educators exploring the intricate science underlying their art....
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xix, 346 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"For the first time in history, the younger generation has something more to offer an employer than enthusiasm. In the past, a new employee was dependent upon years of service, but now digital technology and social media have exploded into the workplace. The younger generation possess the knowledge and the practical experience to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of social media and digital tools. Unfortunately, most companies, led primarily...
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171 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"A kid's guide to leaving the planet from someone who's done it! Former astronaut Terry Virts guides readers through the practical elements of becoming an astronaut, along with the wonders (and challenges!) of space travel. With insider information on training, piloting a ship, and working in space, readers and aspiring astronauts will be inspired to start their own journey to the stars. This practical guide is full of valuable wisdom and insight...
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xi, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"A no-nonsense, interactive guide that empowers all women at all levels to run their strongest, best marathon ever. As recently as 1966, women were forbidden to run in the marathon. Professionals--including doctors--believed it was physically impossible and dangerous for women to run more than a mile and a half. But as with many other barriers women have faced over time, we fought to participate and compete. Today, women make up almost half of the...
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xvii, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Sportswriter and columnist Sally Jenkins spent her whole life literally stamping great coaches and athletes down in letters. But somewhere along the line, she realized, they had begun to write her. Their example could shape her into something better if she paid attention. What she learned from great athletes and coaches is that champions are the product of their own work. This book is an effort to catalog the inner qualities that allow ordinary people...
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370 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Station Eleven meets The Martian in this brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them -- and their families -- changed forever In an age of space exploration, we search to find ourselves. In four years Prime Space will put the first humans on Mars. Helen Kane, Yoshi Tanaka, and Sergei...
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433 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
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English
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"This book provides everything business owners, managers, and HR professionals need to create or update a legal and plain-English employee handbook. It provides the latest legal information, practical suggestions, and best practices on: wages and hours; remote work; at-will employment; discrimination and harassment; complaints and investigations; health and safety; drugs and alcohol, including medical/legal marijuana; workplace privacy; and email...
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Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work. Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren't preparing students for jobs; the government isn't letting in enough high-skill immigrants; and even when the match is right,...
13) Spy school
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32 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 30 cm.
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English
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Discusses the skills and training needed to become a spy, spying techniques and different types of surveillance. Includes profiles of famous spies and double agents.
14) Teaching English as a foreign or second language: a teacher self-development and methodology guide
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xii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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449 pages : forms ; 28 cm
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English
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"This guide is for business owners, managers, and HR professionals who need to create (or update) a legal and plain-English employee handbook. It provides legal information, practical suggestions, and best practices on: wages, hours, and tip pools; at-will employment; time off; discrimination and harassment; complaints and investigations; health and safety; drugs and alcohol; workplace privacy; and email and social media"--
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For women who draw even a portion of their strength from being active, Run Like a Girl 365 Days a Year serves as a Book of Days. It's practical, inspirational, and personal, with a dash of the existential and neurotic, it?s a fresh take on the popular thought-a-day books, geared toward women athletes. Containing 365 entries for a full year of running inspiration, Run like a Girl 365 Days a Year revels in the joys we discover as we greet our athletic...
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Everyone was in for a surprise in 1909 when New Mexico declared open the Spanish American Normal School at El Rito. The school had been founded to train teachers for the vast region of the "Río Arriba" in which there were few schools and the citizenry still did not speak English, sixty years after becoming a territory of the United States. The Territory of New Mexico, in quest of statehood, had decided that fluency of its people in English would...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"Tate's tooth-fairy training starts today, and her big sister, May, is taking her out on her very first tooth-collecting mission. After practicing at home, Tate is ready to test her skills, and May leads her to their first stop: a herd of hippos in a lake! After all, human children aren't the only young creatures that lose their teeth. In fact, being a tooth fairy is a dangerous job, and Tate must visit all kinds of toothy predators before the night...
20) Evil: Season one
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3 videodiscs (553 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Where does science end and the supernatural begin? That's the mysterious, and dangerous, line explored by skeptical psychologist Kristen Bouchard when she teams up with priest-in training David Acosta to explore the evil humanity is capable of. Together, they dive into the Catholic Church's files of occult phenomena to bring them to rational conclusions...or attempt to.
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