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1) Work Ethic
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Students learn more about how a strong work ethic can help them succeed in the classroom, socially, and in their future careers! The title tackles this essential life skill in an age-appropriate and participatory way, drawing them into fun-filled "investigations" of related skills illustrated to depict a realistic and relatable classroom situation. Work Ethic invites readers to "investigate" four story-centered scenarios related to listening, talking,...
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Themes: LifeSkills, Soft Skills, Everyday Life, Flip Book, Fiction, Nonfiction, Teen, Young Adult, Emergent Reader, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Each 5-book set in the series covers a key aspect of independent living, such as communicating effectively, managing...
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Finn and Drew, partners from the Rookie Reefer Bandidos caper smuggling pot from Mexico to Massachusetts, hook up again, this time in Florida. With good numbers in the Vietnam lottery, they're free to drop out of college and pursue simple hedonism. When they get on tying steel at a construction site in Delray Beach, it turns out their colleagues are a jovial lot of prisoners on work release from the Florida State Penitentiary. The boys live nearby...
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Knowledge is your most valuable asset. That's why we put together a one-of-a-kind how to invest book with detailed experience designed to help you grow as an investor with content tailored to your own personal investing goals and needs.
Discerning analysis starts with a depth of research and insight into investing the knowledge within this book will provide the road map to investing that's sure to enrich you now or later. Options are incredible tools...
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This book will make you feel like you're not alone. The onset of political correctness and government intervention has literally ruined our work environment. This book tells you how it happened and what we can do about it. No longer can we tolerate giving praise and rewards for a job not well done. It's time to get angry and let people know that they don't compare one bit to the workers of the past. It's time to let us (the ones who have paid our...
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xviii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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"How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habits, and other prescribed, finely calibrated "subtle maneuvers" that help them use time, summon up willpower, exercise self-discipline and keep themselves afloat with optimism. Artists considering how they work--in letters, diaries, interviews, beguilingly compiled and edited by Mason Currey. Portraits...
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Do your children exhaust you? Have you found yourself finishing their chores because it's, well, easier than getting them to do them? If so, this book will give you new energy, and your household new harmony. This book will help your children develop a good work ethic.
Mary Beeke, healthcare professional, educator, and mother first helps you absorb parenting principles and then gives you practical principles to bring clarity to roles in your home....
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The Savage brothers are now in South Africa!
Chaz and Des have been asked to help their cousins, Christina and Aurora, track down a young woman who has been kidnapped.
But once again they get more than they bargained for. From Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg to Tel Aviv to the Caribbean, their escapades put them in the middle of a billion-dollar cryptocurrency heist, the South African mafia, and the global trafficking of human organs. Even the...
12) Self-Disciplined Producer: Develop a Powerful Work Ethic, Improve Your Focus, and Produce Better
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Short. To the Point. To Help High Performers Become Even More Productive
Results are what matter the most to you. You want to be a reliable producer of value in your chosen domain: whether it's your career, business, sports, studies, non-profit endeavors, or any other undertaking requiring intense focus.
You'd like to learn how to become more productive, but your time is precious, and you don't have time for a five-hundred-page book only to discover...
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xvi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Currey explores the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention, stealing (or secreting away) time from the pull of husbands, wives, children, obligations, in order to create their creations; the large and small (and abiding) choices these women made -- and continue to make...
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Find out how W. E. (work ethic) can build new strength in your life! I chose It all comes down to W. E. as the title for this book because I believe that the very essence of work ethic stems from the idea that many individuals influence our life each and every day. Our daily interactions may consist of positive encounters or they may include negative ones, but regardless of the type, they will have made an impression upon us from which we will learn....
15) The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism: the Talcott Parsons translation interpretations
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xii, 338 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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From dawn to dusk, through sunshine, rainfall, and everything in between, he works his smooth hands until they crack. He harvests plenty of gifts for everyone to enjoy in hope of a brighter future for his own--he is the backbone of our country. Beautifully illustrated with the gifted colors of Mother Earth and told from the perspective of a proud son, this heartfelt tale will take us on a journey through the hardships and tireless days of a field...
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"Dashrath Manjhi used a hammer and chisel, grit, determination, and twenty years to carve a path through the mountain separating his poor village from the nearby village with schools, markets, and a hospital. Manjhi Moves a Mountain shows how everyone can make a difference if their heart is big enough."--Provided by publisher.
18) Complete stories
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xxx, 911 pages ; 24 cm
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The complete short fiction of Kurt Vonnegut has been assembled for the first time. Organized thematically, these ninety-eight stories were written from 1941 to 2007, and include those Vonnegut published in magazines or collected in Welcome to the Monkey House, Bagombo Snuff Box, and other books. Also included are five previously unpublished stories, as well as a handful of others that were published online.
"The complete short stories of Kurt Vonnegut"--...
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xx, 268 pages ; 22 cm
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"We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? Despite our constant search for new ways to "hack" our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure"--
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