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The Times Children''s Book of the Week - Playful and perceptive...This is definitely one troll worth unblockingA funny, heartwarming story about internet trolling and learning to love yourself. Below the bridge, beneath the log, underneath the burping bog, where townsfolk whispered, cringed and crept, a terrifying monster slept... In this funny tale, inspired by both internet trolls and The Three Billy Goats Gruff, there is a terrifying troll that lives under a bridge. Unseen, he delights in shouting nasty things to passers-by. But when a d/Deaf bunny unwittingly faces up to him, he realises that it''s not so fun to say nasty things to someone''s face. Can Troll finally learn to love himself and others?Perfect for children aged 3+ This is a funny story that addresses internet trolling in an accessible way A charming character-led tale with Troll learning the error of his ways and

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Bond 11+ Verbal Reasoning Assessment Practice Book 1 for age 9-10 years has been developed and written by experienced tutors and offers exam-style practice questions for children preparing to take the 11+ exam and other selective school tests. This practice book uses a range of question styles to instil the flexibility of approach that is essential for success. Topic-specific learning papers develop the key skills that underpin the 11+ exam, building to mixed practice and full test papers to further reinforce those skills and build all-important exam-confidence. Bond Assessment Practice titles also include curveball questions to help children develop their ability to adapt to unusual question types. With a particular focus on topics like codes, synonyms and antonyms, logic, vocabulary, and syntax, this book is intuitively designed to aid learning and bursting with guidance and tutor tips, offering the best possible preparation for the 11+ verbal reasoning exam. Full answer explanations

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Build your skills with essential modern C++ features hands-on by completing eight interesting coding projects. In Learn C++ by Example you''ll: Learn how to write modern C++ using new features from C++ 11 to 23 Think about testing as you code Learn what happens under the hood of your C++ code Choose the most efficient algorithm or data structure About the technology C++ is used for everything from financial modeling to video games. C++ 11, 17, and 20 have all introduced exciting features that can increase your coding efficiency. This book introduces these features by putting them to use in real projects. Along the way, you''ll get up to speed with frequently used data structures, algorithms, and various parts of the standard library.

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Do you want to be able to understand and speak the Arabic of the Arabian Gulf confidently? All you need is this bestselling course from Teach Yourself - the most trusted brand in language learning. This course teaches the spoken Arabic of the Gulf region through everyday real-life situations that make the grammar and vocabulary easy and memorable, alongside full online audio support. To learn Modern Standard Arabic - used in writing and formal situations throughout the Arabic-speaking world - pick up a copy of Complete Arabic (9781444105469), also from Teach Yourself.Complete Spoken Arabic (of the Arabian Gulf) is structured in thematic units and the emphasis is placed on communication, so that you effortlessly progress from introducing yourself and dealing with everyday situations, to using the phone and talking about work. By the end of this course, you will approach Level B2 of the Common European Framework for Languages (CEFR) and from Novice-Low to

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Well-selected and authoritative, Palgrave Core Statutes provide the key materials needed by students in a format that is clear, compact and very easy to use. They are ideal for use in exams.

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This comprehensive, illustrated survey explores the more common linens and fabrics once carefully stored in American linen closets and hope chests and proudly spread on tables and in neatly made up bedrooms. More than 500 color photographs illustrate these diverse and colorful areas of collecting, ranging from intricate and detailed samplers, embroidery, and tatting, to simple but elegant pieces such as hand towels and splashers; pillow cases, shams and bolsters; quilts and coverlets; rugs; scarves and runners; sheets and blankets; tablecloths; and tray and teacart cloths.You'll even find early factory-made fabrics, a breakthrough for homemakers of the time. Helpful, creative tips on caring for old and damaged pieces, as well as new ideas for decorating with them, are also included. Written for both the novice antiquer and the experienced dealer, Collecting More Household Linens is a wonderful guide to the linens found decorating our homes for decades.

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Self-driving cars, natural language recognition, and online recommendation engines are all possible thanks to Machine Learning. Now you can create your own genetic algorithms, nature-inspired swarms, Monte Carlo simulations, cellular automata, and clusters. Learn how to test your ML code and dive into even more advanced topics. If you are a beginner-to-intermediate programmer keen to understand machine learning, this book is for you. Discover machine learning algorithms using a handful of self-contained recipes. Build a repertoire of algorithms, discovering terms and approaches that apply generally. Bake intelligence into your algorithms, guiding them to discover good solutions to problems. In this book, you will: Use heuristics and design fitness functions. Build genetic algorithms. Make nature-inspired swarms with ants, bees and particles. Create Monte Carlo simulations. Investigate cellular automata. Find minima and maxima, using hill climbing and simulated annealing. Try selection methods, including tournament and roulette wheels. Learn about heuristics, fitness functions, metrics, and clusters. Test your code and get inspired to try new problems. Work through scenarios to code your way out of a paper bag; an important skill for any competent programmer. See how the algorithms explore and learn by creating visualizations of each problem. Get inspired to design your own machine learning projects and become familiar with the jargon. What You Need: Code in C++ (>= C++11), Python (2.x or 3.x) and JavaScript (using the HTML5 canvas). Also uses matplotlib and some open source libraries, including SFML, Catch and Cosmic-Ray. These plotting and testing libraries are not required but their use will give you a fuller experience. Armed with just a text editor and compiler/interpreter for your language of choice you can still code along from the general algorithm descriptions.

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This useful, stylish and compact organiser will help you plan everything for your dream wedding, from the minute you get engaged right up to the big day! Organising a wedding takes a lot of planning. But help is at hand!This structured planner will keep you on track with checklist reminders, calendar countdowns and plenty of space to record who is doing what and when to ensure everything runs smoothly on the day.Comprehensive but flexible enough for you to customise according to your needs, this stylish notebook will be all you need to plan your big day. Featuring anelegant modern design and compact format, the planner is split into fourteen sections, each marked with tabbed opening pages, making it easy to find whatever information you need.Sections include: Planning Budgets Ceremony Clothing Beauty Flowers Reception Guests Stationery Gifts Photography Transport The Honeymoon There is an expandable pocket at the back for you to store any cards, cuttings or samples, lay-flat binding, ribbon markers and an elastic enclosure to keep everything in place. This book is the perfect gift for newly engaged couples, or to help you organise your own plans, so get this handy and complete planner today to ensure a stress-free journey to the perfect wedding!

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Canadian-born Agnes Martin was one of the pre-eminent painters of the second half of the twentieth century, whose work has had a significant influence both on artists of her own time and for subsequent generations. A contemporary of the abstract expressionists though often identified with minimalism, Martin was of the few woman artists who came to prominence in the predominately masculine art world of the late 1950s and 1960s, and became a particularly important role model for younger women artists. This groundbreaking survey provides an overview of Martin's career, from lesser-known early experimental works through her striped and grided grey paintings and use of colour in various formats, to a group of her final works that reintroduce bold forms. A selection of drawings and watercolours is also included. With essays by leading scholars that give a context for Martin's work - her life, relationship with other artists, the influence of South- Asian philosophy - alongside focused shorter pieces on particular paintings, the book will appeal to art students, academics and all those interested in abstract art. Presenting new research, and beautifully designed, the book is also an opportunity to introduce the life and work of Agnes Martin to those unfamiliar with her oeuvre.

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The Workbook contains a wide variety of practice exercises that review all the language areas studied in the Students' Book: Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation exercises help to consolidate new language. Functional and writing exercises build on the Language Live lessons. Listen and read sections extend learners' skills.

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Someone has stolen the only person John Smith has ever loved - his twin brother Cannon. Johnny will stop at nothing to get him back but Cannon doesn't feel the same way any more. He's married now, and he loves his wife. In a desperate effort to avoid Johnny's destructive brotherly affections, Cannon enlists the aid of Sarah Fortune, a lawyer who has turned helping the needy and eccentric into something of an art form.Sarah hides Cannon's wife for him, but she cannot quite trust Cannon's judgement. Is Johnny really intent on inflicting unendurable pain on the woman who has hi-jacked his brother's affections? Sarah doesn't really believe in evil, and it is that lack of faith which makes her shockingly vulnerable ...

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A year after her husband's death, young widow and art collector Diana Porteous listlessly roams the beach near her home. Her friend and agent Saul takes action, introducing her to his stylish, anarchic sister, Sarah, to pep her up.They plan that Di should rediscover her talents as a thief, as well as art expert, to recover stolen paintings - and begin with Steven, the neighbour's son, who is amassing works of art in a strange building in London, including work stolen from his mother.But if Di is interested in his illicit treasures, he is equally fascinated by hers - and in the secrets still held in that house by the sea. . .

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This volume focuses on the life and work of Rhina P. Espaillat, an extraordinarily observant lyric poet who applies ideals of musicality, metaphor, and meaning to formally crafted verse that connects personal experience to universal themes.Born in the Dominican Republic, Espaillat was seven years old when her family was granted political asylum in the United States during the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. She published her first poems in Ladies' Home Journal at age fifteen, and after graduating from college went on to marry, teach, raise a family, and maintain a literary career spanning more than seven decades. Having cultivated a fluent and scholarly bilingualism throughout her life, Espaillat also became a gifted translator of works by numerous important poets of the Spanish- and English speaking worlds, including Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, St. John of the Cross, Robert Frost and Richard Wilbur.THE COLOSSEUM CRITICAL INTRODUCTION SERIESEach title in the Colosseum Critical Introduction Series provides a thorough study of the life and work of an important American writer who has sought to renew the craft and deepen the intellectual and spiritual dimensions of contemporary poetry. Intended to be at once brief and compelling, these introductory texts will help readers find their way into some of the best voices in the literature of our day.

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Drawing on rich insights from the early Church Fathers, Discerning Persons addresses the neglected issue of disablism and how discriminatory attitudes fail to treat people with profound disabilities as persons. This discrimination can be found in the field of bioethics, where the stakes are often high and a matter of life or death. Whereas views that give priority to human beings whatever their capacities are seen as speciesist and so discriminatory, bioethical approaches that are disablist are rarely acknowledged as prejudiced. Many bioethicists do not even realize there is an issue. Current bioethical thinking appears uncritical and unreflective in the way it accepts a separation of the human being from the person and downgrades certain individuals who do not fulfill arbitrarily defined and insubstantial criteria for being persons. Using neglected Patristic thinking and its analogies with the human person, abled and disabled, found in reflection on the image of God and in the Trinitarian and Christological disputes of the early centuries where person language originated, the book makes patristic thinking do important work. It establishes that there are no early historical, philosophical, or theological grounds for calling or treating human beings as anything less than persons. Nor is there foundation for defining the person purely in terms of individuality, rationality, autonomy, or self-consciousness. Patristic insights conclusively call us to be discerning persons: to realize that persons are not so much defined as discerned, and to discern that all human beings, whatever their situations or capacities, are unique and unrepeatable persons.

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Vestige of Eden, Image of Eternity: Common Experience, the Hierarchy of Being, and Modern Science proffers a Catholic worldview of creation and the universe and shows that it is reasonable in the light of the best of human experience, both modern and pre-modern. The Catholic worldview maintains that the Liturgy of the Church—the image of eternity—is the “blueprint” for material and immaterial reality. This liturgical structure is manifested in the natural world through the hierarchy of being—the vestige of Eden—evident to human knowledge, and as such provides a framework that easily subsumes and makes sense of the data of modern scholarship and science. It also leaves them open to understanding in the light of realties beyond matter. Proposing a novel framework for understanding reality to modern ears, yet old in the history of human thought, Vestige of Eden will be of interest to general readers and college students, while proving profitable for the academic as well.

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Este libro, como bien indica su título, es una propuesta de camino para alcanzar un deseo que, manifestado a veces y oculto otras, todos llevamos en el corazón: una vida serena, pacificada, armoniosa. Y cuál es el camino que el hermano franciscano Giacomo Bini nos propone? En primer lugar: Dios. Solamente Él puede ofrecernos ese "equilibrio vital". Pero el hermano Bini nos invita a hacerlo al estilo de Francisco y Clara de Asís, de quienes él mismo aprendió a vivir el "santo evangelio de nuestro Señor Jesucristo? . Un libro para leerlo sin prisas, meditando cada palabra, cada frase, contrastando nuestra vida con las reflexiones que sus páginas nos van ofreciendo. Una ayuda inestimable para re-situar la propia existencia, para percibir en la realidad cotidiana y en las dificultades que la caracterizan la presencia de las semillas de vida que Dios no se cansa de sembrar en la experiencia de toda mujer y de todo hombre que viene al mundo.

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Faithful Catholic and other traditional Christian scholars and commentators write a great deal about the troubling developments in secular Western culture and its many components: morality, social life, politics, law, the situation of the family, etc. While critique of the secular culture—even trenchant critique—is often necessary, it is not adequate. Christians have to be careful not to just “curse the darkness.” After all, one of the great theological virtues, which are the highest of virtues, is hope. It was in that spirit that the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville assembled a group of traditional Christian scholars and writers for a conference in April 2015 to consider what things need to be done—and, in fact, realistically can be done and how they might be done—to begin to challenge the secular culture and restore the traditions that the Western world emerged from. Their papers at the conference—spanning education, family life, sexual morality, politics, law, the media, and the arts and architecture—are assembledinto this book.To challenge and try to change the secular culture is no small concern. Not only are Christians called to “re-establish all things in Christ” (Eph. 1:10), but they increasingly have no choice in the matter as the culture—whether by its propagation of immoral public practices or the increasing threats to religious liberty—inevitably impinges on them as they now may have to act simply to protect themselves. It is the hope of the scholars connected with the Veritas Center that this book may spawn further, ongoing reflection about how Christians and all those concerned about a sound culture that respects true human dignity should engage and, where necessary, confront a culture that has moved so sharply away from its religious foundations.The contributors to this volume are James Kalb, Benjamin Wiker,Anthony Esolen, Robert R. Reilly, Allan C. Carlson, Sheila Liaugminas, Duncan Stroik, Lawrence M. Stratton, and the book’s editor Stephen M. Krason. There is a foreword by Anne Hendershott.

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Libro para orar cada día con los Salmos, la Palabra..., solo o en grupo.?El libro está dividido en 4 semanas, con dos momentos de oración para cada día (mañana y tarde).Cada momento consta de:? Himno? Salmo con un breve comentario? Lectura breve? Ecos orantes (acción de gracias, alabanza, petición...)? Oración final y frase para repetir durante el día.

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Presents the result of an engagement of 200 young people from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds who engaged in dialogue on issues of global justice, ethnicity and religious understanding. .. a fine survey of world political issues and paths to peace.-The Bookwatch

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La ciudad actual es el resultado de una larga sucesión de situaciones vividas por grupos humanos (generaciones) que se han desarrollado sobre un mismo espacio a lo largo del tiempo configurando aquella. Diversas actividades humanas, como las religiosas, las políticas y las económicas, han ido contribuyendo a esa configuración, que se ha ido realizando por añadidos sucesivos de elementos materiales persistentes, especialmente edificios y calles.Por ello la ciudad actual presenta una serie de fragmentos que, a pesar de las transformaciones que han sufrido, conservan claramente los rasgos propios de las formas de hacer ciudad en distintas épocas anteriores, a veces incluso muy remotas, adoptando el plano de aquella el aspecto de un mosaico de piezas heterogéneas ensambladas o simplemente yuxtapuestas.

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Hack and Whack - two angelic looking Viking toddler twins - are on the attack! As they go marauding around their village, upsetting the apple carts, little do they know there is a force far more powerful than they: their mum! The story ends on the terrible two being plunged into a cold bath!Gloriously funny, slapstick, fast paced action from the queen of funny.

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Fling Diction is a book about the vulnerability of desire; these poems explore different styles of relationships, including queer love, polyamory, familial drama, dog and human companionship, and longing in isolation. The characters find and lose each other in rural and urban settings; their experiences are intensified by the sensuality and ferocity of nature. This book is a record of the speaker’s blunders, embraces, and revelations as she seeks knowledge of the elusive other.

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Mary Lennox, una niña solitaria que a nadie le cae bien, llega desde la India para vivir con su tío en Yorkshire, Inglaterra. En su nuevo destino, Mary no puede hacer mucho más aparte de explorar esa mansión inmensa y sombría, y de pasear por los alrededores. Hasta que una mañana soleada accede a un jardín secreto, oculto tras unos muros cubiertos de hiedra. Por primera vez en su corta y desdichada vida, ha encontrado algo que le preocupa y decide devolver a ese jardín la gloria de antaño.Gracias a la ayuda de Dickon, el niño que sabe hablar con los animales, y de Colin aprenderá otra manera de relacionarse y a disfrutar del contacto con la naturaleza.Este libro ha perdurado a lo largo de generaciones de lectores y sigue siendo un fascinante clásico por su temática, su argumento, sus personajes, su estilo sencillo y elegante y su calidad literaria. La simbología del jardín, el tono mágico de cuento de hadas y la forma en que todo esto refleja la necesidad humana de compañerismo,

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“A complex, thought-provoking, and entertaining view of middle school.” —Publishers Weekly Twenty kids. Twenty points of view. One rambunctious, brilliantly conceived novel that corrals the seeming chaos (c’mon, TWENTY points of view!) into one effervescent story.Sixth grade is a MOST confusing time. Best friends aren’t friends anymore. Worst enemies suddenly want to be partners in crime. And classmates you thought you knew have all sorts of surprising stuff going on. The kids in Mrs. Herrera’s class are dealing with all this and more—specifically: 1. There’s a new girl who just seems to be spying on them all and scribbling things in a notebook. Maybe she IS a spy? 2. Someone is stealing Mrs. Herrera’s most treasured items. 3. Their old classmate, Sam, keeps showing up and no one knows why…until they do. Which leads to a fourth problem. But we can’t tell you about that yet. The twenty kids in Mrs. Herrera’s classroom can, though, and they do. Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

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In the conclusion to the bestselling Secret Language of Girls trilogy, Marylin and Kate find that boys can be just as complicated as friendship.Marylin knows that, as a middle school cheerleader, she has certain obligations. She has to smile as she walks down the hall, be friends with the right people, and keep her manicure in tip-top shape. But Marylin is surprised to learn there are also rules about whom she’s allowed to like—and Benjamin, the student body president, is deemed unnacceptable. But maybe there is a way to convince the cheerleaders that her interest in Benjamin is for their own good—maybe she’ll pretend that she’s using him to get new cheerleading uniforms! Kate, of course, finds this ludicrous. She is going to like whom she likes, thank you very much. And she just so happens to be spending more time than ever with Matthew Holler. But even a girl who marches to the beat of her own guitar strings can play the wrong notes—and are she and Matthew even playing the same song? She’s just not sure. So when Matthew tells Kate that the school’s Audio Lab needs funding from the student government, she decides to do what she can to help him get it. But there isn’t enough money to go around, and it soon becomes clear that only one of the two girls can get her way. Ultimately, though, is it even her way? Or are both girls pushing for something they never really wanted in the first place?

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