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This notebook features a beautiful illustration of the iconic heron in its natural habitat. With cover illustrations by fine art printmaker Sarah Ross Thompson, this notebook contains blank paper, with head-and-tail bands.

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The Java Enterprise Edition 6 platform provides capabilities that make it easier for Java programmers to develop and deploy enterprise and Web applications. This handy guide provides an overview of the main technologies in the Java EE 6 platform, including extensive easy-to-understand code samples that demonstrate many improvements. Whether you're familiar with Java EE 5 or a Java programmer approaching the enterprise edition for the first time, this book will quickly get you up to speed on Java EE 6. Discover how Java EE 6 provides a simplified developer experience and improves on the developer productivity features introduced in Java EE 5 Delve into Java EE 6 profiles, including a comprehensive profile for lightweight, standards-based modern web applications Explore how the platform enables extensibility with open source libraries and frameworks Learn about specifications such as Contexts & Dependency Injection, Java API for RESTful Services, and Servlets 3 make the platform more powerful

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Answers at your fingertips This hands-on guide will help you trouble-shoot and solve electrical problems in industrial and commercial settings. You'll find plain-English explanations for a wide range of electrical equipment and systems, from transformers and switchgears to alarm and wiring systems. Use this book to quickly access reliable information and improve your on-the-job skills. Get useful rules of thumb and quick tricks Discover formulas, charts, and tables essential for plant electrical work Locate technical data quickly and get up to speed on everyday electrical questions Packed with illustrations that help you grasp ideas quickly and easily

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Navigate your way around Brighton with detailed street maps from A-ZThis up-to-date, folded A-Z street map includes 2,600 streets in and around Brighton. As well as the seafront and Brighton Palace Pier, the other areas covered are The Lanes, Preston Park, the Artists' Quarter, Hanover and Seven Dials.The large scale street map includes: Places of interest One-way streets and car parks Index to streets, places of interest, place and area names, park and ride sites, national rail stations, hospitals and hospicesThe perfect reference map for finding your way around Brighton.

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This book puts the reader at the very heart of this hell on wheels and presents the original instructions required to perform this most dangerous of wartime battlefield roles.

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This book is a quick reference guide to obstetrics and gynaecology for trainees and physicians. Divided into two sections, the first part examines the management of key obstetrical complications during both pregnancy, and after birth. The second section describes gynaecological disorders including benign masses, infections during pregnancy and conception problems. Presented in an easy to read format, this manual includes clinical photographs, illustrations, flow charts and tables to enhance understanding. Key points Quick reference guide to obstetrics and gynaecology for trainees and physicians Covers diagnosis and treatment of numerous obstetrical and gynaecological disorders Presented in easy to read, quick reference format Includes clinical photographs, flow charts, illustrations and tables

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Marco Polo Guides are packed with unique insider tips. Straightforward information is presented in an engaging format which will appeal to the young and the young at heart. Includes a street atlas and a separate pull-out map.

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Providing a concise chronicle of its various cultures, this handy reference recounts the broad and complex history of Nova Scotia, Canada. Beginning with an exploration of its indigenous people, the Mi'Kmaq, this overview delves into the stories of the first European settlers before reviewing the dominant English colonists and how they shaped the province. Documenting the different challenges each group faced, this reconstruction illustrates the Mi'Kmaq's battle for survival, the conquering of the Acadiens, and the toil of the working people who came to Nova Scotia in search of a better life. Ranging from its earliest days to the beginning of the 21st century, this illuminating examination paints a clearer picture of the most populous province in Atlantic Canada.

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This compact compendium contains the best work by the nineteenth-century British Romantic poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. It includes some of the greatest poems in the English language, among them Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” Shelley’s “Ozymandias,” Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” and Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan.”

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In this book, Mark Gurry shares his in-depth knowledge of Oracle's SQL statement optimizers. Mark's knowledge is the result of many hard-fought tuning battles during his many years of providing Oracle tuning services to clients. Mark provides insights into the workings of the rule-based optimizer that go well beyond what the rules tell you. He also provides solutions to many common problems that occur with both the rule-based and cost-based optimizers. In addition to the specific problem/solution scenarios for the optimizers, the book provides a number of SQL tuning tips. It discusses the various optimizer hints, telling you when they can be used to good effect. Finally, it discusses the use of the DBMS_STATS package to manage database statistics, and the use of outlines to specify execution plans for SQL statements in third-party applications that you can't otherwise modify..

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William Butler Yeats ranks among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though best-known as the author of poems as timeless and delicately crafted as The Lake Isle of Innisfree and for his unrequited love of Maud Gonne, he exerted a remarkable influence in many other aspects of Irish life: a brother to the artist Jack B. Yeats, he was also a leading light of the Irish Literary Revival, founder of the Abbey Theatre and two-term senator. This volume forms a compact introduction to his life and the events shaped his work.

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Polish off your magnifying glass and step into the shoes of your favourite detectives as you unlock tantalising clues and solve intricate puzzles. There are over 100 criminally teasing challenges to be scrutinised, including word searches, anagrams, snapshot covers, and crosswords - a favourite puzzle of crime fiction's golden age. Suitable for all ages and levels, this is the ultimate test for fans of the British Library Crime Classics series. For six years, the British Library have brought neglected crime fiction writers into the spotlight in a series of republished novels and anthologies. There are now more than 50 British Library Crime Classics titles to collect.

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What trouble will your favorite Pokémon get into in this volume of gag comics?The fifth volume in the best-selling Pokémon activity and gag comic series, in a substantial brick book format.Litten, Rockruff, Popplio, Bewear and many more of your favorite Pokémon of the Alola region, with classic favorites like Pikachu and Psyduck, romp through the pages of this hysterical collection of Pokémon four-panel comics! Plus fun puzzles and creative projects!

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With over 400 million Bibles in print, the New International Version is the world's most popular modern English Bible. It is renowned for its combination of reliability and readability. Fully revised and updated for the first time in 25 years, the NIV is ideal for personal reading, public teaching and group study.This Bible also features: clear, readable 6.75pt texteasy-to-read layout shortcuts to key stories, events and people of the Bible reading plan timeline book by book overview quick links to find inspiration and help from the Bible in different life situations.This edition uses British spelling, punctuation and grammar to allow the Bible to be read more naturally.More about the translationThis revised and updated edition of the NIV includes three main types of change, taking into account changes in the way we use language day to day; advances in biblical scholarship and understanding; and the need to ensure that gender accurate language is used, to faithfully reflect whether men and women are referred to in each instance. The translators have carefully assessed a huge body of scholarship, as well as inviting peer submissions, in order to review every word of the existing NIV to ensure it remains as clear and relevant today as when it was first published.Royalties from all sales of the NIV Bible help Biblica, formerly the International Bible Society, in their work of translating and distributing Bibles around the world.

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The magical, mysterious, and portable mini oracle deck companion to Gentle Chaos.- Portable pieces of delight, inspiration, and magic from Gentle Chaos: Seek out a burst of creativity or divination anywhere with this miniature oracle deck based on Gentle Chaos by Tyler Gaca, AKA TikTok''s Ghosthoney.- From the creative mind of Tyler Gaca: The images and messages on these cards are infused with the unparalleled playfulness and mystique that Ghosthoney brings to everything he creates, inviting wonderful weirdness into any occasion.- Enchantment on the go: Sized to fit in the palm of your hand (approx. 2 1/2 x 3 1/2), these miniature cards are easy to transport and perfect to keep on hand for whenever you need them.- Beautiful, deluxe package: This fully illustrated set features 49 full-colour cards, a 64-page paperback book (2 1/2 x 3 1/2), and a wooden card display stand in a magnetic-closure carrying case.-

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A carefully designed and lavishly illustrated photographic guideThis innovative and carefully designed photographic guide provides a concise introduction to the identification of the 246 birds most likely to be seen in Great Britain and Ireland. It is the perfect book for anyone wanting to put a name to the birds in their garden, local area or on visits farther afield. Packed with hundreds of stunning photos showing the birds in their many variations, and written and designed by a team of experienced birdwatchers, this is the ideal companion for anyone interested in learning more about the wild birds around us. Covers the 246 birds most likely to be seen, plus another 30 or so scarce but regular migrants Carefully designed to be user-friendly and accessible Lavishly illustrated with more than 1,000 stunning colour photographs Easy to use and written in plain English

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With over 400 million Bibles in print, the New International Version is the world's most popular modern English Bible. It is renowned for its combination of reliability and readability. Fully revised and updated for the first time in 25 years, the NIV is ideal for personal reading, public teaching and group study.This Bible also features: clear, readable 6.75pt text easy-to-read layout shortcuts to key stories, events and people of the Bible reading plan timeline book by book overview quick links to find inspiration and help from the Bible in different life situations.British Text This edition uses British spelling, punctuation and grammar to allow the Bible to be read more naturally. More about the translation This revised and updated edition of the NIV includes three main types of change, taking into account changes in the way we use language day to day; advances in biblical scholarship and understanding; and the need to ensure that gender accurate language is used, to faithfully reflect whether men and women are referred to in each instance. The translators have carefully assessed a huge body of scholarship, as well as inviting peer submissions, in order to review every word of the existing NIV to ensure it remains as clear and relevant today as when it was first published. Royalties from all sales of the NIV Bible help Biblica, formerly the International Bible Society, in their work of translating and distributing Bibles around the world.

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