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Wanted: keen young detective! Examine the evidence, character files, locations, interviews with witnesses, sift through the clues and decide for yourself who are the heroes, who are the villains, and what REALLY happened. Each spread is crammed with information and lively graphics, and features a Bible character alongside the case notes of their story, with a gatefold featuring extra information. A different take on telling Bible stories this book will also give an insight into Bible history and provide hours of fun puzzling out the mysteries on each page. An excellent title to encourage reluctant readers and appeal to boys. Case files on: Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, Gideon, David, Jezebel, Hezekiah, Jonah, Daniel, Esther, Herod, John the Baptist, Jesus, Simon Peter, Martha, Pontius Pilate, Mary Magdalene, and Paul.

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Offers a rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatism. This volume examines a variety of texts - ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets - to outline the populist character of conservatism in the United States.

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Starting with commercially available wooden eggs, Mary Finn shows how to transform them into all kinds of delightful characters, each with a unique personality. Using detailed, step by step instructions and color photography, this book shows how to create both “big headed” and regularly proportioned egg people, carve whole figures or partial figures, and add legs or go without. A list of ten basic steps is applied to each of four projects: a Santa carving, a man in a business suit, a butterfly-catching lady, and an ice hockey player. You will learn how to orient the egg, establish the basic outline, complete details such as eyes, hair, and clothing, and paint the finished project. Carving egg people is the ideal project for people with limited access to saws or other large equipment as well as for those who want an enjoyable “take-along” carving project.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Emma Rosenblum''s Bad Summer People is a whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island.This roiling beach community satire serves up wicked, clever fun that is White Lotus sharp. Kevin Kwan, New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and Sex and VanityNAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2023: Bustle, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, PopSugar, Bloomberg, Vogue, and more! None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder?Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating people to get what they want. Their husbands, Sam and Jason, have summered together on the island since childhood, despite lifelong grud

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Playful Painting: People offers a quirky take on portrait instruction. Sharpen your skills with 16 step-by-step projects, including a mixed-media Frida Kahlo, a colorful '80s girl, an ad man from the '60s, a handsome Victorian couple, and a creepy Edgar Allen Poe. Creating portraits is fun and easy with Playful Painting: People. This colorful guide will have you creating beautiful portraits of women and men in no time, as well as nature motifs and animals. Whether you’re an aspiring, beginning, or more advanced artist, you can learn to work with affordable, approachable tools, such as colored pencil, gouache, watercolor, pen and ink, and pencil, to create your own portraits. Every portrait is customizable, allowing you to add your own personal embellishments. Pick up a variety of tips and techniques that will show you how to paint whimsical patterns, accessories, and famous faces.Playful P

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Is your career where you want it to be? In everyday interactions, do people pay you enough attention? Does your view carry sufficient weight? This engaging, practical book reveals the 50 secrets you need to get your point across, position yourself for success and punch above your weight. Drawing on research interviews with dozens of influential people, the book will show you: *12 specific strategies to communicate your ideas so people take notice *How to build the networks and alliances you need to have real influence in organisations *How to leverage what you know to gain increased exposure at the top table *How to navigate organisational politics, "play the game" more effectively and fast-track your career.

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The vast crowd that line the beflagged route to the Kremlin was, as in New York, friendly and cheering. ‘Welcome, Otherworld Visitors to the Land of Socialism!’ spelt out the banners, in big Cyrillic letters. ‘For Universal Peace and Free Scientific Exchanges!’ The chairman of the Supreme Soviet, Noriskin, followed closely along the pattern set by Dr Faradien when he introduced Rogard. And Rogard’s message of peace and goodwill, expressed in flawless Russian, once again met with loud and enthusiastic applause. The White People came from the planet Oxindu. They were highly intelligent and they came in peace. Or did they? This astonishing novel has been buried in the archives for over fifty years. Written by Michael Harmel in 1959, The White People deftly and presciently maps the state of the Earth in the middle of the Cold War, mirroring the struggles around the world for a common language, humanity and a way of lessening the environmental destruction of the planet.

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Fahima Deeb changed everything seven years ago when she triggered the Pulse, imbuing millions of people with otherworldly gifts like flight, telekinesis, or superhuman strength. She thought that would herald the end of the hostilities between those with abilities and those without, but it instead highlighted a new problem: There is someone behind the scenes, able to influence and manipulate these newly empowered people into committing horrible acts against their will. Worse still, that shadowy figure is wearing the face of Fahima's oldest friend, Patrick Davenport. Fahima is horror-struck when she realizes that Patrick has built an army entirely under his control to wipe out all who oppose him. With nowhere to turn and few she can trust, Fahima must rely on uncertain allies: Carrie Norris, whose illusion of a normal life vanishes at Fahima's reappearance. Clay Weaver, a retired soldier fighting to keep his husband and son safe-and to keep Patrick from taking over his mind. And, finally, Emmeline Hirsch, adrift and untethered from her ability to travel through time. Together, they might be able to topple Patrick's shadowy regime . . . though it may spell destruction for the entire world.

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It's the middle of the 21st century, and the next Ice Age has suddenly sent global warming into reverse. Saul is one of the Ice People, the threatened peoples of the northern hemisphere, who, watching their world freeze over, try to move south towards the equator. 'Set in the near future, it imagines not a globally warmed world, but an earth slowly returning to aridity and cold. A universal freeze has also descended upon relationships between men and women, who live in morbid segregation, with feathered robots as sexual partners. In a neat reversal of First World-Third World assumptions, Africa's relative warmth offers a last hope to northerly survivors as the novel charts one man's struggle to rescue his alienated son and bring him to where the sun shines' - Rose Tremain.

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A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism-only to end up living comfortably alongside itWhat do post-work politics, the cult of crypto, clubbing, and polyamory have in common? All have spawned thriving subcultures united in their rejection of the patriarchal capitalist order: from wage labour, to the reign of the shareholder class over capital markets, to romantic relationships that feel like contractual arrangements to be negotiated, and more.People Who Lunch is about hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, labour and leisure, and the challenge of living our ideals in a less than ideal world. In it, Sally Olds brings her unsparing scrutiny to bear...as she grapples with the sense of entrapment in the machinery of capitalism and remorseless logic of commodification (ABC Arts).In one essay, Olds''s brief flirtation with post-monogamy forces her to co

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In Olivia Worley''s pitch-perfect debut, People to Follow, ten teen influencers come to a remote island to star in a reality show, but when one of them winds up dead, they realize that this time, the price of getting cancelled could be their lives.A reality show on a remote Caribbean island. Ten teen influencers. One dead body.Welcome to In Real Life, the hot new reality show that forces social media's reigning kings and queens to unplug for three weeks and go live without any filters. IRL is supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime, watched closely by legions of loyal followers. But for these rising stars--including Elody, an Instagram model with an impulsive streak; Kira, a child star turned fitness influencer; Logan, a disgraced TikTok celeb with a secret; and Max, a YouTuber famous for exposés on his fellow creators--it's about to turn into a nightmare.When the production crew fails to show up and one of their own meets a violent

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Fast track route to motivating individuals and teams Covers the key areas of motivation, from the development of academic theories and celebrated workplace experiments to the contemporary dilemmas caused by restructuring and job insecurity Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including LVMH and BP, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Abraham Maslow, Douglas McGregor, W Edwards Deming, Lynda Gratton, Fons Trompenaars and Meredith Belbin Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

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The inspiring story of political newcomers who are knocking down built-in barriers to creating better government.

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For readers of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, David NichollsHer life is on hold – until an unlikely visitor climbs in through the kitchen windowA year after her brother’s fatal accident, Lexie’s life seems to have reached a dead end. She is back home in small-town Hailesbank with her shell-shocked parents, treading softly around their fragile emotions.As the family business drifts into decline, Lexie’s passion for painting and for her one-time mentor Patrick have been buried as deep as her unexpressed grief, until the day her lunch is interrupted by a strange visitor in a bobble hat, dressing gown and bedroom slippers, who climbs through the window.Elderly Edith’s batty appearance conceals a secret and starts Lexie on a journey that gives her an inspirational artistic idea and rekindles her appetite for life. With friends in support and ex-lover Cameron seemingly ready to settle down, do love and laughter beckon after all?

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A cult hellbent on death and destruction. A troubled family with a twisted web of secrets and lies. An ancient forest swarming with ungodly abominations. When Hattie and Richard Penrose take their family on a 'staycation' to the Cornish village of Bodhmall's Rest, cracks in their unsettled marriage start to appear, as does the truth about Hattie's fling with a co-worker and Richard's burgeoning money problems. As the family members battle their own individual demons, strange creatures are sighted in the woods, and the ghost of the mysterious Red Man appears in the attic. When an undercover SOCA agent uncovers links with a criminal organisation known as The Belvedere Saints, things start to unravel at a terrifying pace. Little do the Penrose family know that Glanna Cormoran and the members of her pagan cult are keeping a close eye on them. And the Terrible Babies. They're watching too.

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In the 1970s, Budi Darma - one of Indonesia's most acclaimed writers - lived as a student in Bloomington, Indiana. His experiences formed the basis for the renowed short story collection, The People from Bloomington: a portrait of small-town America that offers an incisive view of the West and the people that inhabit it.In Darma's America, apartment blocks and gasping attic rooms shadow overgrown gardens, empty streets and distances traversable only by car. His stories circle the lonely, the unkempt, and the odd: mysterious old men and gruesomely sick poets, children with strange proportions and women waiting for letters that never arrive.Tense, quietly surreal and always morbidly funny, The People from Bloomington is one of the great works of twentieth-century Indonesian literature.

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