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Anthony Duran has been Ricky Lau’s best friend and basketball buddy since they were little. But now that Ricky has moved schools, the boys find themselves on different school basketball teams. With few new friends, Ricky still wants to shoot hoops with his best bud. Anthony, on the other hand, doesn’t want to practise with an opponent. Ricky is willing to do whatever it takes to get his friend back. But what if that means letting his new team down?

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Questions of privacy, borders, and nationhood are increasingly shaping the way we think about all things digital. Data Centers brings together essays and photographic documentation that analyze recent and ongoing developments. Taking Switzerland as an example, the book takes a look at the country's data centers, law firms, corporations, and government institutions that are involved in the creation, maintenance, and regulation of digital infrastructures. Beneath the official storyline— Switzerland’s moderate climate, political stability, and relatively clean energy mix—the book uncovers a much more varied and sometimes contradictory set of narratives.

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A practical guide to nurturing healthy, loving non-monogamous relationships using attachment theory. Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate secure monogamous relationships. What if, like many people, you’re striving for secure, happy attachments with more than one partner? Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual non-monogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how emotional experiences can influence our relationships. Then, she sets out six specific strategies to help you move toward secure attachments in your multiple relationships. Polysecure is both a trailblazing theoretical treatise and a practical guide. It provides non-monogamous people with a new set of tools to navigate the complexities of multiple loving relationships, and offers radical new concepts that are sure to influence the conversation about attachment theory.

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Los Angeles Review of Books is an independent, nonprofit, multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine that combines the great American tradition of the serious book review with the evolving technologies of online publishing. LARB has quickly established itself as a thriving institution for writers and readers. The LARB Quarterly Journal, a signature print edition, reflects the best that this institution brings to a national and international readership. The magazine cultivates a stable of regular and ongoing contributors, both eminent and emerging, to cover all topics and genres, from politics to fiction, from television to poetry, and much more. LARB specializes in a looser and more eclectic approach than other journals: grounded in literature but open to all varieties of cultural experience; headquartered in Los Angeles, but home to writers and artists from all over the world, the LARB Quarterly Journal brings the pioneering spirit of the online magazine into print and proves that longform literary and cultural arts review is alive and well.

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This handy, pocket-sized guide provides quick and easy access to key information on immunoassays, saving readers valuable time. Coverage includes an explanation of terms, classification of assay types, separation techniques, radiolabelled immunoassays, enzyme, fluorescent and chemiluminescent systems, agglutination methods, immunosenors and equipment.

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Inspire and engage your students with this Lower Secondary Science course from Collins offering comprehensive coverage of the new curriculum framework including suggested practical investigations and Thinking and Working Scientifically skills. Carefully constructed learning outcomes and detailed lesson plan ideas fully support the development of Thinking and Working Scientifically skills and offer ongoing, formative assessment ideas Suggestions for challenge activities in every topic to stretch students able to progress further Full support for practical work, with student sheets and comprehensive technician’s notes including equipment lists and set-up instructions for all investigations Opportunities for reviewing students’ progress at the end of every chapter Links to other topics highlighted to deepen student understanding of how topics interconnect and apply to one another Resources are split into flexible learning episodes so that you can teach the course to suit the needs of your students Starting point activities help you to assess whether your students are ready to tackle the topic Answers to student book and workbook questions provided A full planning guide to help you design your course effectively Provides teacher support as part of a set of resources for the Cambridge Lower Secondary Science curriculum framework (0893) from 2020. This series is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the new curriculum framework 0893 from 2020.

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This comprehensive and popular annual textbook provides students of UK taxation with a thorough knowledge of: Income tax, Corporation tax, Capital gains tax, Inheritance tax, Value added tax. The book provides numerous illustrative examples of the practical operation of statute and case law and provides a wide variety of end-of-chapter questions for self learning. It is aimed at students studying for both University degree programmes incorporating courses in UK taxation and also students studying tax courses for professional qualifications in accounting, banking, management and taxation. Past exam questions, with solutions, are provided in the text from the ACCA, CIMA and CIOT examinations. This edition has been updated for all those provisions of the 2019 and 2020 Finance Acts that relate to the tax year 2020/21. In particular, it incorporates all the new personal tax rates, allowances and reliefs, together with changes for self employed businesses, employment tax rule changes and VAT changes.

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Bop and Boo are having a brilliant time with their new friend, Ricky Racoon! Ricky loves playing, but he doesn't like tidying up afterwards!The Brave Bunnies and Ricky love pretending to be astronauts - where will their adventures take them next?This colourful board book has big, chunky pages for little hands and is perfect to share with adventurous children!

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In Deadly Dare, there's a new craze at Theo and Ricky's school. The rules are simple: write a dare, put it in the bag and take turns to pick one out. But on the night Ricky does his dare and enters the deserted warehouse, he disappears. What really happened to Ricky - and how much does new girl Angela know? Theo needs to find the answers before it's too late . . .There's nothing unusual about getting emails from your dad . . . unless he died a few months ago. In Computer Ghost Jade asks Theo, Ricky and Angela to help her find out what's going on. Could the mysterious, desperate messages really be from a ghost? One thing's for sure. Whoever is behind them wants something badly - and they'll stop at nothing to get it . . . Theo, Ricky and Angela have to become Lie Detectives to uncover the truth about top inventor, Darius Marriott, after he comes to give a talk at school and collapses. Who is out to get him, and why does their friend Bullet seem so involved? They're determined to get to the bottom of it all - but that could prove to be much more dangerous than they think . . . Three gripping mysteries by bestselling Malorie Blackman.

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Far from having a checkered past, gingham aprons were popular kitchen fashions in the mid-twentieth century. This charming volume of over 300 full color photographs is devoted to beautiful, meticulously handcrafted garments in a myriad of designs: unpretentious, complicated, serious, and whimsical. Lively geometric patterns, stars and flowers, kittens and butterflies, trees and acorns, prayers and blessings are all presented in the cross stitch section alone. Another section is devoted to rickrack decoration, including regular rickrack, miniature and jumbo rickrack, as well as rickrack-cross stitch combinations. Yet another section is filled with techniques that include aprons with pulled thread patterns, smocking, Teneriffe Lace, and stairstep borders. This lavish volume includes engaging, informative captions with values and is a must for all textile designers and collectors of vintage household linens.

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Really Woolly Thankful Thoughts inspires toddlers and preschoolers to be thankful all day long! With sweet rhymes and soft illustrations, this glitter-embellished board book encourages children to be thankful for God's many blessings. With age-appropriate Bible verses and prompts for prayers of thanksgiving, Really Woolly Thankful Thoughts will offer you encouragement too as you find reminders to be thankful along with your little one.

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This book is an essential guide to understanding how managers in China and Southeast Asia make effective economic decisions. In today’s competitive global economy, it’s vital to grasp how the most dynamic part of Asia is employing accounting tools in actual practice. The carefully crafted empirical studies presented here demonstrate the application of management accounting concepts in a variety of economic scenarios. Overall, these comparative investigations describe theory and common practices in a way that yields insights for both strategic and day-to-day problem solving. Accordingly, Management Accounting in China and Southeast Asia will interest graduate students, professional practitioners, and researchers in accounting, management, and finance.

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Celebrate the hope of Jesus and the true meaning of Easter with this basket-shaped board book of poems and prayers from DaySpring's Really Woolly series. Babies, toddlers, and preschoolers will giggle along with this lovable sheep as they discover that the Easter story is full of joy, from baby ducklings and blooming flowers to knowing that Jesus is alive forever and ever! Curl up with your own little lamb and Really Woolly My First Easter to celebrate the hope and joy of the Easter season. This inspirational Easter board book for kids is a perfect Easter basket gift, Easter morning Sunday School story time, or spring family read-aloud.This book for ages 0 to 4 features a fun and functional Easter basket shape with a handle and glittered cover; an age-appropriate way to teach very young children how spring blessings of new life reflect the meaning of Jesus' resurrection; a hidden Easter egg hunt in each illustration that will keep children coming back to make new discoveries; your favorite Really Woolly characters; and Bible verses, sweet rhymes, and simple prayers that reflect the delight of God's promises. The Really Woolly® series from DaySpring® is known for sharing encouragement through the relationship the Shepherd has with His sheep.Look for additional inspirational children's books from the Really Woolly series: Really Woolly Easter Blessings Really Woolly Goodnight, God Really Woolly Christmas Blessings Really Woolly Bedtime Blessings Really Woolly I Love You, Little One Really Woolly 5-Minute Bedtime Treasury

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This is soon to be a major motion picture starring Tim Roth and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history - a man who thought his life was over - lies in a hospital bed, inexplicably alive and miraculously healthy, trying to figure out how to conceal his identity. At the intersection of the natural and supernatural, myth and history, dream and science, lies Mircea Eliade's novella. Now, in its first paperback edition, the psychological thriller features Dominic Matei, an elderly academic who experiences a cataclysmic event that allows him to live a new life with startling intellectual capacity. Sought by the Nazis for their medical experiments on the potentially life-prolonging power of electric shocks, Matei is helped to flee through Romania, Switzerland, Malta, and India. Newly endowed with prodigious powers of memory and comprehension, he finds himself face-to-face with the glory and terror of the supernatural. In this surreal, philosophy-driven fantasy, Eliade tests the boundaries of literary genre as well as the reader's imagination. Suspenseful, witty, and poignant, "Youth Without Youth" illuminates Eliade's longing for past loves and new texts, his erotic imagination, and his love of a thrilling mystery. It will be adapted for the screen in 2007 as Francis Ford Coppola's first feature film in over ten years.

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The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was discovered in 1964. At the time, the very idea of a virus underlying a cancer was revolutionary. Cancer is, after all, not catching. Even now, the idea of a virus causing cancer surprises many people. But Epstein-Barr, named after its discoverers, Sir Anthony Epstein and Dr Yvonne Barr, is fascinating for other reasons too. Almost everyone carries it, yet it is only under certain circumstances that it produces disease. It has been associated with different, apparently unrelated, diseases in different populations: Burkitt's Lymphoma, producing tumours in the jaw, in African children; a nasal tumour in China; glandular fever in Europe and the USA; and the majority of cases of Hodgkin's Disease everywhere. This book tells the story of the discovery of the virus, and the recognition of its connection with these various diseases - an account that spans the world and involves some remarkable characters and individual stories.

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One pink convertible, two estranged cousins, and a fateful summer road trip. When geeky horror movie fanatic Ricki and makeup guru Lana accidentally switch bodies they will have to work together to straighten out their lives and swap back to their rightful body beforecalamity strikes. Freaky in Frenso is a fresh take that is part?Freaky Friday, part romcom, and all heart.Ricki has one goal: save the Starlight Drive-in movie theater from going dark forever. Okay, make that two goals … she may also want a first kiss from her cinema-rescuing partner and major crush, Jake. Lana definitely has only one goal: grow her online makeup channel to keep her momager off her back, even if the posts attract ugly internet trolls.The two cousins couldn’t be more different, but their opposite personalities come crashing to a head when their aunt gifts the girls a vintage cotton-candy-pink convertible.?To share.?Ricki wants the convertible for the drive-in’s grand reopening, but it’s the same day as Digifest, a huge event where Lana needs to shine. After a major fight and a minor electric shock while wrestling over the wheel, Ricki wakes up as Lana, and Lana wakes up as Ricki.Ricki and Lana have only a day to un-swap themselves, a task made even more difficult as they try to keep up appearances on Lana’s channel and with Ricki’s hopefully-soon-to-be-kissed crush. But it turns out experiencing a day as each other—with a mini road trip and Chihuahua wrangling—may be the one thing that help the cousins see each other and?themselves?more clearly.Freaky in Fresno: Addresses topics such as family and friendship, mental health and self-worth, andonline presence Pays homage to beloved 80s movies, hilarious?Freaky Friday?twists, cult horror classics, and scream queens like Jamie Lee Curtis Is perfect for fans of contemporary YA, Christian Riccio, and Morgan Matson

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Your children will feel safe and loved. Children build confidence when they know they are loved. In Really Woolly® I Love You, Little One, our favorite lamb and his friends discover how much they are loved by their families and, most of all, by God.Reading these comforting rhymes, Bible verses, and prayers will help you create a special bonding moment with your child, building a foundation of love that lasts a lifetime.

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Winter’s nap is over, and new life is all around! Flowers are blooming. Birds are chirping. And the Really Woolly characters are discovering God’s goodness all around them. Curl up with your little one, and join the fun while learning about the hope of Easter and springtime! Adorable rhymes, sweet Bible verses, and prayer starters will make reading time a special moment for you and your child—to connect with each other and with God.

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Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage.In this major autobiography, McCluskey throws back the curtains on life at the top of the Labour movement—with explosive revelations about his dealings with Keir Starmer, the behind-the-scenes battles of the Corbyn era, his secret Brexit negotiations with Theresa May’s government, the spectacular bust-up with his former friend Tom Watson, and his tortuous relationship with Ed Miliband.McCluskey is no run-of-the-mill trade unionist. Fiercely political, unflinchingly left wing, he is a true workers’ leader. His politics were formed in Liverpool at a time of dock strikes, the Beatles, and the May 1968 revolution in Paris. An eyewitness to the Hillsborough tragedy, he recounts in harrowing detail searching for his son.Witty and sharp, McCluskey delivers a powerful intervention, issuing a manifesto for the future of trade unionism and urging the left not to lose sight of class politics.A central player in a tumultuous period of British political history, McCluskey’s account is an essential—and entertaining—record of our times.

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Join ten magical little unicorns for fairy tale fun in this enchanting rhyming adventure!It's Princess Petal's birthday, but - oh no! - her cake is nowhere to be seen! Can ten brave little unicorns find the missing cake in time for the royal birthday party?Follow the ten little unicorns as they venture through an enchanted land, meeting witches, wizards, dragons and fairies along the way.Read the bouncy rhyming story and count from ten to one and back again, as the little unicorns disappear then reappear. Spot and count the details on each page, and join in with the magical read-aloud sounds.Part traditional counting rhyme, part fun-filled story, Ten Little Unicorns is perfect for sharing.

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