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This text is written for social work students, workers and academics. It raises questions about the professional and gender identities of male social workers and offers some recommendations for practice.

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In 1693, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known three hundred years of peace. Until now. For men are descending on Sanctuary, their purpose to hunt down and kill the wife of their leader and retrieve the money that she stole from him. All that stands in their way are a young rookie officer, Sharon Macy, a

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Randall Styers seeks to account for the vitality of scholarly discourse purporting to define and explain magic despite its failure to do just that. He argues that it can best be explained in light of the European and Euro-American drive to establish and secure their own identity as normative.

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1999. Gift of Dr. George R. Wilkinson, Jr., from the collection of Dr. Davis.

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Contains reproductions of ten water color paintings by Cezanne in five American collections.

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Florida in the 1830's and the movement to take land from the Seminole Indians.

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Guide book for Death Valley visitors, with history, geology, climate, flora , fauna, main highways, and rough roads. Well illustrated.

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Michael Beers *How to Become a High-Income Salesman* is a mid-1960s classic of practical business psychology a hybrid of motivational manual and professional study in **salesmanship as a human art**. Drawing from years of on-the-ground experience in competitive commercial environments, Beer distills his philosophy into a simple conviction: success in selling is not the preserve of the gifted few b

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Scope of instrumental analysis; Electrode potentials; Potentiometry; Polarography and voltammetry; Amperometric and voltammetric titrations; Electrogravimetry, electrolytic spearations, and coulometric methods; Conductometry and high-frequency methods; Emission spectroscopy; Absorption spectrometry and filter photometry; Fluorometry, turbidimetry, and nephelometry; Raman spectroscopy; X-ray method

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The story of Rupert Murdoch's attempt to establish himself as the most powerful media figure on the planet. Even while battling cancer, Murdoch took his greatest gamble - floating the world's biggest satellite platform on Wall Street.

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When their home is destroyed by the vicious, tribal Hecari, Audrun and her husband Davyn, along with their four children, must join a karavan that will pass the demon-infested deepwood of Alisanos, but luck is on their side when they discover that their fellow passengers are gifted with various forms of magic.

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History of the wine industry in California during the nineteenth century: its growth and decline due to a financial depression and the invasion of the vine disease phylloxera; its recovery to become an important part of the agricultural economy of the state.

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Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 1984. Bibliography: p. [203]-205. Includes index.

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More people die in an average year from falling down stairs than in air disasters. This book illustrates each aircraft incident and details cockpit and crew conversations recorded prior to impact. Readers are offered safety precautions, advice for surviving accidents, and the happy details of several crashes meeting the old adage that "a good landing is one you can walk away from".

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Spiraling from a disastrous falling-out with her best friend, Savannah retreats to her parents’ empty lake house in upstate New York to tend her wounds. Isolated and reeling from rejection, she spends her days in a fog, drinking and overthinking in equal worrisome measure. Until she wakes up one morning in the woods behind the house—next to a dead body. Instead of calling the police, Savannah r

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Un nouveau cherche et trouve phosphorescent à emporter partout pour jouer seul ou à plusieurs ! Un nouveau cherche et trouve à emporter partout pour jouer seul ou à plusieurs ! 14 illustrations riches en détails, colorées, pleines d'humour transporteront les enfants dans un univers délirant avec du phosphorescent sur toutes les pages pour s'émerveiller dans le noir !Avec plus de 400 objets à trouv

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« Joie de vivre, parmi ces machines muettes, au rythme de la vie humaine -le rythme qui correspond à la respiration, aux battements du cSur, aux mouvements naturels de l'organisme humain - et non à la cadence imposée par le chronométreur. Bien sûr, cette vie si dure recommencera dans quelques jours. Mais on n'y pense pas, on est comme les soldats en permission pendant la guerre. Et puis, quoi qu'i

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L'évangile de Marc réussit le tour de force de raconter l'itinéraire de Jésus tout en exposant celui du « disciple selon Jésus ». Scrutant la figure des disciples dans l'ensemble du récit, ce livre s'intéresse particulièrement à la section dite « du chemin » (Mc 8,27 - 10,52). L'approche narrative de la montée vers Jérusalem permet de rendre compte de la manière dont Jésus instruit ses disciples e