Martin Howard
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Keith and Joe, military veterans, survived a murder attempt from an old friend. The two men, who grew up in scouting, try their hand with a new generation of young men to teach survival skills. Power struggles lie in the presidency of the United States. Murder lies in wait for the current president. Joe's sons, now helicopter pilots in the military, learn facts and join in the battle. The boys deal with school demands, athletics, girls, foes and scouts....
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Blake is a loveable mongrel just trying to lead a happy life; he loves his owner, fiercely defends his territory against interlopers (including the owners new lady friend and her cat), does his best to avoid the frequently threatened neutering and spends a lot of his time either scooting across the carpet or chasing local tail. It really is a dogs life, and Blake has kindly taken the time to keep a diary of a year in his own life providing a hilarious,...
3) A World Full of Journeys and Migrations: Over 50 stories of human migration that changed our world
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Why do people migrate? Who were the first travellers in history? And where will we humans travel to next?
Since the dawn of time, people have travelled to distant lands for many different reasons; to escape war, famine or injustice, to find work, or to simply see new sights and have an adventure. But everyone who migrates does it to seek a brighter future.
A World Full of Journeys tells some of the most fascinating stories of migration throughout...
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Français
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Familiarisez-vous avec la fonction du lobe frontal. Vous apprendrez la différence entre ce lobe, le cortex préfrontal et le cortex cérébral. Aussi, les sous-thèmes seront couverts, comme:
Dommages au lobe frontal et à ses effets
Traitement des dommages et de leurs risques
La division entre les différentes zones ou régions du lobe frontal.
Que fait l'opération?
Différentes théories d'analystes et d'experts
Comment le cortex préfrontal...
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In July 1809, with the Dutch coast a pistol held at the head of England, the largest British expeditionary force ever assembled, over 40,000 men and around 600 ships, weighed anchor off the Kent coast and sailed for the island of Walcheren in the Scheldt estuary. After an initial success, the expedition stalled and as the lethargic military commander, Lord Chatham, was at loggerheads with the opinionated senior naval commander, Sir Richard Strachan,...
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English
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Death Before Glory! is a highly readable, thoroughly researched and comprehensive study of the British army's campaigns in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic period and of the extraordinary experiences of the soldiers who served there. Rich in sugar, cotton, coffee and slaves, the region was a key to British prosperity and it was perhaps even more important to her greatest enemy France. Yet, until now, the history of this...
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Gravitas Ventures LLC
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English
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Cultural historians, collectors, and various celebrity obsessives, including Tom Hanks and John Mayer, launch us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved-but-dying technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Nominated for Best First Documentary, Best Documentary, and Best Director at the **Critics' Choice Documentary Awards**. Winner of Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking: Directing at the **Newport Beach Film Festival**. *"A rich, thoughtful,...
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This volume explores the relationship between 'study abroad' and the acquisition of 'sociolinguistic competence'-the ability to communicate in socially appropriate ways. The volume looks at language development and use during study abroad in France by examining patterns of variation in the speech of advanced L2 speakers. Within a variationist paradigm, fine-grained empirical analyses of speech illuminate choices the L2 speaker makes in relation to...