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      • Fiction

        St Patrick's Day Special

        by JJ Toner

        It is 2004. Ireland, the ancient land of saints and scholars, has changed. Corruption is endemic in high places. Irish society thrives on the twin pillars of institutionalized greed and organized crime. Church steeples are outnumbered by the tower cranes of avaricious developers and the cities resonate to the sounds of police sirens. Detective Inspector Ben Jordan of Ireland’s Organized Crime Unit focuses on crimes of violence involving firearms and terror. His nemesis, Aloysius Lafferty, specializes in bank and building society heists, cash-in-transit robberies, and “tiger” kidnappings. The two men face off in a deadly game that only one can win. Lafferty fights dirty, murder and deception his weapons of choice. Jordan is determined to work within the law, whatever gets thrown at him. But then Lafferty drags Jordan’s family into the battle...

      • Fiction

        Framed

        by John M Green

        When art conservator JJ Jego spots a long-lost masterpiece through the window of a luxury apartment, she’s drawn into a dark web of intrigue, deception and murder. JJ spies what she believes is a priceless Van Gogh. Except it can’t be … that painting, Six Sunflowers, was destroyed during World War II. She also glimpses what looks like a Rembrandt, one stolen in the infamous 1990 robbery at the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston. JJ sets out on a mission to discover if these works are fakes or genuine. But when she gets in too deep, she is forced to seek help from her estranged father, a Sydney detective.  From the pubs of Belfast to the boardrooms of Monte Carlo and the shores of Sydney Harbour, this gripping art heist thriller exposes a shadowy underworld where JJ crosses paths with a global organised crime empire in her pursuit to solve some of art history’s biggest mysteries.

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        March 2014

        In Search of Indalia

        by JJ Sanford

        Children's magical adventure book promoting emotional well being and timeless values

      • Health & Personal Development

        Anatomy of Exercise for Women

        A Trainer's Guide to Exercise for Women

        by Lisa Purcell

        Anatomy of Exercise for Women provides women of all ages with exercise programs that will bring great benefits in physical fitness, psychological well-being and meeting the challenges of daily life. Like all of the books in the series, this title has: Detailed, full-color anatomical illustrations for all the exercises, Annotations identifying the active and stabilizing muscles, Concise how-to instructions for each exercise, Identification of the specific muscles that benefit the most from each exercise, Suggested modifications for different levels of difficulty, A glossary of anatomical terms. Exercises are presented individually and then also in pre-designed workouts that let women focus on what they want most to improve: Leaner Legs, Thighs and Glutes; Arm Toner; Core Strength and Stability; All-Over Toner; and Working the Waistline. The Beginner's and Back to Basics Workouts are excellent overall programs. Stretching exercises help to alleviate stress and fatigue, improve posture and increase flexibility.

      • Children's & YA
        October 2010

        Science for 5-7 Year Olds

        by Angela Deighan, Anne Usai, Brian Smith, Margaret Abraitis, Michael Toner

        Science for 5-7 Year Olds contains over 70 attractively laid out photocopiable worksheets, written to match the National Curriculum and the QCA schemes of work for Key Stage 1 (KS1). The accompanying teachers' notes provide background information, answers to the pupil pages, resources needed and teaching/safety notes. Worksheets range from parts of the body and making a light bulb to investigating floating and making an umbrella. ; Science for 5-7 Year Olds contains over 70 attractively laid out photocopiable worksheets, written to match the National Curriculum and the QCA schemes of work for Key Stage 1 (KS1). The accompanying teachers' notes provide background information, answers to the pupil pages, resources needed and teaching/safety notes.

      • December 2011

        Listening and Longing

        Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum

        by Daniel Cavicchi

        An intriguing look at music listening in nineteenth-century America

      • August 2012

        English for Beauty Care Professionals: Refreshing Your Body and Mind

        by Pei-Chin Hsieh(謝佩芩) / Brian Foden

        This textbook is designed primarily for high-intermediate students and students in departments of beauty science, health beauty, and nursing.Based on breaking science and medical knowledge, English for Beauty Care Professionals: Refreshing Your Body and Mind represents the most comprehensive beauty care textbook to date. This book is a practical reference guide for English for beauty, introducing beauty care topics in a professional and easy to understand manner.This book tackles two major categories in the field of beauty: the face and the body. It includes 10 chapters of professional beauty care knowledge, important English grammar rules and usage tips, beauty product applications, and helpful step-by-step beauty care how-tos. This beauty care guide, illustrated throughout with more than 500 colorful pictures showing useful beauty concepts and vocabulary, provides both visually rich and textually engaging information about beauty care and is the most suitable reference book for beauty care professionals.FEATURES• Article. The article in each chapter focuses on essential beauty care knowledge and information, including skin histology, skincare regimens, and introductions to skincare products, facial masks, aromatherapy, and medical cosmetology.• Vocabulary, Phrases, and Sample Sentences. Terms related to and necessary for understanding beauty care are listed along with definitions and sample sentences.• Grammar in Use. Important English grammar in each article is clearly explained with examples.• Dialogue. Useful dialogues in different contexts associated with the topic serve as models of collaborative communication for students to engage in.• Post-Reading Exercises. Key concepts in each chapter are the focus of these exercises. The exercises include Reading Comprehension Questions, Grammar Practice, Listening Practice, and topic-related Practice and Pair Work, which allow students to evaluate and implement what they have acquired during the lesson.• Audio MP3. Audio MP3 containing audio examples of the articles, vocabulary, phrases and sample sentences, dialogues, and listening practices, is included with each book.• English-Chinese Glossary. The book concludes with an English-Chinese glossary covering translations and pronunciations of more than 300 key vocabulary words introduced in the book.

      • Probability & statistics
        January 2019

        Practical Multivariate Statistics

        by K.S.Kushwaha & Rajesh Kumar

        The book entitled Practical Multivariate Statistics has been designed for P.G. and Ph.D. students of Pure Statistics, Agricultural Statistics, Biological & Social Sciences and those who have to appear in various competitive examinations like (ISS, IES, SSS, A.S.R.B., States PSCs, NET and IAS.). This book is also useful for faculties of Department of Statistics of Indian Universities. The book is the outcome of 33 years of teaching experience of U.G., P.G. and Ph.D. students of different disciplines of Agriculture, Agril. Engg. and Agril Statistics. The book contains 12 chapters, out of which (1-5) deals with the Multivariate Analysis, (6-9) Multivariate Regression Analysis, (10) Multicollinearity, (11) Sampling Distributions of Partial & Multiple Correlation and (12) Elements of Stochastic Processes. In each chapter three type of questions. True/False, Fill in the Blanks and Multiple Choice Questions alongwith their Key Answers have been provided.

      • October 2015

        Riverview Hospital Staff Manuals

        by Wiseman, Richard J.

        The manual developed for Riverview Children’s Hospital

      • Agriculture & farming
        January 2011

        Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Plants

        by Vanitha Jain & P. Ananda Kumar

        Nitrogen fertilizers are necessary to enhance agricultural production and to sustain food security. However, their inefficient use accrues from inherent limitations of the crop plants as well as the manner in which N fertilizers are formulated, applied and managed. The main aim of the book is to assess the various aspects of the fate of fertilizer N in context of the overall N inputs to agricultural systems, with a view to enhance the efficiency of nitrogen use and reduce the negative impacts on environment. The cross cutting issues relate to improvement in nitrogen use by emerging technologies (genetic enhancement, QTL mapping), meeting N needs by understanding its interactions with other nutrients, and mitigation of nitrogen losses caused by environmental factors and management practices. Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Plants develops links between basic and applied research and practical crop production by addressing a wide range of topics relating to nitrogen use efficiency, and to plant and crop responses to applications of nitrogen via fertilizers, including nitrogen acquisition and reduction, molecular approaches, nitrate induction and signaling; and nitrogen use under abiotic stresses. Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Plants is an invaluable classroom aid for academics working in plant physiology, biochemistry, biotechnology, molecular breeding and agronomy, and an essential professional resource for researchers working in plant and crop systems as it provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary description of problems related to the efficient use of nitrogen in agriculture.

      • Health & Personal Development

        Look 20 When You're 40

        Anti-Aging Skin Care For Wrinkle-Free Flawless

        by Diana Polska

        Look 20 When You're 40 is a highly researched skin care guidebook with over 100 studies referenced. Although there are many many anti-aging products to choose from, there are only a few highly effective, scientifically proven anti-aging skin products that have been shown to stop and reverse aging.

      • Family & relationships

        WITH, NOT AGAINST

        A compendium of positive parenting strategies

        by Laughton King

        Written with the busy parent in mind, this book is orientated to taking the head-on fight out of parenting, and is based on the author’s thirty years of clinical work with parents of young children. This book is written as a practical manual, has a simple, bite-size presentation and is free from the pages of theory that commonly restrict easy access to useful information. The book focuses on the small things parents do that make it difficult for children to comply and co-operate, and gives examples and illustrations of how we can easily work with our children to achieve happier households. Includes; Bedtime strategies, Behaviour management, Language of parenting, Toileting, Mealtime behaviour, Arguments, use of Praise and Humour, amongst other issues that can make parenting a lonely and difficult role.

      • Fiction

        Before The Fall: A Novel (An Irish Trilogy Book 2)

        by Orna Ross

        A historical murder mystery of love and revenge against the background of intimate war.   It's August in the long, hot summer of 1995 and Jo Devereux can't believe that she still hasn't returned home to San Francisco, though the time for her to have her baby draws near. Why is she staying on in Ireland, in this crumbling shed at  the edge of the ocean?   Jo has spent months writing about her great-uncle death at the hands of Dan O'Donovan -- but now she is brought to consider just who led Dan to his grisly murder, by suffocation in Mucknamore's notorious sinking sands.   Was her beloved Granny Peg really capable of luring him out there in revenge for the killing of her brother?   Or perhaps for more intimate reasons? Or was her grandmother, as Jo would like to believe, innocent of all?   Combing family letters and diaries for what has gone unsaid, Jo is unprepared for her reaction, as Civil War reaches its peak and she comes to realise the price she, and her people, had to pay for freedom.   But what does it mean for her relationship with Rory, Dan’s great-nephew, as he draws ever closer? Will her mission to redeem the past turn out to be the key to her future?   Or is she about to lose out, all over again?   BEFORE THE FALL (sequel to AFTER THE RISING) is a sweeping, multigenerational tale set in 1920s and 1990s Ireland and 1980s San Francisco. The second book in Orna's Ross's Irish trilogy, this acclaimed, bestselling novel has now been reissued by the author.

      • September 2014

        Africa's Gift to America

        The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States

        by J. A. Rogers

        Classic work of black study indicating a place for African people within Western history

      • Management: leadership & motivation
        January 2015

        Backbone

        History, Traditions, and Leadership Lessons of Marine Corps NCOs

        by Julia Dye

        Noncommissioned officers stand as the backbone of the United States Marine Corps. The Corps is among the most lasting institutions in America, though few understand what makes it so strong and how that understanding can be applied effectively in today's world. In this insightful and thoroughly researched book, Julia Dye explores the cadre of noncommissioned officers that make up the Marine Corps' system of small-unit leadership. To help us better understand what makes these extraordinary men and women such effective leaders, Dye examines the fourteen leadership traits embraced by every NCO. These qualities-- including judgment, enthusiasm, determination, bearing, and unselfishness--are exemplified by men like Terry Anderson, the former Marine sergeant who spent nearly seven years as a hostage in Beirut, John Basilone, the hero of the Pacific, and many others. To assemble this extraordinary chronicle, Julia Dye interviewed Anderson and dozens of other Marines, mining a rich trove of historical and modern NCO heroes that comprise the Marine Corps' astonishing legacy, from its founding in 1775 to the present day.

      • Global warming
        March 2017

        Climate Change and Agroforestry

        Adaptation, Mitigation and Livelihood Security

        by C.B.Pandey, Mahesh Kumar Gaur & R.K.Goyal

        Natural change in climate is slow and takes millions of years; and it is known to have made our planet hospitable to live. The climate change is not limited to one country or a continent. It is occurring across the globe as evident from droughts in Texas and flooding along the Missouri River in the United States and along the Red River in Canada. Climate change drives many stressors and interacts with many non-climatic stressors which make it difficult to forecast outcomes in any general way other than existing threats to agriculture. Agroforestry increases a high level of diversity within agricultural lands which supports numerous ecological and production services that bring resilience to the impact of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Climate change risk management is difficult in annual cropping systems due to increasing uncertainty of inter-annual variability in rainfall and temperature. Mixing of woody trees with crops, forage and livestock operations provides greater resilience to the inter-annual variability through crop diversification and increased resource use efficiency. Deep rooted trees allow better access to nutrients and water during droughts and when appropriately integrated into annual cropping systems and extract from different resource pools that would otherwise be lost from systems. Agroforestry increases soil porosity, reduces runoff and increases soil cover, which improve water infiltration and reduces moisture stress in low rainfall years. During periods of excessive soil moisture, tree based systems keep soils aerated by pumping out excess water and offer an economic return. The book contains 36 chapters mainly on agroforestry practices found in India and its role in climate change mitigation and adaptation.

      • Agriculture & farming
        May 2016

        Climate Change and Environment

        Concepts and Strategies To Mitigate Impacts

        by Devesh Sharma & K.C.Sharma

        The book comprises of topics on concepts of climate science and strategies to mitigate the impacts. The book therefore, covers topics of wider areas such as urbanization, coping strategies, water resources, watershed, land use patterns, atmospheric deposition, agriculture, carbon footprint etc. The book provides comprehension on which the researchers in the field may on which they can build up understanding on issues to be addressed. The articles are designed to interpret experiments, observations from the field and theory to understand the subject of climate change and its impacts.

      • Sustainable agriculture
        May 2017

        Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture

        by P.Suresh Kumar, Manish Kanwat:, P.D. Meena:,Vinod Kumar & Rajesh A. Alone:

        This book to comprehensively present the standard methodologies for studying the impacts of climate change on agriculture, measuring and developing inventories of greenhouse gas emission, and analyzing the vulnerabilities and mitigation options. The book describes the methodology in a simple and lucid way so that a researcher can adopt it in field studies. Individual chapters are dedicated to subjects such as quantification of climate change impacts on crops in controlled and field conditions, impacts of climate change on water resources, soil fertility, erosion and carbon sequestration, insects, pests, weeds, microbes and diseases; greenhouse gas emission assessment, assessment of regional vulnerability to climate change, selection of crop. The book converted its 23 chapters into four sections. The 1st Section deals with recent mitigation strategies developed by the scientists to reduce the effect of climate changes and promote the Sustainable Agriculture by different ways viz., Role of Marker in Development of Climate Resilient Varieties. Section 2 deals with the conservation agriculture and mitigation strategies, Biofertilizers helps in development of sustainable agricultural practices. Section 3 deals with impact of climate change on pest scenario across the crops and has given insight on possible avoidance of pests. Final sections deals with the agroforestry and how they can minimise their affect of climate change. Finally Section 4th deals with Impact of climate change crop and livestock sectors and strategies for mitigation and adaptation. Role of ICT and extension agencies on framing policies and effective dissemination of technologies were discussed.

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