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When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can talk to animals. Then one day, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all -- a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been forgotten for years and years. With the help of two unexpected companions,...
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Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
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"Four mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever. By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know whom to avoid, like the crazy guy on the corner. But things start to unravel. Sal gets punched by a new kid for what seems like no reason, and he shuts Miranda out of his life. The apartment key that Miranda's mom...
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"Can one nurse on a mission of mercy and rebellion turn the tide of WWI? November 1914--The Great War has come to Brussels, and Edith Cavell, Head Nurse at Berkendael Medical Institute, faces an impossible situation. She has sworn an oath to help any who are wounded, under whatever flag they are found. But Governor von Lüttwitz, the ranking German officer, has ordered her and her nurses to also stand guard over the wounded Allied prisoners of war...
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Packt Pub
Pub. Date
2005
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1 online resource (vii, 229 pages) : illustrations
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English
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"This book is designed to be read while you work on a real project. After an initial review of the essentials of UML and the design process, it begins with the modeling of a business system and its business processes, in this case an airport. Then the IT system intended to serve that business process is described and analyzed. Finally the integration of the system into the production environment is covered in detail. The book can be used in two ways:...
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Apress
Pub. Date
2020
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3rd ed.
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1 online resource
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English
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Discover everything you need to know about C++ in a logical progression of small lessons that you can work through as quickly or as slowly as you need. This book divides C++ up into bite-sized chunks that will help you learn the language one step at a time. Fully updated to include C++20, it assumes no familiarity with C++ or any other C-based language. "Exploring C++20" acknowledges that C++ can be a complicated language, so rather than baffle you...
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 Launchpad tablet : digital, sound, color ; 20 x 13 cm + 1 USB cable and 1 AC power adapter (in case 22 x 16 cm).
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English
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"Kids will master counting and learn fundamental math skills while playing games, reading stories, and completing fun challenges."--
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 Launchpad tablet : digital, sound, color ; 20 x 13 cm + 1 USB cable and 1 AC power adapter (in case 22 x 16 cm).
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English
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"These interactive books, games, and activities will help kids build a solid foundation of skills they can use in the classroom and beyond. Develop fine motor skills; Learn about daily routines; Practice telling time; Explore gratitude, kindness, and responsibility."--
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2016.
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Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians -- but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the...
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American academic Trevor Stratton discovers a box full of artifacts from World War I as he settles into his new office in Paris. The pictures, letters, and objects in the box relate to the life of Louise Brunet, a feisty, charming Frenchwoman who lived through both World Wars. As Trevor examines and documents the relics the box offers up, he begins to imagine the story of Louise Brunet's life: her love for a cousin who died in the war, her marriage...
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FT Press
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©2009
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1 online resource (xx, 187 pages)
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English
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So, you've been laid off. Or you see it coming. You're not alone. And it's not your fault: you're just one of millions of smart, high-quality people who are being shown the door. But none of that makes it feel any better! What can you do? What should you do? How do you cope with the havoc that losing your job can cause? This sympathetic, practical book brings together all the answers you need to empower yourself, and come back stronger than ever....
14) UNIX power tools
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O'Reilly
Pub. Date
©2003
Edition
3rd ed., updated and expanded.
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1 online resource (xxxviii, 1116 pages) : illustrations
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English
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With the growing popularity of Linux and the advent of Darwin, Unix has metamorphosed into something new and exciting. No longer perceived as a difficult operating system, more and more users are discovering the advantages of Unix for the first time. But whether you are a newcomer or a Unix power user, you'll find yourself thumbing through the goldmine of information in the new edition of Unix Power Tools to add to your store of knowledge. Want to...
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Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 Launchpad tablet (approximately 1 hr., 28 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 20 x 13 cm + 1 USB cable and 1 AC power adapter (in case 22 x 16 cm).
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English
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Giraffes can't dance: Gerald the giraffe is too clumsy to dance with all the other animals at the Jungle Dance, until he finds the right music.
That new animal: The lives of two dogs change after a new animal, a baby, comes to their house.
I, Crocodile: When a Nile crocodile is brought back to Paris by the Emperor Napoleon, it must not only struggle to get enough to eat, but escape from being eaten, too!
Ivan, the remarkable true story of the shopping...
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O'Reilly Media, Inc
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
1st ed.
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1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged)) : illustrations
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English
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Chapter 2. XML Schema and the SOA Data Model; 2.0 Introduction; 2.1 Designing Schema for SOA; Problem; Solution; Russian Doll; Salami Slice; Venetian Blind; See Also; Garden of Eden; 2.2 Creating Canonical Data Model; Problem; Solution; Discussion; Defining the canonical data model; Recommendations; Updating the canonical data model; See Also; 2.3 Using Chameleon Namespace Design; Problem; Solution; 2.4 Versioning Schemas; Problem; Solution; Discussion;...
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Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2017]
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294 pages : maps ; 20 cm
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English
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"A fresh, fun, and unpretentious guide to wine from Marissa A. Ross, official wine columnist for Bon Appetit. Does the thought of having to buy wine for a dinner party stress you out? Is your go-to strategy to pick the bottle with the coolest label? Are you tired of choosing pairings based on your wallet, instead of your palate? Fear not! Bon Appetit wine columnist and Wine. All The Time. blogger Marissa A. Ross is here to help. In this utterly accessible...
19) Computer busses
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Butterworth-Heinemann
Pub. Date
2000.
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1 online resource (632 pages)
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English
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As more and more equipment is interface or'bus' driven, either by the use of controllers or directly from PCs, the question of which bus to use is becoming increasingly important both in industry and in the office. 'Computer Busses' has been designed to help choose the best type of bus for the particular application. There are several books which cover individual busses, but none which provide a complete guide to computer busses. The author provides...
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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First edition.
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x, 262 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college to pursue her dream of making cheesecake on a stick a successful business franchise (ah, the ideals of youth). Alone in a new city, she summons her inner strength as she holds the hand of a dying stranger. Davies is a woman who finds humor in difficult pregnancies...
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