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Back in the 19th century a Wesen and a Grimm fight to the death. The Grimm wins, but the Wesen's son escapes and vows revenge. In the present day, Captain Renard sends Nick and Hank to investigate a crime cartel named Le Touche Givre (The Icy Touch), who are involved in forced prostitution and drug pushing. Nick gradually realises that their dangerous leader is intent on tracking him down - Product details Format Paperback | 320 pages Dimensions 106 x 174 x 22mm ...

The art of mentoring is not new in the medical profession considering that the medical practice is actually a type of apprenticeship. However, this has been mostly informal. In essence, all medical doctors have undergone some sort of mentoring or another. In view of the immense benefits of formal mentoring seen in other organizations in recent times, there is a need to institute formal mentoring programmes in the medical profession all over the world. This book is about mentoring as it applies to the medical profession. The emphasis is on the benefits, types of mentors and the challenges. It also gives a guide for commencement to institutions who have no formal mentoring programmes. Product details Format Paperback | 114 pages ...

The lively real-world infographics at the start of every unit encourage students to express their own ideas and think critically about the world around them and current topics. Exam tips, graded language and skills exercises develop exam technique, plus Exam challenge activities provide graded exposure to realistic exam practice. The Student's Book includes a full practice test, as well as access to Online Practice, and another full practice test online. The Online Practice features grammar, vocabulary and skills exercises, 'speak and record' activities, plus extra exam practice tasks. The automatic marking, dictionary look-up and feedback on answers provide students with support outside the classroom. Product details Format CD-Audio ...

Eine alte, zwergische Legende, eine jahrhundertelange Gefangenschaft, ein Koboldstamm, der Fesseln löst... Willkommen in Crimlak, einer Bergbaugemeinde am Fuße der kargen Drachenberge. Menschen und Zwerge arbeiten hier seit Generationen Hand in Hand, um wertvolles Erz aus den nahen Minen zu fördern und in die große Handelsmetropole Vestrach zu liefern. Doch die friedlichen Zeiten scheinen jetzt vorbei zu sein - Bergarbeiter wurden bestohlen, Händler überfallen und Reisende verschwanden, während am Horizont der Schatten eines mächtigen Drachen das Licht der Sterne über Crimlak verdeckt... Nun bedarf es wahrer Helden, um die Schrecken der Vergangenheit zu vertreiben und dem Leid ein Ende zu setzen. Jene, die das Schicksal in die Hand nehmen und zu meistern wissen, können sich reicher Beute und ewigen Dankes gewiss sein, aber wehe denjenigen, die sich ihren eigenen Stärken nicht bewusst sind, und deren einzige Sprache das Schwert ist... Die Minen von Crimlak ist der ideale Einstieg in...

Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Today, he is considered one of the greatest influences in all art history. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition offers a neat and comprehensive Caravaggio catalogue raisonne. Each of his paintings is reproduced from recent top-quality photography, allowing for a vivid encounter with the artist's ingenious repertoire of looks and gestures, as well as numerous detail shots of his boundary-breaking naturalism. Five accompanying chapters trace the complete arc of Caravaggio's career from his first public commissions in Rome through to his growing celebrity status and trace his tempestuous personal life, in which drama loomed as prominently as in his canvases. About the series Bibliotheca Univers...

* USA TODAY Bestseller * Cosmopolitan September 2017 Pick * Goodreads Best Romance of August 2017 * Hello Giggles "17 Books We Can't Wait to Read" * Charlotte has spent her twenties adrift, searching for a spark to jump-start her life and give her a sense of purpose. She's had as many jobs as she's had bad relationships, and now she's feeling especially lost in her less-than-glamorous gig at a pie-and-fry joint in Los Angeles, where the uniforms are bad and the tips are even worse. Then she collides-literally-with Adam, an intriguing, handsome, and mysterious painter. Their serendipitous meeting on the street turns into a whirlwind one-night stand that has Charlotte feeling enchanted by Adam's spontaneity and joy for life. There's promise in both his words and actions, but in the harsh light of morning, Adam's tune changes, leaving Charlotte to wonder if her notorious bad luck with men is really just her own bad judgment. Months later, a new...

"This how-to guide contains all the basic information on construction and maintenance....There's a list of commonly available water lilies and aquatic plants and detailed directions on selecting and caring for fish. Other chapters focus on dealing with pumps and filters and on solving problems. In an appendix, the authors discuss ideas for ponds, container gardens, sculptures, gazebos....Almost every page contains color photographs."—Booklist. Product details Format Paperback | 128 pages Dimensions 215 x 255 x 12.7mm...

When Boomerang the cat disappears into a tiny gap behind the fireplace at Stone Cottage, Scott, Jack and Emily are amazed to discover a secret room that Aunt Kate never knew existed! But what was the room created for? Inside is very little other than an enormous old chest which Jack is convinced must be full of treasure, but what secrets will be revealed when the friends finally manage to open the box? Product details For ages 12-17 Format Paperback | 176 pages Dimensions 131 ...

Foreword by Bill Gates Microsoft's CEO tells the inside story of the company's continuing transformation, tracing his own personal journey from a childhood in India to leading some of the most significant technological changes in the digital era. As much a humanist as engineer and executive, Nadella concludes with his vision for the coming wave of intelligent technologies and a distinct call to action for leaders everywhere. Hit Refresh is about individual change, about the transformation happening inside of Microsoft and the technology that will soon impact all of our lives--the arrival of the most exciting and disruptive wave of technology humankind has experienced: artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and quantum computing. It's about how people, organizations, and societies can and must transform "hit refresh" in their persistent quest for new energy, new ideas, and continued relevance and renewal. At its core, it's about us humans and how our one un...

SI QUIERES ELIMINAR TU ANSIEDAD, AQUÍ TIENES LA SOLUCIÓN. Estás a tiempo de conseguirlo. La solución está a tu alcance; da igual donde te encuentres, el tiempo que lleves con ella, o la edad que tengas. Este libro te dará todos los pasos para conseguirlo. UN MÉTODO PROBADO PARA DEJAR TU ANSIEDAD ATRÁS Un Plan de Acción que se adaptará a tus circunstancias personales. En cada capítulo descubrirás una acción para conseguir resultados desde hoy... Independientemente de la situación en que estés. DESCUBRIRÁS: - Los 3 tipos de síntomas de la ansiedad y por qué te suceden a ti. - Los secretos mejor guardados para dejar todos los síntomas atrás desde el primer día. - Las 8 cosas que influyen físicamente en tu estado. - Las 4 técnicas más rápidas y eficaces para dejar de lado la Ansiedad. LA CLAVE PARA CONSEGUIRLO - Te diré cómo seguir tu vida, sin miedos y sin ansiedad. - Con este método vivirás cada día sin preocupaciones. ANSIEDAD ¡QUE ALGUIEN ME AYUDE! La mayoría de la gente con ansiedad s...

Of Borders and Dreams: A Mexican-American Experience of Urban Education is the story of Alejandro Juarez, Jr., a Mexican-American youth, his family, and their experiences in a bureaucratic and frustrating public school system. Located in Chicago's west-side neighborhood, replete with crime, violence, and gangs, we first come to know Alejandro as a shy, good-natured fifth grader, the oldest child in a close-knit Mexican family. We follow Chris Carger, the author and Alejandro's ESL teacher, as she sets forth with his mother on a journey to provide him with the education he needs and deserves. Of Borders and Dreams is an intelligent, probing portrayal of the problems that face bilingual and bicultural children. Through Alejandro's story, we are moved and enraged by the failure of the American school system to offer better opportunities for all children regardless of race, sex, or class. This book is of enormous importance to teachers and educators on all levels, and anyone ...

En este libro "Tipo Manual" está escrito para una fácil comprensión que te permitirá a través de esta lectura ir incorporando y aprendiendo todo acerca del Transgeneracional. No necesitas tener conocimientos previos ya que todo lo que necesitas saber lo encontrarás en éstas páginas. Facilitará el trabajo de Consteladores familiares y de Terapeutas ya que este conocimiento es la base de todas las Terapias. El Prólogo del libro fue escrito por Lain García Calvo, autor del Best Seller La Voz de tu Alma.Acá un breve resumen de los otros dos libros que forman parte de la Trilogía: Vol.2: "Sanarás Cuando Decidas Hacerlo"Guía Práctica de Autoconocimiento y Sanación Personal.Descubrirás exactamente cuáles son tus heridas, en qué momento se generaron, y tendrás herramientas para trabajar estas heridas a tu favor. Comprenderás la importancia de reconectar con tu infancia y tu niño interior para despertar la alegría y motivación en tu vida.Vol.3: "Historias Reales Transge...

The complete set of early decodable readers providing a gradual and structured start for children who are just starting to learn to read. These general fiction readers cover the 42 letter sounds across 7 sets, with each covering one particular set. The last set of readers also features a small number of tricky words. Children can be introduced to these books as each group of sounds is taught. The text in the first three books uses only decodable regular words made up from the first group of letter sounds; the text in the next three books uses only the first and second groups of letter sounds, and so on. Comprehension questions and discussion topics are provided at the end of each book, as well as guidance for teachers and parents. Light type is used as a guide for those few letters that should not be sounded out, such as the /b/ in 'lamb'. 3 different books per set, all 21 titles in Complete Set 12 pages per book 1 Sentence per page (approx.) Set 7 also includes the tricky ...

Guest Editor: JOSEF A. NOSSEK This is a special issue of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing comprising eight contributions invited for publica tion on the basis of novel work presented in a special session on "Parallel Processing on VLSI Arrays" at the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) held in New Orleans in May 1990. Massive parallelism to cope with high-speed requirements stemming from real-time applications and the restrictions in architectural and circuit design, such as regularity and local connectedness, brought about by the VLSI technology are the key questions addressed in these eight papers. They can be grouped into three subsections elaborating on: * Simulation of continuous physical systems, i. e. , numerically solving partial differential equations. * Neural architectures for image processing and pattern recognition. * Systolic architectures for implementing regular and irregular algorithms in VLSI technology. The paper by A. Fettweis and ...

Praised widely upon hardcover publication, Alan Ryan's "masterpiece" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) blends history and philosophy to examine three thousand years of political thought. Drawing on three decades of research, Ryan insightfully traces the origins of political philosophy from the ancient Greeks to the present and evokes the lives and minds of our greatest thinkers in a way that makes reading about them a "remarkable experience" (Jeremy Waldron, New York Review of Books). Whether writing about Plato or Augustine, Tocqueville or Jefferson, Ryan illuminates John Dewey's dictum that the role of philosophy is less to see truth than to enhance life. With this "epic" (John Keane, Financial Times) tour de force, Ryan affirms his place as one of the most influential political philosophers of our time. Product details Format ...

APRENDE A NUTRIR TU MENTE Y TU ESPÍRITU CON ESTA GUÍA ENCANTADA Las mujeres modernas queremos cuidarnos y sentirnos bien, y para ello, nada mejor que contar con el mágico respaldo de la brujería. En La bruja autosanadora encontrarás consejos sobre cómo mimar tu cuerpo, tu mente y tu espíritu con hechizos, meditaciones, mantras y poderosas actividades que te ayudarán a mantener la salud, aliviar el estrés, superar la tristeza, canalizar la alegría y abrazar tu propia fortaleza. Sorpréndete con remedios tan mágicos como: • Un ritual terapéutico para librarte de la culpa, con el que aprenderás a quemar lo que te causa dolor, a procesar los recuerdos tristes y a trabajar tus emociones más intensas. • Una meditación con la que reconectarás con las energías sanadoras de la naturaleza —aunque vivas en una ciudad bulliciosa—, que forma parte de una serie de meditaciones basadas en los elementos y los sentidos. • Una exclusiva receta para crear tu propia crema corporal relajante e hidratante, d...

In this essay, Byung-Chul Han criticizes how the excess positivity of happiness forces us to negate any glimpse of pain and subjects us to a state of permanent anesthesia. Today we live in a society that has developed a phobia of pain, in which there is no longer room for suffering. This widespread fear is reflected both personally and socially, and even in politics. The neoliberal imperative "be happy", which hides a demand for performance, tries to avoid any painful state and pushes us into a state of permanent anesthesia. As he reflects in The Society of Tiredness, Byung-Chul Han is part of the assumption that there has been a radical paradigm shift in the West. Premodern societies had a very intimate relationship with pain and death, which they faced with dignity and resignation. Today, however, the positivity of happiness surpasses the negativity of pain, and extends to the social sphere. By expelling from public life conflicts and controversies, which could lead to pain...

Esta colección constituye un sistema ameno y accesible para familiarizar a los niños con la lectura de cuentos y para acercarlos al mundo de la comunicación. Cada cuento propone el conocimiento de un fonema, que podrá identificarse de forma auditiva (al escucharlo en la mayoría de las palabras del texto) y visual (al ver la grafía de la letra destacada en color). La colección incluye propuestas de juego que inciden en aspectos como la comprensión e interpretación del contenido del cuento, la discriminación de sonidos y palabras, la asociación de imágenes a palabras, la conexión con experiencias de la vida cotidiana, la estimulación y ampliación de vocabulario y conocimientos, la práctica de la expresión gráfica, la coordinación visomotriz, la creatividad e imaginación, etc. Como último juego, los niños colorearán y recortarán una letra, que podrán combinar con las del resto de la colección para formar palabras. Product details ...

An extraordinary private collection of watercolors and drawings by Andrew Wyeth depicting the subjects memorialized in his legendary painting Christina's World, one of the best-known works of American art. This book presents rarely seen watercolors and drawings Andrew Wyeth made of his friend Christina Olson, her brother Alvaro, and the weathered Maine farmstead where they lived. It features moving portraits and serene interior and exterior views of the house and the surrounding land, now memorialized in Wyeth's 1948 tempera painting Christina's World, one of the most famous paintings in the history of American art and now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Some forty-five works from the collection of the Marunuma Art Park in Japan, rarely shown before in the United States, are accompanied by works from the Farnsworth as well as by historical photographs of Wyeth, the Olsons, and the house. Otoyo Nakamura writes about the history of this collection of Wyeth works, and...