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Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements: Embracing All Those Which Are Most Important in Dynamics, Hydraulics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Steam Engines...
Over five hundred simple mechanical movements from America's first one hundred years of the Industrial Revolution. For those who share an interest in mechanical things, this book is addictive. Through the use of simplified, concise drawings, here are 507 of the small components which make up complex machinery in areas as diverse as C.R. Otis's safety stop for the elevator, Pickering's governor for a steam engine, Arnold's escapement for watches, compound parallel rules, piston rod guides, the grasshopper beam engine and a self recording level for surveyors. The list goes on and on in fascinating variety, with each movement explained and illustrated..
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The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States: Key Sites for Birds and Birding in All 50 States
The American Bird Conservancy Guide to the 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States offers both bird enthusiasts and conservationists specialized information never before compiled in a single comprehensive volume. This expert resource organizes the United States into 36 ornithologically distinct bird regions, then identifies and describes the 500 sites within these regions. Each site entry includes ornithological highlights, ownership information, a description of habitats and land use, a guide to which species one can expect to find, conservation issues, and visitor information. Full-color maps and illustrations throughout, along with a thorough index, make this book as useful as it is unique, an essential addition to the bird lover’s library..
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The Everything Pregnancy Book: All You Need to Get You Through the Most Important Nine Months of Your Life (Everything: Parenting and Family)
Recognized for its reassuring advice, authoritative information, and easy-to-understand style, The Everything Pregnancy Book, 3rd Edition is the must-have reference guide for a happy, healthy, and well-informed pregnancy. Updated, redesigned, and packed with even more information, this month-by-month resource walks moms-(and dads!)-to-be through the different phases of pregnancy and offers trusted information on how to: - Understand and manage your physical and emotional changes
- Make the most of your monthly medical visits
- Stay active and select the right diet for you and baby
- Reduce the risk of complications
- Understand prenatal tests and diagnostic screening
- Choose the best labor and delivery options for you
- Ready home and nursery for baby
- Budget for the new addition to your family
Covering every important topic from conception to delivery and beyond, The Everything Pregnancy Book, 3rd Edition promises to answer all of your questions--and more!.
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Interview Answers in a Flash: 200 Flash Card-Style Questions and Answers to Prepare You for That All-Important Job Interview
The interview is often the most important step in job hunting, and solid preparation often spells the difference between a job offer and a friendly good-bye handshake This book—each page in the form of a Q & A flashcard—offers ideal preparation for that big interview. Questions likely to be asked by an interviewer are printed on one side, with proven answers printed on the reverse. The book is designed so that pages can be pulled out, selected and shuffled according to need, and used as flashcards for practice. Interviewers are notorious for asking a wide range of questions, and this book covers virtually all of them, with 200 Q & A cards that fall into a variety of categories. For instance -- Work and Educations questions (What have you done?): Why did you leave your last job? What did you like most about your last job? What did you like least about it? Have you ever been fired? What is your management style? and many more . . . Skills and Competencies questions (What can you do?): Describe a challenging work issue you had to face. How do you handle an angry employee? and many more . . . Personality/Goals questions (Who are you?): What makes you a good team member? Where do you see yourself five years from now? and many more . . . Behavioral/Situational questions (Can you tell a story?): Tell me about a time when you had to juggle priorities to meet a deadline, and many more . . . Job Fit questions (Are you a match?): How would you describe your ideal work environment? What aspects of the job will you like least? and many more . . . Torture/Trick questions (Can you take the heat?): Why should we hire you for this position? What do you expect your starting salary to be? How do I rate as an interviewer? . . . The reverse side of each card tells why the question is asked, presents sample responses, and allows space to customize an answer. Here is an unusual and effective job-hunting tool that will be valued by job applicants, career coaches/counselors, and college placement offices..
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Leads & Endings: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit These Important Craft Elements All Year Long (Teaching the Craft of Writing)
This concise and thoughtful guide offers lessons and strategies for creating powerful leads and memorable endings. Drawing on quality children’s literature, Kathleen Hurni-Dove shows how to use exemplars to inspire students and show them the variety of possibilities for leads and endings, which helps students move beyond Hi my name is ________ and The End. An essential resource for any writing teacher. .
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Revising & Editing: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit These Important Craft Elements All Year Long (Teaching the Craft of Writing)
A concise and thoughtful guide that shows teachers how to introduce, teach, and reinforce revision and editing practices. Includes a kick-off lesson, classroom-tested revision strategies that enrich students’ writing, and editing techniques that help students polish their work. Covers peer response, interactive editing, using proofreading marks, and much more. An essential resource for any writing teacher. .
Price: $5.75
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Big Bang: The Most Important Scientific Discovery of All Time and Why You Need to Know About it
The bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem and The Code Book tells the story of the brilliant minds that deciphered the mysteries of the Big Bang. A fascinating exploration of the ultimate question: how was our universe created? Albert Einstein once said: 'The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.' Simon Singh believes geniuses like Einstein are not the only people able to grasp the physics that govern the universe. We all can. As well as explaining what the Big Bang theory actually is and why cosmologists believe it is an accurate description of the origins of the universe, this book is also the fascinating story of the scientists who fought against the established idea of an eternal and unchanging universe. Simon Singh, renowned for making difficult ideas much less daunting than they first seem, is the perfect guide for this journey. Everybody has heard of the Big Bang Theory. But how many of us can actually claim to understand it? With characteristic clarity and a narrative peppered with anecdotes and personal histories of those who have struggled to understand creation, Simon Singh has written the story of the most important theory ever..
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Duck Hunting: Guide-Tested Techniques for Taking All of the Important North American Duck Species (The Complete Hunter)
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Voice: Lessons, Strategies, Models, and Literature Connections That Help You Teach and Revisit This Important Craft Element All Year Long (Teaching the Craft of Writing)
In this concise and thoughtful guide, expert teacher and veteran author Lola Schaefer offers classroom-tested lessons and practical strategies that help students identify voice in writing and learn how to include it in their own work. Students find their voices through quickwrites, author studies, guided revision practice, compare-and-contrast exercises, and more. Complete with fiction and nonfiction models, student samples, conference transcripts, and classroom vignettes, this is an essential resource for any writing teacher. .
Price: $5.60
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