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c2000
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Mike Krzyzewski's eight trips to the Final Four and two national championships with Duke University make him one of the most successful college basketball coaches of all time. With Donald T. Phillips, the best-selling author of Lincoln on Leadership, Krzyzewski explains the techniques that have made his program so successful and offers advice on using those same strategies to excel in both your business and personal lives. Coach K's blueprint for...
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"Abused by his mother as a child, Dave hastaken everything that has happened to him and turned it into something positive so that he can help others. Dave explains how we can move beyond a painful history, harmful negative thoughts, and innumerable setbacks by taking control and beeing accountable for our lives. Filled with his own history as well as the personal struggls of those who have followed his three-step plan for turning adversity into triumph."...
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Quick response research report volume 167
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[2004]
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This report addresses the actions people took and perceptions people had of the fire during the evacuation period
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2002
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In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah.
As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge, is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the desert’s power...
As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge, is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the desert’s power...
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"Finkel, a journalist, follows the soldiers who serve in the Iraq War as they struggle to reintegrate into American society. He creates an essential portrait of what life after war is like-- not just for these soldiers, but for their wives, widows, children, and friends, and for the professionals who are truly trying, and to a great degree failing, to undo the damage that has been done."--
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2022.
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"A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people-morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-who work in it and what led them there. We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we're so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by...
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Quick response research report volume 108
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[1998]
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Emergency funds distributed through Rome resulting in an art vs. people controversy. Victims and local governments were not consulted on allocation of relief funds.
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2018.
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Exposure to abuse, discrimination, violence, neglect, and other adverse experiences during childhood significantly increase the risk of serious health, social, emotional, and learning problems throughout life. These traumatic events can disrupt brain, social, and emotional development. This disruption impacts a student's opportunity for academic success. School systems must reconsider how they support children that have been exposed to trauma and...
72) The next Everest: surviving the mountain's deadliest day and finding the resilience to climb again
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2021.
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"A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everest--and a return to reach the summit."--Back cover.
"On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed about 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in...
73) I wasn't ready to say goodbye: surviving, coping, and healing after the sudden death of a loved one
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Explores unexpected death and its role in the cycle of life.
74) Baby proof
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Is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love? What happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things? First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes--a baby carriage. Isn't that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying,...
75) The Last Lecture
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family. - Publisher. "Much of my lecture at Carnegie Mellon focused on the professional side of my life--my students, colleagues and career. The book is a far more personal look at my childhood dreams and all the lessons I've learned....
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Quick response research report volume 80
Pub. Date
[1996]
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This study reports on the health effects of an investigation of a fatal airline accident on 13 government employees involved in the discovery of probable cause of the crash of US Air flight 1016 on July 2, 1994 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Twenty persons survived, and 38 persons died.
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"More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment and meaning in a way no one had before. Leaving his teaching job at Harvard, Ram Dass embodied the role of spiritual seeker, showing others how to find peace within themselves in one of the greatest spiritual classics of the twentieth century, Be Here Now. As many of that generation enter the autumn of their years, the big questions of peace and of...