Download or read book The Labyrinth Index written by Charles Stross and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A bizarre yet effective yoking of the spy and horror genres.” —The Washington Post Book World The Lovecraftian Singularity has descended upon the world in The Labyrinth Index, beginning an exciting new story arc in Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning Laundry Files series! Since she was promoted to the head of the Lords Select Committee on Sanguinary Affairs, every workday for Mhari Murphy has been a nightmare. It doesn’t help that her boss, the new Prime Minister of Britain, is a manipulative and deceptive pain in the butt. But what else can she expect when working under the thumb of none other than the elder god N’yar Lat-Hotep a.k.a the Creeping Chaos? Mhari's most recent assignment takes her and a ragtag team of former Laundry agents across the pond into the depths of North America. The United States president has gone missing. Not that Americans are alarmed. For some mysterious reason, most of the country has forgotten the executive branch even exists. Perhaps it has to do with the Nazgûl currently occupying the government and attempting to summon Cthulhu. It's now up to Mhari and her team to race against the Nazgûl's vampire-manned dragnet to find and, for his own protection, kidnap the president. Who knew an egomaniacal, malevolent deity would have a soft spot for international relations?

Download or read book Ideas and Insights written by Dorothy Jo Watson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended to provide elementary school language arts teachers with new and interesting teaching activities, this book contains over 100 teacher-tested classroom activities that are based on the whole language approach to learning. Chapters discuss the following: (1) a world of language in use; (2) literature points the way (including themes and organization, literature and experience, and extended literature); (3) making sense by reading (including predictions and expectations, reading awareness and control, invitations to read, and music, drama, and reading); (4) writing for self-expression; (5) learning to write by writing; (6) writing for an audience (including developing a sense of audience, and messages, notes, and letters); (7) reading, writing, listening, and speaking across the curriculum (including language arts across the curriculum, and reading and writing newspapers); (8) kids helping other kids: the collaborative effort (including cooperative learning, and games and holiday activities); (9) home is where the start is; and (10) valuing and evaluating learners and their language. The 15-page bibliography contains sections on read-aloud books, wordless books, extending literature and reading leading to writing, predictable language, predictable life experience books for upper elementary children, sing-along books, children's magazines, and publishers of children's writing. A list of teaching activities in the book is included. (SKC)

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Download or read book Commodities Switzerland s Most Dangerous Business written by Berne Declaration and published by Salis Verlag. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today marks the release of the controversial book "Commodities: Switzerland's Most Dangerous Business". The fact-filled and groundbreaking analysis of the industry, as powerful as it is unknown, shows why resource-rich developing countries remain poor while Switzerland-based commodity companies rake in profits in the billions. And it illustrates the gray areas of a business model whose risks are becoming increasingly apparent. Unnoticed by the public and politicians, Switzerland has become the world's most important commodities hub. Trade in oil, gas, coal, metals and agricultural products - particularly via deals made in Geneva and Zug - has grown by an incredible 1,500 percent since 1998, according to BD investigations. The result: Seven of the twelve corporations with the highest turnover in Switzerland trade in, and/or mine, commodities. Switzerland has become a global commodity hub thanks to its mix of tax privileges, a strong financial sector, weak regulation and lax embargo policy. The Swiss commodities business is dangerous for developing countries that are blessed with natural resources but that suffer from weak governance. The business is life-threatening for all those who must live amid the filth and toxins of the mines and facilities. The extensive misery of entire countries and the fairytale wealth of a few Swiss top traders are causally related. The book "Commodities: Switzerland's Most Dangerous Business" shows how. The richly-illustrated reference work offers a portrait of the key firms and people behind the discreet deals, provides insight into the social and ecological consequences for the producing countries, analyzes the practices and repercussions of tax avoidance and speculation, and offers proposals for achieving more justice in a multi-billion-dollar business that affects everyone.

Download or read book Australia goes to Washington written by David Lowe and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1940, when an Australian legation was established in Washington DC, Australian governments have expected much from their representatives in the American capital. This book brings together expert analyses of those who have served as heads of mission and of the challenges they have faced. Ranging beyond conventional studies of the Australian–United States relationship, it provides insights into the dynamics between Australian and US policymakers and into the culture of one of Australia’s oldest and most important overseas missions. It provides an appreciation of the importance of the embassy and the head of mission in Washington in mediating the relationship between Australia and the United States and of their role in managing expectations in Canberra and Washington. Australia Goes to Washington also sheds new light on personal trials and achievements at the coalface of Australian–United States relations.

Download or read book Etoki Jisho de Nihongo O Manabimash written by Passport Books and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary with words and drawings on each page which will help you learn Japanese.

Download or read book Quantum of Nightmares written by Charles Stross and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a brave new Britain under the New Management. The Prime Minister is an eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much. Hyperorganised and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. Now she's in charge of the Bigge Corporation, just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her long ago . . . Wendy Deere is investigating unauthorized supernatural shenanigans. She swore to herself she wouldn't again get entangled with Eve Starkey's bohemian brother Imp and his crew of transhuman misfits. Yeah, right. Mary Macandless has powers of her own. Right now she's pretending to be a nanny in order to kidnap the children of a pair of famous, Government-authorized adepts. These children have powers of their own, and Mary Macandless is in way over her head. All of these stories will come together, with world-bending results... 'For all of Stross's genuine ability to spook and dismay, The Laundry Files are some of the most tremendously humane books I've ever read' Tamsyn Muir, author of Gideon the Ninth

Download or read book Eco Resin Crafts written by Hazel Oliver and published by CICO Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resin craft is a great way to make beautiful items for your home and jewelry for yourself or others. Hazel Oliver is the name behind Badger & Birch, whose eco-friendly practices include using solvent free and non-toxic resin, and incorporating natural waste such as mussel and oyster shells from her local restaurant, as well as natural minerals, gemstones, and crystals. In this her first book, Hazel shows you the basics of resin craft, including mixing and pouring, making molds, and finishing your pieces. The 30 projects include cups, trays, boxes, and other items for the home, as well as molded jewelry pieces in shell shapes and other natural forms. The soft colors, natural elements and beautiful finish of Hazel's work will inspire you to take up this flourishing new craft, or give you new ideas if you are already a keen resin crafter.

Download or read book The Greedy Triangle written by Marilyn Burns and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this introduction to polygons, a triangle convinces a shapeshifter to make him a quadrilateral and later a pentagon, but discovers that where angles and sides are concerned, more isn't always better.

Download or read book Ten Black Dots written by Donald Crews and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1968, Ten Black Dots is a counting book, a book of simple rhymes, and a book of everyday objects.

Download or read book The Patchwork Quilt written by Valerie Flournoy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1985-03-29 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago Valerie Flournoy and Jerry Pinkney created a warmhearted intergenerational story that became an award-winning perennial. Since then children from all sorts of family situations and configurations continue to be drawn to its portrait of those bonds that create the fabric of family life.

Download or read book The Trouts from London written by Peter Merritt Rinaldo and published by Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. : Dor Pete Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the history of the family of William (2) Trout, the eldest son of Henry George (1) Trout, who came from London to Canada in 1792 as a soldier in the British Army"--Page 1. Henry George Trout (1770-1852) and his regiment were sent to Quebec and to Upper Canada in 1792, and he married Rachel Emerson in 1798. They bought a hotel near Fort Erie, Ontario, which he managed, as well as running a ferry to Black Rock, New York. He served again in the British Army during the War of 1812, and moved to new land in Erin, Ontario in 1820. William Trout (1801-1877) married twice, had children by both marriages, and died in Meaford, Ontario. Descendants and relatives lived in Ontario, New Brunswick, Ontario, British Columbia and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska in the United States, and progeny lived in there and in Illinois, New York, Texas, California and elsewhere.

Download or read book Highest Traditions written by John Bennett and published by AGPS. This book was released on 1995 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history tells of the formation of No 2 Squadron formed in Egypt in 1916 as part of the Australian Flying Corps, its service during WWI as a fighter unit on the Western front, its later disbandment, and reformation in 1937, and its operation in the Pacific during WWII. Also describes its involvement in Malaya and Vietnam before its disbandment in 1982. Copiously illustrated. Includes a bibliography and an index. The author is a former squadron leader, and now serves in Canberra as a staff officer for F-111 operational requirements.

Download or read book If Only written by Geri Halliwell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Spice Girl known as "Ginger Spice" takes readers inside the life that led to "Girl Power", revealing the real woman beneath the glamorous facade. Part coming-of-age story, part celebrity memoir, Halliwell relates how she has gone from an international pop star who walked away from it all to her role as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations.

Download or read book Proceedings of the Grand Chapter written by Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter of the State of Florida and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Vroom Vroom Trucks written by Karen Katz and published by Little Simon. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vroom vroom! Here come the construction trucks in this new lift-the-flap book from Karen Katz featuring the cutest trucks you’ve ever seen. Rumble! Rumble! Here come the big trucks! Look for bulldozers, dump trucks, and more in this adventurous lift-the-flap book from Karen Katz sure to appeal to any preschooler who loves things that go and things that build. With Karen Katz’s signature bright, striking art, this board book with its sturdy, easy-to-lift flaps is sure to vroom onto bookshelves everywhere.