pAt age 16 Chris Kopczynski carved the words EverestEiger into the handle of his ice axe, marking his goal to climb the two mountains known as the highest and the hardest. He accomplished that goal by the age of 33, becoming the ninth American to summit Everest and the first American to summit both the North Face of the Eiger and Mt. Everest. With the climbing addiction in his blood, he set new goals

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This book, offered by practitioner-scholars, is an exploration and identification of the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that are central to supporting effective community engagement practices between higher education and communities. The discussion and review of these core competencies are framed within a broader context of the changing landscape of institutional community engagement and the emergence

First published in 1947, iThe Plaguei was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist \'plague\' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus\' classic for our own dangerous times. Using just five actors, his frank and gripping new stage version uses Camus\' original words

pA couple brimming with the hope of a new pregnancy. A woman coming to terms with the truth behind her adoption. A husband trying to save his marriage from the despair of infertility. These are just a few of the stories in iAll the Acorns on the Forest Floori, a book about the lengths we go to for the love of our children, our spouses, our mothers, our daughters.p piAll the Acorns on the Forest Floori

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From the time of its composition c. 1280 for Philip the Fair of France until the early sixteenth century, Giles of Rome\'s mirror of princes, the De regimine principum, was read by both lay and clerical readers in the original Latin and in several vernacular translations, and served as model or source for several works of princely advice. This study uses an interdisciplinary approach toward the surviving

On a 1968 afternoon, Len Rugh opens a letter he\'d hoped never to receive.p Although he\'s been married less than two years and his twenty-third birthday is just days away, Len is ordered to report to the induction center in Los Angeles. Somehow, he\'s been drafted, and soon, he\'s in Vietnam.p Although he\'s fighting in a war he never asked to join, Len suffers a severe head wound. No one thinks he\'ll

In matters such as affirmative action or home schooling, rights of ethnic and other minority groups often come into conflict with those of society in a culturally diverse population such as ours. But before considering the dilemmas posed by these issues, we must first ask such basic but important questions as what group rights are and how they intersect with the principles of democracy. pThis new collection

This book deals with the problem of dynamics of bodies with time-variable mass and moment of inertia. Mass addition and mass separation from the body are treated. Both aspects of mass variation, continual and discontinual, are considered. Dynamic properties of the body are obtained applying principles of classical dynamics and also analytical mechanics. Advantages and disadvantages of both approaches

En este libro los autores utilizan la experiencia ganada en talleres con mas de tres mil personas, para delinear de manera comprensiva y accesible al lector, una guia para un interminable viaje del auto-descubrimiento. los lectores de este libro tambien aprenderan habilidades que intentan traer a luz e influenciar los procesos dinamicos por los cuales crean sus relaciones con sus seres queridos, su

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality

This county history is extraordinarily rich in primary source materials, including abstracts of deeds from 1681 through the Revolutionary War period and, moreover, petitions, divisions of estates, wills, and marriages found in the records of Perquimans and adjacent North Carolina counties. Numbering in the tens of thousands, the records provide the names of all principal parties and related family

This fascinating volume is for all serious students of European cinema as well as historians of Germany in the 20th century. German Essays on Film is divided into five parts Late Wilhelmine Germany Weimar Republic 1918-33 Inside the Third Reich 1933-45 Intellectuals in Exile and Postwar Germany since 1945. Among the writers, thinkers, filmmakers, and scholars anthologized are Alfred D blin, Georg Luk

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Uses real plan data to show that retirement plans should use \'guardrails\' to limit an employee\'s ability to unwisely allocate their investments . Provides unique insight into the law and economics of retirement plan design to demonstrate how plan fiduciaries can act proactively to create menus that benefit both employers and investors.

EAN: 9781803704593Young CarolineUsborne Publishing Ltd 2023

Bring a new depth of passion to your prayers with this year-long calendar of daily blessings! This book includes a prayer for each day of the month, from January through December. Each prayer delivers generously thought-provoking, devotional, and inspirational praises and blessings of thanks directed to our Lord Jesus Christ. Each of the beautiful writings, one for each day of the entire year, is inspired

They\'re so goofy, they\'re cool. Enter a group of cool guys who seem like they\'ve got that unapproachable swag. But look closer and you\'ll find a bunch of dorks who\'ve gotten the act down pat. So sit back, grab some popcorn, and enjoy watching these clumsy dudes try to look cool all day, every day.