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As a girl growing up on the family estate in Denmark, Karen Dinesen loved listening to the stories her father recounted about his travels. After his sudden death, Karen became convinced she was to carry on her father''s storytelling tradition. She married Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke in 1914, and then moved with him to Africa to run a struggling coffee plantation. The challenge and thrill of living in a new land brought out strengths in Dinesen that enabled her to survive divorce, death of loved ones, bankruptcy, and her own prolonged illness. After returning to Denmark in 1931, she began writing down the stories she had once told to friends in Africa. She published the stories under the name Isak Dinesen and, within five years of departing Africa, she had become one of the world''s most successful writers. Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, her work has been adapted into awardwinning movies and continues to delight readers today. Book jacket.

The development of new technology is having a profound effect on the way in which manufacturing companies are organised and managed, and this book will be the first to cover these developments in a style suitable for students at higher national or undergraduate level. As the proposed new foundation degrees are introduced over the next few years, this book will also be an attractive purchase for students on those courses. The book will deal with three broad areas: development and application of management philosophies such as concurrent engineering; the use of ICT (internet, intranet etc) ; and modern advances in manufacturing technology. However, it will also seek to demonstrate the links between these areas and put each into the context of a modern manufacturing company. The authors have a combination of extensive writing experience (RT) and up-to-date knowledge of current best practice in manufacturing and educational developments (SW) which will enable them to achieve the aims of the book. Wilkinson''s range of industrial contacts will also be an invaluable source of case study material to bring the subject matter to life.

Securing the interest of energetic, independent middle school students is one of the greatest challenges of school librarians. In this book—the third in the Library Programs That Inspire Series—acclaimed authors Patricia Potter Wilson and Roger Leslie bring you some of the best programming ideas to motivate your middle school patrons and encourage lifelong learning. Examples of successful programs from award-winning Blue Ribbon middle schools across the nation provide the necessary inspiration to create library events that will get the attention of even your least interested students. Find out which programs are most effective, innovative, and entertaining—without draining your resources and energy!

...Pierce Humphry suffered nightmares of dangling high above churning water. Recently, he scraped his fingers raw clawing the oak headboard that, in his dark dreams, was the crumbling cliff... ...That night transformed June. Tired, afraid, relieved, sometimes even pitiful, she nonetheless never felt more alive. Faced with the prospect of losing her child, she broke... ...Her mother had bought her the diary Christmas of 1970 when being Veronica Lynn Humphry was as painful as swallowing wool. So she tossed away the diary until a year later when she began chronicling her life as Nicki... ...Only two years ago, seeing his boisterous male classmates become self-conscious around girls made Mark feel mature. He already enjoyed the company of girls. But when they developed attractions to qualities Mark didn''t have, he withdrew... Meet the Humphry''s, they are all...Drowning in Secret in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. A family on the brink of discovery. Getting the first built-in pool in their neighborhood should have made the summer of ''74 the happiest time of their lives. If only they weren''t hiding so many secrets. The Humphrys appear to be the perfect family. Never trust appearances.

This latest collaboration in the Library Programs that Inspire series explores library media center events that target the high school age audience. Detailing particular methods to inspire high school students to appreciate and use the library media center, this guide provides compelling evidence of the potential for young adult programming as an effective teaching tool. This practical guide provides everything you need to plan, execute, and evaluate events that will get the attention of even your least motivated high school students. Emphasizing the benefits of effective programs, the authors offer creative techniques to enhance the curriculum, improve school library media center use, broaden student interest, and inspire lifelong learning. Programming foundations and examples from across the nation, as well as practical advice and helpful resources, provide the necessary inspiration to help you team up with educators, parents, and student volunteers to create unique, effective, and memorable events that will motivate your teenagers to fully take advantage of all that the school library offers.

Here is everything you need to plan, execute, and assess school library events. Aside from emphasizing the benefits of effective programs, the authors offer details on providing support services to enrich programming. Several examples of successful programs from across the nation provide the necessary inspiration to create your own imaginative and memorable events-events that motivate young students to fully take advantage of media center resources.

Basic Manufacturing has already established itself as a core text for manufacturing courses in Further Education. The authors'' approach is student-centred with self-check questions and activities provided throughout. As a result, the book is well suited to independent study. It is also clearly written to appeal to students of all abilities. Review questions are provided at the end of each chapter to consolidate learning and give practice for external assessments. The book is also an excellent, readable introduction to the technical and business aspects of the manufacturing industry that will be invaluable for students on a wide range of courses, including City & Guilds certificates. It also provides a good grounding for students on Advanced GNVQ programmes in Manufacturing. The new edition has been revised to be fully in line with the new Intermediate GNVQ specifications, covering the three compulsory units and the externally assessed optional unit. The second edition includes a completely new chapter on Application of New Technology in Manufacturing. A genuinely student-friendly manufacturing text Matched to the new 2000 GNVQ specifications Written by the UK''s leading manufacturing textbook author and the Edexcel subject leader in charge of the new GNVQ scheme.

This text is intended for those studying engineering manufacture for HNC/D and first/second year engineering and degree courses. The text satisfies the requirements of technician students, and also provides a technical background for undergraduate students.

This new edition of what is a very successful Pocket Book has been substantially revised to take account of the most recently introduced standards and the newest technology. Always with the emphasis on current engineering practice, this is an exhaustive collection of useful data supported by clear accounts of the fundamental principles, essential for both the modern mechanical engineer and the student of mechanical engineering. This mass of information is rendered easily accessible by division into four main parts - maths and science, design data, materials and cutting tools - which are in turn divided into smaller topic areas. A well laid-out contents and index help the reader find their way around. Fully revised to cover most recently introduced standards Completely comprehensive with emphasis on current engineering practice Logically arranged material for ease of reference

This text covers the requirements of all the mandatory units at this level of the GNVQ Engineering course. Each chapter follows the unit specification closely - the chapter titles correspond to the unit titles and section headings correspond to the elements in the unit.

Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) and yellow starthistle (Centaurea soistitialis L.) have invaded over 3 million ha of grasslands in the western U.S. Future management will require an understanding of the conditions, mechanisms, and processes which control species dominance, community dynamics, and desirable plant establishment in these alien dominated annual rangelands. Life-history models of cheatgrass and yellow starthistle were developed. Sensitivity analysis indicated that cheatgrass and yellow starthistle seed output was most sensitive to population reductions during the transition from juvenile to adult and adult survivorship phase of their life history. Key processes associated with these transition phases are interference (competition), growth rates and duration, and reproductive allocation. The objective of this research was to investigate those key processes. Several addition series experiments, with total densities ranging from 20- 20000 plants m−2, were conducted to quantify the intensity of interference between cheatgrass and yellow starthistle. In unrestricted soil depths, intraspecific interference was approximately twice as important as interspecific interference for both species with respect to predicting plant weight throughout the growing season and seed production. Resource partitioning via rooting depth was evident. The ecological importance of strong intraspecific interference was associated with being strong competitors, the advantages of self-thinning, and regulating community composition. Decreasing soil depth altered the competitive balance toward the relatively shallow and fibrous rooted cheatgrass. In a growth chamber study, isolated seedling growth rates of both species were similar, however yellow starthistle roots grew more geotropically than those of cheatgrass. In field experiments, yellow starthistle grew more rapidly than cheatgrass after the seedling stage. We believe that rapid and geotropic growth allowed deeper soil penetration, continued growth and increased seed output of yellow starthistle over that of cheatgrass. As densities increased and/or soil depth decreased, the growth rates and maturation dates of cheatgrass and yellow starthistle became increasingly similar and lower.

Engineering Materials: Volume 2 has been written to satisfy the requirements of the Business and Technician Education Council (BTEC) standard units U84/269, U84/270, U84/271, U84/273, U84/274, U84/275, U84/276, U86/324, U86/325, U86/326 and U86/327. These are dealt with to H level standard and, therefore, this text is eminently suitable for students studying for an engineering qualification at the HNC/HND level.

Mechanical Engineering Craft Theory Volumes 1 and 2 provide the craft-level student with an extremely solid grounding in the processes he will use daily throughout his career. The authors are both mechanical engineers with a wealth of teaching experience. Key features of the books are: comprehensive coverage of many syllabuses little previous knowledge assumed chapters covering related mathematics and sciance numerous worked examples to aid understanding over 300 clearly labelled illustrations glossary providing simple, accurate definitions of key terms questions which may be used for evalution and revision.