She argues with her mother. She occasionally skips class. And she alternately crushes on two totally different boys. But Chloe King is by no means your typical teenager. The girl can scale buildings
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This multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional collection offers the first ever full-scale analysis of legal fictions. Its focus is on fictions in legal practice, examining and evaluating their roles i
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It's not about size or shape. It's not about skinny or fluffy. It's about balancing your scale and learning to be healthy for life. In My Healthy for Life Journal, author Dr. Olga Vaca Durr offers a v
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The scale of justice is unjustly tipped when a young man's twin brother is wrongfully charged for murder and later executed by the justice system of the state he lived. And it is the surviving brother
This book addresses the need for models and techniques to predict stability boundaries, given trends toward miniaturization of switching power supplies in battery-operated portable devices, which lead
America is in chaos, and we're being assaulted by various forces, both internal and external. Deliverance looks at the problems we face in our own nation and on a global scale, chronicling the changes
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Master Sergeant Gordon L. Ewell is a combat engineer and expert in the tactics and techniques the enemy used in Iraq to assemble, disguise, and detonate deadly improvised explosive devices (IEDs). He
During the Nazi occupation of Holland, 1940-1945, the Jewish community there suffered devastation on a scale as great as in any other nation in Europe. Only a small percentage of Dutch Jews survived t
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