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The Creative Classroom provides teachers in grades PreK-6 with a number of creative drama strategies for use in the classroom, on a daily basis and across the curriculum.
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Behind the public's hope of effective action by governments on environmental issues lies a complex terrain of conceptual confusion, conflicts of interest and philosophical dispute. This is why some of
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The origins of the mathematics in this book date back more than two thou- sand years, as can be seen from the fact that one of the most important algorithms presented here bears the name of the Greek
Although better than nine out of ten boats afloat today are made of fiberglass, a significant minority of boaters believe that a boat isn't a boat unless it's made of wood. Wooden boats have character
Offers a detailed, strategic planning methodology that nonprofits can use to get the best results for their fund raising dollars. Lindahl shows how nonprofit organizations?including healthcare provide
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Author of The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, one of the most acclaimed fantasy series of all time, master storyteller Stephen R. Donaldson retums with this exciting and long-awaited new series that ta
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Four physicists from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union survey methods for calculating electronic states in solids that have heretofore been known only to a few practitioners. In a manner usef
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