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David D. Levine

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The Adventures of Arabella Ashby

"A fanciful romp through a cosmic 1812, Hugo Award–winning Levine's first novel is a treat for steampunk fantasy fans." — Library Journal (starred review)Born on Mars, sixteen-year-old Arabella Ashby enjoys many more freedoms than most girls her age, tramping around the desert with her older brother. But that liberty is not to last. Finding Mars much too unladylike for her daughters, Arabella's mother takes the girls back to London, where they're sure to f...

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David Levine

Drawing on forty years running many Canadian health care institutions, David Levine shares his experience on how to manage in this very complex environment. His career includes implementing one of the first Local Community Health Centres (CLSCs) in Montreal in the 1970s, involvement in electoral politics, managing various Québec hospitals, his controversial hiring as Head of the Ottawa Hospital, a term as Québec Delegate General in New York City, a stint as Junior Minister of Health in Qué...

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David Levin

"I've played a lot of dads on TV. I wonder what kind of dad I'd have been if I'd had this playbook."Richard Kind, Tony-nominated actor (Spin City, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and the voice of Bing Bong in Inside Out)What readers are saying: "Playbooks are boring. This book is not boring." "Funnier than expected." "Hilarious, self-deprecating honesty." "I have been married for 54 years, and it was an eye-opener for me too...

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David D. Levine

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Bianca Amato

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Adventures of Arabella Ashby

Born on Mars, sixteen-year-old Arabella Ashby enjoys many more freedoms than most girls her age, tramping around the desert with her older brother. But that liberty is not to last. Finding Mars much too unladylike for her daughters, Arabella’s mother takes the girls back to London, where they’re sure to find suitable husbands among the ton.Weighed down by Earth’s gravity—and her own unhappiness—Arabella dearly misses her father and their shared passion for automata. When she learns...

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David D. Levine

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Bianca Amato

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Adventures of Arabella Ashby

Arabella is now a hero, but her new status brings attention that could threaten all she holds dear, in this final cosmic adventure.Finally and truly husband and wife, Arabella Ashby and Capt. Prakash Singh are lauded as heroes in England after defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Venus.When they are invited to the Brighton palace of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, a Martian- and Venusian-inspired architectural marvel, the mechanically-bent Arabella finds herself draw...

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David Levine, David Stephan

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Pearson Business Analytics Series

THE GUIDE FOR ANYONE AFRAID TO LEARN STATISTICS & ANALYTICS UPDATED WITH NEW EXAMPLES & EXERCISESThis book discusses statistics and analytics using plain language and avoiding mathematical jargon. If you thought you couldn't learn these data analysis subjects because they were too technical or too mathematical, this book is for you!This edition delivers more everyday examples and end-of-chapter exercises and contains updated instructions for using Microsoft...

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David D. Levine

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Bianca Amato

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Adventures of Arabella Ashby

Though happy to be back on her home planet of Mars, Arabella’s peace is shattered when she receives distressing news. Her long-absent fiancé Capt. Prakash Singh, commander of the Honorable Mars Company airship Diana, has been taken as a prisoner of war on Venus, the very planet where the exiled Napoleon has fled.Desperate to rescue Singh any way she can, Arabella pays off the gambling debts of a rakish privateer captain in order to arrange passage on his vessel. But when they’re ca...

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David D. Levine

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The Adventures of Arabella Ashby

Follow the nineteenth-century interplanetary adventures of a fearless steampunk space warrior in this full-trilogy collection.A teenage girl enters the fray of the Napoleonic Wars in space in this enthralling series "for young and young-at-heart readers who will enjoy a retro-flavored science fiction read" ( Fantasy Literature). This complete collection includes:Arabella of MarsForced by her mother to enter London s...

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David D. Levine

Chaz Eades is on the mission of a lifetime—the first to an alien solar system far beyond our own—and it’s a one-way trip. When he learns that contact with Earth has been lost, he wants to help reestablish communication. But the commander insists on science first and contact later, the crew is inexplicably hostile, and Chaz finds himself painfully isolated. Soon he realizes that there’s a secret at the heart of the crew’s troubles that is much larger than any he could have imagined. All bet...

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David D. Levine

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The Adventures of Arabella Ashby

Arabella is now a hero, but her new status brings attention that could threaten all she holds dear, in this final cosmic adventure.Finally and truly husband and wife, Arabella Ashby and Capt. Prakash Singh are lauded as heroes in England after defeating Napoleon at the Battle of Venus. When they are invited to the Brighton palace of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, a Martian- and Venusian-inspired architectural marvel, the mechanically-bent Arabella finds he...

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David Levin

Forget the old-school “motivation” and pop-psychology that fills so many self-improvement books—it’s out of date and, honestly, doesn’t work that well in the first place. What you need to thrive in today’s distracting, fast-paced world are three, fundamental self-mastery skills—cognitive control, emotional self-regulation, and impulse control. Together, these skills are the holy grail of personal development, and Raise Your Inner Game presents the world's first m...

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David D. Levine, Sara A. Mueller

This Endeavour Award-winning collection pulls together 15 critically acclaimed science fiction and fantasy stories that take readers from a technicolor cartoon realm to an ancient China that never was, and from an America gone wrong to the very ends of the universe. Including the Hugo Award-winning “Tk’Tk’Tk,” the Writers of the Future Award winner “Rewind,” “Nucleon,” “The Tale of the Golden Eagle,” and many other highly-praised stories, Space Magic shows David D...