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Education (R0)

Leaving school, whether to move on to training, work or education, is a fundamental rite of passage the world over. This volume draws on a wealth of international sources and studies in its analysis of the ‘transitions’ young students make as they move on from their secondary schooling. It identifies how these transitions are planned for by policymakers, enacted by school staff and engaged with by students themselves. With data from a range of nations with advanced industrial economies, th...

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Thomas J. Sims

Narrated by

Sean Pratt

Imagine a young doctor, trained in the latest medical knowledge and state-of-the-art equipment, suddenly transported back to one of the world’s most isolated and unforgiving environments—Nome, Alaska. That’s what happen to Dr. Sims. His plans to become a pediatric surgeon were drastically changed when, on the eve of being drafted into the Army to serve as a M.A.S.H. surgeon in Vietnam, he was offered a commission in the U.S. Public Health for assignment in Anchorage, Alaska, where he was s...

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Gary M. Pierzynski, George F. Vance, J. Thomas Sims

A perpetual bestseller, this third edition explores environmental quality from the perspective of soil science. The coverage ranges from the theoretical to the practical with an abundance of examples such as an exploration of allowable pesticide concentrations in drinking water and an inquiry into soil contamination from the trace elements in organic by-products. It also explores the use of soil carbon sequestration as a remedy for global climate change and the effects of acid precipitatio...

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An Unexpected Journal, Jasmin Biggs, James M. Swayze, Annie Nardone, Joshua Jo Wah Yen, Jason M. Smith, Megan M. Starr, Thomas Sims, Josiah Peterson, Seth Meyers, Sarah Hadley, Karise Gililland, Annie Crawford, Suzanne Carol

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Volume 7

From the 17th century's self-styled Enlightenment to the shell shock of the 20th century's Great War, the conventions and attitudes known as Modernity held significant sway over the Western mind. Long before the post-war disillusionment that sparked Postmodernism, Modernity made (and frequently fulfilled) tremendous promises, birthing the hope of a man-made utopia. It was an age of reason and progress marked by technological, political, and artistic achievements that bettered the lot of hu...

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Seth Myers, William Collen, Mary Lou Cornish, Awara Fernandez, John Givens, Matthew Lilly, Patricia Newberry, Thomas Sims, Katie Windham, Joshua Jo Wah Yen

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Volume 6

DostoevskySober Hope: Finding Faith in the Bleak MidwinterAs winter descends to end the year 2023, it is a time for contemplation: a time to revel in the joys and find balm for the woes of the past year, a time to find the courage to hold on, and the hope to thrive in the new year. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) faced his own bleak (and Russian!) winters, from childhood play amongst the impoverished at his father's medical clinic to a last...

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Thomas Chua

Narrated by

Adam Sims

'A clear, practical framework for building lasting wealth' – Gautam Baid'For anyone investing alongside a day job' – Chin Hui Leong'Thomas Chua is a clear thinker and a contrarian investor' – Robert Vinall**Most of what passes for investing is actually speculation—buying on excitement, selling on fear, and getting nowhere.This audiobook shows you how to shift from speculator to owner.**Ronald Read was a janitor who never earned more th...

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Janet Sims-Woods, Mr. Howard Dodson

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American Heritage

When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staff at Howard University in 1928, she was given a mandate to administer a library of Negro life and history. The school purchased the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection in 1946, along with other collections, and Burnett, who would later become Dorothy Porter Wesley, helped create a world-class archive known as the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and cemented her place as an immensely important figure in the preservation of African American history. We...

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Thomas Brown, Leah Sims

Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charleston’s daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority. The advertisements give insight not only into slave resistance, agency, and culture, but also into eighteenth century material life, economy, and racial ideology. The ads are also a rich source of ...

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Justin Battin, Agnieszka Kiejziewicz, Edmond Chang, Clare Kim, Adhy Kim, Jung Soo Lee, Lori Kido Lopez, Kimberly McKee, Jane Park, Imran Parray, Baryon Posadas, Thomas Sarmiento, Gerald Sim, Leland Tabares, Rachel Tay, Jae Yeon Yoo, Charles Tung, Shana Ye, David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta Aiyu Niu, Christopher T. Fan, Ian Liujia Tian, Professor Anna Romina Guevarra, Professor Won Jeon

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Asian American Studies Today

Building on the groundbreaking Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media, published by Rutgers University Press in 2015, Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions addresses the impact of a volatile post-pandemic present on speculative futures by and about Asians. The backdrop of this highly anticipated follow-up is a world that is radically different than in 2015: COVID-19, threats of a “new cold war” with China, Russi...

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Cendrine Marrouat, David Ellis, Nancy Christopherson, Melinda Coppola, Terry Cox-Joseph, Kaitlyn Davis, John Dorroh, Laura Hart Home, Linda Imbler, Laura Lee, Luisa Kay Reyes, Eduard Schmidt-Zorner, Melanie Simms, Wesley Sims, Susanne Thomas, Diane Vogel Ferri, Emily Martin

In issue 6: Nancy Christopherson, Melinda Coppola, Terry Cox-Joseph, Kaitlyn Davis, John Dorroh, Laura Hart Home, Linda Imbler, Laura Lee, Luisa Kay Reyes, Emily Martin (Children's Poetry Section), Eduard Schmidt-Zorner, Melanie Simms, Wesley Sims, Susanne Thomas, and Diane Vogel Ferri.Plus: Social media tips, useful writing tools, and Haiku-Interview with Camilla Downs. Readers are also challenged to write some sixku, kindku and pareiku, the poetry forms editors Cendrine Marrouat ...

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Leah Thomas

Narrated by

Adam Sims, Christopher Ragland, Madeleine Rose

Bloomsbury presents Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas, read by Madeleine Rose, Christopher Ragland and Adam Sims.Critically-acclaimed author Leah Thomas blends a small-town setting with the secrets of a long-ago crime, in a compelling novel about breaking free from the past.In Samsboro, Kentucky, Kalyn Spence’s name is inseparable from the brutal murder her father committed when he was a teenager. Forced to return to town, Kalyn must attend school under a pseudonym . . . or f...

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Dahui

Narrated by

Keong Sim

Translated by

Thomas Cleary

Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching (Chinese Zhengfayanzang) stands as among the greatest classics of Chan (Chinese Zen) Buddhism, combining speeches, stories, dialogues, poems, and commentaries that the influential master Dahui (1089–1163) extracted from Chan lore. Compiled by Dahui's students during Song Dynasty China, this work is replete with the enigmatic, paradoxical wisdom for which Zen Buddhism is so well known.Central to this collection is the notion of ...