Mary Wood - Böcker

Everybody is a somebody.Giles is a countryman who relishes solitude. His wife Mary thrives in company and enjoys frequent escapes to London.After thirty years in a marriage of opposites, Giles and Mary have adapted to a life of domestic misunderst...

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Did you know . . . Doctors in ancient Peru performed brain surgery? Ancient Greek doctors ran medical schools? The ancient Indians knew how to protect people from smallpox?Medical technology is as old as human society itself. The first humans on E...

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Did you know . . . Ancient people used bows to drill holes and start fires? The ancient Chinese built a machine to detect earthquakes? The ancient Romans operated a factory for milling grain?Machine technology is as old as human society itself. Th...

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Did you know . . . People first used skis more than 8,000 years ago? The first wheels were used in pottery not for transportation? Traffic jams often clogged the streets of ancient Rome?Transportation technology is as old as human society itself. ...

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Did you know . . . The Scythians used guerrilla warfare more than 2,500 years ago? The Chinese general Sun-tzu wrote the first military manual in the fourth century B.C.? Some ancient Greek warships had more than 150 oarsmen?Military technology is...

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Did you know . . . Ancient Romans invented a machine to harvest grain? Farmers in ancient China destroyed the pests that harmed crops by bringing in their natural predators? The ancient Mayans restored nutrients to the soil by planting corn and be...

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Did you know . . . The ancient Maya built magnificent pyramid-temples? Ancient Chinese builders created central home heating systems? One ancient Greek monument was taller than a ten-story building?Construction technology is as old as human societ...

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Did you know . . . Ancient cultures measured time accurately with water clocks? An engineer in the first century B.C. designed an odometer to calculate distance traveled? People computed the first values of pi about four thousand years ago?Computi...

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Did you know that people first used road signs more than 2,000 years ago? Did you know that Ancient Rome had its own postal service? Did you know that Egyptian writers used flakes of limestone for scrap paper? Pens, storytelling, alphabets-communi...

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For a child, every day is a thing of wonder. And for six-year-old Lily Lapp, every day is a new opportunity for blessings, laughter, family, and a touch of mischief. As she explores her world, goes to school, spends time with her family, and gets ...

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Lily Lapp is moving with her family to Pennsylvania to join a new Amish community. In this small town where changes--and newcomers--are greeted with suspicion, Lily must adjust to a new school, new friends, and Aaron Yoder, an annoying boy who tea...

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Lily Lapp's family has settled into their new home in Pennsylvania, but life still holds big changes and big steps for Lily. Good changes, like once again living close to her beloved cousin and best friend, Hannah. Bad changes, like a mean girl wh...

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Change is brewing for Lily Lapp. Her favorite cousin, Hannah, moves away and Harvey Hershberger, a boy with a talent for trouble, moves right in. Harvey's antics stir up the entire schoolhouse, and his fondness for Lily gets under Aaron Yoder...

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These fourteen essays, written especially for this volume by colleagues and students of Professor Caldwell, cover a vast range of classical subjects. They are arranged chronologically so that the reader may catch something of the grand sweep and d...

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Typical architectural photography freezes buildings in an ideal moment and rarely captures what photographer Berenice Abbott called the medium's power to depict "how the past jostled the present." In Beyond the Architect's Eye,...

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The Wood family went to a church I pastored for a number of years. One day Brother Gary was preaching in a service and realized that the building we were meeting in once was a pharmacy. Years ago, when Angel was a very small girl, a very sick litt...

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Learn How You Can Get the Most Out of Your Cruise and Destination Experiences! Veteran world cruisers with hundreds of days at sea, Carolyn Wood and Mary Jane Zabinski share a WEALTH OF INSIDER KNOWLEDGE and practical advice to guide you through t...

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Criminologists in the Media presents the results of a cross-national study examining the structures that shape criminologists' contributions to news and social media discourse.Drawing on interviews with criminologists and a survey of 1,211 crimino...

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Criminologists in the Media presents the results of a cross-national study examining the structures that shape criminologists' contributions to news and social media discourse.Drawing on interviews with criminologists and a survey of 1,211 crimino...

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Drawing on wide ranging research this book, originally published in 1997, explores how the policy changes of previous years were affecting primary teachers and their work at the time. Within the context of worldwide restructuring, the thoughts, fe...

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Drawing on wide ranging research this book, originally published in 1997, explores how the policy changes of previous years were affecting primary teachers and their work at the time. Within the context of worldwide restructuring, the thoughts, fe...

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How do multicultural children and their parents experience the very beginning of their school careers?How do teachers mediate the demands of the educational system, and how do the children adapt?What kind of access to the National Curriculum is of...

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How do multicultural children and their parents experience the very beginning of their school careers?How do teachers mediate the demands of the educational system, and how do the children adapt?What kind of access to the National Curriculum is of...

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Collaboration-based approaches to healthcare improvement attract much attention. They involve networks of people coming together to cooperate around a common interest, with shared goals of improving care and mutual learning. Longstanding examples ...

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Collaboration-based approaches to healthcare improvement attract much attention. They involve networks of people coming together to cooperate around a common interest, with shared goals of improving care and mutual learning. Longstanding examples ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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