Andrew John
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Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This textbook, Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: … Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. … Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem. Many books claim to present economics in a way that is digestible for...
Author
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This textbook, Macroeconomics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: … Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. … Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem. Many books claim to present economics in a way that is digestible for...
Author
Publisher
Saylor Academy
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Russell Cooper and Andrew John have written an economics text aimed directly at students from its very inception. You're thinking, ”Yeah, sure. I've heard that before.“ This textbook, Economics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: … Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. … Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which...
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This delightful and imaginative diary is narrated by Douglas, a dog who embarks on a narrowboat journey with his human 'pets'. Douglas recounts his adventures from his unique canine perspective, bringing humor and whimsy to the tale.
Written in engaging diary format, Douglas shares daily events of the journey in his own words. His creative descriptions – referring to the narrowboat as his 'long-kennel', the car as his 'short-kennel', lifts as...
5) Obscura
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English
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A reclusive young photographer, Andrew Kaleen (Andrew John), incidentally becomes wrapped up in a string of murders delivered through clues in the form of a 35mm film.
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English
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The oft-used adjectives--"rollicking," "uproarious," "zany," etc.--don't half do justice to the world John Andrew Fredrick has created in his The King of Good Intentions trilogy. In this, the final volume of the series, the author's madcap, kaleidoscopic, dazzling take on love (and love triangles) and life and an up-and-coming indie rock band called The Weird Sisters in 90's Los Angeles comes full circle as the story of principal bandmates and paramours...
7) Two Halfs
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English
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John Andrew Murray is a writer, architect and travelogue publisher. He was born and lived in west Belfast through the 60s, 70s and 80s at the height of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland.John is from a working class family. He joined a local running club and completed 4 full marathons before he was 16 years old. He worked for an architect's office when he left school at 16 then moved to England at the age of 20 where he continued working and studying...
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Lars Kelsen doesn't believe in psychic phenomenon. To him, visions of murder victims are a form of mental illness. Once they begin, options are limited. He can try to ignore them or deal with them by exposing a killer. Only the latter provides any semblance of peace. Temporarily, anyway.Five years into his new life as a programmer, Kelsen-ex-crime beat reporter with a penance he can never fully satisfy-sees a victim. In person. Upright. Staring.Typical...
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Hard working family man Jim Ignatius Wilson, witnesses the Sun reflect off an alien vessel as it dodges a satellite. The experience is long forgotten by the grind of daily life, and Jim moves north due to serious health issues on advice from the family doctor; taking his wife, Stella and only child, Timothy to far North Queensland.
Rogand, an eternal, decides on using Jim in a bold plan to help save Earth from extinction and blends microscopic life-forms...
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In The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina, escaped slave John Andrew Jackson seeks to educate his readers on the horrors of slavery. He spares no details in relating the murder of his sister, the separation of his family, and his own frequent whippings at the hands of a "Christian" master and mistress. He offers a scathing review of white religious hypocrisy, criticizing those who could not see the contradiction between worshiping a merciful...
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English
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John Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the book, the nation lost a rich first-person historical account of race and class relations during a critical period-not only during the days of Rice's youth,...
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Jesus of Nazareth was an inspired spiritual teacher from whom everyone can learn regardless of religious affiliation. He defined his mission, as "I am come that they might have LIFE and that they might have it more abundantly." He illustrated what he meant by this in his parables and sayings.
Living in the Kingdom of God examines three well-known parables based on two assumptions: first, the "kingdom of God" is not a place to go after death-it is...
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Each of the stories in this collection began with a photograph and the ideas the photograph evoked in the author. A photograph of gravestones in a cemetery is the source of the story of an older man's reflections on his life and the deaths of his wife and children; a photograph of a soldier from the Korean War era provides the inspiration for a story about a soldier in Iraq facing the realization that the enemy is a young man much like himself; the...
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"This is a stunning book, so rare and so beautiful. I cannot recommend it highly enough." -Matthew A. LaPine
Suffering has been made holy by Christ's proximity to it.
This is the story of Christ's nearness to my own suffering-my mental breakdown, my journey to the psych ward, my long, slow, painful recovery-and how Christ will use even our agony and despair to turn us into servants and guests of the mercy offered in his gospel.
We cannot answer...
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Set in Los Angeles in the early 90s, the novel chronicles the early days of an indie band as they meet, practice, make their first record, and get their first break/big gig. It's also the story of the the flowering love affair between John and Jenny, the two charming if troubled guitarists/singers in the band. John is by day a misanthropic substitute teacher in the zany, sometimes horrific LA Unified School District; Jenny is an mysterious recovering...
16) Detonation Event
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For decades the Space Consortium of America has searched for new ways to harvest resources beyond an increasingly depleted Earth. The ultimate plan is about to be ignited. So is the ultimate threat to humankind . . .
DETONATION EVENT
Battle-hardened Captain Ry Devans and his crew of the Mars Orbiting Station-1 are part of a bold plan: resurrect the active molten cores of the Red Planet with synchronized thermonuclear explosions, and terraform the...
17) Rogue Planet
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The mission: make Mars inhabitable for humans with a thermonuclear reawakening. But for the adventurous remnants of the Space Consortium of America, the biggest threat isn't from the erupting rage of the Red Planet. It's from a treacherous blue marble called Earth ... ROGUE PLANET You'd think Captain Ry Devans was a hero when he jumpstarted the cores of Mars, giving the previously dormant planet a fresh start at harboring life. But he's also the host...
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THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is an adventure story for the reader who is into sea voyage accounts and seafaring life. It vividly depicts the story of voyage around the world, from Tropics, China, Singapore and back home offering many fascinating illustrations.
(Source: Google Books)
Author
Publisher
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is an adventure story for the reader who is into sea voyage accounts and seafaring life. It vividly depicts the story of voyage around the world, from Tropics, China, Singapore and back home offering many fascinating illustrations.
(Source: Google Books)