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Have you ever wondered why presidential candidates need money for their campaigns? How do they get the funds they need to succeed in politics? This book focuses on how and where presidential candidates obtain the money to help them run for the country's highest office. Readers will learn about the history of campaign fund-raising and discover how candidates in different time periods approached it. They'll also learn about historical events, including...
722) Getting It All Done
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Stop juggling and start managing everything you need to do at home and at work.
It used to be simple before kids: Say yes to everything, stay late, turn in flawless work, catch up on sleep later. But now you need a different mindset to succeed at work, as a parent, and as a family member.
Getting It All Done can't teach you to be in two places at once, but it provides you with expert advice as you manage the challenges of succeeding at work while...
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Lisa Cressman, founder of Backstory Preaching, offers preachers tools to craft difficult sermon messages that can be heard. The gospel changes lives, but to do that it must first be, heard. For it to be, heard people have to trust they are "seen" and their concerns and fears are acknowledged. They have to feel their perspectives are real, valid, and respected.
Preachers have a difficult message to preach, a message many will not want to hear: new...
724) The Green Team
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. "You like lawns. Fine. But think, Tony." Tony is not one to rush into things. He likes to think things over. Now Tio, his great-uncle, pushes Tony to think about how to keep his new business going. Making money from lawn care has been hard work, yet fun. But now what? With summer gone and winter just around the corner,...
725) Handy All Around
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary novella is intended for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) readers. "Don't have a job, don't want a job." That's what Wayne tells people when they ask what kind of work he does. But job or no job, Wayne finds himself busy doing "odd jobs" for neighbors and friends. And around the house, where he lives with his mom. When his mom dies, he is left to fend for himself. With help from a...
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Would you like to wake up every day looking forward to going to work? Do you want a job that is in harmony with your passions, values and deepest interests? Do you want a job that is deeply rewarding and gives you a sense of meaning and purpose? Do you dream of discovering happiness at work in a role that allows you to be you truly are and who you truly want to be? Global career change expert and courage coach, Gaisford (BCA, Dip. Psych.) shows you...
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In this revealing look at home care, Cynthia J. Cranford illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them in daily activities develop meaningful relationships even when their different ages, abilities, races, nationalities, and socio-economic backgrounds generate tension in the intimate encounter that is home help. As Cranford shows, workers experience devaluation within racialized and gendered class hierarchies,...
728) How Elections Work
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Learn how Americans cast their votes and make their voices heard in national, state, and local elections. Additional features to aid comprehension include fact-filled captions and sidebars, detailed photographs, informational diagrams, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, and an introduction to the author. Our nation was founded on the notion that a government should be ruled by and for the people. So how...
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Learn about the President, the presidential advisors, and the departments that manage the nation's laws and keep it operating smoothly. Additional features to aid comprehension include fact-filled captions and sidebars, detailed photographs, informational diagrams, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, and an introduction to the author. Our nation was founded on the notion that a government should be ruled...
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Learn about the roles of state, local, and federal courts in interpreting laws, deciding cases, and bringing justice to the American people. Additional features to aid comprehension include fact-filled captions and sidebars, detailed photographs, informational diagrams, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, and an introduction to the author. Our nation was founded on the notion that a government should be...
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Learn how a bill becomes a law and how the U.S. Congress helps maintain the government's balance of power. Additional features to aid comprehension include fact-filled captions and sidebars, detailed photographs, informational diagrams, a table of contents, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, and an introduction to the author. Our nation was founded on the notion that a government should be ruled by and for the people. So...
732) Inauguration Day
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An inauguration is the act of swearing an elected person into office. Inauguration Day is the day that the most important elected official in the United States, the president, takes office. Readers will learn about the history of Inauguration Day in the United States, key aspects of this important day, and how Inauguration Day has changed since 1789, when George Washington took office. Full-color photographs and primary sources help readers understand...
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Collects 2020 Force Works (2020) #1-3, 2020 Machine Man (2020) #1-2, 2020 Iron Age (2020) #1. The eruption of a violent robot revolution threatens all biological life! As Earth teeters on the precipice of extinction, there's only one man with enough tactical skill, killer instinct and ruthless leadership to lead the counterattack: War Machine! Join him and his elite paramilitary Force Works squad - U.S.Agent, Mockingbird and Quake - in a final crusade...
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary reader uses two contrasting photostories to explore time management in the workplace. The photographs reflect the text, making the words easy to decode. This compelling photostory is for adolescents and adults who are beginning readers. This book is suitable for English language learners and adult basic education students. It guarantees a positive reading experience for beginning readers. This title is one of ten...
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In A Lay Preacher's Guide, How to Craft a Faithful Sermon, Karoline M. Lewis provides lay preachers with an essential and accessible guide to the basics of Sunday morning preaching.
Laypeople are increasingly, called to serve congregations and are preaching regularly. But often, they do not have immediate, reliable, or trusted access, to homiletical instruction or support for their preaching. As a result, these church leaders, feeling called, to ministry...
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Prolific author William H. Willimon makes the compelling case that two key pastoral tasks, preaching and leadership-complement, correct, strengthen, and inform one another. Preaching is the distinctive function of pastoral leaders. Leadership of the church, particularly, during a challenging time of transition in mainline Protestantism, has become a pressing concern for pastors. This book shows how the practices, skills, and intentions of Christian...
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This high-interest, low-vocabulary reader contains two contrasting photostories that illustrate the importance of having a positive attitude in the workplace. The photographs illustrate the text, making the words easy to decode. This reader is guaranteed to provide adolescents and adults who are beginning readers with a positive reading experience. Students in English as a Second Language and Adult Basic Education classes will benefit from this reader....
738) Love Me
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Everyone knows the first rule of friends-with-benefits is you don't fall for your friend. There are a million reasons I shouldn't be messing around with Claudia: we're best friends, we work together, her dad is my boss, and I'm moving out of state in a few weeks. But none of that seems to matter when we hook up at my sister's wedding. It's the best sex I've ever had. I'd have to be crazy not to keep it going. We've both got too much on our plates...
739) The Magic of Writing
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Learn how to apply practical magic and writing techniques together to achieve consistent results that transform your life. In “The Magic of Writing”, I show you how writing can become a potent magical tool that you can use to achieve consistent results. Best of all you don't need to be an author or writer to use writing magic. All you need to do is pick up the pen, paper, or keyboard, and start creating writing that allows you to embody your magic...
740) Make Me
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When it comes to guys, I don't do repeats. I'm too messed up to do more than a one night stand. Until Josh. He got a second chance on a technicality. He's got more tattoos than I do, and I want to lick every one of them. Suddenly he's there to help me pick up the pieces after I call the cops on my dad. He rescues me from myself on Halloween. And always with that lazy smile and bone-melting kisses. But he's getting tired of my excuses about why I can't...
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