Category: Nonfiction 3

By 木塚 朝博, 木竜 徹, 増田 正, 佐渡山 亜兵

ISBN-10: 4501325100

ISBN-13: 9784501325107

ISBN-10: 4501907703

ISBN-13: 9784501907709

By Daryl Sharp

ISBN-10: 0585176906

ISBN-13: 9780585176901

ISBN-10: 0919123007

ISBN-13: 9780919123007

By Jenny Nimmo

ISBN-10: 0439846692

ISBN-13: 9780439846691

The enchanter count number Harken is again to take his revenge at the crimson King's heirs, beginning with Charlie Bone's relations! Charlie's ancestor has been abducted and imprisoned at the hours of darkness, forbidding land of Badlock, and it truly is as much as Charlie to avoid wasting him. touring via a portray to the terrifying geographical region, Charlie and his most sensible friend's puppy, Runner Bean, take in the search. but if Runner Bean will get trapped, Charlie wishes the aid of his neighbors. Can they get prior a military of trolls, rescue Runner Bean and Charlie's ancestor, and get out prior to it really is too overdue? Can Charlie outwit court docket Harken and his sinister troops, or will the prisoners be doomed to being held captive in Badlock forever?Jenny Nimmo is an award-winning writer who lives along with her painter husband in a switched over mill in Wales. Her books contain THE SNOW SPIDER, winner of the Smarties Prize, EMYLN'S MOON, THE CHESTNUT SOLDIER, and GRIFFIN'S fort, which used to be shortlisted for the Smarties Prize, the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award, and the W.H. Smith's brain Boggling Award. THE OWL TREE received the Smarties Gold Prize Award for 6- to eight-year-olds, and THE CHARLIE BONE books have again and again came upon their method directly to bestseller lists.

By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Publishing Oecd Publishing

ISBN-10: 9264006516

ISBN-13: 9789264006515

Committed public-private partnership (PPP) devices are organizations organize with complete or partial reduction of the govt. to make sure that the abilities had to deal with third-party provision of products and providers are made on hand and clustered jointly inside of executive. Such devices increase the potential of presidency to effectively deal with the dangers linked to a transforming into quantity and price of PPPs. even though a comparatively contemporary phenomenon, in 2009 greater than half all OECD nations pronounced the lifestyles of a devoted unit of a few kind.   This ebook offers an summary of devoted PPP devices in OECD international locations, together with case reviews overlaying: the country of Victoria (Australia), Germany, Korea, South Africa (an OECD better engagement country), and the uk. It examines the capabilities and locations of committed PPP devices, the function they play within the procurement process and  the classes learned for different international locations that experience already validated or are contemplating constructing a committed PPP unit.   extra analyzing Public-Private Partnerships: In Pursuit of danger Sharing and price for cash (OECD, 2008)Table of content material :AcronymsExecutive SummaryChapter 1. an outline of committed public-private partnership units-Public-private partnerships-Dedicated PPP devices: purpose and functions-Main findings bankruptcy 2. committed PPP devices: 5 case reviews -Comparing committed PPP devices -Germany-Korea -South Africa -United state -Victoria, Australia bankruptcy three. committed PPP devices: different OECD member countries-Canada-Czech Republic-Denmark -Flanders, Belgium -France-Greece-Hungary-Ireland -Italy -Japan-Netherlands-New South Wales, Australia -Poland -PortugalAnnex A. OECD rules for personal region participation in infrastructure

By Elisa Martí-López

ISBN-10: 0838755208

ISBN-13: 9780838755204

Borrowed Words addresses the obvious paradox that underpins the methods of cultural construction and intake in mid-nineteenth-century Europe: the truth that countries at diverse narrative levels turn into contiguous literary markets. It makes a speciality of translations and imitations of international literary versions and on their function in constructing the bases of the bourgeois Spanish novel. whereas critics have seen translations and imitations as alien to Spanish tactics of cultural formation, the publication argues that those writing practices represent either a discourse on nationwide id and an autochthonous writing. The publication contends that the popularity of translation and imitation within the literary lifetime of a rustic doesn't suggest denying the explicit stipulations created via political borders within the structure of a countrywide literature, that's, the lifestyles of nationwide borders framing literary stay. What it does is realize new and diversified frontiers that destabilize the nationwide confines (as good because the nationalistic values) of literary historical past. In translation and imitation, borders are skilled now not because the demarcation of otherness, yet fairly as crossroads within the quest of identification. Martí-López explores those matters utilizing a gaggle of books whose life is in detail associated with the large exportation of French cultural paradigms (in specific, versions of novel writing) to Spain: the Spanish translations and imitations of Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris (1842-1843). The research of those works exhibit the increase of the radical in mid-nineteenth-century Spain because the results of either a poetics of aesthetic displacement and advertising practices - booklet construction and the reception of international models.

By Leszek Pawel Slupecki

ISBN-10: 8385463275

ISBN-13: 9788385463276

By Ray Oakey

ISBN-10: 0080554482

ISBN-13: 9780080554488

Ward et al., study the query of even if offering paintings event inside classes of analysis in better schooling impacts entrepreneurial attitudes and behavior, vital given govt imperatives to foster entrepreneurship in the course of the schooling approach. they think about dimensions: self-efficacy, which commonly pertains to self belief in skill; and, entrepreneurial reason which pertains to optimistic attitudes in the direction of accomplishing possibility taking or enterprise start-up. Their pattern is of 158 undergraduates who engaged in a summer season paintings placement associated with their learn. Their key discovering is that confident results on self-efficacy and entrepreneurial motive will depend on the character of the event, being fostered via acting good within the face of trouble and the closeness of the situation task to their stories. Such adventure seems to be extra universal while venture a placement in a small firm.Van der Sijde et al., contemplate the level to which collage begin ups that are worldwide in preference to being regionally focussed fluctuate within the volume in their enterprise networks, utilizing a pattern comprising 5 technology-based organisations of every style. They determine that international start-ups do have extra huge networks when it comes to variety of actors and international actors within the community at start-up, even supposing their networks don't extend thereafter considerably greater than household start-ups. in addition they have considerably extra resources of capital.

By Alan Dean Foster

ISBN-10: 0345334655

ISBN-13: 9780345334657

Followed by means of his devoted minidrag Pip and a so much tricky alien referred to as Abalamahalamatandra -- Ab for brief -- Flinx set out for Alaspin, the ruggedly primitive homeworld of his flying snake.There he was hoping to discover the enormous guy with the gold earring who one way or the other held the most important to Flinx's mysterious prior and to the unusual powers he possessed. Chasing down his background used to be difficulty adequate, yet Flinx did not understand what genuine hassle was once till he learned that the Qwarm -- a dangerous murderer squad -- have been 3 steps in the back of him with a freelance to kill.But the minidrag's homeworld didn't provide security and Flinx had a negative time simply staying alive ... a question advanced to no suggest measure through a collapsar already set on an unstoppable loss of life path around the galaxy!

By John C. Campbell, Guy de Carmoy, Shinichi Kondo

ISBN-10: 0930503589

ISBN-13: 9780930503581

By Charles Ryan, Sean Glenn

ISBN-10: 0972359931

ISBN-13: 9780972359931

The simplest ever RPG gun source is again! Chameleon Eclectic's unique Ultramodern Firearms used to be a surprise of study and representation. Now writer Charles Ryan, clean from his paintings at the Wheel of Time RPG and d20 sleek for Wizards of the Coast, has revisited Ultramodern Firearms and up to date it for the d20 procedure. The textual content is written for players, now not gun lovers, so it's transparent, well-organized, and simple to take advantage of, targeting the positive aspects, merits, and makes use of of over three hundred guns and points of interest. Over 2 hundred specific illustrations whole the package deal. Ultramodern Firearms is an necessary source for any modern d20 video game.