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In this definitive guide, climatologists Barry D. Keim and Robert A. Muller examine the big picture of Gulf hurricanes - from the 1800s to the present and from Key West, Florida, to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula - providing an extraordinary compilation and interpretation of the entire region's hurricane and tropical storm history. Drawing from their own research and from National Hurricane Center records, Keim and Muller examine numerous individual Gulf storms.

The CliffsNotes study guide on Faulkner's Short Stories supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. CliffsNotes Review tests your comprehension of the original text and reinforces learning with questions and answers, practice projects, and more.

The CliffsNotes study guide on Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written with the assumption that you have read The Count of Monte Cristo.

Learn the 25 keys to selecting and managing outside investment, through mergers, acquisitions, and project-specific financing, as well as R&D internal investment, for long-term growth and expansion. Managing Investment is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA series.

Designed to be compatible with virtually every standard textbook in their subject field, Barron’s EZ-101 Study Keys give you a valuable overview of your college-level course. In American History to 1877, all key topics are covered, from the first Americans through the post–Civil War Reconstruction era. Also covered are brief key quotations and notes on major figures such as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, John Marshall, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and many more.

What do you do when you have a medical question regarding your children? Searching for answers online can be hit or miss. And can you trust the information you're reading? With over 80 combined years of experience, doctors Robert Lesslie and Robert Alexander have been helping parents take good care of their kids for decades. Now, they want to share their expertise with your family. From common or controversial health issues to potential urgencies or emergencies, get practical and accurate advice at your fingertips.

The CliffsNotes study guide on Hemingway's Short Stories supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. CliffsNotes Review tests your comprehension of the original text and reinforces learning with questions and answers, practice projects, and more.

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The Confederate States of America was born in defense of slavery. Between Fort Sumter to Appomattox, Confederates bought and sold thousands African American men, women, and children. These transactions in humanity made the internal slave trade a cornerstone of Confederate society, a bulwark of the Rebel economy, and a central part of the experience of the Civil War for all inhabiting the American South.

Unemploymentville.com creator and author Anne Emerick has interviewed career coaches, entrepreneurs, and everyday people to explore their own stories of bouncing back from a personal unemployment crisis. And now, Emerick shows you how to use insights from their tales to forge your own path to success. Out-of-Work to Making Money: 21 Comeback Stories Every Job Hunter Should Hear shares strategies and compelling true stories from people in all walks of life who worked their way from jobless to financially secure.

Joseph Colafranceschi is a fifteen-year-old, self-described geek, living in the Bronx. The second youngest of twelve sons of the former U.S. ambassador to Italy, Joey discovers that a small Egyptian statuette, given to him by his father, endows him with power to control his dreams.

In the tradition of Robin Cook, Michael Crighton, and Samuel Shem, The Long White Coat is a story of medicine’s power, arrogance, and fallibility, based on real and painful clinical experience, told with humor and compassion. One editor, James O’Shea Wade, said, “The Long White Coat may convince the appalled and enthralled listener to never, ever go near a hospital again unless, like all the patients and doctors in this compelling narrative, they have no choice.

In 1816, Captain Rosario is enjoying his life of adventure on the high seas until he and his crew are forced into a partnership with a ruthless band of space pirates, the Maraudians, who use the buccaneers as unwilling time travelers in their insatiable quest for gold. After narrowly defeating the infamous Blackbeard, Rosario returns from his adventures in the past, disfigured and craving revenge.

Out on another of their treasure-hunting diving adventures, brothers Eli and Zoe and their Dad come upon an earth-shaking discovery when a powerful storm leaves them shipwrecked on an unknown tropical island. In the jungle, they soon encounter 19th-century buccaneers who never age but can barely fend off the Jurassic creatures who rule this place.

Vampires, witches, and zombies, oh my! Within this Halloween special, you'll find a uniquely satisfying collection of horror tales and stories of the macabre.

Your Friday podcast source for all things baseball. Listen to FREE BASEBALL each week for informative, analytical and entertaining news and perspectives on our National Pastime past, present and future!

Robert D. Banks shares the untold story of Point Frederick, where early nineteenth-century Canadians built warships that stopped invasion, brought peace, and the world's longest undefended border. Opposite Kingston, Point Frederick became the 1789 dockyard home of the navy on Lake Ontario. Armed vessels were built to transport settlers and the military. War in 1812 prompted the need for larger warships. Shipwrights were critical to winning the war. French Canadians from Quebec shipyards worked with the British to build warships with massive firepower.

A conservative Ph.D. discusses social psychology, politics, and sports. Host Robert D. Mather, Ph.D. is a behavioral scientist and former tenured full professor of psychology. He has authored over forty peer-reviewed articles and four books, including "Implicit Biases and the Unconscious: Liberal Biases, Racial Prejudice, and Politics". He has been interviewed by Fox News, CNN, The New York Times, and The Atlantic.

In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science. But its discovery triggered a media and political firestorm that resulted in the reactor's shutdown, and even attempts to close the entire laboratory. A quarter century later, the episode reveals the dynamics of today's controversies in which fears and the dismissal of science disrupt serious discussion and research of vital issues.

TherapyBites A.R.T. LAB muestra historias de arrepentimiento y resiliencia, tragedia y triunfo, ayuda, dolor y curación; dando un mordisco a los mitos y percepciones erróneas más comunes de la psicoterapia junto con la exploración de la sorprendente neurociencia de la vida real desde el lado superior brillante del sofá y los espacios más profundos y oscuros debajo. Y, ¡oh sí! ¡Vamos a hacer migas en el sofá!