College Student Death: Guidance for a Caring Campus

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College Student Death.......2007-08-23

Excellent resource. The authors advice is guided by both research and deeply painful personal experiences. Any university seriously committed to maintaining a proactive approach to crisis intervention and emergency response, will make this book a required reading by their student affairs and administrative staffs.

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Schaum's Outline of Japanese Vocabulary
Shiqeru Eguchi , and Orie Yamada
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0071342192

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Practice exercises with complete answers allow readers to master newly acquired Japanese vocabulary for real-life situations while authoritative tips on Japanese customs familiarize readers with necessary protocol. Japanese-to-English and English-to-Japanese glossaries explian subtle differences between Japanese words and phrases and their English counterparts. An easy-to-use pronunciation guide is included.

SDS/WUO, Students For A Democratic Society And The Weather Underground Organization

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SDS/WUO, Students For A Democratic Society And The Weather Underground Organization
David Gilbert
Manufacturer: Abraham Guillen Press/Arm the Spirit
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Binding: Pamphlet

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ASIN: 1894925157

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An insightful look at two important political organizations in the history of the American white Left, from a participant. It points out their contributions, while not glossing over their weaknesses. Gilbert was a member of the Columbia University chapter of SDS in New York and was a key participant in the large student strike and occupation of 1968. He joined the WUO when it was formed and continued as a member till its collapse in 1976. Includes WUO communiques and a SDS/WUO chronology.

The Storm: Students of Biloxi, Mississippi, Remember Hurricane Katrina

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Powerful

The Storm: Students of Biloxi, Mississippi, Remember Hurricane Katrina

Manufacturer: Charlesbridge Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 158089173X

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Powerful.......2006-09-01

My copy of "The Storm" came today, and it's stunning. Everyone in my office stood around in the hallway as we looked through the kids' memories and drawings, utterly absorbed. At least five people immediately said they were going to order copies -- both for themselves, and for their schools.

The book has an almost visceral impact; the hurricane could have been yesterday, so strong are the emotional responses to reading it. We just wanted to gather all the kids in our arms, and somehow make the world right again.

Forces of Nature: The Awesome Power of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Tornadoes (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Awards))

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Forces of Nature: The Awesome Power of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Tornadoes (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Awards))
Catherine O'Neill Grace
Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0792263286
Release Date: 2004-06-01

Glencoe Science: The Air Around You, Student Edition (Glencoe Science)

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Glencoe Science: The Air Around You, Student Edition (Glencoe Science)
McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0078617588

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Discover the flexibility to teach science your way

The Air Around You, as a part of the Glencoe Science 15-Book Series, provides students with accurate and comprehensive coverage of weather and climate. The strong content coverage integrates a wide range of hands-on experiences, critical-thinking opportunities, and real-world applications. The modular approach allows you to mix and match books to meet your curricula.

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Discover the Seasons
Diane Iverson
Manufacturer: Dawn Publications (CA)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1883220432

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Author/illustrator Diane Iverson introduces the young child to the wonders of the changing seasons in Discover the Seasons. Rich illustrations and sensitive poetry vividly capture the unique spirit of each part of the year: celebration for spring, learning for summer, work for fall and rest for winter. Each theme is then explored through hands-on activities that adults and children can share. Tasty recipes using freshly gathered fruits and vegetables provide the final, irresistible highlight for each season.

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Fantastic thriller
Great read

Force Majeure
Christopher Golden , and Thomas E. Sniegoski
Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0743426703

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> MAIN ENTRY: force ma·jeure

> FUNCTION: noun

1: superior or irresistible force

2: an event or effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled

Twenty-year-old genius Shane Monroe has his life laid out before him. As part of an accelerated program, he is working on a major research project for a brain trust studying weather patterns. Shane's job is to replicate a tornado through artificial means. When he manages to do just that, however, the course of his life is forever altered. His superiors want to know if he can do it "bigger -- big enough to drop on an enemy village and call it an act of God."

Shane knows what he has to do. He shuts down his storm, switches majors, and leaves the lab behind.

He is midway through his next semester when he reads of a rash of natural disasters in South America. There is no doubt in his mind: This is his fault. His notes have been confiscated and his work replicated. Now Shane is on the run, from the government, friends, and even once-trusted mentors. What began as a reputable weather study has, with the force of a tornado, taken on an unstoppable life of its own...

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Fantastic thriller.......2003-08-04

As if we didn't have enough to worry about with the bioterrorism threat, now we have to be concerned about manufactured weather that could be used as a weapon. College student and super genius Shane is thrilled to have figured out how to create a tornado in a lab, thinking his discovery is pure science to be used to predict weather; when it turns out he is actually working for a secret government agency interested in using his experiment for harm, he walks out of the project - but when a series of suspicious weather patterns indicate someone has stolen his idea, a confrontation with his supervisor results in everyone whose lives he touches being in danger - as is his own.
This is a high drama tale that would translate well to film. The plot itself is unpredictable but not completely outrageous. The premise of the existence of a group of Truth Seekers working to stall government plots borders on X-Files but could lend itself well to a whole series of books.

Great read.......2002-09-25

Fantastic book, fast, furious, and hard to put down. Snigowski and Golden really now how to weave a great tale.

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Painting one's self a life, living inside the truth of love...
Satisfyingly good
A Master of Art
Seasons of discontent,
Interesting...I think

A Student of Weather
Elizabeth Hay
Manufacturer: Counterpoint
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1582431817
Release Date: 2002-01-02

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A brilliant and wonderfully reviewed first novel: the story of two sisters and the man who enters both their lives.

During the worst of the prairie dust bowl of the 1930's, a young man appears out of a blizzard, and two sisters' lives are changed forever. Norma Joyce Hardy is the dark and lonely girl whose boldness and cunning prove so seductive; against her vivid, tricky personality, the beautiful and saintly Lucinda can barely hold her own. A Student of Weather traces their rivalry over decades to the century's end. In this gorgeous novel, Elizabeth Hay lays bare the lasting imprint on the human heart of physical landscape, family rivalries, and first love.

"[An] enormously moving first novel.... An unsentimental testament to resilience and mettle.... A triumphant novel." --Newsday

"[A] novel with passionate, urgent grace." --Boston Globe

"Beautiful and excited in every way-in character, and theme, setting Elizabeth Hay firmly in the company of such other writers as Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields." --New Orleans Times-Picayune

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Painting one's self a life, living inside the truth of love... .......2006-05-30

Saskatchewan, Canada, 1930s.
The cranky father, Ernest Hardy...The Sister, Lucinda Hardy... The Stranger (who brings the rain to the dusty prairie, Maurice Dove... The Twin who died, Norman... The One Called Ugly, Strange, lazy, Joyce, renamed Norma Joyce after little Norman died.

Norma Joyce, comes to be the most beautiful child filled with imagination, even though everyone finds her to be ugly and unmotivated. She holds healing, learning and loving in her soul.

A story of two sisters, growing up among the dust of the plains, the dust of a dull life. One sister breathtakingly beautiful, a home maker and favorite daughter. One sister, a collector of objects and stories who would rather be daydreaming in the dust then inside keeping a house. One winter day a stranger enters into the Hardy Family Home and he changes their lives for ever.

Norma Joyce Hardy. Enough said. A powerful and beautiful story of discovery of self and love. A story written with dream like descriptions of the weather, the landscapes.
Words turning into a vision of a painting.
Norma Joyce, a painter, discovers the art of painting one's self a landscape, a life.

Satisfyingly good.......2004-08-21

Readers looking for a lively heoroine and a romance with a happy ending will be disappointed, but readers willing to let the story unfold will be rewarded. Yes, the man in question is a thorough-going dog, but the real story here is how Norma (the younger, troubled, unbeautiful sister), rescues her life from a disastrous childhood and adolescence. The settings (Depression era Canada, post-war New York) are rich in atmosphere, and Norma's gradual discovery of her artistic abilities held me all the way.

A Master of Art.......2004-05-07

The criticism of most of the other reviewers seems to amount to this: Fine writing, talented author, beautiful descriptions, but no moral to the bleak story. The characters don't "learn" anything. What, one might well ask, is the "moral" of Hamlet? What does he learn? What is the "morality" of Wuthering Heights? What does Heathcliff learn? How about Joyce's Ulysses? Moral anyone? - Reading the reviews, one begins to suspect that a group of frustrated Sunday school teachers got together to compose them.

The fact that there is no "moral" to the novel is another of its attributes. Has anyone else caught on to the fact that Norma Joyce's surname might be significant? Or how about the Hardy family? - It should be apparent to anyone reading this novel with the slightest knowledge of English literature that Hay's greatest literary influence, along with her character Norma Joyce's, is Thomas Hardy, who is mentioned in the work several times as Norma's favourite author. The book resembles nothing so much as Hardy's Jude the Obscure - A feminine version of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage is another apt comparison. - The wonderfully told narrative maintains its artistic strength through its mirroring of reality. I can put it no better than Hay in her description of Maurice's falling in temporary love/lust with Norma:

"Probably it happens fairly often, falling in love in a dream. You wake up with an appetite for someone you might not even like. But in the dream there was sex, and upon waking, the idea of sex, and from then on that person is on your mind in an entirely new way."

In other words, life, like a dream, just rather happens to one, for good or ill----And how accurately Hay describes it! Let's hope that the moralists out there don't discourage Hay from writing another novel, as they did Thomas Hardy after he penned Jude the Obscure.

Four stars because the book doesn't quite measure up to the masterpiece of which I feel certain Hay is capable of giving us.

Seasons of discontent,.......2003-10-16

It's an interesting experience to encounter a book in which none of the major figures is likeable. Yet that very circumstance is a tribute to Elizabeth Hay's eloquent portrayal of two sisters in drought-ridden central Canada. Her people are deep and complex, intensely drawn and immensely real. Even the peripheral characters ring true, without the blemish of contrivance. Hay's descriptive ability in both urban and rural settings gives this book further enhancement. She vividly depicts the impact of environment on her chief protagonist, providing a framework for change of mood throughout the narrative. Hay, too, is clearly a student of weather. And a keen observer of people.

Norma Joyce Hardy initiates a life-long adoration of Maurice Dove with a touch on his cheek. That she's but a child is of little moment. That she's overshadowed by her sister's beauty becomes even less so. Even at nine years of age, she's driven by determination to find the means to supplant Lucinda. Resentful of her sister's looks, industry, and favoured place with their father, she becomes secretive, duplicitous, devious. Lucinda, having replaced their dead mother, is vulnerable, and Norma Joyce takes advantage of that exposure. Maurice becomes the tool for expressing Norma's envy, but she becomes the victim of her own machinations. Maurice, unsurprisingly, is following his own agenda, and Norma's place in it is problematic.

In pursuit of Maurice, Norma Joyce's life orbits like an erratic comet. From the most rural to the most urban environments in North America and back again, her loci remain vague. Only Maurice is a fixed point, but that seeming stability actually is the cause of her displacements. She is torn between seeking and avoiding him, particularly when the attainment of her goal leads to the inevitable result. Hay brings the Hardy family out of dry Saskatchewan to "golden" Ontario. Ottawa, however pleasant and green, fails to bring rest, and Norma pursues Maurice to New York City. A greater contrast to Prairie Canada can hardly be imagined, but Hay guides us through Norma's transition flawlessly. New York, however, doesn't resolve her situation with Maurice, which grows ever more complicated. Nor is the relationship of the sisters granted an easy path. Who carries the burden of Lucinda's fate will be the topic of endless debate.

Hay's account is admirable in its prowess in compelling attention to people and places. The factual nature of her characters, their failure to fulfill simple expectations is a credit to her skills. A love story of sorts, this is hardly a "romantic novel." It is a richly rewarding story, worthy of your attention. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

Interesting...I think.......2003-06-12

This was another spur of the moment purchase just to qualify for free shipping. Quite honestly, the book is average. It is great in some parts and boring and rambling in others. I felt it was unbalanced in a sense due to the fact that it spent so much time during the girls childhood and then I felt it rushed to a somewhat disappointing finish. Overall, it was a unique story, which is a plus! I would recommend this book if you are looking for a story like no other...

Atmosphere & Weather , Teacher Resource & Student Activity Book , Grades 5-8+ (Connecting Students To Science Series)

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Atmosphere & Weather , Teacher Resource & Student Activity Book , Grades 5-8+ (Connecting Students To Science Series)
Laverne Logan , and Don Powers
Manufacturer: Mark Twain Media Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 158037218X

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