Dogs All-In-One for Dummies

By Susan McCullough, Sarah Hodgson, Stanley Coren, Miriam Fields-Babineau, Jack Volhard, Wendy Volhard, Eve Adamson, Margaret H. Bo

The so much crucial details on puppy possession in a single easy-to-navigate book

Dogs All-in-One For Dummies deals all puppy fanatics the most recent details you must opt for, increase, and take care of your hairy ally from puppyhood to its twilight years. From discovering the perfect puppy to your way of life and instructing your puppy reliable manners to housetraining, grooming, and realizing while your puppy is ailing or wishes scientific cognizance, this fact-packed consultant will function your crucial puppy bible.

• gains new info on puppy displaying, agility, going eco-friendly, and touring together with your pooch
• contains info from Dogs For Dummies, 2d version; doggies For Dummies, second variation; Adopting a puppy For Dummies; determining a puppy For Dummies; puppy Grooming For Dummies; puppy future health & food For Dummies; puppy education For Dummies, second variation; puppy tips & Agility For Dummies 2d version; Housetraining For Dummies, 2d variation; Breeding canine For Dummies; combined Breeds For Dummies; and realizing Your puppy For Dummies

Thorough and well timed, Dogs All-in-One For Dummies covers every little thing from head to tail!

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Nigel Calder's Cruising Handbook: A Compendium for Coastal and Offshore Sailors

By Nigel Calder

The main entire and worthy consultant ever written for choosing and equipping a cruising sailboat

even if you’re a coastal or offshore cruiser, you’ll locate your so much urgent issues handled with the knowledge that makes for skillful, convinced cruising in Nigel Calder’s Cruising instruction manual. the writer -- the most revered marine how-to authors on each side of the Atlantic, and writer of the universally favorite Boatowner's Mechanical and electric guide, -- walks you thru all key technical and sensible features of recent cruising structures and kit, giving you a precis of the abilities useful for secure, stress-free crusing.

the 1st 1/2 the e-book comprises an easy-to-use tabular procedure for comparing a boat's suitability for cruising; principles for potential deck and inside lay-outs and association; tips on how to pick out and configure compatible boat structures for cruising; and the way to put in equipment for difficulty loose operation.

The book's moment part teaches you boat dealing with talents; middle navigational services; anchoring options; climate realizing; heavy climate services; and particular abilities for long term and long-distance cruising.

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Music: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)

What is track? “God’s top reward to man,” as Walter Savage Landor acknowledged? “The moonlight within the gloomy evening of life,” as Jean Paul Richter placed it? or maybe — as Carl Maria von Weber and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow agreed — “the common language of mankind”? no matter what it truly is, it definitely “hath charms to appease the savage breast,” as William Congreve famously saw. And it “expresses that which can't be stated and on which it's very unlikely to be silent” (Victor Hugo).
These and greater than four hundred different outstanding costs approximately track, from musicians, authors, poets, ancient figures, and different celebrities, fill the pages of this unique, sensible little booklet. now not all are at the severe aspect; many are deliciously witty: “Her making a song was once mutiny at the excessive C’s” (Hedda Hopper); “I can carry a observe so long as the Chase nationwide financial institution” (Ethel Merman); “Donny Osmond has van Gogh’s ear for tune” (Orson Welles).
The quotations are prepared alphabetically based on writer, from Fred Allen (“When Jack Benny performs the violin, it appears the strings are nonetheless again within the cat”) to Florian Zabach (“A musical expertise is like having six palms on one hand. You’re born with it, you’re diversified due to it, you can’t do something approximately it other than positioned it to use”). They represent a suite that won't in basic terms be an vital reference for public audio system yet also will pride normal readers — in particular song fanatics — with its enduring knowledge and humor.

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The Boss's Survival Guide: Workplace 911 for the Toughest Problems Today's Managers Face

By Bob Rosner, Allan Halcrow

Book Details:

ISBN: 9780071668088
EAN: 9780071668088
ASIN: 007166808X
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Publication Date: 2009-12-16
Number of Pages: 448
Website: Amazon, LibraryThing, Google Books, Goodreads

Synopsis from Amazon:

The bestselling consultant to motivating and coping with each employee―updated for the hot global of business!

As a manager in today's hugely aggressive international, you want to not just get extra out of every employee― you want to additionally end up your department's strategic effect at the association. This well known, hugely useful consultant is helping you're making your division shine. The Boss's Survival Guide, moment variation, has been up to date that can assist you deal with today's hot-button concerns, such as:

  • Hiring and protecting the simplest expertise [*]Handling layoffs and terminations [*]Using social networks similar to LinkedIn and fb [*]Managing time and working with tension [*]Keeping up with the newest alterations in employment legislation [*]Maintaining your individual marketability and coping with your career

Praise for the 1st variation of The Boss's Survival Guide

"WOW!!!"
―Tom Peters, writer of In seek of Excellence

"This booklet has every thing you'll ever want to know approximately being a good boss yet don't have time to learn."
―Ken Blanchard, Ph.D., coauthor of The One-Minute Manager, Raving Fans, and Gung Ho

"At final, a definitive consultant for bosses at the hiring, care, and feeding of employees."
―Richard N. Bolles, writer of What colour Is Your Parachute?

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Microscale Organic Laboratory With Multistep and Multiscale Syntheses (6th Edition)

By Dana W. Mayo, Ronald M. Pike, David C. Forbes

This can be a laboratory textual content for the mainstream natural chemistry path taught at either and 4 yr faculties, that includes either microscale experiments and techniques for scaling up applicable experiments to be used within the macroscale lab. It presents whole insurance of natural laboratory experiments and methods with a robust emphasis on smooth laboratory instrumentation, a pointy concentrate on safeguard within the lab, thorough dialogue sections which supply chemical context for every test, and multi-step experiments. striking improvements to the sixth version contain a better concentrate on the implementation of greener approaches (including microwave use) to accomplish conventional experimentation, and circulation of fabric to the textual content site, to extra streamline the textual content.

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The Animal Fable in Science Fiction and Fantasy (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)

By Bruce Shaw

Even though animal tales and fables stretch again into the antiquity of historical India, Persia, Greece and Rome, the explanations for writing them and their resonance for readers (and listeners) stay constant to the current. This paintings argues that they have been crucial assets of enjoyment and instruction--and have been additionally usually profoundly unsettling. Such authors within the realm of the animal fantasy as Tolkien, Freud, Voltaire, Bakhtin, Cordwainer Smith, Karel Capek, Vladimir Propp, and plenty of extra are mentioned.

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The Bible in Music: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More

There were a number of courses within the final a long time at the Bible in literature, movie, and artwork. yet earlier, no reference paintings has but seemed at the Bible because it seems to be in Western tune. In The Bible in tune: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More, students Siobhan Dowling lengthy and John F. A. Sawyer right this hole in Biblical reference literature, offering for the 1st time a handy consultant to musical interpretations of the Bible. along examples of classical song from the center a while via sleek instances, Dowling lengthy and Sawyer additionally convey cognizance to the Bible’s impression on pop culture with various entries on hymns, spirituals, musicals, movie track, and modern renowned music.

Each access comprises crucial information regarding the unique context of the paintings (date, composer, etc.) and, the place appropriate, its afterlife in literature, movie, politics, and liturgy. It comprises an index of biblical references and an index of biblical names, in addition to an in depth timeline that brings to the fore key occasions, works and guides, putting them of their ancient context. there's additionally a bibliography, a word list of technical phrases and an index of artists, authors, and composers.

The Bible in Music will fascinate an individual acquainted with the Bible, however it can be designed to motivate choirs, musicians, musicologists, academics, academics, and scholars of track and spiritual schooling to find and practice a few much less recognized items, in addition to assisting them to hear normal song with a clean information of what it truly is about.

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You're Doing It Wrong!: How to Improve Your Life by Fixing Everyday Tasks You (and Everyone Else) Are Totally Screwing Up

By Lee Thornton

Not Getting the consequences you will want? most likely simply because You're Doing It Wrong!

You brush your tooth two times an afternoon. You serve purple wine at room temperature. You deal with stains on whites with bleach. you are doing every little thing by means of the publication, so it has to be positive, correct? Wrong!

From ingesting espresso and tipping at eating places to using your motorcycle and treating your hangovers, years of undesirable recommendation and customary misconceptions have ended in a life of inaccurate doings. Even the easiest, commonest projects are performed incorrectly each day by way of nearly each person, and likelihood is - no matter what you are doing - you are doing it fallacious too.

But it really is ok. You're Doing It Wrong! will train you the way to do all of it right.

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Graphic Designer's Essential Reference: Visual Elements, Techniques, and Layout Strategies for Busy Designers

By Timothy Samara

A superb dressmaker, like an outstanding chef, knows not just of the way every one factor is the same or assorted, but in addition which offers one message not like one other, to be able to mix to create stories which are harmonious or jarring, monetary, clinical, or industrial. By evaluating the fashion designer to a chef, writer Timothy Samara, walks readers during the constituents, instruments, and strategies it takes to create winning layout recipes. This publication is damaged into easy-to-follow sections, together with simple layout suggestions, photo components, and tasks recipes. The photograph parts part is classified into 4 teams: Pictorial Staples, Chromatic Flavors, Typographic Confections, and Spatial shows. as soon as the fundamental layout concepts and materials are demonstrated, the writer demonstrates easy methods to concoct delectable layout recipes. Graphic Designer's crucial Reference is an inspirational source that each one image designers should still maintain by way of their workspace for convenient reference.

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Casebook in Abnormal Psychology

Utilizing instances from the authors' records or from case records of alternative operating clinicians, CASEBOOK IN irregular PSYCHOLOGY portrays the wealthy and arresting nature of problems manifested in genuine humans. circumstances illustrate each significant DSM-5 classification, via a remedy final result part that tells the "rest of the tale" of what occurred to those consumers. utilizing an integrative method, the authors emphasize the a number of motives of problems and include developmental and cultural matters in every one case. complicated instances are offered and not using a prognosis, so scholars can get a hold of a prognosis on their lonesome. This 5th version has been absolutely up to date to provide the advances in medical wisdom and revisions to the definitions of mental problems present in the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical handbook of psychological issues (DSM-5).

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