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1) Adapt
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Why did it have to be him? Why couldn't it be her mother instead?
Hannah Marks, a law student at NYU, has a broken relationship with her mother. That's perfectly fine with her since the woman ruined her life. When a tragedy occurs with her father, her world is thrown into chaos, bringing back the forgotten woman. Hannah is torn from her life in New York and is forced to adapt to a rural city in Ohio. Can she even salvage what is left that she once...
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Unprecedented Times. Unprecedented Teaching.
With the COVID-19 pandemic raging, an almost-retired kindergarten teacher is thrust into a brand new arena amid very uncertain circumstances. She must find a way to connect with her young students: be it through Remote learning, distanced In-person learning or a combination of both.
Personally and professionally, she learns to adapt to the "new normal". Honest and forthright, funny and poignant, the...
6) Adapt or Die
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"If the idea of adaptive leadership didn't matter to you before the pandemic hit, it sure as hell should matter to you now."
Your company needs you to lead. Your family needs you to lead. The world needs you to lead. So how do you lead when unforeseen circumstances come along and rip the rug out from under you?
It's simple. You adapt.
How?
For one thing, you turn to the principles found in this book.
Putting people first. Setting priorities. Achieving...
7) Adapt or Die
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Discover some of the planet's most extreme organisms and the adaptations they have made to survive Earth's most brutal biomes.
In this gripping book, readers will explore living processes at their rawest and the science behind adaptations in the battle for survival on Earth. It is life on the edge, and only the fittest survive!
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"When winter comes, animals seem to know just what to do. From frogs to deer to dragonflies, whether they're hiding, seeking or simply staying put, many animals have found ingenious ways to survive the cold. In this poetic exploration of just how they do that, expressive text and non-fiction sidebars seamlessly combine to carry young readers through late fall to early spring. Readers learn about all the different kinds of hibernation, how animals...
9) Adapt or Die
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What if small businesses could save the world?
That's exactly the premise that CEO of JMARK Business Solutions Inc., Thomas H. Douglas, explores in Adapt or Die-a long-awaited book that examines the extreme challenges, shifts, demands, and vast opportunities for today's American businesses.
Told through the story of one bold company (People First IT), Adapt or Die takes readers through the unparalleled business system known as The Algorithm of Success...
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The Great Courses
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2016.
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First, learn what the essay is—and what it is not. See how the practice of writing essays has evolved over centuries yet has remained versatile, and examine the many uses of essays across the ages. Numerous essayists find starting out to be the most daunting part of writing. Professor Cognard-Black alleviates these hesitations, using examples from Aristotle to Michel de Montaigne to Edgar Allan Poe on how to look both inward and outward to find...
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"In its 4.5 billion-year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How?"--Dust jacket flap.
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Nevin Goosemen has lost everything: his career as a politician, his magitech army, and his reputation. He's very, very angry at the Dragon Elite, and he's going to try and make them pay with their lives.
The Dragon Elite have had their fair share of enemies, but no one like this. Nevin Goosemen isn't going to rest until he's destroyed every single dragon and rider.
It'll be a race to protect the demon dragons before it's too late. The Dragon Elite...
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Outlines a counterintuitive approach to changing the world by assessing its failures, drawing on myriad disciplines to argue that complex challenges must be met through adaptive trial-and-error practices that do not depend on expert opinions or ready-made solutions.
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During Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) VII and VIII, Able Troop 3-71 Cavalry operated as the brigade rapid mounted reaction force throughout Regional Command East (RC-E) and South in Afghanistan. This paper tells of how our unit moved in-between Regional Commands to deter and destroy the enemy, set up multiple Combat Out Posts (COP), trained Afghanistan National Police (ANP), dealt with the first extension and set the stages in the North for follow...
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Avatar Adapt or Die volume 1
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Years into the advent of the Avatar program on Pandora, pressure to bridge the divide between human and Na'vi has hit a peak. Dr. Grace Augustine realizes the best way to ease tensions is to learn from one another-sharing knowledge and gaining a mutual understanding of each other's ways of living. She begins negotiations to open a school for Na'vi children, but her plans to repair relations leads to unintended consequences.
After a visit to Hell's...
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