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Alex Mack's first day of junior high is a disaster, until a delivery truck overturns and covers Alex with a top-secret chemical that gives her strange new powers. Can she learn to control them AND survive junior high?
When Alex gets whacked in the head at a Renaissance fair, she completely loses her memory. It doesn't take her long to realize she's got awesome powers. But she senses they've put her in real danger. But without her memory, how will she ever know who's an enemy, and who's a friend?
There is an entire generation that grew up on Nickelodeon. The network started to get its footing in the '80s and in the '90s became the defining voice in entertainment for kids. For the first time ever, in this book, the entire expanse of '90s Nickelodeon has been collected in one place. A mix of personal reflection and media criticism, it delves into the history of each show with humor and insight. It revisits shows such as Rugrats, Clarissa Explains It All, and Legends of the Hidden Temple, one by one. More than an act of nostalgia, this book looks critically at the '90s Nick catalog, covering the good, the bad, and the weird.
When someone tries to sabotage her friend's father from opening up a flying school, Alex uses her GC-161 powers to ground the culprit.
Samantha Stephens in Bewitched. Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek. Wonder Woman, Xena, Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and many more. Television's women of science fiction and fantasy are iconic and unforgettable yet there hasn't been a reference book devoted to them until now. Covering 400 female characters from 200 series since the 1950s, this encyclopedic work celebrates the essential contributions of women to science fiction and fantasy TV, with characters who run the gamut from superheroes, extraterrestrials and time travelers to witches, vampires and mere mortals who deal with the fantastic in their daily lives.
Simplifying complex business practices for application. An expert bridges the gap between learning business practices and implementing them with this compact volume of principles from W. Edwards Deming. The Deming system was the secret to Japan's economic miracle after World War II. Now the "14 Points for Managers" and "7 Deadly Diseases of Management" are explained without complicated mathematical formulae. Fellers' easy-to-read format makes this imporant resource accessible to everyone. Chapters on interdepartmental coordination and manager-employee relationships explain why some outdated forms of leadership fail and how to replace them with effective frontline management.
It's the new year and Alex has made a resolution. She's going to choose a career path, stick to it and not use her powers to help.
New, much needed perspectives on characters as wide ranging as Adolf Hitler, the Ceaușescus, Rupert Murdoch, and others. How could the world's history have differed had the true identities of the dictators discussed in Confessions from the Second World been brought to light sooner? A political, erotic thriller, featuring Hitler's strange anatomy, Stalin's moustache, Kim Jong Il's obesity while his people starve, and more. Heinrich Himmler, Chelsea Clinton: the sex symbols of the second world. Eva Braun's dog, Adolf Hitler the second, her sole companion in her new Siberian wonderland. The secrets that world leaders wished to keep repressed for all time laid bare. A fly on the wall account of the bedroom antics of some of history's most infamous figures. The second world's shroud of mystery has now been lifted and the first and third worlds can finally reconcile their differences. Confessions from the Second World: a new horizon, a new era of political correctness, of politics.
This collection of 101 essays from some of today's most notable thinkers and leaders focuses on the large problems of society, as well as every day challenges, and encourages readers to envision a positive change. The essays explore the themes of peace, democracy, prosperity, racial harmony, ecology, and health, encouraging readers to find meaning in their own lives and share it with others.
The Sixth International Meeting on Cholinesterases and Related Proteins, Choli nesterases '98, was organized by Palmer Taylor and his associates at the University of California-San Diego and convened in La Jolla, California, USA, in March of 1998. This was the first conference of the series to be held in the United States, let alone on the Pa cific Rim. Nearly 200 delegates from twenty countries-from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America-heard 75 oral presentations and viewed 90 posters on current research on cholinesterases and related proteins. The meeting framework was structured to include two days of plenary sessions, followed by two days of concurrent sessions and worksh...