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Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover, reproductive traits are often species-specific, suggesting that they evolved very rapidly. This diversity, long the province of taxonomists, has recently attracted broader interest from evolutionary biologists, especially those interested in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies.Primary sexual characters were long assumed to be the product of natural selection, exclusively. A recent alternative suggests that sexual selection explains much of the diversity of "primary" sexual characters. A third...
Edward Slocum is the executive vice president of KemKor Pharmaceuticals in West Grey, Canada, where he grew up. A widower, Edward Slocum goes on a walk after a long day at the office on the two-year anniversary of his wife’s death. He feels tired and upset, reminiscing over the loss of his beloved Karen. During his walk, he passes Building 3C, soon to be used for Edward’s groundbreaking new filter, created to eliminate pharmaceutical waste byproducts—his obsession for the last fifteen years. He’s very surprised, however, to see men with machine guns at Building 3C. KemKor is up to something Edward isn’t aware of—something illegal. As his suspicions mount about his own employers, ...
More than 50 after her death, Virginia Woolf remains a haunting figure, a woman whose life was both brilliantly successful and profoundly tragic. This brilliant new biography weaves together diverse strands of Woolf's life and career, offering a dazzlingly complete portrait brimming with new revelations. 64 halftone illustrations.
Her boyfriend and her sister tangled together in the sheets, so she turned around and married the fearsome business tycoon, Gideon Leith.Not only is she a star in her own right, but she’s also a publicist and an entrepreneur? A super race-car driver? A world-renown gold medalist designer too?! Just who is this precious hidden treasure of a girl!!!She went from being pitifully spurned to a goddess looked up to by tens of thousands of people, and her admirers queued from Jincheng all the way to Kyoto.Mr. Leith, who saw a certain someone’s feminine charm, quickly tucked her into his arms. “Wife, I need to hide you well. You can only belong to me!”
"From ancient times to the present there are those who have treated children with disabilities as being cursed by God. In this book, Lauren Blair not only challenges such benighted behavior but makes the case as to how such children can be viewed as gifts from God who can bless the rest of us." --Tony Campolo, Author/Speaker/Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University; Founder of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education "Lauren Blair ... tells a story that will warm you heart--but not until it breaks it, deepens it, expands it, and fills it with love for beautiful African children you've not yet met." --Brian D. McLaren, Author/Speaker/Activist (brianmclaren.net)
The Mindful International Manager tackles the management situations that international managers have to handle every day. Written to be accessible to non-native English speakers, it quotes the experiences and insights of practicing international managers and describes differences and difficulties as well as the skills and competences. Equipping readers with the techniques and knowledge to motivate and manage their teams, this book shows how to clarify local vs. international roles, support and develop a team, organize and coordinate boundaries of time and distance, and win commitment toward common goals. It contains exercises, best practice advice, quotes from practicing managers from around the world, and a glossary of difficult terms. Visit the website at http://www.themindfulinternationalmanager.com/.
This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual langu...
This Book is not about me but about a Group of Employee's that started and created jobs and Goals that Totals about 200 years of experience & Miles & Miles of Travels all over the World.