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On guard
Trey Smith, captain of the Wildcats basketball team, isn't sure how to deal with having his cousin Pete play against him.
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Adam's Alternative Sports Day
9 year old Adam dreads Sports Day, so he is delighted when Mr Williams announces that this year there will be an Alternative Sports Day with some very different challenges. There will be quizzes, riddles, and a treasure hunt - all the things that Adam enjoys. This book offers insights into how a child with AS copes with the challenges of school.
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\"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Adina wants to put together a perfect act for the school fashion show.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Local Coherence and Preemptive Digging-in Effects in German
SOPARSE predicts so-called local coherence effects: locally plausible but globally impossible parses of substrings can exert a distracting influence during sentence processing. Additionally, it predicts digging-in effects: the longer the parser stays committed to a particular analysis, the harder it becomes to inhibit that analysis. We investigated the interaction of these two predictions using German sentences. Results from a self-paced reading study show that the processing difficulty caused by a local coherence can be reduced by first allowing the globally correct parse to become entrenched, which supports SOPARSE’s assumptions.
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Best friend trouble
\"A funny and relatable story about best friends, competition and learning to see things from another's point of view.\"--Amazon.com.
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Battle of the Sexes
Why does it seem like men are from Mars and women are from Venus? Play along as host Jason Silva, with help from renowned biological anthropologist Helen Fisher of Rutgers University, reveals how the male and female brain are different. We'll put real couples head-to-head and brain-to-brain to see how each gender scores in a series of tests. Find out why men never seem to ask for directions, why women can stay cool in stressful situations and which gender is better at packing the trunk of a car!
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Shark vs. train
A shark and a train compete in a series of contests on a seesaw, in hot air balloons, bowling, shooting baskets, playing hide-and-seek, and more.
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The Ethics of Consumer Sovereignty in an Age of High Tech
We argue that consumer sovereignty in an increasingly high tech world is more of a fiction than a fact. We show how the principle of consumer sovereignty that governs the societal impact of economic competition is no longer valid. The world of high tech is increasingly responsible for changes in the opportunity, ability, and motivation of business firms to compete. Furthermore, the world of high tech is increasingly responsible for changes in the opportunity, ability, and motivation of consumers to engage in rational decision making. We conclude that we cannot rely on consumer sovereignty to maintain a thriving economy. Instead, we need to develop performance standards designed to meet the demands of the various stakeholders of the organization.
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Game-day jitters
With help from his older brother Larry, nine-year-old Ben learns to cope with his nervousness about the Kickers League playoffs. Includes \"Ben's top ten tips for soccer players.\"
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Introduction: Darwin and Literary Studies
Trumpeted as \"the next big thing\" in The New York Times,3 this minischool proceeds from premises laid out by evolutionary psychology and sociobiology, and is often, though by no means always, hostile to the last four decades of literary theory.4 The basic premise of literary Darwinism is that because the human brain is a product of evolutionary adaptation, and because literature is a product of the human brain, then principles of evolutionary biology can be profitably extended to literature-first to literature as a general cultural entity (why it came about), then to broad literary categories and structures such as narrative, genre, and meter, and finally to the analysis or interpretation of particular works.5 Of course, the sorts of claims that this vein of research generates, along with the objections to them, will be familiar to many readers, and those conversant with the history of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology will readily discern the contours of the old debates that Andrew Brown has dubbed \"the Darwin wars\": those in-house battles among evolutionists where Gould, Lewontin, and Eldredge clashed with Wilson, Dawkins, and Dennett about spandrels, punctuated equilibrium, and the value of regarding the gene as the unit of natural selection. Two other journals, Philosophy and Literature and Poetics Today, have already offered special issues more strictly devoted to literary Darwinism, and collections of essays are now appearing alongside individually authored volumes.\\n Through a ludicrous (and often aesthetically reviled) science fiction scenario, Huxley's fantastical screenplay-novel illumines the very real biopolitical fallout of twentiethcentury social Darwinisms.
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