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Beginning Algebra Keeping it Simple


Free Download Judith Atkinson, "Beginning Algebra: Keeping it Simple"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1631892835, 1793563845 | PDF | pages: 397 | 3.8 mb
"For many students, study skills and confidence are the biggest hurdles in being successful in learning algebra. In contrast to bulky, expensive conventional texts for developmental math courses, Beginning Algebra: Keeping it Simple introduces the material in a clear and concise manner with advice on how to study and persevere when the material seems too difficult.

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Frontline Midwife My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe


Free Download Anna Kent, "Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1526625539, 1526625512 | EPUB | pages: 320 | 0.5 mb
Anna Kent has helped women birth babies in war zones, caring for the most vulnerable women in the most vulnerable places in the world. At 26 years old, not yet a fully trained midwife, she delivered a baby in a tropical storm by the light of a headtorch; the following year, she would be responsible for the female health of 30,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. But returning to the UK to work for the NHS, she soon learned that even at home the right to a safe birth was impossible to take for granted.

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Keeping Good Time Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People


Free Download Avery F. Gordon, "Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People "
English | ISBN: 1594510148 | 2004 | 264 pages | EPUB | 1175 KB
Avery Gordon’s first book, Ghostly Matters, was widely acclaimed as a work of striking sociological imagination and social theory. Keeping Good Time, her much anticipated second book, brings together essays by Gordon that were "written to be read aloud." Her eloquent voice in this book further establishes her place among literary sociological writers of a new generation. Keeping Good Time will be of great interest to activists, feminists, sociologists, students and everyone concerned about how to beat the odds in influencing the shape of social and culture change. Readers will find their thinking changed by the author’s perennial quest to "develop insights gained in confrontation with injustice."

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The Friendship Crisis Finding, Making, and Keeping Friends When You’re Not a Kid Anymore


Free Download Marla Paul, "The Friendship Crisis: Finding, Making, and Keeping Friends When You’re Not a Kid Anymore"
English | ISBN: 1594861579 | 2005 | 224 pages | EPUB | 1175 KB
As seen in Self, Fitness, Real Simple, Health, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Redbook, this much-praised celebration of women’s friendships-now in paperback-explores the keys to forming emotionally supportive and sustaining connections at every stage in life.

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