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  Who Invented the Bicycle Kick? -...

  Paul Simpson, Uli Hesse

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  Published in time for the 2014 World Cup, the ultimate collection of soccer’s greatest lore and legends, illustrated with 100 black-and-white photos, by two of the world’s most knowledgeable soccer journalists.Who Invented the Bicycle Kick? is a rollicking ride through soccer history that will surprise and delight fans old and new. Veteran soccer journalists Uli Hesse and editor Paul Simpson bring together the sublime feats, legendary personalities, neglected heroes, bizarre twists of fate, and fascinating mysteries that have shaped the world’s most popular game, including:Who invented the bicycle kick?Why does a football match last 90 minutes?Who scored the fastest goal ever?Which match produced the largest number of red cards?Why are seven dead cats buried under a stadium in Argentina?Which country was banned from the World Cup after refusing to play in shoes?Providing answers to more than 100 questions, Hesse and Simpson explore the beautiful game as never before, shedding new light on legends such as Pele, Maradona, Messi, Beckham, Ronaldo, and Rooney, and uncovering lost histories of international clubs like Manchester United, Chelsea, Aston Villa, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and more. Challenging conventional wisdom, and destroying a few urban myths, Who Invented the Bicycle Kick? is a must for every soccer lover.

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  From Equity Talk to Equity Walk...

  Lindsey Malcolm-Piqueux, Tia...

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  From Equity Talk to Equity Walk offers practical guidance on the design and application of campus change strategies for achieving equitable outcomes. Drawing from campus-based research projects, this invaluable resource provides real-world steps that reinforce primary elements for examining equity in student achievement, while challenging educators to specifically focus on racial equity as a critical lens for institutional and systemic change. 
   
   
   
  Colleges and universities have placed greater emphasis on education equity in recent years. Acknowledging  the changing realities and increasing demands placed on contemporary postsecondary education, this book meets educators where they are and offers an effective design framework for what it means to move beyond equity being a buzzword in higher education. Central concepts and key points are illustrated through campus examples. This indispensable guide presents academic administrators and staff with advice on building an equity-minded campus culture, aligning strategic priorities and institutional missions to advance equity, understanding equity-minded data analysis, developing campus strategies for making excellence inclusive, and moving from a first-generation equity educator to an equity-minded practitioner.

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  The Formula for Better Health -...

  Tom Frieden

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  In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden—named "the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop" by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg—reveals how to defeat the world's deadliest diseases.Drawing from decades leading New York City's health department after 9/11, directing the CDC during the Ebola epidemic, and fighting tuberculosis and other lethal threats in India and around the world, Frieden combines compelling stories with insider knowledge to show how to win the battle for health.In this book, you will step into laboratories that solve mysteries and expose deadly deceptions. You'll learn how disease detectives ended America's largest outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis, what caused the deadliest mistake during the Covid pandemic, and why we ignore fatal warnings. Most importantly, you'll find out how to stop today's leading killers.The Formula for Better Health bridges the lethal gap between scientific knowledge and life-saving action. Whether you want to protect your own health, safeguard your community, or solve seemingly impossible health challenges—or all three—this book offers hope and a path to a healthier future.

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  Alexi

  Lisa Oliver, JP Sayle

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  Book One: Paranormal Gay Romance / Two Alphas / Fated Mates / Brothers Security Team / Grumpy Detective / Kidnapping / High Steam / Lots of Tentacles. 
  The Fates are tricky and land Danik with a mate right when he least expects it. Can Alexi’s persuasive tentacles woo the jaded detective? 
  Detective Danik Kaloshnik, the only detective in Crampton, has no time for anything other than working hard to solve the growing list of missing paranormals. When his captain brings in a consultant to help, Danik does his best to avoid him. Only the universe has other ideas. 
  Now Danik has to deal with a very sexy fated mate, a murder, and a guy proclaiming to be a serial killer. What could possibly go wrong? 
  Alexi Thalassa has been treading the seas for centuries, dreaming of finding his fated one. When the Crampton Police Department reaches out seeking his firm’s help, Alexi’s kraken is all for it. One look at Detective Danik Kaloshnik, and Alexi is ready to give Danik his sea treasures. Then regulations Alexi’s firm have in place interfere and upset his mate, putting him in direct danger. 
  The race is on to figure out how all the pieces fit together so Alexi can help find the missing paranormals and keep his mate out of harm’s way. 
  Alexi #1 is a paranormal gay romance, with a large, grumpy bear frightened of water and a kraken who learns he’s not the only one who wants to be in charge. This is the first book in the Tangled Tentacles Series. Each book in this series will deal with a new couple, therefore while the HEA is guaranteed. The Epilogue for each book will lead into the next title.

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  My Road from Damascus - A Memoir

  Jamal Saeed

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  “A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus Reviews
  		 
  An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the Bones
  		 
  Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his writing pushed both social and political norms. For this reason, as well as his opposition to the regimes of the al-Assads, he was imprisoned on three occasions for a total of 12 years. In each instance, he was held without formal charge and without judicial process. 
  		 
  My Road from Damascus not only tells the story of Saeed’s severe years in Syria’s most notorious military prisons but also his life during the country’s dramatic changes. Saeed chronicles modern Syria from the 1950s right up to his escape to Canada in 2016, recounting its descent from a country of potential to a pawn of cynical and corrupt powers. He paints a picture of village life, his youthful love affairs, his rebellion as a young Marxist, and his evolution into a free thinker, living in hiding as a teenager for 30 months while being hunted by the secret police. He recalls his brutal prison years, his final release, and his family’s harrowing escape to Canada.
  		 
  While many prison memoirs focus on the cruelty of incarceration, My Road from Damascus offers a tapestry of Saeed’s whole life. It looks squarely at brutality but also at beauty and poetry, hope and love.

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  My Blue Book of Grammar for Class 4

  Meigha Rawat

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  A Grammar Series That Uses the Functional Approach
  
  KEY FEATURES 
  - Functional approach to grammar teaching, using exemplars to illustrate the usage before defining the structure and rules
  - Vocabulary taught through language-in-use to build the learners’ vocabulary through use rather than memorisation of rules
  - Contemporary topics to inculcate 21-century skills amongst learners
  - Use of literature to help learners understand how grammar is used in text
  - A comprehension section comprising texts from different genres so that learners may relate grammar to different types of works produced in English
  - Phonics in Grades 1 and 2 to teach the very basis of language
  - Uniquely stylised illustrations
  - Activities such as puzzles, crosswords, word grids and games to aid the facilitator in using the concept of ‘flipped classroom’
  - Periodic tests to help the learners self-assess the acquisition of concepts
  - Digital component to cater to a technology-driven classroom
  
  DESCRIPTION: 
  My Blue Book of Grammar is a course that has been conceptualized and designed keeping in mind the increasingly dynamic role of the English language in today’s world. Especially in our country, where English serves as the lingua franca, a grammar course has to offer not only an exposition of the pedagogy but also the exhibition of the utility of that pedagogy. The aim of a grammar series should be to encourage the development of competency amongst learners, even though their proficiency levels may vary. While the level of exposure to English of all learners may be different, a grammar series should aid in the development of a certain level of confidence amongst the learners, with the end result being that they are able to converse without hesitation in English. 
  
  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN
  - Understand grammar concepts
  - Learn how to use different vocabulary concepts taught through language-in-use 
  - Learn 21-century skills 
  - Develop deeper understanding of and appreciation for literature
  - Have clearer pronunciation through a better understanding of phonics
  
  WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR: 
  School students of Grades 4
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  GRAMMAR
  1. Subject and Predicate 
  2. Gerunds 
  3. Subject–Verb Agreement 
  4. Pronouns
  5. Past Continuous Form
  6. Prepositions 
  7. Future Continuous Form 
  8. Adjectives
  9. Conjunctions 
  10. Adverbs of Frequency 
  11. Punctuations and Use of Capitals 
  Test Paper 1 
  VOCABULARY
  12. Alphabetising Using the Third Letter of the Word 
  13. Suffix: -able 
  14. Suffixes: Using -able and -ible
  15. Prefixes: pre- and mis- 
  16. The Difference between will and be going to 
  17. The Difference between must and have got to
  18. Noun–Verb Collocations 
  19. Onomatopoeia 
  Test Paper 2 
  WRITING
  20. Writing a Paragraph 
  21. Writing a Biography 
  22. Formal Letter Writing 
  23. Writing an Email 
  24. Writing a Personal Email 
  25. Writing a Thank-You Letter 
  Test Paper 3 
  COMPREHENSION
  26. Meeting Mr Holmes – It’s Elementary! 
  27. Playing Pilgrims 
  28. The Ink and the Art 
  29. The Velveteen Rabbit 
  Orange Global Olympiad – English Sample Paper

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