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Secrets of Origami: The Japanese Art of Paper Folding
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Secrets of Origami: The Japanese Art of Paper FoldingSecrets of Origami: The Japanese Art of Paper Folding

Hundreds of diagrams help paperfolders at all levels create over 120 models ranging from a traditional sailboat, cicada, flapping bird and jumping frog to such less common subjects as a Japanese lady, gargoyle, octopus and a Moor at prayer. Also includes figures originated by internationally renowned origami experts.
 
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Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and Romance Languages
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Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and Romance LanguagesLatin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and Romance Languages

In Latin Alive, Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and deeply affected English as well. Offering a gripping narrative of language change, Solodow charts Latin's course from classical times to the modern era, with focus on the first millennium of the Common Era. Though the Romance languages evolved directly from Latin, Solodow shows how every important feature of Latin's evolution is also reflected in English.
 
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Formal Linguistics and Law
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Formal Linguistics and LawFormal Linguistics and LawThis volume explores new interfaces between linguistics and jurisprudence. Its theoretical and methodological importance lies in showing that many questions asked within the field of language and law receive satisfactory answers from formal linguistics. The book starts with a paper by the two editors in which they explain why the volume - as a whole and with its individual papers - is an innovation in the field of language and law. In addition, an overview about the most important research projects on language and law is given.

 
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Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult Underachievement
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Your Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult UnderachievementYour Own Worst Enemy: Breaking the Habit of Adult UnderachievementIf you or someone you love isn't living up to his or her potential -- and suffers from even one or two of these feelings -- here is a program that can help. In Your Own Worst Enemy, Dr. Kenneth Christian details the telltale signs of what he calls self-limiting behavior -- everyday habits that can seem harmless but that over time can send high potential people into a tailspin of dead ends and frustration.

 
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage WorkThe Seven Principles for Making Marriage WorkAccording to most relationship books, the key to a solid marriage is communication, communication, communication. Phooey, says John Gottman, Ph.D., author of the much-lauded Why Marriages Succeed or Fail. There's much more to a solid, "emotionally intelligent" marriage than sharing every feeling and thought, he points out--though most couples therapists ineffectively (and expensively) harp on these concepts.

 
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