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The Forest People
The Forest People -- Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, classic work -- describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life. Turnbull conveys the lives and feelings of the BaMbuti whose existence centers on their intense love for their forest world, which, in return for their affection and trust, provides their every need. We witness their hunting parties and nomadic camps; their love affairs and ancient ceremonies -- the molimo, in which they praise the forest as provider, protector, and deity; the elima, in which the young girls come of age; and the nkumbi circumcision rites, in which the villagers of the surrounding non-Pygmy tribes attempt to impose their culture on the Pygmies, whose forest home they dare not enter. The Forest People eloquently shows us a people who have found in the forest something that makes their life more than just living -- a life that, with all its hardships and problems and tragedies, is a wonderful thing of happiness and joy..
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Creole Made Easy
Creole Made Easy. A simple introduction to Haitian Creole for English speaking people. Sixteen easy lessons cover the basic elements of Creole grammar and how to pronounce Creole words. The lessons include simple exercises and translation keys. A thorough up to date dictionary of over 4600 words Creole to English and English to Creole word translations is included. A 2 CD set pronunciation guide is available separately..
Price: $10.95
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Families, Professionals and Exceptionality: Positive Outcomes Through Partnership and Trust (5th Edition)
Written by the best-known authors in the field of family and professional collaboration, this practical text instructs teachers and families how to empower, collaborate, and advocate for children with special needs. Families, Professionals, and Exceptionality, fifth edition, continues its tradition of discussing how members of families and professionals in special and general education and related services personnel can form lasting partnerships. The new edition has been reorganized for a better flow and to reduce redundancies. .
Price: $64.95
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Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor. Sarah Turnbull’s stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Chance had brought Sarah and Frédéric together in Bucharest, and on impulse she decides to take him up on his offer to visit him in the world’s most romantic city. Sacrificing Vegemite for vichyssoise, the feisty journalist does her best to fit in, although her conversation, her laugh, and even her wardrobe advertise her foreign status. But as she navigates the highs and lows of this strange new world, from life in a bustling quartier and surviving Parisian dinner parties to covering haute couture fashion shows and discovering the paradoxes of French culture, little by little Sarah falls under its spell: maddening, mysterious, and charged with that French specialty—seduction. “…a love song to Paris and France, yes, but a love song in a minor key…Sarah Turnbull seems to have gotten a lot closer to the real thing than most of us who will always be on the outside looking in...”
--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
“…jewels of insight—and the book shines with them—make Almost French a worthy read. Turnbull’s story will entertain, and edify, both armchair travelers and those of us nutty enough to try living here.”
--Joe Ray, The Boston Globe
“Turnbull’s memoir is a charming, insightful meditation.”
--USA Today
“…full of honest ups and downs…its explorations of the “cultural quicksand” Turnbull gradually adapts to are fascinating. I hope to visit Paris one day, and am grateful to learn so many ways to avoid being an ugly American.”
--Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer
“You’ll love this true story of a woman who left her life behind for a sexy foreigner.”
--Cosmopolitan
“Anyone who finds herself in a situation like Turnbull’s…will be luckier; she’ll have Turnbull’s warm, clear prose to soothe frayed nerves.”
–Newsday.
Price: $1.95
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Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy
Competent system administrators know their success hinges upon being able to perform often tedious tasks with rigor and punctuality Such metrics are often achieved only by instituting a considerable degree of automation, something that has become even more crucial as IT environments continue to scale both in terms of size and complexity. One of the most powerful system administration tools to be released is Puppet, a solution capable of automating nearly every aspect of a system administrator’s job, from user management, to software installation, to even configuring server services such as FTP and LDAP. Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy is the first book to introduce the powerful Puppet system administration tool. Author James Turnbull will guide you through Puppet’s key features, showing you how to install and configure the software, create automated Puppet tasks, known as recipes, and even create reporting solutions and extend Puppet further to your own needs. A bonus chapter is included covering the Facter library, which makes it a breeze to automate the retrieval of server configuration details such as IP and MAC addresses. What you’ll learn- Properly install and configure Puppet in order to begin immediately maximizing its capabilities.
- Create reporting solutions to more easily monitor automated outcomes.
- Extend Puppet to perform tasks that are capable of suiting your organization’s specific needs.
- Use Facter to query server operating systems for key data such as IP addresses, server names, and MAC addresses.
Who is this book for?Ruby developers and system administrators seeking to manage .
Price: $16.65
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Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning: What, When, and Where and How to Prune for a More Beautiful Garden
Nothing about pruning is obvious; in fact, most of it is downright counterintuitive, says expert Cass Turnbull This second edition of her definitive illustrated guide adds 40 percent new material, with more coverage of different kinds of trees, shrubs, and ground covers and how to prune them for health and aesthetics. The book is organized around the most common types of plants found in Northwest gardens: evergreen and deciduous shrubs; bamboos and tea roses; rhododendrons, camellia and other tree-like shrubs; hedge plants like boxwood and heather; clematis, wisteria and all those vines; and detailed information on trees by species from dogwoods to weeping cherries. In her trademark witty style, Turnbull also addresses tools, landscape renovation, and design errors. Included too are her amusing Ten Commandments for gardeners, which feature such treasures as “Thou shalt not weed-whip the trunk of thy tree, nor bash it with thine mower, nor leave anything tied on thy tree or the branches of thy tree, as is done in the land of the philistines.” .
Price: $11.50
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Maroo of the Winter Caves
This enduring survival story set at the end of the last Ice Age is now celebrating its 20th year in print. When Maroo and her family become trapped on the Great Plain in blizzard conditions and with little food, they have only one chance of survival: for Maroo and her younger brother, Otak, to reach the winter camp and get help. The fastest trail to the camp is over the White Mountain, where there are treacherous glaciers, steep climbs, and mountain spirits. With the rest of their family depending on them, Maroo and Otak set out alone. But when Otak goes missing, Maroo is forced to make the most difficult of all decisions: to stay and search for her brother or to continue on to the camp in order to save the rest of her family. This modern classic offers readers a gripping tale of survival as well as a vivid portrait of prehistoric people. The 20th Anniversary edition has a striking new cover and a new Author's Note..
Price: $3.54
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Creole Made Easy Workbook
This is a workbook that goes along with the 16 lessons of Creole Made Easy. In addition, the workbook has 7 additional chapters containing survival Creole. These chapters include Numbers and Time, Months, Days, Seasons, and Weather, Colors, Family and Friends, Marketplace and Food, Around the House, Health and Medicine. Each chapter contains additional explanations to Creole Made Easy chapters, practical lessons with worksheets to see how you are doing, and insightful glances into the Haitian culture and language. Also included is a final exam. All worksheets and exams have a corresponding answer key. This is a must have to the Creole Made Easy series..
Price: $10.95
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