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From New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster comes a fantastic new Pip and Flinx adventure starring a certain twenty-four-year-old redhead with emerald eyes and uncanny abilities and his devoted mini-dragon protector. Time and again, the daring pair have braved countless dangers to emerge victorious. But now Flinx attempts something that may be impossible for the heretofore undefeated hero. His mission: to take a vacation.

Never have the cares of the universe lain so heavily on Flinx’s shoulders, nor the forces arrayed against him seemed so invincible. Pursued by a newly revealed sect of doomsday fanatics, hunted by factions inside and outside the Commonwealth for transgressions real and imagined, expected to single-handedly avert a looming galactic crisis (or bear responsibility for the consequences), Flinx can be forgiven for feeling a slight touch of melancholy.

There’s only one solution for what ails Flinx, according to his ship’s AI. But taking time off is tricky business. With an increasing number of enemies chasing him with ever-greater enthusiasm, Flinx must find a getaway shrouded in obscurity. Jast, a planet smack in the middle of nowhere, is the perfect locale.

Yet even in a place where hardly anyone’s ever seen a human, Flinx and trouble can’t stay separated for long. Unfortunately, Flinx hasn’t a clue that his vacation paradise is in reality a danger zone of the highest magnitude. And by the time he learns the truth, it may be too late.


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The Sliding Surprise books are proven best-sellers, with over one million copies sold! The four new titles, Who's Bugging You? Who's Hatching? Who's In The Sea? and Who's There? are now available! Stock up on these time-tested, interactive kid-pleasers. The only thing we've let slide is the price!.
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“Don Casey does an extraordinary job illustrating the key concepts of zone defense The knowledge and insight he shares are sure to help coaches at all levels.”
--David J. Stern, NBA Commissioner

Get into the zone and take control of the game

Known as basketball's great equalizer, the zone defense has taken center court, from the pros on down to peewee. Not the old man-to-man defense, this is multiplayer ball, a powerful strategy for overwhelming opponents and trapping them before they reach the hoop. Now, in this one-of-a-kind book, you'll get what it takes to control any zone and lead your team to victory.

Don Casey, one of the foremost zone coaches in the world, gives you a hard-driving guide for using zone defenses and attacking them on the offense. Let Coach Casey show you how to:

• Turn a five-player team into one heavy-duty unit
• Stop superstars in their tracks and cut them down to size
• Neutralize any offensive threat
• Master the zone press, sliding zone, spot zone, and much more
• Play and attack the match-up zone

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Written by one of this country's leading experts on American Judaism, this book offers a snapshot of Orthodoxy Jewry in the United States, asking how the community has evolved in the years since World War II and where it is headed in the future. Incorporating rich details of everyday life, fine-grained observations of cultural practices, descriptions of educational institutions, and more, Samuel Heilman delineates the varieties of Jewish Orthodox groups, focusing in particular on the contest between the proudly parochial, contra-acculturative haredi Orthodoxy and the accomodationist modern Orthodoxy over the future of this religious community. What emerges overall is a picture of an Orthodox Jewry that has gained both in numbers and intensity and that has moved farther to the religious right as it struggles to define itself and to maintain age-old traditions in the midst of modernity, secularization, technological advances, and the pervasiveness of contemporary American culture..
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The Sliding Surprise books are proven best-sellers, with over one million copies sold! The four new titles, Who's Bugging You? Who's Hatching? Who's In The Sea? and Who's There? are now available! Stock up on these time-tested, interactive kid-pleasers. The only thing we've let slide is the price!.
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Sliding Mode Control (SMC) is gaining increasing importance as a universal design tool for the robust control of linear and nonlinear systems. The strengths of sliding mode controllers result from the ease and flexibility of the methodology for their design and implementation. They provide inherent order reduction, direct incorporation of robustness against system uncertainties and disturbances, and an implicit stability proof. They also allow for the design of high performance control systems at low costs. SMC is particularly useful for electro-mechanical systems because of its discontinuous structure. In fact, since the hardware of many electro-mechanical systems (such as electric motors) prescribes discontinuous inputs, SMC has become the natural choice for direct implementation. The book is intended primarily for engineers and establishes an interdisciplinary bridge between control science, electrical and mechanical engineering..
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Animal sounds give clues to who's hiding. Children slide open the page and the animal appears .
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