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This encyclopedia offers an in-depth look at each US president and how he has shaped history. The text discusses both successes and struggles of each US president, plus information about their Cabinet members, Supreme Court appointments, and more. Sidebars featuring First Ladies provide information about their significant impacts on the country. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated...

Lists U.S. and foreign chambers of commerce, American chambers of commerce abroad, foreign chambers of commerce in the U.S., foreign and U.S. state boards of tourism, convention and visitors bureaus, foreign tourist information bureaus, and economic development organizations. Also listed are U.S. embassies and foreign embassies in the United States.

Against the backdrop of a totalitarian North Korea, one man unwillingly uncovers the truth behind series of murders, and wagers his life in the process. Sit on a quiet hillside at dawn among the wildflowers; take a picture of a car coming up a deserted highway from the south. Simple orders for Inspector O, until he realizes they have led him far, far off his department's turf and into a maelstrom of betrayal and death. North Korea's leaders are desperate...

"In 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels - Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) penned the darkly fascinating Notes from the Underground. Its nameless hero is a profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-analysis there is a search for the true and the good in a world of relative values and few absolutes. Moreover, the novel introduces themes...

Recounts the apology and confession of a minor nineteenth-century official, an almost comical account of the man's separation from society and his descent "underground".

Seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the world are in fact connected as part of a radical group's plan to destroy modern civilization--a plan that will eliminate America's top government personnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement its emergency contingency program ... Directive 51.

County budgets, elective officers, administrative officers, county government agencies, county courts, township government.

Simple text introduces the beginning reader to the qualities of leadership, and the kinds of positions where leadership abilities are needed.

In this remake of the of the classic sports comedy, quarterback Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach Nate Scarboro, are doing time in the same prison. When asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game "fixed" to turn out quite another way. Peter Segal (Tommy Boy) directs an all-star comedy cast that includes Adam Sandler, Chris Rock...