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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Living Your Best Life after 50 All-in-One For Dummies is your guide as you explore new opportunities and make the most of your fifties and the decades that follow. Find a new job, travel for weeks or months at a time, boost your health with yoga routines, take up pickleball-whatever it is you want to do, this book will inspire you to improve your life and show you how to get there. You'll also find timely information about planning and budgeting...
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow, Steve Almond employs the radical empathy he displayed as co-host (with Cheryl Strayed) of the podcast Dear Sugars to explore the joys and trials of storytelling, and to explode the myths that hold us back from writing our deepest and truest work. The book includes chapters on plot, character, and chronology, but travels far beyond the earnest intentions of most craft books. It includes essays on humor, sex,...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Employing a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, from Warburg to Foucault, from documentary history to cultural studies, the author probes the impact of archaeological finds on renaissance consciousnesses. He takes us on an extraordinary intellectual tour that encompasses the rebirth of art history as rediscovered objects confirmed or refuted the written records of antiquity. The result was the reconstruction of history as discursive systems...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The purpose of a Community Food Assessment (CFA) is to help a community improve its food system by increasing access to health food. Community Food Assessments are an important way to learn about food issues in a particular area and engage residents in taking action to improve the food system. A Community Food Assessment project was completed for Cypress Hills.The Cypress Hills Community Development Corporation's Summer Youth Employment Project designed...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Timeless features fundamental to human life, namely sustenance and healthcare, currently display significant systemic problems. Both sectors are presently undergoing transitions in the United States and elsewhere, and citizens and entrepreneurs can employ creative solutions to enhance improvement strategies. This analysis explores historic costs and benefits of the traditional agricultural cooperative business structure and applies the lens of social...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"For Nick, Kurt, and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few too many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers, permanently. There's only one problem: even the best laid plans are only...
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Series
Publisher
Forever, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jane Halliwell once dreamed of exploring the world as an acclaimed journalist - but those dreams (and her dowry) died with her father. Now, she works as a governess, safe on England's shores. But when her current employer is murdered, adventure seems tofinally be knocking (rather brutely) at her door. Only the danger is more lethal than she expected . . . for standing outside is the same lord who once broke her tender heart. Lord Adrien Fielding...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Food system sustainability is affected by inputs used in agricultural production, such as pesticides and fertilizers. In organic agriculture, inputs are regulated by the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) which limits the allowance of substances based on guidelines and evaluation criteria, codified in 6517(c) and 6518(m), respectively, of the law. The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is responsible for evaluating the compliance of substances...
11) Community supported agriculture rebate programs: supporting farmers, improving health, saving money?
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Previous studies demonstrate the value of community supported agriculture (CSA) rebates for farmers and consumers in the Madison area. Similar programs are now being offered through Health Traditions Health Care in LaCrosse, Wisconsin and Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. This paper identifies key factors of successful worksite wellness programs, the links between vegetable consumption and health, and the costs of preventable, chronic diseases. Three...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The gloriously simple practice of choosing one thing to do, when to do it, and getting it done. Every day, a billion knowledge workers wake up, gravitate towards a pixelated screen and process information for eight hours or more, facing an endless and bewildering array of work and life choices. We're confronted with countless always-on options; untimely, unsolicited notifications; and a constant competition for our attention. This depletes our faculty...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Many potential entrepreneurs in Scranton, Pennsylvania do not have access to conventional banking services and their financial needs are not being met by traditional financial institutions (J. Frank, September 6, 2013). They often have "Subprime credit scores with thin or nonexistent credit files. In the eyes of traditional credit reporting agencies, they basically all look the same and represent a perceived credit risk, so they are denied access...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This work began as a guide to improve and expand existing Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) populations on a 728-acre site owned and operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Central Alabama. It has evolved to consider a proposed alternate site and also provides broad recommendations for Longleaf restoration within the general study area. The intent of this plan is to restore degraded habitat which is currently affected by the absence...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Food insecurity is more than hunger. It refers a host of physiological and mental symptoms arising out of the lack of physical, social, or economic access to adequate quantities of safe and nutritious food for a healthy life. Poverty and unemployment are the most common characteristics of a food insecure population. In the United States, there are many national supplemental programs and non-profit organizations dedicated to improving food insecurity....
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dairy and Vermont are synonymous. For more than a century, dairy farming has shaped Vermont's economy, ecology, and culture. Thousands of hardworking family operations gave rise to its modern, multi-billion-dollar industry. Dairying is arduous, labor-intensive work, with thin profit margins. Today, to keep operations afloat financially, more and more dairy owners employ undocumented migrant workers, mostly from Mexico, to dampen expenses and control...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this elegant gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two once aristocratic sisters race to uncover their family's long-buried secrets in a house haunted by a past that is dangerous - and deadly - to remember. It is the summer of 1921, anda group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva's ancestral home in Moscow, a stately mansion falling into disrepair and decay. The remaining members of their aristocratic family are...
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Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
With regions of the world experiencing water scarcity / water stress, and current impending impacts of climate change affecting the world's hydrologic cycle in various ways, resource managers are forced to examine the best way in which to manage the world's fresh water supply. Consequently, it is vital that fresh water management and policy to [sic] be both bioregional and sustainable in order to preserve fresh water resources for future human and...
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Fitness indicators of honeybees in man-made hives have been explored by looking at bee behavior, pest loads, absconding rates, diseases, weights, and by honeybee by-product production of wax, honey, propolis, and royal jelly. Scientists have concluded that bees have hive preferences according to the cavity volume, their entrances, and their hive location. Both a colony's ability to regulate temperature and humidity levels in the hive and to defend...
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