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100 healthy and gourmet stuffed potato recipes

The definitive guide to bouldering problems in this important climbing area in Texas. Includes maps.

Many favorite puzzles -- crossword, anagram, find-a-word, and more -- featuring Maine themes and facts. All skill levels.

Recent advances in Web 2.0 technology enable new leadership processes and guidelines that can create great value for organizations. In this important new book -the first title in the new Brookings series on Innovations in Leadership -management expert Jackson Nickerson proposes a combination of processes and guidelines utilizing Web 2.

Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who hung out with Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch outlaw gang.

Leading specialists in academic advising describe five programs that have been judged by a national panel as among the most outstanding or exemplary in the country. Also includes an updated version of the original 1972 "O'Banion model" and data from the Center for Community College Student Engagement.

Turning adversity into opportunity, overcoming obstacles, building alliances, systems, and programs that lead to success¿each chapter of this popular publication tells a unique story about the distinct challenges community colleges face. It also details the unique responses of community college leaders with the vision to overcome the challenges and the resistance. Take this opportunity to explore how creative and transformational leadership can turn adversity into success. Community college leaders share their real-world experiences including the successes, failures, and risks that led to strengthened institutions, more successful alliances, and the creation of new systems. But this book is really about leadership: creative and transformational leadership. Each of the chapters tells a story of unique challenges and equally unique responses by community college leaders who built alliances, systems, and programs, often facing significant obstacles and even active resistance. In The Creative Community College, these leaders share their success, their failures, and the risks they took to strengthen their institutions, to build alliances with school systems, and to create new systems. George R. Boggs, former CEO and President, American Association of Community Colleges

Develop an entrepreneurial culture with the best practices discussed inside this resource. Declining public resources, coupled with the demand that we do more with less, make it more of an imperative that entrepreneurism, flexibility, and adaptability thrive in the community college environment. Seeing how other community colleges have brought entrepreneurship and creativity to life in their programs and services will inspire your own ideas for increasing revenue and reducing costs. You will also discover how strong leaders can become collaborators, facilitators, consensus makers, and incentive providers.

Foreword by David R. Pierce. The authors draw from experience at the Maricopa Community College District to offer suggestions for community building. Topics include the problems and challenges of community building, charter convenants and commitments, system responses, school partnerships as vehicles for community development, the community college as convener, and the role of college leaders

How can a president balance the needs and demands of sometimes conflicting interests? What types of situations are the career makers and breakers, and how can a president be prepared? Balancing the Presidential Seesaw presents case studies of a variety of political and administrative challenges community college presidents face. Include presidents' perspectives and advice.

In this book, community college chief executives and community leaders share their experiences with partnerships. Are community colleges catalysts, connectors, and collaborators? The book provides responses along with descriptions of collaborative arrangements that are drawing national and international attention.

Building Communities has been a source of inspiration for faculty, staff, and trustees at community colleges. The landmark publication charts a course for community colleges planning for the 21st century and addresses such topics as partnerships, curriculum, the classroom as community, and the college as community. Includes 77 recommendations for institutional improvement.

All kids love the idea of a hideaway-a place that is theirs, no parents allowed. But how on earth can they actually build one? In Forts for Kids, an inspirational yet practical guide, David Stiles, the most trusted authority on DIY building projects, shows them how.

Designed to provide the white house with innovative and actionable policy initiatives, this book is constructed as a series of memos to President Obama. It presents a set of policy analysis and recommendations from The Foreign Policy scholars at the Brookings Institution.

Daniel Cohen has vividly reconstructed the life and times of Henry Stanley, the discoverer of the Nile's source, using Stanley's original newspaper reports and writings.

This book for young readers gives an overview of some of the biggest mistakes made throughout history, illustrating the message 'everyone makes mistakes' in a manner both entertaining and fascinating. 20 black and white illustrations.

Successful angling for northern pike requires specialized equipment and techniques, as well as an understanding of this predatory game fish's seasonal movements and changes in behavior. Eight-time world record holder Jack Penny presents a complete course of instruction in fishing for northern pike, which can reach lengths of over 4 feet and weigh in excess of 40 pounds, and in North America ranges from New England through the northern plains to the Rocky Mountains, and all across Canada. This book covers tackle and equipment, lures and baits, pike behavior, fishing strategies by season, and techniques for safely releasing fish or keeping them for the table. All the information a beginner will need plus valuable tips and techniques for even the most experienced pike angler.

A fast-paced whodunit set against the riotous and exciting backdrop of mid-century Mardi Gras.

On October 25, 1836, the sidewheel steamer Royal Tar caught fire in Maine's Penobscot Bay. On board was a small circus menagerie returning to Boston from a summer-long tour of the Canadian Maritimes. Plagued by gale-force winds and rough seas, the usual overnight trip from Saint John, New Brunswick, stretched out to four days and, on the fourth day, disaster struck off the island of Vinalhaven. Thirty-two people and all of the circus animals perished in the tragedy.Mark Warner explores the events leading up to that fateful day. Beginning with the construction of the Royal Tar, he traces the vessel's service history, the menagerie's tour of the Maritimes, the cause of the fire, and details of the rescue operation.

Badge of Madness gets behind the faceless stereotype of the big city cop, revealing an alien world with its own code of ethics, its own good guys and bad guys, and its own internal system of justice.

An engrossing novel based on the true story of World War II British spy Valerie Sinclair who went behind enemy German lines masquerading as a French schoolgirl in order to secure the secrets of the first Atomic Bomb for the Allies.

An alternative theory of what took place aboard the Pueblo when it was seized by North Korean forces on January 23, 1968, implicating the NSA.

A Certain Island is a coming-of-age novel which pits the dreams of the young naturalist Geordie against his father's wishes; all set against a background of true outdoor adventure and illustrated with 25 charming pen and ink drawings.

Dr. Hutschnecker gives us perspective on the trends in thought in the psychoanalytic world of the seventies as he parses various historical events through his lens of psychotherapy.

A profile of the controversial and iconic James Baldwin told largely in his own words to a prize-winning reporter-essentially Baldwin on Baldwin.

It's no surprise that remote Martha's Vineyard is home to a significant population of ghosts. After twenty years in print, this classic is now updated and expanded with new information and new stories.

Vanessa Barton feels caged in her marriage and trapped by life in the small community of Bennett's Island. She blindly yearns for something, but doesn't know what, until Owen Bennett walks into her life. He inspires her passion, self-discovery and growth, enabling her to seize her own destiny, free of the emotional fetters of her youth.

Completing Elisabeth Ogilvie's Lover's Trilogy Strawberries in the Sea tells the story of Rosa Fleming who flees to Bennett's Island to escape her messy divorce. The island becomes much more than a refuge as she discovers community, love, and an inner strength upon its rocky shores. Will her newfound confidence come at the expense of her fledgling love?