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1) Measuring Up
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School's back in session, and it may be a year to remember… When college junior Tom Van der Haas asks his cousin Eric and friend Matt to be his roommates, he has no idea what he's in for. Along with their friends Samantha and Dana, the guys will tackle a youth lock-in, family dramas, a nearby service trip, and even a kidnapping. Through it all, Tom and God deal with some big issues, like what it means to be a servant, what God wants from Tom, and...
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Senior year is full of surprises when Chloe returns home from her internship in New York City. While she was learning the ins and outs of the fashion industry, her friends were getting ready for senior year. Settling back into her old life proves to be harder than Chloe thought. As much as she tries to fall into her old routine, she can't help feeling left out and left behind. Chloe is ready to realize her dream of being a designer, but deciding on...
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Some people feel they don't measure up to anyone's expectations. As a result, they tend to procrastinate, set unrealistic goals, or continually try to please others. With the positive, no-nonsense strategies offered in When Your Best Isn't Good Enough, readers can raise their low self-perception and overcome these feelings of rejection and inadequacy. Writing in his well-known, upbeat style, Dr. Kevin Leman helps those who struggle with self-doubt...
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IS COMPARISON SABOTAGING YOUR SOUL?
Social media may not be the enemy when it comes to comparison, but it's certainly not your friend. Like it or not, other people's lives are thrust into our faces every day thanks to mainstream marketing and smartphones. While you didn't choose to be born into this world of comparison, you can choose to implement a strategy that will help you measure up and win the comparison struggle.
If you've ever felt like...
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Timothy Goes to School volume 9
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Charles' mom and dad tell him how much he's growing, and he can't wait to get to school to share the big news with his friends. When Mrs. Jenkins' students display full-size cut-outs of themselves, it's clear that Charles is the smallest in the class. Charles soon learns that "smallest" is a relative term when Doris, the biggest in the class, shares her woes of being the smallest in her family. / Yoko is granted permission from her mother to take...
6) Time
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Explores the measurement of time, including days, weeks, months, and years, and introduces clocks and how to read them to determine seconds, minutes, and hours.
9) Size
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Thameside Press
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c2001
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English
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Examines the ways in which capacity has been measured and discusses how area, volume, and other units of measure have evolved.
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Do you enviously watch others enjoy the things you've always wanted for yourself? Koziarz unpacks the biblical story of Rachel and Leah--and her own experiences with failed dreams, dashed hopes, and paralyzing comparisons--as she shares six biblical truths that can settle you in a satisfying place where God's acceptance of you is all that matters.
12) Measuring up
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[2020]
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"Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food."--Provided by publisher.
14) Measuring up
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Chloe by design volume 3
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Capstone Young Readers
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[2016]
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Senior year is full of surprises when Chloe returns home from her internship in New York City. While she was learning the ins and outs of the fashion industry, her friends were getting ready for senior year. Settling back into her old life proves to be harder than Chloe thought. As much as she tries to fall into her old routine, she can't help feeling left out and left behind. Chloe is ready to realize her dream of being a designer, but deciding on...
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A USA Today–bestselling job-hunting guide to finding lucrative prospects, building confidence, and knowing your value on the job marketplace.
Measure Up teaches those in a career transition, or considering it, how to discover lucrative job prospects before anyone else. Readers will learn through a series of tools and exercises how to build their confidence and understand, appreciate, and "sell" their true value in the job marketplace.
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Do you constantly compare yourself with others? On social media, in your neighborhood, at church, or in the school drop-off lane, do you push yourself to prove that you measure up ... and then feel ashamed when you don't? Measuring yourself against others isn't healthy. And it isn't God's plan. In fact, the way of Jesus is completely upside down from this measure-up world. He invites us to follow him and be restored to freedom, confidence, and joy.
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High-stakes testing. Mandated content standards and benchmarks. Public scrutiny of student and school performance. Accountability. Teachers today are challenged to provide instruction that will measure up: to the expectations of administrators, parents, and taxpayers; to their own professional standards; and, most essentially, to the needs of students. Policy debates rage in the press, and pedagogical pundits always have a new and better solution...
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This book is aimed at new mechanical design engineers, to improve your employability and to help you 'hit the ground running'. It also contains useful information and checklists for more experienced designers.
It's a quick read, listing real-world, non-academic, practical experiences which you won't find in an engineer's technical reference book. It includes design and drafting guides, good advice for everyday design and general office life, advice...
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Are you always trying hard, but feel like it's never good enough?
Tired of Trying to Measure Up is written for Christians who live under a deeply ingrained code of expectations and rules that shame them and drain them of spiritual strength.
Do you wonder:
• Why do I feel so guilty?
• Why is it so hard to rest, even when I know I need to?
• Why does my religious activity leave me unfulfilled?
• Where's the "abundant life" God promised?
If these...