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#1 On November 8, 2018, a transmission tower in Northern California firestorm-like conditions, killing 20 people.
#2 Transmission towers, like highways, must be kept separate from one another and from the insulators that support them. If the space between them becomes too small, electricity can jump from wire to wire or wire to tower in a lightning-like strike.
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#1 Bookshops are full of stories. The stories of bookshop owners, and all the books they read that made them fall in love with reading. The stories of authors, and why they wrote their first book. The stories of customers who walk through the door.
#2 The book industry has changed a lot over the past few centuries. Bookshops are closing due to increased rents, business...
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#1 The oil and gas industry has the ability to create a brighter future for Africa. For example, in northern Colorado, the oil and gas industry supported economic growth and increased opportunities.
#2 Despite the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected many economies, African countries are still investing in oil and gas exploration and production.
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Controlar la calidad de las conservas y de los productos vegetales elaborados siguiendo los procedimientos establecidos y las normativas de aseguramiento de la calidad. Aplicar las normas de seguridad e higiene laboral en las operaciones de elaboración de conservas. Analizar los riesgos y las consecuencias sobre el medio ambiente derivados de la actividad de la industria conservera. Aplicar las medidas de prevención y protección necesarias para...
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Generation to Generation presents one of the first comprehensive overviews of family business as a specific organizational form. Focusing on the inevitable maturing of families and their firms over time, the authors reveal the dynamics and challenges family businesses face as they move through their life cycles. The book asks questions, such as: what is the difference between an entrepreneurial start-up and a family business, and how does one become...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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#1 This book will help you get inside the head of people who have built billion-dollar apps. It will share your insider's view of this world with you, along with interviews and conversations with these amazing mobile entrepreneurs.
#2 The most successful new technology companies are rewriting the rules in real time. A new wave of companies is rocketing to success in...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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#1 In 1981, I was 22 years old, and lying on a sofa in my family's Moscow apartment. My mother, an attractive 54-year-old woman who had graduated from the First Moscow State Medical University, had drawn the contents of a 50mg ampoule of the Hungarian steroid Retabolil into a disposable syringe and injected it into my right buttock.
#2 I had asthma as a child....
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Three generations after the Irving family arrived in Canada from Scotland, the name K. C. Irving hit the Forbes top billionaires list, making K. C. one of the richest men in the world and the most powerful businessperson in Canada. But there is much more to the Irving story than the fascinating and brilliant K. C. and his immediate legacy. Twenty-first Century Irvings takes a careful look at both the family foundations upon which this empire was built...
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#1 I had seen many different flavors of addiction in my work with teenagers, from sexually abused kids to drug-addicted students, but I had never seen anything like Dan, a young boy who was terrified and confused after spending hours everyday playing the fantasy game World of Warcraft.
#2 The addictive gravitational pull of the game is so powerful that some gamers have been known...
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Any business can take steps to be friendlier to the environment, but how do you do it while maintaining and actually boosting profits? Find out how moving from a light green to a dark green approach pays off for hospitality, retail, and home-based businesses. Your business can conserve energy and natural resources, boost goodwill, and actually take steps to restore the environment. Bruno G. Krioussis shares tested strategies from his twenty-nine years...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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#1 The modern romantic comedy's origins can be traced back to the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan in 1984, when Nora Ephron and Rob Reiner met for what would be one of the most remarkable lunches in Hollywood history.
#2 Ephron's ability to get to the heart of something and share it with the widest possible audience was a skill she had come by honestly. She had taken her...
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Book Preview: #1 Romero, who was 11 at the time, jumped onto his dirt bike and went to the local arcade. He knew he wasn't supposed to be there, but he couldn't help himself. That was where the games were. He tapped the control buttons as the rocks flew toward his triangular ship and the Jaws-style theme music blipped in suspense.
#2 John Romero was born in 1967 in Arizona. His parents...
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The Power Move: Accelerate Your ProfessionalAdvancement through the Power of Knowledgeprovides the opportunity to step back and view therealities regarding your work environment and howto function and advance within this competitiveand dynamic environment. For most of us, an enormous amount of time is spent working, thinking about work, and talking about work. The path we follow to enter the labor force varies yet this destination is shared by all....
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It is estimated that today some 2.7% of world GDP ($1.5 trillion) is spent on arms. In 2014 Lockheed Martin, the US defence contractor, had revenues of $45 billion—the equivalent of the GDP of Tunisia. This book explores the business behind these breathtaking figures and explains how the arms industry makes its money.
The book begins by defining the industry, explaining why the sector is important, outlining its prime contractors and key supply...
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