61 Results for : fabricate
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Love from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 431min
From the author of The BFG - soon to be a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill, Penelope Wilton, Jemaine Clement, Bill Hader, and Adam Godley - a whimsical, witty, and revealing collection of the legendary children's author and writer Roald Dahl's letters written to his mother, from early childhood through Dahl's travels to Africa; his career in the Royal Air Force; his work in postwar Washington, DC, and Hollywood; and the books that made him a literary star. Roald Dahl penned his first letter to his mother, Sofie Magdalene, when he was just nine years old. The origins of a brilliantly funny, subversive, creative mind were evident in boarding school, and as he entered adulthood, his penchant for storytelling emerged in his missives home from Africa, where he was stationed by Shell Oil, and then the desert camps of the Royal Air Force. His skills were sharpened after a plane crash in Egypt landed him in Washington, DC, where his cheery letters home were cover for his work in the British Secret Service, along with gossipy updates on his spontaneous rise in Hollywood and his budding New York literary career. His mother was, in many ways, Dahl's first reader, and without her correspondence he might never have become a writer. Sofie Magdalene kept every letter her son wrote to her (sadly, her own side of the correspondence did not survive). It was she who encouraged him to tell stories and nourished his desire to fabricate, exaggerate, and entertain. In these letters Dahl began practicing his craft, developing the dark sense of humor and fantastical imagination that would later produce his timeless tales. The author of James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and The BFG, Dahl is known by millions the world over today. But writing candidly to the person who knew him best, Dahl was as singular a character as any he creat ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Thomas Judd, Andrew Wincott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002902/bk_peng_002902_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hide & Seek: There's No Truth in Fear , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 307min
For nearly 50 year, Todd Kane played a complex and exhausting game of HIDE & SEEK with the truth. This father, veteran, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and now author hid past experiences and his sexuality for reasons he couldn’t fully explain until now. Significant life-altering events tested an already wavering faith in a man too familiar with fear. Todd lived in the mind and eyes of others adapting his behavior to please those around him. A shapeshifter and, at times, an imposter, he found it increasingly difficult to speak and live his truth.From our learned experiences, our choices are shaped, and yet we can be completely unaware of their effects on us. If this is the case, are our choices authentically our own? Are they made with aspirations, dreams, and a pursuit of happiness or adversely influenced by fearful experiences in our past?Todd Kane has always been a skilled storyteller - weaving together versions of himself to fabricate a variant that everyone would love even at the expense of his authenticity.As a teenager exploring his sexuality, Kane was overcome by fear, along with most as the AIDS epidemic shocked the world. A choice was made, and his truth suppressed that would never lose it's power, only it's voice.Kane shares his experiences through many historical milestones in modern gay culture, beginning with the AIDS epidemic and on to Don't Ask Don't Tell, gay marriage, hook-up sites, and the introduction of PrEP. He does so from a unique perspective and candor filled with lessons we all can benefit from.After the end of his second marriage, this time to a man, Kane comes face to face with the one thing unique to every challenge in his life - his truth.In this book, Kane chooses to bring together the authentic pieces of himself as he beautifully weaves the truth into the tapestry of his life's story. He patches holes created by trauma, fear, and lies to reveal a work of art that is uniquely him and d ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Kane. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/234214/bk_acx0_234214_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Trapped in a Corrupt School District (eBook, ePUB)
Born and mostly educated in Italy, at a young age I immigrated to Quebec, Canada, where I taught Latin to French speaking high school students. Then, I earned a Ph.D. degree in French and Latin at the University of Ontario. My dream came true when in 1967 I entered the USA as French instructor at a college in central Kansas and later at the University of Tennessee. Alas, due to the declining enrollment in the foreign languages at the University, three years later I lost my untenured job. Next, being just a part-time French instructor in a catholic college, I took a full-time teaching job in the public school district of Fairview, a medium-sized town in the Appalachian Plateau. I taught French and Latin to high school freshmen. There I was appreciated by everybody and three years later I was granted tenure. With the advent of a new school superintendent, Tom Jones, in 1980 the tide suddenly turned. He advocated that the school district did not need a teacher with a Ph.D. degree and, most of all, that as a "European" I was unqualified to teach in his American schools. He decided that I had to go. Unable to find a legitimate reason to get rid of me, he started building a termination case for "gross inefficiency". For that purpose, Jones replaced my honest principal with Frank Grossman, an awkward and loyal bootlicker who had no knowledge of French and Latin. For four years Grossman made my life extremely miserable. He sat in my classroom almost fifty times and, if so to speak I taught that planet Earth is round, he documented that I said it is square. Yet, nothing could justify my dismissal. In spring 1982, Jones indefinitely laid off 67 untenured teachers for alleged financial problems. I was the only tenured teacher among them. Later, the school board ordered to rehire all 67 teachers, because the lay-off was unjustified. Yet, Jones refused to rehire me. Finally, he made me ransom my tenured job by making me drop a couple of pending grievances. Exasperated by his repeated failures to get rid of me, Jones announced in the local news that I was "the poorest teacher in the school district" and that he had no choice but to let me go. To achieve his resolve, he had Grossman triple the efforts to fabricate as much negative documentation as possible. Grossman even used a few teachers, students, parents, and substitute teachers to support his efforts. To further mortify and disgrace me, he had me sit in other teachers' classroom to learn how to teach French and Latin in America. He ordered me to take additional college classes to qualify to teach those languages at the first year level. Two school administrators and three outsiders were hired to sit in my classes and prepare negative reports. None of them knew French and Latin. I became a laughing stock in the entire school district. The maltreatment became so callous that my doctor placed me on sick leave for 30 days, because of an "acute anxiety syndrome". After four years of relentless and undignified torment, in March 1984, Supt. Jones had his rubber stamp school board fire me for alleged "inability" to teach French and Latin even at the first year level. Even my foreign "accent" and my alleged "European way of teaching" were given as termination grounds. Yes, my sick leave was also used to claim that I was "physically unable to teach". Since previously I had been a successful teacher in catholic schools, Jones had the insolence to advise that I should seek employment in catholic schools, as if those were inferior. This book describes the incredible, despicable, and appalling persecution, mistreatment, and humiliation I endured in that school district run by a corrupt superintendent and his accomplices. It is a shocking case of ignorance, bigotry and malice. ___________________________________________________________Notice: Although the events described in this book took place decades ago, they are still etched in my memory. I decided to recount them in this book as a personal healing and to warn teachers that such things can truly happen.- Shop: buecher
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Developing Novel Spinning Methods to Fabricate Continuous Multifunctional Fibres for Bioapplications
Developing Novel Spinning Methods to Fabricate Continuous Multifunctional Fibres for Bioapplications - Auflage 2018: ab 128.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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How to Fabricate Automotive Fiberglass & Carbon Fiber Parts
How to Fabricate Automotive Fiberglass & Carbon Fiber Parts: ab 26.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Developing Novel Spinning Methods to Fabricate Continuous Multifunctional Fibres for Bioapplications
Developing Novel Spinning Methods to Fabricate Continuous Multifunctional Fibres for Bioapplications: ab 117.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Performance Exhaust Systems: How to Design Fabricate and Install
Performance Exhaust Systems: How to Design Fabricate and Install - How to Design Fabricate and Install: ab 26.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Employing Crystal Engineering Principles to Fabricate Zero to Three-Dimensional 4f-based Metal Aggregates using O-Donor Ligands
Employing Crystal Engineering Principles to Fabricate Zero to Three-Dimensional 4f-based Metal Aggregates using O-Donor Ligands: ab 32.03 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Situate Manipulate Fabricate
Situate Manipulate Fabricate - An Anthology of the Influences on Architectural Design and Production: ab 36.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Situate Manipulate Fabricate
Situate Manipulate Fabricate - An Anthology of the Influences on Architectural Design and Production: ab 36.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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