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2223) WordWorld: To the rescue
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Join Duck and Fly as they learn how to be firefighters just like their friend Firefighter Frog! To be firefighters, the gang has to keep a look out for any signs of smoke in WordWorld...because where there's smoke, there's fire! Will Duck and Fly be able to determine what's really smoke and what's not?
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¡Habla Inglés al instante! El método Pimsleur de aprendizaje de idiomas es el más eficaz que se haya creado. Más de un millón de personas lo utilizan cada año para adquirir destrezas de conversación efectivas en otros idiomas, de manera rápida y fácil ... sin libros, tareas escritas o ejercicious de memorización. Fácil y práctico. Este paquete comprende 16 lecciones ¡que lo harán hablar desde hoy mismo! Basta con que escuche, siga las...
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Travel to the land of Israel to discover fascinating truths about the events surrounding the birth of Jesus. Hunch within the dank, sooty mouth of a cave much like the one in which Jesus was born. See mangers not of lumber but of solid blocks of rock. But the journey begins at the shining heights of power and opulance of Herod's palace. Archaeological evidence is woven with biblical teachings and the historical record to contrast two kings, Herod...
2226) Paper clips
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Struggling to grasp the concept of 6 million Holocaust victims, the students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee decide to collect 6 million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. Because Norwegians invented the paper clip and used it as a symbol of solidarity against the Nazis, students started collecting them to help visualize such vast numbers of victims. As word spread online and in the media, paper...
2227) Nobody's fool
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Cassie, a high school grad, is blue, bored, and bewildered and joins an acting class where she meets Riley
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Who was the greatest baseball hitter of all time? How likely is it that a poll is correct? Is it smart to buy last year's highest-performing stock? These questions all involve the interpretation of statistics, and this film is an introduction to this vitally important subject in today's data-driven society. Explanations for terms such as mean, median, percentile, quartile, statistically significant, and bell curve, and scores of other statistical...
2229) Italian: complete course
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Join in the fun with Marko, and learn how to brainstorm ideas for an assignment; find a hook to interest readers; organize sentences and ideas effectively; avoid unclear pronouns; use transitional phrases; involve readers with effective dialogue; enrich your work with similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, personification. Stories, essays, term papers, or standardized tests - whatever you write, Marko gives you proven strategies for getting remarkable...
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Spanish nursery songs and color animation is used to expose babies to the linguistic sounds of the Spanish language.
Babies have an enormous capacity for learning the unique sounds of foreign languages. During the first three years of life, exposure to a foreign language can help nurture that capability.Created by an infancy researcher, Baby Language School-Spanish exposes babies and toddles to Spanish in a fun and imaginative way. Babies delight...
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"A surprisingly simple way for students to master any subject--based on one of the world's most popular online courses and the bestselling book A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with. Fans often wish they'd discovered these learning strategies earlier and ask how they can...
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Sets your baby's day to music as you sign and sing about everyday events with Rachel and animated versions of Leah, Alex, and Hopkins. It combines sign-along songs, animation and the positive reinforcement of signing babiesall age 2 and under. This volume focuses on signs related to eating, washing up, family, and pets. Some signs presented are eat, drink, cracker, juice, diaper, potty, bird, baby, horse, dog, banana, cereal, Mom, hurt, and many more....
2234) Love n' dancing
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Jessica is a bored-with-life middle-school English teacher who meets Jake, a West Coast Swing champion dancer. The two have an instant connection. Both feel that the other can fulfill what has been missing in their lives. But Jessica has a workaholic fiancé who's not a bad guy - when he's not on his Blackberry. Corinne is Jake's former dance partner, who just won't let Jake get away from the dangling carrot of a rekindled relationship. Now, Jake...
2236) First position
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Profiles six contestants in the Youth America Grand Prix, a prestigious competition for aspiring young ballet dancers.
2237) Human terrain
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"Human Terrain' is two stories in one. The first exposes the U.S. effort to enlist the best and the brightest of American universities in a struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies.... The other story is about a brilliant young scholar who leaves the university to join a Human Terrain team. After working as a humanitarian activist and winning a Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford, Michael Bhatia returned to Brown University to conduct...
2238) Julie & Julia
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Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
2239) Out to sea
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Two men decide to become dance instructors on a cruise ship so they can meet women and con them out of money.
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