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What's that bird with the giant clump of feathers on its head? It's a Polish chicken! Beginning readers will learn all about these strange yet wonderful creatures in this delightful title. They will also learn basic information about Polish chickens, including what they eat and the story behind their wacky feathers. Each 24-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The lively text, colorful...
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This collection brings together four full-length plays from the same dazzling pen that produced the one-act comic masterpieces of All in the Timing.
Polish Joke is about a young Polish-American's trip through ethnic stereotypes. Nine-year-old Midwesterner Jan Bogdan Sadlowski, nicknamed Jasiu, is told by his uncle that Poles are thought to be "backward, stupid, inept, and gloomy." The only way out is for Jasiu "to impersonate someone not Polish."
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After the fall of Saigon in 1975, during a campaign for the repatriation of 130,000 refugees in the United States, actress Tippi Hedren, known best for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963), connected Vietnamese immigrants to the art of the manicure. Her long, decorated nails made an impression on a visit to Hope Village, so Hedren had her personal stylist flown in to teach a class to twenty women. From this meager handful grew a revolution....
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In Polish Your Fiction: A Quick & Easy Self-Editing Guide, writer, editor, and publisher, Jessica Bell, offers her tried and tested advice on the quickest and easiest ways to polish different areas of writing style, consistency of prose, grammar, punctuation, typography, and layout. Each section is, armed with a numbered checklist for moments when writers need that "at-a-glance" reminder and nifty Microsoft Word tricks that will save time. At the...
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For individuals seeking to grow in their careers, and for organizations seeking to retain their best talent, Polish Your Star transforms ordinary people into extraordinary leaders. This second volume builds upon the foundation set in volume one by advancing concepts in rational thinking. It begins with deep personal development starting with resetting the brain from self-sabotaging behaviors, then continues with building self-awareness, improving...
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Polish Orphans of Tengeru is the story of 123 Polish Catholic Displaced Person (DP) orphans who were brought to Canada from East Africa in 1949 as part of the settlement of the postwar DP crisis. They arrived in East Africa in a mass exodus of Poles out of the gulags of Siberia in 1942 and 1943. As they were being moved from Tanganyika in 1949, through Italy and Germany to Canada, the situation became an international incident. Warsaw protested that...
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ARE YOU READY TO JOIN A BRAVE GIRL IN HER PURSUIT OF FINDING THE SECRET OF EVERLASTING LOVE, PEACE AND HAPPINESS? WILL YOU GIVE UP ON LIFE because of depression, countless heartbreaks, empty wealth, poverty, work exploitation, divorce, house moves, and broken friendships, Brexit or WILL YOU FIND STRENGTH to KEEP GOING to finally, find the secret to LOVE, PEACE and HAPPINESS? YOUR test of perseverance starts here... Pursuing my dreams was, worth all...
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This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose to enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volume also offers challenging practice questions, as well as two finished essays, one serious and one humorous, that demonstrate how attention to sound mechanics...
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The Polish Lowland Sheepdog, known in its homeland as the Polski Owczarek Nizinny, ranks as one of the world's most irresistible shaggy dogs. The PON (named for the acronym of its Polish name) is in fact a talented, biddable herding dog whose skills and tousled cuteness continue to pen" new admirers in every dog-loving country of the world. The PON's delightful personality shines in his ever-present smile and clever ways. For an owner seeking a smart,...
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For individuals seeking to grow in their careers, and for organizations seeking to retain their best talent, Polish Your Star transforms ordinary people into extraordinary leaders. The transformation begins with deep personal development, starting with resetting the brain from self-sabotaging behaviors, then continuing with building self-awareness, improving communication, and understanding human behavior. Polish Your Star is the first of an indispensable,...
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The drama of Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Russia is captured through the letters and diaries of Polish soldiers who fought with the French.
Napoleon's invasion of Russia cost hundreds of thousands lives and changed the course of history. Europe had never seen an army like the one gathering in Poland in 1812-half a million men in brilliant uniforms and shimmering helmets. Six months later, it was the ghost of an army, frozen and horrified, retreating...
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The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that were published in Polin (Oxford: Institute for Polish Jewish Studies), Embracing the Other (New York University Press) and From Shtetl to Socialism (LondonWashington). Her research on...
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In the aftermath of World War II, more than 4,500 Polish veterans, displaced by the war events and the emerging Soviet-oriented Polish government, were resettled in Canada as farm workers; 750 of these men were accepted by the province of Alberta. Polish War Veterans in Alberta examines how these former soldiers experienced their new country and its sometimes-harsh postwar realities. This compelling work of social history is brought to life through...
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When did your Polish ancestors immigrate, from where did they leave, why did they leave, and how did they get here? These are questions we all hope to find the answers. This book is designed to give the researcher the tools needed to research their Polish ancestors and find possible answers to the origins of their Polish heritage. The author, Stephen Szabados, uses his own genealogical experience to outline a simple process that will identify where...
16) Polished off
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During the talent portion of the Miss Magnolia Blossom pageant, the organizer is murdered with a nail file. The beauticians must find out who did it before there is another victim.
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