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Conflict resolution and peace building : the role of NGOs in historical reconciliation and territorial issues /

Table of Contents: “…Mbuh -- An educational model for peace building and conflict prevention: the role of the UN mandated university for peace / Victor Valle -- Women and the role of NGOs in conflict resolution in Africa / Rebecca N. Mbuh -- Three episodes in developing a harmonized world / Yuahn Rao.…”

Thus we heard recollections of the life of the Buddha by Piyananda, Bhante Walpola

Table of Contents: “…The sangha grows. 12. Three ascetics and a king. 13. The chief disciples. 14. …”

Culavamsa : being the more recent part of the Mahavamsa - part II / by [ Culavamsa]

Table of Contents: “…The Building of Viharas 7. The laying out of gardens and the like 8. The Sixteen Kings 9. The Reign of one King 10. …”

The veggie-lover's Sriracha cookbook : 50 vegan "rooster sauce" recipes that pack a punch / by Clemens, Randy

Table of Contents: “…-- Vegan ingredients explained -- [2] Sauces, starters, and snacks -- Homemade Sriracha -- Sriracha aioli -- Sriracha ketchup -- Srirancha dressing and dip -- Sriracha pesto -- Cock sauce cashew cheez -- Sriracha-cucumber hummus -- Sriracha-mango guacamole -- Sriracha muhammara -- Sriracha caponata -- Burning Thai bruschetta -- Stuffed Sriracha 'shrooms -- Southeast meets Southwest lettuce cups -- Not your mama's party mix -- [3] Soups and stews -- Zippy zucchini zuppa with asparagus and cannellini beans -- Mouth on fire minestrone -- Srirachili non carne -- Five-alarm black bean soup with cilantro-coconut crema -- Soon dubu jjigae -- Fiery pho chay -- [4] Salads and sides -- Sriracha broccoli slaw -- Kicked-up caprese -- Edamame-Sriracha succotash -- Warm dijon-Sriracha potato salad with toasted hazelnuts -- Stir-fried asparagus and green bean salad with dyn-o-mite dressing -- Grilled shishito peppers with Sriracha satay -- Spicy tabbouleh-stuffed dolmas -- [5] Breakfast of champions -- Sriracha and green onion biscuits with country mushroom gravy -- Light my fire potato-parsnip latkes -- Mean quiche florentine -- California Benedict with Sriracha-chive hollandaise -- Sriracha shakshuka -- Bánh xèo -- [6] Main courses -- Sriracha cauliflower 'n' cheez -- Penne puttanesca with charred broccolini -- Curried kale and squash risotto -- Sriracha sweet potato shepherd's pie -- Maple-Sriracha roasted brussels sprouts with cranberry wild rice -- Spicy California rolls -- Cajun quinoa cakes with lemon-dill-Sriracha rémoulade -- Braised eggplant tagine with Sriracha harissa and mint-coconut crema -- Ultimate Sriracha veggie burger -- Jackfruit "pulled pork" sammiches with pickled red onion -- Sam's Jamaican jerk garbanzo sliders with mango-cucumber relish -- Dios mio tamales -- Beer-battered fried avocado tacos with Sriracha curtido -- [7] Desserts and drinks -- Mango-Sriracha margarita -- Watermelon-Sriracha sangria -- Super simple peanut butter and Sriracha cookies -- Pumpkin-Sriracha cheezecake with chocolate-pecan crust -- Upside-down pineapple-Sriracha cake -- Maple-sriracha doughnuts.…”

Text complexity : raising rigor in reading / by Fisher, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Text complexity is the new black: -- Text complexity defined -- Revisiting how we match readers and texts -- Text complexity and the common core state standards -- The case for struggle -- Conclusion -- Quantitative measures of text complexity: -- Word-level analysis -- Sentence-level analysis --Conventional readability formulas -- Readability formulas that also measure readers -- Measuring coreference and cohesion -- Cautions and criticism of readability formulas -- Readability for early readers -- Conclusion -- Qualitative measures of text complexity: -- Considerate texts -- But not all texts are considerate -- Levels of meaning and purpose -- Structure -- Language conventionality and clarity -- Knowledge demands -- Returning to the hunger games, qualitatively -- Cautions and criticisms of qualitative analysis of text complexity -- Conclusion -- Matching readers to texts and tasks: -- Exploring the reader -- Exploring the task -- Exploring the question -- Shifting expectations -- Cautions and criticisms of matching readers with texts and tasks -- Conclusion -- A close reading of complex texts: Close reading -- Close reading up close in fourth grade : "post-it-notes" -- Close reading up close in ninth grade : "The road not taken" -- Conclusion.…”

Text complexity : raising rigor in reading / by Fisher, Douglas

Table of Contents: “…Text complexity is the new black: -- Text complexity defined -- Revisiting how we match readers and texts -- Text complexity and the common core state standards -- The case for struggle -- Conclusion -- Quantitative measures of text complexity: -- Word-level analysis -- Sentence-level analysis --Conventional readability formulas -- Readability formulas that also measure readers -- Measuring coreference and cohesion -- Cautions and criticism of readability formulas -- Readability for early readers -- Conclusion -- Qualitative measures of text complexity: -- Considerate texts -- But not all texts are considerate -- Levels of meaning and purpose -- Structure -- Language conventionality and clarity -- Knowledge demands -- Returning to the hunger games, qualitatively -- Cautions and criticisms of qualitative analysis of text complexity -- Conclusion -- Matching readers to texts and tasks: -- Exploring the reader -- Exploring the task -- Exploring the question -- Shifting expectations -- Cautions and criticisms of matching readers with texts and tasks -- Conclusion -- A close reading of complex texts: Close reading -- Close reading up close in fourth grade : "post-it-notes" -- Close reading up close in ninth grade : "The road not taken" -- Conclusion.…”

Funeral note / by Jardine, Quintin

Darwin : portrait of a genius / by Johnson, Paul

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Great days at work : how positive psychology can transform your working life / by Suzanne Hazelton

Neverisms : a quotation lover's guide to things you should never do, never say, or never forget / by Grothe, Mardy

Table of Contents: “…(multiple neverisms) -- Never persist in trying to set people right (human relationships) -- Never approach a woman from behind (sex, love & romance) -- Never change diapers in mid-stream (marriage, home & family life) -- Never mention a no-hitter while it's in progress (sports) -- Never get caught in bed with a live man or a dead woman (politics & government) -- Never coddle a malcontent (business & management) -- Never have your dog stuffed (book, song & movie titles) -- Never judge a book by its movie (stage & screen) -- Never answer an anonymous letter (oxymoronic & paradoxical neverisms) -- Never cut what you can untie (metaphorical neverisms) -- Never use a long word where a short one will do (the literary life).…”
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Images of Sri Lanka through American eyes : travellers in Ceylon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a select anthology /

Table of Contents: “…By diligence, perseverance, and constant personal intercourse with the natives / Edward Warren, James, Richards, Benjamin C. Meigs and Daniel Poor -- 3. …”

ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ ගැසට් පත්‍රය - අති විශේෂ : අංක 1888/46 - 2014.11.14...

The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka - Extraordinary : No 1888/46 - 14.11.2014 இலங்கைச் சனநாயக சோசலிசக் குடியரசு வர்த்தமானப் பத்திரிகை அதி விசேஷமானது 1888/46 ஆம் இலக்கம் - 2014 ஆம் ஆண்டு நவம்பர் மாதம் 14 ஆம் திகதி வெள்ளிக்கிழமை

Table of Contents: “…Provincial councils notifications - western province provincial council / Laws relating - Bakeries , Offensive trades, Dangerous trades and Dangerous and offensive trades,Hotels and Lodges ,Crematoriums, Eating Houses, Sale of Fish, Vehicle control in roads within the urban council authorities, Itinerary trade, Advertisements, Three - Wheelers, Charges levied on services,,Play Grounds,Sale of meat, Funeral supply centres…”

Your best just got better : work smarter, think bigger, make more / by Womack, Jason W.

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Stop talking, start communicating : counterintuitive secrets to success in business and in life / by Tumlin, Geoffrey

Table of Contents: “…Back up to go forward : we are neglecting three essential communication habits -- Invert your expectations : expect less from technology and more from people -- Lose your friends : important relationships are being trumped by people you barely know -- Stop talking : hyper-communication is the problem, not the solution -- Don't be yourself : it's an excuse for neanderthal behavior -- Play dumb : don't pin the tail on the donkey -- Question your questions : questions make many conversations worse -- Ignore your (tell-tale) heart : it wants you to talk without a plan -- Don't solve problems : you are messing around with far too many issues already -- Blow things off : protect what matters by letting go of what doesn't -- Let difficult people win : stop trying to impose your will on tough communicators -- Respond with weakness : bring a stick to a knife fight -- Overlook people -- Change the underlying conditions, not the person -- Take things off the table : just because you can talk about something doesn't mean that you should -- Be boring : most conversations are exciting for all the wrong reasons -- Give people what they want : few things connect like a story.…”

Stop talking, start communicating : counterintuitive secrets to success in business and in life / by Tumlin, Geoffrey

Table of Contents: “…Back up to go forward : we are neglecting three essential communication habits -- Invert your expectations : expect less from technology and more from people -- Lose your friends : important relationships are being trumped by people you barely know -- Stop talking : hyper-communication is the problem, not the solution -- Don't be yourself : it's an excuse for neanderthal behavior -- Play dumb : don't pin the tail on the donkey -- Question your questions : questions make many conversations worse -- Ignore your (tell-tale) heart : it wants you to talk without a plan -- Don't solve problems : you are messing around with far too many issues already -- Blow things off : protect what matters by letting go of what doesn't -- Let difficult people win : stop trying to impose your will on tough communicators -- Respond with weakness : bring a stick to a knife fight -- Overlook people -- Change the underlying conditions, not the person -- Take things off the table : just because you can talk about something doesn't mean that you should -- Be boring : most conversations are exciting for all the wrong reasons -- Give people what they want : few things connect like a story.…”

Life is a gift : the zen of Bennett / by Bennett, Tony

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The daughter she used to be / by Noonan, Rosalind

The immortalists / by Mills, Kyle

Snobbery with violence / by M C Beaton

Trust me, I'm lying : the tactics and confessions of a media manipulator / by Holiday, Ryan

Table of Contents: “…Blogs make the news -- How to turn nothing into something in three way-too easy steps -- Blogs as a business : a brief overview -- Tactic #1: bloggers are poor, help pay their bills -- Tactic #2: tell them what they want to hear -- Tactic #3: give them what spreads, not what's good -- Tactic # 4: help them trick their readers -- Tactic #5: sell them something they can sell (exploit the one off problem) -- Tactic #6: make it all about the headline -- Tactic #7: kill 'em with pageview kindness -- Tactic #8: use the technology against itself -- Tactic #9: just make stuff up (everyone else is doing it) -- The monster attacks : what blogs mean -- Irin carmon, the daily show, and me: the perfect storm of how toxic blogging can be -- There are others : the manipulator hall of fame -- Cute but evil : online entertainment tactics that drug you & i -- The link economy : the leveraged illusion of sourcing -- Extortion via the web : facing the online shakedown -- The iterative hustle : online journalism's bogus philosophy -- The myth of corrections -- Cheering on our own deception -- The dark side of snark : when internet humor attacks -- The 21st century degradation ceremony : blogs as machines of hatred and punishment -- Welcome to unreality -- How to read a blog : an update on account of all the lies -- Conclusion.…”