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Author
Series
Maddie Ziegler volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Harper and her fellow Dance Starz go to New York City for nationals, they not only face their arch-rivals, the Bells, but Harper will also compete against her old dance team.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Marcia Clark's most electrifying thriller yet, Los Angeles District Attorney Rachel Knight investigates a horrifying high school massacre.
A Columbine-style shooting at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the killers. Both are dead, believed to have committed a mutual suicide.
In the aftermath of the shooting, LA Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight...
A Columbine-style shooting at a high school in the San Fernando Valley has left a community shaken to its core. Two students are identified as the killers. Both are dead, believed to have committed a mutual suicide.
In the aftermath of the shooting, LA Special Trials prosecutor Rachel Knight...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
THE COMPETITION begins, significantly, with the image of a locked gate—that of La Fémis, one of the most prestigious film schools in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals and accepting only forty students per year from hundreds of applicants. This Wiseman-esque documentary from Simon, one of France’s premiere nonfiction filmmakers, observes the process whereby those lucky forty are selected—a process which is revealed...
Publisher
Metrograph
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
La Fémis is one of the most prestigious film schools in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals and accepting only forty students per year from hundreds of applicants. This Wiseman-esque documentary observes the process whereby those lucky forty are selected—a process which is revealed to be highly personal, idiosyncratic, and subject to the vagaries of taste and personal prejudice. THE COMPETITION offers not only a unique...
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Join Wonder Woman(TM), Batgirl(TM), and the rest of the DC Super Hero Girls(TM) in an all-new action-packed series!
When an athletic competition with the school's super-villains gets way out of hand, young Wonder Woman, Supergirl(TM), and Batgirl team up with a few of their fellow superpowered students to save the day after the school bell rings. This chapter book features humor and action-packed stories and art throughout.
When an athletic competition with the school's super-villains gets way out of hand, young Wonder Woman, Supergirl(TM), and Batgirl team up with a few of their fellow superpowered students to save the day after the school bell rings. This chapter book features humor and action-packed stories and art throughout.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the early 20th century, one of the most popular words in book titles was “crisis,” reflecting a widespread anxiety about a rapidly changing world. Study contrasting assessments of the stability of society from sociologists Max Weber, Pyotr Kropotkin, and Ferdinand Tonnies, as well as the influential analysis by industrialist Andrew Carnegie..
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
A billionaire decides on a whim to create a movie, hiring a team he considers the best: a renowned filmmaker and two egotistical actors -- one from Hollywood and the other from experimental theatre -- who cannot get along. While the director creates bizarre rituals to test their abilities, the actors find themselves confronting each other as well as their pasts and their bodies of work.
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Competitors are a sign of a thriving market. Learn strategies for identifying and evaluating competitors to discover where opportunities lie to fill gaps in the marketplace.
Contrary to popular belief, your business should have plenty of competitors. Thriving competition shows you’ve pinpointed a viable market. Defining and segmenting your competitors helps you better articulate your company’s unique value, while reassuring investors that your...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
People who live in the Rocky Mountains have come up with some outrageous competitions over the years. How about riding a bicycle to beat a train? That's the history behind the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic, also known as the Durango to Silverton Bike Race. Next up is something you don't see everyday, how about racing your burro? Don't laugh; the competition is tough! The only thing that can top that kind of fun is a Frog Rodeo in Empire, which offers...
Author
Publisher
linkedin.com
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Don’t beat your competitors—outlearn them. Arm yourself with tools to understand how you and your organization learn and to take your own learning to the next level.
The martial language of business—all that talk about wins and crushing the competition—can be counterproductive and misleading. The truth is expertise and success are the result of learning. You don’t have to beat your competitors; you can outlearn them. From adopting a healthy...
14) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an worldwin adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.
15) Competition overdose: how free market mythology transformed us from citizen kings to market servants
Author
Publisher
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Legal experts Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice Stucke diagnose the symptoms of competion run amock--how market-based solutions increase inequality, kill entrepreneurship, hurt consumers, and destroy healthy industry ecosystems--and provide remedies that will ensure sustainable growth and progress for all"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries' GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isn't science fiction--it's reality. Humans are venturing up and out, and we're taking our competitive spirit with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers, and seas have impacted civilizations around the world. It's no coincidence that Russia, China, and the USA are leading...
Author
Series
Robot makers volume 4
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At coding camp, La Ion's friends wake up to an usual lesson: how to make breakfast with robots! The group learns how robots prepare meals by algorithm. Then, camp heats up with a robot soccer match"--
19) The night circus
Author
Language
English
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Description
The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is a unique experience full of breathtaking spectacles. This is Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway, a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood just for this purpose by their instructors. Unbeknownst...
Author
Series
Robot makers volume 2
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"La Ion has joined his first robot soccer game--but there is something odd about his opponents' robot. This graphic novel unpacks the mechanical elements of a robot and the history of automatons"--
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