Les mensonges de Ratus

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C.M. Shaw

Upon pulling his ship, which is named the Nicolette, into port, Captain Fairbury put up a handwritten employment notice. On the day he specified to apply, the last man standing from several applicants wasn't a man, but Charlie Blackwell. Being the only one left Charlie was hired on the spot. As Charlie's local pastor tries to persuade otherwise before they lift anchor, Captain Fairbury whispers something which makes him instantly change his tune. Once they are out at sea, new challenges arise in which both seriously question whether or not Charlie should have come.

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Sheila Peck

This book synthesizes and explains important ecological concepts and represents the first guide for planners that clearly details how to incorporate conservation plans into their work. Planners, landscape architects and designers, planning and design students, developers, local officials, and anyone interested in designing and developing more ecologically sound land-use projects will find the book an invaluable resource.

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Bob E. Hayes

This second edition provides detailed information about how to construct, evaluate, and use questionnaires. New to this edition is a chapter on sampling methods, which includes different methods of sampling as well as how to determine an appropriate sample size for reliable results. The author has updated the chapter on reliability and validity to provide more information about other forms of reliability. He also includes a chapter devoted to presenting examples on real customer satisfaction measures and how they can be used. These additions help make this new edition a valuable resource for anyone involved with measuring customer satisfaction. Other topics covered are guidelines for developing questionnaires, the concept of quality, methods to increase response rates, sampling error, and two methods of determining important service or product characteristics as perceived by the customer.

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Maryanne Stahl

Which would be worse: losing your husband or your only sister? Rose, a forty-something wife and mother, has never asked herself this question. But one Saturday afternoon, she comes upon her husband, William, and her sister, Anna, locked in a fiery kiss. And the answer to this question rings in her ears: worse still would be to lose one to the other. Devastated by the betrayal, Rose moves with her teenage daughter to Shelter Island for the summer. As she struggles to build a new life as an artist, Rose grows ever more isolated from her sister and her husband. Until an unexpected storm brings her face to face with the two people she loves and hates the most ...