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"I challenge you to a duel of desert islands!" Dr. Grimes cries, when Professor Bulfinch accuses him of not being practical. Grimes plans to go ashore on an uninhabited desert island, and the Professor on another. After a month they will see who has survived the best! Danny and his best friend Joe soon get permission to join them, and the four take off in the scientists'' plane. But when they crash-land in the ocean and are really marooned on an island off the coast of Peru-the four must survive and come up with a plan to be rescued, using only their scientific ingenuity!

Pay Your Taxes! But get a TAX BREAKThe IRS has a storied history. There''s the story of the 10-year-old boy who had his savings account confiscated by the IRS. There''s the story of the 17-year-old girl who the IRS threatened to garnish her wages and put a lien on her property if she didn''t fork over $16 in taxes her uncle had already paid. There''s the story of IRS workers throwing away or hiding returns in order to keep up with work. TAX BREAK relates the story of Jim Greenwald, a man so enraged by the IRS that he plants a bomb in their Austin facility after they confiscate his bar for unpaid taxes. The FBI and local police chase him across the United States while a third-party presidential candidate starts a riot after he declares Greenwald to be a hero of the people. This book explodes with more action when a CIA agent attempts to silence Greenwald before he can expose his past adventures executed for The Company. Yes, you still have to pay your taxes, but you can at least channel your anger by turning the pages of this exciting story of one man''s war on the IRS.

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Soul for Sale is the compelling and hugely entertaining story of Creative Director Terry Wilson and his colleagues at Cracknell, Burroughs & Partners - an award-winning, pressure-cooker of an agency filled with high-maintenance creative talent, high-profit le clients and bare-knuckle politics. Whether you work in advertising or just watch commercials on TV, you''ll laugh, cry and ultimately recognize the Terry in yourself as he struggles to reconcile life in the demanding, insular, self-referential, surreal ad world...with life itself. In this remarkable debut novel, Jay Williams has deftly captured virtually all there is to say about the choices we sometimes make and the challenges of life inside - as well as outside - the weird and wonderful world of advertising.

Danny Dunn tries to track down the missing manager of the local department store with the aid of a bloodhound robot.

Professor Bullfinch leaves Danny in charge of his new miniature computer.

Four modern fairy tales about the adventures of Princess Amaryllis, King Ludwig, Dr. Ambrosius, and Jonathan Fizz the Fixer.

The little skate, Leucoraja erinacea, is a common inshore batoid in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Although L. erinacea has been well studied over this range, differences still exist amongst these studies because of the apparent lack of correlation between peaks in biochemical endpoints (such as steroid hormones) and reproductive cyclicity. One likely reason for this lack of correlation is the individual variability within the asynchronous continuously-breeding L. erinacea population. Thus, in the current study, plasma steroid hormones were used to assess the individual variability of L. erinacea over the course of 12 months, in hopes of further defining its reproductive cycle. Blood samples were collected weekly from captive mature female L. erinacea, either isolated from or in the presence of male skates for 52 consecutive weeks. The plasma estradiol (E2) and progesterone (P4) concentrations were determined by radioimmunoassay (RIA). No statistical differences in hormone concentrations were observed between the isolated and non-isolated female skates. Monthly E2 concentrations ranged from 1430 pg ml−1 in August to 3940 pg ml−1 in March, indicating the presence of mature ovarian follicles and supporting the conclusions from previous studies that L. erinacea is capable of reproducing year-round. Concentrations of E2 were also significantly elevated or depressed during some months (Feb., Mar., Jun., Jul., Aug. and Sep.) of the year, suggesting that reproductive activity may vary over the annual cycle. Even though monthly P4 concentrations were highly variable, ranging from 82 pg ml−1 in November to 816 pg ml−1 in September, no significant reproductive peaks were observed (F (subscript df=1, 11) = 1.67, p = 0.08). In addition a persistently large variation in E2 and P4 concentrations, variability in both hormones observed in the current study are indicative of an oviparous species that reproduces actively throughout the year. However, the weekly sampling frequency revealed that plasma E2 concentrations, not P4 were more useful to assess reproductive status in asynchronous continuously-breeding oviparous elasmobranchs.