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Test-preparation guide helps individuals achieve top exam scores to qualify for a career as a firefighter. Offers targeted practice on crucial verbal, math, table, memory, map reading, and logic questions, as well as advice for optimum physical and mental preparation. Includes a detailed, realistic study plan, insider's advice on the physical fitness test and the oral interview.
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Discworld volume 30
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Sentenced to death for forgery and swindling, Meist Von Lipwig accepts a pardon in exchange for revamping an ancient post office, but his efforts are thwarted by murderous characters who want the post office shut down.
3) Brazil
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Criterion collection volume 51
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Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
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1 DVD (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In this surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme, a daydreaming bureaucrat who is involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. This is the original 142 minute director's cut edition of the film assembled from both the European and American versions.
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Hogarth
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[2015]
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190 pages ; 19 cm
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Bjorn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works--a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Bjorn is in his room, what his co-workers see is him standing by the wall and staring off into space looking dazed, relaxed, and decidedly creepy. Bjorn's bizarre behavior eventually leads his co-workers to try and have him fired, but Bjorn will turn the tables on them...
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Passing the test to become a corrections officer just got easier with the updated and revised Corrections Officer Exam, Third Edition. This new edition features all the benefits that have helped thousands of test-takers in the past, including: Key information about the career and corrections officer selection process Three full-length practice exams with detailed explanations Review lessons in reading comprehension, writing, observation, and situational...
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Developed by experienced professionals from reputed civil services couching institutes and useful for many aspirants of Civil Services Prelim exams, General Studies – Planner provides a complete strategy to go through all stages of Civil Services exams. It includes Question Trend Analysis to understand the new pattern and updated Syllabus for UPSC civil services. Some practical Tips on Interview help to know various types of questions raised during...
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About 353,000 firefighters are currently employed nationwide. Employment opportunities for firefighters are rising, and applicants should expect fierce competition. Becoming a Firefighter includes critical information on everything from what firefighters really do on the job, to how they are selected, to the types of jobs available. This book also features salary and benefit information, financial aid resources, and tips for how to succeed at the...
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Master the Police Officer Exam offers thorough preparation for anyone looking for a career in law enforcement. This comprehensive guide provides 5 full-length practice tests, thorough review of question types on the written test, along with tips for the oral board interview, video-based exam, and psychological evaluation. Also includes up-to-date information on eligibility requirements, the screening process, and job applications along with a sample...
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Master the Civil Service Exams offers complete test preparation for the written exam so you can pursue a government job. Math, verbal and clerical exercises, plus four full-length practice tests, build skills and confidence, while experts in the field provide an inside scoop on how to become a first-rate job candidate. You will also find up-to-date information on the civil service job market and projected areas of growth.
11) The fifth risk
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"Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. The Commerce Department may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it's not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium...
12) Umberto D
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Criterion collection volume 201
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Criterion Collection
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[2003], c1952
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1 DVD (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Follow Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone, except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization.
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Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
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275 pages ; 24 cm
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"This book will reveal the heart of the hostile bureaucratic network that has been operating in the shadows until the American people voted Trump into office. Trump's determination to transform the government, wipe out the swamp, and reduce the power of the bureaucratic machine has set him on a collision course with agencies populated by a workforce resistant to the American people's agenda."--Amazon.com.
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xiii, 420 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST--exams, autocracy, stability, and technology--from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty's introduction of the civil service exam, known as Keju, in 587 CE--and continuing through the personnel management system used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)--Chinese autocracies have developed exceptional tools for homogenizing ideas, norms, and practices. But this...
20) Mister Johnson
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2015
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1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
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A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
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