Sia

Sia

Author: Josh Grayson

Publisher:

Published: 2013-11-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780989869010

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When seventeen-year-old Sia wakes up on a park bench, she has no idea who or where she is. Yet after a week of being homeless, she's reunited with her family. At school, she's powerful and popular. At home, she's wealthy beyond her dreams. But she quickly realizes her perfect life is a lie. Her family is falling apart and her friends are snobby, cruel and plastic. Worse yet, she discovers she was the cruelest one. Mortified by her past, she embarks on a journey of redemption and falls for Kyle, the "geek" she once tormented. Yet all the time she wonders if, when her memories return, she'll become the bully she was before...and if she'll lose Kyle.


Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

Author: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-08-11

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1534448659

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“In a world where we are so often dividing ourselves into us and them, this book feels like a kind of magic, celebrating all beliefs, ethnicities, and unknowns.” —The New York Times Book Review Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets Roswell by way of Laurie Halse Anderson in this astonishing, genre-bending novel about a Mexican American teen who discovers profound connections between immigration, folklore, and alien life. It’s been three years since ICE raids and phone calls from Mexico and an ill-fated walk across the Sonoran. Three years since Sia Martinez’s mom disappeared. Sia wants to move on, but it’s hard in her tiny Arizona town where people refer to her mom’s deportation as “an unfortunate incident.” Sia knows that her mom must be dead, but every new moon Sia drives into the desert and lights San Anthony and la Guadalupe candles to guide her mom home. Then one night, under a million stars, Sia’s life and the world as we know it cracks wide open. Because a blue-lit spacecraft crashes in front of Sia’s car…and it’s carrying her mom, who’s very much alive. As Sia races to save her mom from armed-quite-possibly-alien soldiers, she uncovers secrets as profound as they are dangerous in this stunning and inventive exploration of first love, family, immigration, and our vast, limitless universe.


Security Industry Authority

Security Industry Authority

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2008-01-17

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780215038098

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The Security Industry Authority (SIA) was established in 2003 as an independent body reporting to the Home Secretary to regulate the private security industry. Its role includes the compulsory licensing of individuals undertaking specific licensable activities within the security industry. Immigration status checks of security workers are the legal responsibility of their employer, but it emerged in November 2007 that such checks were not being carried out on persons applying for licences to work in the private security industry, with the result that an unspecified number of security industry workers were working illegally. Retrospective checks on the security industry revealed that: 77% of licence holders were legitimate; 10.5% did not have the right to work; 12.5% required further checks. This meant that potentially 10,000 non-EU nationals licensed to work in the security industry could be working illegally. This report from the Home Affairs Committee, sets out the situation regarding the licensing of applicants, with oral evidence taken before the Committee. The Committee recommends that the licence application form should be the place for consideration of immigration status of security worker applicants, and the Committee welcomes the Home Secretary's announcement to encourage an amendment to the licence application form of the Security Industry Authority.


Swiss Contract Law in International Commercial Arbitration

Swiss Contract Law in International Commercial Arbitration

Author: Christoph Müller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 822

ISBN-13: 1108381812

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This book provides a systematic presentation of the most important commercial contracts under Swiss law, i.e., the contract of sale, the contract for work and services, the simple mandate contract, and the commercial agency contract, as well as the licence agreement, the exclusive distribution agreement, and the settlement agreement. The book also contains an in-depth introduction of the Swiss law of obligations, covering topics such as the fundamental principles of contract law, the obligation (as the effect of the contract), the formation of contracts, contract interpretation, validity of contracts, agency, general terms and conditions, and breach of contract. After English law, Swiss law is deemed to be the most attractive law applicable to the parties' contract in an international context. At the same time, English is usually chosen as the language of the arbitration proceedings. This book will therefore be an indispensable resource for all English-speaking lawyers interested in international commercial arbitration.


Researching the Future in Information Systems

Researching the Future in Information Systems

Author: Mike Chiasson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-05-24

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 3642213634

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference "Researching the Future", Future IS 2011, held in Turku, Finland, in June 2011. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 4 panels and workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized into 6 topical sections: how the future and the past are connected and inter-related; critical view of the future; technological futures; the future of information technology and work-related practices in health care; the future of industrial and institutional practices and outcomes through information technology; and the future of critical realism in IS research.


Encyclopedia of Interest Groups and Lobbyists in the United States

Encyclopedia of Interest Groups and Lobbyists in the United States

Author: Immanuel Ness

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 1169

ISBN-13: 1317471733

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A comprehensive general reference on major American interest groups. This encyclopedia provides information on the lobbies and interest groups that dominate modern American politics. It provides descriptions of 13 categories of groups, followed by A-Z entries on the groups within that category.