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Want To Know What Exercises Are Proven To Make You Gain Muscle And Strength?
Then This Book Is Perfect For You!
It shows you the 48 best gym exercises for building strength and gaining muscle. I have included all important muscle groups (Chest, Back, Legs, Arms, Shoulders/Neck, Abs). Many of them are timeless and have been performed by bodybuilders for decades. They are proven to work and should be part of every workout routine. Each Exercise Contains: – step by step instructions on how to perform the exercise – a picture / illustration – details about the primary and secondary muscles involved – safety tips – and possible variations Avoid simply copying friends at the gym! This ususally lead to injuries and long-term joint problems. To spare yourself such issues, you need to educate yourself on how to train correctly. I promise you that if you follow the advice in this book, you will increase both strength and size within a few weeks. No Fluff or Bro Science! With this guide you will build muscle faster than ever! The bottom line is you CAN get bigger and stronger with just these exercises. No need for fancy equipment or a personal trainer.
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The Politics of Authenticating: Revisiting New Orleans Jazz (Experiments/On the Political)
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Revise Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Business Practice Papers Plus: for home learning, 2022 and 2023 assessments and exams (REVISE Edexcel GCSE Business 2017)
Each book contains sets of practice papers with full worked solutions and hints and notes on the marks allocated directly alongside the relevant steps of the solution, so your students can make most sense of them and build their confidence.
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Language Signs and Calming Signals of Horses: Recognition and Application
This practical book helps you interpret and connect the physical signals that horses display in response to their environment. These signals are evident in the everyday actions, gestures and attitudes that horses communicate to each other, but are often so subtle that they can go unnoticed by humans. This book aims to rectify that, offering horse lovers and equine professionals an opportunity to gain a unique insight into their ‘horse’s world’.
Key features:
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Blackpool at War: A History of the Fylde Coast During the Second World War
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No Dig: Nurture Your Soil to Grow Better Veg with Less Effort
Work in partnership with nature to nurture your soil for healthy plants and bumper crops – without back-breaking effort!
Have you ever wondered how to transform a weedy plot into a thriving vegetable garden? Well now you can!
By following the simple steps set out in No Dig, in just a few short hours you can revolutionise your vegetable patch with plants already in the ground from day one!Charles Dowding is on a mission to teach that there is no need to dig over the soil, but by minimising intervention you are actively boosting soil productivity. In fact, The less you dig, the more you preserve soil structure and nurture the fungal mycelium vital to the health of all plants. This is the essence of the No Dig system that Charles Dowding has perfected over a lifetime growing vegetables.
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– The essential role of compost and how to make your own at home.
– The importance of soil management, soil ecology, and soil health.Now one of the hottest topics in environmental science, this “wood-wide web” has informed Charles’s practice for decades, and he’s proven it isn’t just trees that benefit – every gardener can harness the power of the wood-wide web. Featuring newly- commissioned step-by-step photography of all stages of growing vegetables and herbs, and all elements of No Dig growing, shot at Charles’s beautiful market garden in Somerset, you too will be able to grow more veg with less time and effort, and in harmony with nature – so join the No Dig revolution today!
A must-have volume for followers of Charles Dowding who fervently believe in his approach to low input, high yield gardening, as well as gardeners who want to garden more lightly on the earth, with environmentally friendly techniques like organic and No Dig.
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Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness in Martha’s Vineyard: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard
From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha’s Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most Deaf people in our own society, the Vineyarders who were born Deaf were so thoroughly integrated into the daily life of the community that they were not seen―and did not see themselves―as handicapped or as a group apart. Deaf people were included in all aspects of life, such as town politics, jobs, church affairs, and social life. How was this possible?
On the Vineyard, hearing and Deaf islanders alike grew up speaking sign language. This unique sociolinguistic adaptation meant that the usual barriers to communication between the hearing and the Deaf, which so isolate many Deaf people today, did not exist.
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The Complete & Unauthorized Guide to Vintage Barbie® Dolls: With Barbie®, Ken®, Francie®, and Skipper® Fashions and the Whole Family
Arequired resource for all Barbie® collectors, this completely revised and expandededition features newimages and updated prices, all in a handy, easy-to-carry-along format. Now over 1,200 beautiful color photosillustrate this complete listing of Barbie through her vintage years from 1959 to 1972, including her sister Skipper® andtheir friends, relations, and pets. Ken®, Midge®, Allan®, Francie®,Scooter®, and all the rest are here. Never before presented in suchdetail and with so many images, every picture shows all the pieces originally included with the fashion. Values are given for loose and never removed from package items. Thelisting also provides each item’s stock number, date, and value.Read more
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The Ultimate Barbie Doll Book
The Ultimate Barbie Doll book, published in 1996, contains over 1,070 U.S. issue dolls produced by Mattel, Inc. from 1959 through 1995. All are pictured in full color, most with two views – a close-up of the face and a full picture of the doll – almost 2,000 photographs. Not intended as a coffee table book, concise blocks of information next to the photographs contain, name, model number, hair color and style, clothing, body type and markings, head mold and markings, accessories, booklets, and pertinent notes all to ist the collector in identifying loose, unclothed dolls from the covered time period.Designed to be used like an illustrated dictionary, where dolls and their characteristics can be “looked-up” as quickly as possible. Abbreviations are kept to a minimum, but for those used, check the “Terms and Abbreviations” key. Also, a “Pictorial Key” illustrates some of the frequently cited arm styles, shoes, accessories and doll stands. Finally, an alphabetical “Price Guide and Index” lists the dolls, priced both in and out of the box along with average retail price and page number with extensive cross-referencing to ist in locating dolls within the book.
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The Signs language of Adam- The Ancient Language Master Key, Untold story of Language – Volume I: The origin of the ancient Hebrew letters, words and the roots of scripture…
Hebrew and English Decoded!
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What is the oldest language? What do the words mean? Discoveries shed light on the beginnings of the ancient language. The building blocks of the Hebrew language and other later related languages. What are they made of? How were they created? and how are they used and why? The meaning of the ancient Hebrew symbols, from the beginning of human culture to the end of the ice age and the beginning of the agricultural revolution. We speak in words that come from symbols. Each symbol in the Hebrew language has an ancient meaning. There are no “coincidences” in the roots of the words. If your language interests you, and you want to understand the meaning of the words, spelling, and symbols you speak, this book is for you! This book is dedicated and intended for all Hebrew people scattered around the world, among the nations, wherever they are. A must-read book for any Hebrew, German, and English speaker! A revolution in language research!Read more
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Learning Disability Nursing: Developing Professional Practice
Written by experts in the field, this is a must-have book for all undergraduate nurses studying to become Registered Nurses (Learning Disability), specifically linked to achieving the outcomes required within the NMC Standards for Nurse Education (2018).
It is also of relevance to qualified learning disability nurses, those studying to become Registered Nurses (Intellectual Disabilities) in Ireland, as well as nursing students in general who should have a good working knowledge of learning disability practice.
The book explores all aspects of professional development in learning disability nursing from the foundations to advanced practice. Key themes running through the book include the importance of a human rights and values-based approach, the development of person-centred approaches to care and support, and the need to work in partnership with key stakeholders, including people with learning disabilities and their families. It encourages readers to make links between theory and practice and to develop their skills in critical thinking through case studies and reflective activities.
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Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs
During the Mesozoic era, 252 to 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the land, but the ocean deeps were roiling with equally spectacular reptiles—including giant predators. This richly illustrated, authoritative, and accessible book introduces readers to the world of these fascinating marine animals, whose predecessors returned to the seas a few million years after the first vertebrates emerged from the water. As we meet ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and many others, we learn about the astonishing anatomical, physiological, and behavioral adaptations that enabled these reptiles to become ocean dwellers again. We also learn about their living descendants, including sea turtles and sea snakes. Featuring stunning artwork depicting these prehistoric ocean creatures and photographs of their fossil remains, this book invites readers to discover the enthralling past of marine reptiles in all their extraordinary diversity.Read more
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Most Dangerous Superstition
Actual physical, hold in your hand, read on a beach, sell second-hand or give to a friend, book. When someone looks out at the world and sees all manner of suffering and injustice, stretching back for thousands of years and continuing today, he invariably blames such problems on someone else’s hatred, greed, or stupidity. Rarely will someone consider the possibility that his own belief system is the cause of the pain and suffering he sees around him. But in most cases, it is. The root cause of most of society’s ills–the main source of man’s inhumanity to man–is neither malice nor negligence, but a mere superstition–an unquestioned assumption which has been accepted on faith by nearly everyone, of all ages, races, religions, education and income levels. If people were to recognize that one belief for what it is–an utterly irrational, self-contradictory, and horribly destructive myth–most of the violence, oppression and injustice in the world would cease. But that will happen only when people dare to honestly and objectively re-examine their belief systems. “The Most Dangerous Superstition” exposes the myth for what it is, showing how nearly everyone, as a result of one particular unquestioned assumption, is directly contributing to violence and oppression without even realizing it. If you imagine yourself to be a compassionate, peace-loving, civilized human being, you must read this book.Read more
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Perfect English Style: Creating rooms that are comfortable, pleasing and timeless
Some styles of decorating have a longer shelf life than others. One of the most durable is English Country Style, which works just as well in a city apartment or suburban home as it does in a rectory or manor house.
We may recognise an interior as archetypally English, but putting a finger on exactly what makes it so can be tricky. One of the strengths of English style is that it isn’t prescriptive. In fact, quite the opposite. It is relaxed, laissez-faire, and endlessly adaptable – all reasons, no doubt, why it has enjoyed such longevity. You know it when you see it, but what are its essential ingredients? In Perfect English Style, Ros Byam Shaw looks at a range of rooms with a strong English feel to them. As it happens, they are all in England, though this is a look that travels the world, still predominantly English in flavour even when spiced with foreign ingredients. Ros explores the main rooms of a house, from hallways to bedrooms, their characteristics and furnishings, and how they achieve that mix of comfort, informality and visual charm that is the hallmark of English style. Ros also homes in on specifics; the qualities of patina, the important role of fabrics and fresh flowers, how to buy, use and include antique and vintage furnishings, and how a collection, whether of pebbles or 18th century glass, adds individuality and character.
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The Newest Tower Vortx Air Fryer and Grill Cookbook 2024: 1001 Days of Affordable, Easy and Healthy Air Fryer Recipes for Beginners
Air fryers bake food at a high temperature with a high-powered fan, while deep fryers cook food in a vat of oil that has been heated up to a specific temperature. Both cook food quickly, but an air fryer requires practically zero preheat time while a deep fryer can take upwards of 10 minutes. Air fryers are fast, and once you understand how they work, they can be used to heat frozen foods or cook all sorts of fresh food like chicken, steak, pork chops, salmon and veggies. Most meats require no added oil because they’re already so juicy: just season them with salt and your favorite herbs and spices. Make sure you stick to dry seasonings — less moisture leads to crispier results. If you want to baste meats with barbecue sauce or honey, wait until the last couple minutes of cooking.Read more
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Collins Easy Learning Preschool Wipe-Clean – 6 books set
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OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE Route 1: Myth and Religion
This textbook is for OCR’s GCSE Classical Civilisation and is written for students taking the Myth and Religion thematic study. The three optional Literature and Culture topics are all included. The ideal preparation for the final examinations, all content is presented by experts and experienced teachers in a clear and accessible narrative. Visual and literary sources are described and analysed, with images in full colour. Helpful student features include study questions, further reading, and boxes focusing in on key people, events and terms.Read more
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Quantum Computing: From Alice to Bob
Quantum Computing: From Alice to Bob provides a distinctive and accessible introduction to the rapidly growing fields of quantum information science and quantum computing. The textbook is designed for undergraduate students and upper-level secondary school students with little or no background in physics, computer science, or mathematics beyond secondary school algebra and a bit of trigonometry. Higher education faculty members and secondary school mathematics, physics, and computer science educators who want to learn about quantum computing and perhaps teach a course accessible to students with wide-ranging backgrounds will also find the book useful and enjoyable.While broadly accessible, the textbook also provides a solid conceptual and formal understanding of quantum states and entanglement – the key ingredients in quantum computing. The authors dish up a hearty meal for the readers, disentangling and explaining many of the classic quantum algorithms that demonstrate how and when QC has an advantage over classical computers. The book is spiced with Try Its, brief exercises that engage the readers in problem solving (both with and without mathematics) and help them digest the many counter-intuitive quantum information science and quantum computing concepts.
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Java Distributed Computing (Java Series)
Distributed computing and Java go together naturally. As the first language designed from the bottom up with networking in mind, Java makes it very easy for computers to cooperate. Even the simplest applet running in a browser is a distributed application, if you think about it. The client running the browser downloads and executes code that is delivered by some other system. But even this simple applet wouldn’t be possible without Java’s guarantees of portability and security: the applet can run on any platform, and can’t sabotage its host.Of course, when we think of distributed computing, we usually think of applications more complex than a client and server communicating with the same protocol. We usually think in terms of programs that make remote procedure calls, access remote databases, and collaborate with others to produce a single result. Java Distributed Computing discusses how to design and write such applications. It covers Java’s RMI (Remote Method Invocation) facility and CORBA, but it doesn’t stop there; it tells you how to design your own protocols to build message passing systems and discusses how to use Java’s security facilities, how to write multithreaded servers, and more. It pays special attention to distributed data systems, collaboration, and applications that have high bandwidth requirements.In the future, distributed computing can only become more important.Java Distributed Computing provides a broad introduction to the problems you’ll face and the solutions you’ll find as you write distributed computing applications.Topics covered in Java Distributed Computing:
- Introduction to Distributed Computing
- Networking Basics
- Distributed Objects (Overview of CORBA and RMI)
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- Message Passing Systems
- Distributed Data Systems (Databases)
- Bandwidth Limited Applications
- Collaborative Systems
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Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe
NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
To Jeezy’s legion of fans, his name is synonymous with hustle, grit, and the integrity to go out there and achieve your dreams. In his first book, Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe, Jeezy shares never heard stories of what it took for him to beat the odds and get out of the streets, his mindset he carefully honed to get an edge, and the lessons that changed his life and business.
Born into poverty and raised in a small town in the middle of South Georgia’s so-called “Black belt,” Jeezy realized at an early age that nothing was going to come easy, there were no handouts headed his way, and if he ever wanted anything in life, he was going to have to get out there and get it on his own. So that’s what he did.
Now, for the first time, Jeezy retraces his steps, going back to day one to share how he turned nothing into something, stayed solid, survived the trap, and triumphed over adversity to become the successful artist, father, husband, entrepreneur, and philanthropist that he is today.
Adversity for Sale isn’t a street memoir. Like his music, these pages are filled with lessons from his deeply personal story to motivate you to go out and get after your dream.
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Tuning Up: Improving performance and reducing stress in advertising and marketing
No musicians worth their salt would ever begin performing without first making sure they’re in tune. But in marketing and advertising we often jump into working relationships without Tuning Up.
In marketing and advertising, Tuning Up means harmonising responsibility and control. But being out of tune is much more painful than the cacophony of ill-prepared musicians. Responsibility without control can cause extreme stress; control without responsibility can create arrogant ogres or benevolent dictators.
But when we have responsibility and corresponding control we can achieve flow; operating to the peak of our capabilities and with greatest satisfaction.
In Tuning Up, we explore how responsibility and control relate to one another, to colleagues, clients and agencies. Using the Meikle Matrix business model, case studies and bizarre and amusing anecdotes, Tuning Up guides us to improving our performance and reducing our stress – leading us to happier and more fulfilling lives in two of the world’s more demanding industries.
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Pathophysiology and Pharmacology in Nursing (Transforming Nursing Practice Series)
Written in clear language and specifically for the nursing context, the new edition of this bestselling book is your ultimate guide to pathophysiology and pharmacology. Through a uniquely integrated approach, the book develops your knowledge of both the pathology of common conditions and their pharmacological treatment. This holistic approach builds your knowledge of the key concepts and processes, with real world examples illustrating their application to nursing practice.
Key features
- Logical structure that starts with the basics and before developing your understanding of more complex areas
- Real world case studies demonstrate the application of pathophysiology and pharmacology across all fields of nursing
- A clear and concise writing style makes complex terminology and biological processes easy to understand
- Revised and updated in line with contemporary evidence and best practice
- Mapped to the 2018 NMC Standards
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Learning to Care: The Nursing Associate, 1e
Edited by a world-renowned authority, Learning to Care has been prepared by a team of experienced nurse educationalists and practitioners to meet the learning needs of the new Nursing Associate. Richly illustrated throughout, this exciting resource is designed to fully equip trainee nursing associates for their future role as professional healthcare providers with chapters ranging from ‘how to learn’ and essay writing to communication skills, reflective practice, and the role of evidence-based clinical decision making.
Complete with a full exploration of basic anatomy and physiology, together with the care and treatment of common disorders, Learning to Care also comes with a wide range of helpful learning features such as ‘Hot Spots’ and the ‘Medicine Trolley’, all designed to aid learning and help foster safe clinical practice. The volume comes complete with a downloadable image bank to assist with assignments.
Learning to Care will be ideal for all Trainee Nursing Associates and Health Care Assistants wishing to enhance their knowledge-base as well as those on Enrolled Nurse programs overseas.
- Clear, no nonsense writing style helps make learning easy
- Provides helpful advice on study skills and essay writing
- Incorporates the 15 Standards of the Care Certificate
- Learning objectives at the start of each chapter enable readers to monitor their progress
- Key Words feature encourage familiarisation with a new vocabulary
- ‘Self Test’ questions at the start of each chapter allow readers to establish their baseline knowledge
- Reflection and Critical Awareness featuresencourage critical thinking and recall of essential information
- Medicine Trolley feature outlines common drugs, their usage, routes of administration and side effects
- Case Studies give practical context to core information
- Care in the Home Setting, At the GP Surgery and Communities of Care boxes illustrate healthcare provision outside the hospital environment
- Includes anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology of important diseases and disorders
- OSCEs help trainee nursing associates prepare for examinations
- Helpful glossary provides definitions of new terms
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A Nurse’s Survival Guide to Acute Medical Emergencies Updated Edition, 3e
Are you a nurse, a physician’s associate or a medical student in an acute or emergency unit?
This is your indispensable primer of acute medical care – a pocket guide to caring for patients with acute medical conditions.
This book will help you to
- care for patients in the first critical 24 hours of admission
- manage patients using the most up-to-date evidence based approach
- understand the most common emergency medical conditions and their underlying disease mechanisms
- handle the patient’s assessment , understand the observations and manage their disease
- easily obtain clear practical advice
- know what to tell the patient and relatives using jargon-free language
- access information on SARS, avian influenza and bio-terrorism
This updated edition
- contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis,
- introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart
- has revised its case histories in line with current practice
This updated edition:
contains improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis,
introduces the NEWS 2 observation chart
has revised its case histories in line with current practice
- improved sections on stroke care, diabetes and sepsis,
- introduction of the NEWS 2 observation chart
- revised case histories in line with current practice
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A Nurse’s Survival Guide to Critical Care – Updated Edition, 1e
Are you a starting work in critical care? Are you an experienced nurse but need to check guidelines and best practices?
This is the indispensable guide to daily procedures and problems faced by nurses working in this specialty.
This book will help you to
- Organise your job and yourself
- Assess patients and communicate with them
- Get clinical information on a wide range of conditions
- What to do in emergency
This UPDATED edition:
- Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field
- Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis
- Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.
Part of the A Nurse’s Survival Guide series
Completely updated and revised content written by authors with extensive nursing experience in the field
Physiological, psychological and social areas, as well as legal issues, ethical and moral dilemmas that critical care nurses and health care practitioners may face on a daily basis
Boxes, tips and diagrams to help bridge the theory-practice gap while embarking on your critical care career.
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Nicked: A Novel
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, about the quest to steal the mystical bones of a long-dead saintThe year is 1087, and a pox is sweeping through the Italian port city of Bari. When a lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams, he interprets the vision as a call to action. But his superiors, and the power brokers they serve, have different plans for the tender-hearted Brother Nicephorus.
Enter Tyun, a charismatic treasure hunter renowned for “liberating” holy relics from their tombs. The seven-hundred-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas rest in distant Myra, Tyun explains, and they’re rumored to weep a mysterious liquid that can heal the sick. For the humble price of a small fortune, Tyun will steal the bones and deliver them to Bari, curing the plague and restoring glory to the fallen city. And Nicephorus, the “dreamer,” will be his guide.
What follows is a heist for the ages, as Nicephorus is swept away on strange tides—and alongside even stranger bedfellows—to commit an act of sacrilege. Based on real historical accounts, Nicked is a wildly imaginative, genre-defying, and delightfully queer adventure, full of romance, intrigue, and wide-eyed wonder at the world that awaits beyond our own borders.Read more
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About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings
Hugh Pearman deftly guides us through the compelling stories of fifty-five buildings that explain our world, from antiquity to the present day
About Architecture is an engaging introduction to architecture, exploring the ways in which we construct our built environment, and why. Hugh Pearman guides us through the architecture that shapes our lives―from how our towns and cities are organized, to where we live, learn and work, and how we get around, interact with others, and relax. Organized by type―from civic spaces, to homes, offices, and museums―the clear and straightforward structure demystifies the many styles and functions of architecture. Pearman explores how architecture responds to our changing lifestyles and how some buildings evolve or find new uses. He demonstrates that while there is endless variety within each building type, the essence of architecture―the way buildings serve their users―remains surprisingly constant.
Through fifty-five fascinating international examples, from antiquity to the present day, About Architecture reveals the intriguing stories of the buildings that explain our world.Read more
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The New Scratchboard: Materials and Techniques for Today’s Artist
This volume begins with a look at the history of scratch art from petroglyphs, sgraffito and scrimshaw to the state of the medium today, with an emphasis on how surfaces, tools and techniques have enlarged the artistic vocabulary of artists working with scratchboard. The main focus of the book is an in-depth, step-by-step description of the three basic scratchboard techniques: the traditional scratching onto an ink-blacked surface; India ink on a white clay surface; and acrylics on a white clay surface. A final section presents a wide variety of other media that can be used on a clay surface, including airbrush, gouache, watercolour, casein, coloured pencil, tempers, coloured inks, lithography inks, encautic, oils, and printing techniques such as monotypes, offset lithography, serigraphs, and those that are computer generated.Read more
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Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cooking: Everything You Need to Know to Make Fabulous Food
Title: Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cooking( Everything You Need to Know to Make Fabulous Food) Binding: Hardcover Author: GordonRamsay Publisher: GrandCentralPublishingRead more
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Trinity College London Drum Kit From 2020. Grades 6-8: 2020-2023
Everything a drummer needs to prepare for the performance and technical work components of Trinity drum kit exams from 2020. Encompassing a wider range of styles than ever before, the syllabus allows candidates to follow distinct stylistic pathways jazz, funk, Latin, musical theatre with arrangements of well-known works sitting alongside pieces specifically written for the syllabus by leading drum kit educators and performers. Performance notes are included for each piece, along with new technical work rudiments and exercises for each grade, and backing tracks are included as a free download.
Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Drum Kit & Percussion 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Drum Kit Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book
Contents:
Overture from La Cage aux Folles (Jerry Herman, arr. Chris Burgess)
Starsky and Hutch Theme (‘Gotcha’) (Tom Scott, arr. Mike Osborn)
Caravan (Juan Tizol, Irving Mills & Duke Ellington, arr. Clark Tracey)
The Genius (Clark Tracey)
Sept-a-Gone (Chris Burgess)
Five Six (Mike Osborn)
Couscous (Benny Greb, arr. Chris Burgess)
Tombo in 7/4 (Flora Purim & Airto Moreira, arr. Mike Osborn)
7 for 7 (Clark Tracey)
Sunset Boulevard from Sunset Boulevard (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black & Christopher Hampton, arr. Chris Burgess)
Funk Junk (Chris Burgess)
Self Destruct (Mike Osborn)
Victory (Clark Tracey)
Grebfruit (Benny Greb, arr. Chris Burgess)
Overture from Gypsy (Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim, arr. Chris Burgess)
The Lingo (Clark Tracey)
Sucka Punch (Chris Burgess)
Battercada (Mike Osborn)
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Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win (Outlooks)
This is a book about a gambling system that works. It tells the story of how the author used computer simulations and mathematical modeling techniques to predict the outcome of jai-alai matches and bet on them successfully – increasing his initial stake by over 500% in one year! His results can work for anyone: at the end of the book he tells the best way to watch jai-alai, and how to bet on it. With humour and enthusiasm, Skiena details a life-long fascination with computer predictions and sporting events. Along the way, he discusses other gambling systems, both successful and unsuccessful, for such games as lotto, roulette, blackjack, and the stock market. Indeed, he shows how his jai-alai system functions just like a miniature stock trading system. Do you want to learn about program trading systems, the future of Internet gambling, and the real reason brokerage houses don’t offer mutual funds that invest at racetracks and frontons? How mathematical models are used in political polling? The difference between correlation and causation? If you are curious about gambling and mathematics, odds are this book is for you!Read more
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Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain
Boom Cities is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s.It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain’s cities than even the Luftwaffe had managed, and this study details the rise and fall of modernist urban planning, revealing its origins and the dissolution of the cross-party consensus, before the ideological smearing that has ever since characterized the high-rise towers, dizzying ring roads, and concrete precincts that were left behind.
The rebuilding of British city centres during the 1960s drastically affected the built form of urban Britain, including places ranging from traditional cathedral cities through to the decaying towns of the industrial revolution. Boom Cities uncovers both the planning philosophy, and the political, cultural, and legislative background that created the conditions for these processes to occur across the country.
Boom Cities reveals the role of architect-planners in these transformations. The volume also provides an unconventional account of the end of modernist approaches to the built environment, showing it from the perspective of planning and policy elites, rather than through the emergence of public opposition to planning.
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Study Guide to Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance S)
This outstanding reference has already taught thousands of traders the concepts of technical analysis and their application in the futures and stock markets. Covering the latest developments in computer technology, technical tools, and indicators, the second edition features new material on candlestick charting, intermarket relationships, stocks and stock rotations, plus state-of-the-art examples and figures. From how to read charts to understanding indicators and the crucial role technical analysis plays in investing, readers gain a thorough and accessible overview of the field of technical analysis, with a special emphasis on futures markets. Revised and expanded for the demands of today’s financial world, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in tracking and analyzing market behavior.Read more
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London’s Transport From Roman Times to the Present Day
Transport systems are the lifeblood of all great cities and this is certainly true of London. As far back as Roman times, their city Londinium was the hub of a network of roads leading out to all the major centres of the time. It was the Romans who gave the city its first bridge across the Thames and its first paved roadways. This book tells the story of London’s roads and bridges and the vehicles that used them. For centuries, transport meant horse drawn vehicles, from lumbering waggons to elegant carriages and the city had a flourishing industry, building carriages. The Industrial Revolution brought major changes, not least in the construction of more and more bridges over the Thames. In the 19th century a new system appeared with the arrival of the railways, and the many stations that are such prominent features of the cityscape. The story continues into the 20th century, when, for a time, the city was also home to some pioneering motor car manufacturers, such as Vauxhall. It comes nearer our time with the construction of the underground railway and the driverless trains of the Dockland Light Railway. Londoners will have a chance to find out just how travel around the city has changed in the last two thousand years.Read more
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In Praise of Veg: A modern kitchen companion
‘Alice Zaslavsky is a force of nature!’ – Nigella LawsonFor fans of Samin Nosrat, Anna Jones and Stephanie Alexander, the ultimate veg guide for food lovers.
‘The stylish book is billed as the definitive guide to making vegetables the centre of any meal’ – Stylist Magazine
Highly commended’ in the Guild of Food Writer Awards 2021
The definitive guide to making vegetables the centre of the plate.
In this comprehensive and fully illustrated kitchen companion, food writer and presenter Alice Zaslavsky profiles 50 favourite vegetable varieties, offering 150+ recipes reflective of both tradition and modernity, just as all good cooking should be. Uniquely organised by colour and filled with countless tips on flavour combinations, rule-of-thumb buying/storing/cooking methods, shortcuts, and veg wisdom from over 50 of the world’s top chefs, In Praise of Veg will help beginners and avid cooks alike turn a bag of yawns or a produce-box surprise into a knock-out meal.
For the vegetarian or just veg-forward, In Praise of Veg is the most ambitious and comprehensive reference on the topic, as well as the delicious answer to the age-old question: what are we eating?
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Health and Safety at Work Revision Guide: for the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety
This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety at Work will help you prepare for the written assessments on the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (2019 specification).
It provides complete coverage of the syllabus in bite-sized chunks and will help you learn and memorise the most important areas, with links provided back to the main Introduction to Health and Safety at Work text to help you consolidate your learning.
● Small and portable, making it ideal for use anywhere: at home, in the classroom or on the move
● Includes specimen questions and answers based on recent examination papers
● Everything you need for productive revision in one handy reference source
This revision guide is written by an experienced lecturer and former Vice Chairman of NEBOSH, who has spent many years helping students become accredited by NEBOSH.
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Disney: The Little Mermaid Pop-Up Book (Reinhart Pop-Up Studio)
Discover a whole new world with Disney Princess: The Little Mermaid Pop-Up Book, an interactive pop-up retelling of the beloved Disney classic!Relive the iconic story of The Little Mermaid in this intricate, interactive pop-up book! Featuring five giant “pops,” each page offers a new surprise! With state-of-the-art paper engineering and beautifully rendered illustrations, Disney Princess: The Little Mermaid Pop-Up Book brings the beloved characters and scenes of the film brilliantly to life, capturing the magical world of Ariel, from under the sea all the way to Prince Eric’s castle.
This deluxe pop-up book is the ultimate keepsake for collectors, The Little Mermaid fans, and kids of all ages. Fun and heartwarming, Disney Princess: The Little Mermaid Pop-Up Book is an indispensable celebration of one of Disney’s most enduring tales.
5 POPS: With a turn of the page, favorite characters and memorable scenes leap to life in vibrant, detailed “pops” full of surprises to discover.
FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY: With stunningly detailed pop-up scenes and hidden surprises to discover, this pop-up book is sure to delight Disney’s The Little Mermaid fans of any age.
BEAUTIFUL NEW ILLUSTRATIONS: Featuring gorgeous original artwork, this pop-up book captures the beautiful world of The Little Mermaid in a whole new way.
PLAY AND DISPLAY: Disney Princess: The Little Mermaid Pop-Up Book is ideal for displaying on a bookshelf and reading at story time or small enough to carry around and enjoy wherever you are.
COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION: Disney Princess: A Magical Pop-Up World, Disney Princess Affirmation Cards, Disney Princess Baking, and Disney: The Little Mermaid Tiny Book also available.
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Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing 2/e (Oxford Handbooks in Nursing)
Fully revised for its second edition, the Oxford Handbook of Mental Health Nursing is the indispensable resource for all those caring for patients with mental health problems. Practical, concise, and up-to-date with the latest guidelines, practice, and initiatives, this handbook is designed to allow essential information to be quickly accessible to nurses in a busy clinical setting.This Handbook contains expert guidance on all aspects of the nurses role. Written by experienced nurses and teachers, it will help you acheive the best possible results for your patients. Summaries of key sections of the mental health act are provided, as well as the mental capacity act, mental health legislation in Scotland and other UK countries. New material for the second edition includes expanded and revised information on leadership, medications, physical interventions, basic life support, religion, spirituality and faith, and working with older adults, as well as a brand new chapter on contemporary issues in mental health nursing.
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The Adoption Reunion Handbook
The book describes the experiences that people have had when tracing their birth parents, as well as offering practical advice on how to go about searching and what to expect emotionally. Each section has an advice box which summarizes key points, notes issues to pay particular attention to, or offers draft letters that readers can adapt for their own needs. The appendix contains useful addresses and weblinks, and includes checklists for searching and for the reunion. Chapters include reunion with birth fathers and birth siblings, as well as with birth mothers, the relationship with the adoptive family and dealing with reunions that break down.Read more
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Nursing and Mental Health Care: An introduction for all fields of practice (Transforming Nursing Practice Series)
Improving mental health for all is increasingly important in nursing as more people suffer from mental health issues, ranging from stress through to diagnosed illnesses. It is crucial that all nurses, not just mental health nurses, are aware of mental health problems and the impact these have on patients, families and carers. This book gives a clear overview of mental health in nursing, relevant for all fields of practice. It explains the core features of the mental health nursing field, and explores aspects of mental health that every nurse should understand in order to provide holistic care to their patients.Read more
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Share: Asian-inspired Dinner Party Dishes
‘Nisha’s food is so exciting and clever and takes me on an unexpected journey every time. Her creations at dinner parties are truly memorable – we end up talking about her dishes and craving them time after time!’ – Joe Wicks‘Nisha has this magical touch for making incredible food people really want to eat and really love to share. Thanks for inspiring us and sharing all your secret stress-free tricks to make it effortless, flavourful and fun, especially when we’re throwing together a last-minute dinner party and the clock is ticking!’ – Melissa Hemsley
Nisha Parmar knows how to cook for a discerning crowd. Having shone on MasterChef and now as a private chef to celebrities, she has the experience and insight to guide you through creating a successful feast without the fuss.
Influenced by her travels in Asia, Nisha’s recipes are bursting with flavour – from zingy and fragrant to warming and comforting – and often with an unexpected twist. With menu ideas and over 100 recipes, including Chilli Paneer Dumplings, Mombasa Prawn Masala and Pina Colada Tarte Tatin, these are stunning, nutritious recipes that have been simplified for the home cook.
People love to have their friends and family over, but it can feel overwhelming – so Nisha includes tips and tricks on how to plan a menu and tablescaping so you can create beautiful meals to remember. Share celebrates food that brings us together, whether it’s for a special event or an impromptu Friday night dinner with friends. Learn to do it with ease, so you can enjoy the occasion as much as your guests!
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English Houses: Inspirational Interiors from City Apartments to Country Manor Houses
Visiting 12 very different homes, Ben explores and appraises the unique spirit of the English House – at once restrained and simple yet overflowing with a generosity of touch and a richness of colour and texture.
The book is divided into three sections: London, Country, and Country House, and the interiors featured range from a 1930s pied-a-terre in London’s historic St James to designer Veere Grenney’s pocket-sized Palladian Temple folly in Suffolk and Wardington, a 16th-century stone manor house in North Oxfordshire. Ben’s own homes, in central London and West Dorset, are also included.
These homes vary greatly in architecture, size, shape and age, but they all have in common a peculiarly English style – richly-layered rooms that deftly intertwine colour and pattern and a mix of old and new furniture to create timeless and comfortable places to live.
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Nicolas de Staël en Provence
Catalogue officiel de l’exposition Nicolas de Staël en Provence à l’Hôtel de Caumont – Centre d’art du 27 avril au 23 septembre 2018. A travers environ 80 peintures et dessins provenant de prestigieuses collections publiques et privées de par le monde, cette exposition et le catalogue qui l’accompagne se concentrent pour la première fois exclusivement sur l’oeuvre de Nicolas de Staël peinte en Provence de juillet 1953 à octobre 1954. Cette année marque un tournant dans la vie et l’oeuvre du peintre, qui découvre la lumière du Midi. Il fait aussi l’expérience intense de la solitude et puise son génie dans le désespoir le plus profond, dans l’exaltation la plus haute, dans une relation amoureuse périlleuse. Le peintre confiera à son marchand Paul Rosenberg, le 12 février 1954 : ” Si vous êtes content de l’exposition, c’est que j’ai pu travailler ici dans le Midi et en Sicile. ” Avec l’abstraction des premières années, à travers ses toiles organiques, De Staël crée des formes qui traduisent et pressentent la solitude de notre époque. Les tableaux abstraits des années 1947-1948 ont été, selon les mots du peintre, ” l’équilibre de base de tout ce qui suivra ” . Cet équilibre permet de comprendre comment le peintre passe du concret au formel, de la nature à la métaphysique. A partir de Lagnes (juillet 1953) et de Ménerbes (novembre 1953), le regard du peintre aura rencontré son ” feu ” . Les paysages sont saisis au plus près de leur motif, avec une attention portée à l’évolution de la lumière au fil de la journée. C’est depuis Lagnes, en août 1953, que le peintre voyagera jusqu’en Sicile. Le rythme de ce parcours définit l’urgence de sa création. Paysages, sites archéologiques, musées, églises, lui permettent alors, une fois de retour à Lagnes, de mettre en chantier les grands tableaux, à partir des notes prises dans ses carnets à Agrigente, Sélinonte, Syracuse, Fiesole. C’est à ce moment que le peintre noue une relation amoureuse avec Jeanne, une amie de René Char. Ce qui résulte de cet état passionnel trouvera son écho dans l’intensité des paysages de Sicile, mais aussi dans les grands tableaux de nus qui renouvellent le genre. Lorsqu’il prépare son exposition à New York, en janvier 1954, le peintre a la certitude d’avoir donné le maximum de sa force : ” Je vous donne là, avec ce que vous avez, de quoi faire la plus belle exposition que j’aie jamais faite. ” L’exposition ” Nicolas de Staël en Provence ” rend compte des plus hautes envolées picturales du peintre, insufflées par ses doutes les plus profonds, par une joie débordant sur l’aspect le plus sombre, par une immense fragilité qui se meut en puissance créatrice. Un catalogue français et un catalogue anglais, richement illustrés, seront publiés à l’occasion de l’exposition, sous la direction de Gustave de Staël et Marie du Bouchet, commissaires de l’expositionRead more
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Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation
Stop motion animation is a challenging and time-consuming skill that requires patience, adaptability, and a close eye to detail. Stop Motion: Craft Skills for Model Animation, 3rd Edition is the essential guide to help stop motion animators overcome these challenges of this highly-skilled craft. Author Susannah Shaw provides a step-by-step guide to creating successful stop motioin films. Starting with some basic exercises, the reader will learn about developing a story, making models, creating sets and props, the mechanics of movements, filming postproduction, and how to set about finding that first elusive job in a modern studio.
Key Features
- Interviews with current stars,
- step-by-step examples,
- coverage of Rapid Prototyping and Dragonframe Software
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Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise
Reference book for setting up successful planted aquaria for fish. Hobbyists learn how to keep low-maintenance, inexpensive tanks. Aquarium plants thrive using natural processes like decomposition of fishfood and soil organic matter rather than high-tech gadgets like artificial CO2 injection and constant fertilizer dosing. She shows how vigorous plant growth can purify the water and protect fish. Author provides simple, easy-to-understand explanations for complex, scientific concepts and includes helpful Q&A boxes scattered throughout the text. Book contains hundreds of citations to primary scientific papers from the aquatic botany, limnology, and chemistry literature making it the ultimate reference book for planted freshwater aquaria.Read more
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OCR GCSE Computer Science, Second Edition
Written by leading Computer Science teachers, this brand-new textbook will guide students through the updated OCR GCSE Computer Science specification topic by topic, and provide them with standalone recap and review sections, worked examples and clear explanations of complex topics.
This Student Book:
>> develops computational thinking skills in line with the new Practical Programming element of Component 02
>> provides differentiated material with the ‘beyond the spec’ feature
>> includes standalone recap and review sections at the end of each chapter
>> includes answers to the Knowledge Check questions to support independent learning
>> provides definitions of technical terms, along with a glossary of words that will be needed for assessment.Looking for answers for the Student Book? They can be found at the back of the print textbook.
You can now access a free set of practice questions on the Hodder Education website. Please note, these questions are not endorsed by OCR and have not been subject to any OCR quality assurance processes.
George Rouse, Lorne Pearcey and Gavin Craddock are highly respected and widely published authors of resources.
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WJEC Level 1/2 Vocational Award Hospitality and Catering (Technical Award) – Student Book – Revised Edition
This best-selling Student Book has been completely revised and updated to match the new Hospitality and Catering Level 1/2 (Technical Award) specification, for first teaching from September 2022. Written by renowned author Anita Tull and reviewed by experienced teacher and examiner Alison Palmer, this engaging student book will support students through their Level 1/2 course.
What’s new in the 2nd Edition?
– Structure and content fully updated to match the new specification precisely.
– Completely new assessment sections in line with the new specification.
– New content throughout, including extensive new material covering the additional skills and techniques now required for 2.3 Food preparation and cooking techniques.
– Content re-organised under new specification Unit and Topic headings and numbering making it easy for students to follow.
– New Specification stems signposting to clearly show students which sections of information they need to ‘know’; ‘know and understand’; ‘be aware of’ and ‘be able to’.
– Recipes and Commodities sections available for FREE online.
What have we retained?
– Language and design tailored to the learning needs of Level 1 and Level 2 students.
– Visually stimulating layout to help ensure students engage with the content in a meaningful way, making it highly accessible for lower ability students.
– Practical activities together with learning features such as `Put it into Practice’ and `Scenarios’ to help students translate their knowledge and understanding to the world of work.
– Short and extended answer style questions throughout to help prepare students for assessment.
– Stretch and challenge activities encourage students to work towards achieving a higher grade, making them particularly useful for higher ability students.
– FREE suggested answers to Activities, end of topic Practice questions/Stretch and challenge activities from the new edition, available online.
When used in conjunction with our bestselling Study and Revision Guide students will have an unrivalled suite of resources to help them excel with their study of Hospitality and Catering.Read more
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