A collection of information & recipes that gives the reader an understanding of the Mediterranean Diet & its central role in promoting lifelong good health. It outlines the key ingredients of the Mediterranean Diet & helps consumers focus on making healthy choices when they plan meals, shop for food, & cook at home. ...

The ultimate guide to origami for beginners & experienced hobbyists alike. Containing step-by-step instructions on how to create over 80 magnificent pieces. Beginning with simple, traditional pieces, the book moves through sections on toys & games, animals, geometric pieces & more, with each section slightly more challenging than the one before. This comprehensive guide also contains paper folding techniques, information on the history & tradition of origami as well as an explanation of each individual piece. ...

Explores twenty-four different games that can be played with a chess set. This title

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A man is booted out of his home after his wife discovers that the sweat-smudged footprint on the inside of his windscreen doesn't match her own. Teenage cousins, drugged by summer, meet with a reckoning in the woods. A boy runs off to the carnival after his stepfather bites him in a brawl. In the stories of Wells Tower, families fall apart & messily, hilariously try to reassemble themselves. His characters
- marauding Vikings, washed-up entrepreneurs, & jobbing hacks on local papers
- are adrift from the mainstream, confused by contemporary masculinity, angry & aimless. Combining electric prose with compassion & dark wit, this is a major debut.

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Including life lessons & modern-day musings, this title encourages readers to follow their own path & find the turning point to realising their full potential & reaching their goals. It demonstrates how you can change your attitude & retrain your brain to see life's challenges positively. ...

Jay Jayamohan makes life & death decisions on a daily basis
- that's because he's a Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon in a

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This book is not about gardening but about what to do when that is done (or not done, as the case may be). Philippa Lewis looks at how people have enjoyed their gardens over the centuries, combining"ations from the many words written on the subject with contemporary illustrations. You will find here some very imaginative ideas for garden use. You might, for instance, like to sit naked in the summer house, reciting passages from Milton's Paradise Lost, as William Blake did with his wife. Or perhaps you could create a menagerie (complete with wombats, armadilloes & a zebu), as D.G. Rossetti did in his Chelsea garden. Parties, shooting, follies, grottoes, drawing
- the notions of what a garden can be used for are endlessly various. What gardener would not want to lay down their fork & take up this book, to be reminded of all the pleasures there are in being out of doors?
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To be brilliant in business you have to dare to be different. It means going against the grain, taking risks & never giving up despite the challenges hurled at you. EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT BUSINESS IS WRONG is the bible for the unconventional business brain who won't accept anything but excellence. Based on the ideas in the author's pithy column ' Don't You Believe It' for Management Today, Alastair Dryburgh takes modern business myths & blows them apart. Did you know that: Cost cutting is a bad way to boost profits? That you shouldn't always give 110%? Incentives don't encourage people to do useful things? So much of what we learn about business is plain wrong. It's time to challenge your assumptions & learn about the things that will help you be successful. ...

Details: From the invention of the wheel to the World Wide Web, this book lives up to its promise. In these pages you'll
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