Artemis's friends & classmates see her as the most courageous goddessgirl at school. Little do they know that despite her expert archery skills the smelly Geryon ring-nosed Minotaurs & scorpions in Beast-ology class scare her as much as they do anyone else! But what's really bothering her now is that funny feeling she has whenever she looks at Orion. She's never had a crush before. Will she find the courage to talk to Orion to make him see her as more than a pal & to ace Beast-ology class? The Goddess Girls series by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams puts a modern spin on classic Greek myths! Follow the ins & outs of divine social life at Mount Olympus Academy where the most privileged godboys & goddessgirls in the Greek pantheon hone their mythical skills. ...

Arterial blood gas analysis plays an indispensable role in the assessment & management of patients with a huge range of acute medical & surgical problems. Its importance as a key tool in the work-up of acutely unwell patients rivals that of the ECG & the chest x-ray. This book covers all aspects of the arterial blood gas in a simple user-friendly manner. The first part explains the technique the values obtained & common patterns of abnormalities while the second part comprises a series of worked examples & case scenarios to allow the reader to put this system into practice. ...

Here in book form are four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University a tidal wave of ideas in four thematically organised bursts of thought: On Time On Form On Edge & On Offer & On Reflection. Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form Artful" is narrated by a character who is haunted
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- by a former lover the writer of a series of lectures about art & literature. Full of both the poignancy & humour of fiction & all the sideways insights & jaunty angles you would expect from Ali Smiths criticism it explores form style life love death mortality immortality & what art & writing can mean. Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize & the Orange prize & winner of the Encore Award & the Arts Council Scottish Book Award Ali Smith is one of our most interesting writers at work today. " Artful" shows her at her most innovative warm & generous best. " Smith can make anything happen which is why she is one of our most exciting writers today". (" Daily Telegraph"). " Shes a genius genuinely modern in the heroic glorious sense". (Alain de Botton). "A true & valuable British original". (Nick Hornby). " Smiths love of language lights up all her books.. .shes someone to relish". (" The New York Times Book Review"). Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 & lives in Cambridge. She is the author of " There but for the" " Free Love" " Like" " Hotel World" " Other Stories & Other Stories" " The Whole Story & Other Stories" " The Accidental" " Girl Meets Boy" & " The First Person & Other Stories"."

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The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses & art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago & the art standing of prehistoric cave paintings is virtually uncontested. In Part One Stephen Davies analyses the key concepts of the aesthetic art & evolution & explores how they might be related. He considers a range of issues including whether animals have aesthetic tastes & whether art is not only universal but cross-culturally comprehensible. Part Two examines the many aesthetic interests humans take in animals & how these reflect our biological interests & the idea that our environmental & landscape preferences are rooted in the experiences of our distant ancestors. In considering the controversial subject of human beauty evolutionary psychologists have traditionally focused on female physical attractiveness in the context of mate selection but Davies presents a broader view which decouples human beauty from mate choice & explains why it goes more with social performance & self-presentation. Part Three asks if the arts together or singly are biological adaptations incidental byproducts of nonart adaptations or so removed from biology that they rate as purely cultural technologies. Davies does not conclusively support any one of the many positions considered here but argues that there are grounds nevertheless for seeing art as part of human nature. Art serves as a powerful & complex signal of human fitness & so cannot be incidental to biology. Indeed aesthetic responses & art behaviors are the touchstones of our humanity. ...

Freshly jacketed massmarket edition of this bestselling guide to beating arthritis through nutrition. With over 60 delicious recipes from cook Marguerite Patten who completely eased her own painful arthritic symptoms through diet & a comprehensive self-treatment plan from nutritionist Jeannette Ewin. Marguerite Patten suffered from crippling arthritis but was completely eased of her painful symptoms after following Giraud Campbell's original classic arthritis diet The New Doctor's Proven Home Cure for Arthritis. However as a cook she found the recipes impractical & often unpalatable- so she set about creating a whole new set of easy to prepare good to eat arthritis-beating recipes. The 60 delicious recipes are accompanied by a nutritional plan devised by Harvard medical School trained nutrition expert & author Jeannette Ewin ...

Arthur is the third book of The Pendragon Cycle: a magnificent epic set against the baackcloth of Roman Britain & the legends of Arthur & lost Atlantis. It is the eve of Christ Mass & the noblemen have come to Londinium to hold council
- to essay who among them might become High King. Fifteen years have come & gone since the sword was first placed there. A young man stands grim-faced gazing at the sword thrust deep into the stone...hesitant uncertain. Take it Arthur Merlin tells him..." So the story begins
- a tale of high hope & bitter endeavour of loyalty & treachery of spiritual quest & the winning of a kingdom
- a story whose end as its beginning is shrouded in mystery..."


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Its snowing & that means no school! Arthur wants to join his friends at the hill for sledding & fun but he has to wait with D.W. until the roads are ploughed. By the time Dad says they can go all of Arthurs friends are back home sipping hot chocolate. Arthur is disappointed until his Dad produces a brand new sled. Arthur Dad & D.W. have a blast on the hill & Arthur realizes some things are worth waiting for. ...

Arthur's favourite cereal is holding a jingle contest & the winner's song will be played on T.V.! While D.W. gets to eating all the cereal she can Arthur tries to come up with the perfect words & melody
- only he's stumped! He & Buster start a band but it falls flat. Arthur can't get inspired. Then he overhears the perfect little tune from somewhere unexpected. But can Arthur submit the jingle as his own?
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When Sue Ellen loses her diary at the library her friends imagine the things she might have written about them in her private notebook. Sue Ellen worries what will happen if her diary falls into the wrong hands! While everyone is in a frenzy Arthur finds it! Will he do the right thing & return it unread to Sue Ellen? ...

Arthurs class is holding a poetry contest. When Fern is the only one who enters she dares Arthur & his friends to write a poem
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