Julia Llewellyn Top Ten bestselling author of The Model Wife" & " Amys Honeymoon" looks at finding
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From the universally praised New York Times" science writer George Johnson (" He provides some of the best science writing I have come across in a long time"
- Paul Davies) an irresistible book on the ten most fascinating experiments in the history of science
- moments when a curious soul posed a particularly eloquent question to nature & received a crisp unambiguous reply. Chapter 1
- Galileo: The Way Things Really Move; Chapter 2
- William Harvey: Mysteries of the Heart; Chapter 3
- Isaac Newton: What a Colour Is; Chapter 4
- Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier: The Farmers Daughter; Chapter 5
- Luigi Galvini: Animal Electricity; Chapter
- Michel Faraday: Something Deeply Hidden; Chapter 7
- James Joule: How the World Works; Chapter 8
- A. Michelson: Lost in Space; Chapter 9
- Ivan Pavlov: Measuring the Immeasurable; & Chapter 10
- Robert Millikan: In the Borderl&. The diligence of all these scientists was rewarded: in an instant confusion was swept aside & something new about nature leapt into view."











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This guide presents a system that goes far beyond what is usually considered time management" to change not only how people plan their time but also how they approach their lives. It shows readers how to make the most of their time & lives as well as how to obtain what the title promises
- inner peace. The books strategy of planning prioritizing & value analysis enables readers to organize their time & life in a "meaningful" way by: determining the highest priorities in life & what is most valued; reevaluating what events can & cannot be controlled; establishing SMART goals to put ones life in line with values; getting rid of "time robbers"; using the ABC valuing system
- a plan that works for getting things done; & a planning system now used by more than 2 million people worldwide."

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Become a Better Digital Photographer One Assignment at a Time There is no better way to learn than by doing. While theories histories best practices & sciences ground a thorough knowledge of any subject at some point you have to apply that information to truly garner knowledge. This book provides real-world assignments that guide prospective photographers to a true understanding & mastery of the craft. Each assignment

Includes:: a list of goals detailed instructions illustrations & examples. Individual assignments build on one another allowing your mastery to grow as the book continues. Learn about the capabilities & limitations of your equipment; the proper ways to expose a scene for digital capture; dos & don'ts of cropping & scene placement; how to color manage a scene in-camera; & how to see manipulate & augment light to obtain the best possible native files.

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In this powerful book Roger Housden harnesses the unique ability of poetry to touch the readers inner-most feelings. For everyone who knows there is more to life than they are currently experiencing it aims to bring an awakening... Through the voices of ten very individual poets Housden directs each of us to examine the universal themes that pursue us through life: those that stir our eternal emotions & desires. The ten poems presented are timeless; affecting us with a powerful sense of reality & moving us to alter the way we view ourselves & the world. With a penetrating commentary on each of the poems Housden provides an insight into his own spiritual journey & invites us to contemplate the significance of the poets message in our own lives. ...

You can feel confident about life & gain an optimistic outlook with Windy Dryden's practical straightforward advice. These ten steps will encourage you to take control be flexible accept reality come to like & be fair to yourself accept change & improve your relationships with others. You can follow the steps in order or use them individually to attain your goals. Either way these few basic guidelines for happy living will equip you to tackle anything life can throw at you. ...

Sebastian Grey is in limbo. He is the heir presumptive to the Earl of Newbury unless the current earl a widower can find a bride who will bear him a son. Newbury is in his sixties & somewhat portly but as an earl he's considered quite a catch. Sebastian on the other hand is twenty-nine & extremely handsome but in no hurry to find a wife. Annabel Winslow a country girl through & through has received an offer to go to London for the season. The eldest of a family of eight she knows that a good marriage might be the only thing that will save her family from ruin. After a few weeks in town Annabel attracts the attention of the Earl of Newbury. The thought of submitting to him makes her skin crawl but she is practical & determined to do her duty. Even when Sebastian Grey comes on the scene. ...

Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying & arrives at the family home only just in time to say goodbye. Daniel hasnt had a roof over his head for years but to him the city of London feels like home in a way that no bricks & mortar ever did. He spends every day searching for his daughter; the daughter he has never met. Until now.. . Heart-wrenching & life-affirming this is a unique story of love lost & found of rootlessness & homecoming & the power of the ties that bind. It is a story for fathers & daughters everywhere. ...

I dont know how old I was when I watched my mothers murder nor do I know how old I am today. The illegitimate daughter of a peasant & an American GI Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a social outcast in her village in the Korean countryside. Ostracized by their family & neighbours she & her mother were regularly pelted with stones on their way home from the rice fields. Yet there was a tranquil happiness in the intense bond between mother & daughter until the day that Elizabeths grandfather & uncle came to punish her mother from the dishonour she had brought on the family & executed her in front of her daughter. Elizabeth was dumped in an orphanage in Seoul. After some time she was lucky enough to be adopted by an American couple. But when she arrived in America she found herself once again surrounded by fanaticism & prejudice. Elizabeths mother had always told her that life was made up of ten thousand joys as well as ten thousand sorrows & supported by her loving daughter & by a return to her Buddhist faith she finally found a way to savour those joys as well as the courage to exorcise the demons of her past. ...

A vivid gripping novel about corruption integrity & good intentions gone wrong set in an African country on the brink of civil war for fans of John le Carre Graham Greene & William Boyd. As Ed & Sarah Caines plane passes over the Ngozi hills & begins its descent into Kisuru Sarah is dazzled by the purity of unspoiled nature the perfect environment in which to raise their son. Ed meanwhile as Director of the Global Justice Alliance for East Africa looks forward to rolling up his sleeves & making a real difference in a country that seems to be developing fast. Below them in the sprawling Makera slum Stephen Odinga
- who has to find a way of making more money for his dying mother than they can earn through the family business selling fried bananas
- decides to try a more lucrative line of business. Meanwhile Joseph Kamunda a senior official in a government that for five years has been failing to deliver on its promise to end political corruption is feeling isolated & exposed while others around him covertly seek personal advantage out of International Aid programmes. & beyond the hills a rebel army seethes & waits poised to tip the country into civil war. Before he knows it the duplicity Ed thinks he has left behind in England will begin to infect his own family. Ten Weeks in Africa explores in urgent breathtaking prose the tensions between our ideals & our reality the deep rifts of cultural misunderstanding & the true cost of uninformed good intentions.

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