This book illustrates how to isolate & train many of the higher-level skills necessary to successfully compete at the most advanced levels of competition. It describes how to strengthen & maintain existing skills for attaining fast & reliable performances in the agility ring & provides in-depth answers to commonly asked questions in a helpful Problem Solving appendix. ...

Branches of Baker & Spice are places of pilgrimage for bread lovers. They are the favoured supplier to top restaurants such as the River Cafe Le Gavroche & Zafferano with everything handmade on the premises using traditional techniques & the finest ingredients. Exceptional Breads" passes on the secrets of their fabulous breads with recipes for full-flavoured rustic breads from wild yeast starters classic baguettes ryes French fougasse & Italian foccacia. Although the results are always impressive & the techniques are innovative the recipes are beautifully straightforward. All have been tested in a domestic kitchen & in addition to the clear step-by-step techniques there are beautiful photographs of the finished breads to whet the appetite & inspire the would-be baker." ...

A follow-up to Abrams' successful Treehouse Living" " Exceptional Treehouses"

Includes:: 25 new creations by

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Two & a half millennia ago the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere & it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Banks is a phenomenon.. .wildly successful fearlessly creative William Gibson Thrilling affecting & comic.. .probably the finest science fiction he has written to date New Scientist Banks has rewritten the libretto for the whole space-opera genre The Times ...

Barrie Travis is a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station when the First Lady calls her. Stunned by the loss of her infant son the presidents wife hints he may have been murdered. Barrie sets out to find the truth fighting for the exclusive story with the help of Gray Bondurant a mysterious former presidential aide. But their scoop is about to test her ethics patriotism & courage. For Barrie unearths White House secrets that if exposed could topple the presidency. & now certain powerful parties want nothing more than to see the scandalous past
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Maybe a phrase a line a hint somewhere would reveal a reason any reason for the elderly couple's disappearance. They'd saved everything.. .there was even a copy of the 'certificate of living existence' that nadir of bureaucratic imbecility.. . What was the 'protocol' to use a word dear to government offices? Did one simply write on a sheet of paper something like: 'I the undersigned Salvo Montalbano hereby declare myself to be in existence' sign it & turn it in to the appointed clerk? A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning & an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari -- two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple & the murdered young man lived in the same building his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's brutal ' New Mafia' which leads him down a path more evil & more far-reaching than any he has been down before. Praise for Andrea Camilleri: 'A joy to read' The Times ' This savagely funny police procedural proves that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English' New York Times ...

On the shocking discovery of a passengers body on the Great Western Railway excursion train Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck & his assistant Sergeant Victor Leeming are dispatched to the scene. Faced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder Colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon
- a noose. When it emerges that the victim had worked as a public executioner Colbeck realises that this must be intrinsically linked to the killers choice of weapon. However the further he delves into the case the more mysterious it becomes. & when a second man is strangled by a noose on a train Colbeck knows that he must act quickly. Can he catch the murderer before more lives are lost? Set in Victorian England & rich in historical detail The Excursion Train" will hold you captivated from the beginning to the end of its journey."
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We all know how strong our emotions can be
- but do we really appreciate that they can actually help us to achieve what we want?
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Excuse my French! arose out of a culture clash between a Frenchman & an English woman. Life together in a bi-lingual relationship for Rachel & Jean-Christophe created many miscomprehensions amusing mistranslations & often sheer bewilderment. This book offers a way out of the conversational confusion & comprises of 700 expressions in English & in French divided into 13 chapters which cover all the essential topics in life
- including food & drink money business work & sex. Excuse my French! teaches the essential idioms & metaphors of the other language in a fresh light-hearted way that wont feel like youre back in a classroom. Packed with quizzes glossaries & interesting detail on the historical contexts for how phrases were coined & illustrated with line drawings it will improve language skills & promote the Entente Cordiale between tourists students & business associates as well as encourage relationships to blossom between les Gaulois et les Rosbifs all over the world!
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Most people will admit to telling the odd white lie in order to wangle a day off work but only a master excuse-maker could conceive of alibis including milking a walrus contracting osmosis & FOHP (Fear of Having Peaked)
- all of which & more are presented in this surreal & off -the-wall book! CAUTION: Not recommended for use in actual workplace scenarios.
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