The lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines. A vast vortex of plastic floating endlessly around the Pacific. An eerie abandoned town square in a radioactive Ukrainian wilderness. These are the places the tourist boards would rather you didn't see. The places that don't show up in any guide books. & the places that six years ago journalist & film-maker Andrew Blackwell set out to explore. Visit Sunny Chernobyl is the wry funny sometimes poignant tale of his trip through the world's most degraded environments. ...

Visiting to a Gurdwara is an excellent introduction to the Sikh religion. Key Sikh beliefs that all people are equal before the one God & that it is every Sikhi's duty to serve others are explored through practices at the gurdwara. Children find out about the Guru Granth Sahib & how Sikhs respect it as their teacher. They learn how the Sikh religion began how Sikhs wear a kind of uniform what some Sikh symbols mean & how sharing food brings people together. Start-Up Religion is a series of first RE books for pupils at Key Stage One developed specifically to support units in the RE Schemes of Work. ...

Visitors to Glasgow in search of Mackintoshs buildings will have little difficulty in finding the School of Art or even The Hill House at Helensburgh. But where are the tea rooms the Art Club the Daily Record building Ruchill Church Hall? & outside Glasgow where is Auchenibert Windyhill all of the gravestones? This guide will lead you to them with access details & a commentary on each entry by Roger Billcliffe author of several standard works on Mackintosh. Each entry is accompanied by recent or contemporary photographs full addresses & directions & for those difficult to find commissions a full GPS location. Mackintosh is not just about Glasgow & this book covers all the surviving sites from East Wemyss in Fife through to Argyll in the west Comrie in Perthshire & Mackintoshs few English commissions in Northampton London & Sussex. An indispensable addition to the Mackintosh literature. ...

Featuring Jack Reacher hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. Sergeant Amy Callan & Lieutenant Caroline Cooke have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers. Both were aquainted with Jack Reacher. Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead. Found in their own homes naked in a bath full of paint. Apparent victims of an army man. A loner a smart guy with a score to settle a ruthless vigilante. A man just like Jack Reacher. ...

This is a slapstick comedy of manners featuring a bear who wants to be left alone
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Many people learn best by following a visual approach -- retaining information far more successfully if that information is given to them in a visual manner. Visual CBT uses illustrations graphics & images to help the reader to alter their thought patterns & change behaviours through CBT to become a happier healthier individual. Uniquely it highlights the differences between healthy & unhealthy emotional responses -- for example Anxiety instead of Concern -- to enable the reader to quickly 'picture' how they are reacting & bring it into line with the healthy type of response. *
Includes: an explanation of the premise of CBT & how it can relate to everyday life * Uses exercises & practical tips to examine a whole host of healthy vs. unhealthy scenarios -- such as depression vs. sadness anger vs. annoyance hurt vs. sorrow shame vs. regret.. .and much more Visual CBT is an easy to use guide that can be referred back to time & time again showing how to successfully implement the most important CBT techniques.
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This is the perfect sourcebook & reference manual for anyone building a garden plant collection & looking for inspiration & practical advice. It contains descriptions & essential cultivation information for over 3000 common garden plants. Entries are arranged alphabetically within plant categories for quick & easy reference. It

Includes:: essential advice on choosing plants for different soil types & garden locations. It is aimed at everyone from the new gardener to the experienced plant-selector. It comes with more than 950 clear & helpful photographs throughout. Choosing a collection of plants is one of the most enjoyable aspects of gardening & this highly informative encyclopedia is the perfect companion for selecting the best plants to help you create a beautiful & uniquely personal garden. This accessible book

Includes:: familiar garden plant groups such as annuals perennials & bulbs as well as specialist plants such as orchids alpines & cacti & succulents. There are descriptions of each plant with information on hardiness size & care & cultivation. A wealth of photographs showing plants either in detail or in their growing habit lavishly illustrates the encyclopedia.



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The Visual Guide to Elliott Wave Trading is an in-depth easy-to-use guide to trading the financial markets with the Elliott Wave Principle. In many ways this book picks up where Frost & Prechter's classic Elliott Wave Principle: Key to Market Behavior left off which makes it required reading" if you want to build a solid foundation in Elliott wave analysis. Co-authored by two of Elliott Wave International's most trusted analysts -- Wayne Gorman & Jeffrey Kennedy -- their trading insights offer a perfect blend of traditional textbook & real-world application. Join Kennedy & Gorman as they provide step-by-step instruction in how to trade with Elliott. They include scores of real market charts that depict the Elliott wave patterns which will help you measure the strength of trends forecast market turning points plus identify trading opportunities. What's more this illustrated guide also explains how to use supporting technical indicators that can build confidence in your Elliott wave analysis. Gorman & Kennedy know that "simple" does not mean "easy." Their combined expertise will help you build confidence in your analysis create an effective trading plan & better manage your trades. Whether your trading style is conservative or aggressive their charts & techniques can help identify high-confidence opportunities. Each chapter

Includes:: key points & smart investor tips such as how to " Prepare yourself to take advantage of opportunities even when your preferred count does not materialize " & " Let the market commit to you before you commit to the market." Elliott wave analysis recognizes that in financial markets mass psychology swings from pessimism to optimism & back in a natural sequence. Use this book to recognize those wave patterns & anticipate market moves that most traders never see coming. The Visual Guide to Elliott Wave Trading is the new criterion for any serious technical trader."

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A great introduction for retail students this book offers a user-friendly reference guide to all aspects of visual merchandising & covers both window dressing & in-store areas. Using examples from a range of shops from fashion emporia to small outlets the book offers practical advice on the subject supported by hints & tips from established visual merchandisers. It reveals the secrets of their toolkit & information on the use of mannequins the latest technology & how to construct & source props & explains the psychology behind shopping & buyer behaviour. Presented through colour photographs diagrams of floor layouts & store case studies & including invaluable information such as a glossary of terms used in the industry Visual Merchandising is an essential handbook for anyone working in & learning about this exciting area. This new edition contains Approx. 6 000 words of new/replacement text with four new case studies & updated images. ...

A comprehensive easy-to-understand guide to Visual Studio 2010 Visual Studio is Microsofts comprehensive development environment that encompasses the. NET Framework various programming languages & ASP.NET. Programmers love it for developing applications for mobile devices & the Web. Because Visual Studio can be complex the All-in-One For Dummies format makes it easy for beginners to grasp its different parts & get up to speed. Visual Studio is a development environment used with various programming languages to create a variety of applications including those for the Web & mobile devices The updated Visual Studio 2010 features new emphasis on development for Windows 7 cloud computing & enhanced Web & Silverlight Visual Studio 2010 All-in-One For Dummies shows how to build applications using the enhanced productivity features of Visual Studio 2010 Minibooks cover a Visual Studio overview getting started building Windows 7 & cloud applications data access coding & other IDE details Ideal for new programmers or Java programmers who want to become proficient with Visual Studio Visual Studio 2010 All-in-One For Dummies provides both a great instruction book for new programmers & a valuable reference for the more experienced. ...