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It's World War II and after suffering a loss at the hands of the Germans during Operation Market Garden, a squad of five American soldiers patrols the outlying land of a swath of forest referred to by the locals as the Carrion Woods. The woods are silent still and dark but after a firefight with German soldiers the men take cover in the dense trees. What they experience there gives a whole new meaning to the phrase: "War is Hell..." Product details Format Paperback | 110 pages Dimensions 127 x 203 x 7mm ...

Do you love all things British and have a quirky sense of humor? Watch British TV and sometimes find yourself lost in translation? Hope to visit the United Kingdom someday? Have British friends and want to liven up your conversations with the latest slang, swear words and insults? Put the Kettle On is a lighthearted look at life in the UK, it will take you beyond the stereotypes. Take a peek behind the curtains and learn about the language, customs and food of the Brits. Includes information you need to know including: Driving in the UKFood and shoppingPubs, restaurants and drinking cultureHolidays and celebrationsTroubleshooting and what not to say Includes a full British to US translation list with the most up to date words and phrases. Though the book includes lots of useful information about the UK it should not be viewed as a serious travel guide. Not suitable for those who take themselves too seriously. With illustrations by Artist Andrew Wilson. ...

Schofield & Sims Get Set Early Years is a comprehensive and engaging early years scheme that aims to bridge the gap between play and formal learning, helping all children to become school-ready by the end of Reception. Comprising twelve activity books and three accompanying teacher's guides, Get Set Early Years covers all the Early Learning Goals (ELGs) for Literacy, Mathematics and Understanding the world. Carefully designed to appeal to young children, each activity book page contains two stimulating activities for children to complete, such as matching, complete the picture, connect the dots, mazes, picture sequencing, colour by sound and odd one out. Additional features include a `Teaching Tip', `Notes for parents and carers' and `Key Vocabulary' and `Extension activity' sections to reinforce classroom learning. Get Set: Adding and Subtracting helps build children's addition and subtraction skills. This book explores the topic with an array of activ...

Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas (the first book in the Viking Language Series) is a new introduction to Old Norse and Icelandic. The beginner has everything in one book: Graded lessons, reading passages, vocabulary, grammar exercises, and pronunciation. A full complement of maps, runic inscriptions and culture sections explore the civilization, legends, and myths of the Vikings. The lessons follow an innovative word frequency strategy, a method that speeds learning. Because the grammar of Modern Icelandic has changed so little from Old Norse, the learner is well on the way to mastering Modern Icelandic. Product details Format Paperback | 384 pages ...

A life-long exploration of the mysterious world of afterlife research has led to this book. The notion of a world beyond this one is firmly rooted into our popular culture, as countless strange phenomena in life point us toward this direction--from hauntings, to near-death experiences, and many more encounters with the "beyond". By venturing all the way through this rabbit-hole, Cyrus Kirkpatrick has come out from the other end, still with his marbles intact, and with the intention of finally putting all the pieces together to describe the reality behind what appears to be a multi-planar universe that we all exist as part of. A topic that must be ultimately rooted in science and not the New Age aisle, "Understanding Life After Death" is hopefully an attempt to push the subject in the right direction. Product details Format ...

Write every business correspondence with speed, precision, and power The number one prerequisite for effective management is effective communication-and writing is a critical part of it. Simply put, whether it's a quick e-mail or a 20-page report, your writing is a reflection of you-and people will make judgments accordingly. Manager's Guide to Business Writing, Second Edition, provides everything you need to give colleagues, customers, and other stakeholders the most information accurately and quickly. Learn how to express yourself as a serious professional by writing everything with clarity, quality, and decisiveness. Manager's Guide to Business Writing teaches you how to: Know your audience and your purpose before you start writingEngage readers' curiosity from the first sentenceCompose instructions that are easy to understand and followWrite effectively on social media platforms and blogsMaster the foundations of effective writing-grammar, sentence structure, spe...

Japanese edition of Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. This bestselling book is based on the original internet comic at Funbrain.com. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Product details For ages 6-8 Format Hardback | 221 pages Dimensions 149 x 205 x 19mm | 417g ...

Este libro sera de gran utilidad ya sea que este conduciendo un estudio bíblico en grupos, hablando en público o simplemente profundizando su conocimiento de las mujeres de la Biblia. El doctor Lockyer provee un comentario apropiado sobre todas las mujeres conocidas --y no tan conocidas-- de la Biblia. Descubrirá cómo la vida y el carácter de diferentes mujeres de la Biblia reflejan las situaciones de la mujer de la actualidad. Más de cuatrocientas entradas concisas y llenas de datos verdaderos, que proporcionan una perspectiva fascinante y motivan a pensar. De gran utilidad ya sea que esté conduciendo un estudio bíblico en grupos, hablando en público o simplemente profundizando tu conocimiento personal de Dios. Product details Format Paperback | 384 pages ...

Contains short, precise descriptions of nearly 200 of the most commonly used herbs in Australia. Provides a limited number of reliable therapeutic actions and indications for each herb. The dosages listed are adult dosages. Product details Format Spiral bound | 160 pages Dimensions 154.94 x 208.28 x 20.32mm | 362.87g Publication date ...

Keith Richards' once-in-a-generation memoir recounts one of the most eventful, influential and closely watched lives of modern times. No other major rock band has been creating music and magic together so continuously. They recorded some of the most enduring songs of our times including 'Satisfaction', 'Jumping Jack Flash', 'Honky Tonk Woman' and 'Start Me Up', written by Keith and his writing partner and Stones vocalist Mick Jagger. Born in Dartford in Kent in December 1943 in the same cottage hospital as Jagger had been delivered five months earlier, Keith's personal roots were in the south of England. But his musical roots were in R&B and it was this that brought him together with Mick, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones. From the first tiny club gigs where there was barely room to shake and rattle, never mind roll, the band soon gravitated to huge international stadiums with its groundbreakingly dramatic act. This is the s...

Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature. Marx's Ecology covers many other thinkers, including Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Ludwig Feuerbach, P. J. Proudhon, and William Paley. By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, Marx's Ecology challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting and sustainable solutions to the ec...

This Handbook contains the text of the 1996 Act together with section by section expert analytical commentary. Extensive narrative is also included which puts the Act into context and explains fully its implications for practitioners, while forms and precedents help further to increase the practical value of the title. The Act is a short Act which makes many amendments to existing legislation, affecting all routine conveyancing in small ways, and so having a very direct effect on all house purchasers. This title therefore covers legislation that all residential conveyancers will need to know. * Includes forms and precedents and extended narrative * Some material is reprinted from the Current Law Statutes service * Handy portable paperback format Product details Format Paperback ...

Der Autor analysiert modische Trends, denen schon unsere Vorfahren beim Bauen und Wohnen erlegen sind und auf die wir auch hereinfallen. Er beschreibt, wo und wie wir durch einen umsatzwütigen Kommerz sogar mittels Vorschriften manipuliert werden. Für alle, die sich mit Bauen, Heizen und Wohnen irgendwie beruflich beschäftigen oder auch nur privat befassen wollen ist dieser Band ein wertvoller Ratgeber. Product details Format Hardback | 343 pages Publisher Resch-Verlag ...

Embark on a journey beyond the traditional boundaries between exam preparation and real-world language with Open World First. Each unit in the Student's Book explores a different topic, allowing students to build up their confidence as they acquire the language and skills needed for everyday English situations as well as exams. A unique exam journey maximises students' performance, providing a systematic route to exam success. The Online Workbook consolidates and extends the language and exam skills covered in the Open World Student's Book and includes downloadable audio for the listening activities. A print Workbook is also available, separately. Downloadable Class Audio containing the Student's Book listening material is provided with the Teacher's Book. Product details Format Mixed medi...

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Distributed systems have become more fine-grained in the past 10 years, shifting from code-heavy monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices. But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches. With lots of examples and practical advice, the second edition of this practical book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects and administrators must consider when building, managing, and evolving microservice architectures. Microservice technologies are moving quickly, and this revised edition gets you up to date with a new chapter on serverless and cloud-native applications, expanded coverage of user interfaces, more hands-on code examples, and other additions throughout the book. Author Sam Newman provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts while diving into current solutions for modeling, integrating, testing, deploying, and monitoring your own autonomous services. You'll follow a fictional company throughout the book to learn how ...

Learn How To Top With EYE-POPPING Medical Illustrations! The 2nd Edition of this classic bestseller includes: 24 GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS THAT TEACH YOU HOW TO TOP These critically-acclaimed medical illustrations make you think you're seeing sex with x-ray glasses. They'll help you understand the best way to top in ways that words alone can't. They'll show you how to get harder than a roll of quarters, get in the best positions, use the most effective angles of entry and pleasure with creative thrusting patterns. They will improve your ability to recall facts, retain important concepts and yes, give you a slight but unmistakable stiffy. You're welcome. TEACH YOUR PARTNERS THE:60 SPHINCTER RELEASE METHOD This new method completely relaxes your partner's sphincter in under a minute. Based on a relaxation technique called PNF, Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation, you'll never struggle with getting it in again. A QUICK GLANCE AT THE CHAPTERS ★ Discoveri...

This book describes valuation as an exercise in financial statement analysis. Students learn to view a firm through its financial statements and to carry out the appropriate financial statement analysis to value the firm's debt and equity. The book takes an activist approach to investing, showing how the analyst challenges the current market price of a share by analyzing the fundamentals. With a careful assessment of accounting quality, accounting comes to life as it is integrated with the modern theory of finance to develop practical analysis and valuation tools for active investing. Product details Format Paperback | 800 pages Dimensions ...

Tracing the rise of commercial fetish art from its shadowy beginnings in the 1940s to its acceptance in the 1970s, this illustrated biography explores the unconventional life and art of Eric Stanton, a pioneering sexual fantasist who helped shape the movement. With more than 400 rare images and interviews with Stanton's family and closest associates, this biography chronicles the infamous circle of patrons, publishers, and cult icons populating his subterranean world, including Irving Klaw, John Willie, Bettie Page, Steve Ditko, and Gene Bilbrew. It is the untold, secret history of a misunderstood culture, the abuses of government authority, social intolerance, and gangsters. But above all, it is a tale about survival against all odds and an artist who had the courage to stay true to himself. Product details Format ...

I Att lura åldrandet får vår tids hälsokult en rejäl avhyvling. I sprakande ilskna essäer om allt från svekfulla celler till det luddiga begreppet wellness . - SvD Vitaminshakes och proteinjuicer. Tillräckligt med träning, bra kost och god sömn. Vi lever i en tid som framhåller att vi själva bär ansvaret för vår hälsa och livslängd. Med gymmedlemskap och diverse dieter sliter vi ut oss i syfte att leva sundare liv. Men hur mycket tid ska vi egentligen ägna åt kampen att förlänga livet? Har vi inte bättre saker för oss? Och hur mycket makt har vi faktiskt över celler och makrofager? I Att lura döden vänder Barbara Ehrenreich på begreppen och myten kring den hälsosamma kroppen. Ny vetenskap utmanar allt mer föreställningen om vår kropp som en harmonisk enhet, vars naturliga tillstånd är att vara frisk. Genom att rikta fokus på frågor om samhälle och ekonomi belyser Erenreich sambandet mellan klass och hälsa och hon vet vad hon talar om. Med akademisk examina i både kemi och fysik, och en...

An international diamond-smuggling pipeline has opened up and the British Treasury wants to know who's controlling it. Impersonating a captured courier named Peter Franks, Bond infiltrates the criminal ring and finds an unlikely ally in Tiffany Case, a gorgeous American with a dark past. As the ring's stateside go-between, she may be just another link in the chain, but Tiffany is also Bond's best shot at finding the elusive figure at the head of the operation--a syndicate boss known only by the initials "ABC." But if Bond's cover gets blown, he'll find that the only thing harder than a diamond is surviving the payback of a pair of murderous henchmen. With a sparkling trail of smuggled gems as bait, Diamonds Are Forever leads Bond on a globe-hopping mission where deadly assassins lurk behind every corner. The text in this edition has been restored by the Fleming family company Ian Fleming Publications, to reflect the work as it was originally published....

Si quieres dejar de lado la ansiedad y abrazar una relación amorosa, aunque nunca hayas podido hacerlo antes, entonces sigue leyendo... ¿Me quiere de verdad o sólo está fingiendo? ¿Y si hago algo malo? ¿Y si nunca encuentro a la persona adecuada para mí? Los pensamientos ansiosos y la preocupación constante plagan las relaciones y amenazan con separar a dos personas antes de que puedan experimentar la maravilla del amor. Ya sea que hayas vivido con ansiedad toda tu vida o que los eventos recientes hayan despertado inseguridades subyacentes, no tienes que aceptar que el resto de tu vida será así. Puedes recuperar el control y sacar la ansiedad. Si estás cansado de vivir en un estado constante de pánico, cansado de analizar todo lo que hace tu pareja para determinar si se va a ir, y abrumado con la carga de llevar el valor de las preocupaciones de una relación sobre tus hombros, es hora de dejar de lado tu miedo. Te mereces una relación amorosa y satisfactoria en la que la ansiedad no ju...

Best known as the Green Books, the American Sign Language books provide teachers and students of American Sign Language (ASL) with the complete means for learning about the culture, community, and the native language of Deaf people. A group of 15 ASL teachers and linguists reviewed all five books to ensure that they were accurate and easy to comprehend. This volume of the American Sign Language series explains in depth the grammar and structure of ASL while also presenting a description of the Deaf community in the United States. Written for teachers with minimal training in linguistics, it includes many illustrations, examples, and dialogues that also focus on specific aspects of the Deaf community. Product details Format Paperback | 488 pages ...

In this provocative book, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Daniel H. Pink offers a fresh look at the art and science of persuasion. Physicians sell patients on a remedy. Lawyers sell juries on a verdict. Teachers sell students on the value of an education. Entrepreneurs persuade funders, writers convince readers, coaches cajole players. Parents convince their kids to clean. Spouses convince their partners to control the kids. And in astonishing numbers and with ferocious energy, we go online to sell ourselves - on Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and Match.com profiles. Whether we're entrepreneurs, employees, parents or partners, we spend our days trying to move others. We're all in sales now. Product details Format Paperback | 256 pages ...

For the last 25 years, Jim Kwik has helped everyone from celebrities to CEOs to students improve their memory, increase their decision-making skills, learn to speed-read and unleash their superbrains. In Limitless, readers will learn Jim's revolutionary strategies and shortcuts to break free from their perceived limitations. They'll learn how to supercharge their brains with simple, actionable tools to sharpen the mind, enhance focus and fast-track their fullest potential. The book is organized into four sections: Mindset, Motivation, Meta-Learning and Mission. Readers will discover the myths they've been told about their IQ, abilities and skillset; understand why learning matters; learn core habits and steps to becoming limitless; and explore how they can serve the world. They'll also learn how to conquer the four supervillains: Distraction, Digital Dementia, Digital Deluge and Depression. Believing that you are limited is holding you back from achieving your bigges...

For graduate courses in business, economics, financial mathematics, and financial engineering; for advanced undergraduate courses with students who have good quantitative skills; and for practitioners involved in derivatives markets Practitioners refer to it as "the bible;" in the university and college marketplace it's the best seller; and now it's been revised and updated to cover the industry's hottest topics and the most up-to-date material on new regulations. Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives by John C. Hull bridges the gap between theory and practice by providing a current look at the industry, a careful balance of mathematical sophistication, and an outstanding ancillary package that makes it accessible to a wide audience. Through its coverage of important topics such as the securitization and the credit crisis, the overnight indexed swap, the Black-Scholes-Merton formulas, and the way commodity prices are modeled and commodity derivatives valued, i...