Provides information on nutrition and balanced diet, government guidelines, food choices, nutritional needs of different groups; designing with food, adapting recipes, researching, themes; exploring ingredients, simple processes like thickening and foaming; basic recipes, preparation techniques; foo[...]
Larry Ellison started the high-flying tech company Oracle with $1,200 in 1977 and turned it into a billion-dollar Silicon Valley giant. If Bill Gates is the tech world's nerd king, Ellison is its Warren Beatty: racing yachts, buying jets, and romancing beautiful women. His rise to fame and fortune i[...]
The authority on panic and anxiety--newly revised and expandedAre you one of the more than nineteen million Americans who suffer from anxiety? Don't panic. Newly revised and expanded, this edition offers a straightforward and remarkably effective self-help program for overcoming panic and coping wit[...]
Step on a crack, break your mother's back, Touch another person's skin, and Dad's gone for good . . .Caddie has a history of magical thinking--of playing games in her head to cope with her surroundings--but it's never been this bad before.When her parents split up, Don't touch becomes Caddie's mantr[...]
This text is designed to provide a background to the biology and ecology of camels, in order to enable workers involved with them to increase camel production. Included are chapters on different types and breeds, physiology, and uses of the camel, in particular transport and milk production.[...]
Offers a clear and readily accessible introduction to the Bible.
A captivating expose of the fast food industry by the author of Fast Food Nation presents some new and startling facts geared to the number one consumer of fast food: children. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.[...]
Helps readers see how inventors, scientists and businesspeople have shaped the world.
This autobiography describes Wilson's 20-year nightmare of drug addiction, alcoholism, obesity and mental illness. He lost his family and he nearly lost his life. It is a frank discussion of what destroyed his life and of the controversial forces which helped to save it.[...]
International finance coach Ann Wilson is known as the Wealth Chef because of her ability to help people cook up monetary success. In this previously self-published book, Ann has laid out a step-by-step guide to creating financial freedom. In its pages, readers will find five recipes for wealth that[...]
This engaging text takes an evenhanded approach to major theoretical paradigms in evaluation and builds a bridge from them to evaluation practice. Featuring helpful checklists, procedural steps, provocative questions that invite readers to explore their own theoretical assumptions, and practical exe[...]
Written to meet the needs of 11 to 14 year olds with lower level literacy skills, Specials! give students a feeling of success in their work, whilst ensuring full access to the curriculum. The CD-ROM contains editable activity, resource and assessment sheets, which enables you to customise them to s[...]
Books, television shows and websites are forever ordering us around - 100 things to do before you're 30; 50 albums you must own; this year's must-have handbag; change your life in two weeks. Why - is this an increasingly desperate search for happiness? Perhaps you can in fact attain happiness not b[...]
Our responsibility as educators is not only to ensure that our students are well grounded in the fundamentals of our field, but also to motivate them to do meaningful research. We therefore asked ourselves why an introductory book was not available that gave a fair account of the basic message and k[...]
No industry provides more household names than brewing; none retains a firmer place in British culture; and at the height of the temperance movement none was more controversial. Yet this volume provides an extended account of brewing in the modern period. Thoroughly based upon research in brewing ar[...]
The Best American Series(R)
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest edit[...]
There was a wolf called Wilson Who couldn't count to ten. He wouldn't learn to write his name. He never used a pen. Whiffy is certain that school isn't as fun as watching TV all day. But his best friend, Dotty, takes him by the paw and shows him just how wrong he is. Whiffy Wilson doesn't know how t[...]
Identifies the major impacts of sea-level rise, presents assessments of sea-level change, and explores the various factors contributing to sea-level rise. This book is suitable for those who are interested in sea-level rise and its impacts, including policy makers, research funders, scientists, stud[...]
The first audiobook to reveal and dissect the technical aspect of many social engineering maneuvers?From elicitation, pretexting, influence, and manipulation, all aspects of social engineering are picked apart, discussed, and explained by using real world examples, personal experience, and the Scien[...]