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The Secret Life of Fat The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You
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Description: This groundbreaking work of practical, popular science reveals that fat is much smarter than we think.
Fat is an obsession, a dirty word, a subject of national handwringing-and, according to biochemist Sylvia Tara, the least-understood part of our body.
You may not love your fat, but your body certainly does. In fact, your body is actually endowed with many self-defense measures to hold on to fat. For example, fat can use stem cells to regenerate; increase our appetite if it feels threatened; and use bacteria, genetics, and viruses to expand itself. The secret to losing twenty pounds? You have to work with your fat, not against it. Tara explains how your fat influences your appetite and willpower, how it defends itself when attacked, and why it gro back so quickly. The Secret Life of Fat brings cutting-edge research together with historical perspectives to reveal fat's true identity: an endocrine organ that, in the right amount, is critical to our health....
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The Well Trained Mind A Guide to Classical Education at Home
epub | 1.07 MB | English | Susan Wise Bauer | 2009
Description: A revised and updated edition of the perennial bestseller that sparked a home college movement.
Since its original publication, this now-classic guide to taking charge of your child's education has been the number-one resource for parents and students who home-college-or want to supplement a classroom education. Veteran home educators Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer organize learning around the maturing capacity of a child's mind and define the three stages of learning: the elementary college "grammar stage," the middle college "logic stage," and the high college "rhetoric stage." Using the book's detailed recommendations, any parent can instruct a student in reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, science, foreign languages, rhetoric, logic, art, and music-from kindergarten through high college.
This newly revised edition contains expanded curricula recommendations, gives access to a new supplemental website with additional resources, answers...
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The Word Detective Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary
epub | 1.69 MB | English | John Simpson
Description: What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? Can you drink a glass of balderdash? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you?
The answers to all of these questions can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments, its quirks, and its quiddities than the former chief editor of the OED, John Simpson. John spent almost four decades of his life immersed in the intricacies of our language, and guides us through its history with charmingly laconic wit. In The Word Detective, an intensely personal memoir and a joyful celebration of English, he weaves a story of how words come into being (and sometimes disappear), how cultures shape the language we use, and how we cope when words fail us.
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The Journey of Desire Searching for the Life You've Always Dreamed Of
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Description: Most contemporary Americans share the same dilemma: they long for purpose in life, but they're not sure how to find it . . . or even what it might look like if they did. Yet the little-known truth is that the secret of a person's true purpose is coded in the desires of his or her own heart.
In The Journey of Desire-newly updated and revised for today's readers-John Eldredge takes seekers to the heart of their persistent longings and reveals a crucial truth: desire can lead them to the life they've dreamed of.
Desire is the language of the heart, and by examining them in light of God's design for us Eldredge reveals how to discover the best route to an authentic and fulfilling life.
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British Gardens in Time
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Description: British Gardens in Time takes four iconic gardens, each a product of its age, and provides a fascinating window into the creators and events that shaped them. The stories of their creation include obsession, escape, social ambition, political intrigue, heartbreak, bankruptcy and disaster. In unravelling these remarkable stories we reach back over the centuries to see these great gardens through fresh eyes.From the magnificent landscape garden at Stowe created by Bridgeman, Kent and Lancelot 'Capability' Brown; the Victorian masterpiece of Biddulph Grange; the romantic Arts & Crafts retreat at Nymans; and Christopher Lloyd's plantsman's paradise at Great Dixter, you will hear of adventure, innovation and visionary individuals who changed the way we create our gardens and the plants we grow.Author Katie Campbell weaves the stories of these four exemplary gardens into a history of British gardening from the earliest cultivated spaces to the present day, exploring trends,...
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Building Intelligent Apps with Cognitive APIs
epub | 15.6 MB | English | Chris Hoder, Anand Raman
Description: Until recently, training and deploying AI models required months of development and a deep understanding of machine learning. No longer. With cognitive APIs, you can infuse your apps, websites, and bots with intelligence using just a few simple lines of code. This practical report introduces cognitive APIs, examines the current landscape, and demonstrates how software developers can work with Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services to create intelligent applications within minutes.
Anand Raman and Chris Hoder from Microsoft's AI platform team show how to bring intelligence to your applications without training or hosting your own models. Along the way, you'll work with C# code samples to build intelligent applications using computer vision, text analytics, and conversational samples. If you have a basic understanding of the Azure platform, you're ready to get started.
Extract data from images with Azure's powerful vision servicesProduce speech models for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and real-time translation servicesAnalyze, understand, and translate text with Azure's language APIsBuild apps that provide recommendations for informed and efficient decision makingUse Bing APIs to search for images-or use an image to conduct a searchExplore use cases that show how companies have used Azure Cognitive Services to transform their business offerings
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Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, 2nd Edition (EPUB)
epub | 10.59 MB | English | Eric Franklin
Description: Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Second Edition, presents nearly 500 illustrated exercises-including numerous exercises that are set to music and available on the book's product page-to help you understand and achieve proper posture and alignment and release excess stress. This new edition includes over 600 illustrations of anatomical imagery and updated chapters with the latest information on dynamic alignment and imagery.
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Guitar King Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues
epub | 15.94 MB | English | David Dann
Description: This first comprehensive biography of the late, great Michael Bloomfield brings to life a dazzling electric-guitar virtuoso who transformed rock 'n' roll in the 1960s and made a lasting impact on the blues genre.
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101 Trout Tips A Guide's Secrets, Tactics, and Techniques
epub | 106 MB | English | Landon R. Mayer | 2014
Description: Every fly-fishing problem has a solution. This collection of advice from veteran instructor Landon Mayer helps you analyze your past mistakes and learn how to adapt to a wide range of fishing conditions.
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Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life
epub | 2.77 MB | English | Robert Spaethling | 2000
Description: "A wonderful collection that gives Mozart a voice as a son, husband, brother and friend." -New York Times Book Review"Mozart's honesty, his awareness of his own genius and his contempt for authority all shine out from these letters."-Sunday Times (London). " In Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life, Robert Spaethling presents "Mozart in all the rawness of his driving energies" (Spectator), preserved in the "zany, often angry effervescence" of his writing (Observer). Where other translators have ignored Mozart's atrocious spelling and tempered his foul language, "Robert Spaethling's new translations are lively and racy, and do justice to Mozart's restlessly inventive mind" (Daily Mail). Carefully selected and meticulously annotated, this collection of letters "should be on the shelves of every music lover" (BBC Music Magazine).
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Another America The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It
epub | 2.28 MB | English | James Ciment
Description: The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republic
In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner of the American Colonization Society, a white philanthropic organization with a dual agenda: to rid America of its blacks, and to convert Africans to Christianity. The settlers staked out a beachhead; their numbers grew as more boats arrived; and after breaking free from their white overseers, they founded Liberia-Africa's first black republic-in 1847.
James Ciment's Another America is the first full account of this dramatic experiment. With empathy and a sharp eye for human foibles, Ciment reveals that the Americo-Liberians struggled to live up to their high ideals. They wrote a stirring Declaration of...
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Conquest Montezuma Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico
epub | 24.81 MB | Hugh Thomas
Description: THE UNPARALLELED HISTORY OF THE FALL OF OLD MEXICODrawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history.Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians.
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Conquistador Hern 225 n Cort 233 s King Montezuma and the last stand of the Aztecs
epub | 862.92 KB | English | 9780553384710 | Buddy Levy
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The saga of Cortés, Montezuma, and the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire has been chronicled repeatedly, and with justification, since it is one of the seminal events in world history. There is probably no new information on the conquest left to uncover, but it is a thrilling, moving, and tragic story well worth retelling. Levy is not a professional historian, but he is a fine writer who kno the material, and he is wise enough to allow the pure excitement and drama of the story to unfold naturally. At the center of the tale, of course, are the two protagonists. Cortés is viewed as an intriguing combination of ruthless ambition, religious piety, and surprising tenderness. Montezuma, also deeply religious, was less a man of action than Cortés, and his contemplative nature probably sealed his doom. As Levy illustrates, this was also an earthshaking clash of civilizations that is still working itself out five centuries later. This is a superb work of popular history, ideal for general readers. --Jay Freeman
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"For sheer drama, no age compares to the age of exploration, no explorers compare to the conquistadors and no conquistador compares to Hernan Cortes. In Buddy Levy's finely wrought and definitive Conquistador, the worlds of Cortes and Montezuma collide and come to life. Five hundred years after the conquest, the Cadillo and his prey have been made human. To read Conquistador is to see, hear and feel two cultures in a struggle to the death with nothing less than the fate of the western hemisphere at stake. Prodigiously researched and stirringly told, Conquistador is a rarity: an invaluable history lesson that also happens to be a page-turning read."-Jeremy Schaap, best-selling author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
"Sweeping and majestic...A pulse-quickening narrative."-Neal Bascomb, author of _Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin
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"A century before the Mayflower, a single man settled the destiny of the Americas far more momentously than the Puritans ever could.... Conquistador offers a fascinating account of the first and most decisive of those encounters: the one between the impetuous Spanish adventurer Cortés and Montezuma, the ill-starred emperor of the Aztecs.... [An] almost unbelievable story of missionary zeal, greed, cruelty and courage."-_Wall Street Journal_
"Drawing heavily on both Spanish and Aztec sources.. [Levy stresses] the military strategy, diplomatic initiaitves, and personal relationship between Cortés and Aztec emperor Montezuma.. Well-written.. Highly recommended."-_Library Journal_, starred review
"A fateful meeting of civilizations.. Cortes is front and center in this book.. [Levy's] description of the final siege on Tenochtitlan is especially dramatic."-Associated Press
"Explores just how far invaders will go to take what they want."-_Cape Cod Times_
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Crimes and Criminals of 17th Century Britain
epub | 15.9 MB | Daniel J Codd
Description: Who was the murderer who committed an atrocity at an East End brothel in 1691? And was he ever caught? What superstitions lay behind the unfathomable slaughter of three innocent children at a remote farmhouse in County Durham in 1683? When was a parish constable murdered in cold blood by a party of men that allegedly included the illegitimate son of King Charles II? Where did violent, lethal confrontations occur between supporters and opponents of King James II during the so-called Bloodless Revolution of 1688? Why was Dr Clenche ruthlessly garroted in the back of a coach meandering through the darkened London streets? How did the very first killing attributed to the nation's civil wars occur in Manchester? Is there any truth in the legend of Exmoor's lawless Doone clan? These cases, and many more, are explored in depth within this work, and harken back to a time of witchcraft purges, dueling and political assassinations, when the punishment for killing one's fellow man was either more barbaric than the crime itself, or corruptly lenient. Within these pages the story of violent crime in 17th century Britain is told, from sociopathic noblemen and ruthless bandits, to war crimes and judicial assassinations. Illustrated throughout and shedding a unique light on the era, Crimes and Criminals of 17th Century Britain is the first work of its kind to explore the monstrous murders that occurred against the backdrop of a nation that repeatedly imploded.
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Egypt Lost Civilizations Christina Riggs
epub | 16.52 MB | English | Christina Riggs
Description: From Roman villas to Hollywood films, ancient Egypt has been a source of fascination and inspiration in many other cultures. But why, exactly, has this been the case? In this book, Christina Riggs examines the history, art, and religion of ancient Egypt to illuminate why it has been so influential throughout the centuries. In doing so, she sho how the ancient past has always been used to serve contemporary purposes.Often characterized as a lost civilization that was discovered by adventurers and archeologists, Egypt has meant many things to many different people. Ancient Greek and Roman writers admired ancient Egyptian philosophy, and this admiration would influence ideas about Egypt in Renaissance Europe as well as the Arabic-speaking world. By the eighteenth century, secret societies like the Freemasons looked to ancient Egypt as a source of wisdom, but as modern Egypt became the focus of Western military strategy and economic exploitation in the nineteenth and early...
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Middle Finger Project Ash Ambirge
epub | 1.19 MB | English | Ash Ambirge | 2020
Description: Fresh, funny, and fearless, The Middle Finger Project is a point-by-point primer on how to get unstuck, slay imposter syndrome, trust in your own worth and ability, and become a strong, capable, wonderful, weird, brilliant, ballsy, unfuckwithable YOU.
"Don't worry, this isn't a book about God, nor is it a book about Ryan Gosling (second in command). But it is a book about authority and becoming your own." -Ash Ambirge
After a string of dead-end jobs and a death in the family, Ash Ambirge was down to her last $26 and sleeping in a Kmart parking lot when she faced the truth: No one was coming to her rescue. It was up to her to appoint herself. That night led to what eventually became a six-figure freelance career as a sought-after marketing and copywriting consultant, all while sipping coffee from her front porch in Costa Rica.
She then launched The Middle Finger Project, a blog and online course hub, which has provided tens of thousands of young...
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Stalingrad The City That Defeated the Third Reich
epub | 33.73 MB | English | Jochen Hellbeck
Description: Just days after the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad, legendary Red Army sniper Vasily Zaytsev described the horrors he witnessed during the five-month long conflict: one sees the young girls, the children who hang from trees in the park... I have unsteady nerves and I'm constantly shaking."
He was being interviewed, along with 214 other men and women-soldiers, officers, civilians, administrative staffers and others-amidst the rubble that remained of Stalingrad by members of Moscow's Historical Commission. Sent by the Kremlin, their aim was to record a comprehensive, historical documentary of the tremendous hardships overcome and heroic triumphs achieved during the battle.
20 soldiers of the 38th Rifle Division vividly recount how they stumbled upon the commander of the German troops, Field Marshal Friederich Paulus, defeated and hiding in a bed that reeked like a latrine. A lieutenant colonel remembers the brave 20 year-old adjutant who wrapped his...
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Persian Fire The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
epub | 3.26 MB | English | 9780307386984 | Tom Holland | 2005
Description: In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland's brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history.
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The Barbarians Lost Civilizations Peter Bogucki
epub | 20.88 MB | English | Peter Bogucki | 2017
Description: We often think of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as discrete incubators of Western culture, places where ideas about everything from government to art to philosophy were free to develop and then be distributed outward into the wider Mediterranean world. But as Peter Bogucki reminds us in this book, Greece and Rome did not develop in isolation. All around them were rural communities who had remarkably different cultures, ones few of us know anything about. Telling the stories of these nearly forgotten people, he offers a long-overdue enrichment of how we think about classical antiquity.As Bogucki sho, the lands to the north of the Greek and Roman peninsulas were inhabited by non-literate communities that stretched across river valleys, mountains, plains, and shorelines from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east. What we know about them is almost exclusively through archeological finds of settlements, offerings, monuments, and...
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The Indus Lost Civilizations Andrew Robinson
epub | 11.79 MB | English | Andrew Robinson
Description: When Alexander the Great invaded the Indus Valley in the fourth century BCE, he was completely unaware that it had once been the center of a civilization that could have challenged ancient Egypt and neighboring Mesopotamia in size and sophistication. In this accessible introduction, Andrew Robinson tells the story-so far as we know it-of this enigmatic people, who lay forgotten for around 4,000 years.Going back to 2600 BCE, Robinson investigates a civilization that flourished over half a millennium, until 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and eventually vanished. Only in the 1920s, did British and Indian archaeologists in search of Alexander stumble upon the ruins of a civilization in what is now northwest India and eastern Pakistan. Robinson surveys a network of settlements-more than 1,000-that covered over 800,000 square kilometers. He examines the technically advanced features of some of the civilization's ancient cities, such as Harappa and...
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