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Little Country Cottage: An Autumn Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom

Little Country Cottage: An Autumn Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom offers nature-based crafts, bakes and gardening projects in a celebration of self-sufficient, eco-friendly, country cottage-style

Autonomous Ships and the Law

Interest in autonomous ships has grown exponentially over the past few years. Whereas a few years ago, the prospect of unmanned and autonomous vessels sailing on the seas was considered unrealistic, the debate now centers on when and in what format and pace the development will take place.Law has a key role to play in this development and legal obstacles are often singled out as principal barriers to the rapid introduction of new technologies in shipping. Within a few years, autonomous ships have turned from a non-issue to one of the main regulatory topics being addressed by the International Maritime Organization. However, the regulatory discussion is still in its infancy, and while many new questions have been raised, few answers have been provided to them to date.Increased automation of tasks that have traditionally been undertaken by ships' crews raises

Taking the Floor

An inside look at a Wall Street trading room and what this reveals about today's financial systemDebates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn't depend solely on how it is structured--organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of financial organizations might change in order for them to remain healthy, even in times of crises. In particular, Daniel Beunza explores how the extensive use of financial models and trading technologies over the recent decades has exerted a far-ranging and troubling influence on Wall Street. How have models reshaped financial markets? How have models altered moral behavior in organizations?Beunza takes readers behind the scenes in a bank unit that, within its firm, is

Asset Allocation

Discover a masterful exploration of the fallacies and challenges of asset allocationIn Asset Allocation: From Theory to Practice and Beyond--the newly and substantially revised Second Edition of A Practitioner's Guide to Asset Allocation--accomplished finance professionals William Kinlaw, Mark P. Kritzman, and David Turkington deliver a robust and insightful exploration of the core tenets of asset allocation.Drawing on their experience working with hundreds of the world's largest and most sophisticated investors, the authors review foundational concepts, debunk fallacies, and address cutting-edge themes like factor investing and scenario analysis. The new edition also includes references to related topics at the end of each chapter and a summary of key takeaways to help readers rapidly locate material of interest.The book also

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The Hidden History of Coined Words

Successful word-coinages - those that stay in currency for a good long time - tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted. Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes's The Hidden History of Coined Words explores the etymological underworld of terms and expressions and uncovers plenty of hidden gems.He also finds some fascinating patterns, such as that successful neologisms are as likely to be created by chance as by design. A remarkable number of new words were coined whimsically, originally intended to troll or taunt. Knickers, for example, resulted from a hoax; big bang from an insult. Casual wisecracking produced software, crowdsource, and blog. More than a few resulted from happy accidents, such as typos, mistranslations, and mishearing (bigly and buttonhole), or from being taken entirely out of context (robotics). Neologizers (a Thomas Jefferson coinage) include not just scholars and writers but cartoonists, columnists, children's book authors. Wimp originated with a book series, as did goop, and nerd from a book by Dr. Seuss. Coinages are often contested, controversy swirling around such terms as gonzo, mojo, and booty call. Keyes considers all contenders, while also leading us through the fray between new word partisans, and those who resist them strenuously. He concludes with advice about how to make your own successful coinage.The Hidden History of Coined Words will appeal not just to word mavens but history buffs, trivia contesters, and anyone who loves the immersive power of language.

Vincent Darre

From Vincent Darre, a French dandy and eccentric decorator, this volume offers a fanciful look into his unique universe of artful

YOU CAN cook tasty food

The ideal gift to help kids learn brilliant new hobbiesGet chopping, get mixing and get cooking!The how-to book for kids who love to cook and bake. It's easy to understand and tells them exactly what they need to know step-by-step.Easy-peasy tips on how to make tasty and nutritious savoury and sweet recipesSpace to scribble and make the book their ownPacked with fun activities guaranteed to get kids into the kitchen!Written by qualified nutritionist and founder of Little Cooks Co., creators of easy, fun and healthy cooking kits for kids.Kids can try lots of brilliant stuff with the fun YOU CAN series from Collins - including how to write stories, draw, grow food, take photos, stargaze, cook, craft and more - there's something for

Hot Protestants

On fire for God--a sweeping history of puritanism in England and AmericaBegun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking volume traces puritanism's tumultuous history from its initial attempts to reshape the Church of England to its establishment of godly republics in both England and America and its demise at the end of the seventeenth century.Shedding new light on puritans whose impact was far-reaching as well as on those who left only limited traces behind them, Michael Winship delineates puritanism's triumphs and tribulations and shows how the puritan project of creating reformed churches

Adam Smith

Adam Smith (1723-1790) is widely regarded as one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment period. Best-known for his founding work of economics, The Wealth of Nations, Smith engaged equally with the nature of morality in his Theory of Moral Sentiments. He also gave lectures on literature and jurisprudence, and wrote papers on art and science.In this outstanding philosophical introduction Samuel Fleischacker argues that Smith is a superb example of the broadly curious thinkers who flourished in the Enlightenment--for whom morality, politics, law, and economics were just a few of the many fascinating subjects that could be illuminated by naturalistic modes of investigation.After a helpful overview of his life and work, Fleischacker examines the full range of Smith's thought, on such subjects as:

Frontier

Near-future military adventure and political intrigue set against the backdrop of our majestic Solar SystemTHE FUTURE BELONGS TO THE STRONG OF HEARTMarshall Hunter only wanted to fly: the faster, the higher, the better.On his first assignment aboard the patrol cruiser U.S.S. Borman, Ensign Hunter learns the novelty of Earth orbit wears off quickly. A life of rescuing wayward spacefarers and derelict satellites is far from the adventure he'd imagined as a young cadet.His fortunes change when a pair of billionaire explorers are declared missing on an expedition to a nearby asteroid, one thought to hold minerals worth more than entire countries. With the couple out of contact and on a course that will eventually send them crashing into Mars, the nuclear-powered Borman is dispatched on an audacious high-speed interplanetary run to find them. Yet as

Everything: World War II

Fact-packed topic books for primary school children Brave soldiers, important battles, life on the Home Front! It's time to learn everything about the Second World

GOODBYE CHOMSKY & OTHER ESSAYS ON LANGUA

The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not people who speak several languages but academic linguists (for whom linguistics is the scientific study of language). Though this book is informed by linguistics, it is not a linguistics book, rather a language-not-linguistics book. It is a book about topics involving language that interest me and that I hope will be interesting to the intellectually curious reader.Its topics include J.R.R. Tolkien's languages of Middle-earth, invented and artificial languages, language and gender, dialects, American versus British (Noah Webster), the Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis, African-American vernacular English, the history of English, English as the world's language, language death, the rebirth of Hebrew in Israel, the Yiddish language, language in India,

Crafty Family Ideas

Your one-stop guide for all things crafting and parenting fun Crafty Family Ideas will show you tons of simple crafts, recipes, and other ideas for a creative day-to-day life. Featuring 55 delicious recipes and playful DIY projects to make - from a bubblegum machine and homemade bug spray to a pumpkin pie garland and Christmas cookies - this engaging and entertaining guide is jam-packed with endless fun for every season and every occasion With an aim to inspire, entertain, and encourage creativity, this book is perfect for parents looking for fresh ideas to make a more colorful and charming home life. Written in her relatable and humorous style author Kristin Gambaccini is known for from her popular Kristin Gambaccini Blog, Crafty Family Ideas is a creative, must-have resource for every busy parent looking to juggle it all while having stress-free fun

Ghost Bird

A thrilling teen ghost story from a First Nations Australian author, drawing on the culture and beliefs of her close-knit community. Stacey and Laney are mirror twins, but as different as the sun and the moon. When Laney disappears, Stacey is haunted by dark and terrifying dreams. Stacey knows only she can find Laney - but can she find her in

Bleeding For Jesus

The extraordinary true story of John Smyth QC, a high-flying barrister who used his role in the church to abuse more than a hundred men and boys in three countries. It tells how he was spirited out of the UK, and how he played the role of moral crusader to evade justice over four

Blink, and Im gone

In the blink of an eye Rachel Vincent can be anywhere.It's easy for her, because she's dead.But what she can't do is join the others in the warmly lit room beyond the glass and be at peace, until she remembers what happened to her on the day she died.Who killed her, and why?Her three-year-old daughter, Molly, was the only witness to the murder. She has buried all memories of the trauma, but after she and her father, Ben, move to rural Wales, she begins to be troubled by disturbing nightmares. Ben contacts Inspector Gardiner, who had been responsible for the murder case, and she suggests Molly sees a child psychologist.As Rachel, in the spirit world, starts to confront the events that led up to her death, she drops memories into Molly's dreams. But who is the man with the tiger-butterfly tattoo who called at the house and became angry when Rachel

Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America

\nThe exciting story of the Welsh immigrants and their descendants who made a disproportionate contribution to the creation and growth of the wealthiest and most powerful nation on earth.\n

Same-Sex Partners

Addressing the lack of understanding regarding the lives of same-sex couples, this book examines the sociodemographic characteristics of partnered gay men and lesbians. The authors draw on U.S. census data to present quantitative analyses of topics pertaining to gay men and lesbians that have previously been relatively unexamined or assessed mainly through qualitative studies. They explore where gay men and lesbians live, why they choose those residences, income inequality, occupations, dimensions of family attachments, relationship commitments, and family structures. The census data allows the authors to provide a more detailed representation of many of the essential features in the lives of gay men and lesbians compared to those of married and cohabiting heterosexuals. In certain cases, the data and analyses reinforce current stereotypes, while in other cases they challenge

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This edition of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is accompanied by an informative foreword and introduction.On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a ground-breaking proclamation: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This milestone document, made up of thirty articles, set out for the first time the fundamental human rights that must be protected by all nations.The full text of that document is reproduced in this book alongside a foreword by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney. John Pinfold's general introduction explores the Declaration's origins, touching on the "Four Freedoms" described by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the role his wife Eleanor Roosevelt took on as chair of the Human Rights Commission and of the drafting committee, and the parts played by other key international members of

An Innocent Baby

When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very

I'll Forget It When I Die!

On July 12, 1917, in the mining town of Bisbee Arizona, twelve hundred striking miners and their supporters were rounded up by forces organized by the town sheriff and the mining companies, marched through the town, parked in the town's baseball field, and then put in boxcars and shipped into the New Mexican desert. The deportees were largely members or supporters of the radical IWW labor union and mostly foreign-born. The roundup and deportation was part of a xenophobic and anti-radical campaign being carried out by bosses and the government throughout the country in the early days of US participation in World War I. The mine owners then took control of the town and patrols prevented any union miners from even entering it. This little-known story is a shocking and fascinating one on its own, but the sentiments exploited and exposed in Bisbee in 1917 speak to America

Moving Beyond

From LA's psychic medium to the A-list stars comes Moving Beyond - a guide to tapping into your intuition, reading signs and communicating with

Physics Experiments with Arduino and Smartphones

This book on the use of Arduino and Smartphones in physics experiments, with a focus on mechanics, introduces various techniques by way of examples. The main aim is to teach students how to take meaningful measurements and how to interpret them. Each topic is introduced by an experiment. Those at the beginning of the book are rather simple to build and analyze. As the lessons proceed, the experiments become more refined and new techniques are introduced. Rather than providing recipes to be adopted while taking measurements, the need for new concepts is raised by observing the results of an experiment. A formal justification is given only after a concept has been introduced experimentally. The discussion extends beyond the taking of measurements to their meaning in terms of physics, the importance of what is learned from the laws that are derived, and their limits. Stress is placed on the importance of careful design of experiments as to reduce systematic errors and on good practices to avoid common mistakes. Data are always analyzed using computer software. C-like structures are introduced in teaching how to program Arduino, while data collection and analysis is done using Python. Several methods of graphical representation of data are used.

Crinkles: Bible Stories

Have interactive fun with baby and very young children introducing three popular Bible stories with its rustling and sounds to make.This simple and colourful tactile cloth book is perfect for sharing during storytime to encourage chatting about David and Goliath, Jonah and Daniel in the lion's den. An exciting book for story time for little hands to spot things and explore.The Crinkles series of cloth books have an irresistible crinkling sound to stimulate active senses in the developmental steps from

Notes on Love

In this delightfully witty and uplifting book, thirty-something Lauren Windle shines a light on the trials and tribulations - and sometimes also the triumphs - of the world of Christian dating.This is not a how-to guide. Like having a coffee with your mates while you pore over your profile matches, heartbreaks and hilarious mishaps, Notes on Love draws on Lauren's own experiences of being single and dating in the Church to offer a funny, insightful and open-hearted collection of musings on the absurdity, messiness, pain and joy of it all.With notes on 'How to first date' and 'A million ways to meet people' to 'Disappointment' and 'Schrodinger's boyfriend', as well as looking at how you can find true love with yourself, your friends and family and above all in Christ, Notes on Love is a thought-provoking

Management of Soft Tissue Trauma, An Issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics of North America

In this issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics, guest editors Jonathan Martin brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Management of Soft Tissue Trauma. - Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on Management of Soft Tissue Trauma, providing actionable insights for clinical practice.Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based

Lustige Arbeitsblatter fur Kinder

Dieses Buch enth lt 20 vollfarbige Arbeitsbl tter f r die Scherenarbeit f r Vorschulkinder. Auf diese Weise kann Ihr Kind seine Feinmotorik, Grobmotorik, visuelle Wahrnehmungsf higkeit und Aufmerksamkeit auf Dauer entwickeln.Der Preis dieses Buches beinhaltet die Erlaubnis, 10 weitere B cher der Reihe im PDF-Format kostenlos herunterzuladen. Details zu a) wie PDFs heruntergeladen werden k nnen und b) wo das Passwort zu finden ist, finden Sie im Buch.Die folgenden herunterladbaren PDF-B cher helfen Ihrem Kind, einen ausgezeichneten Start in die Schule zu schaffen.PDF-DownloadsAusschneiden ynd Einfugen - Roboter von James ManningAusschneiden ynd Einfugen - Monsterfabrik von James ManningAusschneiden ynd Einfugen - Monsterfabrik Band 2 von James Manning

Home Doctor

Home Doctor, as the name suggests, is your very own health-care book - an indispensable companion you can turn to at all times. The culmination of an allopath doctor's long-term involvement with alternative and complementary therapies, it contains over 200 simple and time-tested remedies for every conceivable ailment under the sun: from the nuisance value and discomfort of a common cold, cough and fever, to the severely debilitating effect of diarrhoea or heatstroke. Systematically formatted, the text moves from the causes and symptoms of health problems to directions on how to prepare remedies at home. These remedies, which are non-invasive and totally harmless, can help stem a problem in its nascent form, and often prevent it from developing into a full blown disease. Utilize your kitchen or garden to heal yourself with this lucidly written ready-reckoner interspersed with vibrant

Sam Squirrel has ADHD

Sam Squirrel can't seem to do anything right . . . he keeps getting in trouble at home, school and with his friends. But when Sam and his parents finally meet with Dr Kasey, they discover another reason behind Sam's