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After a disastrous breakup, Kennedy Sinclair decides now is finally the time to pursue her "Life's Short so Eat the Icing First" plan and buy a popular pie shop in the Pacific Northwest. Little does she know dessert won't be the biggest temptation in her new life... Luke Callahan won't rest until Two Bad Apples Hard Cider, his cider brewing company, is a success. And with his family's prize-winning orchards, it's all in his grasp...until his mom reveals she's sold her dessert shop and his apples to a beautiful big-city baker with legs that won't quit. Luke won't take this lying down! He's going to get the Callahan Orchards back and send Kennedy on her way if it kills him. But the longer Luke spends with Kennedy, the more he wants to convince her to stay forever.

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Glory Mann knows what it's like to spend a lifetime trying to outrun a scandal. So when her grandmother and the rest of the Sunday School Mafia play a prank on the mayor and get caught, Glory steps in and refuses to let them take the fall. Her punishment: public service in the form of acting as chairman of the Miss Sugar Peach Pageant. Yet she becomes the envy of Sugar when Cal MacGraw, the most sought after bachelor in town, is elected her right hand man...The last thing Cal MacGraw needs in his life is another woman. Between his meddling grandma and Payton, his hormonal teenage daughter, he has more estrogen in his life than any one man should. So when Payton announces her intention to win the Miss Sugar Peach Pageant and he's elected to the committee, he's determined to change the rules. Swimsuit category? Over his dead body. But as he--and his daughter--spend more time with wild, sensual Glory, he can't deny how electric the chemistry is between them and how strong Payton is growing just being around her. When a secret from Glory's past resurfaces and threatens the pageant, the town is up in arms and Glory is ready to leave for good. Can Cal convince her to give him--and Sugar--another chance?

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The bold, distinctive style of Paula Rego’s paintings has acquired for her not only an ever-increasing critical reputation but also an unusually large and enthusiastic following. Her be-ribboned little-girl heroines and fairy-tale characters seem firmly rooted in childhood, yet the innocence of this art is darkened by the underlying themes of power, domination and rebellion, sexuality and gender, that run through her work. Here Rego has turned to the nursery rhyme as a source for her imagery. It is a genre that perfectly complements her art; full of double meanings, rhymes are written from a child’s perspective but are open to adult interpretation. Twenty-six well-known nursery rhymes are accompanied by a series of etchings which she has executed spontaneously as a child might, drawing directly on the plate without preparatory planning. Following the traditions of earlier artists such as Beatrix Potter, she treats the fantastic realistically, dressing animals in human costume and using dream-like dislocations of scale. These are wonderfully comic and rich illustrations with a hint of the sinister, that turn classic nursery rhymes into colourful stories about folly and delusion, cruelty, convention and sex.

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You've devoured Fifty Shades . . . Now it's time to lose yourself in the Haven of ObedienceTwenty-something Londoner Natalie Bowen is envied by many, but her personal life is a disaster. Men can't cope with her career success and Natalie thinks she'll never find real happiness. Then she hears about an exclusive weekend retreat called The Haven, a place that specialises in introducing you to pleasures you could never have imagined. Shocked at the idea, but unable to resist finding out more, Natalie decides it's time to put her fears behind her. Once at The Haven, Natalie meets the enigmatic and disciplined Simon, a man who is used to getting what he wants. And Natalie may very well have met her match . . .

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We all know that Mary had one little lamb, but what about the others? They can’t bear to let her out of their sight either! Follow Mary, wherever she goes. Look through the die-cut holes in each page to see what her lambs are up to! Bright, colourful illustrations, innovative die cutting and popular rhymes make Books with Holes a must for every child.

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This book discusses the framing of referendum campaigns in the news media, focusing particularly on the case of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Using a comprehensive content analysis of print and broadcast coverage as well as in-depth interviews with broadcast journalists and their sources during this campaign, it provides an account of how journalists construct the frames that define their coverage of contested political campaigns. It views the mediation process from the perspective of those who participate directly in it, namely journalists and political communicators. It puts forward an original theoretical model to account for frame building in the context of referendums in Western media systems, using insights from this and from other cases. The book makes an original contribution to the study of media frames during referendums and is key reading for scholars and students interested in journalism, the processes of political communication and the mediation of politics.

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200 PASTA RECIPES FOR EVERY OCCASION Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook: 200 Pasta Recipes provides everyone with a comprehensive guide to creating 200 easy-to-make and tempting pasta recipes. Whether you fancy a simple Spring Garden Pasta Salad, a Classic Meat Lasagne or a more extravagant pasta dish with Swordfish, Artichoke Hearts & Black Olives, this book supplies recipes for all tastes, appetites and occasions. Every recipe is accompanied by a full-page colour photograph and clever variations and new ideas to give you over 200 meals to choose from. The hardest part for you is deciding which delicious dish to cook first!Check out some of the other titles in the series:Hamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Super SoupsHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Halogen Oven RecipesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Fast Vegetarian RecipesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cakes & BakesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Gluten-Free RecipesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Really Easy RecipesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Tapas & Spanish DishesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 More Slow Cooker RecipesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Delicious DessertsHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Veggie FeastsHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 One Pot MealsHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Student MealsHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Spiralizer RecipesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Easy Indian DishesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 CupcakesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Thai FavouritesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 5:2 Diet RecipesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Light Slow Cooker RecipesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Easy Tagines and MoreHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Low Fat DishesHamlyn All Colour Cookery: 200 Cakes & Bakes

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This significant new book analyses fundamental changes in society-nature interaction: the socioeconomic use of materials, energy and land. The volume presents a number of case studies addressing transitions from an agrarian to an industrial socioecological regime, analysed within the materials and energy flow accounting (MEFA) framework. It is argued that by concentrating on the biophysical dimensions of change in the course of industrialization, social development issues can be explicitly linked to changes in the natural environment. From the historical transition in Europe, to current transitions in developing countries, the book offers a broad and comprehensive analysis of transition processes across scales, from local to national. The comparison of historical and current assessments allows a theory of the underlying patterns of the agrarian-industrial transition to emerge. On this basis, future trends and possible pathways towards (or indeed further departures from) sustainability are discussed.Empirical in character and cautious in its assumptions, this insightful book provides rich and in-depth material for further studies in socioecological research. It will be essential reading for students and researchers of ecological economics, industrial ecology, human ecology, environmental sociology, environmental history, geography as well as land, energy and development studies.

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In the 1920s, with the end of the revolution, the Soviet government began investing resources and energy into creating a new type of book for the first generation of young Soviet readers. In a sense, these early books for children were the ABCs of Soviet modernity; creatively illustrated and intricately designed, they were manuals and primers that helped the young reader enter the field of politics through literature. Children’s books provided the basic vocabulary and grammar for understanding new, post-revolutionary realities, but they also taught young readers how to perceive modern events and communist practices. Relying on a process of dual-media rendering, illustrated books presented propaganda as a simple, repeatable narrative or verse, while also casting it in easily recognizable graphic images. A vehicle of ideology, object of affection, and product of labour all in one, the illustrated book for the young Soviet reader emerged as an important cultural phenomenon. Communist in its content, it was often avant-gardist in its form. Spotlighting three thematic threads – communist goals, pedagogy, and propaganda – The Pedagogy of Images traces the formation of a mass-modern readership through the creation of the communist-inflected visual and narrative conventions that these early readers were meant to appropriate.

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Focuses on the aggregation of recombinant proteins in bacterial cells in the form of inclusion bodies—and on their use in biotechnological and medical applications The first book devoted specifically to the topic of aggregation in bacteria, Protein Aggregation in Bacteria: Functional and Structural Properties of Inclusion Bodies in Bacterial Cells provides a large overview of protein folding and aggregation, including cell biology and methodological aspects. It summarizes, for the first time in one book, ideas and technical approaches that pave the way for a direct use of inclusion bodies in biotechnological and medical applications. Protein Aggregation in Bacteria covers: Molecular and cellular mechanisms of protein folding, aggregation, and disaggregation in bacteria Physiological importance and consequences of aggregation for the bacterial cell Factors inherent to the protein sequence responsible for aggregation and evolutionary mechanisms to keep proteins soluble Structural properties of proteins expressed as soluble aggregates and as inclusion bodies within bacterial cells both from a methodological point of view and with regard to their similarity with amyloids Control of the structural and functional properties of aggregated proteins and use thereof in biotechnology and medicine Protein Aggregation in Bacteria is ideal for researchers in protein science, biochemistry, bioengineering, biophysics, microbiology, medicine, and biotechnology, particularly if they are related with the production of recombinant proteins and pharmaceutical science.

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La presente publicación reúne las intervenciones que diversos especialistas y expertos en el ámbito de la protección del patrimonio cultural subacuático presentaron en el Curso 'Patrimonio arqueológico sumergido: una realidad desconocida'. Con el propósito de avanzar en la reflexión y análisis de las cuestiones que plantea el patrimonio cultural subacuático y de hacerlo en un escenario interdisciplinar que contara con expertos de los diferentes sectores, aprovechamos la oportunidad que cada verano nos brinda la Fundación Observatorio de la Universidad de Málaga, para organizar este primer Curso sobre el Patrimonio Arqueológico Subacuático.

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LOS LÍMITES AL DERECHO DE PROPIEDAD Y LAS PROHIBICIONES DE DISPONER TESTAMENTARIAS: El derecho de propiedad en el ordenamiento jurídico español. Las prohibiciones de disponer como obstáculo al principio de libre comercio y al sistema de economía de merca

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