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A green-eyed mouse called Noah and a blue-eyed mouse called Raffaella see each other's eyes through a small hole in a wall. Both mice let their imagination run wild thinking what strange creature the eye belongs to. Beautifully illustrated, humorously written and brilliantly designed with a real hole in each of its pages to create a peep-show effect, this charming book is a visual treat for children and their parents.

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While poor nutrition and disease plagued medieval Europe, a civilization on the other side of the Atlantic - the Aztecs - thrived, thanks to a healthful high-protein, low-fat diet. At its center was an ancient grain known as chia, a remarkable low-calorie, high-fiber seed bursting with omega-3, iron, calcium, and other nutrients. In a world with an obesity epidemic that shows no sign of slowing down, the secret weapon that helped the ancient Aztecs achieve their greatness is back. Now modern Americans can lose weight, boost energy levels, and improve wellbeing by eating the healthy, delicious foods that nourished these traditional cultures. In this highly readable, easy-to-follow guide, physician Dr. Bob Arnot shows readers how to make chia a central part of a daily diet that includes foods high in protein with few fats and oils, no refined sugars, and limited amounts of wheat. Divided into three parts, "The Aztec Diet" begins by showing you how to jump-start weight loss with a two-week chia smoothie plan. In phase two, you can enjoy a mix of chia smoothies and solid meals-a balance that will make you feel revitalized and lighter. The final phase shows how to sustain a new, healthy lifestyle by incorporating chia into your meal plan. Here, too, are easy, delicious, and flexible set of healthy swaps, meal plans, and superfood additions to help you easily adapt and adhere to new eating habits. "The Aztec Diet" helps reduce their risk of serious conditions, including obesity, heart disease, diabetes, as well as other lesser known maladies, such as raging internal inflammation and wild fluctuations in blood sugar levels that affect daily moods, energy, and wellbeing. Reset your metabolism, drop pounds, and feel more energized and clear-headed-let "The Aztec Diet" help you look and feel like an entirely new person.

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Sie wollen sich einen Mac anschaffen und ihn optimal nutzen können? Oder Sie haben schon einen Mac, wollen aber auf das neue Betriebssystem umsteigen? Dann bildet dieses Buch eine passende Grundlage für den Umgang mit einem Mac. Bob LeVitus zeigt Ihnen alles was Sie im Umgang mit einem Mac wissen müssen. Im Besonderen wird auf das neue Betriebssystem Big Sur eingegangen. Sie lernen wie Sie mit dem Dock umgehen, Safari nutzen und mit den iLife-Programmen arbeiten. Auch für potenzielle Probleme zeigt Ihnen das Buch Möglichkeiten des Troubleshooting und gibt Ihnen hilfreiche Tipps.

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Goodman Games presents Dark Tower DCC Dice for your DCC RPG game. This set of 14 weird RPG dice comes in green and gold, representing the iconic gods of Set and Mitra from the classic adventure Dark Tower. Dark Tower DCC Dice is the perfect accessory when playing Original Adventures Reincarnated #7 Dark Tower or any other fantasy RPG game.Dark Tower DCC Dice include a standard set of seven RPG dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d%, d12, and d20), plus the weird (d3, d5, d7, d14, d16, d24, and d30) dice DCC RPG is known for, all packaged in a plastic tube. The opposite side of the tube insert contains the description of the Desecrated Visage of Mitra, a new magical item for any DCC RPG campaign. Test your luck with these dice today!

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In the second volume of Harrier Boys, as with the first, the history of this remarkable aircraft in service with UK armed forces is illustrated through personal reminiscences of the people who worked with it. The book begins with explanations of the mature concept of operations with the Harrier GR3 in the Cold War. It then progresses through the evolution of Harrier II, starting with the GR5, and updates to the Sea Harrier, while the potential battles to be fought necessitated ever-changing tactics and technology. The new Harriers used digital developments for airframe, engine and weapons control. Conflicts in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan saw ground-attack missions move towards the delivery of smart weapons from medium level, rather than the dumb bombs and low level of the Cold War era meaning that the Harrier had once more to demonstrate its legendary versatility. The introduction of the Sea Harrier FA2, with its beyond visual range air-to-air missiles and improved radar, gave much improved air defence. The UK Harrier story ends with the closer integration of the RN and RAF forces, before the aircraft's all-too-early retirement in 2010, possibly decades before other countries forsake this unique capability.

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Take your students on an imagination journey! Filled with thrilling activities that build creativity in your students, I Believe in Unicorns is a must have for teachers interested in encouraging imaginative thinking. Get an elephant down from a tree, build a monstrous (and odorous) smelt, evaluate the job performance of an octopus who moonlights as a lifeguard, or remove a porcupine from your lunchbox! Activities like these will challenge your students'' creativity and imagination.I Believe in Unicorns offers fun, exciting activities designed to encourage creativity and imagination among children in grades K-4. Written by a master of creativity teaching, this book offers activities that strengthen the skills essential for creative thoughtfluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration.This book was meant to be torn apart! Each student activity page was designed for duplication so that it can be used by individuals or the entire class. Mix these activiti

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Looking at the night sky, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s all quiet up there in space. But you’d be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding: galaxies explode, cosmic debris hurtles through the heavens and our own Milky Way is on a collision course with the giant Andromeda galaxy. Mayhem moulded the cosmos, shaped life on Earth and at times threatened to end it. With an enduring sense of wonder, through cataclysms great and small, Bob Berman presents a destructive history of our universe.

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The world of work has changed and so have trade unions with mergers, rebrandings and new unions being formed. The question is, how positioned are the unions to organize the unorganized? With more than three quarters of UK workers unrepresented and the growth of precarious employment and the gig economy this topical new book by Bob Smale reports up-to-date research on union identities and what he terms ‘niche unionism’, while raising critical questions for the future.

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A rare look at the role of special effects in creating fictional worlds and transmedia franchises From comic book universes crowded with soaring superheroes and shattering skyscrapers to cosmic empires set in far-off galaxies, today’s fantasy blockbusters depend on visual effects. Bringing science fiction from the studio to your screen, through film, television, or video games, these special effects power our entertainment industry. More Than Meets the Eye delves into the world of fantastic media franchises to trace the ways in which special effects over the last 50 years have become central not just to transmedia storytelling but to worldbuilding, performance, and genre in contemporary blockbuster entertainment. More Than Meets the Eye maps the ways in which special effects build consistent storyworlds and transform genres while traveling from one media platform to the next. Examining high-profile franchises in which special effects have played a constitutive role such as Star Trek, Star Wars, The Matrix, and The Lord of the Rings, as well as more contemporary franchises like Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter, Bob Rehak analyzes the ways in which production practices developed alongside the cultural work of industry professionals. By studying social and cultural factors such as fan interaction, this book provides a context for understanding just how much multiplatform storytelling has come to define these megahit franchises. More Than Meets the Eye explores the larger history of how physical and optical effects in postwar Hollywood laid the foundation for modern transmedia franchises and argues that special effects are not simply an adjunct to blockbuster filmmaking, but central agents of an entire mode of production.

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BOB WOODWARD’S NEW BOOK, RAGE, IS AN UNPRECEDENTED AND INTIMATE TOUR DE FORCE OF NEW REPORTING ON THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY FACING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, ECONOMIC DISASTER AND RACIAL UNREST. Woodward, the No 1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump’s head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans. In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months - an utterly vivid window into Trump’s mind - the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the 'dynamite behind every door'. At key decision points, Rage shows how Trump’s responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and style he developed during his first three years as president. Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggled to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making. Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with first-hand witnesses as well as participants’ notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents. Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a 'fantasy film'. Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over Covid-19 and the economic calamity. 'Don’t worry about it, Bob. Okay?' Trump told the author in July. 'Don’t worry about it. We’ll get to do another book. You’ll find I was right.'

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You don't need to own a factory to make toys. Author and toymaker Bob Knetzger has been making fun stuff all his life with simple technology like vacuum forming and mold-making. In an age where makers are tantalized by the capabilities of 3d printers and other digital fab technology, this book takes you back to old-school hand tools, simple electronics, and working with metal and plastic to make toys every bit as good as those you can find in a big-box store. This book has something for everyone, from a marble maze to a talking booby trap; from custom cookie cutters to an "EZ Make" oven. Discover the basic principles of science, electronics, and engineering through hands-on projects that range from easy to more challenging...and are always fun!

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Adult social care was the first major social policy domain in England to be transferred from the state to the market. There is now a forty-year period to look back at to consider the thinking behind the strategy, the impacts on commissioners and providers of care, on the care workforce and on those who use care and support services. In this book, Bob Hudson meticulously charts these shifts. He challenges the dominant market paradigm, explores alternative models for a post-Covid-19 future and locates the debate within the wider literature on political thinking and policy change.

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The long-term causes and nexus of power behind the UK’s housing crisis are under scrutiny in this passionately argued and radical critique of current housing and planning policies and practices. Colenutt reveals how a network of landowners, house-builders, financial backers and politicians lock in a cycle of low supply and high prices, and proposes much-needed answers to one of the biggest social challenges of our age.

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'As a comedian, Bob Mortimer spins a shaggy-dog story like nobody else, and this is a rollicking old-school yarn' The Guardian Mortimer's verbal specificity and off-kilter humour will keep his fans chuckling' The Times WARNING -this book includes: heavy crimes, car journeys, dreadfulness, large fruits, romance, planning applications, and a lot of pie. Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of his legal job in Peckham and eating pies with his next door neighbour, Grace and her dog Lassoo, or should he move to Brighton, where his girlfriend Emily is about to open The Hotel Avocado? Either way, he'd be letting someone down. But sinister forces are gathering in a cloud of launderette scented-vape smoke, and the arrival of the mysterious Mr Sequence puts Gary in an even worse predicament: soon he might be dead. All Gary wants is a happy life. But he also wants to be alive to enjoy it THE HILARIOUS AND GRIPPING NEW NOVEL BY

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