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This is a book about one of the first recorded pilgrims who climbed Mount Sinai; it's about Amelia Earhart, the famous American aviator whose story and disappearance continues to capture the world's imagination. It's the story of a doomed expedition to discover the North West Passage, and the tale of Marco Polo, who remained at the court of the Kublai Khan for an incredible 17 years. 'Great Explorers' brings to life the pioneers in aviation flying thousands of miles with the most basic of maps in open cock-pits, exposed to the elements and the unrelenting smell of petrol fumes. They travel by steamboat, on horse-back, by rickshaw, motorbike, train, swim with piranhas, embark into black nothingness in new space craft, explore by jeep, yachts, tea boats and elephants, disguise themselves as men, take canoes and use innovative, advanced technological scuba equipment. Going where in many cases, no man or woman had ever gone before, some women featured in 'Great Explorers' were often denied respect, acknowledgement or recognition and they determined to break the 'mens club' mentality of global exploration from which they were excluded. Marco Polo: "This desert is reported to be so long that it would take a year to go from end to end; and at the narrowest point it takes a month to cross it. It consists entirely of mountains and sands and valleys. There is nothing at all to eat."

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FOCUS Exam Practice: Cambridge English Key for Schools offers students intensive exam practice and support, and works alongside the Students' Book. Powered by Practice Tests Plus, it combines realistic exam practice with guidance and strategies for dealing with each exam paper.

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"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

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The Ninth Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain-and they were never seen again. Four thousand men disappeared and their eagle standard was lost. It's a mystery that's never been solved, until now . . . So begins the story of The Eagle of the Ninth, set against a backdrop of Roman Britain and featuring a young soldier, Marcus Aquila, who sets off into the unknown north to find out what happened to the lost legion. Following on from this are The Silver Branch in which two young soldiers uncover a plot to overthrow the Emperor, and The Lantern Bearers which is set at a time when the Romans are leaving the shores of Britain and tells of Aquila who, having served in the Roman army, is now returning home to his farm-but when he gets there everything he knows and loves has been destroyed and so he sets out to seek revenge. To have three such exciting stories in one volume is a treat for fans old and new.

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Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed. Nineteen years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture.God’s Architect is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40. It is the debut of a remarkable historian and biographer.

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There's nothing much left to feel good about these days if you're British, but one of the few things where we all agree that we're still a world leader is our defining sense of humour. Thematically covering every subject imaginable, from God to dogs, this collection is the seminal gathering of our national wit and a picture of who we are as a nation - a monument to our monumental silliness.'An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.' George MikesJane Austen, Jo Brand, Craig Brown, Winston Churchill, Alan Clark, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly, Peter Cook, Tommy Cooper, Stephen Fry, A.A. Gill, Boris Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Maureen Lipman, Spike Milligan, Eric Morecambe, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Frank Skinner, Sue Townsend, Peter Ustinov, Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, Victoria Wood and many more.

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Estimats amics rosegadors: el curs ja s?acaba i les vacances són a tocar! Així que he tingut una idea extraràtica... Què us semblaria venir a visitar-me a Ratalona aquest estiu? Junts, passarem unes vacances divertidíssimes i us convertireu en enviats especials de L?Eco del Rosegador!El quadern inclou illustracions a color, fragments de les meves aventures i un espai fi nal en què podreu refl ectir tot allò que us passi durant vacances i que vulgueu guardar de record.Una manera de divertir-vos alhora que treballeu totes les assignatures de l?escola. Segur que passeu un estiu de bigotis!

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The volume includes six papers in quantitative economic history. Peter Mancall, Josh Rosenbloom, and Tom Weiss consider growth in colonial North America, while Gary Richardson examines the role of bank failures in propagating the Great Depression. John Komlos examines the heights of rich and poor youth in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Klas Fregert and Roger Gustafson provide a synoptic view of public finances in Sweden from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Drew Keeling studies the economics of the steamship industry that facilitated migration between Europe and the United States between 1900 and 1914. Finally, Gregg Huff and Giovanni Caggiano examine the integration of labor markets in Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It includes original articles written by experts on the subjects and articles supported by quantitative data.

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From the hilarious mind of bestselling creator Zachariah OHora comes this charmingly offbeat and true-to-life tale of sibling conflict, with a fresh twist on the “copycat”Elise and her younger sister, Rosemont, get along well—most of the time.But there’s one thing about her sister that drives Elise mad . . .Rosemont copies everything her sister does! Relatable to anyone who’s ever been frustrated by a copycat—er, copydog—this hilarious and sweet story from Zachariah OHora shows how no one can annoy you—or be there for you—quite like a sibling.

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Oberbayern mit seiner überreichen Kunstlandschaft wird hier in einer aktualisierten Auflage umfassend dargestellt. Der Band wurde 16 Jahre nach der Neubearbeitung von 1990 gründlich überarbeitet und berücksichtigt die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse. Er erfasst rund 2 500 Orte, darunter ausführlich die Landeshauptstadt München. Zahlreiche Lagepläne und Grundrisse sowie ein ausführlicher Kartenteil ergänzen ihn. Das beliebte Reiseland Oberbayern bietet seinen Besuchern neben der grandiosen Landschaft bau- und kunsthistorisch reiche Städte wie die Metropole München, die Bischofssitze Eichstätt und Freising, den ehemaligen Herzogssitz Ingolstadt, zahlreiche lokale Zentren wie Rosenheim, Wasserburg, Mühldorf, Altötting oder Traunstein. Zudem gibt es zauberhafte kleine Märkte und Dörfer mit einzigartiger Ortsanlage, Baustruktur und hochwertigen Denkmälern wie majestätischen Klosteranlagen und Wallfahrtskirchen, Schlössern und Burgen, Stadtmauern, Rat- und Bürgerhäusern. Es finden sich nicht nur Bauten aus Barock und Rokoko, die die Kunstlandschaft Oberbayerns stark geprägt haben, sondern auch Denkmäler aus allen anderen Kunstepochen bis ins 20. Jahrhundert.

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This valuable volume addresses the growing consumer demand for novel functional food products and for high-value, nutritionally rich products by focusing on the sources and applications of bioactives from food. The chapters in the book describe functional properties and discuss applications of the selected food ingredients obtained from various sources, including culinary banana, phalsa, pseudocereals, roselle calyces, asparagus, and more.Several chapters address the resurgence of interest in pseudocereals due to their excellent nutritional and biological values, gluten-free composition, and the presence of some health-promoting compounds. The book also looks at utilizing industrial byproducts for making functional and nutraceutical ingredients. The chapters on prebiotics and probiotics highlight different functional properties, and a chapter on food allergens discusses advancements in detection and management in the food manufacturing industries.

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From 1992 to 2004, Dia Art Foundation presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, in which a distinguished array of scholars, critics and cultural historians engaged in cross-disciplinary critical discourse around Dia's exhibition program. The lectures were subsequently collected into a related series of publications, providing a valuable record and extending the debate on contemporary artistic practice and theory. This fifth and final volume focuses on analyses of the work of internationally recognized artists Jo Baer, Pierre Huyghe, Vera Lutter, Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel and Robert Whitman.

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“A tough test of the intellectual mettle of the armchair atheists and those teetering between faith and committing to life without it.”—Boston Globe

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La cla?ssica llegenda de Sant Jordi amb un enfocament una mica diferent. En aquest cas, la princesa i el cavaller Sant Jordi derroten plegats el drac. I, a me?s, aquest any el llibre fa olor de rosa!

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La princesa Sara no quiere ir al cole. Prefiere aprenderse las lecciones... a base de inyecciones!

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En Vasya Kandinsky es passava el dia educant-se per a ser un nen rus com Déu mana..., fins que la seva tieta li va regalar una petita caixa de fusta, plena de pintures. En Vasya va barrejar el vermell amb el groc, després el vermell amb el blau... A mesura que canviaven els colors, sentia un xiuxiueig... Sentia con cantaven els colors!

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Respuestas claras para las preguntas más difíciles.Los niños se hacen todo tipo de preguntas sobre las temáticas más diversas, y en este libro tendrán una primera respuesta, a menudo como elemento de reflexión per pensar en ello o para comentarlo con los adultos. Hay preguntas sobre la sociedad, los seres humanos, los sentimientos, la familia, la escuela o el medio ambiente.

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An honest, in-depth guide to becoming a member of Pagan Clergy.

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In a far-future society where biotechnology has revolutionised gender, young Fift must decide whether to conform or carve a new path. In the distant future somewhere in the galaxy, a society has emerged where everyone has multiple bodies, cybernetics has abolished privacy, and individual and family success within the rigid social system is reliant upon instantaneous social approbation. Young Fift is an only child of the staid gender, struggling to maintain their position in the system while developing an intriguing friendship with the poorly publicised bioengineer Shria - somewhat controversial, since Shria is bail gendered. In time, Fift and Shria unintentionally wind up at the center of a scandalous art spectacle which turns into the early stages of a multi-layered revolution against their strict societal system. Suddenly they become celebrities and involuntary standard-bearers for the upheaval. Fift is torn between the survival of Shria and the success of their family cohort; staying true to their feelings and caving under societal pressure. Whatever Fift decides will make a disproportionately huge impact on the future of the world. What's a young staid to do when the whole world is watching?

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Award-Winner in the “Business: Personal Finance/Investing” category of the 2016 International Book Awards KEEP MORE OF YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY AT TAX TIME The tax code may be bloated, but that doesn’t mean your check to the IRS has to be. Let Deduct Everything! be your ultimate guide to lowering your annual tax bill. This comprehensive guide to legal deductions, credits and loopholes covers: • Rules of thumb for record-keeping and how to stay organized • Secrets to mortgage, tax and insurance deductions • Maximizing work-related expenses • Making the most of medical expense and health savings accounts • Strategies for utilizing deductions and credits for education • Bonus: Lots of tips on how to make more money—some of it tax-free

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Kids are deeply concerned about the state of their world. These titles show how the environment was damaged and how it can be repaired.

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