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Imagine a book that transports kids thousands of miles away with the fresh, healthy dishes of different lands. This book leads little people to explore countries and cuisines to try themselves. Simple recipes, using fresh, healthy and easy-to-source ingredients, with suggested substitutions, will open up different tastes, aromas and cuisines. With charming maps, interesting facts, health benefits of various foods and glorious photos that put the dishes in their home contexts, the book includes staple foods and popular dishes from a range of countries from Brazil to Thailand. Each recipe has step by step instructions that kids can follow easily, and simple serving suggestions to make the meal look fantastic. Each chapter homes in on a country with both interesting information such as climate and native landscape/animals. It focuses on healthy food products and famous dishes with a combination of 2 or 3 classic local recipes reworked with up-to-date twists using easily-accessible ingredients for kids to try. Take your kid on an amazing culinary journey of adventure without having to leave the kitchen!

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Dick Digger, an old pal of Lucky Luke's, has struck gold in the hills. Spending the night in a hotel on his way home to stake his claim, a careless display of his new-found wealth attracts the attention of two bandits who knock him out and rob him - unwittingly taking the map to his mine with them as well! With Digger injured, it's up to Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper to chase the thieves and recover the map.

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On a cattle drive to New Mexico, Lucky Luke travels through Langtry, home of self-appointed judge Roy Bean. A crook and a cheat who invents laws and concocts offences, Bean arrests Luke and confiscates his herd. But he doesn't count on the arrival of another crook and cheat intent on poaching the old man's game. It will be up to our favourite cowboy to sort it out and bring real law west of the Pecos River at last.

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Don't blame legendary Adam (or Dawkins)! Suffering is unavoidable in God's best possible, free world, where evolution's gains outweigh losses.

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Australian Forest Woods describes about 130 of the most significant Australian forest trees and their wood. The introductory sections introduce the reader to the uniqueness and usefulness of forest trees. The book examines the forest tree species and their wood with photographs, botanical descriptions and a summary of the characteristics of the wood. A section on wood identification includes fundamental information on tree growth and wood structure, as well as images of the basic characteristics. With over 900 images, this is the most comprehensive guide ever written on Australian forest woods, both for the amateur and the professional wood enthusiast. Macrophotographs of the wood are shown in association with a physical description of wood characteristics, which will aid identification. This technique was developed by Jean-Claude Cerre, France, and his macrophotographs are included in the book. FEATURES: Over 900 colour images Species descriptions, including a summary of the characteristics of the wood A section on wood identification, including fundamental information on tree growth and wood structure First time that macrophotographs of wood have been shown in association with a physical description of wood characteristics. This technique was developed by Jean-Claude Cerre, France.

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