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A smorgasbord of vignettes and tidbits about the quirky—and sometimes downright odd—origins of various kitchen inventions, products, and foodstuff, How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun includes seventy-five short essays that will dispel popular myths and draw lines between food facts and food fiction. Charming text combined with simple line illustrations makes this an attractive gift book and go-to source book for all food and trivia buffs.

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The official U.S. Army field manual—with more than 100 illustrations of zombie combat techniques The United States Army is prepared for every kind of combat. This is the Soldier’s Zombie Combat Field Manual. It explains how to perform the combat skills needed to survive on the battlefield against the hordes of the Undead. All Soldiers, across all branches, must learn these basic skills in preparation for battle against reanimated corpses. Combat against the Undead is chaotic, intense, and shockingly destructive. In a soldier's first battle, he will experience the confusing and often terrifying sights, sounds, smells, and dangers of the zombie battlefield—and he must learn to survive and win despite them. He will be surrounded by destruction, death, and the Undead. The air will be filled with the smell of explosives, propellant, and decaying flesh. He will hear the screams of a devoured comrade. But, if he follows the training provided in this book, he can win in battle against zombies and return home with honor. * Individual Readiness * Zombie Combat Care and Preventive Medicine * Environmental Conditions * Cover, Concealment, and Camouflage * Fighting Positions * Movement * Urban Area Procedures * “Every Soldier is a Sensor” * Zombie Combat Marksmanship * Communications * Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape

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Reconstructing Value prepares contemporary business leaders for the increasingly important task of developing a sustainability vision and translating it across levels in an organization. The book is based on insights gained over the past decade from research involving hundreds of practitioners, front line managers to senior executives, who have been working to integrate sustainability within their organizations. It illustrates how building capacity for managing the complex issues of sustainability requires key process skills that leaders need to develop. This book equips readers to respond to the risks and opportunities presented by global sustainability issues and reinvent new ways of doing business that will enhance organizational effectiveness while also building a more sustainable world. Each chapter includes process questions to guide reflective practice and to build the requisite leadership capabilities for turning a sustainability vision into a value-added organizational strategy. Reconstructing Value helps readers to build integrative thinking skills - such as how to engage critical, complexity, strategic and design thinking capabilities to enable organizational change - that can assist them with becoming successful sustainability champions within their organizations.

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No other astrology book for beginners and intermediates is as easy-to-follow and visually stunning as Knack Astrology. With some 400 full-color photographs and illustrations that provide quick interpretive and reference tools, it begins with the cosmic clock, takes readers through the signs and houses of the Zodiac, and teaches the basics of reading and interpreting a birth chart. Chock-full of useful interpretations of signs, planets in signs, aspects, and synastry, it ensures that readers will come away with a sufficient understanding of astrological charts to begin creating their own.

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The shocking undead discovery of a military historian ·Zombies remain popular – from The Walking Dead to Ash vs. Evil Dead, they just won’t go away ·A gifty, zombie collector’s item ·Authentic military design with 150 illustrations Unearthed from a dusty Army archive, here are portions of two draft manuals instructing soldiers on how to confront . . . ZOMBIES! Now declassified, these files offer a guided tour of the U.S. Army’s adaptable approach to the zombie menace: first through battle strategies and field tactics, and later through instruction on capturing and retraining zombies to use as military assets. Showcasing the seemingly outrageous illustrations from the original volumes, a military historian has selected points of interest, such as the use of zombie combatants during the Cold War, or changes in zombie behavior.

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The official U.S. Navy field manual-with more than 100 illustrations of pirate combat techniques and equipment.

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When a zombie is taken prisoner by the Army, it need not be uselessly destroyed. In fact, just as our Army trains dogs for combat roles, it has a program to train the captured Undead for combat roles. No zombie that our Army can capture will go unutilized. This is our Army's "No Zombie Left Behind" policy.The manual in your hands is the Department of Defense's principal source of information on care, conditioning, training, and operations of our Army's Working Zombies – such as Blech!, the brave zombie who served in a capacity similar to that of his canine comrade Cairo in the raid that killed Bin Laden. From basics, such as "HEEL" and "STAY" to negotiating obstacle courses, to tracking, searching, attacking, and even zombies working undercover in the real world, this manual shows readers how our military trains zombies to be soldier zombies. Illustrations depict the dos and don'ts of zombie care, training, and operations. Contents include: * Zombie-Veterinary Training Priorities * Principles of Conditioning and Behavior Modification * Patrol Zombie Training * Clear Signals Training Method * Deferred Final Response * Detector Zombie Training Validation * The Military Working Zombie Program (MWZ Program) * Facilities and Equipment * And more . . .

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