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I have finally found the solution to my problem of being overweight! I love it! I am losing weight faster and easier now than ever on any other diet. And I feel great while doing it! This is simply a new way of living for me. I have learned some very simple but important rules about how and what to eat. Rules that are easy to follow indefinitely. I never want to be overweight again - and now I don't have to. My recommendation is: Read this book, follow the very simple principles and you will easily lose a lot of punds very fast and feel great at the same time! You'll love it!

The collaborative effort of author Jonathan Emmett and illustrator Curtis Jobling, Dinosaurs After Dark is a playful and entertaining story of Bobby, a young boy who follows the crunching step of giant feet at night, and finds dinosaurs after dark in the city square! Dinosaurs After Dark is an energetic tale, brought to life with bright, stylized color artwork, and especially recommended for beginning readers.

A comprehensive yet easy-to-use guide book. A woman of talent and tenacity shows her readers how to succeed in eTrading!

Chances are you never heard of Dorothea Bate; she was one of those last Victorian Britons who made her way into science by the amateur study of natural history. The practice of observing, collecting, classifying, and displaying natural specimens was an acceptable hobby for gentlemen and ladies, but Bate pursued it with astonishing passion and effectiveness. As much of her life as can be reconstructed is happily related in _Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate_ (HarperCollins) by Karolyn Shindler. There were more than the usual difficulties of writing the biography of this important woman, and Shindler has made them part of the narrative, as the title implies. Bate's private effects, personal letters and diaries, and other mementos of her intimate life passed to her sister at Dorothea's death in 1951. The sister's home burned three years later, along with the remnants of Dorothea's life, leaving only her scientific journals and papers. It is enough, as she never married and her life consisted of her work. Shindler has fashioned an admiring narrative of a woman with many traditional feminine characteristics gamely pursuing life in the field and also in the male-dominated scientific world of the time.

In 1898 when she was nineteen, Bate marched beyond the public areas of the magnificent Natural History Museum in South Kensington, announced herself, and stated that she wanted to see the Curator of Birds, in charge of the Bird Room. The room was a male preserve, and "that she had aspirations to join them must have been one of the most astonishing ideas that any of the scientists had ever confronted." She somehow got stationed at a table of bird skins, showing her expertise at sorting them into species. She was eventually to work for the museum, both for it in the field and within it, for her entire life. She impressed the geology department the same way two years later with finds from a cave near her home, and her career of collecting took off. She traveled on her own to Cyprus, Crete, and the Balearic Islands, where her most strenuous efforts were in getting to the remote limestone caves around the islands. She found Pleistocene remains of pygmy elephants and hippos, as well as much more, and crated them up to the museum. She became a valuable in-house member of the geology department, working for the museum until her death.

Bate's scientific journals were semi-official documents that were ready to be read by others, so Shindler produces fewer actual personal quotations from them than might be expected in a biography such as this. Nevertheless, in her letters and in the memoirs of those around her, Bate does show as a woman who is "witty, acerbic, clever, and courageous." A woman who knew her at Crete said she was "one of the jolliest, most capable, and fearless girls I ever knew." She was a nurturing guide and consultant, invaluable because of her huge store of knowledge, and one later curator who tried to tally all the papers and books thanking her for her help could not keep up with the huge number. Sadly, her family never did understand her; after reading Bate's obituary, her sister admitted, "I personally never heard about many of these things she did." Shindler admits that Bate "of necessity, is defined by what she did rather than who she was," but what she did makes for a portrait of a woman happily and constructively engaged in intellectual endeavors she exuberantly assigned to herself.

Teppic, prince of a country that closely resembles Ancient Egypt has been sent to Ankh-Morpork to be trained as an assassin. This is a practical career choice for someone who will one day reign as Pharaoh in the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi.

News of the old Pharaoh's death arrives in Ankh-Morpork via magical phenomena such as vegetation sprouting wherever Teppic steps. He makes his way back to Djelibeybi, filled with new-fangled ideas on how to move his country out of the Millennium of the Pyramid and into the Century of the Fruit Bat.

But the pyramids themselves are formidable enemies to progress. They trap time. Prince Teppic's father is dead, but he is still sentient and horribly aware that he is being turned into a mummy. He has high hopes that his son will end all of this death-worshiping nonsense, but Teppic is guilt-tripped by the high priest into building his father the biggest pyramid of all.

When the young king finally realizes that the mad, old high priest is the real ruler of Djelibeybi, he dons his black assassin's outfit and sets about rescuing beautiful handmaidens, thwarting the sacred crocodiles and their priests, and confronting Djelibeybi's ancient animal-headed gods.

Not bad for a kid who started out by letting the grass grow under his feet.

"Pyramids" is not part of a Discworld miniseries, but stands alone as a satire on religion, ancestor worship, ancient Greek philosophers, mathematicians, piratical merchants (another great career opportunity for a graduate of the Assassins Guild) and anything else Pratchett felt like taking a swing at.

This is ancient Egypt and Classical Greece as seen through the eyes of a mathematical genius who happens to be a camel, a young assassin who happens to be a king, and a mummy who would rather not spend the rest of his afterlife in Discworld's biggest pyramid.

This is one of the few (very few) books that really deliver what they promise. Very simple: just a selection of stories, but man are they hot! Good ideas, plenty of variety and people that you feel you could know. Roll on the next one!

I have studied with Ron in the past and everything he teaches in his workshops is in this book! He definitely shows how to eliminate all the clutter when you're painting on location and get down to the "bare-bones" of it, creating more impact and life into your paintings.
The mainstay of the book is the Principles of Design which gives you a sort of checklist by which to gauge your painting's progress; he also places heavy emphasis on doing a tonal sketch first to allow you to sort out where your lights, mediums and darks go (something many students won't do). Using these principles has improved my painting abilities at least 150%.
His style of writing is easily read, and you feel as though you were talking with him, rather than reading a book.
If you can't take one of his classes, this is the next best thing!

This is the story of a woman who underwent a minimum of 10 surgeries for a severe case of Crohn's. It's very realistic and it deals a lot with the psychological and social aspects of IBD. It was nominated for the Governor-General's Award in Canada and is fast becoming a favorite among people with IBD that have seen surgery a time or two

At last! A practical guide to put anyone on the road to 'free' publicity.

The grass-roots approach cuts through the mysterious air (ie: 'the crap') often hanging round PR and publicity issues and beloved by practitioners desperate to play their cards close to their chest.

Penny's advice is simple, easy to follow and should guarantee results. It won't turn everybody into PR professionals as there's a bit more too it than securing media coverage, but then, that's not the aim of the book.

As well as the sound 'can't go wrong' advice, there's templates and examples that lead readers through the process of putting together news releases etc.

Altogether a brilliant guide that brings the seemingly impossible task of generating publicity well within reach of any small business or enthusiastic individual. Brilliant. And not before time.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book! The stories are very short, light-hearted and come with an unexpected and amusing twist. Great for busy people as you can read a story or two in the time it takes to have a coffee.