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Managing attention-deficit disorder (ADD) as an adult is a constant challenge. You may notice that your mind sometimes wanders during conversations. Maybe you keep misplacing your keys. Or your ADD may be causing bigger problems in your life, making it difficult to keep in touch with friends and family and leading you to procrastinate on important projects.
10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD offers ten easy ways to better manage your symptoms and live better with ADD. Written by noted author and acclaimed ps... read more

Napkins add a touch of elegance and sophistication to the table - they are functional as well as decorative, and this beautiful book gives you all the skills, techniques and expertise needed to create stunning table decorations to a professional catering and hotel standard. This beautiful volume includes an amazing 100 folding designs, each one developed to complement different types of table layout, event, occasion or even specific foods. The folds are graded from simple designs that can be put together quickly to more complex fol... read more

Woodworkers and furniture enthusiasts alike have long loved the practical, durable, and attractive style of classic American furniture, and this collection of projects are suitable to grace all home interiors - from traditional layouts to more contemporary arrangements. A step-by-step instruction aid, each project is accompanied by detailed shop drawings that break down component parts into a manageable assemblage.

 

This fabulous collection of 325 recipes draws on Italy's fresh, healthy produce and traditional repertoire of tasty, colourful dishes. It includes all the most popular Italian dishes from tempting antipasti to warming pasta and risotto dishes, succulent grilled fish and meat dishes, and delicious desserts, cakes and breads. Try regional recipes such as Vermicelli with Clam Sauce from Naples, Tagliatelle with Bolognese sauce from Bologna, Monkfish with Tomato and Olive Sauce from Calabria and Corsican Beef Stew with Macaroni. Most o... read more

Chinese Tea Master Jason C.S. Chen has spent the past twenty-two years deeply involved in the business of tea. He has visited most of the best known tea gardens in China where authentic and traditional tea is grown. During these trips he has always had his camera at his side. This, the second book in the Tea Lover's Travel Diary series, documents, photographically, the most popular tea in the world: Green Tea. This book is a photographic exploration of the creation of the top four green teas in the world from harvest processi... read more

 
This is a delicious and mouth-watering collection of 500 recipes for the world's best-loved cookies, bars and biscuits. Try spicy ginger snaps, salted peanut cookies, traditional brandy snap, Maryland chocolate chip cookies, pink sugared hearts, chocolate walnut bars, Yorkshire fat rascals, cheddar pennies and many, many more tasty bites. At-a-glance nutritional notes provide an accurate breakdown of fat, calories, fibre, and cholesterol. A superb photograph of each finished cookie completes this perfect baking b... read more

Preserving fruit and vegetables as pickles, jellies, chutneys and relishes is an age-old technique that enabled the storage of fresh produce in a form that would last through the cold winters when fresh food was scarce. Nowadays pickling and preservation forms part of a nostalgic shift to a simpler, healthy, self-sufficient life, and a rejection of the many artificial flavourings found in shop-bought varieties. A short introduction shows the process of preserving, whether by heat sterilization or by drying, salting, or adding sugar... read more

In this title, deliciously healthy soups, starters, main courses, desserts and cakes are shown step by step in more than 70 colour photographs. This is a superb collection of fat-free and low-fat recipes for fabulous and healthy meals. It includes six flavour-packed chapters: Soups, Starters & Snacks; Midweek Meals; Special Occasions; Vegetables & Salads; Desserts; and, Cakes, Bakes & Cookies. Every recipe includes at-a-glance nutritional notes highlighting immediately how little fat each contains. The finished di... read more

The history and origins of risotto explored in fascinating detail, this book is a celebration of one of the world's best-loved classic dishes, with over 80 delicious risotto recipes.


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The food and cooking of Singapore is rich in diverse cultural influences and food traditions, with many gastronomical delights to be enjoyed. In this book, you'll find a collection of over 80 recipes, bringing together a fusion of the Chinese, Malay and Indian flavours that define this unique cuisine. All the classics are included, from Samosas and Chicken Satay to Lotus-leaf Rice and Singapore Chilli Crab. There are also some wonderful sweet snacks, such as Jellied Mango Puddings and Glutinous Rice with Coconut. More than 450 mo... read more

Renowned sales trainer, Brian Tracy, calls The ABC of Sales "an exciting tale of success and achievement. ... It gives you the tools and strategies to achieve all your goals." Author Daniel Milstein shares eight secrets for consistently reaching high sales levels and lays out in clear understandable language what it takes to be a sales superstar. You'll peer inside the mind of a successful sales talent so rare that universities will use this book for their business classes. We're not talking theory here-Dan Milstein is... read more

The ABCs of Yoga for Kids Learning Cards are the perfect companion to The ABCs of Yoga for Kids book by Teresa Anne Power. These fifty-six flashcards contain the colorful illustrations from the book, along with the corresponding letters of the alphabet and the yoga postures they represent. It's perfect for not only learning yoga, but the alphabet as well. Each pose delightfully promotes flexibility and coordination while encouraging kids to incorporate healthy activity into their daily lives.

Ageless Spine, Lasting Health clearly illustrates just how the body is designed to work and what true fitness and graceful aging can look like when we simply sit, stand, bend, walk, lift, reach, and even sleep in a natural way.

Jorrit Smink, Dutch journalist and himself a soccer coach, had the chance to report on world famous club Ajax Amsterdam for a full season. This book is a collection of 40 drills used by coaches at the various levels at Ajax, including head coach of the first team and legendary More...
Dutch superstar, Ronald Koeman. Topics covered include: Warm Up Drills, Conditioning Drills, Shooting Drills, Goalkeeping Drills, Positional Play Drills, and more

Ever since the late 1960s, Adrian Mitchell has been one of Europe's best-selling poets. His poetry's simplicity, clarity, passion, and humour show his allegiance to a vital, popular tradition embracing William Blake, as well as the blues. This collection, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, is a tangled jungle of daydreams, pacifist kickboxing, blues reports, animal caresses, songs of the howling desert and hospital jokes.



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Margo Talbot's unflinchingly honest account of a childhood characterized by abuse and neglect, her descent into depression, addiction, and criminal activity is both heartbreaking and, ultimately, inspiring. Finding redemption and healing through her passion for the outdoors and, in particular, ice climbing, this memoir is a stirring testament to the power of the human spirit and the healing force of nature.

Inger Christensen is one of Denmark's best-known poets. Her poetry reflects a complex philosophical background, yet it has enjoyed wide public popularity. Many of her poems have a visionary quality, yet she is a paradoxically down-to-earth visionary, focusing on the simple stuff of everyday life and in it discovering the metaphysical, as if by chance.In alphabet, Christensen creates a framework of psalm-like forms that unfold like expanding universes, crystallizing into words both the beauty and the potential for destruction ... read more

The uniforms from the 19th century are some of the most colourful and varied in the history of uniformology. In this book there are artworks of familiar Austrian hussars, Prussian dragoons, French chasseurs, American continentals and British grenadiers, but also Boer farmers, Zulu, Apache and Souix warriors, Boxers from the Chinese rebellion, and rebel Sepoys from the Great Indian mutiny. As well as illustrations of the uniforms, equipment and kit, the expert text examines the organization, tactics and experience of the men-at-arm... read more

As well as illustrations of the soldiers, equipment and kit - with over 600 colour pictures in total and an unrivalled level of detail in the depiction of the uniforms - the campaigns and battles aer explained with specially commissioned maps and plans, and colour plates and fine-art paintings of the period.  The expert text, a collaboration of renowned miliatry historians Kevin F Kiley and Digby Smith, examines the organisation, tactics and experience of the men-at-arms of these pivotal and formative times.  this compreh... read more

"Anatomy of Hatha Yoga" now revised and updated with full four color illustrations and photos, remains the most authoritative source correlating the study of hatha yoga with anatomy and physiology. This book describes the philosophy and postures of hatha yoga with an objective analysis correlating these postures with biomedicine. Using anatomically precise terminology, the book discusses the effects of hatha yoga on major body systems. The book provides a comprehensive overview of anatomy of physiology of hatha yoga with spe... read more