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Suguru Puzzle Books - 400 Easy to Master Puzzles 8x8 (Volume 4)
Suguru (also known as "Number Blocks") is a logic puzzle that has simple rules, but which provides sufficient challenges to satisfy the most enthusiastic solvers!
The task consists of a rectangular or square grid divided into regions.
Each region must be filled with each of the digits from 1 to the number of cells in the region.
Cells with the same digits must not be orthogonally or diagonally adjacent.
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Science of Hiit: Understand the Anatomy and Physiology to Transform Your Body
Train your way to a leaner, stronger body in half the time or less!
Get ready to break a serious sweat with this scientific guide to HIIT training! Discover everything you need to know to achieve the best results from your HIIT workouts by understanding the muscle action needed to perfect each exercise.
Inside the pages of this fitness book, you'll explore the physiology of more than 90 essential HIIT exercises! It is packed with: - Specially commissioned CGI artworks depicting all the main HIIT resistance exercises -- from burpees to plank jacks -- and variations that add or reduce the challenge.
- CGI artwork features color-coding to highlight how the muscles, ligaments and joints engage, stretch and relax to perform each exercise.
- Training programs, tailored to different abilities and goals, provide suggested workouts with a progressive increase in challenges over weeks and months.
- Easy-to-follow infographics help explain the hard science behind why HIIT training is so efficient, and what beneficial physical adaptations it can bring. High-intensity interval training is a fantastic way to lose weight and get strong by performing very short bursts of targeted exercise. Recent scientific research shows that HIIT is the most efficient form of exercise for raising fitness levels and increasing cardio-respiratory health. Science of HIIT reveals the facts to help you optimize the benefits of HITT to your body and mind. The clear CGI artwork details the mechanics of each exercise, correct body posture, the muscles involved and how they engage to perform movements. You'll also learn the knowledge and tools needed to be able to create your own bespoke workouts. This HIIT guide will completely transform your performance and help you smash your goals! DK Publishing's Science of series helps readers discover the research and scientific theories behind exercise and sport. It's perfect for training at home or the gym. Other sport science books in this series include Science of Yoga and Science of Strength Training.Sold out -
Picket Line: No Nerds - No Birds The strike that grounded Boeing's planes.
On February 9, 2000, the largest white-collar strike in the private sector in U.S. labor history was called against the Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington. The engineers and technicians represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) IFPTE Local 2001 walked away from good-paying jobs for forty days and forty nights.This book is a first-person account of the experiences of that strike. The strike was unprecedented in the union's history. The local media, Boeing management and the workers themselves had little confidence that this strike would last more than a few days.This narrative explores the motivation and the issues that compelled these workers to give up the security of a regular paycheck and face the uncertainty of a prolonged labor strike. This strike was unique in many ways, rarely have white collar professional workers taken such drastic action. This strike grew from the dissatisfaction with the lack of respect in management's treatment of engineering and technical employees.Tom is an Electrical Engineer who spent 41 years at the Boeing Company. Shortly after graduating from Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, he accepted a job with the Boeing. Tom is a former President of SPEEA, the union which represents the Engineers, Technicians and Training Pilots in the Pacific Northwest. -
Spiritual Guide to Mental Health
The Spiritual Guide to Mental Health presents a new universal paradigm of mental health treatment based upon energy and consciousness. This book will empower the reader with practical, holistic tools and methods that treat the root causes of most mental health conditions instead of simply band-aiding symptoms. It offers a new perspective and attitude towards all things related to mental health while empowering readers to remember who they really are beyond a label or a diagnosis. It also offers supplemental programs for depression and anxiety as well as rapid Self-realization. -
Warlord
"Gena Showalter never fails to dazzle."--Jeaniene Frost, New York Times bestselling author
New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter begins a dark, sexy new series--Rise of the Warlords--with a fan-favorite character from her beloved Lords of the Underworld series, Taliyah Skyhawk. The ice maiden faces off with her greatest enemy, a villain brutal beyond imagining.
For centuries, Taliyah Skyhawk has prepared to become Harpy General, leader of the deadliest female army in existence. One of the requirements? Remain a virgin. But, for a chance to save her people, she must wed the fearless leader of the Astra Planeta, Alaroc Phaethon.
The time has come for Roc to sacrifice another virgin bride to his god. There has never been a woman alluring enough to tempt him from his path. No warrioress powerful enough to overcome his incredible strength. No enchantress desirable enough to make him burn beyond reason. Until now.
With the clock ticking, war between husband and wife ignites. Except Taliyah never expected the merciless king to challenge the future she once envisioned. She certainly never anticipated the thrill of their battles turning into games... The problem is, only one spouse can survive.
Love is a battlefield in Showalter's The Warlord.
Don't miss the rest of the Rise of the Warlords series:- Book 1: The Warlord
- Book 2: The Immortal
- Book 3: The Phantom
- Book 4: The Wrath - Coming Feb 2024!
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Behind Blue Curtains: A True Crime Memoir of an Amish Woman's Survival, Escape, and Pursuit of Justice
When Lizzy Hershberger turns fourteen, her schooling ends at eighth grade, and she has no choice but to leave home to work as an unpaid maid for another family. To avoid being shunned by her ultra-conservative Swartzentruber Amish family and community, Lizzy is forced to abandon her dreams because they are "too worldly." After being raped by an Amish deacon over two dozen times, Lizzy makes her first attempt at "jumping the fence" to pursue a non-Amish lifestyle. But without any modern life experience or education, Lizzy must decide whether the risks of this unpredictable and dangerous world are worth losing the ties to her Amish friends and family forever. Almost thirty years later, after she has created a new life for herself, her small community is rocked by disturbing sexual assault allegations. Lizzy must decide whether to keep silent for her newly-created family's sake or come forward against the church to advocate for the Amish children she left behind. In 2019, Lizzy Hershberger successfully brought her abuser to justice in an extraordinarily rare case addressing sexual abuse in the Amish church. She faced death threats and intense pressure to stop telling her story. Lizzy refused to back down, and she forged ahead to spark a national movement bringing awareness to the prevalence of sexual assault in isolated communities protected by religious liberties. This gripping true crime memoir reveals the truth behind one of America's most revered and secretive religious sects-hidden behind the blue curtains of the Amish lifestyle. -
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Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading
The essential guide to the science behind reading and its practical implications for classroom teaching in primary schools.
Teaching children to read is one of the most important tasks in primary education and classroom practice needs to be underpinned by a secure foundation of knowledge. Teachers need to know what reading entails, how children learn to read and how it can be taught effectively.
This book is an essential guide for primary teachers that explores the key technical and practical aspects of how children read with strong links to theory and how to translate this into the classroom. Bite-size chapters offer accessible research-informed ideas across all major key topics including phonics, comprehension, teaching children with reading difficulties and strategies for the classroom. Key features include:
- Discussions of implications for the classroom
- Questions for further professional discussions
- Retrieval quizzes
- Further reading suggestions
- Glossary of key terms
Christopher Such is a primary school teacher and the author of the education blog Primary Colour. He can be found on Twitter via @Suchmo83. -
Conservative Sensibility
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist's "astonishing" and "enthralling" New York Times bestseller and Notable Book about how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition (Booklist) -- "easily one of the best books on American Conservatism ever written" (Jonah Goldberg).
For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher. Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, of majority rule are bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events in America. The Founders' vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution, gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government, religious freedom, and in human virtue and dignity ushered in two centuries of American prosperity. Now, as Will shows, conservatism is under threat -- both from progressives and elements inside the Republican Party. America has become an administrative state, while destructive trends have overtaken family life and higher education. Semi-autonomous executive agencies wield essentially unaccountable power. Congress has failed in its duty to exercise its legislative powers. And the executive branch has slipped the Constitution's leash. In the intellectual battle between the vision of Founding Fathers like James Madison, who advanced the notion of natural rights that pre-exist government, and the progressivism advanced by Woodrow Wilson, the Founders have been losing. It's time to reverse America's political fortunes. Expansive, intellectually thrilling, and written with the erudite wit that has made Will beloved by millions of readers, The Conservative Sensibility is an extraordinary new book from one of America's most celebrated political writers. -
God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop
An NPR Best Book of the Year
"Without God
Save the Queens, it is possible that the contributions of dozens of
important female hip-hop artists who have sold tens of millions of albums,
starred in monumental films, and influenced the direction of the culture would
continue to go unrecognized." --AllHipHop.comCan't Stop Won't Stop meets Girls to the Front in this essential and long overdue history of hip-hop's female pioneers and its enduring stars.
Every history of hip-hop previously published, from Jeff Chang's Can't Stop Won't Stop to Shea Serrano's The Rap Yearbook, focuses primarily on men, glaringly omitting a thorough and respectful examination of the presence and contribution of the genre's female artists.
For far too long, women in hip-hop have been relegated to the shadows, viewed as the designated "First Lady" thrown a contract, a pawn in some beef, or even worse. But as Kathy Iandoli makes clear, the reality is very different. Today, hip-hop is dominated by successful women such as Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, yet there are scores of female artists whose influence continues to resonate.
God Save the Queens pays tribute to the women of hip-hop--from the early work of Roxanne Shante, to hitmakers like Queen Latifah and Missy Elliot, to the superstars of today. Exploring issues of gender, money, sexuality, violence, body image, feuds, objectification and more, God Save the Queens is an important and monumental work of music journalism that at last gives these influential female artists the respect they have long deserved.
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Playing the Caro-Kann
The Caro-Kann is renowned as a top-tier chess defense to 1.e4, and Lars Schandorff's Grandmaster Repertoire book on this opening received rave reviews. As GM Zenon Franco Ocampos put it, "I cannot imagine a better way of converting into a Caro-Kann player." A decade later, Schandorff is back with a completely new repertoire which improves on his previous work in every way. Playing the Caro-Kann offers a complete repertoire for Black after 1.e4 c6, based on 2.d4 d5 followed by 3.e5 Bf5 or 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6. With cutting-edge analysis, thorough explanations of positional motifs and instructively annotated illustrative games, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the Caro-Kann. -
Little Book of Irishisms: Know the Irish through our Words
If an Irish person said to you, "Gimmie that yoke," would you think they were talking about an egg? If so, 99% of the time, you'd be wrong. How about banjaxed, bockety or craic? Any clue what they mean?
The Little Book of Irishisms is for anyone who wants to understand the Irish, not just our words but how we are as people. It's also for those who'd like to sound Irish, even just for Paddy's Day.
You'll learn tricks to Irishify your chat and how to avoid those clangers that people think we say but never do, like the classic, "Top of the morning to you."
If you're coming to Ireland and want to fit right in, this book's for you. If you can't make it, here's a way of visiting in spirit.
"Go on, go on, go on. You will, you will, you will," to quote the infamous Irish comedy, Father Ted.
The Little Book of Irishisms is the perfect novelty gift for St. Patrick's Day, as a Christmas stocking filler, or at any time to someone who appreciates what it means to be Irish.
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Happiness Workbook: A Cbt-Based Guide to Foster Positivity and Embrace Joy
Discover how you can feel happier every day with this cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) workbook
Reframe the way you think about stress and bring joy into your life with CBT practices. You'll learn to define what happiness really means to you, develop positive thinking skills, and use everything you've learned to set yourself up for long-term success. You can be happier--and this workbook gives you the tools you need to do it.
The Happiness Workbook features:
- A CBT approach--Make real, lasting change with an evidence-based method built around reevaluating the way you think about happiness and react to challenges.
- Thought-provoking exercises--Learn to be happier through exercises and journaling prompts that help you reflect on and resolve the obstacles between you and your happiness.
- Inspiring content--Keep your journey going strong with positive quotes and affirmations to support your efforts and lift your spirit.
Embark on the path toward a happier you with help from this CBT workbook.
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Loving Every Child: Wisdom for Parents
"Korczak's words resonate across the years and have amazing modern-day relevance."--Jim Harding, director of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Born in Poland in 1878, educator, physician, and legendary child advocate Janusz Korczak believed that simply understanding children is the key to being able to take care of them. It's a basic premise too often overlooked. This collection of one hundred quotations and passages from Korczak's writings provides valuable advice on how to take care of, respect, and love every child. In an inviting gift-book format, this is a heartfelt and helpful reminder of who we were as children and who we might become as parents. -
River Master: John Wesley Powell's Legendary Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon
In 1869, Civil War veteran and amputee Major John Wesley Powell led an expedition down the uncharted Colorado River through the then-nameless Grand Canyon. This is the story of what started as a geological survey, but ended in danger, chaos, and blood. The men were inexperienced and ill-equipped, and they faced unimaginable peril. Along the way there was death, mutiny, and abject terror, but Powell persevered and produced a masterwork of adventure writing still held in the highest regard by the boatmen who follow his course today. With never-before-used primary sources and firsthand experience navigating Powell's legendary route, Cecil Kuhne brings this remarkable chapter of frontier history to life.
The American Grit series brings you true tales of endurance, survival, and ingenuity from the annals of American history. These books focus on the trials of remarkable individuals with an emphasis on rich primary source material and artwork.
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