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Das Überlebenstraining der amerikanischen Elitetruppen dient vielen Abenteurern als Vorbild. Der Autor hat für dieses Buch Broschüren, Druckschriften und Artikel des amerikanischen Militärpersonals gesammelt und daraus einen klaren, genauen und leicht verständlichen Ratgeber erstellt. In Zeiten, in denen Touren in die abgelegensten Gegenden der Welt ganz alltäglich sind, liefert er praxisnahe Informationen zu den wirkungsvollsten Überlebenstec...

A snappy book of simple conversational swaps that reveals how to talk so everyone will listen Words matter. They can inform, soothe, sting, reverberate, and leave scars. And the wrong words can turn off-literally- the listener, transforming what should be an exchange of information, feelings, and ideas into dead air time. So many of our dialogues with others are like scripts-we say the same things, ask the same questions, react in the same way...

Featuring expert tips and recipes for everything from simple ice creams to refreshing granitas and sorbets, this cookbook offers the complete guide to creating delectable frozen desserts in ice cream machines.

According to Orhan Pamuk there is a saying in Turkey that the child who cannot stop crying needs some toasted snow to soothe their distress. This is one of a number of proverbs across cultures that recognise our need, our desire and our ongoing search for that which is well nigh impossible to achieve. This book follows a number of different protagonists who knowingly, or not, are engaged on such journeys and how they connect, disconnect and re...

According to Orhan Pamuk there is a saying in Turkey that the child who cannot stop crying needs some toasted snow to soothe their distress. This is one of a number of proverbs across cultures that recognise our need, our desire and our ongoing search for that which is well nigh impossible to achieve. This book follows a number of different protagonists who knowingly, or not, are engaged on such journeys and how they connect, disconnect and re...

Coleccion:Gestion del conocimiento.Los buenos negociadores conocen las reglas. Los grandes negociadores saben cuando romperlas y los mejores, como Donald Dell, crean sus propias reglas cuando hace falta. En este ameno libro, el autor relata cuáles han sido y son los secretos de la negociación. Lleno de anécdotas que involucran a estrellas del deporte mundial al cual el autor representó, tales como los jugadores de baloncesto Michael Jordan o P...

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John Boswell s National Book Award winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church s past relationship to its gay members among them priests, bishops, and even saints when it was first published thirty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell s research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted m...

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This is a National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West, which helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies. The historical breadth of the research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this an extensive treatment of Western social history.

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Excerpt from English Botany, Vol. 7: Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants Marsh or writer herbs with toothed or pinnatifid leaves, those (bracts) from which verticillasters of flowers are produced, similar to the leaves. Flowers small, crowded, sessile, white or lilac. Leaves shortly stalked, elliptical or ovate-elliptical, attenuated at each end, especially towards the apex, inciso-serrate, commonly pinnatifid or pinnatipartite at the bas...

This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue. Through a rich analysis of the debates in Australia and the UK, it develops a nuanced analysis of the competing narratives that actors rely on to make sense of and argue about this issue, and documents how and to what effect they draw on scientific evidence to support their accounts. The real 'war on obesity', it demonstrates,  has always been ...

Excerpt from English Botany, Vol. 5: Or Coloured Figures of British Plants, Compositæ Large herbs, generally biennial, With branched stems or rarely acaulescent. Leaves pinnately lobed or toothed, with the lobes or teeth spinous, generally decurrent on the stem, which thus becomes winged, With the Wings spinous-dentate. Pericline large, sub-globose, spiny. Flowers purple or purplish-rose, varying to White. About the Publisher Forgotten Book...

Excerpt from English Botany, Vol. 6: Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants Herbs or undersbrubs (frequently having milky juice), with alternate entire or toothed leaves, without stipules, rarely with the leaves all radical. Flowers perfect, regular or irregular, usually blue, purple, or white, generally separate, more rarely in involucratc anthodcs, with the leaves of the involucre resembling the sepals of a calyx. Calyx-tube adhering to the...

Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.

Looks a union organizing and strikes that were either strengthened by interracial cooperation or defeated by racial competition during the period between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.

Excerpt from English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, Vol. 11: Gramina This belongs to a large and widely-spread family of grasses, which, from their tendency to track cultivation, have, like cultivated or cereal grasses, become most difficult Specifically to determine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction...

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Excerpt from English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, Vol. 12: Enlarged, Re-Arranged According to the Natural Orders, and Entirely Revised, Cryptogamia, Marsiliaceae to Characeae-General IndexThe following Volume, containing the descriptions of British Crypto gamons Plants, completes the 3rd Edition Of 'english Botany within the limits proposed by its Editor, Mr. Boswell (syme), with the exception Of such supplementary and additi...