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9501) Roughing it
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Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical travel memoir, "Roughing It" was written between 1870-1871 and subsequently published in 1872. Billed as a prequel to "Innocents Abroad", in which Twain details his travels aboard a pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867, "Roughing It" conversely documents Twain's early days in the old wild west between the years 1861-1867. Employing his characteristically humoristic wit and flare for regional dialect,...
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"In an age that values faster and faster travel, Lane's river memoir affirms the great value of floating and observing."-Booklist
Three months after a family vacation in Costa Rica ends in tragedy when two fellow rafters die on the flooded Rio Reventazón, John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea.
Like Huck Finn, Lane sees a river journey as a portal to change,...
9503) The Settler's Cookbook
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Through the personal story of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's family and the food and recipes they've shared together, The Settler's Cookbook tells the history of Indian migration to the UK via East Africa. Her family was part of the mass exodus from India to East Africa during the height of British imperial expansion, fleeing famine and lured by the prospect of prosperity under the empire. In 1972, expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin, they moved to the UK, where...
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In the aftermath of a messy divorce, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang writes in the hope of beginning to build a new life with four children, bossy aunties, unreliable suitors, and an uncertain political landscape. The lyric essays in You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids deftly navigate the space between cultures and reflect on lessons learned from both Asian American elders and young multiracial children, punctuated by moments rich with cultural and...
9505) Fabulous Fishing Funnies
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A collection of more than 150 comics from popular cartoonist Jonny Hawkins.
Any fisherman who has ever been annoyed by the braggart fisherman loudly celebrating every single catch or who has ever wondered what goes through the minds of fish as they watch the hook descend upon them will be in good company here. Fabulous Fishing Funnies finds something funny in every possible fishing scenario, some realistic, others more imaginative. Reluctant relatives...
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La réunionite est l'un des 7 fléaux du 21ème siècle. Pourtant, il ne faut pas jeter le bébé avec l'eau du bain.
Partager, organiser, planifier passent par la rencontre interpersonnelle. Se réunir efficacement offre l'opportunité de progresser ensemble. Le bât blesse souvent dans le débriefing.
Ce livre vous explique comment utiliser l'Octogone comme facilitateur de la clture, le suivi et l'évaluation de la réunion.
Il peut être utilisé...
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She was going to stab her doctor, but she wrote a book instead.
Years later, Willa Goodfellow revisits her account of the antidepressant-induced hypomania that hijacked her Costa Rican vacation and tells the rest of the story: her missed diagnosis of Bipolar 2, how she'd been given the wrong medications, and finally, her process of recovery.
Prozac Monologues is a book within a book-part memoir of misdiagnosis and part self-help guide about life...
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A North American fishing handbook from one of the great masters of the sport.
First published in 1903, Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others remains a reliable resource for fishing enthusiasts in North America. As part of the American Sportman's Library, this handbook was set apart as an important text on sporting subjects from an American perspective, provided here by Dr. James A. Henshall, who spent decades studying fish and fishing. Henshall, called both...
9509) Designers Don't Read
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Austin Howe is a creative director, writer, advocate, and cheerleader for design-but not a designer. He believes "in the wonder and exuberance of someone who gets paid-by clients to do what he loves." Howe places immense value on curiosity and passion to help designers develop a point of view, a strong voice. He explores the creative process and conceptualization, and delves into what to do when inspiration is lacking. If there's a villain in these...
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Extrait : "A quelques kilomètres de la gracieuse et coquette petite ville de Rosheim, s'élève une montagne abrupte et dénudée. Pour s'y rendre, on traverse des vallées verdoyantes, arrosés de gais ruisseaux, des forêts touffues o mille oiseaux font entendre leurs gazouillements."
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Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des livres rares,...
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Extrait :"Il n'y a point, disent les grammairiens, de véritables synonymes : c'est possible ; mais l'intelligence est despote, elle rapetisse les grandes choses, elle fait grandes les petites, elle nivelle les aspérités, elle crée en un mot ; et moi qui me sentais fort embarrassé dès les premières lignes de ce livre, moral comme les Lettres Persannes (pardon Montesquieu !), me voici maintenant plus assuré, grâce à cette pensée voyageuse...
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A funny and intimate travelogue of one woman's unexpected adventures in Japan.
French illustrator Julie Blanchin-Fujita arrived in Tokyo for what she thought would be a one-year stint, and ended up never leaving. In this graphic novel-style memoir she shares her love of Japan, while depicting personal experiences and stories from her life in Tokyo-from the exotic (sumo wrestlers, ramen, hot springs, tatami mats, bentos, Japanese trains, Mount Fuji,...
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The thrill of victory-the agony of defeat. We're not talking about just any failure. Design failure. So public. So humiliating. How do designers who are really, really good (we swear!) turn a disaster into a triumph? Read this book and find out, as dozens of top names reveal the heartbreaking-and sometimes hilarious-mistakes they have made and talk about how they were able to grow from the experiences. Self-delusion, over commitment, procrastination-they're...
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Darren McGarvey has experienced poverty and its devastations firsthand. He grew up in a community where violence was a form of currency and has lived through addiction, abuse, and homelessness. He knows why people from deprived communities feel angry and unheard. And he wants to explain . . .
So he invites you to come along on a safari of sorts. But not the kind where the wildlife is surveyed from a safe distance. His vivid, visceral, and cogently...
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When Dayna MacCulloch was two years old, her father killed his friend and then himself. Twenty years later, she went back to see where it happened-where her father morphed from the hippie, homesteading, jack-of-all-trades man that everyone loved to the guy who took his rifle off the shelf one night and shot his friend in the face. Standing in the place where he did it, a wildfire of unanswered questions-the ones she'd suppressed all her life-blazed...
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Henry Hughes has been fishing his entire life. But unlike those who stick to their local stream, Hughes has traveled the world in search of new and exciting adventures.
Back Seat with Fish is unlike any memoir you've ever read. Traveling across East Asia-from Beijing to Bangkok-as well as throughout the United States, Hughes shares stories of the fish he's caught and the people he's met.
Fishing is a sport that crosses boundaries of race, ethnicity,...
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Any designer who runs a studio, office, or firm is entrepreneurial. In fact, anyone with a studio already has an infrastructure for entrepreneurial content development, and with the technological developments over the last few decades, there are more opportunities now than ever. The use of computers has allowed not only new tools for creating design, but also enables makers with entirely new ways to prototype, promote, and sell their products. Becoming...
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Extrait: "Il importe au chapelier intelligent et délicat d'avoir des appréciateurs éclairés rendant justice à son mérite et dont les rapports soient faciles et agréables. Par ces motifs, je tâcherai, dans cet opuscule, de faire comprendre aux consommateurs les règles qui doivent les guider dans leurs achats. Je passerai en revue toutes les exigences ainsi que les plaintes qui surviennent journellement dans la chapellerie".
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9519) Green Graphic Design
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Can a graphic designer be a catalyst for positive change? Green Graphic Design reframes the way designers can think about the work they create, while remaining focused on cost constraints and corporate identity. Simple, eco-innovative changes are demonstrated in all phases of the design process, including:
· Picking projects
· Strategizing with clients
· Choosing materials for manufacture and shipping
· Understanding users
· Picking ink and...
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Shooting Times Guide to Accuracy provides what all loyal audiences of Shooting Times magazine already love but with a specific focus on accuracy. A vast range of topics are covered, including:
• A common sense approach to better marksmanship
• Long-range military accuracy
• Handloading for accuracy
• Scope techniques for long-range shooting
• Improving your accuracy with airguns, shotguns, and handguns
• Twist rates and accuracy
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