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A360 Media, LLC
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One thing moms across the country can agree on: there's always something they can do better. Be a more present parent. Prepare healthier yet delicious meals. Make smarter financial decisions. Throw the best kid birthday party ever. Not helping matters is the steady social media stream of Pinterest-perfect, impeccably outfitted women doing all of the above, complete with flattering lighting and whimsical fonts. Well, we gathered a bunch of those
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Why do smokers claim that the first cigarette of the day is the best? What is the biological basis behind some heavy drinkers' belief that the "hair-of-the-dog" method alleviates the effects of a hangover? Why does marijuana seem to affect ones problem-solving capacity? Intoxicating Minds is, in the author's words, "a grand excavation of drug myth." Neither extolling nor condemning drug use, it is a story of scientific and artistic achievement, war...
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Pain is one of medicine's greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. "Sheer survival and logic" was how he described it. "And strangely, I didn't feel any pain." How can this be? We're taught that pain is a warning message to be heeded at all costs, yet it can switch off in the most agonizing circumstances or switch on for no apparent reason. Many scientists, philosophers,...
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An Inspector Vincent Gratelli mystery-San Francisco Inspector Vincent Gratelli is charged with finding the killer of young women-all murdered in the same way, all left with an intimate mark. The most recent victim was beaten and raped in her weekend cabin. There appears to be only one difference-she is still alive. Which leaves Gratelli with two questions: how can these murders be stopped . . . and how does the killer feel about unfinished business?...
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Scientific Introspection calls for psychologists to use introspection to investigate the mind. Remarkably, we can look inward at the workings of our minds with introspection. As far as we know, we are the only animal on the planet that can do that. It is foolish not to use this amazing gift to study the structure and functions of the mind. Science has no way to observe the mind directly, so psychologists have to study the brain and behavior and guess...
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This book is designed to challenge your mind set and kick down some of the sacred cows that hinder you from becoming all that God has created you to be. In the Gospel of John, Jesus made a profound statement. Jesus stated all the works he has done his disciplines could do, and even greater works because he was returning to His heavenly father. (John 14:12-14) Was Jesus serious when he said that or was he trying to appease his followers? Some may say...
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When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something frightening enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that had killed most of America's children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they could not control. Now...
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Jim Fitzgerald recounts his experiences during the 1960s and 1970s in this sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, but always moving portrait of an FBI profiler as a young man. From his first-ever successful investigation at six years old, face-offs with childhood bullies, and encounters with naked-ish neighborhood interlopers; to high school and college antics, lifeguard summers, friends, including a future convicted killer "friend"; from early admiration...
10) Magnus Nilsson
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[Publisher not identified]
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[2014]
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Bringing viewers into Magnus Nilsson's kitchen at Fṽiken for an all-access look at what it takes to run what some people say is the most creative and surprising restaurant on the planet. Get inside the mind of innovative Chef Nilsson as he travels throughout Scandinavia, Paris, and the Faroe Islands demonstrating traditional Nordic culinary techniques and how to make the most of ingredients at their freshest.
11) Pilates
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Illustrated with photographs of a practicing Pilates expert and diagrams that show the muscle groups that get a workout during each featured Pilates exercise, this instructional guide has everything a reader interested in Pilates needs to begin crafting their own personalized regimen. Beginning with an explanation of what Pilates is and the history of how it was developed and going on to discuss modern principles and equipment, this guide emphasizes...
12) Tai chi
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Rosen Publishing
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2015.
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"This illustrated guidebook introduces readers to the time-honored art of tai chi. It offers an account of tai chis history and philosophical underpinnings, including descriptionsof the major schools of tai chi as well as a series of positions that flow into each other to create several tai chi routines."--Provided by publisher.
13) Tai Chi
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This lavishly illustrated guidebook is the perfect way to introduce readers to the time-honored art of tai chi. The first chapter offers an account of tai chi's history and philosophical underpinnings, including descriptions of the major schools of tai chi. Subsequent chapters present a series of positions that flow into each other to create several tai chi routines. Each spread of these chapters features a photograph of a tai chi practitioner doing...
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In this collection of stories set in the world of the best-selling Darkest Minds trilogy, a desperate young man is forced to make a terrible choice; a spark of light brightens a brutal world when a girl named Sam encounters her childhood best friend at the government-run "rehabilitation" camp; and, even though Sam is thrown into a terrifying and uncertain new life, her survival at stake, the time has come to fulfill a promise she made.
15) Emil Brunner
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The core of Brunner's theology was the coming of the infinite God to finite man in the person of Jesus Christ. In this book, Dr. J. Edward Humphrey sets forth and examines Brunner's doctrines of Christ and God, his doctrine of sin and the need for personal faith, his doctrines of the church as a fellowship and the place of revelation, and the Bible as the norm for faith and practice. Brunner's great books on Christian doctrine have manifested an unusual...
16) Karl Barth
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Karl Barth's work-especially The Epistle to the Romans and Church Dogmatics-changed the direction of modern theology. He has been called a modern church father. In this brief survey, Mueller-one of his students at the University of Basel-discusses Barth's life and thought, theological development, central convictions, major concerns, and creative handling of difficult areas.
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17) More minds
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The Minds volume Two
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Carol Matas
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2017- ©1996
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English
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Princess Lenora sets out to conquer a giant causing problems in the northern countries and soon realizes that her real battle is actually going to be trying to keep the Balance, the source that keeps the alternative worlds in their place, from falling apart.
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If you enjoyed the first volume of the definitive quiz book on Everton Football Club, this all-new sequel is for you. Packed with over 300 carefully researched questions, it will test the breadth and depth of your Toffees knowledge — from the familiar to the formidable. Gavin Buckland, Everton's official statistician, takes you through the history of one of England's greatest football clubs, covering the results and records, triumphs and trophies,...
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Darkest minds novels volume 4
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"Five years after the destruction of the so-called rehabilitation camps that imprisoned her and countless other Psi kids, seventeen-year-old Suzume 'Zu' Kimura must use her powerful voice to fight back and save the friends who were once her protectors"--
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Disney Book Group
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2018
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Book one in the blockbuster Darkest Minds series —now with key art from the major motion picture that's hitting theaters September 2018! When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that got her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that killed most...
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