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The Book of Beer Awesomeness
by Dan Disorbo Ben ApplebaumBeauty is in the hand of the beer holder. From pouring to storing, from crushing cans to doing keg stands, from beer bongs to beer pong, this definitive guide to beer drinking is a brew-lover's bible. Written by the experts behind The Book of Beer Pong--and featuring feats of fortitude and games of strategy, skill, and memory, alongside other activities and challenges--The Book of Beer Awesomeness is full of kings-playing, cup-flipping, frosty-mugged fun. Tips and tidbits that cover the brewing and drinking of this most beloved of beverages around the world round out the ultimate guide for enjoying any beer--in any situation.
The Book of Common Fallacies: Falsehoods, Misconceptions, Flawed Facts, and Half-Truths That Are Ruining Your Life
by Philip Ward Julia EdwardsLong before Snopes.com and Wikipedia, The Book of Common Fallacies set out to debunk popular beliefs and set the record straight. By tracking down the facts and citing experts in a multitude of fields, Philip Ward points out the senseless ideas that we have come to accept as fact. Newly updated with today's common misconceptions and available as a single-volume paperback for the first time, The Book of Common Fallacies exposes the truth behind hundreds of commonly held false beliefs.
The Book of Yields: Accuracy in Food Costing and Purchasing
by Francis T. LynchThe only product with yield information for more than 1,000 raw food ingredients, The Book of Yields, Eighth Edition is the chef's best resource for planning, costing, and preparing food more quickly and accurately. Now revised and updated in a new edition, this reference features expanded coverage while continuing the unmatched compilation of measurements, including weight-to-volume equivalents, trim yields, and cooking yields. With helpful worksheets; a clear organisation by food type; and a convenient, durable comb binding, The Book of Yields, Eighth Edition is a must-have culinary resource.
The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts (True Crime)
by Beverly Ford Stephanie SchorowExplore the backrooms and seedy hangouts throughout the real story of Boston&’s gangster past in this true crime history guide. The capture of notorious mobster James &“Whitey&” Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history, yet the city&’s criminal underworld has a long and bloody rap sheet that stretches back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Journalists Ford and Schorow reveal the underbelly of Boston through profiles of ruthless gangsters like Charles &“King&” Solomon, the Angiulo brothers, Joseph &“The Animal&” Barboza, Stephen &“The Rifleman&” Flemmi and many more who carried out deadly hits and lucrative heists.
Brain Fitness for Women: Keeping Your Head Clear & Your Mind Sharp at Any Age
by Sondra KornblattWomen’s Guide for Keeping a Sharp MindThe female brain. The differences between men and women go well beyond the surface, and the brain is no exception to this. Scientists and researchers are continually learning about the phenomenon of women’s brains. Health and science writer Sondra Kornblatt brings to readers the latest scientific studies about how women’s brains and brain memory work.The importance of caring for your mind. Our brains are affected and shaped by a multitude of things, from our environment to the foods we eat to hormones. Because of this, it is imperative that women are conscious of how their daily habits are affecting them. Caring for our minds is important at all stages of our lives, but it becomes especially important as we age.Fitness in all areas of your life. With experience in counseling, hypnosis, coaching, yoga, neuro-linguistic programming and more, Kornblatt is an experienced and knowledgeable source for learning and growing. By recognizing the diversity of forces that influence the female brain, Kornblatt enables readers to be proactive in caring for their brain. Whether it’s what we eat to how we use our computer, brain fitness practices can be incorporated into every aspect of our lives.Read Brain Fitness for Women: Keeping Your Head Clear and Your Mind Sharp at Any Age by Sondra Kornblatt and discover…Tips and fun facts that will keep women entertained and their brains sharpEngaging and informative chapters such as “The Electronics on the Brain: One Second, I Just Need to See This Text” and “The Aging Brain: Did I Read This Already?”Advice from an author of four health books, certified in neuro-linguistic programmingReaders of books such as 2 Weeks to a Younger Brain,The Female Brain, or Keep Your Brain Alive will love Sondra Kornblatt’s Brain Fitness for Women.
Break Into Screenwriting: Your complete guide to writing for stage, screen or radio
by Ray FrenshamThis is a comprehensive, jargon-free guide for all budding screenwriters. Its aim is not just to guide you through the techniques and skills you need to write for the screen (film and television), but also to give you guidance on how to approach the industry as a whole. Focusing on every aspect of screenwriting, from how to set about the writing process to how to develop your characters, plot and structure, this book will give you all the guidance you need to break into this highly competitive industry and make a career for yourself as a screenwriter.
Break Into Travel Writing: How to write engaging and vivid travel writing and journalism
by Beth BlairGetting paid to go on holiday may sound like a great lifestyle. But there's a lot of hard graft involved - particularly, breaking into this industry in the first place. Few industries have changed as rapidly as publishing, and within publishing few areas have changed as rapidly as travel publishing. This book will bring you bang up-to-date with the latest trends in blogging, social media, magazines, websites, travel guides, and travel books. It provides specific advice for each sector, on how to write and, just as importantly, how to get published. Written by Beth Blair, an American travel writer who has been published in books, magazines, and online, this book is full of practical and inspiring advice that will help you broaden your horizons and turn your travel writing into cash.
A Brief History of Psychology
by Michael WertheimerThis brief, inexpensive text offers the utmost in flexibility in teaching the history of psychology. Used as a stand-alone text or with readers, this engaging book is noted for its analysis of the scientific and philosophical emergence of the field. Readers appreciate the book’s balanced coverage of experimental, applied, and clinical psychology, as well as the clear and succinct presentation of the field’s major events and schools of thought. This edition features an expanded pedagogical program with bolded terms, a complete glossary, more illustrations, and web-based instructional materials including Power Points, a test bank, discussion questions, and more. Extensively updated throughout, this edition features: A new final chapter with a current analysis of the state of the field including the growth of specialized organizations that promote the science of psychology and the push to influence policies that address global challenges such as environmental sustainability, intergroup conflict, health disparities, and the population explosion. A discussion of the growth in the number and role of women in psychology and the promotion of diversity initiatives related to ethnicity, gender, age, and sexual orientation. Recent developments in the growth of neuroscience, cognitive science, and the diversification of psychology. Portraits of some major figures in the history of psychology. Recent changes in the practice of psychology including more emphasis on "evidence-based practice," prescription privileges, and the application of psychological principles to industrial and engineering psychology. Recent changes in the APA including new divisions and new elected officials. Used independently or as a supplement with readers, this brief text is intended for undergraduate and graduate courses on the history of psychology. Due to its brevity and engaging style, the book is often used in introductory courses to introduce students to the field. The enormous index and substantial glossary make this volume a useful desk reference for the entire field.
The Brief McGraw-Hill Reader: Issues across the Disciplines
by Gilbert H. MullerSupporting a liberal arts tradition in the classroom, across the curriculum, and beyond, The Brief McGraw-Hill Reader offers rich and diverse readings in education, the social sciences, business and economics, the humanities, and the sciences.
Bringing Jesus to the Desert (Ancient Context, Ancient Faith)
by Gary M. Burge Brad NassifThis Zondervan ebook sketches out the rise of the great Desert Fathers and Mothers of the 3rd - 6th centuries, and then shares the stories and sayings of five of their greatest leaders. It will instill wisdom in the everyday lives of modern Christians through the storytelling of great monastic biographies taken from Egypt, Palestine and Syria. This book is written so that common Christians can follow the lives and teachings of the Desert Fathers and Mothers as a contemporary guides to the spiritual life. It applies the timeless principles of their lives without advocating for their particular lifestyles in the desert. Desert disciples from the 3rd to 6th centuries will be our compelling models of Christian living by inspiring us to live to our fullest potential through their moving stories and timeless teachings. Their tender stories and colorful sayings offer key insights for living in the heart of the urban desert today.
Bringing Learning to Life: The Learning Revolution, The Economy and the Individual (Routledge Library Editions: Education)
by David C BradshawIn an age of intense economic competition and continual change, the ability to learn is a key factor in survival and prosperity. This book examines the changing interaction of the world economy, Britain’s prospects for prosperity, the connections between different kinds of work and the learning that support them. Focusing on specific areas where changed attitudes and ways of working are long overdue, the authors show the need for a better balance between formal provision in schools, colleges and within employment, and less tangible informal learning at home and in the workplace. These, in turn, open up issues of the curriculum (especially in the formative later years in schools and colleges), guidance for education and work and the qualifications structure.
Bringing Your Book to Market: A Writers' Guide to Becoming a Published Author
by Evan SwensenPublication Consultants specializes in publishing the works of writers worldwide. We've been in the publishing business since 1978. We're not only publishers, we're writers, and know many problems confronting writers. How to solve those problems and bring writer's work to market is our business. We welcome this opportunity to become acquainted with you and your work. Publication Consultants produces books and publications of any size, number of pages, and variety of binding and covers. We think there is more to book publishing than just putting ink on paper. Our services include design, typesetting, printing, binding, conversion, and all necessary steps to publish your book, both as a printed book and an. We take your book from conception to completion and bring your work to market with one of five different programs.
British Army Uniforms from 1751 to 1783: Including the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence
by Carl Franklin&“Of great use to anyone interested in the 18th century British Army as well as illustrators and others who need detailed information.&”—Classic Arms and Militaria Based on records and paintings of the time, this book identifies each cavalry and infantry regiment and illustrates changes in uniforms, their facing colors, and the nature and shape of lace worn by officers, NCOs and private soldiers from 1751 to 1783. Regiments that served in the American War of Independence are noted and the book includes more than 200 full-color plates of uniforms and distinctions. Divided into four sections, it not only details the cavalry and infantry uniforms of the period but also the tartans of the Highland regiments, some of which were short-lived, and the distinction of the Guards regiments. &“A superb reference work, full of clearly researched details…it will be of value to family and military historians, re-enactors, figure painters, and wargamers.&”—FGS Forum
The British Field Marshals: 1736-1997: A Biographical Dictionary
by T.A. HeathcoteWhether any advantage or benefit will be drawn from the suspension or effective abolition of the rank of Field Marshal is debatable. What is certain, however, is that Dr. Tony Heathcotes idea of compiling a definitive biographical dictionary of holders of this illustrious rank since its introduction by George II in 1736, is opportune and inspired.Those readers who anticipate a dry recitation of bare facts and statistics are in for a disappointment. A reference work this may be but the author, by dint of his depth of knowledge, has created a shrewd and highly readable commentary as well.As General Sir Charles Guthrie (the first soldier to be denied promotion to Field Marshal on appointment to Chief of Defense Staff) observes in his Foreword, this book embraces the history of the British Army over the last 250-300 years. It covers not only the careers of key individuals but provides an understanding of their contribution to the successes and failures of our military past. The diversity of personalities, who have only the honor of wearing the coveted crossed batons in common, is fascinating. Alongside the household names of the great strategists and distinguished leaders lie little known and forgotten figures, who gained their exalted rank by either luck, accident of birth or diplomatic gesture.The British Field Marshals merits a place on the bookshelf of any military historian but is likely to be found on his or her bedside table. Whether or not the rank is ever resurrected, as it has been in the past and as many will hope it will be again, this delightful and useful book will remain the authoritative guide to all those who have held the highest military rank in the British Army.
Bro Code for Parents
by Matt Kuhn Barney StinsonSo you're going to be a parent. You might be asking yourself a series of important questions: Will I be a good parent? * Will I be able to afford this? * Can I ever have sex again? Well, the answer to all these questions is a rock-solid no. But just because your existence is now a petrifying turd on the canvas of life doesn't mean your kid has to be as lame as you're about to become. That's why I've written this book--to teach you how to be an awesomommy or legendaddy. The Bro Code for Parents will help you: Choose a baby name that won't get your kid stuffed into a junior high locker * Interview and hire a smokin' hot nanny * Teach your child instant classics like "The Boobs on the Bus" and "Bro, Bro, Bro Your Boat" With full-color illustrations, interactive work sheets, and even suggestions for how to turn a stroller into a broller, The Bro Code for Parents gives you all the tools you'll need to raise your child to be almost as awesome as I am. Almost.
Broadway: An Encyclopedia
by Ken BloomThis volume is another example in the Routledge tradition of producing high-quality reference works on theater, music, and the arts. An A to Z encyclopedia of Broadway, this volume includes tons of information, including producers, writer, composers, lyricists, set designers, theaters, performers, and landmarks in its sweep.
Broken Ground: John F Kennedy and the Politics of Education (Routledge Library Editions: Education)
by Lawrence J McAndrewsThroughout United States history, and particularly from the 1930s through the 1960s, education was a sensitive political issue which preoccupied Congresses, Presidents and interest groups. By the time of John F Kennedy’s Presidency federal aid to education was all but inevitable but the disproportionate influence of federal aid adversaries on the House Rule Committee would permit the Kennedy Administration no margin of error. There remained in this subject an abundance of complications and contradictions. This volume addresses the central questions of Kennedy versus Congress and Kennedy versus Kennedy, using a wide range of sources to give a comprehensive focus to this area of political education.
Bryan Peterson's Understanding Composition Field Guide: How to See and Photograph Images with Impact
by Bryan F. PetersonLearn to "see" more compelling images with this on-the-go field guide from Bryan Peterson! What makes an image amazing? Believe it or not, it is not about the content. What makes a photo compelling is the arrangement of that content--in other words, its composition. The right composition gives your images impact and emotion; the wrong one leaves them flat. In this handy, take-anywhere guide, renowned photographer, instructor, and bestselling author Bryan Peterson frees amateur photographers from the prejudices of what is "beautiful" or "ugly" so that they can instead focus on color, line, light, and pattern. Get the tools you need to show your distinct voice and point of view in every image you shoot. With this guide in your camera bag, you'll be equipped not only to "see" beautiful images but to successfully shoot them each and every time. Also available as an ebook
Building Society Industry (Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance)
by Mark J BoleatIn this book which has become the standard work on building societies, the author takes into account both economic and regulatory changes which took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The book is aimed primarily at students in the industry, and also those undertaking relevant undergraduate and postgraduate courses at university. In addition, this book will be invaluable to those working inside the building society industry and to those organizations which come into contact with societies.
Bullying: Replies, Rebuttals, Confessions, and Catharsis
by Magdalena Gomez Maria Luisa ArroyoPhysical, emotional, verbal, and now cyber bullying are an increasing problem in our nation's schools and within our children's social networks. How can we understand it? Community leaders and activists Gómez and Arroyo worked with children, teenagers, and parents-both the victims and the bullies-to put together this searing anthology of original essays, poetry, plays, and commentary on how bullying has affected their lives.
The Bumper Book For The Loo: Facts and figures, stats and stories – an unputdownable treat of trivia
by Mitchell SymonsWhen Mitchell Symons wrote his extraordinary bestsellers This Book, That Book and The Other Book - all neatly combined in one sensational volume, The Ultimate Loo Book - he was judged by many to be the King of Trivia. Now, inThe Bumper Book for the Loo, this supremo of weird and wonderful, astonishing and inexplicable facts, figures, stats and stories returns with a super selection of trivialistic treats - each one more remarkable and, yes, even more trivial than anything he's compiled before. For example, did you know that...·The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m... ·There was once an internet rumour that Belgium doesn't exist... ·In 1830, King Louis XIX ruled France for just 15 minutes...·All mammals have jaws but only humans have chins...·Peru has more pyramids than Egypt...Packed to the rafters with all manner of useful and useless information, lists of the biggest, the smallest, the best and the worst, The Bumper Book for the Loo is a hilarious compendium of endless delights - and a hugely entertaining, unputdownable feat of nonsense!
The Business Writer's Handbook (10th Edition)
by Gerald J. Alred Charles T. Brusaw Walter E. OliuNow in its tenth edition, this classic book remains the complete business-writing reference for students and professionals alike. Alphabetically organized and easy-to-use, its nearly 400 entries provide guidance for writing all the most common types of business documents and correspondence, from brochures, press releases, and resumes, to executive summaries, proposals, and reports. Abundant, real-world sample documents and visuals throughout the book demonstrate effective business communication, reflecting current practices for formatting documents and using email. In addition, advice for organizing, researching, writing, and revising complements thorough treatment of grammar, usage, style, and punctuation to provide comprehensive help with writing skills. Up-to-date coverage of workplace technology gives users the latest advice on writing for the Web, designing Web pages, conducting Internet research, using software tools, and working with electronic documents. This edition has been thoroughly revised to include expanded coverage of audience and context and reflects the impact that e-mail and technology have had on workplace communication. Comprehensive yet concise, The Business Writer's Handbookremains the quick reference faithful users have come to appreciate.
Buy Shoes on Wednesday and Tweet at 4:00
by Mark Di VincenzoBuy Shoes on Wednesday and Tweet at 4:00, former investigative journalist Mark Di Vincenzo’s follow-up to his bestselling Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon, is another endlessly fascinating and eminently useful compendium of expert tips on perfect timing for a myriad of activities—more of the best times to buy this, do that, and go there. Covering an even wider range of topics than before—including beauty tips, pets, cars, and children—this book is an absolute must for readers of Schott’s Miscellany and other collections of useful information, and for multi-taskers searching for better, healthier, thriftier ways to do things. After all, timing is everything.
C kurz & gut
by Peter Prinz Ulla Kirch-PrinzC -- kurz & gut besteht aus zwei Teilen: einer kompakten Beschreibung der Sprache und einer thematisch strukturierten Referenz zur Standardbibliothek. Die Darstellung der Sprache basiert auf dem ANSI-Standard und geht auch auf die Erweiterungen im neuen Standard von 1999 (kurz ANSI C99) ein. Die darin eingeführten neuen Datentypen, Funktionen und Makros sind zur besseren Orientierung immer gekennzeichnet, da diese Erweiterungen noch nicht bei allen C-Compilern implementiert sind. Ein knapper Index hilft beim Finden der Funktionen, Typen und anderer Syntax-Elemente. Aus dem Inhalt: Grundlagen Datentypen Ausdrücke und Operatoren Anweisungen Deklarationen Funktionen Präprozessor-Direktiven Die Standardbibliothek
The Calendar in Revolutionary France: Perceptions of Time in Literature, Culture, Politics
by Sanja PerovicOne of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to individual, community, communication and creative life. This study traces the course of the Revolutionary Calendar, from its cultural origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of the calendar and the literary genius of its creator, Sylvain Maréchal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja Perovic reconsiders the status of the French Revolution as the purported 'origin' of modernity, the modern experience of time, and the relationship between the imagination and political action.