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Taste: The Infographic Book of Food By : Laura Rowe READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Food sustains life. Since the beginning of time, it has underpinned our existence. Every day, in every country around the world, it continues to do so. While once food comprised the humble gatherings of hunters in caves, today it has been elevated to an obsession, loathed and adored, craved and crammed in equal measure. Some people eat to live, others live to eat.In an age where we consume up to 285 pieces of content just via social media on a daily basis, information needs to be easily accessible, quick to the point and captivating. This is the age of the infographic, where statistics, facts and knowledge are made easily available and understandable.Taste will explore the complex, colourful and at times controversial world of food, through a collection of thought-provoking, stimulating and beautifully-crafted infographics. Accessible and authoritative, it will cover everything you n...

Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America By : Amy Gutmann READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die is a primer for all Americans to talk more honestly about health care. Beginning in the 1950s when doctors still paid house calls but regularly withheld the truth from their patients, Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno explore an unprecedented revolution in health care and explain the problem with America?s wanting everything that medical science has to offer without debating its merits and its limits. The result: Americans today pay far more for health care while having among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality of any affluent nation.Gutmann and Moreno??incisive, influential, and pragmatic thinkers? (Arthur Caplan)?demonstrate...

The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning By : Gautam Baid READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : In The Joys of Compounding, Gautam Baid integrates the wisdom, strategies, and thought processes of over 200 preeminent figures in history whose teachings have stood the test of time. Distilling generations of investment and life lessons and compiling it with his personal experiences into a comprehensive guide on value investing, Baid demonstrates their practical applications in the areas of business, investing, and decision making.The Joys Of Compounding is a celebration of the value investing discipline. It takes investors beyond stocks and business fundamentals to give them a valuable and compelling life philosophy. All lifelong learners will find this book immensely useful as a timeless source of insight and inspiration. Book Detail : Author : Gautam Baid Pages : 534 pages Publisher : Gautam Baid Language : ISBN-10 : 44403965 ISBN-13 : 9780578442...

LOGO Modernism By : Jens M?ller READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : Brand new: An unprecedented catalog of modern trademarks Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art, and product design are familiar to many. In soaring glass structures or minimalist canvases, we recognize a time of vast technological advance which affirmed the power of human beings to reshape their environment and to break, radically, from the conventions or constraints of the past.Less well-known, but no less fascinating, is thedistillation of modernism in graphic design. With the creation of clean visual concepts, designers sought to move away from the mystique they identified with the commercial artist, and to counterbalance an increasingly complicated world with clarity.This unprecedented TASCHEN publication, authored byJens Muller, brings together approximately 6,000 trademarks, focused on the period 1940 1980, to examine howmodernist attitudes and imperatives gave birth to corporate identity. Ran...

Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades By : Debbie Miller READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : In the second edition of Reading with Meaning, Debbie Miller shares her new thinking about comprehension strategy instruction, the gradual release of responsibility instructional model, and planning for student engagement and independence.It has been ten years since the first edition, in which Debbie chronicled a year in her own classroom. Reading with Meaning, Second Edition supports that work and expands her vision of strategy instruction and intentional teaching and learning. Debbie believes that every child deserves at least a full year of growth during each classroom year and offers planning documents with matching assessments to ensure that no child falls through the cracks. The second edition also provides new book recommendations that will engage and delight students, and current picture books for reading aloud and strategy instruction.This n...

Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays By : Lynn Nottage READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : This collection includes Lynn Nottage?s best known work, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, which has been produced widely since its premiere in May 1995 and which the Chicago Tribune hailed as "a complex and thought provoking new play." Also included are Mud, River, Stone, Poof, Por?Knockers and her latest work, Las Meninas, inspired by the playwright?s research into the African presence in 17th century Europe.Lynn Nottage lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her plays have been produced in many theatres across the U.S. including Second Stage (NY), South Coast Rep (Costa Mesa), Yale Repertory Theatre (New Haven), Alliance Theatre (Atlanta) and Steppenwolf (Chicago). She has won the Heideman and the White Bird awards and was a runner-up for the Susan Blackburn award. Book Detail : Author : Lynn Nottage Pages : 320 pages Publisher : Theatre Communications Group Language : ISBN...

I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression By : Terrence Real READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : The author reveals how many men, feeling the stigma of depression's unmanliness, conceal their condition not only from their families and friends but also from themselves. Book Detail : Author : Terrence Real Pages : pages Publisher : Tantor Audio Language : eng ISBN-10 : B006HYLV88 ISBN-13 :   Supporting format: PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Audio, MOBI, HTML, RTF, TXT, etc. Supporting : PC, Android, Apple, Ipad, Iphone, etc. ================*================  

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance By : Alex Hutchinson READ BOOK NOW   DOWNLOAD BOOK NOW   Book Synopsis : From the National Magazine Award-winning Runner?s World columnist, frequent New Yorker online contributor, and Cambridge-trained physicist: a fascinating and definitive exploration of the extraordinary science of human endurance and the secrets of human performance, for fans of The Sports Gene, Born to Run, and Grit.From running a two-hour marathon to summiting Mount Everest, we?re fascinated by the extremes of human endurance, constantly testing both our physical and psychological limits.How high or far or fast can humans go? And what about individual potential: what defines a person?s limits?For years, physiology determined the answer: heart size, lung capacity, and muscle strength. But over the past decade, a wave of dramatic findings in the cutting-edge science of endurance has completely overturned our understanding of human limitation...