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Does temperament in childhood shape adult personality? Four psychologists followed thousands of people as they grew up, observing how genes, parenting, and other aspects of young people's experience influence development. This holistic approach offers unprecedented insight into w...hat makes us the adults we become.
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We could all benefit from a more energetic, vibrant, healthier quality of life. There are many reasons to live a healthy lifestyle and just as many approaches to achieving it. It's not always easy to embark on a quest for a healthy life - some methods may seem too extreme, too li...miting or too short lived, obstacles may often block the way. However, if you are looking to be inspired and motivated, the practical tips contained in The Art of Healthy Living, you will see improved creativity, an increase in personal development and elevated performance levels in work, sports, the classroom, relationships, the home and throughout your life. This book will help you:
Live a healthy life to make you smarter and more motivated in both your personal and professional life
Enjoy higher energy, better mental and physical ability and increased strength
Learn how proper nutrition and exercise will enhance every aspect of your life
Create motivation for a more toned and healthy-looking you
Give yourself the knowledge and power to stand out and thrive
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Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as pett...y theft by the maids ? who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent ? shortly turns into something more nefarious. Madame Lancelin's increasingly unhinged abuse ignites the sisters' toxic upbringing and social class exploitation and explodes into a ghastly double murder, an event that shocked and fascinated 1930s France and beyond. Maids has high bravura and high intrigue, all drawn in Skelly's highly stylized manner, which combines the best of pop art, manga, and Eurocomics.
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Since the publication of Paul McGee's best-selling book Shut Up, Move On SUMO), the SUMO principles have helped thousands of people around the world to build the resilience, confidence and motivation to cope with life's challenges, and be the best they can be. Under its alternati...ve name of Stop, Understand, Move On, YESSS! The SUMO secrets to being a positive, confident teenager helps young people and the professionals who work with them to get more out of themselves, get more out of others and get more out of life!
Using the same SUMO principles as the original book, this new edition for young people will help them learn resilience, greater awareness of their feelings and emotions, and raise their aspirations. In other words, a set of skills for life. This book will teach you:
To take responsibility for your life, and to own and understand your feelings
To change your mindset, and why our mindset matters
That it's OK not to be OK!
To have aspirations, set goals and dare to dream.
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InThe Beforeland, a boy's desperate act of rebellion against his grandmother reverberates outward, causing rifts and reckonings in the lives of others: a man fleeing his own troubled family who becomes the grandson's unwitting accomplice; a poet struggling with the limitations of... language and his wife's distance; the proprietor of a dying motel; and the grandmother herself, who finds love for the first time as she recuperates from her injury.Set in the Mojave Desert and the suburbs of Southern California, this revelatory novelmoves swiftly among characters who are caught between the deprivations of the past and the mysteries of the future.With unflinching precision, Vallianatosunearths the vulnerability and volatility at our cores.
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At breakfast tables and bakeries, we take for granted a grain that has made human civilization possible, a cereal whose humble origins belie its world-shaping power: wheat. Amber Waves tells the story of a group of grass species that first grew in scattered stands in the foothill...s of the Middle East until our ancestors discovered their value as a source of food. Over thousands of years, we moved their seeds to all but the polar regions of Earth, slowly cultivating what we now know as wheat, and in the process creating a world of cuisines that uses wheat seeds as a staple food. Wheat spread across the globe, but as ecologist Catherine Zabinski shows us, a biography of wheat is not only the story of how plants ensure their own success: from the earliest breads to the most mouthwatering pastas, it is also a story of human ingenuity in producing enough food for ourselves and our communities. Since the first harvest of the ancient grain, we have perfected our farming systems to grow massive quantities of food, producing one of our species' global megacrops-but at a great cost to ecological systems. And despite our vast capacity to grow food, we face problems with undernourishment both close to home and around the world. Weaving together history, evolution, and ecology, Zabinski's tale explores much more than the wild roots and rise of a now ubiquitous grain: it illuminates our complex relationship with our crops, both how we have transformed the plant species we use as food, and how our society-our culture-has changed in response to the need to secure food sources. From the origins of agriculture to gluten sensitivities, from our first selection of the largest seeds from wheat's wild progenitors to the sequencing of the wheat genome and genetic engineering, Amber Waves sheds new light on how we grow the food that sustains so much human life.
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This landmark book reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. Tens of thousands of fighters, including communists, Jews and POWs, joined networks across ...Europe, greatly affecting the course of the long Second World War. -- .
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Research Methods for Construction will help you instil rigour into your problem-solving, and into your reports and publications.
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Psychology, 5th Edition enables every introductory psychology student to master concepts through proven pedagogy and meaningful 'tales from the front' videos with practicing psychologists. Neuroplasticity content is integrated throughout every chapter.
Available as a full-colour... printed textbook with an interactive eBook code, this text enables every student to master concepts and succeed in assessment, and supports lecturers with an extensive and easy-to-use teaching and learning package.
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Get up and running with Xero in a flash
Xero is fast emerging as the leader of online accounting software around the world, representing a serious challenge to MYOB, Sage and Quickbooks. Xero For Dummies provides you with all the information you need to set up your own Xero acco...unt from scratch, convert to Xero from another accounting software provider or start using Xero to its full potential.
Easy to use and deceptively powerful, Xero is so much more than a spreadsheet - it can help you streamline reporting; manage inventory; simplify accounts; and organise suppliers, customers and more. Automatic imports, intuitive coding and seamless synching across multiple business platforms gets the paperwork done quickly so you can get back to running your business. This new fourth edition includes updates to the interface and coverage of the newest features, including updates on generating reports, working with fixed assets and managing contacts, sales and payables so you can optimise your system to help your business thrive.
Fine-tune your set-up, or convert from another accounting program
Manage daily activities with contacts, accounts, sales and payables
Master weekly and monthly reporting routines
Track inventory, monitor your business and get the most out of Xero
You didn't start your business in order to become an accountant, but bookkeeping is critically important to the short- and long-term health of your company. Xero simplifies the process and saves you time, andXero For Dummieshelps you leverage every feature Xero has to offer.
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