There are those stories that are hidden away within the Kreme Kollections that readers might not be aware of. Selfies is a series where the most popular of these hidden stories are brought out for readers to enjoy! In Passion Fruit, meet Mike, a man who has a job in the tropics but spends most his days locked in a stuffy office. When the company Mike works for plans a Corporate Adventure, a retreat where randomly selected employees will join together in a team building weekend, he wonders just who he might end up with. Naturally Mike briefly fantasizes about ending up out in the wild with two tropically steamy female employees. However reality is cold but not as cold as the one female employee who ends up leading he and fellow employee Jim out into the exotic landscape. Cherry Long is nowhere near as tasty as her name might indicate. Outside she's attractive, nothing over the top, but inside her small chest beats the chilled heart of an icy queen who has only ever gotten by in the office using her looks. Cherry is an exotic beauty that every man fears being trapped with and so a weekend of team building might just be a test of survival where nature is not the primary force to deal with. After a grueling slave drive by Cherry, Mike and Jim end up on an island, forced to work together to build shelter and find food, all while the leader of their group lounges and does nothing but spout off orders. It's during the scavenging that Mike discovers an ancient looking fruit tree surrounded by even more ancient ruins. Is it all the heat and exhaustion causing him to hallucinate or is the encounter with a mysterious entity within that tree real? Find out just what holds the power of the passion fruit and just what that fruit can do to thaw the inner ice of a tropical girl like Cherry. Passion Fruit cums in many flavors and all of them might taste delicious.

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Growing your own food at home is not only a great way to commune with nature, but it can also save you a great deal of money on your grocery bills. Unfortunately, many gardening methods require special containers, tools, and equipment which can be quite costly. Straw bale gardening, on the other hand, is very affordable and easy to do! In this book you will receive the following: An introduction to straw bale gardening Step-by-step instructions for starting and maintaining your own straw bale garden Tips for selecting plants and for harvesting your crops Answers to common questions about straw bale gardening If you are ready to give this simple but effective gardening method a try, this book is the perfect place to start!

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Don't be a killer. In 2015, home-canned potatoes killed one and sickened a dozen. Don't let this incident scare you away from home-canning either. There are many reasons to home-can. Perhaps you have embarked on a sustainable self-sufficient homesteading lifestyle. You may have a healthy edible garden filled with organic produce free from chemicals and dangerous additives. You may have fished, hunted or raised chickens or rabbits for meat. Perhaps you're a survival prepper wanting to stock up on cheap, seasonal food in preparation of a zombie apocalypse or an economic collapse. Or perhaps you've simply found a good deal on groceries and want to stock up to save money and to help with the family budget. Unfortunately, your abundant harvest will not last long unless it is safely preserved. In addition to drying, freezing, fermenting and pickling, canning is a good way to store your food long term. The question is how do you start? Home canning is not as straightforward as some of the other preservation methods and carries the risk of botulism contamination if not processed correctly. Unfortunately, not all canning sources or recipes, not even your "tried and true" family recipes, can be trusted. The environment, bacterial strains and even our food itself has changed over the years. Produce has become less acidic while bacterial strains have evolved. Canning techniques that were once safe may no longer be. Home canning can be economical, healthier, tasty, nutritious and fun. Lucky ones may have fond childhood memories of the best of summer's harvest being home canned. Unfortunately, some canning recipes and methods that proliferate the internet are downright dangerous. ~ This book does not contain recipes but contains links to SAFE FREE researched-backed canning recipes from University Extension offices as well as the USDA ~ In this book you will learn the do's and don'ts of home canning fruits, vegetables, salsas, meat, seafood and fish as recommended by the Master

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W.H. Auden (1907-1973) was an English poet, playwright, and essayist. His work, from his early strictly metered verse, plays, and libretti written in collaboration with Chester Kallman, to his later dense poems and penetrating essays, represents one of the major achievements of twentieth-century literature. The book " W.H. Auden, The Life and Love of a Poet" is a series of interviews with friends and family and provides a unique, fascinating and invaluable insight into the private world of W.H.Auden. It is of interest both to scholars and general readers and deals with themes as varied as: sex, love, religion, ideas, poetry, craft and art. The work is essentially a prose poem. The members of the "chamber orchestra", the voices in the book: Amerigo Franchetti, Lord Gowrie, Rita & Anita Auden, Matthew Spender and Thekla Clark, are perspicacious, wise, and brilliant. They not only provide one with stimulating and rich food for thought, they are also a pleasure to listen to in their own right.

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Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With charming text and stunning black-and-white photographs, The Gourd Book provides fascinating scientific information and folklore about these remarkable plants and keys for identifying species. The first part of the book deals with tree gourds, widely used as containers and for decoration; the Cucurbita gourds, including the buffalo gourd, the Turk's turban, the silver-seed gourd, and the Malabar gourd, all utilized as food, and the beautiful ornamental gourds; the loofah gourds, popular as cosmetic sponges; minor gourds, such as the snake, wax, bitter, teasel, and hedgehog gourds, sometimes used as food or medicine; and gourds mentioned in the Bible. The second part takes up the bottle gourd, which have been used for thousands of years. Even today this gourd is almost indispensable in many parts of the tropics, where species are used to make containers, musical instruments, and clothing, as food and medicine, and in art. The book concludes with a discussion of the gourd in folklore and myth and an appendix on growing, hybridizing, and preserving gourds for decoration. Delightfully written for general readers, this book will also appeal to botanists, anthropologists, horticulturists, and everyone interested in plants or gardening.

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PCOS- POLYCYSTIC OVARIAN SYNDROME is for life and so needs a solution that works! Long-term solutions take time & genuine change. Woman with PCOS have a higher risk of obesity and as a result of our dodgy hormones, we also struggle to lose that weight. So, diet, nutrition & exercise play a key role in Treating & MANAGING PCOS & WEIGHT LOSS. This is a guide to end most of the suffering from serious symptoms, such as infertility, early miscarriage, chronic pelvic pain, weight gain, high blood pressure, acne, and abnormal hair growth. Learn a great deal about PCOS- from identifying warning signs and seeking a diagnosis to finding emotional support in recovery with DELISH 80 RECIPES, SAMPLE MENU, FOOD LIST, and TIPS TO BEAT PCOS. Manage PCOS to take hold of your health & hormones, restore a normal cycle, be able to conceive a child, lose weight, reduce acne & hair loss, and protect yourself from future diabetes & heart problems.

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This book aims to help plant breeders by reviewing past achievements, currently successful practices, and emerging methods and techniques. Theoretical considerations are also presented to strike the right balance between being as simple as possible but as complex as necessary. The United Nations predicts that the global human population will continue rising to 9.0 billion by 2050. World food production will need to increase between 70-100 per cent in just 40 years. First generation bio-fuels are also using crops and cropland to produce energy rather than food. In addition, land area used for agriculture may remain static or even decrease as a result of degradation and climate change, despite more land being theoretically available, unless crops can be bred which tolerate associated abiotic stresses. Lastly, it is unlikely that steps can be taken to mitigate all of the climate change predicted to occur by 2050, and beyond, and hence adaptation of farming systems and crop production will be required to reduce predicted negative effects on yields that will occur without crop adaptation. Substantial progress will therefore be required in bridging the yield gap between what is currently achieved per unit of land and what should be possible in future, with the best farming methods and best storage and transportation of food, given the availability of suitably adapted cultivars, including adaptation to climate change. My book is divided into four parts: Part I is an historical introduction; Part II deals with the origin of genetic variation by mutation and recombination of DNA; Part III explains how the mating system of a crop species determines the genetic structure of its landraces; Part IV considers the three complementary options for future progress: use of sexual reproduction in further conventional breeding, base broadening and introgression; mutation breeding; and genetically modified crops.

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Follow two scientists as they spend a night in the Everglades collecting water samples, photographing wildlife, and sloshing through marshes in an attempt to understand this mysterious ecosystem. Part of a long-term effort to return the Everglades to a natural state after a century of development, the scientists try to figure out what the "river of grass" was like prior to human settlement. Along the way, they deal with razor-sharp sawgrass and alligators and turtles and are even surprised by the sudden presence of what is known in the Everglades as a "frog gigger"-one who hunts and collects frogs for food! Published in cooperation with the Long Term Ecological Research Network, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. In this enhanced edition, enjoy read-along and colorful animations that bring this story to life!

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This book represents years and years of individual and collaborative efforts by its authors to both develop techniques that bring life to dining as well as to share the authors' and their respective family members' love of food. It reflects a great deal of experimentation and refinement. Most importantly, the recipes in the book are only a starting point and users are encouraged to add their own twists (and turns) to its contents. Bon appetit!

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This is a book centered on a love story but also has rape and murder. Some of the plots were based on the author's real life experiences. 'Recently I moved from the beautiful Island of Cyprus to live in the County of Devon, U.K. with my husband David and am 78 years old. I have 3 children, 9 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren so feel very blessed! Sadly my eldest grandson died at the young age of 32. I have written stories and poems all my life but now being retired have more time to take my writing seriously. Doug and Elisha were married and found happiness in their relationship. They sold Rose Cottage, and Doug's antique shop Caprice was bought by Doug's assistant, Norman. They eventually purchased a large Victorian house in Cornwall, which they named Evergreen due to the numerous trees and greenery that lined the house on either side of the long winding driveway leading up to this magnificent house. Three gardeners were employed to deal with the four acres of land that accompanied the house. When one entered the front door, there was a long hallway, a huge lounge, a separate dining room, a smaller room named the Snug, a slightly larger room next to the Snug, a gigantic country kitchen, and a downstairs toilet. Six bedrooms, three en suites, and a games room. Elisha employed two cleaners and a housekeeper. It was ideal, very private, and situated miles away from civilization. Food and drink and other amenities were ordered from the village shop five miles away.

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Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, Second Edition, takes a holistic approach to biosecurity, with coverage of pathogens, prevention, and response methodology. It addresses these hazards in the context of vulnerability assessments and the planning strategies government and industry can use to prepare for and respond to such events. The book is organized into four thematic sections: Part I provides a conceptual understanding of biowarfare, bioterrorism and the laws we have to counteract this; Part II investigates known bioagents and the threat from emerging diseases; Part III focuses on agricultural terrorism and food security; and Part IV outlines international, US, and local initiatives for biodefense and biosecurity. Case studies illustrate biodefense against both intentional terrorism and natural outbreaks. Covers emerging threats of pandemic influenza, antibiotic resistant strains of bacterial pathogens, and severe respiratory diseases caused by novel viruses Offers increased international coverage, including initiatives to counter biological weapons and threats, and food security Updated throughout with latest protocols for dealing with biological threats and new case studies Includes online instructor ancillaries - PowerPoint lecture slides, test questions, and an instructor manual, for increased classroom functionality

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The 90-Day Perfect Diet features both cooking and no-cooking menus in one easy-to-use eBook. Every day, for 90 days, you decide whether you want to cook or not, and then pick an appropriate 1200 Calorie daily menu. And there's plenty to choose from. All told, there are 100 daily menus - 50 no-cooking daily menus and 50 cooking daily menus. Of course, the cooking menus come with delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes. You'll be surprised, not only by what you can eat, but also by how much you can eat. Enjoy pasta, pancakes, swordfish, hamburger, ice cream and more. On the 90-Day Perfect Diet - 1500 Calorie, most women lose 18 to 28 pounds. Smaller women, older women and less active women might lose a tad less. Larger women, younger women and more active women often lose much more. Most men lose 28 to 38 pounds. Smaller men, older men and less active men might lose a bit less; whereas, larger men, younger men and more active men often lose a great deal more. The 90-Day Perfect Diet is another sensible, flexible, easy-to-follow diet from NoPaperPress. And because the 90-Day Perfect Diet is not a fad and does not rely on gimmicks it will be as valid 10 or 20 years from now as it is today. In fact the 90-Day Perfect Diet is timeless! CONTENTS What's in This eBook Why You Lose Weight The Best Weight Loss Diets Why the 90-Day Perfect Diet? Expected Weight Loss Perfect Diet Info Using the Daily Menus First a Medical Exam Eat Perfectly No-Cooking: Big Bowl Salad Cooking: Tossed Salad Our Favorite Salad Dressings Whole-Grain Bread Substituting Foods Perfect Diet Notes Keep It Off No-Cooking Daily Meal Plans Daily Menus 1 to 10 Daily Menus 11 to 20 Daily Menus 21 to 30 Daily Menus 31 to 40 Daily Menus 41 to 50 Cooking Daily Meal Plans Daily Menus 1 to 10 Daily Menus 11 to 20 Daily Menus 21 to 30 Daily Menus 31 to 40 Daily Menus 41 to 50 Recipes & Diet Tips Recipe 1 - Chicken with Peppers & Onions Recipe 2 - Baked Herb-Crusted Cod Recipe 3 - French-Toasted English Muffin

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In the fourth and final installment, everything is on the line. Merrick's life is in the balance and Lily is their only hope. Ellie and her new powers are miraculous, but also problematic; if she's with the bunker family, they won't be able to sense when the Lighters are there. There are many new members to the bunker and sparks will fly, and with the food shortage, they will all have plenty to deal with. Miguel is intrigued with Rylee, her past and her spunk. Ryan and Ellie are barely scratching the surface of their relationship. Cain and Lillian will have to deal with Daniel, who has no qualms about showing his true feelings for her. And Sherry and Merrick…what will happen to this happenstance family who have worked so hard to come together? Can they all survive? Can they all withstand the new enemy that is right outside their door? Can they beat the Lighters, once and for all…

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It was the coldest morning of the winter, thus far, and winter is no joke on those northern tablelands, where the streams still run black in token of their forest origin, and old men remember how the deer used to be driven to their clearings for food, when the snow had piled itself breast high through the fastnesses of the Adirondacks. The wilderness had been chopped and burned backward out of sight since their pioneer days, but this change, if anything, served only to add greater bitterness to the winter's cold. Certainly it seemed to Job Parshall that this was the coldest morning he had ever known. It would be bad enough when daylight came, but the darkness of this early hour made it almost too much for flesh and blood to bear. There had been a stray star or two visible overhead when he first came out-of-doors at half-past four, but even these were missing now. The crusted snow in the barnyard did throw up a wee, faint light of its own, for all the blackness of the sky, but Job carried, besides a bucket, a lantern to help him in his impending struggle with the pump. This ancient contrivance had been ice-bound every morning for a fortnight past, and one needn't be the son of a prophet to foresee that this morning it would be frozen as stiff as a rock. It did not turn out to be so prolonged or so fierce a conflict as he had apprehended. He had reasoned to himself the previous day that if the pump-handle were propped upright with a stick overnight, there would be less water remaining in the cylinder to freeze, and had made the experiment just before bedtime. It worked fairly well. There was only a good deal of ice to be knocked off the spout with a sledge-stake, and then a disheartening amount of dry pumping to be done before the welcome drag of suction made itself felt in the well below, like the bite of a big fish in deep water. Job filled his bucket and trudged back with it to the cow-barn, stamping his feet for warmth as he went. By comparison with the numbing ai

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Across the galaxies, against wrongdoers and rogues! Only Retief - the indomitable champion of the underdog and 27th-century diplomacy - can seal the peace between the battling earthlings and the lobster-like aliens known as the Haterakans. In constant peril, the daring spacewarrior must join a pirate band, cross the fatal boundaries of the Terran Defense League, and take on his arch rivals Foulbrood and Bloodblister. Facing certain torture, double-dealing, and ruthless espionage, he passes within inches of death. But he must emerge victorious - or the Hatracks will waste no time in executing their berserk plan to raise earthlings as a food supply!

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The field of insect nutritional ecology has been defined by how insects deal with nutritional and non-nutritional compounds, and how these compounds influence their biology in evolutionary time. In contrast, Insect Bioecology and Nutrition for Integrated Pest Management presents these entomological concepts within the framework of integrated pest management (IPM). It specifically addresses bioecology and insect nutrition in modern agriculture. Written for graduate students and professionals in entomology, this book covers neotropical information in three sections: General Aspects: Basic bioecology and insect nutrition; artificial diets; insect/plant interactions; insect symbionts; the interface of chemical ecology with the food; and insect cannibalism Specific Aspects: Specific feeding guilds of insects including ants, social bees, leaf chewers, seed suckers, seed chewers, root feeders, gall makers, detritivorous feeders, pests of storage grains, fruit flies, aphids, endo- and ectoparasitoids, predators, crisopids, and hematophagous insects Applied Aspects: Host plant resistance and the design of IPM programs in the context of insect bioecology and nutrition Much of the research on which these chapters were written was done in Brazil and based on its neotropical fauna. The complexity and diversity of the neotropics provides enough data that readers from all zoogeographical regions can readily translate the information in this book to their specific conditions. The book's value as an entry point for further research is enhanced by the inclusion of approximately 4,000 references.

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This NoPaperPress Vegetarian Diet has an amazing 90 days of nutritious, delicious, easy-to-prepare meals and the guidance you need to succeed. This vegetarian diet version is called Prescetarian because it allows fish, eggs and dairy. The diet blends traditional American cooking with Asian vegetarian concepts. On the 1200-Calorie edition, most women lose 23 to 33 pounds. Smaller women, older women and less active women might lose a tad less, and larger women, younger women and more active women often lose much more. Most men lose 35 to 45 pounds. Smaller men, older men and less active men might lose a bit less, and larger men, younger men and more active men frequently lose a great deal more. You'll be surprised not only by what you can eat - but also by how much you can eat. Enjoy pasta, French toast, swordfish, salads and more. With nutritional know how and good planning, the authors have devised daily menus that leave you satisfied and where you should not be hungry. Many health-care professionals think eating a healthy vegetarian diet is one of the best things you can do for your short-term and long-term health. So lose weight the healthy way. Go vegetarian! TABLE OF CONTENTS - Vegetarian Types - Why You Lose Weight - The Best Weight Loss Diets - Why 90-Day Diet? - Expected Weight Loss - First a Medical Exam - Eat Smart - Tossed Salad - About Bread - Substituting Foods - Two Nights - No Cooking - Frozen Dinner Rules - Eating Out Challenges - 90-Day Diet Notes - Keeping It Off 1200-Calorie Meal Plans - Days 1 to 10 - Days 11 to 20 - Days 21 to 30 - Days 31 to 40 - Days 41 to 50 - Days 51 to 60 - Days 61 to 70 - Days 71 to 80 - Days 81 to 90 Recipes & Diet Tips Day 1 - Crumbly-Tofu Scramble Day 2 - Baked Herb-Crusted Cod Day 3a - French-Toasted English Muffin Day 3b - Polenta-Stuffed Peppers Day 4 - Easy Penne Pasta Day 5 - Frozen Vegetarian Dinner Day 6 - Grandma's Pizza Day 7 - Vegetarian Dinner Out Day 8 - Baked Salmon with Salsa Day 9 - Veggie Burger Day

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Burt Jones is a car-salesman, he is the top performer not only in the state, even nationally. Coming home to his wife Mary, he tells her about the car he had won, and add that it is our most expensive model, and I won it. Mary standing in the kitchen didn't show any interest at all. So Burt repeated what he said. Bur Mary kept stirring in her pot.I'm telling you it is our most expensive model, it sells for over fifty thousand dollar, and you just keep stirring in your pot. Mary looked up at Burt, if you keeps stirring the food, I can have a look at your new toy. Same as when we bought this house, he thought, she said you only live there, make children, sleep, eat. you can do that anywhere, in an apartment or in a RV. That woman is impossible to pleas. Their daughter Cindy stayed with grandma as often as she could because of the cold atmosphere at home. A few days later when Burt was delivering a new car to a customer, he at the center of town, saw Mary with another man, and they were kissing, openly in front of everybody. Coming home this day, Burt confronted Mary and asked why she was kissing this man openly for anyone to see. So you saw me kissing Gary, big deal. We have been together for a year, even Cindy likes him. And Burt if I have another child, Gary is the father. Burt couldn't believe his ears, tomorrow Mary I am putting in for a divorce. Thanks for telling me Burt, forewarned is good, and Gary is a lawyer, we have been looking through a divorce with a fine tooth comb, no way you can win. The following day, Burt went up to his works lawyers, and told them what Mary had said. Take your wife on a cruise, and while you are away we will check out this Gary to see which way would be the best to attack the problem. Burt when he came home asked if Mary would like to go on a cruise. She said yes, and after telling Gary about the cruise, he said it was a good plan, and use as much of his money as you can. The cruise turned out to be what they both needed, and they we

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ARE YOU LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE? - How would you like to have an interesting lifestyle teaching English 20 hours a week in China with several months of vacation every year? This is exactly what Nick Lenczewski (Len-chess-key) did after he finished college and his book will help start you on the same path and guide you in the process of creating the type of lifestyle that will give you plenty of free time to travel and enjoy other activities. Today China has the world's biggest economy and offers many excellent opportunities for foreigners who want to live and work there. You do not need to hold a degree in English or teaching and you do not need to even speak Chinese. You simply need to be able to speak English like a native speaker. Within the over 190 pages of content you'll learn: How to find a job teaching English anywhere in China. How to pay off $10,000 in debt per year while working at an international company. Teaching advice and lesson planning tactics from a teacher with 6 year's of teaching experience in China. A very effective method for finding a job in China (or anywhere). Gain an understanding of dating in China. How to prepare for an interview with a school or company in China. How to live rent-free. How to get your round-trip airfare paid for. Understand the different types of visas and visa procedures. Which Mandarin phrases to learn first in order to start speaking with locals from day one. The best tools to help you start learning Mandarin right away. My methodology for learning Mandarin quickly and effectively. How to make $75,000 per year privately tutoring students in English. Requirements for becoming an English teacher in China. The types of medical insurance plans that are available. The types of food available in China and Chinese eating etiquette. Where to go for adventure travel in China including kayaking and rock climbing destinations. How to deal with the inevitable culture shock. How to get a driver's license and rent a c

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Garden Tips For Four Seasons This 4-Book gardening bundle offers a great deal on the individual book purchases. Highlighting the different gardening tasks throughout the gardening seasons, it is a book packed with things to do throughout the vegetable gardening year. Episodes included in this bundle are…Book 1: Gardening Tips For Autumn: The Food Growers Top 5 Jobs For The Fall Book 2: Gardening Tips For Winter: The Food Growers Top Jobs For The Winter Book 3: Gardening Tips For Spring: The Food Growers Top Jobs For The Spring Planting Season. Book 4: Gardening Tips For Summer: The Vegetable Gardeners Top Jobs For The Summer Growing Season. Tasks covered include such things as Composting, pruning, plant care, plant support, organic pest control, harvesting, planting, growing, harvesting, plant hardiness zone maps for the United States and the United Kingdom. Many tasty recipes are also included thanks to F.A. Paris excellent recipe books covering jams, pickles, marmalades, and tasty soup dishes - ideal for making the most out of your gardening efforts.

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Colin Tudge coined the expression "Enlightened Agriculture" to describe agriculture that is "expressly designed to provide everyone, everywhere, with food of the highest standard, nutritionally and gastronomically, without wrecking the rest of the world". In Six Steps Back to the Land, he explains how we can achieve that, and have truly sustainable, resilient and productive farms, looking at: why we need to rethink our approach to farming; how we can move to low-input mixed farms; how tightly-integrated farms employ many skilled people; dealing with the practicalities of this form of farming in today's world; and how we can get involved. Six Steps will inspire anyone to take an interest in our food chain and make a difference.

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Do you want to save the world? If so, then this is the book for you. This book is perfect for anyone interested in learning about veganism and how to start living a vegan lifestyle that will benefit the world. Included are five simple, quick vegan recipes and also tips for everything from dealing with haters to finding vegan options at fast food restaraunts. Enjoy!

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Driven by Greed" This is a time when the middle class is being eroded by an economy where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. This is also a time where more than 90% of the wealth is in the hands of less than 5% of the world population. As a result, a lot of people are more vulnerable and weak than ever before. In the last decades, more and more bottom feeders have been taking advantage of the weak. In many sectors, society looks more like the food chain of the darkest oceans. This book takes glimpses at some of the most revolting cases. Vanessa, one of the main characters, is suddenly pushed out of the middle class when her husband and only son are killed in a car crash. Soon she becomes a prey at the bottom of this dark human ocean dominated by heartless human sharks. These abusers will take everything from her until it is time to discard her as a worn out rag. These heartless users smile like barracudas as they lie to their bosses, partners, clients, and their employees. Loyal to no one, they cheat, hide their revenues, buy support, and if it benefits them, they frame up politicians, lawmen, and their own friends. Vanessa gets pushed until she cannot be pushed any further. How far can Vanessa be pushed before she retaliates? What if she found an ally Follow Vanessa throughout this story and find out…Child prostitution, white slavery, drug deals, and murders are some of the big money- making activities behind some of these benign-looking call centers. Using Special Forces becomes the only adequate response to the threats. Some of the other main characters in my story-Dodaro, Wong, Kowalski, Ni

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This volume examines the transitions in Indian agriculture since the 1980s, and emphasizes upon the role of neoliberal policies and their impact. The essays presented here deal with a range of pertinent and contemporary issues, including global food security, livelihoods of agricultural labourers, and public and private investment. These weave together glimpses of the impasse faced by petty commodity producers (marginal and small farmers) and their subsequent economic distress and social exclusion. Comprehensive in analysis, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of agricultural economics, political economy, political science and public policy.

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The 90-Day Perfect Diet features both cooking and no-cooking menus in one easy-to-use eBook. Every day, for 90 days, you decide whether you want to cook or not, and then pick an appropriate 1200 Calorie daily menu. And there's plenty to choose from. All told, there are 100 daily menus - 50 no-cooking daily menus and 50 cooking daily menus. Of course, the cooking menus come with delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes. You'll be surprised, not only by what you can eat, but also by how much you can eat. Enjoy pasta, pancakes, swordfish, hamburger, ice cream and more. On the 90-Day Perfect Diet - 1200 Calorie, most women lose 23 to 33 pounds. Smaller women, older women and less active women might lose a tad less. Larger women, younger women and more active women often lose much more. Most men lose 35 to 45 pounds. Smaller men, older men and less active men might lose a bit less; whereas, larger men, younger men and more active men often lose a great deal more. The 90-Day Perfect Diet is another sensible, flexible, easy-to-follow diet from NoPaperPress. And because the 90-Day Perfect Diet is not a fad and does not rely on gimmicks it will be as valid 10 or 20 years from now as it is today. In fact the 90-Day Perfect Diet is timeless! CONTENTS What's in This eBook Why You Lose Weight The Best Weight Loss Diets Why the 90-Day Perfect Diet? Expected Weight Loss Perfect Diet Info Using the Daily Menus First a Medical Exam Eat Perfectly No-Cooking: Big Bowl Salad Cooking: Tossed Salad Our Favorite Salad Dressings Whole-Grain Bread Substituting Foods Perfect Diet Notes Keep It Off No-Cooking Daily Meal Plans Daily Menus 1 to 10 Daily Menus 11 to 20 Daily Menus 21 to 30 Daily Menus 31 to 40 Daily Menus 41 to 50 Cooking Daily Meal Plans Daily Menus 1 to 10 Daily Menus 11 to 20 Daily Menus 21 to 30 Daily Menus 31 to 40 Daily Menus 41 to 50 Recipes & Diet Tips Recipe 1 - Chicken with Peppers & Onions Recipe 2 - Baked Herb-Crusted Cod Recipe 3 - French-Toasted English Muffin

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Shari Jones needs to get a life. Preferably someone else's.Single, fired and evicted, East Indian-American Shari agrees to her best friend's whacky scheme: travel to Mumbai, pose as Amrita, and ditch the fiancé her traditional Indian parents have chosen. Simple. Until she's mistaken for a famous Bollywood actress, stalked by a Lone Ranger wannabe, courted by an English lord, and busted by the blackmailing fiancé.Life is less complicated in New York. Or so she thinks, until the entourage of crazies follows her to the Big Apple and that's when the fun really begins. Shari deals with a blossoming romance, an addiction to Indian food and her first movie role, while secretly craving another trip to the mystical land responsible for sparking her new lease on life. Returning to her Indian birthplace, she has an epiphany. Maybe the happily-ever-after of her dreams isn't so far away?

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Consumers in Britain face a curious mix of taxes and duties that are messy, opaque and out of date. They are also unfair: the poorer you are, the more of your income goes on paying these taxes. At the same time, we are ceaselessly bombarded by marketing information that is very one-sided. The foods that make us fat, for example, are promoted a great deal more than the foods that could keep us healthy - and again it is mainly the poor who bear the brunt. This book draws on insights from behavioural economics, participative decision-making and the author's twenty-five-year research career to take a fresh look at these issues. It concludes that there is a fair, inclusive, adaptable, affordable and resilient way of enabling us to eat healthily and to tackle the obesity crisis. The author proposes that negative VAT should be charged on healthy foods and high VAT should be charged on unhealthy foods. The book sets out a four-step process to actually implement this new regime, each step of which depends on mechanisms that have already been used by government. It is a bold yet practical proposition for tackling one of the most costly and damaging challenges we face.

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This book, previously published as The Skinback Fusiliers, is short, funny, bitter and uncompromising, and retells the real experiences of three young men who join the army because they think it will deal them better hands than life has offered so far. All perfectly intelligent, if short on education, they accept recruitment promises on pay, job training, and future prospects. Andy is white, Ashton is black, and Shahid is a Blackburn Asian. They do not expect that they will ever be friends. In fact they have to be - and close and vital allies. The novel charts, through a series of actions and events, their growing awareness of how deeply they have been conned, and the vanishing opportunities for doing anything about it. Far from being trained as heroes, they come to see themselves as cannon fodder, face savers, and sacrificial lambs. They are paid, pro rata, far less than the minimum wage, and charged for their accommodation and their food. Their prospects, among other things, are to leave the army as a pale pink vapour in the air, or go home in a body bag. Being young, they don't believe that that will ever happen. But they know that there are ways to leave the army, and over time their feelings gel. To talk of leaving is sedition, and walls have ears. But they are determined to get out. There is more to life. For Andy, love with Emma and a second try at education, for Ashton marriage and a daughter, for Shahid the hope to foster peace and understanding. What better place to start than Blackburn! Frank Cottrell Boyce: Reading this book gave me a feeling of inescapable immediacy. It's so vivid and it really buttonholes you and the prose is so urgent and gripping. Envious. It's bloody fantastic. Laurence Boswell (director/writer, Royal Shakespeare Co, West End, Broadway): Very powerful, very tough, people should know this stuff. Loved that you could make room for the joy of a great curry, amidst all the violence and the bullying. Thanks. Carl Grose (writer

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Hi, I am a post hemorrhoids sufferer and I can understand you perfectly. You might come across my e-book, after desperately searching for any possible advice for your health problem. Well, I am very familiar with unbearable swelling, itching, bleeding and the complete disability, caused by severe pain. 2 years ago, I was hopeless; surgery was the only option I had. I spent nights in tears, desperately searching for any related forums, advices or any kind of information online and offline. I was very tired and disappointed. But I had to do something, so I passionately started testing every possible and reasonable advice, I could ever find. Some of them really worked, but some were absolutely useless. During this long journey of trials and errors, I paid quite a great deal of money in different solutions promising me relief and so desired health. Some of them were helpful in a way, but some didn't change anything. But I had nothing to lose, I was very passionate and organized, I started making daily notes to monitor and analyze my condition, and as a result, after a long way of very concentrated efforts and sleepless night, I found the route taking me to a complete success, success in being healthy and fit again. I could not believe, without any of the surgical treatments, my third stage thrombosed hemorrhoids were gone, terrible swelling, itching and bleeding disappeared and I was healthy again! I could enjoy a life with my family! Later, I realized that I had a complete story of success kept in my notes; I could help others to get rid of this terrible disease. So I decided, I had to put everything together and make the valuable information affordable for anyone who suffers from hemorrhoids continuously. In this e-book, you can find the perfect collection of all solutions, which worked me a miracle, 4 weeks plan of special exercise, food, herbs, supplements, etc. will change your life for good! I am sure, this time you will be able to celebrate a victory, so go ahea

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When astute Jack Malone accepts a promotion that finds him investigating his colleagues' financial dealings, he does so with reluctance. He uncovers several situations that, while benefiting the company to the tune of millions of dollars, lose him the trust of one close friend and many others. Fortunately he meets Mary Meier, a competent and very attractive secretary, at one of the company's divisions, and they quickly embark on a deep and passionate relationship. As events unfold, Jack's respect for his boss's motives deteriorates. Agonizing over his own participation in the unpleasant outcomes of his new work, he struggles to deal with the repercussions of his professional prowess which continue to affect his valued friends and associates. Join Jack Malone in his very personal experiences of professional life as he tours North American locations to enjoy fine food, drink and sumptuous surroundings as well as rough and tumble work sites and the unexpected comfort of homespun rural life.

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